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Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass.

lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. L. Harrisii) which is extensively cultivated in Bermuda.

An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving.

Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow.

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze.

To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge.

The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred. C. A. Young.

The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch.

Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases. Lightfoot.

The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them.

One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud.

Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic.

evelopment, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid. Hence: Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. Dryden.

by flowing water; washed away from one place and deposited in another; as, alluvial soil, mud, accumulations, deposits.

ely confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.

A fast-sailing schooner, used in the Bermudas and West Indies.

llow (Zoöl.), the common American swallow (Hirundo horreorum), which attaches its nest of mud to the beams and rafters of barns.

large siluroid fish (Leptops olivaris) of the Mississippi valley; -- also called goujon, mud cat, and yellow cat.

A name given by Prof. Huxley to a gelatinous substance found in mud dredged from the Atlantic and preserved in alcohol. He supposed that it was free living protoplasm, covering a large part of the ocean bed. It is now known that the substance is of chemical, not of organic, origin.

An inclosure with mud or stone walls, for keeping cattle; a fortified inclosure. [Obs.] Spenser.