Smut

Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil made by such matter.

(Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter, found in the immediate locality of faults.

(Bot.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus Ustilago. Ustilago segetum, or U. Carbo, is the commonest kind; that of Indian corn is Ustilago maydis.

Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.

He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.

- Addison.

Smut mill
a machine for cleansing grain from smut.

v. t.

To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance.

[imp. & p. p. Smutted; p. pr. & vb. n. Smutting.]

To taint with mildew, as grain.

To blacken; to sully or taint; to tarnish.

To clear of smut; as, to smut grain for the mill.

v. i.

To gather smut; to be converted into smut; to become smutted.

To give off smut; to crock.

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

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