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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.

Mud, v. t. 1. To
bury in mud. [R.] Shak.

2. To make muddy or turbid.
Shak.

||Mu"dar (?), n. [Hind.
madār.] (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.

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