muds

1. 1
   noun

   Plural of mud.

   Geologists compared the muds drawn from several lake beds.

   Certain muds from hot springs are prized for their minerals.

   Note

   A plural that counts kinds rather than amounts. Mud is usually a mass noun, so muds names distinct sorts or batches: lake sediments, the plaster-like compound for drywall, or wet concrete in builders' slang. The same letters also pluralize MUD, the acronym for multi-user dungeons in online role-play. There the plural is ordinary, because each game is a single countable thing.

2. 2
   verb

   Third-person singular simple present indicative of mud.

   The contractor muds each seam between the drywall panels.

   Every spring she muds the pond bank to seal in the water.

   Note

   The verb form usually takes an object: she muds the seams, the runoff muds the stream. Two uses stand alone, without one. An eel muds when it burrows down under the mud, and a player muds by taking part in one of the online games behind the multi-user dungeon plural. If muds has no object, read it as one of these two.

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