limous

From Latin limosus, from limus (“slime, mud”).

• IPA^(key): /ˈlaɪməs/

limous (comparative more limous, superlative most limous)

1. (obsolete) muddy; slimy; viscous
   • 1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC:

     the settling of mud and limous matter brought down by the river Nilus

• “limous”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

• Moulis, moulis