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n. [ Scot. huggrie-muggrie; Prov. E. hugger to lie in ambush, mug mist, muggard sullen. ] 1. Privacy; secrecy. Commonly in the phrase in hugger-mugger, with haste and secrecy. [ Archaic ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many things have been done in hugger-mugger. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Confusion; disorder. [ PJC ]

a. 1. Secret; clandestine; sly. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Confused; disorderly; slovenly; mean; as, hugger-mugger doings. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Ir. mugam a mug, mucog a cup. ] 1. A kind of ceramic or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The face or mouth; as, I don't want to see your ugly mug again; -- often used contemptuously. [ Slang ] Thackeray. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

v. t. To take property from (a person) in a public place by threatening or committing violence on the person who is robbed; to rob, especially to rob by use of a weapon such as a knife or gun. To rob a person or a business indoors is not usually referred to as to mug, but to stick up or hold up.
Syn. -- rob, stick up [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. the quantity that can be held in a mug.
Syn. -- mug. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Cf. G. mucker a sulky person, muckish sullen, peevish, mucken to mutter, grumble. ] Sullen; displeased. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a mugging; one who mugs. See mug, v. t.
Syn. -- robber [ WordNet 1.5 +PJC ]

n. The small entrails of a calf or a hog. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The condition or quality of being muggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ p. pr. & vb. n. from mug, v. ] A robbery; a taking of property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed. See mug, v.
Syn. -- robbery, holdup, stickup [ PJC + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Etym. unknown. ] 1. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. A game at cards which depends upon building in suits or matching exposed cards, the object being to get rid of one's cards. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying “muggins.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. See Muggy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. Eadie. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ n. Also }. [ Hind. magar, fr. Skr. makara sea monster. ] The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. [ Compar. Muggier superl. Muggiest. ] [ Cf. Icel. mugga mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th Mold. ] 1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid; sultry; as, muggy air, weather. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A bellowing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. mugiens, p. pr. of mugire to bellow. ] Lowing; bellowing. [ Obs. ] Sir T. Browne. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖prop. n. [ L., a sort of fish. ] (Zool.) A genus of fishes including the gray mullets. See Mullet. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A natural family of fish including the gray mullets.
Syn. -- family Mugilidae. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidae. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A suborder of fishes distinguished by abdominal pelvic fins, including the families Mugilidae; Atherinidae; and Sphyraenidae.
Syn. -- suborder Mugiloidea. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Bot.) A slender European weed (Galium Cruciata); -- called also crossweed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ AS. mucgwyrt. Cf. Midge. ] (Bot.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. Algonquin mugquomp a chief. ] 1. A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent. [ Political Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A person who is undecided about an issue, especially a political one; a person who takes a neutral stance on an issue; a fence-sitter. [ PJC ]

{ } n. The acts and views of the mugwumps. [ Political Cant, U.S. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. remugiens, p. pr. of remugire. See Mugient. ] Rebellowing. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Of. Scand. or Low German origin; cf. LG. smuck, G. schmuck, Dan. smuk, OSw. smuck, smöck, and E. smock, smuggle; cf. G. schmuck ornament. See Smock. ] Studiously neat or nice, especially in dress; spruce; affectedly precise; smooth and prim. [ 1913 Webster ]

They be so smug and smooth. Robynson (More's Utopia). [ 1913 Webster ]

The smug and scanty draperies of his style. De Quincey. [ 1913 Webster ]

A young, smug, handsome holiness has no fellow. Beau. & Fl. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Smugged p. pr. & vb. n. Smugging. ] To make smug, or spruce. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus said, he smugged his beard, and stroked up fair. Dryton. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Smuggled p. pr. & vb. n. Smuggling ] [ Of Low German or Scand. origin; cf. LG. smuggeln, D. smokkelen, G. schmuggeln, Dan. smugle, Sw. smyga to introduce or convey secretly, Dan. i smug secretly, D. smuigen to eat in secret, AS. sm&unr_;gan to creep. See Smock. ] 1. To import or export secretly, contrary to the law; to import or export without paying the duties imposed by law; as, to smuggle lace. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Fig.: To convey or introduce clandestinely. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To import or export in violation of the customs laws. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. One who smuggles. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A vessel employed in smuggling. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a smug manner. [ R. ] Gay. [ 1913 Webster ]