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usually uncountable, plural soots
Fine black or dull brown particles of amorphous carbon and tar, produced by the incomplete combustion of coal, oil etc. examples
third-person singular simple present soots, present participle sooting, simple past and past participle sooted
(transitive) To cover or dress with soot. quotations examples
soot land
1707, J[ohn] Mortimer, The Whole Art of Husbandry; or, The Way of Managing and Improving of Land. […], 2nd edition, London: […] J[ohn] H[umphreys] for H[enry] Mortlock […], and J[onathan] Robinson […], published 1708