a. rare. [f. SOOT sb.1] Sooty.
1582. Stanyhurst, Æneis, IV. (Arb.), 111. The wyne, in powring, lyke blood black sootish apeered.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., 334. Things become blacke by a sootish and fuliginous matter proceeding from the sulphur of bodies torrified.
