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Muck"worm` (?), n. 1.
(Zoöl.) A larva or grub that lives in muck or
manure; -- applied to the larvæ of the tumbledung and allied
beetles.

2. One who scrapes together money by mean
labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms."
Pope.

Muck"y (?), a. 1.
Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.
"Mucky filth." Spenser.

2. Vile, in a moral sense; sordid.
[Obs.] Spenser.

Mucky money and false felicity.

Mu"co*cele (?), n. [Mucus + Gr.
kh`lh tumor.] (Med.) An enlargement or
protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or
dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of
the latter. Dunglison.

Mu"coid (?), a. [Mucus + -
oid.] Resembling mucus. Dunglison.

Mucoid degeneration, a form of degeneration
in which the tissues are transformed into a semisolid substance
resembling mucus.


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