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cially by exciting quarrels. -- To play the mischief, to cause great harm; to throw into confusion. [Colloq.]

Disorder; confusion; tumult from insubordination. Enormous riot and misrule surveyed. Pope. Abbot, or Lord, of Misrule. See under Abbot, and Lord.

an citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

To perplex; to confuse. [Prov. Eng.] Lamb.

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

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

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

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.

A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.

ramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. Shak.

med the child Ichabod. 1 Sam. iv. 21. Thus was the building left Ridiculous, and the work Confusion named. Milton.

Especially, loud, confused, or senseless sound; clamor; din.

To darken; to obscure; to becloud; hence, to confuse; to bewilder. His head, like a smokejack, the funnel unswept, and the ideas whirling round and round about in it, all obfuscated and darkened over with fuliginous matter. Sterne. Clouds of passion which might obfuscate the intellects of meaner females. Sir. W. Scott.…

ic ether by the action of alkalies. -- OEnanthic ether, an ethereal substance (not to be confused with the bouquet, or aroma, of wine) found in wine lees, and consisting of a complex mixture of the ethereal salts of several of the higher acids of the acetic acid series. It has an ethereal odor, and it used in flavorin…

A miscellaneous collection of things or persons; a confused mixture; a medley. [Colloq. & Humorous] Selden.

In utter confusion; with confused violence. "Men, horses, chariots, crowded pellmell." Milton.

To embarrass; to puzzle; to distract; to bewilder; to confuse; to trouble with ambiguity, suspense, or anxiety. "Perplexd beyond self- explication." Shak. We are perplexed, but not in despair. 2 Cor. iv. 8. We can distinguish no general truths, or at least shall be apt to perplex the mind. Locke.

Entangled, involved, or confused; hence, embarrassd; puzzled; doubtful; anxious. -- Per*plex"ed*ly, adv. -- Per*plex"ed*ness, n.

ented as animated, or endowed with personality; prosopopas, the floods clap their hands. "Confusion heards his voice." Milton.

To disorder; to confuse. [R.] Sir T. Browne.