(chiefly US) Soil or earth.

A stain or spot (on clothes etc); any foreign substance that worsens appearance.

Previously unknown facts or rumors about a person.

(figurative) Meanness; sordidness.

(mining) In placer mining, earth, gravel, etc., before washing.

Freckles.

(transitive, rare) To make foul or filthy; soil; befoul; dirty