||Mu"dar (?), n. [Hind. madr.] (Bot.) Either one of two asclepiadaceous
||shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong
||and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.
Mu"da*rin (?), n. (Chem.) A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a
strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.
Mud"di*ly (?), adv. In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture;
cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.
Mud"di*ness, n. 1. The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness;
foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a
stream.
2. Obscurity or confusion, as in treatment of a subject; intellectual
dullness.
Mud"dle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Muddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Muddling
(?).] [From Mud.] 1. To make turbid, or muddy, as water. [Obs.]
He did ill to muddle the water.
L'Estrange.
2. To cloud or stupefy; to render stupid with liquor; to intoxicate
partially.
Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that
he scarce ever kept in the right way.
Bentley.
Often drunk, always muddled.
Arbuthnot.