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.