Fuligo, pen. prod. fuliginis, f. g. Plin. The foote of a chinmey.Fuligo lucubratlonum bibenda. Quint. Hee must stndie not onely by day, but also by night he muste sucke the smoake of the lampe or candle.Ardentis massæ fuligo. Iuuenal. Madida fuligo. Iuuenal. Assidua postes fuligine nigri.Virg.With continual smoake.Abstergere fuliginem. Cice. To wipe cleane his smokie and rustie sace.Verborum & argutiarum fuliginem ob oculos audientium iacere. Gell. To speake obscurely: to caste a darke smoke or mist before their eies.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
fūlīgo, ĭnis, f. [cf. fumus; v. Fick, Vergl. Wörterb. p. 104], soot.I.Lit.: os oblitum fuligine, Plaut. Poen. 5, 4, 36: quasi fuligine abstersa, Cic. Phil. 2, 36, 91; Col. 11, 3, 60; Verg. E. 7, 50: lucubrationum bibenda, Quint. 11, 3, 23: (haerens) nigro fuligo Maroni, Juv. 7, 227.—B.Transf., black paint (= stibium): supercilium madidā fuligine tactum, Juv. 2, 93.—II.Trop., paint: atra verborum et argutiarum fuligine ob oculos audientium jacta, Gell. 1, 2, 7.