Smut v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutting.]
 1. To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.
 2. To taint with mildew, as grain.
 3. To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.
 4. To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.


 smut
      n 1: a black colloidal substance consisting wholly or principally
           of amorphous carbon and used to make pigments and ink
           [syn: carbon black, lampblack, soot]
      2: destructive diseases of plants (especially cereal grasses)
         caused by fungi that produce black powdery masses of
         spores
      3: any fungus of the order Ustilaginales [syn: smut fungus]
      4: creative activity (writing or pictures or films etc.) of no
         literary or artistic value other than to stimulate sexual
         desire [syn: pornography, porno, porn, erotica]
      v 1: make obscene; "This line in the play smuts the entire act"
      2: stain with a dirty substance, such as soot
      3: become affected with smut; "the corn smutted and could not
         be eaten"
      4: affect with smut or mildew, as of a crop such as corn
      [also: smutting, smutted]


 smutted
      See smut