Both Uses of
turbid
in
Moby Dick
- I leave a white and turbid wake; pale waters, paler cheeks, where'er I sail.†
Chpt 37-39 *
- …after his supper was concluded; and when, accordingly, Queequeg and a forecastle seaman came on deck, no small excitement was created among the sharks; for immediately suspending the cutting stages over the side, and lowering three lanterns, so that they cast long gleams of light over the turbid sea, these two mariners, darting their long whaling-spades, kept up an incessant murdering of the sharks,* by striking the keen steel deep into their skulls, seemingly their only vital part.†
Chpt 64-66
Definition:
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(turbid) of liquids: clouded as with sediment
of thinking or conditions: confused, muddled, or unclear