‖n. [ Pg. almude, or Sp. almud, a measure of grain or dry fruit, fr. Ar. al-mudd a dry measure. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To muddle; to stupefy or bewilder; to confuse. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. same as Bermudas.
Syn. -- Bermudas. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

(Bot.) A kind of grass (Cynodon Dactylon) esteemed for pasture in the Southern United States. It is a native of Southern Europe, but is now wide-spread in warm countries; -- called also scutch grass, and in Bermuda, devil grass. [ 1913 Webster ]

. (Bot.) The large white lily (Lilium longiflorum eximium, syn. Lilium Harrisii) which is extensively cultivated in Bermuda. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

adj. of, pertaining to, or characteristic of Bermuda; as, Bermudan beaches. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. of or pertaining to Bermudans; as, The Bermudan hotel staff. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bermuda.
Syn. -- Bermudian. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a group of islands in the Atlantic off the Carolina coast; British colony; resort.
Syn. -- Bermuda. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. a native or inhabitant of Bermuda.
Syn. -- Bermudan. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ OE. cornmudgin, where -mudgin is prob. from OF. muchier, mucier, F. musser to hide; of uncertain origin; cf. OE. muchares skulking thieves, E. miche, micher. ] An avaricious, grasping fellow; a miser; a niggard; a churl. [ 1913 Webster ]

A gray-headed curmudgeon of a negro. W. Irving. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Like a curmudgeon; niggardly; churlish; as, a curmudgeonly fellow. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. 1. To bury in mud. [ R. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make muddy or turbid. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Akin to LG. mudde, D. modder, G. moder mold, OSw. modd mud, Sw. modder mother, Dan. mudder mud. Cf. Mother a scum on liquors. ] Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive. [ 1913 Webster ]

Mud bass (Zool.), a fresh-water fish (Acantharchum pomotis or Acantharchus 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 large flatboat used in dredging. --
Mud cat. See mud cat in the vocabulary. --
Mud crab (Zool.), any one of several American marine crabs of the genus Panopeus. --
Mud dab (Zool.), the winter flounder. See Flounder, and Dab. --
Mud dauber (Zool.), a mud wasp; the mud-dauber. --
Mud devil (Zool.), the fellbender. --
Mud drum (Steam Boilers), a drum beneath a boiler, into which sediment and mud in the water can settle for removal. --
Mud eel (Zool.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian (Siren lacertina), found in the Southern United States. It has persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of legs. See Siren. --
Mud frog (Zool.), a European frog (Pelobates fuscus). --
Mud hen. (Zool.) (a) The American coot (Fulica Americana). (b) The clapper rail. --
Mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. [ Slang ] --
Mud minnow (Zool.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as Umbra limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels. --
Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. --
Mud puppy (Zool.), the menobranchus. --
Mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. [ U.S. ] --
Mud turtle,
Mud tortoise (Zool.), any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States. --
Mud wasp (Zool.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to Pepaeus, and allied genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached, side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings, etc. The female places an egg in each cell, together with spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve as food for the larva. Called also mud dauber. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Hind. madār. ] (Bot.) Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and Calotropis procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally. [ Also spelled madar and muddar. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Chem.) A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A large catfish (Pylodictus olivaris, formerly Leptops olivaris) of the central U. S. having a flattened head and projecting jaw.
Syn. -- flathead catfish, goujon, shovelnose catfish, spoonbill catfish, Pylodictus olivaris. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. A crab of the genus Panopœus (also written Panopeus). [ PJC ]

n. A wasp of the family Sphegidae (Sphecidae) which builds a nest of mud and stores insects and spiders in it; a digger-wasp. [ PJC ]

n. 1. a racehorse that exhibits a better than usual performance when the racetrack is wet or muddy. [ PJC ]

2. An athlete who performs better than his/her average under muddy conditions. [ PJC ]

adv. In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Muddled p. pr. & vb. n. Muddling ] [ From Mud. ] 1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

He did ill to muddle the water. L'Estrange. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially. [ 1913 Webster ]

Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley. [ 1913 Webster ]

Often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

They muddle it [ money ] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it. Hazlitt. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. F. W. Newman. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. 1. To dabble in mud. [ Obs. ] Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To think and act in a confused, aimless way. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness. [ 1913 Webster ]

We both grub on in a muddle. Dickens. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A stupid person; a blunderer. [ Colloq. ] C. Reade. -- Mud"dle-head`ed, a. [Colloq.] Dickens. [1913 Webster]

n. One who, or that which, muddles. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Compar. Muddier superl. Muddiest. ] 1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure. [ 1913 Webster ]

This muddy vesture of decay. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Not clear or bright. Swift. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Muddied p. pr. & vb. n. Muddying ] 1. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Fig.): To cloud; to make dull or heavy; to confuse. Grew. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dull; stupid. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Dull-spirited. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) (a) The European loach. (b) The bowfin (Amia calva). (c) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species (Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren. (d) The mud minnow, a fish of the genus Umbra or family Umbridae. (e) any fish which lives in muddy waters, such as the mummichog, a killifish. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. 1. A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Steam Boilers) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Moodir. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: A person of the lowest stratum of society; -- a term of opprobrium or contempt. [ Southern U. S. ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. (Zool.) A woodcock. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Zool.) The European bee-eater. See Bee-eater. [ Written also modwall. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Bot.) A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica). [ 1913 Webster ]

A rich slimy deposit in salt marshes and along the seashore, sometimes used as a manure; -- called also sea ooze. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Dan. smuds smut, E. smutch, or smoke. ] 1. A suffocating smoke. Grose. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A heap of damp combustibles partially ignited and burning slowly, placed on the windward side of a house, tent, or the like, in order, by the thick smoke, to keep off mosquitoes or other insects. [ U. S. ] Bartlett. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is smeared upon anything; a stain; a blot; a smutch; a smear. [ 1913 Webster ]

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v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Smudged p. pr. & vb. n. Smudging. ] 1. To stifle or smother with smoke; to smoke by means of a smudge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To smear; to smutch; to soil; to blacken with smoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The quality or state of being smudged, soiled, or blurred. C. A. Young. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Chald. talmūd instruction, doctrine, fr. lamad to learn, limmad to teach. ] The body of the Jewish civil and canonical law not comprised in the Pentateuch. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The Talmud consists of two parts, the Mishna, or text, and the Gemara, or commentary. Sometimes, however, the name Talmud is restricted, especially by Jewish writers, to the Gemara. There are two Talmuds, the Palestinian, commonly, but incorrectly, called the Talmud of Jerusalem, and the Babylonian Talmud. They contain the same Mishna, but different Gemaras. The Babylonian Talmud is about three times as large as the other, and is more highly esteemed by the Jews. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. F. talmudique. ] Of or pertaining to the Talmud; contained in the Talmud; as, Talmudic Greek; Talmudical phrases. Lightfoot. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. n. The teachings of the Talmud, or adherence to them. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cf. F. talmudiste. ] One versed in the Talmud; one who adheres to the teachings of the Talmud. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Resembling the Talmud; Talmudic. [ 1913 Webster ]