Smudge

Tanımlar (İngilizce)

1. isim A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.

   “There was a smudge on the paper.”

2. isim Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
3. isim A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.

   “We had taken about ten pounds of trout; and the first procedure, after reaching the camp, was to build a smudge or smoke-fire, to drive away these abominable gnats, who, fortunately, take flight with the first whiff of smoke.”

4. isim A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.

   “Devil's dirt or asafetida ground together with fenugreek and black cumin seed is used as a smudge against witches and […]”

5. fiil To obscure by blurring; to smear.
6. fiil To soil or smear with dirt.
7. fiil To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
8. fiil To stifle or smother with smoke.
9. fiil To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
10. fiil To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).

    “This is easily done using incense to smudge yourself or taking a cleansing bath. To smudge your body use an incense mixture such as sandalwood, lavender, frankincense or myrrh.”

11. özel isim A nickname of someone with the surname Smith.

    “For quotations using this term, see Citations:Smudge.”