Definition of smut

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Smut (v. t.) 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..

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Metal :: Metal (n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc..
Smutch :: Smutch (v. t.) To blacken with smoke, soot, or coal..
Transmute :: Transmute (v. t.) To change from one nature, form, or substance, into another; to transform..
Smirch :: Smirch (n.) A smutch; a dirty stain.
Transmuted :: Transmuted (imp. & p. p.) of Transmut.
Colly :: Colly (v. t.) To render black or dark, as of with coal smut; to begrime..
Smut :: Smut (v. t.) To stain or mark with smut; to blacken with coal, soot, or other dirty substance..
Transformation :: Transformation (n.) The imagined possible or actual change of one metal into another; transmutation.
Vary :: Vary (v. t.) To change to something else; to transmute; to exchange; to alternate.
Inconvertible :: Inconvertible (a.) Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie..
Metamorphose :: Metamorphose (v. t.) To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
Bismuthiferous :: Bismuthiferous (a.) Containing bismuth.
Blackguard :: Blackguard (n.) The scullions and lower menials of a court, or of a nobleman's household, who, in a removal from one residence to another, had charge of the kitchen utensils, and being smutted by them, were jocularly called the black guard; also, the servants and hangers-on of an army..
Smut :: Smut (v. i.) To give off smut; to crock.
Transform :: Transform (v. t.) To change into another substance; to transmute; as, the alchemists sought to transform lead into gold..
Transmutable :: Transmutable (a.) Capable of being transmuted or changed into a different substance, or into into something of a different form a nature; transformable..
Smouch :: Smouch (n.) A dark soil or stain; a smutch.
Wood''s Metal :: Wood's metal () A fusible alloy consisting of one or two parts of cadmium, two parts of tin, four of lead, with seven or eight part of bismuth. It melts at from 66? to 71? C. See Fusible metal, under Fusible..
Transmutual :: Transmutual (a.) Reciprocal; commutual.
Besmut :: Besmut (v. t.) To blacken with smut; to foul with soot.
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