To smear or stain with dirt or filth; blacken with smoke. To smoke or cure, as herring.n. A spot; stain; smear.n. The scrapings and cleanings of paint-pots, collected and used to cover the outer sides of roof-boards as a bed for roofing-canvas.To stifle; smother.To make a smudge in; fumigate with a smudge: as, to smudge a tent so as to drive away insects.n. A suffocating smoke.n. A heap of combustibles partially ignited and emitting a dense smoke; especially, such a fire made in or near a house, tent, or the like, so as to raise a dense smoke to repel insects.n. In the game of set-back all-fours, the player who bids 4 and makes it, winning the came on the hand if he is not in the hole on the score at the time.