Mud

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  • noun. Wet, sticky, soft earth, as on the banks of a river.
  • noun. Wet plaster, mortar, or cement.
  • noun. Slanderous or defamatory charges or comments.
  • transitive verb. To cover or spatter with or as if with mud.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • noun. Moist and soft earth or earthy matter, whether produced by rains on the earthy surface, by ejections from springs and volcanoes, or by sediment from turbid waters; mire.
  • To bury in mud or mire; cover or bedaub with mud.
  • To make turbid or foul with dirt; stir the sediment in (liquors).
  • To go in or under the mud, for refuge or warmth, as does the eel.
  • To fill with mud or soft clay, as the crevices between the logs in a log house.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • transitive verb. To bury in mud.
  • transitive verb. To make muddy or turbid.
  • noun. Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
  • noun. a fresh-water fish (Acantharchum pomotis or Acantharchus pomotis) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note.
  • noun. an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease.
  • noun. a large flatboat used in dredging.
  • noun. See mud cat in the vocabulary.
  • noun. any one of several American marine crabs of the genus Panopeus.
  • noun. the winter flounder. See Flounder, and Dab.
  • noun. a mud wasp; the mud-dauber.
  • noun. the fellbender.
  • noun. a drum beneath a boiler, into which sediment and mud in the water can settle for removal.
  • noun. 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.
  • noun. a European frog (Pelobates fuscus).
  • noun. The clapper rail.
  • noun. a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud.
  • noun. any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as Umbra limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels.
  • noun. a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler.
  • noun. the menobranchus.
  • noun. a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat.
  • noun. any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States.
  • noun. undefined
  • noun. 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.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • noun. A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.
  • noun. A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.
  • noun. Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.
  • noun. Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.
  • noun. Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.
  • noun. stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex
  • noun. A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale
  • verb. To make muddy, dirty
  • verb. To make turbid
  • verb. To participate in a MUD, or multi-user dungeon.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • verb. plaster with mud
  • noun. slanderous remarks or charges
  • verb. soil with mud, muck, or mire
  • noun. water soaked soil; soft wet earth
  • Word Usage
    "An 'heah de salvation train is stuck deep in de mud, an' yer know Arkansas mud _hit's mud_; hit ain't b'iled custard; no, it ain't, an 'hit sticks like glue!"
    cross-reference
    Equivalent
    Hypernym
    Words that are more generic or abstract
    begrime  bemire  colly  daub  dirty  
    Rhyme
    Words with the same terminal sound
    Blood  Bud  Flood  Judd  Rudd  
    Same Context
    Words that are found in similar contexts
    blood  brick  clay  darkness  dirt  
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    Moya  baygall  bog  bottom  bottomland  
    variant
    mudded  mudding  
    verb-form
    mudded  mudding  muds