Soot

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soot \Soot\ (? or ?; 277), n. [OE. sot, AS. s?t; akin to Icel.
     s?t, Sw. sot, Dan. sod, OD. soet, Lith. s?dis; cf. Gael.
     suith, Ir. suth.]
     A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from
     fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine
     particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe


     conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting
     chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the
     result of imperfect combustion. See {Smoke}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soot \Soot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Sooted}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Sooting}.]
     To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot;
     as, to soot land. --Mortimer.
     [1913 Webster] Soot

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Soot \Soot\, Soote \Soot"e\, a. [See {Sweet}.]
     Sweet. [Obs.] "The soote savour of the vine." --Chaucer.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  soot
       n : a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally
           of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
           [syn: {carbon black}, {lampblack}, {smut}]
       v : coat with soot

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  117 Moby Thesaurus words for "soot":
     air pollution, alluvion, alluvium, ash, ashes, attritus, bedarken,
     begrime, bemire, bemud, besmirch, besmoke, black, blacken,
     blackening, blacking, blackwash, blot, blotch, bran, brand,
     burnt cork, calx, carbon, carbon black, charcoal, cinder, clinker,
     coal, coke, coom, cork, cosmic dust, crow, crumb, crumble, darken,
     denigrate, deposition, deposits, diluvium, dinge, dirt, dirty,
     dirty up, draff, dregs, dross, dust, dust ball, ebon, ebonize,
     ebony, efflorescence, ember, fallout, farina, feces, filings,
     flour, froth, fume, gas black, grime, grits, groats, grounds, ink,
     jet, kittens, lampblack, lava, lees, lint, loess, meal, melanize,
     mire, moraine, muck, muck up, mud, muddy, murk, night, nigrify,
     offscum, oversmoke, pitch, powder, precipitate, precipitation,
     pussies, raspings, raven, reek, sawdust, scoria, scum, sediment,
     settlings, shade, shadow, silt, sinter, slag, slime, sloe, smirch,
     smoke, smudge, smut, smutch, stove black, sublimate, sullage,
     tar