Sludge: alternatives and connections

Liquid filth; mire.

a silvery soft waxy metallic element of the alkali metal group; occurs abundantly in natural compounds (especially in salt water); bur…

To drag through, encumber with, or fix in, the mire; to soil by passing through mud or dirt.

To soil or encumber with mire and dirt.

To sink, as into a bog; to submerge in a bog; to cause to sink and stick, as in mud and mire.

A case or bag stuffed with some soft and elastic material, and used to sit or recline upon; a soft pillow or pad.

To run, go, or trail one's self through water, mud, or slush; to draggle.

Having the lower ends of garments defiled by trailing in mire or filth; draggle-tailed.

The soft under feathers of birds. They have short stems with soft rachis and bards and long threadlike barbules, without hooklets.

A slattern who suffers her gown to trail in the mire; a drabble-tail.

To throw the limbs and body one way and the other; to spring, turn, or twist with sudden effort or violence; to struggle, as a horse i…

To fling the limbs and body, as in making efforts to move; to struggle, as a horse in the mire, or as a fish on land; to roll, toss, a…

To make filthy; to defile; to daub; to dirty; to soil; as, to foul the face or hands with mire.

A term formerly restricted to mortification of the soft tissues which has not advanced so far as to produce complete loss of vitality;…

Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants; hence, soft; effeminate; -- said especially of one of the a…

The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shor…

A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifical…

To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.