Divinations and soothsayings and dreams are vain.
Eclus. xxxiv. 5.
Soot"i*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being sooty;
fuliginousness. Johnson.
Soot"ish, a. Sooty. Sir T. Browne.
Soot"y (?), a. [Compar Sootier (?); superl. Sootiest.] [AS. s&?;tig.
See Soot.] 1. Of or pertaining to soot; producing soot; soiled by soot.
"Fire of sooty coal." Milton.
2. Having a dark brown or black color like soot; fuliginous; dusky;
dark. "The grisly legions that troop under the sooty flag of Acheron."
Milton.
Sooty albatross (Zoöl.), an albatross (Phœbetria fuliginosa) found
chiefly in the Pacific Ocean; -- called also nellie. -- Sooty tern
(Zoöl.), a tern (Sterna fuliginosa) found chiefly in tropical seas.