sooty

4 definitions found

sooty - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Sooty \Soot"y\, a. [Compar. Sootier; superl. Sootiest.] [AS.
     s?tig. See Soot.]
     1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
        "Fire of sooty coal." --Milton.
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     2. Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous;
        dusky; dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the
        sooty flag of Acheron." --Milton.
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     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.
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  Sooty \Soot"y\, v. t.
     To black or foul with soot. [R.]
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           Sootied with noisome smoke.              --Chapman.
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sooty - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  sooty
      adj 1: of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or
             coal [syn: coal-black, jet, jet-black, pitchy,
             sooty]
      2: covered with or as if with soot; "a sooty chimney"

sooty - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  23 Moby Thesaurus words for "sooty":
     besmirched, blotchy, dingy, dirty, dusty, fuliginous, grimy,
     grubby, grungy, messy, miry, muddy, murky, scruffy, slovenly,
     smirched, smirchy, smoky, smudgy, smutchy, smutty, snuffy,
     untidy