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MUD, n. [L. madeo.] Moist and soft earth of any kind, such as is found in marshes and swamps, at the bottom or rivers and ponds, or in highways after rain.

MUD, v.t. To bury in mud or slime.

1. To make turbid or foul with dirt; to stir the sediment in liquors.


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MUD, n. [L. madeo.] Moist and soft earth of any kind, such as is found in marshes and swamps, at the bottom or rivers and ponds, or in highways after rain.

MUD, v.t. To bury in mud or slime.

1. To make turbid or foul with dirt; to stir the sediment in liquors.

MUD, n. [D. modder; G. moder. See Mother. Εκ του αυτου συμπλοκης του πνευματος εγενετο μωτ. Τουτο τινες φασιν ιλυν, οιδε ὑδατωδους μιξεως σηψιν. Mot, id est, mod; Phœnices ita scribebant. Bochart, Phœn. Lib. 2, Cap. 2. This is said to be a fragment of Sanchoniathon's Phenician history, translated by Philo and preserved by Eusebius. Thus Phenician word mod, μωτ, rendered in Gr. ιλυς, is precisely the English mud, the matter, material or substance of which, according to the ancients, all things were formed. See Castel. Col. 2010, and the word Mother. Plutarch, de Iside, says the Egyptians called Isis muth, that is, mother. This is a remarkable fact, and proves beyond controversy the common origin of the Phenician, Celtic and Teutonic nations. Mud may perhaps be named from wetness, and be connected with L. madeo, Gr. μυδαω; W. mwydaw, to wet.]

Moist and soft earth of any kind, such as is found in marshes and swamps, at the bottom of rivers and ponds, or in highways after rain.


MUD, v.t.

  1. To bury in mud or slime. Shak.
  2. To make turbid or foul with dirt; to stir the sediment in liquors. Glanville.

Mud
  1. Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.

    Mud bass (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish (Acantharchum 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 Catfish. -- Mud crab (Zoöl.), any one of several American marine crabs of the genus Panopeus. -- Mud dab (Zoöl.), the winter flounder. See Flounder, and Dab. -- Mud dauber (Zoöl.), a mud wasp. -- Mud devil (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), 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 (Zoöl.), a European frog (Pelobates fuscus). -- Mud hen. (Zoöl.) (a) The American coot (Fulica Americana). (b) The clapper rail. - - Mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. [Slang] -- Mud minnow (Zoöl.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as U. limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels. -- Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. -- Mud puppy (Zoöl.), the menobranchus. -- Mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. [U.S.] -- Mud turtle, Mud tortoise (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States. -- Mud wasp (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to Pepæus, 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.

  2. To bury in mud.

    [R.] Shak.
  3. To make muddy or turbid.

    Shak.
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Mud

MUD, noun [Latin madeo.] Moist and soft earth of any kind, such as is found in marshes and swamps, at the bottom or rivers and ponds, or in highways after rain.

MUD, verb transitive To bury in mud or slime.

1. To make turbid or foul with dirt; to stir the sediment in liquors.

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