Mucker (n.) A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person.
Mucker (v. t.) To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts.
Muckerer (n.) A miser; a niggard.
Muckiness (n.) The quality of being mucky.
Muckle (a.) Much.
Muckmidden (n.) A dunghill.
Mucksy (a.) Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy.
Muckworm (n.) 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.
Mucky (a.) Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.
Mucky (a.) Vile, in a moral sense; sordid.
Mucocele (n.) 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.
Mucoid (a.) Resembling mucus.
Muconate (n.) A salt of muconic acid.
Muconic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid, obtained indirectly from mucic acid, and somewhat resembling itaconic acid.
Mucopurulent (a.) Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus.
Mucor (n.) A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.
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.
Mucousness (n.) The quality or state of being mucous; sliminess.
Mucro (n.) A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.
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.
Mucronulate (a.) Having, or tipped with, a small point or points.
Muculent (a.) Slimy; moist, and moderately viscous.
Mucus (n.) 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.) Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used.
Mucus (n.) A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.
Mucusin (n.) Mucin.
Mud (n.) Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
Mud (v. t.) To bury in mud.
Mud (v. t.) To make muddy or turbid.
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.
Muddled (imp. & p. p.) of Muddle
Muddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muddle
Muddle (v. t.) To make turbid, or muddy, as water.
Muddle (v. t.) To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate partially.
Muddle (v. t.) To waste or misuse, as one does who is stupid or intoxicated.
Muddle (v. t.) To mix confusedly; to confuse; to make a mess of; as, to muddle matters; also, to perplex; to mystify.
Muddle (v. i.) To dabble in mud.
Muddle (v. i.) To think and act in a confused, aimless way.
Muddle (n.) A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
Muddlehead (n.) A stupid person.
Muddler (n.) One who, or that which, muddles.
Muddy (superl.) Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.
Muddy (superl.) Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.
Muddy (superl.) Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.
Muddy (superl.) Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.
Muddy (superl.) Not clear or bright.
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.
Muddy-headed (a.) Dull; stupid.
Muddy-mettled (a.) Dull-spirited.
Mudfish (n.) The European loach.
Mudfish (n.) The bowfin.
Mudfish (n.) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species (Protopterus annectens). See Lipedosiren.
Mudfish (n.) The mud minnow.
Mudhole (n.) A hole, or hollow place, containing mud, as in a road.
Mudhole (n.) A hole near the bottom, through which the sediment is withdrawn.
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.
Mudsucker (n.) A woodcock.
Mudwall (n.) The European bee-eater. See Bee-eater.
Mudwort (n.) A small herbaceous plant growing on muddy shores (Limosella aquatica).
Mue (v. i.) To mew; to molt.
Muezzin (n.) A Mohammedan crier of the hour of prayer.
Muff (n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.
Muff (n.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.
Muff (n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.
Muff (n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.
Muff (n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.
Muff (n.) The whitethroat.
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.
Muffetee (n.) A small muff worn over the wrist.
Muffin (n.) A light, spongy, cylindrical cake, used for breakfast and tea.
Muffineer (n.) A dish for keeping muffins hot.
Muffish (a.) Stupid; awkward.
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.
Muffler (n.) 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.