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Smut   /smət/   Listen
noun
Smut  n.  
1.
Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.
2.
(Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.
3.
(Bot.) An infection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or Ustilago Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.
4.
Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. "He does not stand upon decency... but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room."
Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.



verb
Smut  v. t.  (past & past part. smutted; pres. part. smutting)  
1.
To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
2.
To taint with mildew, as grain.
3.
To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
4.
To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.



Smut  v. i.  
1.
To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.
2.
To give off smut; to crock.






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"Smut" Quotes from Famous Books



... This begets a sense of purity, robed in which the soul claims kinship to the white-robed saints of the presence-chamber, and reaches out toward the blessedness of the pure in heart who see God. There is still a positive rain of smut and filth in the world around; there is a recognition of the evil tendencies of the self-life, which will assert themselves unless graciously restrained; but triumphing above all is the purity of the indwelling Lord, who Himself becomes ...
— Love to the Uttermost - Expositions of John XIII.-XXI. • F. B. Meyer

... was in five joints, each eighteen inches long, and made upon the "telescope" principle, which is objectionable on account of the smut and the jams the funnel is sure to receive. In practice we have found three lengths sufficient, but have had two elbows made; and with these we can use the stove in an old house, shed, or ...
— How to Camp Out • John M. Gould

... smut and the other fungus diseases which attack wheat (q.v.), and the insect pests which prey on the two plants are also similar. The larvae of the ribbon-footed corn-fly (Chlorops taeniopus) caused great injury to the barley crop in ...
— Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 3, Part 1, Slice 3 - "Banks" to "Bassoon" • Various

... the sources of our life must be kept clean if we desire social health among our boys and girls. The land is full of the plague, of open moral sewers and unholy cesspools. The street reeks with the smut and filth of wrong sex knowledge, and our boys and girls are getting experience in the laboratory of the immoral. The Sunday school can help our common, public health by helping the parent. It should major on parental instruction and keep it up until the parents have been ...
— The Boy and the Sunday School - A Manual of Principle and Method for the Work of the Sunday - School with Teen Age Boys • John L. Alexander

... &c adj.; darkness, &c (want of light).. 421; swartliness^, lividity, dark color, tone, color; chiaroscuro &c 420. nigrification^, infuscation^. jet, ink, ebony, coal pitch, soot, charcoal, sloe, smut, raven, crow. [derogatory terms for black-skinned people] negro, blackamoor, man of color, nigger, darkie, Ethiop, black; buck, nigger [U.S.]; coon [U.S.], sambo. [Pigments] lampblack, ivory black, blueblack; writing ink, printing ink, ...
— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget


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