Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MUD'-FISH, n.

A fish, a species of the cyprinus kind. Dict. Nat. Hist.

MUD'-SILL, n.

In bridges, the sill that is laid at the bottom of a river, lake, &c. [See Sill.]

MUD'-SUCK-ER, n.

An aquatic fowl. Derham.

MUD'-WALL, n.

1. A wall composed of mud, or of materials laid in mud without mortar. South.
2. A bird, the apiaster. Ainsworth.

MUD'-WALL-ED, a.

Having a mud wall. Prior.

MUD'WORT, n.

A species of Limosella, the least water plantain. Lee.

MUE, v. [See MEW.]

MUEZ'ZIN, n.

A Mohammedan cryer of the hour of prayer.

MUFF, n. [Dan. muff or muffe; D. mof; G. muff; Fr. moufle, mittens; Sp. muflas, thick gloves.]

A warm cover for the hands, usually made of fur or dressed skins. Locke. Dryden.

MUF'FIN, n.

A delicate or light cake.

MUF'FLE, n. [Sp. mufla.]

In chimistry, a vessel in the shape of an oblong arch or vault, closed behind by a semi-circular-plane, the floor of which is a rectanelar plane; or in other words, a little oven to be placed in a furnace, and under which small cupels and crucibles are placed, in which substances are subjected to heat without coming in contact with fuel, smoke or ashes; used in metallurgic operations. – Fourcroy. Encyc.

MUF'FLE, v.i.

To mutter; to speak indistinctly or without clear articulation. – Holder.

MUF'FLE, v.t. [D. moffelen; G. muffeln; It. camuffare, to disguise or mask.]

1. To cover from the weather by cloth, fur or any garment; to cover close, particularly the neck and face. You must be muffled up like ladies. – Dryden. The face lies muffled up within the garment. Addison.
2. To blindfold. Alas! that love whose view is muffled still – Shak. He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. – Dryden.
3. To cover; to conceal; to involve. They were in former ages muffled in darkness and superstition. – Arbuthnot.
4. In seamanship, to put matting or other soft substance round an oar, to prevent its making a noise.
5. To wind something round the strings of a drum to prevent a sharp sound, or to render the sound grave and solemn.

MUF'FLED, pp.

Covered closely, especially about the face; involved; blindfolded.

MUF'FLER, n.

A cover for the face; a part of female dress. Shak. Arbuthnot.

MUF'FLING, ppr.

Covering closely, especially about the face; wrapping close; involving; blindfolding.

MUF'FLON, n.

The wild sheep or musmon.

MUF'TI, n.

The high priest or chief of the ecclesiastical order among the Mohammedans.

MUG, n. [I know not whence derived.]

A kind of cup from which liquors are drank. In America, tho word is applied chiefly or solely to an earthen cup.

MUG'GARD, a. [See Muggy.]

Sullen; displeased. [Not in use.]

MUG'GENT, n.

A species of wild fresh-water duck. Dict. Nat. Hist.

MUG'GISH, or MUG'GY, a. [W. mwcan, a cloud of fog; mwg, smoke; or from the root of muck.]

1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw. Mortimer.
2. Moist; damp; close; warm and unelastic; as, muggy air. [This is the principal use of the word in America.]

MUG'HOUSE, n. [from mug.]

An alehouse. Tickel.

MU'GI-ENT, a. [L. mugio, to bellow.]

Lowing; bellowing. [Not used.] Brown.

MU'GIL, n. [L.]

The mullet, a genus of fishes of the order of abdominals.