Noah Webster's Dictionary 1. (n.) A black substance formed by combustion, or disengaged from fuel in the process of combustion, which rises in fine particles, and adheres to the sides of the chimney or pipe conveying the smoke; strictly, the fine powder, consisting chiefly of carbon, which colors smoke, and which is the result of imperfect combustion. See Smoke. 2. (v. t.) To cover or dress with soot; to smut with, or as with, soot; as, to soot land. 3. (a.) Alt. of Soote.

Multi-Version Concordance Soot (3 Occurrences) Exodus 9:8 And Jehovah said unto Moses and unto Aaron, Take to you handfuls of ashes of the furnace, and let Moses sprinkle it toward heaven in the sight of Pharaoh. (See JPS YLT NAS NIV) Exodus 9:10 And they took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man and upon beast. (See JPS YLT NAS NIV) Lamentations 4:8 Their visage is blacker than a coal; they are not known in the streets: Their skin cleaves to their bones; it is withered, it is become like a stick. (See NAS RSV NIV)