muck

muck
    n 1: any thick, viscous matter [syn: {sludge}, {slime}, {goo},
         {goop}, {gook}, {guck}, {gunk}, {muck}, {ooze}]
    2: fecal matter of animals [syn: {droppings}, {dung}, {muck}]
    v 1: remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine
    2: spread manure, as for fertilization [syn: {manure}, {muck}]
    3: soil with mud, muck, or mire; "The child mucked up his shirt
       while playing ball in the garden" [syn: {mire}, {muck},
       {mud}, {muck up}]
    

Muck \Muck\ (m[u^]k), adv.
   Abbreviation of Amuck.
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   {To run a muck}. See {Amuck}.
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Muck \Muck\, n. [Icel. myki; akin to D. m["o]g. Cf. {Midden}.]
   1. Dung in a moist state; manure. --Bacon.
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   2. Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp
      places and swamps.
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   3. Anything filthy or vile. --Spenser.
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   4. Money; -- in contempt.
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            The fatal muck we quarreled for.      --Beau. & Fl.
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   5. (Mining) The unwanted material, especially rock or soil,
      that must be excavated in order to reach the valuable ore;
      also, the unwanted material after being excavated or
      crushed by blasting, or after being removed to a waste
      pile. In the latter sense, also called a {muck pile}.
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   {Muck bar}, bar iron which has been through the rolls only
      once.

   {Muck iron}, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or
      rollers. --Knight.

   {muck pile} see {muck pile} in the vocabulary.
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muck \muck\, a.
   Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing
   muck; as, a muck fork.
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muck \muck\, v. t.
   To manure with muck.
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muck \muck\, v. i. & t.
   To excavate and remove muck[5]. Often used with out, as, to
   muck out a round.
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         . . . Inco is still much more advanced than other
         mining companies. He says that the LKAB mine in Sweden
         is the closest rival. He predicts that, by 2008, Inco
         can reach a new productivity plateau, doubling the
         current mining productivity from 3,350 tonnes to 6,350
         tonnes per person per year. Another aim is to triple
         the mine cycle rate (the time to drill, blast and muck
         a round) from one cycle to three complete cycles per 24
         hours.
                                                  --http://www.canadianminingjournal.com/issues/apr00/page10.asp
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MUCK
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129 Moby Thesaurus words for "muck":
      amble, ammonia, begrime, bemire, bemud, besmoke, bilge, bitch up,
      blow, blunder, bobble, bollix, botch, bugger up, bungle, carrion,
      castor-bean meal, clay, commercial fertilizer, compost, corruption,
      dandruff, debris, decay, destroy, dirt, dirty, dirty up, dressing,
      drift, droppings, dung, dust, enrichener, entangle, excrement,
      feculence, fertilizer, filth, fool around, foul matter, furfur,
      gangrene, garbage, glop, goo, gook, goop, grime, grind, grub,
      guano, gum up, gumbo, gunk, idle, junk, linger, litter, loiter,
      louse up, manure, mess, mess around, mess up, mire, mope, mosey,
      muck up, mucker, mucky, mucus, mud, muddle, muddy, murk,
      night soil, nitrate, nitrogen, obscenity, offal, ooze, ordure,
      organic fertilizer, perplex, phosphate, plod, pus, putrid matter,
      ravel, rot, rubbish, ruin, screw up, scum, scurf, scuz, sewage,
      slab, slave, slime, slip, slob, slog, slop, slosh, sludge, slum,
      slush, smirch, smoke, smooch, smudge, smut, snarl, snot, soot,
      sordes, splosh, squash, stroll, superphosphate, swill, tangle,
      toil, trash, waste, waste time, wreck