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bemud, v.|bɪˈmʌd|
[f. be- 6 + mud.]
Hence beˈmudded ppl. a., beˈmudding vbl. n.
1. trans. To cover, bespatter, or befoul with mud.
1580Hollyband Treas. Fr. Tong, Embouër, to bedirt, or bemud one. 1611Cotgr., Enfangement, a bedurtying, bemyring, bemudding. 1659J. Arrowsmith Armilla Catech. i. iv. §5 Elephants..are wont, before they drink, to bemud the water. 1832Fraser's Mag. VI. 251 He often rides in swampy ways..and bemuds his friends.
2. fig. To confuse, muddle.
1599Nashe Lent. Stuffe (1871) 35 And so troubledly bemudded with grief and care..my purer intellectual powers. 1790Coleridge Devonsh. Roads Poems I. 14 Dull sounds the Bard's bemudded lyre. 1863Chambers Bk. of Days 124 Satan..first tried by bemudding his thoughts, to divert him from the design of becoming a monk. |