Word: smudges
A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. Example: There was a smudge on the paper.
Dense smoke, such as that used for fumigation.
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.
(especially in the phrase "smudge stick" = "stick of incense") A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation.
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