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Mudarin Mu"da·rin noun (Chemistry) A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.

Muddily Mud"di·ly adverb In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.

Muddiness Mud"di·ness noun 1. The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

2. Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness.

Muddle Mud"dle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Muddled ; present participle & verbal noun Muddling .] [ From Mud .] 1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [ Obsolete]

He did ill to muddle the water.

L'Estrange.

2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.

Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.

Bentley.

Often drunk, always muddled .

Arbuthnot.

3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [ R.]

They muddle it [ money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.

Hazlitt.

4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. F. W. Newman.

Muddle Mud"dle intransitive verb 1. To dabble in mud. [ Obsolete] Swift.

2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way.

Muddle Mud"dle noun A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

We both grub on in a muddle .

Dickens.

Muddlehead Mud"dle·head` noun A stupid person. [ Colloq.] C. Reade. -- Mud"dle-head`ed , adjective [ Colloq.] Dickens.

Muddler Mud"dler noun One who, or that which, muddles.

Muddy Mud"dy adjective [ Compar. Muddier ; superl. Muddiest .] 1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.

3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.

This muddy vesture of decay.

Shak.

4. Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.

Cold hearts and muddy understandings.

Burke.

Dost think I am so muddy , so unsettled.

Shak.

5. Not clear or bright. Swift.

Muddy Mud"dy transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Muddied ; present participle & verbal noun Muddying .] 1. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.

2. Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy. Grew.

Muddy-headed Mud"dy-head`ed adjective Dull; stupid.

Muddy-mettled Mud"dy-met`tled adjective Dull- spirited. Shak.

Mudfish Mud"fish` noun (Zoology) (a) The European loach. (b) The bowfin. (c) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species ( Protopterus annectens ). See Lipedosiren . (d) The mud minnow.

Mudhole Mud"hole` noun 1. A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.

2. (Steam Boilers) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn.

Mudir Mu"dir noun Same as Moodir .

Mudsill Mud"sill` noun The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill .

Mudsill Mud"sill` noun Fig.: A person of the lowest stratum of society; -- a term of opprobrium or contempt. [ Southern U. S.]

Mudsucker Mud"suck`er noun (Zoology) A woodcock.

Mudwall Mud"wall` noun (Zoology) The European bee-eater. See Bee-eater . [ Written also modwall .]

Mudwort Mud"wort` noun (Botany) A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores ( Limosella aquatica ).

Mue Mue (mū) intransitive verb To mew; to molt. [ Obsolete] Quarles.

Muezzin Mu·ez"zin (mu*ĕz"zĭn) noun [ Arabic ] A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer. [ Written also mouezzin , mueddin , and muwazzin .]

Muff Muff (mŭf) noun [ Confer LG. muff , Dutch mof , G., Dan., & Swedish muff , French moufle mitten, Late Latin muffula , Middle High German mouwe sleeve, Dutch mouw , and English muffle , v.] 1. A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.

2. (Mech.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.

3. (Glass Manuf.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.

4. [ Perhaps a different word; confer Prov. English maffle to slammer.] A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person. [ Colloq.] "A muff of a curate." Thackeray.

5. [ See 4.] (Baseball) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.

6. (Zoology) The whitethroat. [ Prov. Eng.]

Muff Muff transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Muffed ; present participle & verbal noun Muffing .] To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.

Muffetee Muf`fe·tee" noun A small muff worn over the wrist. [ Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Muffin Muf"fin noun [ From Muff .] A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.

Muffineer Muf`fin·eer" noun A dish for keeping muffins hot.

Muffish Muff"ish adjective [ See Muff , 4 & 5.] Stupid; awkward. [ Colloq.]

Muffle Muf"fle (mŭf"f'l) noun The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.

Muffle Muf"fle transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Muffled ; present participle & verbal noun Muffling .] [ Confer French moufle a mitten, Late Latin muffula , OD. moffel a muff. See Muff .] 1. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up . South.

The face lies muffled up within the garment.

Addison.

He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.

Dryden.

Muffled up in darkness and superstition.

Arbuthnot.

2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

3. To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.

Muffle Muf"fle intransitive verb [ Confer French maffle , mumble , Dutch moffelen .] To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

Muffle Muf"fle noun [ French moufle , prop., a mitten, from the resemblance in shape. See Muffle , transitive verb , Muff .] 1. Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.

2. (Metal.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.

3. (Ceramics) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.

4. A pulley block containing several sheaves. Knight.

Muffler Muf"fler noun 1. Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes.

Shak.

2. (Mus.) A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.

3. A kind of mitten or boxing glove, esp. when stuffed.

4. One who muffles.

Muffler Muf"fler noun (Machinery) Any of various devices to deaden the noise of escaping gases or vapors, as a tube filled with obstructions, through which the exhaust gases of an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, are passed (called also silencer ).

Muflon Muf"lon noun (Zoology) See Mouflon .

Mufti Muf"ti noun ; plural Muftis . [ Arabic mufti .] An official expounder of Mohammedan law.

Mufti Muf"ti noun Citizen's dress when worn by a naval or military officer; -- a term derived from the British service in India. [ Colloq. Eng.]

Mug Mug noun [ Confer Ir. mugam a mug, mucog a cup.] 1. A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.

2. The face or mouth. [ Slang] Thackeray.

Muggard Mug"gard adjective [ Confer German mucker a sulky person, muckish sullen, peevish, mucken to mutter, grumble.] Sullen; displeased. [ Obsolete]

Mugger Mug"ger noun Also Mug"gar Mug"gur [ Hind. magar , from Sanskrit makara sea monster.] The common crocodile ( Crocodilus palustris ) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.

Mugget Mug"get noun The small entrails of a calf or a hog.

Mugginess Mug"gi·ness noun The condition or quality of being muggy.

Muggins Mug"gins noun [ Etym. unknown.] 1. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.

2. A game at cards which depends upon building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards.

Muggins Mug"gins transitive verb In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying "muggins."

Muggish Mug"gish adjective See Muggy .

Muggletonian Mug`gle·to"ni·an noun (Eccl. Hist.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton , an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. Eadie.

Muggy Mug"gy (mŭg"gȳ) adjective [ Compar. Muggier (-gĭ*ẽr); superl. Muggiest .] [ Confer Icelandic mugga mist, mugginess. Confer 4th Mold .] 1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.

2. Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.

Mughouse Mug"house` (mŭg"hous`) noun An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.

Mugiency Mu"gi·en·cy noun A bellowing. [ Obsolete]

Mugient Mu"gi·ent adjective [ Latin mugiens , present participle of mugire to bellow.] Lowing; bellowing. [ Obsolete] Sir T. Browne.

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