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Smudge
Open directlyWebster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 1 of 2
Part of speech: noun (n.)
1. A suffocating smoke. Grose.
2. 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. That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.
Webster's 1828 Dictionary · 1828 2 of 2
Part of speech: verb (v.)
1. To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.
2. To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.