Smudge

[From smoke.]

1. A suffocating smoke. [Prov. Eng.] Grose.
2. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [U. S.] Bartlett.
3. That which is smeared upon any thing; a stain; a blot; a smear.

v. t. [Prov. Eng.]

1. To stifle; to smother. Halliwell.
2. To smear; to smutch; to soil. Halliwell.