smudge

• It showed as a smudge, as though something had rubbed the outer layer of darkness off The ratty-faced man noticed this. —  167 - Target For Death
• For the benefit of the uninitiated, we may here explain that a smudge is a fire of leaves or sticks slightly dampened to make a denser smoke, and intended as a safeguard against the attacks of black flies, midges, and mosquitoes, the two latter nuisances appearing in the evening, when the flies have finished their day's work. —  The Continental Monthly, Vol. 6, No. 6, December 1864 Devoted To Literature And National Policy
• Far to the south into the white sheen of sky, immediately over the horizon, he made out a faint smudge--the harvester beyond doubt Thither S. Behrman turned his horse's head. —  The Octopus : A story of California
• The smudge was dust, dug up by the feet of many oxen They must be loco," Kid Wolf muttered, "to try and cut across The Terror's territory The Texan had heard much of The Terror. —  Kid Wolf of Texas
• (In after years I found this same habit of making fires of small bits of wood peculiar to old English gypsies The smudge is the great summer institution of Minnesota. —  Memoirs

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