Mud
[mʌd]
Definition
(noun.) slanderous remarks or charges.
(noun.) water soaked soil; soft wet earth.
(verb.) plaster with mud.
Checker: Vernon--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
(v. t.) To bury in mud.
(v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.
Inputed by Leonard
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. Mire.
Editor: Pratt
Definition
n. wet soft earth.—v.t. to bury in mud: to dirty: to stir the sediment in as in liquors; to bury in mud.—v.i. to go under the mud like the eel.—ns. Mud′-bath a kind of mud connected with some mineral springs into which the patient plunges himself; Mud′-boat -scow a boat for carrying away the mud dredged from a river &c.; Mud′-cone a mud-volcano.—adv. Mud′dily.—n. Mud′diness.—adj. Mud′dy foul with mud: containing mud: covered with mud: confused: stupid.—v.t. to dirty: to render dull:—pa.t. and pa.p. mud′died.—adjs. Mud′dy-head′ed having a muddy or dull head or understanding; Mud′dy-mett′led (Shak.) dull-spirited: spiritless.—ns. Mud′-fish a fish which burrows in the mud; Mud′-flat a muddy strip of shore submerged at high tide; Mud′-guard the dash-board of a carriage; Mud′-hole a place full of mud: an orifice in the bottom of a boiler where the sediment is collected; Mud′-lark a man who cleans public sewers or who picks up a living along the banks of tidal rivers: a street-arab; Mud′-wall a wall composed of mud or one in which mud is used in place of mortar: the bee-eater.
Checker: Ophelia
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream that you walk in mud, denotes that you will have cause to lose confidence in friendships, and there will be losses and disturbances in family circles. To see others walking in mud, ugly rumors will reach you of some friend or employee. To the farmer, this dream is significant of short crops and unsatisfactory gains from stock. To see mud on your clothing, your reputation is being assailed. To scrape it off, signifies that you will escape the calumny of enemies.
Checker: Nathan
Examples
- At one of the theatre doors, there was a little girl with a mother, looking for a way across the street through the mud. Charles Dickens. A Tale of Two Cities.
- Let any one try to wade the mud of the Flemish chaussées in a pair of Paris brodequins, on m'en dirait des nouvelles! Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- He knows that it's hard to keep the mud off the crossing in dirty weather, and harder still to live by doing it. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- The holes, which usually are about a foot deep, are made by the crab persistently digging up and carrying away little masses of mud or sand. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- The draught is maintained by placing the apparatus on a couple of bricks, and regulated by closing the intervening space with mud, leaving only a sufficient aperture to keep the fire burning. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- The wind drove down the rain and everywhere there was standing water and mud. Ernest Hemingway. A Farewell To Arms.
- For a week the Grand Army struggled through mud; then came sharp frosts, and then the first flakes of snow, and then snow and snow. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
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