HANGMAN SOLVER

verb

1. Third-person singular simple present indicative form of degum

noun

1. plural of midge

noun

1. (US) A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, etc. to keep off mosquitoes or other insects.
2. (paganism, especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
3. A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one.
4. Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.

verb

1. (paganism, intransitive) To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation).
2. (paganism, transitive) To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging).
3. To obscure by blurring; to smear.
4. To soil or smear with dirt.
5. To stifle or smother with smoke.
6. To use dense smoke to protect from insects.

adj

1. Like a thick smoke (such as is emitted by a smudge pot).
2. Marked with smudges.