[f. SMUT v.]
1. Making black or gloomy.
1626. B. Jonson, Staple of N., I. vi. This is better farre, then to weare Cypresse, Dull smutting gloues, or melancholy blacks.
2. Of fish: Rising at, or feeding on, smuts.
1899. S. Buxton, in 19th Cent., Jan., 122. There is the ‘smutting’ fish [trout], greedily taking down the tiniest of insects.
