1. soot - Noun
2. soot - Adjective
3. soot - Verb
A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke.
To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land.
Alt. of Soote
Source: Webster's dictionaryWhen my mother died, I was very young, And my father sold me while yet my tongue Could scarcely cry 'weep 'weep 'weep 'weep' So your chimneys I sweep, and in soot I sleep. William Blake
I suppose you could call me... Soot," said the thing. "Yes... Soot. I have breathed it, lived in it, and eaten it for so long that it is a fitting name." "Eaten it?" asked Suzy. "Why eat soot?" "Boredom," said Soot. Garth Nix
The great Inventor is one who has walked forth upon the industrial world, not from universities, but from hovels; not as clad in silks and decked with honors, but as clad in fustian and grimed with soot and oil. Isaac Taylor
Her hair is smoldering. Her face was smudged with soot. She had a cut on her arms, her dress was torn, and she was missing a boot. Beautiful. Rick Riordan
We shall write it in soot in the chimney. Hungarian Proverb
Who goes near soot smells of soot, and who goes near musk smells of musk. Turkish Proverb