smudge
Short definition from Wiktionary
Noun
- A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
- Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
- 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.
- A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
Verb
- To obscure by blurring; to smear.
- To soil or smear with dirt.
- To use dense smoke to protect from insects.
- To stifle or smother with smoke.
- To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
- To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
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