Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MUD'DLE, v.t. [from mud.]

1. To make foul, turbid or muddy, as water. He did ill to muddle the water. L'Estrange.
2. To intoxicate partially; to cloud or stupefy, particularly with liquor. He was often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot. Epicurus seems to have had his brains muddled. Bentley.