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

Dull; stupid.

Dull-spirited. Shak.

Sticky and foul; muddy; filthy; dirty. [Prov. Eng.] Halliwell.

to peruse; to learn; to commit to memory; to regard studiously. Fixedly did look Upon the muddy waters which he conned As if he had been reading in a book. Wodsworth. I did not come into Parliament to con my lesson. Burke. To con answer, to be able to answer. [Obs.] -- To con thanks, to thank; to acknowledge obligation…

reeping thing. Standing waters are most unwholesome, . . . full of mites,creepers; slimy, muddy, unclean. Burton.

Muddy; boggy; sandy; -- said of roads. Chaucer. The ways in that vale were very deep. Clarendon. A deep line of operations (Military), a long line. -- Deep mourning (Costume), mourning complete and strongly marked, the garments being not only all black, but also composed of lusterless materials and of such fashion as…

urities, as lees, dregs, etc.; to clarify; to purify; to refine. To defecate the dark and muddy oil of amber. Boyle.

Containing dregs or lees; muddy; foul; feculent. Boyle.

Troubled; muddy. [Obs.] Bacon.

Turbid; muddy; filthy. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Turbid; muddy. [Scot. & Obs. or Prov. Eng.] Wodroephe (1623). Burns.

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

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

Muddy; slimy; thick. Sir T. Browne.

Muddy; turbid; thick. [Obs.]

e genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aërial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.…

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

To make muddy or turbid. Shak.

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