Mud 
circle of the Lower Rhine : ten miles fouth of Mil- 
ten berg. 
MUDBUN'NY, a town of Hindooftan, in Bahar : thirty 
miles eafl-foiith-eaft of Bettiah. Lat. 26. 33. N. Ion. 
£5. 16. E. 
MUDDA'GO, a town of Africa, in Fittre : thirty 
miles weft of Dar Cooka. 
MUD'DI, or Chee'go Mud'di, a town of Hindooftan, 
in the country of Cutch, at the mouth of the river Caggar: 
twenty-two miles louth-weft of Boogebooge. Lat. 23. 5. N. 
Ion. 68. 4.2. E. 
MUD'DILY, adv. Turbidly; with foul mixture.—Luci- 
lius writ not only loofely and muddily, with little art, 
and much lefs care, but alfo in a time which was not yet 
lufficiently purged from barbarifm. Dryden. 
MUD'DINESS, f. Turbidnefs; foulnefs caufed by mud, 
dregs, or fediment.—Our next ftage brought us to the 
mouth of the Tiber: the feafon of the year, the muddinefs 
of the ftream, with the many green trees hanging over it, 
put me in mind of the delightful image that Virgil has 
given when ZEneas took the firlt view of it. AddiJ'on on 
Italy. 
To MUD'DLE, v. a. To make turbid ; to foul; to make 
muddy.—The neighbourhood told him, he did ill to mud¬ 
dle the water and fpoil the drink. L'Eftrange. 
Yet let the goddefs fmile or frown, 
Bread we fliall eat, or white, or brown; 
And in a cottage, or a court, 
Drink fine champagne, or muddled port. Prior. 
To make half drunk; to cloud or ftupify.—Epicurus 
feems to have had his brains fo muddled, and confounded, 
that he fcarce ever kept in the right way, though the main 
maxim of his philofophy was to truft to his lenfes, and 
follow his nofe. Bentley's Sermons. 
To MUD'DLE, v. n. To contract filth ; to be in a dirty 
or confufed ftate.—He never muddles in the dirt. Swift .— 
His fummum bonum is muddling in parchments. Greville. 
MUD'DLE, f. A confufed or turbid ftate: a vulgar 
exprefjion. 
MUD'DY, adj. Turbid ; foul with mud.—Out of the 
true fountains of fcience painters and ftatuaries are bound 
to draw, without amufing themfelves with dipping in 
ftreams which are often muddy, at leaft troubled ; I mean 
the manner of their mafters, after whom they creep. 
Dryden. 
I ftrove in vain the infedted blood to cure. 
Streams will run muddy where the fpring’s impure. 
Rofcommon. 
Impure; dark; grofs.—If you cliufe, for the compofition 
of fuch ointment, fuch ingredients as do make the fpirits 
a little more grofs or muddy, thereby the imagination will 
fix the better. Bacon. 
There’s not the fmalleft orb which thou behold’ft. 
But in his motion like an angel fings, 
Still quiring to the young-ey’d cherubims ; 
Such harmony is in immortal founds ; 
But, whilft this muddy vefture of decay 
Doth grofsly clofe us in, we cannot hear it. Shalefpeare. 
Soiled with mud; 
His paflengers 
Expos’d in muddy weeds, upon the miry fliore. Dryden. 
Dark; not bright: 
The black 
A more inferior ftation feeks. 
Leaving the fiery red behind, 
And mingles in her muddy cheeks. Swift's Mifcellanics. 
Cloudy in mind ; dull: 
Do’ft think I am fo muddy, fo unfettled. 
To appoint myfelf in this vexation ? S/iakefpeare. 
To MUD'DY, v. a. To make muddy; to cloud; to 
difturb.—Excels, either with an apoplexy, knocks a man 
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on the head ; or with a fever, like fire in a ftrong-water- 
fhop, burns him down to the ground ; or, if it flames not 
out, charks him to a coal; muddies the beft wit, and 
makes it only to flutter and froth high. Grcio's Cofmol. 
Sacra. 
The neople muddied, 
Thick and unwhoiefome in their thoughts and whifpers, 
Sliakefpeare. 
MUDDY CREE'K, a river of Pennfylvania, which 
runs into the Sufquehanna in lat. 39. 17. N. Ion. 76. 
20. W. 
MUDDY CREE'K, a river of Kentucky, which runs 
into the Ohio in lat. 36. 44. N. Ion. 89. 18. W. 
MUDDY CREE'K, or Pon'd Creek, a river of Ken¬ 
tucky, which runs into the Ohio in lat. 37. 19. N. Ion. 
87. 48. W. 
MUDDY-HEAD'ED, adj. Having a cloudy under- 
ftanding.—Many boys are muddy-headed, till they be cla¬ 
rified with age; and fuch afterwards prove the beft. 
Filler's Holy State. 
MUDDY LA'KE, a lake of Upper Canada, between 
lake George and lake Huron. 
MUDDY PO'INT, a cape on the weft coaft of Africa. 
Lat. 11. 40. S. 
MUD'DY-METTLED, adj. Tardily incenfed.—A dull 
and muddy-mettled rafcal. Shakejpeaic's Hamlet. 
MU'DEN, a town of Perfia, in Segeftan : no miles 
north-weft of Zareng. 
MU'DERER, a town of Hindooftan, in the gulf qf 
Cutch : eighteen miles fouth-eaft of Boogebooge. 
MUDER'NI, a town of Afiatic Turkey, in Natolia : 
twenty-four miles fouth-weft of Boli. 
MUDGE (John, M.D. F.R.S.) an eminent Englifh phy- 
fician and pradlical furgeon, andfio lei's Ikilled in mecha¬ 
nics, was born at Biddeford, in the county of Devon, in the 
year 1720, being the fon of the Rev. Zachariah Mudge, 
a pious and learned divine. On the promotion of his 
father to the vicarage of St. Andrew’s, Plymouth, our 
author was articled to a furgeon there. In this line his 
talents were foon difplayed on many occafions, which 
procured him. the friendlhip and patronage of the cele¬ 
brated Dr. Huxham, who then pradtifed as a pbyfician in 
that town. After returning to Plymouth, from walking 
the public liofpitals in London, finding at that period but 
few furgical operations of difficulty were performed weft- 
ward of Exeter, he determined to exhibit the character of 
his talents by forne operations of confequence in the pre- 
l'ence of the faculty. He accordingly fought out and found 
a proper lubjedf, in a man afflidted with the ftone. This 
fubjedt he perfuaded, by the aid of pecuniary arguments, 
to lubmit to the operation of lithotomy ; and the patient 
was paid, cut, and cured. From this time, till 1784, 
when Mr. Mudge received a diploma as M.D. and began 
to pradfife as a phyfician, he continued the profeflion of 
furgery, and with great luccefs. With a capacious mind, 
aflifted by experience and found obfervation, Mr. Mudge 
in the courfe of his life made feveral improvements in 
the art of furgery, in which line he w ; as not more eminent 
than in that of phyiic. His method of ext radii ng the 
ftone in the lateral operation, defcribed in the Phil. 
Tranf. as alfo his two publications, one on the fafetv of 
inoculation, and the other on a certain and fpeedy cure 
for a recent catarrhous cough, are proofs of his lkill and 
philofophical judgment. His method of operating in the 
cafe of the fiftula in ano, as lliown in a paper of his pub- 
lillied in the medical journals, might alio be adduced as 
an inftance of the fame. 
The charadter of a phyfician Dr. Mudge fuftained with 
great refpedlability. He pollefled a liberal enlightened 
mind; and was diftinguilhed not only for learning, lkill, 
and difcernment in his profeflion, but alfo for knowledge 
and judgment in. general fcience. His mechanical turn, 
joined to his inclination for the ftudy of optics, led him 
to the improvement of the refledling telefcope. In 3' 
paper prelented to the Royal Society, and printed in the 
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