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MUCK n. 7 definitions

, abbreviation of Amuck. To run a muck. See Amuck.

A rake for scraping up muck or dung. See Muckrake, v. i., below.

MUCK-RAKE; MUCKRAKE; MUCKRAKER v.

porations. On April 14, 1906, President Roosevelt delivered a speech on "The Man with the Muck Rake," in which he deprecated sweeping and unjust charges of corruption against public men and corporations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muck"rake`, in the above sense, and the noun muck"rak`er, to d…

A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour.]

MUCKER n. 2 definitions

A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. [Slang]

A miser; a niggard. [Obs.]

The quality of being mucky.

A dunghill. [Scot.]

Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy. [Prov. Eng.] R. D. Blackmore.

MUCKWORM n. 2 definitions

A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvæ of the tumbledung and allied beetles.

MUCKY a. 2 definitions

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

In a frenzied and reckless. To run amuck, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of "bhang," and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.…

; sing. Calmuck. A branch of the Mongolian race inbabiting parts of the Russian and Chinese empires; also (sing.), the language of the Calmucks. [Written also Kalmucks.]

KALMUCK n. 3 definitions

e common species of the United States is the Tamias striatus. [Written also chipmonk, chipmuck, and chipmuk.]

A mixture for fertilizing land; esp., a composition of various substances (as muck, mold, lime, and stable manure) thoroughly mingled and decomposed, as in a compost heap. And do not spread the compost on the weeds To make them ranker. Shak.

nd gives measures to society. Addison. Satire 's my weapon, but I 'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope. The sea is silent, the sea is discreet. Longfellow.

ice; to lure. [Obs.] The devil insnareth the souls of many men, by illuring them with the muck and dung of this world. Fuller.

Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng. & Scot.] "A man of mickle might." Spenser.