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Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

A nervous disease in which the patient involuntarily imitates the words or action of another.

A convulsive tic similar to or identical with miryachit, observed among the woodsmen of Maine.

convulsive tic or hysteric neurosis prevalent among Malays, similar to or identical with miryachit and jumping disease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person.

Covered with clay; miry.

The quality of being miry.

Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. "Mucky filth." Spenser.

Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river. Pope.

Soft, wet, miry land, which shakes or yields under the feet. "A spot surrounded by quagmires, which rendered it difficult of access." Palfrey.

Sloppy; slimy; miry. See Sloppy. Gay.

Full of sloughs, miry.

Miry; slushy.

The noise made by anything falling into a hole, or into a soft, miry place. [Scot.]

A marshy or miry place to which a hunted boar resorts for refuge; hence, a wet place, stream, or tract of water, sought for by other game, as deer. As deer, being stuck, fly through many soils, Yet still the shaft sticks fast. Marston. To take soil, to run into the mire or water; hence, to take refuge or shelter. O, si…