mucksweat (mukswet)

Profuse sweat. Dunglison. mucksy, a. See muxy. muck-thrift (muk'thrift), n. A miser. D. Jer rold. muck-worm (muk'werm), n. 1. A worm that lives in muck.-2. A miser; one who scrapes together money by mean devices. Misers are muck - worms , silk-worms beaus, And death-watches physicians. Pope, To Mr. John Moore. Lamb . O the money-grubbers! Sempiternal muckworms ! mucky (muk'i), a. [ muck1 + -y1.] Containing or resembling muck; filthy; vile. Thereafter all that mucky pelfe he tooke, The spoile of peoples evil gotten good. Spenser, F. Q., V. ii. 27. mucky (muk'i), v. t.; pret. and pp. muckied , ppr. muckying . [ She even brought me a clean towel to spread over my dre , "lest," as she said, "I should mucky it." Charlotte Brontë , Jane Eyre, xxix.