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

A kind of pasture grass (Cynodon Dactylon). See Bermuda grass: also Illustration in Appendix.

Same as Sea mud. Mortimer.

sten to a spot; hence, to occasion difficulty to; to embarrass; as, to set a coach in the mud. They show how hard they are set in this particular. Addison.

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…

as a duck or goose; -- so called because it sifts or strains its food from the water and mud by means of the lamell

Mud or fine earth deposited from running or standing water.

That which is slimy or viscous; moist earth; mud; also, a puddle. [Obs.] Evelyn.

Mud or slime, such as that at the bottom of rivers. [Scot.]

Soft, moist earth or clay, having an adhesive quality; viscous mud. As it [Nilus] ebbs, the seedsman Upon the slime and ooze scatters his grain. Shak.

The quality or state of being sloppy; muddiness.

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

A place of deep mud or mire; a hole full of mire. Chaucer. He's here stuck in a slough. Milton.

Mud; mire; soft mud; slush. Mortimer. Tennyson.

A bucket for removing mud from a bored hole; a sand pump.

Soft mud.

Abounding in slush; characterized by soft mud or half-melted snow; as, the streets are slushy; the snow is slushy. "A dark, drizzling, slushy day." Blackw. Mag.

tates; -- so called from its habit of seizing its prey by a snap of its jaws. Called also mud turtle. (b) See Alligator snapper, under Alligator.

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

To sprinkle with a liquid or with any wet substance, as water, mud, or the like; to make wet of foul spots upon by sprinkling; as, to spatter a coat; to spatter the floor; to spatter boots with mud. Upon any occasion he is to be spattered over with the blood of his people. Burke.