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Smut [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A spot made with soot or coal; or the foul matter itself.

2. A foul black substance which forms on corn. Sometimes the whole ear is blasted and converted into smut This is often the fact with maiz. smut lessens the value of wheat.

3. Obscene language.

Smut [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

To gather smut; tobe converted into smut

Smut [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.

2. To give off smut; to crock.

Smut [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

2. Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

3. An affection 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 U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.

4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.

5. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.

6. To taint with mildew, as grain.

7. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

8. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.

Smutch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To blacken with smoke, soot or coal.

2. [Note. We have a common word in New England, pronouced smooch, which I take to be smutch It signifies to foul or blacken with something produced by combustion or other like substance.]

Smutch [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A stain; a dirty spot.

Smutch [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal.

Smutched [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Smutch

Smutchin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Snuff.

Smutching [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Smutch

Smutted [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

of Smut