ppl. a. Also 6 sotyd. [f. SOOT v. or sb.] Manured, begrimed, covered, etc., with soot.

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1530.  [implied in SOOTEDNESS].

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1778.  [W. Marshall], Minutes Agric., 16 Aug. 1776. The dunged [wheat] looked best in winter; the sooted never shewed itself.

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1892.  Athenæum, 4 June, 739/3. We have no dishonouring business of a sooted leg of mutton—none of those pantomimic tricks.

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  Hence † Sootedness, = SOOTINESS. Obs.–0

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1530.  Palsgr., 273/1. Sotydnesse, suyerie.

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