SMUDGE

n. v.

5 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
n.

A suffocating smoke. Grose.

2.
n.

A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett.

3.
n.

That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.

4.
v.

To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

5.
v.

To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.


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