Smut

Smut

(1):

(v. t.) To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

(2):

(v. t.) To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.

(3):

(v. i.) To give off smut; to crock.

(4):

(v. t.) Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.

(5):

(v. t.) To taint with mildew, as grain.

(6):

(v. t.) Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

(7):

(v. t.) 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.

(8):

(v. t.) To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.

(9):

(v. i.) To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.

(10):

(v. t.) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.