Word Finder - mud

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A mixture of water and soil or fine grained sediment.

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A plaster-like mixture used to texture or smooth drywall.

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(construction industry slang) Wet concrete as it is being mixed, delivered and poured.

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Willfully abusive, even slanderous remarks or claims, notably between political opponents.

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The campaign issues got lost in all the mud from both parties.

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Money, dough, especially when proceeding from dirty business.

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(gay sex) Stool that is exposed as a result of anal sex.

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A particle less than 62.5 microns in diameter, following the Wentworth scale

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A black person.

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Drilling fluid.

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Coffee.

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To make muddy or dirty; to apply mud to (something).

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To make turbid.

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To go under the mud, as an eel does.

Thunder rumbled again and a cold drop of rain gnawed at the mud on her cheek.

His shoes were covered with mud; he had torn his coat on the thorny tree.

Sure, but the only thing in there is mud cats.

Then I slipped trying to rub mud on my pants to cover it up.

She kicked her cowboy boots off and pulled the mud boots on.

I promise not to plaster you with mud this time.

One of them fell in the mud under his horse's feet.

At one point he splashed through a mud puddle, throwing mud and water all over her.

If I don't get stuck in the mud, I should be able to make it to the highway.

Oysters, both mud and rock, are good and plentiful.

He hauled himself out of the cold waters and sat on the shore that turned to mud beneath his dripping body.

It is protected by a mud wall and a citadel.

The immense mud ramparts still stand.

So the alligator comes out of the mud with quakings of the earth.

In the mud was a deer track, and overlaying it, the paw print of a big cat — too big to be a bobcat.

The reserve has either fairly shallow water or mud depending on the water levels; there are islands at times some with sallows.

No plough is used, all work being done by a long-handled spade; and oxen are only employed to tread out the soft mud preparatory to transplanting.

Instead of the white lily, which requires mud, or the common sweet flag, the blue flag (Iris versicolor) grows thinly in the pure water, rising from the stony bottom all around the shore, where it is visited by hummingbirds in June; and the color both of its bluish blades and its flowers and especially their reflections, is in singular harmony with the glaucous water.

The rain would pack down the mud and melt the rest of the snow.

Not more than an hour ago you were helping him sling mud at me?

They live in the mud, which they eat, in comparatively shallow waters up to 50 fathoms.

Within four months one hundred houses were built, and surrounded by a mud wall.

Herons, the brown pelican, bittern, and mud hen frequent the marshes.

It is an unlovely place, surrounded by mud flats, and a hotbed of malaria.

To the south of Rotoiti is Tikitere, a sombre valley abounding in mud volcanoes, springs and other active volcanic phenomena.

From this root, which lay horizontally, smaller roots pushed down into the mud, and the stem of the plant sprang up to the height of 4 cubits, being triangular and tapering in form.

It is spread over an extensive area, being surrounded by mud walls 18 miles in extent.

The streets are generally narrow and the houses built of mud.

The district abounds in geysers, springs, mud volcanoes and other phenomena; some of the waters have petrifying powers, and some of the springs are vividly coloured.

The Rhine connects the highest Alps with the mud banks of Holland, and touches in its course the most varied geological periods; but the river valley itself is, geologically speaking, of comparatively recent formation.

Mud volcanoes occur at Minbu, but they are not in any sense mountains, resembling rather the hot springs which are found in many parts of Burma.

They are merely craters raised above the level of the surrounding country by the gradual accretion of the soft oily mud, which overflows at frequent intervals whenever a discharge of gas occurs.

Whether the mud " volcanoes" of the Irrawaddy valley have any connexion with volcanic activity may be doubted.

It consists for the most part of mud huts, but there are some houses built of sun-dried bricks.

Thus clear liquor alone is run off, and the mud and cloudy liquor at the bottom of the tank are left undisturbed, and discharged separately as required.

In a refinery in Nova Scotia a system has been introduced by which a travelling crane above the bag filters lifts up any head bodily with all its bags attached, and runs it to the mud and washing tanks at the end of the battery, while another similar crane drops another head, fitted with fresh bags, into the place of the one just removed.

The whole operation of thus changing a filter occupies about ten minutes, and there is no need for anyone to enter the hot cistern to detach the bags, which are removed in the open air above the mud tank.

They were built up by the gradual accumulation of mud deposits in a shallow bay, separated by dunes from the North Sea.

The islands of Schouwen and Duiveland are united owing to the damming of the Dykwater; St Filipsland, or Philipsland, and South Beveland are connected with the mainland of North Brabant by naturally formed mud banks.

The mainland of Zeeland-Flanders was formerly also composed of numerous islands which were gradually united by the accumulation of mud and sand, and in this way many once flourishing commercial towns, such as Sluis and Aardenburg, were reduced in importance.

The town with its gardens, surrounded by a mud wall, covers a space of 2 m.

The streets formerly consisted largely of mud hovels, but since a great fire in 1894, which destroyed large parts of James Town and Ussher Town, more substantial buildings have been erected.

The nest is a neat structure of coarse grass and moss, mixed with earth, and plastered internally with mud, and here the female lays from four to six eggs of a blue colour speckled with brown.

They are smooth depressed areas (in the case of the largest, the Shat el Jerid, lying a few feet below the level of the Mediterranean), which for more than half the year are expanses of dried mud covered with a thick incrustation of white or grey salt.

Max Weber states that blue mud occurs in the deep basins of the eastern part of the Malay Sea.

In the form of volcanic mud it is common round the high volcanic islands of the SouthWestern Pacific.

Red mud may be classed as a variety of blue mud, from which it differs on account of the larger proportion of ochreous substance and the absence of sufficient organic matter to reduce the whole of the ferric oxide.

Green mud differs to a greater extent from the blue mud, and owes its characteristic nature and colour to the presence of glauconite, which is formed inside the cases of foraminifera, the spines of echini and the spicules of sponges in a manner not yet understood.

Green mud abounds off the east coast of North America seawards of Cape Hatteras, also to the north of Cuba, and on the west off the coast of California.

When the proportion of calcium carbonate in the blue mud is considerable there results a calcareous ooze, which when found on the continental slope and in enclosed seas is largely composed of remains of deep-sea corals and bottom-living foraminif era, pelagic organisms including pteropods being less frequently represented.