MUCHWHAT, adverb Nearly; almost. [Not elegant.]

MU'CIC, adjective [from mucus.] The mucic acid is the same as the saccholactic. It is obtained from gums, etc.

MU'CID, adjective [Latin mucidus, from muceo.] Musty; moldy; slimy.

MU'CIDNESS, noun Mustiness; sliminess.

MU'CILAGE, noun [Latin mucus, the slimy discharges from the nose; Heb. to dissolve, to putrefy.]

1. In chimistry, one of the proximate elements of vegetables. The same substance is a gum when solid, and a mucilage when in solution.

Both the ingredients improve one another; for the mucilage adds to the lubricity of the oil, and the oil preserves the mucilage from inspissation.

Mucilage is obtained from vegetable or animal substances.

2. The liquor which moistens and lubricates the ligaments and cartilages of the articulations or joints in animal bodies.

MUCILAG'INOUS, adjective Pertaining to or secreting mucilage; as the mucilaginous glands.

1. Slimy; ropy; moist, soft and lubricous; partaking of the nature of mucilage; as a mucilaginous gum.

MUCILAG'INOUSNESS, noun Sliminess; the state of being mucilaginous.

MU'CITE, noun A combination of a substance with mucous acid.

MUCK, noun [Latin mucus.]

1. Dung in a moist state, or a mass of dung and putrefied vegetable matter.

With fattening muck besmear the roots.

2. Something mean, vile or filthy.

To run a muck to run madly and attack all we meet.

Running a muck is a phrase derived from the Malays, (in whose language amock signified to kill, ) applied to desperate persons who

intoxicate themselves with opium and then arm themselves with a dagger and attempt to kill all they meet.

MUCK, verb transitive To manure with muck

MUCK'ENDER, noun A pocket handkerchief. [Not used.]

MUCK'ER, verb transitive [from muck.] To scrape together money by mean labor or shifts. [Not used in America.]

MUCK'ERER, noun A miser; a niggard. [Not used.]

MUCK'HEAP

MUCK'HILL, noun A dunghill.

MUCK'HILL, n. A dunghill.

MUCK'INESS, noun Filthiness; nastiness.

MUCK'LE, adjective Much.

MUCK'SWEAT, noun Profuse sweat.

MUCK'WORM, noun A worm that lives in muck.

1. A miser; one who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices.

MUCK'Y, adjective Filthy; nasty.

MU'COUS, adjective [See Mucus.] Pertaining to mucus or resembling it; slimy, ropy and lubricous; as a mucous substance.

1. Secreting a slimy substance; as the mucous membrane.

The mucous membrane lines all the cavities of the body which open externally, and secretes the fluid called mucus.

MU'COUSNESS, noun The state of being mucous; sliminess.

MU'CRONATE

MU'CRONATED, adjective [Latin mucronatus, from mucro, a point.]

Narrowed to a point; terminating in a point.

MU'CRONATED, a. [L. mucronatus, from mucro, a point.]

Narrowed to a point; terminating in a point.

MU'CULENT, adjective [Latin muculentus.] Slimy; moist and moderately viscous.

MU'CUS, noun [Latin See Mucilage and Muck.]

1. A viscid fluid secreted by the mucous membrane, which it serves to moisten and defend. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc. It differs from gelatine.

In the action of chewing, the mucus mixeth with the ailment.

2. This term has also been applied to other animal fluids of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints.

MUD, noun [Latin madeo.] Moist and soft earth of any kind, such as is found in marshes and swamps, at the bottom or rivers and ponds, or in highways after rain.

MUD, verb transitive To bury in mud or slime.

1. To make turbid or foul with dirt; to stir the sediment in liquors.

MUD'DILY, adverb [from muddyl] Turbidly; with foul mixture.

Lucilius--writ loosely and muddily

MUD'DINESS, noun Turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt or sediment; as the muddiness of a stream.

MUD'DLE, verb transitive [from mud.] To make foul, turbid or muddy, as water.

He did ill to muddle the water.

1. To intoxicate partially; to cloud or stupefy, particularly with liquor.

He was often drunk, always muddled.

Epicurus seems to have had his brains muddled.

MUD'DLED, participle passive Made turbid; half drunk; stupefied.

MUD'DLING, participle present tense Making foul with dirt or dregs; making half drunk; stupefying.

MUD'DY, adjective [from mud.] Foul with dirt or fine earthy particles; turbid, as water or other fluids; as a muddy stream. Water running on fine clay always appears muddy

1. Containing mud; as a muddy ditch; a muddy road.

2. Dirty; dashed, soiled or besmeared with mud; as muddy boots.

3. Consisting of mud or earth; gross, impure; as this muddy vesture of decay.

4. Dark; of the color of mud; as muddy cheeks.

5. Cloudy in mind; dull; heavy; stupid.

Dost think I am so muddy?

MUD'DY, verb intransitive To soil with mud; to dirty.

1. To cloud; to make dull or heavy.

MUD'WORT, noun A species of Limosella, the least water plaintain.

MUE. [See Mew.]

MUFF, noun A warm cover for the hands, usually made of fur or dressed skins.

MUF'FIN, noun A delicate or light cake.

MUF'FLE, verb transitive

1. To cover from the weather by cloth, fur or any garment; to cover close, particularly the neck and face.

You must be muffled up like ladies.

The face lies muffled up within the garment.

2. To blindfold.

Alas! that love whose view if muffled still--

He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.

3. To cover; to conceal; to involve.

They were in former ages muffled in darkness and superstition.

4. In seamanship, to put matting or other soft substance round an oar, to prevent its making a noise.

5. To wind something round the strings of a drum to prevent a sharp sound, or to render the sound grave and solemn.

MUF'FLE, verb intransitive To mutter; to speak indistinctly or without clear articulation.

MUF'FLE, noun In chimistry, a vessel in the shape of an oblong arch or vault, closed behind by a semi-circular plane, the floor of which is a rectangular plane; or in other words, a little oven to be placed in a furnace, and under which small cupels and crucibles are placed, in which substances are subjected to heat without coming in contact with fuel, smoke or ashes; used in metallurgic operations.

MUF'FLED, participle passive Covered closely, especially about the face; involved; blindfolded.

MUF'FLER, noun A cover for the face; a part of female dress.

MUF'FLING, participle present tense Covering closely, especially about the face; wrapping close; involving; blindfolding.

MUF'FLON, noun The wild sheep or musmon.

MUF'TI, noun The high priest or chief of the ecclesiastical order among the Mohammedans.

MUG, noun [I know not whence derived.] A kind of cup from which liquors are drank. In American, the word is applied chiefly or solely to an earthen cup.

MUG'GARD, adjective [See Muggy.] Sullen; ; displeased. [Not in use.]

MUG'GISH

MUG'GNET, noun A species of wild fresh water duck.

MUG'GNET, n. A species of wild fresh water duck.

MUG'GY, adjective

1. Moist; damp; ; moldy; as muggy straw.

2. Moist; damp; close; warm and unelastic; as muggy air.

[This is the principal use of the word in America.]

MUG'HOUSE, noun [form mug.] An alehouse.

MU'GIENT, adjective [Latin mugio, to bellow.] Lowing; bellowing. [Not used.]

MU'GIL, noun [Latin] The mullet, a genus of fishes of the order of abdominals.

MUG'WEED, noun A plant of the genus Valantia.

MUG'WORT, noun A plant of the genus Artemisia.

MULAT'TO, noun [Latin mulus, a mule.] A person that is the offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro.

MUL'BERRY, noun The berry or fruit of a true of the genus Morus.

MULCH, noun [Heb. to dissolve.] Half rotten straw.

MULCT, noun [Latin mulcta or multa.] A fine imposed on a person guilty of some offense or misdemeanor, usually a pecuniary fine.

MULCT, verb transitive [Latin mulcto.] To fine; to punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a pecuniary fine.

MULCT'UARY, adjective Imposing a pecuniary penalty.

MULE, noun [Latin mulus.]

1. A quadruped of a mongrel breed, usually generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes between a horse and a she-ass. But the name is applied to any animal produced by a mixture of different species.

2. A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species of plant with the farin or fecundating dust of another. This is called also a hybrid.

MULETEE'R, noun A mule-driver.

MULIEB'RITY, noun [from Latin muliebris, from mulier, a woman.]

Womanhood; the state of being a woman; a state in females corresponding to virility in man; also, effeminacy; softness.

MU'LIER, noun [Latin] In law, lawful issue born in wedlock though begotten before.

MU'LISH, adjective Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.

MULL, verb transitive [Latin mollio, to soften.]

1. To soften; or to heat, sweeten and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.

Drink new cider, mull'd with ginger warm.

2. To dispirit or deaden.

MULL, noun In Scottish, a snuff-box, made of the small end of a horn.

MULL, noun Dust. [Not in use.]

MUL'LEN, noun [Latin mollis, soft.] A plant of the genus Verbascum.

MUL'LER, noun [Latin molaris, from mola, a mill-stone.]

1. A stone held in the hand with which colors and other matters are ground on another stone; used by painters and apothecaries.

2. An instrument used by glass grinders, being a piece of wood with the piece of glass to be ground cemented to one end, either convex in a basin, or concave in a sphere or bowl.

MUL'LET, noun [Latin mullus.] A fish of the genus Mugil. The lips are membranaceous; the inferior one carinated inwards; it has no teeth, and the body is of a whitish color. This fish frequents the shore and roots in the sand like a hog. It is an excellent fish for the table.

MUL'LIGRUBS, noun A twisting of the intestines; sullenness. [A low word.]

MUL'LION, noun A division in a window frame; a bar.

MUL'LION, verb transitive To shape into divisions.

MUL'LOCK, noun Rubbish.

MULSE, noun [Latin mulsus.] Wine boiled and mingled with honey.

MULTAN'GULAR, adjective [Latin multus, many, and angulus, angle; Basque, mola, a multitude; multsa, much.]

Having many angles; polygonal.

MULTAN'GULARLY, adverb With many angles or corners.

MULTICAP'SULER, adjective [Latin multus, many, and capsula, a chest.]

In botany, having many capsules.

MULTICA'VOUS, adjective [Latin multus, many, and cavus, hollow.]

Having many holes or cavities.

MULTIFA'RIOUS, adjective [Latin multifarius.] Having great multiplicity; having great diversity or variety; as multifarious artifice.

MULTIFA'RIOUSLY, adverb With great multiplicity and diversity; with great variety of modes and relations.

MULTIFA'RIOUSNESS, noun Multiplied diversity.

MUL'TIFID, adjective [Latin multifidus, multus, many, and findo, to divide.]

Having many divisions; many-cleft; divided into several parts by linear sinuses and straight margins; as a multifid leaf or corol.

MULTIF'LOROUS, adjective [Latin multus, many, and flos, flower.]

Many-flowered; having many flowers.

MUL'TIFORM, adjective [Latin multiformis; multus, many, and forma, form.]

Having many forms, shapes or appearances; as the multiform operations of the air-pump.

MULTIFORM'ITY, noun Diversity of forms; variety of shapes or appearances in the same thing.

MULTIGEN'EROUS, adjective [Latin multigenus; multus, many, and genus, kind.]

Having many kinds.

MULTIJU'GOUS, adjective [Latin multus, many, and jugum, a yoke, a pair.]

Consisting of many pairs.

MULTILAT'ERAL, adjective [Latin multus, many, and latus, side.]many sides. A multilateral figure must also be multangular.

MULTILIN'EAL, adjective Having many lines.

MULTILOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin multus, many, and loculus, a cell.]

Having many cells; as a multilocular pericarp.

MULTIL'OQUOUS, adjective [Latin multus, many, and loquor, to speak.]

Speaking much; very talkative; loquacious.

MULTINO'MIAL

MULTINOM'INAL, adjective [Latin multus, many, and nomen, name.]

Having many names or terms.

MULTINOM'INAL, a. [L. multus, many, and nomen, name.]

Having many names or terms.

MULTIP'AROUS, adjective [Latin multus, many, and pario, to bear.]

Producing many at a birth. A serpent is a multiparous animal.

MULTIP'ARTITE, adjective [Latin multus, many, and partitus, divided.]

Divided into many parts; having several parts.

MUL'TIPED, noun [Latin multus, many, and pes, foot.]

An insect that has many feet.

MUL'TIPED, adjective Having many feet.

MUL'TIPLE, adjective [Latin multiplex; multus, many, and plico, to fold.]

Containing many times.

MUL'TIPLE, noun In arithmetic, a common multiple of two or more numbers contains each of them a certain number of times exactly; thus 24 is a common multiple of 3 and 4. But the least common multiple is the least number which will do this; thus 12 is the least common multiple of 3 and 4.

MUL'TIPLEX, adjective [Latin] Many-fold; having petals lying over each other in folds.

MUL'TIPLIABLE, adjective That may be multiplied.

MUL'TIPLIABLENESS, noun Capacity of being multiplied.

MUL'TIPLICABLE, adjective That may be multiplied.

MULTIPLICAND', noun [Latin multiplicandus. See Multiply.]

In arithmetic, the number to be multiplied by another, which is called the multiplier.

MUL'TIPLICATE, adjective [Latin multiplicatus.]

1. Consisting of many, or more than one.

2. A multiplicate flower is a sort of luxuriant flower, having the corol multiplied so far as to exclude only some of the stamens.

MULTIPLICA'TION, noun [Latin multiplicatio.]

1. The act of multiplying or of increasing number; as the multiplication of the human species by natural generation.

2. In arithmetic, a rule or operation by which any given number may be increased according to any number of times proposed. Thus 10 multiplied by 5 is increased to 50.

MUL'TIPLICATIVE, adjective Tending to multiply; having the power to multiply or increase numbers.

MULTIPLICA'TOR, noun The number by which another number is multiplied; a multiplier.

MULTIPLIC'ITY, noun [Latin multiplex.]

1. A state of being many; as a multiplicity of thoughts or objects.

2. Many of the same kind. The pagans of antiquity had a multiplicity of deities.

MUL'TIPLIED, participle passive Increased in numbers.

1. Numerous; often repeated; as multiplied aggressions.

MUL'TIPLIER, noun One who multiplies, or increases number.

1. The number in arithmetic by which another is multiplied; the multiplicator.

MUL'TIPLY, verb transitive [Latin multiplico; multus, many, and plico, to fold or double.]

1. To increase in number; to make more by natural generation or production, or by addition; as, to multiply men, horses or other animals; to multiply evils.

I will multiply my signs and wonders in Egypt. Exodus 7:3.

Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.

2. In arithmetic, to increase any given number as many times as there are units in any other given number. Thus 7x8=56, that is, 7 multiplied by 8 produces the number 56.

MUL'TIPLY, verb intransitive To grow or increase in number.

Be fruitful and multiply Genesis 1:22.

When men began to multiply on the face of the earth. Genesis 6:1.

1. To increase in extent; to extend; to spread.

The word of God grew and multiplied. Acts 12:1.

MUL'TIPLYING, participle present tense Increasing in number.

1. Growing or becoming numerous.

MULTIP'OTENT, adjective [Latin multipotens; multus, many, much, and potens, powerful.] Having manifold power, or power to do many things; as Jove multipotent

MULTIPRES'ENCE, noun [Latin multus, many, and proesentia, presence.]

The power or act of being present in many places at once, or in more places than one.

MULTISIL'IQUOUS, adjective [Latin multus, many, and siliqua, a pod.]

Having many pods or seed-vessels.

MULTIS'ONOUS, adjective [Latin multus, many, and sonus, sound.]

Having many sounds, or sounding much.

MULTISYL'LABLE, noun A word of many syllables; a polysyllable. [The latter is mostly used.]

MUL'TITUDE, noun [Latin multitudo, form multus, many.]

1. The state of being many; a great number.

2. A number collectively; the sum of many.

3. A great number, indefinitely.

It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues.

4. A crowd or throng; the populace; applied to the populace when assembled in great numbers, and to the mass of men without reference to an assemblage.

He the vast hissing multitude admires.

The multitude have always been credulous, and the few artful.

MULTITU'DINOUS, adjective Consisting of a multitude or great number.

1. Having the appearance of a multitude; as the multitudinous sea.

2. Manifold; as the multitudinous tongue.

MULTIV'AGANT

MULTIV'AGOUS, adjective [Latin multivagus.] Wandering much. [Not used.]

MULTIV'AGOUS, a. [L. multivagus.] Wandering much. [Not used.]

MUL'TIVALVE, noun [Latin multus, many, and valvoe, valves, folding doors.] An animal which has a shell of many valves.

MUL'TIVALVE

MULTIVALV'ULAR, adjective Having many valves.

MULTIV'ERSANT, adjective [Latin multus, many, and verto, to form.]

Protean; turning into many shapes; assuming many forms.

MULTIV'IOUS, adjective [Latin multus, many, and via, way.]

Having many ways or roads. [Little used.]

MULTOC'ULAR, adjective [Latin multus, many, and oculus, eye.]

Having many eyes, or more eyes than two.

MUL'TURE, noun [Latin molitura, a grinding. See Mill.]

1. In Scots law, the toll or emolument given to the proprietor of a mill for grinding corn.

2. A grist or grinding.

MUM, adjective [See Mumble, Mumm, and Mummery.]

1. Silent; not speaking.

The citizens are mum; say not a word.

2. As an exclamation or command, be silent; hush.

MUM the, and no more proceed.

3. As a noun, silence.

MUM, noun A species of malt liquor much used in Germany. It is made of the malt of wheat, seven bushels, with one bushel of oat meal and a bushel of ground beans, or in the same proportion. This is brewed with 63 gallons of water, and boiled till one third is evaporated.

MUM'-CHANCE, noun A game of hazard with dice. [Local.]

1. A fool. [Local.]

MUM'BLE, verb intransitive

1. To mutter; to speak with the lips or other organs partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words with a grumbling tone.

Peace, you mumbling fool.

--A wrinkled hag, with age grown double,

Pickling dry sticks and mumbling to herself.

2. To chew or bite softly; to eat with the lips close.

MUM'BLE, verb transitive To utter with a low inarticulate voice.

He with mumbled prayers atones the deity.

1. To mouth gently, or to eat with a muttering sound.

2. To suppress or utter imperfectly.

MUM'BLED, participle passive Uttered with a low inarticulate voice; chewed softly or with a low muttering sound.

MUM'BLER, noun One that speaks with a low inarticulate voice.

MUM'BLING, participle present tense Uttering with a low inarticulate voice; chewing softly or with a grumbling sound.

MUM'BLINGLY, adverb With a low inarticulate utterance. [Mumble and mutter are not always synonymous; mutter often expresses peevishness, which mumble does not.]

MUMM, verb transitive [Gr. Momus, the deity of sport and ridicule, a buffoon.]

To mask; to sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise.

MUM'MER, noun One who masks himself and makes diversion in disguise; originally, one who made sport by gestures without speaking.

Jugglers and dancers, anticks, mummers.

MUM'MERY, noun

1. Masking; sport; diversion; frolicking in masks; low contemptible amusement; buffoonery.

Your fathers

Disdained the mummery of foreign strollers.

2. Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade to delude vulgar minds.

MUM'MERY, noun An entertainment or frolick in masks; a farcical entertainment in which masked persons play antic tricks.

MUM'MIFY, verb transitive [infra.] To make into a mummy.

MUM'MY, noun

1. A dead human body embalmed and dried after the Egyptian manner; a name perhaps given to it from the substance used in preserving it. There are two kinds of mummies. The first are bodies dried by the heat of the sun. Such are found in the sands of Libya. The other kind is taken from the catacombs in Egypt.

2. The name of two substances prepared for medicinal use, which according to Hill are, the one, the dried flesh of human bodies embalmed with myrrh and spice; the other, a liquor running from such mummies when newly prepared, or when affected by great heat and damps. This is preserved in vials, and if suffered to dry, becomes solid. But it is alleged that the first sort consists of pieces of the flesh of executed criminals, or other flesh filled with bitumen and other ingredients. But see the opinion of Chardin, supra.

3. There are found in Poland natural mummies lying in caverns, supposed to be the remains of persons who in time of war took refuge in caves, but being discovered were suffocated by their enemies. These bodies are dried, with the flesh and skin shrunk almost close to the bones, and are of a blackish color.

4. Among gardeners, a sort of wax used in grafting and planting trees.

To beat to a mummy to beat soundly, or to a senseless mass.

MUMP, verb transitive

1. To nibble; to bite quick; to chew with continued motion; as a mumping squirrel.

2. To talk loud and quick.

3. To go begging.

4. To deceive; to cheat.

MUMP'ER, noun A beggar.

MUMP'ING, noun Begging tricks; foolish tricks; mockery.

MUMP'ISH, adjective Dull; heavy; sullen; sour.

MUMPS, noun [See Mum, Mumble, Mumm.]

1. Sullenness; silent displeasure. [Little used.]

2. A disease, the cynanche parotidoea, a swelling of the parotid glands.

MUNCH, verb transitive chew by great mouthfuls. [Vulgar.]

MUNCH, verb intransitive To chew eagerly by great mouthfuls. [Vulgar.]

MUNCH'ER, noun One that munches.

MUND, Sax. mund protection, patronage, peace, is found in old laws; as mundbrece, that is, a breaking or violation of the peace. It is retained in names, as in Edmund, Sax. eadmund, happy peace, as in Greek Irenoeus, Hesychius.

MUN'DANE, adjective [Latin mundanus, from mundus, the world.]

Belonging to the world; as mundane sphere; mundane space.

MUNDAN'TIY, noun Worldliness. [Not used.]

MUNDA'TION, noun [Latin mundus, clean.]

The act of cleansing. [Not used.]

MUN'DATORY, adjective [Latin mundo, to cleanse.] Cleansing; having power to cleanse. [Little used.]

MUN'DIC, noun A kind of marcasite; a mineral substance, so called from its shining appearance.

MUNDIFICA'TION, noun [Latin mundus, clean, and facio, to make.]

The act or operation of cleansing any body from dross or extraneous matter.

MUNDIF'ICATIVE, adjective Cleansing; having the power to cleanse.

MUNDIF'ICATIVE, noun A medicine that has the quality of cleansing.

MUN'DIFY, verb transitive [Latin mundus, clean, and facio, to make.]

To cleanse. [Little used.]

MU'NERARY, adjective [Latin munus, a gift.] Having the nature of a gift. [Little used.]

MUNERATE, MUNERATION. [Not used. See Remunerate.]

MUNERATE, MUNERATION [Not used. See Remunerate.]

MUN'GREL, noun [See Mongrel.] An animal generated between different kinds, as a dog.

MUN'GREL, adjective Generated between different kinds; degenerate.

MUNIC'IPAL, adjective [Latin municipalis, from municeps, a person who enjoys the rights of a free citizen; munus, office, duty, and capio, to take.]

1. Pertaining to a corporation or city; as municipal rights; municipal officers.

2. Pertaining to a state, kingdom or nation.

Municipal law is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state--

Municipal, as used by the Romans, originally designated that which pertained to a municipium, a free city or town. It still retains this limited sense; but we have extended it to what belongs to a state or nation, as a distinct, independent body. municipal law or regulation respects solely the citizens of a state, and is thus distinguished from commercial law, political law, and the law of nations.

MUNICIPAL'ITY, noun In France, a certain district or division of the country; also, its inhabitants.

MUNIF'ICENCE, noun [Latin munificentia; munus, a gift or favor, and facio, to make.]

1. A giving or bestowing liberally; bounty; liberality. To constitute munificence the act of conferring must be free, and proceed from generous motives.

A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence

2. In Spenser, fortification or strength. [Latin munio, to fortify.] [Not used.]

MUNIF'ICENT, adjective Liberal in giving or bestowing; generous; as a munificent benefactor or patron.

MUNIF'ICENTLY, adverb Liberally; generously.

MU'NIMENT, noun [Latin munimentum, from munio, to fortify.]

1. A fortification of any kind; a strong hold; a place of defense.

2. Support; defense.

3. Record; a writing by which claims and rights are defended or maintained. Termes de la ley.

MU'NITE, verb intransitive To fortify. [Not in use.]

MUNI'TION, noun [Latin munitio, from munio, to fortify.]

1. Fortification.

2. Ammunition; whatever materials are used in war for defense, or for annoying an enemy. The word includes guns of all kinds, mortars, etc. and their loading.

3. Provisions of a garrison or fortress, or for ships of war, and in general for an army; stores of all kinds for a fort, an army or navy.

Munition-ships, ships which convey military and naval stores of any kind, and attend or follow a fleet to supply ships of war.

MU'NITY, noun Freedom; security. [Not used.] [See Immunity.]

MUNNION, noun mun'yon. [See Munition.] An upright piece of timber which separates the several lights in a window frame. [See Mullion.]

MUNS, noun The mouth. [Vulgar.]

MU'RAGE, noun [Latin murus, a wall.] Money paid for keeping walls in repair. Termes de la ley.

MU'RAL, adjective [Latin muralis, from murus, a wall.]

1. Pertaining to a wall.

--Soon repaired her mural breach.

2. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as a mural precipice.

Mural crown, among the ancient Romans, a golden crown or circle of gold, indented and embattled, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged place and there lodged a standard.

MUR'DER, noun [Latin mors.]

1. The act of unlawfully killing a human being with premeditated malice, by a person of sound mind. To constitute murder in law, the person killing another must be of sound mind or in possession of his reason, and the act must be done with malice prepense, aforethought or premeditated; but malice may be implied, as well as express.

2. An outcry, when life is in danger.

MUR'DER, verb transitive

1. To kill a human being with premeditated malice. [See the Noun.]

2. To destroy; to put an end to.

Canst thou murder thy breath in middle of a word?

MUR'DERED, participle passive Slain with malice prepense.

MUR'DERER, noun A person who in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

1. A small piece of ordnance.

MUR'DERESS, noun A female who commits murder.

MUR'DERING, participle present tense Killing a human being with malice premeditated.

MUR'DEROUS, adjective Guilty of murder; as the murderous king.

1. Consisting in murder; done with murder; bloody; cruel; as murderous rapine.

2. Bloody; sanguinary; committing murder; as murderous tyranny.

3. Premeditating murder; as murderous intent or design.

MUR'DEROUSLY, adverb In a murderous or cruel manner.

MURE, noun [Latin murus.] A wall. [Not used.]

MURE, verb transitive To inclose in walls; to wall.

[But immure is chiefly used.]

MU'RIACITE, noun [See Muriate.] A stone composed of salt, sand and gypsum.

MU'RIATE, noun [Latin muria, muries, salt water, brine; amarus, bitter; Heb. to be bitter.] A salt formed by muriatic acid combined with a base.

MU'RIATED, adjective Combined with muriatic acid.

1. Put in brine.

MURIAT'IC, adjective Having the nature of brine or salt water; pertaining to sea salt. The muriatic acid is the acid of marine salt.

MURIATIF'EROUS, adjective Producing muriatic substances or salt.

MURICAL'CITE, noun Rhomb-spar.

MU'RICATED, adjective [Latin muricatus, from murex, the point of a rock.]

1. Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or prickles.

2. In botany, having the surface covered with sharp points, or armed with prickles.

MU'RICITE, noun Fossil remains of the murex, a genus of shells.

MU'RINE, adjective [Latin murinus, from mus, muris, a mouse.]

Pertaining to a mouse or to mice.

MURK, noun Darkness. [Little used.]

MURK'Y, adjective Dark; obscure; gloomy.

A murky storm deep lowering o'er our heads.

MUR'MUR, noun [Latin See the Verb.] A low sound continued or continually repeated, as that of a stream running in a stony channel, or that of flame.

Black melancholy sits,

Deepens the murmur of the falling floods,

And breathes a browner horror on the woods.

1. A complaint half suppressed, or uttered in a low, muttering voice.

Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs.

MUR'MUR, verb intransitive [Latin murmuro.]

1. To make a low continued noise, like the hum of bees, a stream of water, rolling waves, or like the wind in a forest; as the murmuring surge.

The forests murmur and the surges roar.

2. To grumble; to complain; to utter complaints in a low, half articulated voice; to utter sullen discontent; with at, before the thing which is the cause of discontent; as, murmur not at sickness; or with at or against, before the active agent which produces the evil.

The Jews murmured at him. John 6:43.

The people murmured against Moses. Exodus 13:1.

MUR'MURER, noun One who murmurs; one who complains sullenly; a grumbler.

MUR'MURING, participle present tense Uttering complaints in a low voice or sullen manner; grumbling; complaining.

MUR'MURINGLY, adverb With a low sound; with complaints.

MUR'MUROUS, adjective Exciting murmur or complaint.

MURR, noun A catarrh. [Not in use.]

MURRAIN, noun mur'rin. [Latin morior, to die.]

An infectious and fatal disease among cattle. Exodus 9:3.

MUR'RE, noun A kind of bird.

MUR'REY, adjective [from the root of Moor, an African.]

Of a dark red color.

MUR'RHINE, adjective [Latin murrhinus.] An epithet given to a delicate kind of ware or porcelain brought from the east; Pliny says from Carmania, now Kerman, in Persia.

MUR'RION, noun [Latin murus, a wall. See Mural.]

A helmut; a casque; armor for the head; written also morion.

MUS'ARD, noun A dreamer; one who is apt to be absent in mind.

MUS'CADEL

MUS'CADINE

MUSCAT'

MUS'CATEL, adjective

1. An appellation given to a kind of rich wine, and to the grapes which produce it. The word is also used as a noun.

2. A sweet pear.

MUS'CADINE

MUSCAT'

MUS'CATEL , a.

MUS'CLE, noun [Latin musculus, a muscle and a little mouse.]

1. In anatomy, the muscles are the organs of motion, consisting of fibers or bundles of fibers inclosed in a thin cellular membrane. The muscles are susceptible of contraction and relaxation, and in a healthy state the proper muscles are subject to the will, and are called voluntary muscles. But other parts of the body, as the heart, the urinary bladder, the stomach, etc. are of a muscular texture, and susceptible of contraction and dilatation, but are not subject to the will, and are therefore called involuntary muscles. The red color of the muscles is owing to the blood vessels which they contain. The ends of the muscles are fastened to the bones which they move, and when they act in opposition to each other, they are called antagonists.

Muscles are divided into the head, belly and tail. The head is the part fixed on the immovable joint called its origin, and is usually tendinous; the belly is the middle fleshy part, which consists of the true muscular fibers; the tail is the tendinous portion inserted into the part to be moved, called the insertion; but in the tendon, the fibers are more compact than in the belly of the muscle and do not admit the red globules.

2. A bivalvular shell fish of the genus Mytilus; sometimes written mussel.

MUS'CULAR, adjective [from muscle.] Pertaining to a muscle; as a muscular fiber.

1. Performed by a muscle; as muscular motion.

2. Strong; brawny; vigorous; as a muscular body or frame.

MUS'CULITE, noun A petrified muscle or shell.

MUS'CULOUS, adjective [Latin musculosus.] Full of muscles.

1. Strong; brawny.

2. Pertaining to a muscle or to muscles.

MU'SEFUL, adjective Thinking deeply or closely; silently thoughtful.

Full of museful mopings.

MU'SELESS, adjective Disregarding the power of poetry.

MU'SER, noun One who thinks closely in silence, or one apt to be absent in mind.

MU'SET, noun The place through which the hare goes to relief; a hunting term.

MU'SIC, noun s as z. [Latin musica.]

1. Melody or harmony; any succession of sounds so modulated as to please the ear, or any combination of simultaneous sounds in accordance or harmony. music is vocal or instrumental. Vocal music is the melody of a single voice, or the harmony of two or more voices in concert. Instrumental music is that produced by one or more instruments.

By music minds an equal temper know.

2. Any entertainment consisting in melody or harmony.

What music and dancing and diversions and songs are to many in the world, that prayers and devotions and psalms are to you.

3. The science of harmonical sounds, which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependencies and relations of sounds to each other. This may be called speculative or theoretical music

4. The art of combining sounds in a manner to please the ear. This is practical music or composition.

5. Order; harmony in revolutions; as the music of the spheres.

MU'SICAL, adjective Belonging to music; as musical proportion; a musical instrument.

1. Producing music or agreeable sounds; as a musical voice.

2. Melodious; harmonious; pleasing to the ear; as musical sounds or numbers.

MU'SICALLY, adverb In a melodious or harmonious manner; with sweet sounds.

MU'SICALNESS, noun The quality of being melodious or harmonious.

MUS'IMON, noun An animal esteemed a species of sheep, described by the ancients as common in Corsica, Sardinia and Barbary. Buffon considers it to be the sheep in a wild state.

MU'SING, participle present tense Meditating in silence.

MU'SING, noun Meditation; contemplation.

MUSK, noun [Latin muscus; Gr.musk, and moss.] A strong scented substance obtained from a cyst or bag near the navel of the Thibet musk [Moschus moschiferus, ] an animal that inhabits the Asiatic Alps, especially the Altaic chain. This animal is a little more than three feet in length; the head resembles that of the roe, the fur is coarse, like that of the cervine race, but thick, erect, smooth and soft. It has no horns, but the male has two long tusks, one on each side, projecting from the mouth. The female is smaller than the male and has neither tusks nor follicle. The cyst of the male is about the size of a hen's egg, oval, flat on one side and rounded on the other, having a small orifice. This contains a clotted, oily, friable matter of a dark brown color, which is the true musk one of the strongest odors or perfumes in nature. We give the name to the substance and to the animal.

MUSK, noun Grape-hyacinth or grape-flower.

MUSK, verb transitive To perfume with musk

MUSK'-APPLE, noun A particular kind of apple.

MUSK'-CAT, noun The musk which see.

MUSK'-CHERRY, noun A kind of cherry.

MUSKETEE'R, noun A soldier armed with a musket.

MUSKE'TOE, noun [Latin musca, a fly.] A small insect of the genus Culex, that is bred in water; a species of gnat that abounds in marshes and low lands, and whose sting is peculiarly painful and vexatious.

MUSKETOON', noun A short thick musket, carrying five ounces of iron, or seven and a half of lead; the shortest kind of blunderbuss.

1. One who is armed with a musketoon

MUSK'MELON, noun [musk and melon.] A delicious species of melon; named probably from its fragrance.

MUSK'-OX, noun A species of the genus Bos, which inhabits the country about Hudson's Bay. It has the large horns united at the skull, but turned downward on each side of the head. The hair of this animal is very long and fine.

MUSK'-PEAR, noun A fragrant kind of pear.

MUSK'RAT

MUSK'Y, adjective Having the odor of musk; fragrant.

MUSK'Y, a. Having the odor of musk; fragrant.

MUS'LIN, noun s as z. A sort of fine cotton cloth, which bears a downy knot on its surface.

MUS'LIN, adjective Made of muslin; as a muslin gown.

MUSLINET', noun A sort of coarse cotton cloth.

MUS'MON

MUS'QUASH, noun An American animal of the murine genus, the Muz zibethicus. It has a compressed, lanceolated tail, with toes separate. It has the smell of musk in summer, but loses it in winter. The fur is used by hatters. Its popular name in America is musquash.

MUSK'-ROSE, noun A species of rose; so called form its fragrance.

MUS'ROLE, noun The nose band of a horse's bridle.

MUSS, noun A scramble. [Not used.]

MUSSEL. [See Muscle.]

MUS'SITE, noun [from the valley of Mussa, in Piedmont.]

A variety of pyroxene of a greenish white color; otherwise called diopside.

MUS'SULMAN, noun A Mohammedan or follower of Mohammed. The word, it is said, signifies in the Turkish language a true believer, or orthodox. It may be from Ar. eslam, salvation.

MUS'SULMANISH, adjective Mohammedan.

MUST, verb intransitive

1. To be obliged; to be necessitated. It expresses both physical and moral necessity. A man must eat for nourishment, and he must sleep for refreshment. We must submit to the laws or be exposed to punishment. A bill in a legislative body must have three readings before it can pass to be enacted.

2. It expresses moral fitness or propriety, as necessary or essential to the character or end proposed. 'Deacons must be grave, ' 'a bishop must have a good report of them that are without.' 1 Timothy 3:2.

MUST, noun [Latin mustum; Heb. to ferment.]

New wine; wine pressed from the grape but not fermented.

MUST, verb transitive To make moldy and sour.

MUST, verb intransitive To grow moldy and sour; to contract a fetid smell.

MUS'TAC, noun A small tufted monkey.

MUSTA'CHES, noun [Gr. the upper lip, and the hair growing on it.] Long hair on the upper lip.

MUS'TARD, noun A plant of the genus Sinapis, and its seed, which has a pungent taste and is a powerful stimulant. It is used externally in cataplasms, and internally as a diuretic and stimulant.

MUSTEE'

MUS'TELINE, adjective [Latin mustelinus, from mustela, a weasel.]

Pertaining to the weasel or animals of the genus Mustela; as a musteline color; the musteline genus.

MUS'TELINE, a. [L. mustelinus, from mustela, a weasel.]

Pertaining to the weasel or animals of the genus Mustela; as a musteline color; the musteline genus.

MUS'TER, verb transitive [Latin monstro, to show.] Properly, to collect troops for review, parade and exercise; but in general, to collect or assemble troops, persons or things. The officers muster their soldiers regularly; they muster all their forces. The philosopher musters all the wise sayings of the ancients.

MUS'TER, verb intransitive To assemble; to meet in one place.

MUS'TER, noun [Latin monstrum, a show or prodigy.]

1. An assembling of troops for review, or a review of troops under arms.

2. A register or roll of troops mustered.

Ye publish the musters of your own bands.

3. A collection, or the act of collecting.

To pass muster to be approved or allowed.

MUS'TILY, adverb [from musty.] Moldily; sourly.

MUS'TINESS, noun The quality of being musty or sour; moldiness; damp foulness.

MUS'TY, adjective [from must.] Moldy; sour; foul and fetid; as a musty cask; musty corn or straw; musty books.

1. State; spoiled by age.

The proverb is somewhat musty

2. Having an ill flavor; as musty wine.

3. Dull; heavy; spiritless.

That he may not grow musty and unfit for conversation.

MUTABIL'ITY, noun [Latin mutabilitas, from mutabilis, muto, to change.]

1. Changeableness; susceptibility of change; the quality of being subject to change or alteration, either in form, state or essential qualities.

Plato confesses that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability

2. The state of habitually or frequently changing.

3. Changeableness, as of mind, disposition or will; inconstancy; instability; as the mutability of opinion or purpose.

MU'TABLE, adjective [Latin mutabilis, from muto, to change.]

1. Subject to change; changeable; that may be altered in form, qualities or nature. Almost every thing we see on earth is mutable; substances are mutable in their form, and we all know by sad experience how mutable are the conditions of life.

2. Inconstant; unsettled; unstable; susceptible of change. Our opinions and our purposes are mutable

MU'TABLENESS, noun Changeableness; mutability; instability.

MUTA'TION, noun [Latin mutatio.] The act or process of changing.

1. Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.

The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument.

MUTE, adjective [Latin mutus.]

1. Silent; not speaking; not uttering words, or not having the power of utterance; dumb. mute may express temporary silence, or permanent inability to speak.

To the mute my speech is lost.

In this phrase, it denotes unable to utter words. More generally, it denotes temporarily silent; as, all sat mute

All the heavenly choir stood mute

2. Uttering no sound; as mute sorrow.

3. Silent; not pronounced; as a mute letter.

MUTE, noun In law, a person that stands speechless when he ought to answer or plead.

1. In grammar, a letter that represents no sound; a close articulation which intercepts the voice. Mutes are of two kinds, pure and impure. The pure mutes instantly and entirely intercept the voice, as k, p and t, in the syllables ek, ep, et. The impure mutes intercept the voice less suddenly, as the articulations are less close. Such are b, d and g, as in the syllables eb, ed, eg.

2. In music, a little utensil of wood or brass, used on a violin to deaden or soften the sounds.

MUTE, verb intransitive To eject the contents of the bowels, a birds.

MUTE, noun The dung of fowls.

MU'TELY, adverb Silently; without uttering words or sounds.

MU'TENESS, noun Silence; forbearance of speaking.

MU'TILATE, verb transitive [Latin mutilo, probably from the root of meto, to cut off.]

1. To cut off a limb or essential part of an animal body. To cut off the hand or foot is to mutilate the body or the person.

2. To cut or break off, or otherwise separate any important part, as of a statue or building.

3. To retrench, destroy or remove any material part, so as to render the thing imperfect; as, to mutilate the poems of Homer or the orations of Cicero.

Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho.

MU'TILATED, participle passive Deprived of a limb or of an essential part.

MU'TILATED

MU'TILATE, adjective In botany, the reverse of luxuriant; not producing a corol, when not regularly apetalous; applied to flowers.

MU'TILATING, participle present tense Retrenching a limb or an essential part.

MUTILA'TION, noun [Latin mutilatio.] The act of mutilating; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

1. mutilation is a term of very general import, applied to bodies, to statues, to buildings and to writings; but appropriately, it denotes the retrenchment of a human limb or member, and particularly of the male organs of generation.

MU'TILATOR, noun One who mutilates.

MU'TILOUS, adjective Mutilated; defective; imperfect.

Mutine, a mutineer, and mutine, to mutiny, are not in use.

MUTINE'ER, noun [See Mutiny.] One guilty of mutiny; a person in military or naval service, who rises in opposition to the authority of the officers, who openly resists the government of the army or navy, or attempts to destroy due subordination.

MU'TING, noun The dung of fowls.

MU'TINOUS, adjective Turbulent; disposed to resist the authority of laws and regulations in an army or navy, or openly resisting such authority.

1. Seditious. [See Mutiny.]

MU'TINOUSLY, adverb In a manner or with intent to oppose lawful authority or due subordination in military or naval service.

MU'TINOUSNESS, noun The state of being mutinous; opposition to lawful authority among military men.

MU'TINY, noun [Latin muto, to change.] An insurrection of soldiers or seamen against the authority of their commanders; open resistance of officers or opposition to their authority. A mutiny is properly the act of numbers, but by statutes and orders for governing the army and navy in different countries, the acts which constitute mutiny are multiplied and defined; and acts of individuals, amounting to a resistance of the authority or lawful commands of officers, are declared to be mutiny Any attempt to excite opposition to lawful authority, or any act of contempt towards officers, or disobedience of commands, is by the British mutiny act declared to be mutiny Any concealment of mutinous acts, or neglect to attempt a suppression of them, is declared also to be mutiny

[Note-In good authors who lived a century ago, mutiny and mutinous were applied to insurrection and sedition in civil society. But I believe these words are now applied exclusively to soldiers and seamen.]

MU'TINY, verb intransitive To rise against lawful authority in military and naval service; to excite or attempt to excite opposition to the lawful commands of military and naval officers; to commit some act which tends to bring the authority of officers into contempt, or in any way to promote insubordination.

MUT'TER, verb intransitive [Latin mutio, muttio, and musso, mussito; allied perhaps to muse, which see.]

1. To utter words with a low voice and compressed lips, with sullenness or in complaint; to grumble; to murmur.

Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare,

And mutter to himself.

2. To sound with a low rumbling noise.

Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.

MUT'TER, verb transitive To utter with imperfect articulations, or with a low murmuring voice.

Your lips have spoken lies, your tongue hath muttered perverseness. Isaiah 59:3.

They in sleep will mutter their affairs.

MUT'TER, noun Murmur; obscure utterance.

MUT'TERED, participle passive Uttered in a low murmuring voice.

MUT'TERER, noun A grumbler; one that mutters.

MUT'TERING, participle present tense Uttering with a low murmuring voice; grumbling; murmuring.

MUT'TERINGLY, adverb With a low voice; without distinct articulation.

MUTTON, noun

1. The flesh of sheep, raw or dressed for food.

2. A sheep. [But this sense is now obsolete or ludicrous.]

MUT'TONFIST, noun A large red brawny hand.

MU'TUAL, adjective [Latin mutuus, from muto, to change.]

Reciprocal; interchanged , each acting in return or correspondence to the other; given and received. mutual love is that which is entertained by two persons each for the other; mutual advantage is that which is conferred by one person or another, and received by him in return. So we say, mutual assistance, mutual aversion.

And, what should most excite a mutual flame,

Your rural cares and pleasures are the same.

MUTUAL'ITY, noun Reciprocation; interchange.

MU'TUALLY, adverb Reciprocally, in the manner of giving and receiving.

The tongue and the pen mutually assist one another.

[Note-Mutual and mutually properly refer to two persons or their intercourse; but they may be and often are applied to numbers acting together or in concert.]

MUTUA'TION, noun [Latin mutuatio.] The act of borrowing. [Little used.]

MU'TULE, noun In architecture, a square modillion under the cornice. In French, it is rendered a corbel or bracket.

MUZ'ZLE, noun

1. The mouth of a thing; the extreme or end for entrance or discharge; applied chiefly to the end of a tube, as the open end of a common fusee or pistol, or of a bellows.

2. A fastening for the mouth which hinders from biting.

With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound.

MUZ'ZLE, verb transitive To bind the mouth; to fasten the mouth to prevent biting or eating.

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. Deuteronomy 25:4.

1. To fondle with the mouth close. [Low.]

2. To restrain from hurt.

My dagger muzzled--

MUZ'ZLE, verb intransitive To bring the mouth near.

The bear muzzles and smells to him.