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Dirty; unclean. [Colloq.] The grubby game of marbles. Lond. Sat. Rev.

Impure ore; dirty ore.

Not pure; not clean; dirty; foul; filthy; containing something which is unclean or unwholesome; mixed or impregnated extraneous substances; adulterated; as, impure water or air; impure drugs, food, etc.

for roasting meat; as, a tin kitchen. Kitchen garden. See under Garden. -- Kitchen lee, dirty soapsuds. [Obs.] " A brazen tub of kitchen lee." Ford. -- Kitchen stuff, fat collected from pots and pans. Donne.

spongy earth. Chaucer. He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. Spenser. Mire crow (Zoöl.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] -- Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]

To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile. Thou ... doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil. Spenser.

Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy. [Prov. Eng.] R. D. Blackmore.

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

Soft; sticky, and dirty. [Prov. Eng.] See Mucky.

Offensively filthy; very dirty, foul, or defiled; disgusting; nauseous.

A small quantity of dirty standing water; a muddy plash; a small pool. Spenser.

ize of an ordinary quince, having a rough, brittle, dull brown rind, the flesh being of a dirty yellowish white color, very soft, and deliciously sweet. Called also naseberry. It is eatable only when it begins to be spotted, and is much used in desserts.

Soil; dirt; dirty water; urine from a cowhouse. [Prov. Eng.]

A mean, dirty, paltry fellow. [Low] Shak.

he skull; also, brains; sense; discretion. [Colloq.] To knock him about the sconce with a dirty shovel. Shak.

Mean; dirty; contemptible; scrubby. How solitary, how scrub, does this town lokk! Walpole. No little scrub joint shall come on my board. Swift. Scrub game, a game, as of ball, by unpracticed players. -- Scrub race, a race between scrubs, or between untrained animals or contestants.

Torn or worn to rage; poor; mean; ragged. Wearing shabby coats and dirty shirts. Macaulay.

Wet and dirty; slushy. [Prov. Eng.]

Resembling a slattern; sluttish; negligent; dirty. -- adv.

Any mucilaginous substance; any substance of a dirty nature, that is moist, soft, and adhesive.