| sooty | 1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. "Fire of sooty coal." 2. Having a dark brown or black colour like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron." 3. <zoology> Sooty albatross, a tern (Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas. (04 Mar 1998) |
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