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Sooty   /sˈuti/   Listen
adjective
Sooty  adj.  (compar. sootier; superl. sootiest)  
1.
Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal."
2.
Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron."
Sooty albatross (Zool.), an albatross (Phoebetria fuliginosa) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; called also nellie.
Sooty tern (Zool.), a tern (Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.



verb
Sooty  v. t.  To black or foul with soot. (R.) "Sootied with noisome smoke."






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... Stratagems; To bring Confusion on the faithless Moors, Whilst you, lull'd in soft Peace at home, betray'd His Name to everlasting Infamy; Suffer'd his Bed to be defil'd with Lust, Gave up your self, your Honour, and your Vows, To wanton in yon sooty Lecher's Arms. ...
— The Works of Aphra Behn, Vol. II • Aphra Behn

... tolerated in his house leather on which he had not worked himself. Besides, they were too beautiful—the pair of pumps, so inexpressibly slim, the patent leathers with cloth tops, making water come into one's mouth, the tall brown riding boots with marvellous sooty glow, as if, though new, they had been worn a hundred years. Those pairs could only have been made by one who saw before him the Soul of Boot—so truly were they prototypes incarnating the very spirit of all foot-gear. These thoughts, ...
— Short Stories for English Courses • Various (Rosa M. R. Mikels ed.)

... irregular, sometimes confluent, stipitate, or subsessile; the wall a thin violaceous, or brownish membrane, rugulose, thickly covered with small white roundish scales of lime, which sometimes accumulate so as to make the surface rough and uneven. Stipe short, thick, rugulose, from snow white to smoky or sooty, especially toward the base, sometimes with a scanty calcareous hypothallus. Capillitium a loose net-work of tubules, much expanded at the angles; the nodules of lime small, white, rather numerous, ellipsoidal or fusiform, sometimes confluent ...
— The Myxomycetes of the Miami Valley, Ohio • A. P. Morgan

... with a misty sky of sooty blackness, and was rendered extremely cold by a sharp wind blowing from the west. Paris, lighted up, had gone to sleep, showing no signs of life save such as attached to the gas-jets, those specks which scintillated and grew ...
— His Masterpiece • Emile Zola

... your aunt," he said, handing it to her; it was decorated with sooty thumb marks, to which Fanny's black claw contributed a fresh batch as she took it, but she read it without ...
— All on the Irish Shore - Irish Sketches • E. Somerville and Martin Ross


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