smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur
(noun) a blemish made by dirt; “he had a smudge on his cheek”
smudge
(noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects
smear, blur, smudge, smutch
(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging
Source: WordNet® 3.1
smudge (countable and uncountable, plural smudges)
A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
(US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
(neopaganism, especially, in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
• (blemish, smear): blur, smear, stain
smudge (third-person singular simple present smudges, present participle smudging, simple past and past participle smudged)
To obscure by blurring; to smear.
To soil or smear with dirt.
To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
To stifle or smother with smoke.
(paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
(paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
• (to obscure by blurring): blur, smear
• (to soil or smear with dirt): smutch, soil
• (to use smoke against insects): fumigate
• Mudges, degums
Source: Wiktionary
Smudge, n. Etym: [Cf. Dan. smuds smut, E. smutch, or smoke.]
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.
Smudge, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Smudged; p. pr. & vb. n. Smudging.]
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.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
28 April 2024
(adjective) of or relating to an inheritable character that is controlled by several genes at once; of or related to or determined by polygenes
Contrary to popular belief, coffee beans are not technically beans. They are referred to as such because of their resemblance to legumes. A coffee bean is a seed of the Coffea plant and the source for coffee. It is the pit inside the red or purple fruit, often referred to as a cherry. Just like ordinary cherries, the coffee fruit is also a so-called stone fruit.
