A black carbonaceous substance or deposit consisting of fine particles formed by the combustion of coal, wood, oil, or other fuel.

Smoke from burning or smouldering material. Chiefly English regional (south-western) in later use.

Soot, smut. Obsolete exc. Scottish; = coom, n.1 1.

Soot, esp. that which forms about a fireplace, or settles as smuts from a smoky atmosphere. Now Scottish or English regional (northern).

small or refuse coal; coal dust; cf. slack, n.2

Soot, smut, coal-dust, or other black particles, deposited upon or ingrained in some surface, esp. the human skin.

Smut, soot, dirt.

The condition or quality of being fuliginous or sooty; sooty or carbonaceous matter. Also: blackness, darkness (literal and figurative).

Soot; smut; grime of coal; coal-dust. Cf. colly, n.1 1.

Soot or sooty matter.

Soot; smut.

Soot, smut, grime, dirt.

Soot deposited on or ingrained in a surface; grime.

plural. Small particles of black gritty matter which escape through the funnel of a steam-engine.