Puddle
Part of speech: noun
Definition: A small pool of water, usually on a path or road. A homogeneous mixture of clay, water, and sometimes grit, used to line a canal or pond to make it watertight.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To form a puddle. To play or splash in a puddle. To process iron by means of puddling. To line a canal with puddle (clay). To collect ideas, especially abstract concepts, into rough subtopics or categories, as in study, research or conversation.
Addle
Part of speech: noun
Definition: Liquid filth; mire.Lees; dregs. Wright
Part of speech: adjective
Definition: Having lost the power of development, and become rotten, as eggs; putrid.Unfruitful or confused, as brains; muddled. John Dryden.See addled.
Part of speech: verb
Definition: To make addle; to grow addle; to muddle; as, he addled his brain."Their eggs were addled." William Cowper.To cause fertilised eggs to lose viability, by killing the developing embryo within through shaking, piercing, freezing or oiling, without breaking the shell.To earn by labor. Forby.To thrive or grow; to ripen.