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The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.] He did ill to muddle the water. L'Estrange.

A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica).

To make soft or muddy by trampling Tennyson.

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

Consisting of, or resembling, puddles; muddy; foul. "Thick puddly water." Carew.

To render turbid or muddy; to stir up; to roil.

covered with scabs, upon the heels of horses which have been used where it is very wet or muddy. Law (Farmer's Veter. Adviser).

assio, Lieutenant to the warlike Moor Othello, Is come shore. Shak. The fruitful shore of muddy Nile. Spenser. In shore, near the shore. Marryat. -- On shore. See under On. -- Shore birds (Zoöl.), a collective name for the various limicoline birds found on the seashore. -- Shore crab (Zoöl.), any crab found on the b…

Wet, so as to spatter easily; wet, as with something slopped over; muddy; plashy; as, a sloppy place, walk, road.

Anything dirty or muddy; a dirty puddle. [Prov. Eng.]

Full of dirty water; wet and muddy, so as be easily splashed about; slushy.

Not transparent or clear; hence, turbid, muddy, or misty; as, the water of a river is apt to be thick after a rain. "In a thick, misty day." Sir W. Scott.

Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine. On that strong, turbid water, a small boat, Guided by one weak hand, was seen to float. Whittier.

Muddy; oozy; slimy; also, growing in muddy places. [R.] Woodward.