[1] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mud \mud\ mu^d, n. akin to lg. mudde, d. modder, g. moder
   mold, osw. modd mud, sw. modder mother, dan. mudder mud. cf.
   mother a scum on liquors.
   earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive.
   1913 webster

   mud bass zool., a fresh-water fish acantharchum
      pomotis or acantharchus pomotis of the eastern united
      states. it produces a deep grunting note.

   mud bath, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in
      mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for
      disease.

   mud boat, a large flatboat used in dredging.

   mud cat. see mud cat in the vocabulary.

   mud crab zool., any one of several american marine crabs
      of the genus panopeus.

   mud dab zool., the winter flounder. see flounder, and
      dab.

   mud dauber zool., a mud wasp; the mud-dauber.

   mud devil zool., the fellbender.

   mud drum steam boilers, a drum beneath a boiler, into
      which sediment and mud in the water can settle for
      removal.

   mud eel zool., a long, slender, aquatic amphibian siren
      lacertina, found in the southern united states. it has
      persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of
      legs. see siren.

   mud frog zool., a european frog pelobates fuscus.

   mud hen. zool.
   a the american coot fulica americana.
   b the clapper rail.

   mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud.
      slang

   mud minnow zool., any small american fresh-water fish of
      the genus umbra, as umbra limi. the genus is allied to
      the pickerels.

   mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler.

   mud puppy zool., the menobranchus.

   mud scow, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat.
      u.s.

   mud turtle, mud tortoise zool., any one of numerous
      species of fresh-water tortoises of the united states.

   mud wasp zool., any one of numerous species of
      hymenopterous insects belonging to pepaeus, and allied
      genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached,
      side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings,
      etc. the female places an egg in each cell, together with
      spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve
      as food for the larva. called also mud dauber.
      1913 webster
see also:
mother mud bass acantharchum pomotis acantharchus pomotis mud bath mud boat 
mud cat mud cat mud crab panopeus mud dab 
flounder dab mud dauber mud-dauber mud devil 
mud drum mud eel siren lacertina siren mud frog 
pelobates fuscus mud hen fulica americana mud lark mud minnow 
umbra umbra limi mud plug mud puppy mud scow 
mud turtle mud tortoise mud wasp pepaeus mud dauber 

[2] : The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48

mud \mud\, v. t.
   1. to bury in mud. r. --shak.
      1913 webster

   2. to make muddy or turbid. --shak.
      1913 webster

[3] : WordNet (r) 2.0

mud
     n 1: water soaked soil; soft wet earth syn: clay
     2: slanderous remarks or charges
     v 1: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "the child mucked up his shirt
          while playing ball in the garden" syn: mire, muck,
          muck up
     2: plaster with mud
     also: mudding, mudded
see also:
clay mire muck muck up mudding mudded 

[4] : Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0

59 moby thesaurus words for "mud":
   baygall, bog, bottom, bottomland, bottoms, buffalo wallow, clay,
   dirt, dust, everglade, fen, fenland, glade, grime, gumbo,
   hog wallow, holm, marais, marish, marsh, marshland, meadow, mere,
   mire, moor, moorland, morass, moss, muck, mud flat, muddle, muddy,
   ooze, peat bog, quagmire, quicksand, rile, salt marsh, slime, slip,
   slob, slob land, slop, slosh, slough, sludge, slush, smut, soot,
   sough, squash, sump, swale, swamp, swampland, swill, taiga, wallow,
   wash

[5] : Virtual Entity of Relevant Acronyms (Version 1.9, June 2002)

mud
     multi-user dungeon mud
     
     

[6] : Jargon File (4.3.1, 29 Jun 2001)

mud /muhd/ n. acronym, multi-user dungeon; alt. multi-user dimension
   1. a class of virtual reality experiments accessible via the internet.
   these are real-time chat forums with structure; they have multiple
   `locations' like an adventure game, and may include combat, traps,
   puzzles, magic, a simple economic system, and the capability for
   characters to build more structure onto the database that represents the
   existing world. 2. vi. to play a mud. the acronym mud is often
   lowercased and/or verbed; thus, one may speak of `going mudding', etc.

   historically, muds and their more recent progeny with names of mu-
   form derive from a hack by richard bartle and roy trubshaw on the
   university of essex's dec-10 in the early 1980s; descendants of that
   game still exist today and are sometimes generically called bartlemuds.
   there is a widespread myth repeated, unfortunately, by earlier versions
   of this lexicon that the name mud was trademarked to the commercial mud
   run by bartle on british telecom the motto: "you haven't _lived_ 'til
   you've _died_ on mud"; however, this is false -- richard bartle
   explicitly placed `mud' in the public domain in 1985. bt was upset at
   this, as they had already printed trademark claims on some maps and
   posters, which were released and created the myth.

   students on the european academic networks quickly improved on the mud
   concept, spawning several new muds vaxmud, abermud, lpmud. many of
   these had associated bulletin-board systems for social interaction.
   because these had an image as `research' they often survived
   administrative hostility to bbss in general. this, together with the
   fact that usenet feeds were often spotty and difficult to get in the
   u.k., made the muds major foci of hackish social interaction there.

   abermud and other variants crossed the atlantic around 1988 and
   quickly gained popularity in the u.s.; they became nuclei for large
   hacker communities with only loose ties to traditional hackerdom some
   observers see parallels with the growth of usenet in the early 1980s.
   the second wave of muds tinymud and variants tended to emphasize
   social interaction, puzzles, and cooperative world-building as opposed
   to combat and competition in writing, these social muds are sometimes
   referred to as `mu', with `mud' implicitly reserved for the more
   game-oriented ones. by 1991, over 50 of mud sites were of a third
   major variety, lpmud, which synthesizes the combat/puzzle aspects of
   abermud and older systems with the extensibility of tinymud. in 1996 the
   cutting edge of the technology is pavel curtis's moo, even more
   extensible using a built-in object-oriented language. the trend toward
   greater programmability and flexibility will doubtless continue.

   the state of the art in mud design is still moving very rapidly, with
   new simulation designs appearing seemingly every month. around 1991
   there was an unsuccessful movement to deprecate the term mud itself,
   as newer designs exhibit an exploding variety of names corresponding to
   the different simulation styles being explored. it survived. see also
   bonk/oif, fod, link-dead, mudhead, talk mode.


see also:
virtual reality mud bonk/oif fod link-dead mudhead 
talk mode 

[7] : The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03)

mud
     
         multi-user dimension or "multi-user domain".
        originally "multi-user dungeon".
     
        jargon file
     
        1995-04-16
     
     
see also:
multi-user dimension jargon file 

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