of the blackest black; similar to the color of jet or coal
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covered with or as if with soot
<adj.all> a sooty chimney
Sooty \Soot"y\, a. [Compar. {Sootier}; superl. {Sootiest}.] [AS. s?tig. See {Soot}.] 1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot. ``Fire of sooty coal.'' --Milton.
2. Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky; dark. ``The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron.'' --Milton.
{Sooty albatross} (Zo["o]l.), an albatross ({Ph[oe]betria fuliginosa}) found chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also {nellie}.
{Sooty tern} (Zo["o]l.), a tern ({Sterna fuliginosa}) found chiefly in tropical seas.
Sooty \Soot"y\, v. t. To black or foul with soot. [R.]
Sootied with noisome smoke. --Chapman.
Firemen with sooty faces complained that pressure was too low to get the water to the upper stories where the flames leapt from one building to another.
So they were rehabilitated, with new roofs, new interiors and sandblasts for their sooty walls.
In his "Anticipations," which started as a series of articles envisioning life at the end of the century, Wells anticipates the transformation of the era's dark, sooty kitchens to bright, clean rooms where even the idle rich experiment with recipes.
Gazing over the sooty rooftops of eastern Berlin, the 58-year-old manager concedes that the Treuhand had trouble in its early days.