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To befoul with rain and mud; to drabble.

To draggle; to soil, as garments which, in walking, are suffered to drag in dust, mud, etc. Swift.

To bespatter, as with mud. [R.] Sterne.

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt. Bemired and benighted in the dog. Burke.

To muddle, daze, or partially stupefy, as with liquor. A parson much bemused in beer. Pope.

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire. At another time, he was bogged up to the middle in the slough of Lochend. Sir W. Scott.

(of leather or rubber cloth) for the driving seat of a vehicle, to protect from rain and mud.

A voracious ganoid fish (Amia calva) found in the fresh waters of the United States; the mudfish; -- called also Johnny Grindle, and dogfish.

Bespotted with mud or dirt. [Obs.] Chaucer.

oid fishes; as, the yellow cat (Amiurus natalis); the bind cat (Gronias nigrilabrus); the mud cat (Pilodictic oilwaris), the stone cat (Noturus flavus); the sea cat (Arius felis), etc. This name is also sometimes applied to the wolf fish. See Bullhrad.

To daub, smear, or spread, as with mud, etc. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

A soft or sloppy lump or mass; as, to throw a clatch of mud.

ne of a kind of minute, calcareous bodies, probably vegetable, often abundant in deep-sea mud.

to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously. Fixedly did look Upon the muddy waters which he conned As if he had been reading in a book. Wodsworth. I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson. Burke. To con answer, to be able to answer. [Obs.] -- To con thanks, to thank; to acknowledge obligation…

axes and duties which were [in 1715] consolidated. Rees. A mass of partially consolidated mud. Tyndall.

An important edible West Indian fish (Epinephelus apua); the hind of Bermuda.

reeping thing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites,creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean. Burton.

To play in water, as with the hands; to paddle or splash in mud or water. Wher the duck dabbles Wordsworth.