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Brit. /m
d/, U.S. /m
d/ Forms: 15-16 mudde, 16 mudd, 16- mud. [< MUD n.1
In most varieties of English MUD v.1 is largely superseded by MUDDY v., from which it is often phonetically indistinguishable in the past tense.]
1. trans. To make obscure, confused, etc.; to spoil, disturb, tarnish. Obs.
1593 T. NASHE Christs Teares 13 The fount of my teares (troubled and mudded with the Toade-like stirring and long-breathed vexation of thy venimous enormities).
1617 S. HIERON Wks. II. 219 Thus had it, I may so speake, mudded his heart, and made his corruption worke more strongly in him.
1669 W. SIMPSON Hydrol. Chymica 123 A steam ariseth which..muds the animal spirits.
1698 J. COLLIER Short View Immorality Eng. Stage i. 29 Enough to mud their Fancy, to tarnish their Quality, and make their Passion Scandalous.
1717 Entertainer No. 5. 27 When Justice flows in her proper Channels, and is not mudded or soiled with Partiality [etc.].
1774 Westm. Mag. 2 450 The very fountain-head is mudded by these false teachers.
2. trans.
a. To cloud (water) by stirring up mud or sediment at the bottom, esp. for the purpose of catching fish. Also in extended use. Also intr.
1594 SHAKESPEARE Lucrece sig. E2
v, Mudde not the fountaine that gaue drinke to thee.
1615 W. SMITH Hector of Germany (1906) 90 Yee dauncing Porpusses caper aloft, And mud the white foame with your ietty backs.
1662 R. VENABLES Experienc'd Angler ix. 89 When a sudden violent shower hath a little mudded and raised the river..you will have sport to your own desire.
1686 J. GOAD Astro-meteorologica II. xiv. 341 'Tis a great Stone which upon injection mudds the Water.
a1701 H. MAUNDRELL Journey Aleppo to Jerusalem (1703) 122 The bough is dragg'd all along the Chanel, and serves..to mud, and fatten the water for the greater benefit of the Gardens.
a1798 T. PENNANT Tour on Continent (1948) 88 Its entrance into the lake..is..so mudded..by the melting of the snow as to discolor the lake.
1876 TENNYSON Harold V. i, The wolf Mudded the brook.
1938 in G. P. Rawick
Amer. Slave (1977) I. 73, I allus like ter go muddin for fish, 'twas easern hook 'n' bait.
1981 L. A. P
EDERSON et al.
Ling. Atlas Gulf States 0561/093 [Mississippi] Mud it or seine
it
methods of fishing.
b. to mud the waters = to muddy the water(s) at MUDDY v. 4b. rare.
1980 Jrnl. Higher Educ. 51 354 Couching rules and precepts in the guise of suggestion only succeeds in mudding the waters. 1999 Asbury Park Press (Neptune, New Jersey) (Nexis) 17 Jan. C2 The doctors have gone to court, further mudding the waters.
3. intr. Of fish or other aquatic animals: to lie dormant, burrow, or hide in the mud. Also trans. (refl.).
1606 S. GARDINER Bk. Angling 21 Besides that, the fishes there mudding themselves, they cannot be got out.
1650 Acad. Complements 125 Or like a Carp that is lost in mudding.
1895 P. H. EMERSON Birds, Beasts, & Fishes Norfolk Broadland II. x. 365 Should a bream catch sight of you, if in a shallow, he will dart off, and ‘mud’, reappearing later on.
1937 A. R. C
AHN Turtles of Illinois 40 A majority of the snappers go down into the mud at the bottom of the pond or slough.., where they ‘mud up’ for the winter.
1979 Angling July 53/1 There were about six large fish mudding and whelming as they worked over the bottom.
4. trans (in pass.).
a. To be buried in mud. Obs. rare.
a1616 SHAKESPEARE Tempest (1623)
III. iii. 102 I'le seeke him deeper then ere plummet sounded, And with him there lye mudded.
a1616 SHAKESPEARE Tempest (1623)
V. i. 153, I wish My selfe were mudded in that oo-zie bed Where my sonne lies.
b. To become stuck in mud. Obs.
1854 A. WEST Recoll. (1899) I iv. 146 We were mudded and slipped and slithered about a quarter of a mile.
1873 C. G. LELAND Egyptian Sketch-bk. 151 Sometimes they got sanded or mudded.
5. a. trans. To cover, splash, plaster, or treat with mud. Occas. with up.
1632 R. SHERWOOD Dict. in R. Cotgrave
Dict. French & Eng. Tongues (new ed.), To mudde, beray or bedash with mudde, sticke in mudde,
embourber, enfanger, embouër.
1649 W. BLITH Eng. Improver xxv. 157 Lime it well, or Mud it well, and afterward Muck it over with good Cow or House [
sic] Dung.
1769 Trinculo's Trip 46 Being so mudded, splash'd and wash'd.
1818 M. BIRKBECK Lett. from Illinois 30 This cabin is built of round straight logs,..the intervals between the logs ‘chunked’,..and ‘mudded’, that is, daubed with a plaister of mud.
1822 Sat. Evening Post 10 Aug. 1/4 Exasperated at such conduct, I ran into the street, and getting my paws mudded, began to frisk fondly round her.
1883 C. J. WILLS In Land of Lion & Sun 57 A roof some six feet thick, being painted wood mudded over a yard deep.
1914 G. M. D
OUGLAS Lands Forlorn 151 It was thoroughly well mudded inside and out.
1930 J. R
OLYAT Fort Garry 199 Better they was muddin up their 'ouses afore a frost. Las' year they leaves them unmudded and nigh froze.
1992 Inuktitut No. 75. 24/2 (
caption) Bernard Iquvaqtuq muds his qamutiq runners before returning to Arvilikjuak after a trip to Naujaat in 1941.
b. Oil Industry.
(a) trans. In drilling for oil or gas: to seal (porous or unstable strata) by causing a layer of mud to be deposited on the sides of a borehole. Usu. with off or up. Now rare.
1916 R. H. JOHNSON & L. G. HUNTLEY Princ. Oil & Gas Production xii. 123 In drilling by the rotary system, usually there is but one size of hole and but one string of casing used, as the sides of the hole are ‘mudded up’ as drilling proceeds, and caving beds and minor gas and water sands are shut off in this way. 1921 W. H. JEFFERY Deep Well Drilling xii. 350 The mud fluid under pump pressure has a tendency to ‘mud off’ an oil or gas producing formation before its paying possibilities may be discovered by the driller. 1924 L. C. UREN Textbk. Petroleum Production Engin. ix. 299 It is not always easy to mud an exhausted oil sand, so that it does not continue to absorb fluid. 1926 E. R. LILLEY Oil Industry vi. 129 Mud fluid is introduced into the hole. This is primarily for the purpose of mudding up the walls of the hole to prevent caving. 1935 Jrnl. Inst. Petroleum Technologists 21 659 In America it is suggested that sands can be mudded off almost simultaneously, but this is a debatable point. 1985 F. K. NORTH Petroleum Geol. xxiii. 464/1 The drilling mud itself is responsible for much of the damage done to the hole, through ‘mudding off’ the weak formations.
(b) intr. to mud up: (of strata during drilling) to become clogged with mud. rare.
1921 W. H. JEFFERY Deep Well Drilling iii. 117 The wire drilling cable now is almost universally used for drilling in deep wet holes and in soft or shale formations that ‘mud up’.
6. trans. To throw mud at (a person). Obs. rare
1.
1832 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Jan. 120 Gentlemen dislike being hissed, hooted,..threatened, mudded, maimed, murdered.
7. trans. To supply with mud. Obs. rare.
1864 Q. Rev. 115 183 A pond, the owner of which informed us that several years ago he had mudded it, and then put a few eels into it.
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