Du Bose Heyward wrote in the New York Herald Tribune in 1926: Langston Hughes, although only twenty-four years old, is already conspicuous in the group of Negro intellectuals who are dignifying Harlem with a genuine art life. . . .
Smudge stick. A smudge stick is a bundle of dried herbs, usually bound with string into a small bundle. The herbs are later burned as part of a ritual or ceremony. Plants that are often used include sage and cedar.
Princeton's WordNet(4.00 / 1 vote)Rate this definition: 1  smudge(noun) a smoky fire to drive away insects. 2  smudge, spot, blot, daub, smear, smirch, slur(verb) a blemish made by dirt. he had a smudge on his cheek. 3  smear, blur, smudge, smutch(verb) make a smudge on; soil by smudging.