Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 79
Mucker (n.) A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. [Slang]
Mucker (n.) (Construction) An excavating machine designed to remove particulate material from within a confined area, as in a tunnel or mine. [RDH]
Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts. [Obs.] -- Udall.
Muckerer (n.) A miser; a niggard. [Obs.]
Muckiness (n.) The quality of being mucky.
Mickle (a.) Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng. & Scot.] "A man of mickle might." -- Spenser.
Muckle (a.) Much. [Obs.]
Muckle (n.) (Often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Muckmidden (n.) A dunghill. [Scot.]
Mucksy (a.) Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy. [Prov. Eng.] -- R. D. Blackmore.
Muckworm (n.) (Zool.) A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.
Muckworm (n.) One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms." -- Pope.
Mucky (a.) Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. "Mucky filth." -- Spenser.
Mucky (a.) Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Mucky money and false felicity. -- Latimer.
Mucky (a.) (Of soil) Soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged].
Mucky (a.) Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" [syn: mucky, muddy].
Mucocele (n.) (Med.) An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter. -- Dunglison.
Mucoid (a.) Resembling mucus. -- Dunglison.
Mucoid degeneration, A form of degeneration in which the tissues are transformed into a semisolid substance resembling mucus. -- Quain.
Mucoid (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter.
Mucoid (a.) Relating to or resembling mucus; "a mucoid substance" [syn: mucoid, mucoidal].
Mucoid (n.) Any of several glycoproteins similar to mucin.
Muconate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of muconic acid.
Muconic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid ({C6H6O4, 2-4-hexadienedoic acid), obtained indirectly from mucic acid, and somewhat resembling itaconic acid. Various other means of synthesis have been reported.
Mucopurulent (a.) (Med.) Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus. -- Dunglison.
Mucopurulent (a.) Containing or composed of mucus and pus.
Mucor (n.) (Bot.) A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.
Mucor (n.) Any mold of the genus Mucor.
Mucosity (n.) The quality or state of being mucous or slimy; mucousness.
Mucous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance.
Mucous (a.) Secreting a slimy or mucigenous substance; as, the mucous membrane.
Mucous membrane. (Anat.) See under Membrane.
Mucous patches (Med.), Elevated patches found in the mucous membranes of the mouth and anus, usually due to syphilis.
Mucous tissue (Anat.), A form of connective tissue in an early stage of development, found in the umbilical cord and in the embryo, and also in certain tumors called myxomata.
Mucous (a.) Of or secreting or covered with or resembling mucus; "mucous tissue"; "mucous glands of the intestine" [syn: mucous, mucose].
Mucousness (n.) The quality or state of being mucous; sliminess.
Mucro (n.) [L.] (Bot. & Zool.) A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ. Mucronate
Mucronate (a.) Alt. of Mucronated.
Mucronated (a.) Ending abruptly in a sharp point; abruptly tipped with a short and sharp point; as, a mucronate leaf. -- Mu"cro*nate*ly, adv.
Mucronulate (a.) Having, or tipped with, a small point or points.
Muculent (a.) Slimy; moist, and moderately viscous.
Mucus (n.) (Physiol.) A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.
Mucus (n.) (Physiol.) Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used.
Mucus (n.) (Bot.) A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.
Mucus (n.) Protective secretion of the mucus membranes; in the gut it lubricates the passage of food and protects the epithelial cells; in the nose and throat and lungs it can make it difficult for bacteria to penetrate the body through the epithelium [syn: mucus, mucous secretion].
Mucusin (n.) (Physiol. Chem.) Mucin. [R.]
Mud (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
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 frog (Zool.), A European frog ({Pelobates fuscus).
Mud hen. (Zool.) The American coot ({Fulica Americana).
Mud hen. (Zool.) 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.
Mud (v. t.) To bury in mud. [R.] -- Shak.
Mud (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid. -- Shak.
Mud (n.) Water soaked soil; soft wet earth [syn: mud, clay].
Mud (n.) Slanderous remarks or charges.
Mud (v.) Soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt while playing ball in the garden" [syn: mire, muck, mud, muck up].
Mud (v.) Plaster with mud.
MUD, () Multi-User Dungeon (MUD)
MUD (n.) [acronym, Multi-User Dungeon; alt.: Multi-User Dimension] A class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the Internet.
These are real-time chat forums with structure; they have multiple ?locations? like an adventure game, and may include combat, traps, puzzles, magic, a simple economic system, and the capability for characters to build more structure onto the database that represents the existing world.
MUD (v. i.) To play a MUD. The acronym MUD is often lowercased and/or verbed; thus, one may speak of going mudding, etc.
Historically, MUDs (and their more recent progeny with names of MU- form) derive from a hack by Richard Bartle and Roy Trubshaw on the University of Essex's DEC-10 in the early 1980s; descendants of that game still exist today and are sometimes generically called BartleMUDs. There is a widespread myth (repeated, unfortunately, by earlier versions of this lexicon) that the name MUD was trademarked to the commercial MUD run by Bartle on British Telecom (the motto: ?You haven't lived 'til you've died on MUD!?); however, this is false ? Richard Bartle explicitly placed ?MUD? in the public domain in 1985. BT was upset at this, as they had already printed trademark claims on some maps and posters, which were released and created the myth.
Students on the European academic networks quickly improved on the MUD concept, spawning several new MUDs (VAXMUD, AberMUD, LPMUD). Many of these had associated bulletin-board systems for social interaction. Because these had an image as ?research? they often survived administrative hostility to BBSs in general. This, together with the fact that Usenet feeds were often spotty and difficult to get in the U.K., made the MUDs major foci of hackish social interaction there.
AberMUD and other variants crossed the Atlantic around 1988 and quickly gained popularity in the U.S.; they became nuclei for large hacker communities with only loose ties to traditional hackerdom (some observers see parallels with the growth of Usenet in the early 1980s). The second wave of MUDs (TinyMUD and variants) tended to emphasize social interaction, puzzles, and cooperative world-building as opposed to combat and competition (in writing, these social MUDs are sometimes referred to as ?MU*?, with ?MUD? implicitly reserved for the more game-oriented ones). By 1991, over 50% of MUD sites were of a third major variety, LPMUD, which synthesizes the combat/puzzle aspects of AberMUD and older systems with the extensibility of TinyMud. In 1996 the cutting edge of the technology is Pavel Curtis's MOO, even more extensible using a built-in object-oriented language. The trend toward greater programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue.
The state of the art in MUD design is still moving very rapidly, with new simulation designs appearing (seemingly) every month. Around 1991 there was an unsuccessful movement to deprecate the term MUD itself, as newer designs exhibit an exploding variety of names corresponding to the different simulation styles being explored. It survived. See also bonk/oif , FOD, link-dead, mudhead, talk mode.
MUD, () Multi-User Dimension or "Multi-User Domain". Originally "Multi-User Dungeon".
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Mudar (n.) 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.
Mudarin (n.) A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.
Muddily (adv.) In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.
Muddiness (n.) The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.
Muddiness (n.) Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual dullness.
Muddle (v. i.) To dabble in mud. [Obs.] -- Swift.
Muddle (v. i.) To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
Muddled (imp. & p. p.) of Muddle.
Muddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muddle.
Muddle (v. t.) To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.]
He did ill to muddle the water. -- L'Estrange.
Muddle (v. t.) To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. -- Bentley.
Often drunk, always muddled. -- Arbuthnot.
Muddle (v. t.) To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated. [R.]
They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it. -- Hazlitt.
Muddle (v. t.) To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify. -- F. W. Newman.
Muddle (n.) A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
We both grub on in a muddle. -- Dickens.
Muddle (n.) A confused multitude of things [syn: clutter, jumble, muddle, fuddle, mare's nest, welter, smother].
Muddle (n.) Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish].
Muddle (v.) Make into a puddle; "puddled mire" [syn: muddle, puddle].
Muddle (v.) Mix up or confuse; "He muddled the issues" [syn: addle, muddle, puddle].
Muddle, () Original name of MDL.
Muddlehead (n.) A stupid person; a blunderer. [Colloq.] -- C. Reade. -- Mud"dle-head`ed, a. [Colloq.] -- Dickens.
Muddler (n.) One who, or that which, muddles.
Muddy (a.) Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
Muddy (a.) Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.
Muddy (a.) Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.
This muddy vesture of decay. -- Shak.
Muddy (a.) Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.
Cold hearts and muddy understandings. -- Burke.
Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. -- Shak.
Muddy (a.) Not clear or bright. -- Swift.
Muddied (imp. & p. p.) of Muddy.
Muddying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muddy.
Muddy (v. t.) To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.
Muddy (v. t.) Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy; to confuse. -- Grew.
Muddy (a.) (Of soil) Soft and watery; "the ground was boggy under foot"; "a marshy coastline"; "miry roads"; "wet mucky lowland"; "muddy barnyard"; "quaggy terrain"; "the sloughy edge of the pond"; "swampy bayous" [syn: boggy, marshy, miry, mucky, muddy, quaggy, sloppy, sloughy, soggy, squashy, swampy, waterlogged].
Muddy (a.) Dirty and messy; covered with mud or muck; "muddy boots"; "a mucky stable" [syn: mucky, muddy].
Muddy (a.) (Of color) Discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" [syn: dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy].
Muddy (a.) (Of liquids) Clouded as with sediment; "a cloudy liquid"; "muddy coffee"; "murky waters" [syn: cloudy, muddy, mirky, murky, turbid].
Muddy (v.) Dirty with mud [syn: muddy, muddy up].
Muddy (v.) Cause to become muddy; "These data would have muddied the prediction."
Muddy (v.) Make turbid; "muddy the water."
Muddy, MT -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Montana
Population (2000): 627
Housing Units (2000): 160
Land area (2000): 28.561963 sq. miles (73.975142 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 28.561963 sq. miles (73.975142 sq. km)
FIPS code: 52315
Located within: Montana (MT), FIPS 30
Location: 45.599225 N, 106.739578 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Muddy, MT
Muddy
Muddy, IL -- U.S. village in Illinois
Population (2000): 78
Housing Units (2000): 39
Land area (2000): 0.262714 sq. miles (0.680427 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.262714 sq. miles (0.680427 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51271
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.764086 N, 88.514469 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
Muddy, IL
Muddy
Muddy-headed (a.) Dull; stupid.
Muddy-mettled (a.) Dull-spirited. -- Shak.
Mudfish (n.) (Zool.) The European loach.
Mudfish (n.) (Zool.) The bowfin ({Amia calva).
Mudfish (n.) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species ({Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren.
Mudfish (n.) (Zool.) The mud minnow, a fish of the genus Umbra or family Umbridae.
Mudfish (n.) (Zool.) Any fish which lives in muddy waters, such as the mummichog, a killifish.
Compare: Amia
Amia (n.) (Zool.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called bowfin in Lake Champlain, dogfish in Lake Erie, and mudfish in South Carolina, etc. See Bowfin.
Mudhole (n.) A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.
Mudhole (n.) (Steam Boilers) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn.
Compare: Moodir
Moodir (n.) The governor of a province in Egypt, etc. [Written also mudir.]
Mudir (n.) Same as Moodir.
Mudsill (n.) 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.
Mudsill (n.) Fig.: A person of the lowest stratum of society; -- a term of opprobrium or contempt. [Southern U. S.]
Mudslide (n.) 塌方；山崩；泥石流 A landslide of mud.
Mudsucker (n.) (Zool.) A woodcock.
Mudwall (n.) (Zool.) The European bee-eater. See Bee-eater. [Written also modwall.]
Mudwort (n.) (Bot.) A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores ({Limosella aquatica).
Mue (v. i.) To mew; to molt. [Obs.] -- Quarles.
Muezzin (n.) [Ar.] A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer; the Moslem official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day. [Written also mouezzin, mueddin, muazzin, mu'adhdhin, and muwazzin.]
Muezzin (n.) The Muslim official of a mosque who summons the faithful to prayer from a minaret five times a day [syn: muezzin, muazzin, muadhdhin].
Muff (n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
Muff (n.) (Mech.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
Muff (n.) (Glass Manuf.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
Muff (n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person. [Colloq.] "A muff of a curate." -- Thackeray.
Muff (n.) [See 4.] (Baseball) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
Muff (n.) (Zool.) The whitethroat. [Prov. Eng.]
Muffed (imp. & p. p.) of Muff.
Muffing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muff.
Muff (v. t.) To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.
Compare: Whitethroat
Whitethroat (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of Old World warblers, esp. the common European species ({Sylvia cinerea), called also strawsmear, nettlebird, muff, and whitecap, the garden whitethroat, or golden warbler ({Sylvia hortensis), and the lesser whitethroat ({Sylvia curruca}).
Muff (n.) A warm tubular covering for the hands
Muff (n.) (Sports) Dropping the ball [syn: fumble, muff].
Muff (v.) Fail to catch, as of a ball.
Muff (v.) Make a mess of, destroy or ruin; "I botched the dinner and we had to eat out"; "the pianist screwed up the difficult passage in the second movement" [syn: botch, bodge, bumble, fumble, botch up, muff, blow, flub, screw up, ball up, spoil, muck up, bungle, fluff, bollix, bollix up, bollocks, bollocks up, bobble, mishandle, louse up, foul up, mess up, fuck up].
Muffetee (n.) A small muff worn over the wrist. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Muffin (n.) A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.
Muffin (n.) A sweet quick bread baked in a cup-shaped pan [syn: muffin, gem].
Muffineer (n.) A dish for keeping muffins hot.
Muffish (a.) Stupid; awkward. [Colloq.]
Muffle (n.) The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp. of ruminants.
Muffled (imp. & p. p.) of Muffle.
Muffling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muffle.
Muffle (v. t.) To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds; hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to inclose; -- often with up.
Muffle (v. t.) To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
Muffle (v. t.) To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of; as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an oar which rests in the rowlock.
Muffle (v. i.) To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.
Muffle (v. t.) Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
Muffle (v. t.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.
Muffle (v. t.) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.
Muffle (v. t.) A pulley block containing several sheaves.
Muffler (n.) Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.
Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes. -- Shak.
Muffler (n.) (Mus.) A cushion for terminating or softening a note made by a stringed instrument with a keyboard.
Muffler (n.) A kind of mitten or boxing glove, esp. when stuffed.