'Smut' definitions:

Definition of 'smut'

(from WordNet)
noun
A black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot, smut, crock]
noun
Destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
noun
Any fungus of the order Ustilaginales [syn: smut, smut fungus]
noun
An offensive or indecent word or phrase [syn: obscenity, smut, vulgarism, filth, dirty word]
noun
Creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica, smut]
verb
Make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
verb
Stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
verb
Become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be eaten"
verb
Affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn

Definition of 'Smut'

From: GCIDE
  • Smut \Smut\, n. [Akin to Sw. smuts, Dan. smuds, MHG. smuz, G. schmutz, D. smet a spot or stain, smoddig, smodsig, smodderig, dirty, smodderen to smut; and probably to E. smite. See Smite, v. t., and cf. Smitt, Smutch.]
  • 1. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. (Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults. [1913 Webster]
  • 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. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity. [1913 Webster]
  • He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room. --Addison. [1913 Webster]
  • Smut mill, a machine for cleansing grain from smut. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Smut'

From: GCIDE
  • Smut \Smut\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutting.]
  • 1. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To taint with mildew, as grain. --Bacon. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'Smut'

From: GCIDE
  • Smut \Smut\, v. i.
  • 1. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted. --Mortimer. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. To give off smut; to crock. [1913 Webster]

Definition of 'smut'

From: GCIDE
  • Dust \Dust\ (d[u^]st), n. [AS. dust; cf. LG. dust, D. duist meal dust, OD. doest, donst, and G. dunst vapor, OHG. tunist, dunist, a blowing, wind, Icel. dust dust, Dan. dyst mill dust; perh. akin to L. fumus smoke, E. fume. [root]71.]
  • 1. Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind; that which is crumbled to minute portions; fine powder; as, clouds of dust; bone dust. [1913 Webster]
  • Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return. --Gen. iii. 19. [1913 Webster]
  • Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust. --Byron. [1913 Webster]
  • 2. A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.] "To touch a dust of England's ground." --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead. [1913 Webster]
  • For now shall sleep in the dust. --Job vii. 21. [1913 Webster]
  • 4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of the human body. [1913 Webster]
  • And you may carve a shrine about my dust. --Tennyson. [1913 Webster]
  • 5. Figuratively, a worthless thing. [1913 Webster]
  • And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
  • 6. Figuratively, a low or mean condition. [1913 Webster]
  • [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust. --1 Sam. ii. 8. [1913 Webster]
  • 7. Gold dust; hence: (Slang) Coined money; cash. [1913 Webster]
  • Down with the dust, deposit the cash; pay down the money. [Slang] "My lord, quoth the king, presently deposit your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all the days of your life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust, and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading." --Fuller.
  • Dust brand (Bot.), a fungous plant (Ustilago Carbo); -- called also smut.
  • Gold dust, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred by weight.
  • In dust and ashes. See under Ashes.
  • To bite the dust. See under Bite, v. t.
  • To raise dust, or
  • To kick up dust, to make a commotion. [Colloq.]
  • To throw dust in one's eyes, to mislead; to deceive. [Colloq.] [1913 Webster]

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