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Mud   /məd/   Listen
noun
Mud  n.  Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
Mud bass (Zool.), a fresh-water fish (Acantharchum pomotis or Acantharchus pomotis) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note.
Mud bath, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease.
Mud boat, a large flatboat used in dredging.
Mud cat. See mud cat in the vocabulary.
Mud crab (Zool.), any one of several American marine crabs of the genus Panopeus.
Mud dab (Zool.), the winter flounder. See Flounder, and Dab.
Mud dauber (Zool.), a mud wasp; the mud-dauber.
Mud devil (Zool.), the fellbender.
Mud drum (Steam Boilers), a drum beneath a boiler, into which sediment and mud in the water can settle for removal.
Mud eel (Zool.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian (Siren lacertina), found in the Southern United States. It has persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of legs. See Siren.
Mud frog (Zool.), a European frog (Pelobates fuscus).
Mud hen. (Zool.)
(a)
The American coot (Fulica Americana).
(b)
The clapper rail.
Mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. (Slang)
Mud minnow (Zool.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as Umbra limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels.
Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler.
Mud puppy (Zool.), the menobranchus.
Mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. (U.S.)
Mud turtle, Mud tortoise (Zool.), any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States.
Mud wasp (Zool.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to Pepaeus, and allied genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached, side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings, etc. The female places an egg in each cell, together with spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve as food for the larva. Called also mud dauber.


verb
Mud  v. t.  
1.
To bury in mud. (R.)
2.
To make muddy or turbid.





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... one another; the dogs, too, were running and barking, and the canaries, hanging in cages above the windows, were straining their throats in rivalry and adding to the general uproar by the shrill trilling of their piercing notes. At the very height of this deafening merry-making a mud-bespattered carriage stopped at the gate, and a man of five-and forty, in a travelling dress, stepped out of it and stood still in amazement. He stood a little time without stirring, watching the house with attentive ...
— A House of Gentlefolk • Ivan Turgenev
... formidable character. This was a great forest of mangrove trees, which grow in muddy and watery places and which have many roots, some coming down from the branches, and some extending themselves in a hopeless tangle in the water and mud. It would have been impossible for even a stork to walk through this forest, but as there was no way of getting around it Bartholemy determined to go through it, even if he could not walk. No athlete of the present day, no ...
— Buccaneers and Pirates of Our Coasts • Frank Richard Stockton
... Mackay no sooner perceived them weakened by these detachments, then he ordered three battalions to skirt the bog and attack them on the left, while the centre advanced through the middle of the morass, the men wading up to the waist in mud and water. After they had reached the other side, they found themselves obliged to ascend a rugged hill fenced with hedges and ditches; and these were lined with musqeteers, supported at proper intervals with squadrons of cavalry. They made such ...
— The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.II. - From William and Mary to George II. • Tobias Smollett
... such a case is the militant suffragist. She cannot understand why any one should think civilisation is outraged when she scuffles in the street mud ...
— The Unexpurgated Case Against Woman Suffrage • Almroth E. Wright
... there is a crazy, old warehouse with a rotten wharf of its own, abutting on the water when the tide is in, and on the mud when the tide is out—the whole place literally overrun with rats that scuffle and squeal on the moldy stairs. I asked Bobby if it could not be that this was the blacking-factory; but he said, No, for this one ...
— Little Journeys to the Homes of the Great, Vol. 1 of 14 - Little Journeys to the Homes of Good Men and Great • Elbert Hubbard


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