ppl. a. [f. SMUT v.]

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  1.  Begrimed, smirched, dirtied, etc.

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1622.  Drayton, Poly-olb., xxv. 34. Whence that infernal Flood, the smutted Acheron Shoves forth her sullen head.

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1708.  Phil. Trans., XXVI. 37. There was left on the Wall a smutted Scar or Trace.

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1770.  Goldsm., Des. Vill., 27. The swain, mistrustless of his smutted face.

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1821.  Blackw. Mag., IX. 318. Till every smutted feature swell with joy.

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1850.  P. Crook, War of Hats, 47. Those heavers, too, of coals, with smutted face.

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  2.  Of grain: Affected by smut.

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1766.  Compl. Farmer, s.v. Smut, I … have sown smutted wheat … and have not had one smutted ear from the produce.

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1801.  Farmer’s Mag., April, 155. Some smutted ears, of rather an unusual appearance.

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1812.  Sir J. Sinclair, Syst. Husb. Scot., I. 339. The Corporation of Bakers at Perth, have a wooden tub for cleaning smutted wheat.

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1867.  H. Macmillan, Bible Teach., vi. (1870), 118. Myriads of seeds are shed from the smutted ears long before the corn is ripe.

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