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with extraneous or impure substances; abounding with sediment or excrementitious matter; muddy; thick; turbid. Both his hands most filthy feculent. Spenser.

A screen to protect a carriage from mud thrown off the wheels: also, a splashboard.

, as with drinking; to heat; hence, to throw into agitation and confusion; to confuse; to muddle. His habit or flustering himself daily with claret. Macaulay.

Pertaining to, or composed of, Foraminifera; as, foraminiferous mud.

The second part of the Talmud, or the commentary on the Mishna (which forms the first part or text).

A boiling spring which throws forth at frequent intervals jets of water, mud, etc., driven up by the expansive power of steam.

ce of the sea. Their dead shells, falling to the bottom, make up a large part of the soft mud, generally found in depths below 3,000 feet, and called globigerina ooze. See Illust. of Foraminifera.

Churl; curmudgeon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Dirt; mud. [Obs.] Bp. Fisher.

uprights; a ground sill or groundsel. (b) (Railroads) A bed plate for sleepers or ties; a mudsill. (c) (Teleg.) A metallic plate buried in the earth to conduct the electric current thereto. Connection to the pipes of a gas or water main is usual in cities. Knight. -- Ground plot, the ground upon which any structure is…

A story, anecdote, or legend in the Talmud, to explain or illustrate the text of the Old Testament. [Written also hadaga.]

A spotted food fish of the genus Epinephelus, as E. apua of Bermuda, and E. Drummond-hayi of Florida; -- called also coney, John Paw, spotted hind.

Full of hubs or protuberances; as, a road that has been frozen while muddy is hubby. [U.S.]

The act or operation of smearing the body with mud, especially with the sediment from mineral springs; a mud bath.

illing in between them with screen work or wickerwork, and daubing one or both sides with mud or adobe mortar; also, this method of construction.

here closely to the letter of the Scriptures, rejecting the oral law, and allowing the Talmud no binding authority; -- opposed to the Rabbinists.

he air by means of its lungs, and when waters dry up, it encases itself in a nest of hard mud, where it remains till the rainy season. It is used as food.

urse; as, he landed the quoit near the stake; to be thrown from a horse and landed in the mud; to land one in difficulties or mistakes.

heir extremities to supporting steel legs, driven into the round as piling, or resting on mudsills.

Muddy; slimy; thick. Sir T. Browne.