muck

American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

1. n. A moist sticky mixture, especially of mud and filth.
2. n. Moist farmyard dung; manure.
3. n. Dark fertile soil containing decaying vegetable matter.
4. n. Something filthy or disgusting.
5. n. Earth, rocks, or clay excavated in mining.
6. v. To fertilize with manure or compost.
7. v. To make dirty with or as if with muck.
8. v. To remove muck or dirt from (a mine, for example).
9. muck about Chiefly British To spend time idly; putter.
10. muck up Informal To bungle, damage, or ruin.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

1. n. Dung in a moist state; a mass of dung and putrefied vegetable matter.
2. n. Hence Manure in general.
3. n. A wet, slimy mass; a mess.
4. n. Money: so called in contempt.
5. Resembling muck; mucky; damp.
6. To manure.
7. To remove muck or manure from.
8. To labor very hard; toil.
9. n. An erroneous form, due to mistaking the adverb amuck for a noun with the indefinite article. See amuck.

Wiktionary

1. n. Slimy mud.
2. n. Soft or slimy manure.
3. v. To shovel muck.
4. v. To do a dirty job.
5. v. To make an error or do a bad job.
6. v. To pass (give one's cards back to the dealer).

GNU Webster's 1913

1. adv. Abbreviation of Amuck.
2. n. Dung in a moist state; manure.
3. n. Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.
4. n. Anything filthy or vile.
5. n. Money; -- in contempt.
6. n. 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.
7. adj. Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck.
8. v. To manure with muck.
9. v. To excavate and remove muck{5}. Often used with out, .

WordNet 3.0

1. v. spread manure, as for fertilization
2. n. fecal matter of animals
3. n. any thick, viscous matter
4. v. soil with mud, muck, or mire
5. v. remove muck, clear away muck, as in a mine