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smut n. [
carbon black, lampblack, soot, crock] a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
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smut v. make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
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smut n. destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses) caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of spores
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smut v. stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
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smut n. [
smut fungus] any fungus of the order Ustilaginales
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