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noun

Smudge n.

A suffocating smoke.

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.)

That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear.

verb

Smudge v. t. (past & past part. smudged; pres. part. smudging)

To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke.

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Etymology of 'Smudge'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Smudge" Quotes from Famous Books

... look after himself; we are not responsible for our neighbor." It knows very often that there are continents of dirt underneath—"things," and "systems," and men—which it chooses to patronize; but then, it is covered up, and so it says, "Let it alone; we cannot have a smudge. Let it alone. Peace! Peace! Never mind righteousness—the church must be supported, if the money does come out of the dried-up vitals of drunkards and harlots; never mind, we must have it. Never ...

— Godliness • Catherine Booth

... that you were in error about the fewness of the flies. They are all there—mosquitoes, black-flies, deer-flies, and punkies, besides other species strictly vegetarian. So you drop the tent-bag and build a smudge. Experience has taught you to make a small but hot fire, and when this is well under way you kick open a rotted, moss-grown cedar and scoop up handfuls of damp mould. This, piled on and banked around the fire, provides a smudge that is continuous and effective. We built ...

— The So-called Human Race • Bert Leston Taylor

... when fresh air is needed and if there is a thin film of oil on the water this is prevented. Rain barrels can be freed of the pest in this way also, or perhaps better by covering them with a cloth. The mosquitoes are most troublesome about the home at night. When one sits out doors he should keep a smudge going to drive them away while screens will keep them out of ...

— An Elementary Study of Insects • Leonard Haseman

... best, is a smudge made by building a small fire to the windward of your tent, and nearly smothering it with chips, moss, bark, or rotten wood. If you make the smudge in an old pan or pot, you can move it about as ...

— How to Camp Out • John M. Gould

... to port and slipped astern. Paris closed up, telescoped its panorama, became a mere blur, a smoky smudge. But it was long before the distance eclipsed that admonitory finger of ...

— The Lone Wolf - A Melodrama • Louis Joseph Vance

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