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Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive. Mud bass (Zoöl.), a fresh-water fish (Acantharchum pomotis) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note. -- Mud bath, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease. -- Mud boat, a larg…

Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.

amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.

, In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.

The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.] He did ill to muddle the water. L'Estrange.

A stupid person. [Colloq.] C. Reade. -- Mud"dle-head`ed, a. [Colloq.] Dickens.

One who, or that which, muddles.

Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

Dull; stupid.

Dull-spirited. Shak.

The mud minnow.

A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.

Same as Moodir.

The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill.

A woodcock.

The European bee-eater. See Bee-eater. [Written also modwall.]

A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica).

A measure for liquids in several countries. In Portugal the Lisbon almude is about 4.4, and the Oporto almude about 6.6, gallons U. S. measure. In Turkey the "almud" is about 1.4 gallons.

To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse.