Word Meanings - DROVY - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Turbid; muddy; filthy. Chaucer.

TURBIDITY
Turbidness.
MUDDY
1. Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots. 2. Turbid with mud; as, muddy water. 3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure. This muddy vesture of decay. Shak. 4. Confused, as if turbid with mud;
MUDDY-METTLED
Dull-spirited. Shak.
TURBID
1. Having the lees or sediment disturbed; roiled; muddy; thick; not clear; -- used of liquids of any kind; as, turbid water; turbid wine. On that strong, turbid water, a small boat, Guided by one weak hand, was seen to float. Whittier.
TURBIDLY
1. In a turbid manner; with muddiness or confusion. 2. Proudly; haughtily. One of great merit turbidly resents them. Young.
MUDDY-HEADED
Dull; stupid.
TURBIDNESS
The quality or state of being turbid; muddiness; foulness.
FILTHY
Defiled with filth, whether material or moral; nasty; dirty; polluted; foul; impure; obscene. "In the filthy-mantled pool." Shak. He which is filthy let him be filthy still. Rev. xxii. 11. Syn. -- Nasty; foul; dirty; squalid; unclean; sluttish;
INTURBIDATE
To render turbid; to darken; to confuse. The confusion of ideas and conceptions under the same term painfully inturbidates his theology. Coleridge.