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Mud [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

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] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To bury in mud or slime.

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

Mud [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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

Mud [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To bury in mud.

2. To make muddy or turbid.

Mudar [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.

Mudarin [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.

Muddied [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Muddily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Turbidly; with foul mixture.

2. Lucilius--writ loosely and muddily

Muddily [Adverb] Webster's Dictionary 1913

In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.

Muddiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt or sediment; as the muddiness of a stream.

Muddiness [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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 [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To make foul, turbid or muddy, as water.

2. He did ill to muddle the water.

3. To intoxicate partially; to cloud or stupefy, particularly with liquor.

4. He was often drunk, always muddled.

5. Epicurus seems to have had his brains muddled.

Muddle [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.

Muddle [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To dabble in mud.

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

Muddle [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water.

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

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

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

Muddled [Participle passive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Made turbid; half drunk; stupefied.

Muddled [Imperfect tense and past participle] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Muddlehead [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A stupid person.

Muddler [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

One who, or that which, muddles.

Muddling [Participle present tense] Webster's Dictionary 1828

Making foul with dirt or dregs; making half drunk; stupefying.

Muddling [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Muddy [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Foul with dirt or fine earthy particles; turbid, as water or other fluids; as a muddy stream. Water running on fine clay always appears muddy

2. Containing mud; as a muddy ditch; a muddy road.

3. Dirty; dashed, soiled or besmeared with mud; as muddy boots.

4. Consisting of mud or earth; gross, impure; as this muddy vesture of decay.

5. Dark; of the color of mud; as muddy cheeks.

6. Cloudy in mind; dull; heavy; stupid.

7. Dost think I am so muddy?

Muddy [Verb intransitive] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. To soil with mud; to dirty.

2. To cloud; to make dull or heavy.

Muddy [Superlative] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

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

5. Not clear or bright.

Muddy [Verb transitive] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.

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

Muddy-headed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. Having a dull understanding.

2. Having a mud wall.

Muddy-headed [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1828

1. A fish, a species of the cyprinus kind.

2. In bridges, the sill that is laid at the bottom of a river, lake, etc. [ See Sill .]

3. An aquatic fowl.

4. A wall composed of mud, or of materials laid in mud without mortar.

5. A bird, the apiaster.

Muddy-headed [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dull; stupid.

Muddy-mettled [Adjective] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dull-spirited.

Muddying [Present participle and verbal noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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Mudfish [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. The European loach.

2. The bowfin.

3. The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species (Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren.

4. The mud minnow.

Mudhole [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

1. A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.

2. A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn.

Mudir [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

Same as Moodir.

Mudsill [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.

Mudsucker [Noun] Webster's Dictionary 1913

A woodcock.

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2 Samuel 22:43

Then did I beat them as small as the dust of the earth, I did stamp them as the mire of the street, and did spread them abroad.

I ground them as the dust of the earth; I crushed and trampled them like mud in the streets.

Job 30:19

He hath cast me into the mire, and I am become like dust and ashes.

He throws me into the mud, and I have become like dust and ashes.

Job 41:30

Sharp stones are under him: he spreadeth sharp pointed things upon the mire.

His undersides are jagged potsherds, spreading out the mud like a threshing sledge.

Psalms 18:42

Then did I beat them small as the dust before the wind: I did cast them out as the dirt in the streets.

I ground them as dust in the face of the wind; I trampled them like mud in the streets.

Proverbs 25:26

A righteous man falling down before the wicked is as a troubled fountain, and a corrupt spring.

Like a muddied spring or a polluted well is a righteous man who gives way to the wicked.

Isaiah 28:7

But they also have erred through wine, and through strong drink are out of the way; the priest and the prophet have erred through strong drink, they are swallowed up of wine, they are out of the way through strong drink; they err in vision, they stumble in judgment.

These also stagger from wine and stumble from strong drink: Priests and prophets reel from strong drink and are befuddled by wine. They stumble because of strong drink, muddled in their visions and stumbling in their judgments.

Jeremiah 38:6

Then took they Jeremiah, and cast him into the dungeon of Malchiah the son of Hammelech, that was in the court of the prison: and they let down Jeremiah with cords. And in the dungeon there was no water, but mire: so Jeremiah sunk in the mire.

So they took Jeremiah and dropped him into the cistern of Malchiah, the king’s son, which was in the courtyard of the guard. They lowered Jeremiah with ropes into the cistern, which had no water but only mud, and Jeremiah sank down into the mud.

Ezekiel 32:2

Son of man, take up a lamentation for Pharaoh king of Egypt, and say unto him, Thou art like a young lion of the nations, and thou art as a whale in the seas: and thou camest forth with thy rivers, and troubledst the waters with thy feet, and fouledst their rivers.

“Son of man, take up a lament for Pharaoh king of Egypt and say to him: ‘You are like a lion among the nations; you are like a monster in the seas. You thrash about in your rivers, churning up the waters with your feet and muddying the streams.’

Ezekiel 32:13

I will destroy also all the beasts thereof from beside the great waters; neither shall the foot of man trouble them any more, nor the hoofs of beasts trouble them.

I will slaughter all her cattle beside the abundant waters. No human foot will muddy them again, and no cattle hooves will disturb them.

Ezekiel 34:18

Seemeth it a small thing unto you to have eaten up the good pasture, but ye must tread down with your feet the residue of your pastures? and to have drunk of the deep waters, but ye must foul the residue with your feet?

Is it not enough for you to feed on the good pasture? Must you also trample the rest of the pasture with your feet? Is it not enough for you to drink the clear waters? Must you also muddy the rest with your feet?

Ezekiel 34:19

And as for my flock, they eat that which ye have trodden with your feet; and they drink that which ye have fouled with your feet.

Why must My flock feed on what your feet have trampled, and drink what your feet have muddied?’

Micah 7:10

Then she that is mine enemy shall see it, and shame shall cover her which said unto me, Where is the LORD thy God? mine eyes shall behold her: now shall she be trodden down as the mire of the streets.

Then my enemy will see and will be covered with shame— she who said to me, “Where is the LORD your God?” My eyes will see her; at that time she will be trampled like mud in the streets.

John 9:6

When he had thus spoken, he spat on the ground, and made clay of the spittle, and he anointed the eyes of the blind man with the clay,

When Jesus had said this, He spit on the ground, made some mud, and applied it to the man’s eyes.

John 9:11

He answered and said, A man that is called Jesus made clay, and anointed mine eyes, and said unto me, Go to the pool of Siloam, and wash: and I went and washed, and I received sight.

He answered, “The man they call Jesus made some mud and anointed my eyes, and He told me to go to Siloam and wash. So I went and washed and received my sight.”

John 9:14

And it was the sabbath day when Jesus made the clay, and opened his eyes.

Now the day on which Jesus had made the mud and opened his eyes was a Sabbath.

John 9:15

Then again the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. He said unto them, He put clay upon mine eyes, and I washed, and do see.

So the Pharisees also asked him how he had received his sight. The man answered, “He put mud on my eyes, and I washed, and now I can see.”

2 Peter 2:22

But it is happened unto them according to the true proverb, The dog is turned to his own vomit again; and the sow that was washed to her wallowing in the mire.

Of them the proverbs are true: “A dog returns to its vomit,” and, “A sow that is washed goes back to her wallowing in the mud.”