Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." Milton.
Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron." Milton. Sooty albatross (Zoöl.), an albatross (Phoebetria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also nellie. -- Sooty tern (Zoöl.), a tern (Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.
To black or foul with soot. [R.] Sootied with noisome smoke. Chapman.
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