From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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2. To taint with mildew, as grain. --Bacon.
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3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
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4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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2. (Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter,
found in the immediate locality of faults.
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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}.
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4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.
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He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk
smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.
--Addison.
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{Smut mill}, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:
Smut \Smut\, v. i.
1. To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become
smutted. --Mortimer.
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2. To give off smut; to crock.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [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.
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Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.
--Gen. iii.
19.
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Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust.
--Byron.
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2. A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.] "To touch
a dust of England's ground." --Shak.
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3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.
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For now shall sleep in the dust. --Job vii. 21.
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4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of
the human body.
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And you may carve a shrine about my dust.
--Tennyson.
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5. Figuratively, a worthless thing.
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And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. --Shak.
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6. Figuratively, a low or mean condition.
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[God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust. --1 Sam.
ii. 8.
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7. Gold dust; hence: (Slang) Coined money; cash.
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{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.
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
smut
n 1: 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}]
2: destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses)
caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
3: any fungus of the order Ustilaginales [syn: {smut}, {smut
fungus}]
4: an offensive or indecent word or phrase [syn: {obscenity},
{smut}, {vulgarism}, {filth}, {dirty word}]
5: 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}]
v 1: make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
2: stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
3: become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not be
eaten"
4: affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
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