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CIDE DICTIONARY

mudsill

CIDE DICTIONARY

mudsilln. 
  •  The lowest sill of a structure, usually embedded in the soil; the lowest timber of a house; also, that sill or timber of a bridge which is laid at the bottom of the water. See Sill.  [1913 Webster]
  •  Fig.: A person of the lowest stratum of society; -- a term of opprobrium or contempt.  [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

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