Ustilaginaceae
         n 1: a fungus family of loose smuts [syn: {Ustilaginaceae},
               {family Ustilaginaceae}]

English Dictionary: Ustilaginaceae	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ustilaginales n parasitic fungi causing smuts; sometimes placed in class Tiliomycetes Synonym(s): Ustilaginales, order Ustilaginales
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ustilaginoidea n genus of imperfect fungi causing plant diseases like smut Synonym(s): Ustilaginoidea, genus Ustilaginoidea
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ustilaginoidea virens n fungus causing green smut in rice [syn: {green smut fungus}, Ustilaginoidea virens]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ustilago n type genus of the Ustilaginaceae; genus comprising the loose smuts Synonym(s): Ustilago, genus Ustilago
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Ustilago maydis n a common smut attacking Indian corn causing greyish white swellings that rupture to expose a black spore mass Synonym(s): boil smut, Ustilago maydis
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Diligence \Dil"i*gence\, n. [F. diligence, L. diligentia.]       1. The quality of being diligent; carefulness; careful             attention; -- the opposite of negligence.          2. Interested and persevering application; devoted and             painstaking effort to accomplish what is undertaken;             assiduity in service.                         That which ordinary men are fit for, I am qualified                      in; and the best of me is diligence.   --Shak.          3. (Scots Law) Process by which persons, lands, or effects             are seized for debt; process for enforcing the attendance             of witnesses or the production of writings.          {To do one's diligence}, {give diligence}, {use diligence},             to exert one's self; to make interested and earnest             endeavor.                         And each of them doth all his diligence To do unto                      the fest[82] reverence.                     --Chaucer.          Syn: Attention; industry; assiduity; sedulousness;                earnestness; constancy; heed; heedfulness; care;                caution. -- {Diligence}, {Industry}. Industry has the                wider sense of the two, implying an habitual devotion to                labor for some valuable end, as knowledge, property,                etc. Diligence denotes earnest application to some                specific object or pursuit, which more or less directly                has a strong hold on one's interests or feelings. A man                may be diligent for a time, or in seeking some favorite                end, without meriting the title of industrious. Such was                the case with Fox, while Burke was eminent not only for                diligence, but industry; he was always at work, and                always looking out for some new field of mental effort.                            The sweat of industry would dry and die, But for                         the end it works to.                        --Shak.                            Diligence and accuracy are the only merits which                         an historical writer ascribe to himself. --Gibbon.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Dust \Dust\, n. [AS. dust; cf. LG. dust, D. duist meal dust, OD.       doest, donst, and G. dunst vapor, OHG. tunist, dunist, a       blowing, wind, Icel. dust dust, Dan. dyst mill dust; perh.       akin to L. fumus smoke, E. fume. [?].]       1. Fine, dry particles of earth or other matter, so             comminuted that they may be raised and wafted by the wind;             that which is crumbled too minute portions; fine powder;             as, clouds of dust; bone dust.                         Dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.                                                                               --Gen. iii.                                                                               19.                         Stop! -- for thy tread is on an empire's dust.                                                                               --Byron.          2. A single particle of earth or other matter. [R.] [bd]To             touch a dust of England's ground.[b8] --Shak.          3. The earth, as the resting place of the dead.                         For now shall sleep in the dust.         --Job vii. 21.          4. The earthy remains of bodies once alive; the remains of             the human body.                         And you may carve a shrine about my dust.                                                                               --Tennyson.          5. Figuratively, a worthless thing.                         And by the merit of vile gold, dross, dust. --Shak.          6. Figuratively, a low or mean condition.                         [God] raiseth up the poor out of the dust. --1 Sam.                                                                               ii. 8.          7. Gold dust; hence: (Slang) Coined money; cash.          {Down with the dust}, deposit the cash; pay down the money.             [Slang] [bd]My lord, quoth the king, presently deposit             your hundred pounds in gold, or else no going hence all             the days of your life. . . . The Abbot down with his dust,             and glad he escaped so, returned to Reading.[b8] --Fuller.          {Dust brand} (Bot.), a fungous plant ({Ustilago Carbo}); --             called also {smut}.          {Gold dust}, fine particles of gold, such as are obtained in             placer mining; -- often used as money, being transferred             by weight.          {In dust and ashes}. See under {Ashes}.          {To bite the dust}. See under {Bite}, v. t.          {To}          {raise, [or] kick up, dust}, to make a commotion. [Colloq.]                      {To throw dust in one's eyes}, to mislead; to deceive.             [Colloq.]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Bunt \Bunt\, n. (Bot.)       A fungus ({Ustilago f[d2]tida}) which affects the ear of       cereals, filling the grains with a fetid dust; -- also called       pepperbrand.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smut \Smut\, n. [Akin to Sw. smuts, Dan. smuds, MHG. smuz, G.       schmutz, D. smet a spot or stain, smoddig, smodsig,       smodderig, dirty, smodderen to smut; and probably to E.       smite. See {Smite}, v. t., and cf. {Smitt}, {Smutch}.]       1. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil             made by such matter.          2. (Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter,             found in the immediate locality of faults.          3. (Bot.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling             which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It             is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus {Ustilago}.             {Ustilago segetum}, or {U. Carbo}, is the commonest kind;             that of Indian corn is {Ustilago maydis}.          4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.                         He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk                      smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.                                                                               --Addison.          {Smut mill}, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Smut \Smut\, n. [Akin to Sw. smuts, Dan. smuds, MHG. smuz, G.       schmutz, D. smet a spot or stain, smoddig, smodsig,       smodderig, dirty, smodderen to smut; and probably to E.       smite. See {Smite}, v. t., and cf. {Smitt}, {Smutch}.]       1. Foul matter, like soot or coal dust; also, a spot or soil             made by such matter.          2. (Mining) Bad, soft coal, containing much earthy matter,             found in the immediate locality of faults.          3. (Bot.) An affection of cereal grains producing a swelling             which is at length resolved into a powdery sooty mass. It             is caused by parasitic fungi of the genus {Ustilago}.             {Ustilago segetum}, or {U. Carbo}, is the commonest kind;             that of Indian corn is {Ustilago maydis}.          4. Obscene language; ribaldry; obscenity.                         He does not stand upon decency . . . but will talk                      smut, though a priest and his mother be in the room.                                                                               --Addison.          {Smut mill}, a machine for cleansing grain from smut.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ustulate \Us"tu*late\, a. [L. ustulatus, p. p. of ustulare to       scorch, urere to burn.]       Blackened as if burned.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Ustulation \Us`tu*la"tion\, n. [Cf. F. ustulation.]       1. The act of burning or searing. [R.] --Sir W. Petty.          2. (Old Chem.) The operation of expelling one substance from             another by heat, as sulphur or arsenic from ores, in a             muffle.          3. (Pharm.)             (a) The roasting or drying of moist substances so as                   prepare them for pulverizing.             (b) The burning of wine.          4. Lascivious passion; concupiscence. [Obs.]                         It is not certain that they took the better part                      when they chose ustulation before marriage,                      expressly against the apostle.            --Jer. Taylor.
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Uz, The land of       where Job lived (1:1; Jer. 25:20; Lam. 4:21), probably somewhere       to the east or south-east of Palestine and north of Edom. It is       mentioned in Scripture only in these three passages.