heliotrope vs smudge

heliotrope

noun
  • The fragrance of heliotrope flowers. 

  • A light purple or violet colour. 

  • Particularly, a purple-flowered plant of the species Heliotropium arborescens. 

  • A bloodstone (a variety of quartz). 

  • An instrument, employed in triangulation, that uses a mirror to reflect sunlight toward another, very distant, surveyor. 

  • A plant that turns so that it faces the sun. 

adj
  • Light purple or violet. 

  • Keeping one’s face turned toward the sun. 

smudge

noun
  • A quantity of herbs used in suffumigation. 

  • 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. 

  • A blemish or smear, especially a dark or sooty one. 

verb
  • To subject to ritual burning of herbs (suffumigation, smudging). 

  • To stifle or smother with smoke. 

  • To soil or smear with dirt. 

  • To obscure by blurring; to smear. 

  • To use dense smoke to protect from insects. 

  • To burn herbs as a cleansing ritual (suffumigation). 

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