Much – Mussel

Much

MUCH, adjective

1. Great in quantity or amount.

Thou shalt carry much seed into the field, and gather but little in. Deuteronomy 28:38.

Manasseh wrought much wickedness in the sight of the Lord to provoke him to anger. 2 Kings 21:6.

Return with much riches to your tents. Jost. 22.

2. Long in duration. How much time is spent in trifling amusements!

3. Many in number.

Edom came out against him with much people. Numbers 20:20.

[This application of much is no longer used.]

MUCH, adverb In a great degree; by far; qualifying adjectives of the comparative degree; as much more, much stronger, much heavier, much more splendid, much higher. So we say, much less, much smaller, much less distinguished, much weaker, much finer.

1. To a great degree or extent; qualifying verbs and participles.

Jonathan, Saul's son, delighted much in David. 1 Samuel 19:2.

It is a night to be much observed. Exodus 12:38.

The soul of the people was much discouraged because of the way. Numbers 21:4.

A much afflicted, much enduring man.

2. Often or long.

Think much speak little.

3. Nearly.

All left the world much as they found it.

MUCH, noun A great quantity; a great deal.

He that gathered much had nothing over. Exodus 16:5.

To whom much is given, of him much shall be required. Luke 12:19.

They have much of the poetry of Maecenas, but little of his liberality.

1. More than enough; a heavy service or burden.

He thought not much to clothe his enemies.

Who thought it much a man should die of love.

2. An uncommon thing; something strange.

It was much that one who was so great a lover of peace should be happy in war.

As much an equal quantity; used as an adjective or noun. Return as much bread as you borrowed. If you borrow money, return as much as you receive. So we say, twice as much five times as much that is, twice or five times the quantity.

1. A certain or suitable quantity.

Then take as much as thy soul desireth. 1 Samuel 2:16.

2. To an equal degree; adverbially. One man loves power as much as another loves gold.

So much an equal quantity or a certain quantity, as a noun; to an equal degree, or to a certain degree, as an adverb.

Of sweet cinnamon half so much Exo 30.

In all Israel, there was none to be so much praised as Absalom. 2 Samuel 14:25.

Too much an excessive quantity, as a noun; to an excessive degree, as an adverb.

To make much of, to value highly; to prize or to treat with great kindness and attention.

1. To fondle.

MUCH at one, nearly of equal value, effect or influence.

Muchwhat

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

Mucic

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

Mucid

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

Mucidness

MU'CIDNESS, noun Mustiness; sliminess.

Mucilage

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.

Mucilaginous

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.

Mucilaginousness

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

Mucite

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

Muck

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

Muckender

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

Mucker

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

Muckerer

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

Muckheap

MUCK'HEAP

MUCK'HILL, noun A dunghill.

Muckhill

MUCK'HILL, n. A dunghill.

Muckiness

MUCK'INESS, noun Filthiness; nastiness.

Muckle

MUCK'LE, adjective Much.

Mucksweat

MUCK'SWEAT, noun Profuse sweat.

Muckworm

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

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

Mucky

MUCK'Y, adjective Filthy; nasty.

Mucoso-Saccharine

MUCOSO-SAC'CHARINE, adjective Partaking of the qualities of mucilage and sugar.

Mucous

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.

Mucousness

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

Mucronate

MU'CRONATE

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

Narrowed to a point; terminating in a point.

Mucronated

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

Narrowed to a point; terminating in a point.

Muculent

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

Mucus

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

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.

Muddily

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

Lucilius--writ loosely and muddily

Muddiness

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

Muddle

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.

Muddled

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

Muddling

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

Muddy

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.

Muddy-Headed

MUDDY-HEADED, adjective Having a dull understanding.

MUD'-FISH, noun A fish, a species of the cyprinus kind.

MUD'-SILL, noun In bridges, the sill that is laid at the bottom of a river, lake, etc. [See Sill.]

MUD'-SUCKER, noun An aquatic fowl.

MUD'-WALL, noun A wall composed of mud, or of materials laid in mud without mortar.

1. A bird, the apiaster.

MUD'-WALLED, adjective Having a mud wall.

Mudwort

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

Mue

MUE. [See Mew.]

Muff

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

Muffin

MUF'FIN, noun A delicate or light cake.

Muffle

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.

Muffled

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

Muffler

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

Muffling

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

Mufflon

MUF'FLON, noun The wild sheep or musmon.

Mufti

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

Mug

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.

Muggard

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

Muggish

MUG'GISH

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

Muggnet

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

Muggy

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.]

Mughouse

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

Mugient

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

Mugil

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

Mugweed

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

Mugwort

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

Mulatto

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.

Mulberry

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

Mulberry-Tree

MUL'BERRY-TREE, noun The tree which produces the mulberry.

Mulch

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

Mulct

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.

Mulctuary

MULCT'UARY, adjective Imposing a pecuniary penalty.

Mule

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.

Mule-Wort

MU'LE-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Hemionitis.

Muleteer

MULETEE'R, noun A mule-driver.

Muliebrity

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.

Mulier

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

Mulish

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

Mull

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.]

Mullen

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

Muller

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.

Mullet

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.

Mulligrubs

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

Mullion

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

MUL'LION, verb transitive To shape into divisions.

Mullock

MUL'LOCK, noun Rubbish.

Mulse

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

Multangular

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

Having many angles; polygonal.

Multangularly

MULTAN'GULARLY, adverb With many angles or corners.

Multicapsuler

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

In botany, having many capsules.

Multicavous

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

Having many holes or cavities.

Multifarious

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

Multifariously

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

Multifariousness

MULTIFA'RIOUSNESS, noun Multiplied diversity.

Multifid

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.

Multiflorous

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

Many-flowered; having many flowers.

Multiform

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

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

Multiformity

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

Multigenerous

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

Having many kinds.

Multijugous

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

Consisting of many pairs.

Multilateral

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

Multilineal

MULTILIN'EAL, adjective Having many lines.

Multilocular

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

Having many cells; as a multilocular pericarp.

Multiloquous

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

Speaking much; very talkative; loquacious.

Multinomial

MULTINO'MIAL

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

Having many names or terms.

Multinominal

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

Having many names or terms.

Multiparous

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

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

Multipartite

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

Divided into many parts; having several parts.

Multiped

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

An insect that has many feet.

MUL'TIPED, adjective Having many feet.

Multiple

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.

Multiplex

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

Multipliable

MUL'TIPLIABLE, adjective That may be multiplied.

Multipliableness

MUL'TIPLIABLENESS, noun Capacity of being multiplied.

Multiplicable

MUL'TIPLICABLE, adjective That may be multiplied.

Multiplicand

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

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

Multiplicate

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.

Multiplication

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.

Multiplicative

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

Multiplicator

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

Multiplicity

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.

Multiplied

MUL'TIPLIED, participle passive Increased in numbers.

1. Numerous; often repeated; as multiplied aggressions.

Multiplier

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

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

Multiply

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.

Multiplying

MUL'TIPLYING, participle present tense Increasing in number.

1. Growing or becoming numerous.

Multipotent

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

Multipresence

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.

Multisiliquous

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

Having many pods or seed-vessels.

Multisonous

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

Having many sounds, or sounding much.

Multisyllable

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

Multitude

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.

Multitudinous

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.

Multivagant

MULTIV'AGANT

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

Multivagous

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

Multivalve

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

MUL'TIVALVE

Multivalvular

MULTIVALV'ULAR, adjective Having many valves.

Multiversant

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

Protean; turning into many shapes; assuming many forms.

Multivious

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

Having many ways or roads. [Little used.]

Multocular

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

Having many eyes, or more eyes than two.

Multure

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

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.]

Mumble

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.

Mumbled

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

Mumbler

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

Mumbling

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

Mumblingly

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

Mumm

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.

Mummer

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.

Mummery

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

Mummify

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

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.

Mummy-Chog

MUM'MY-CHOG, noun A small fish of the carp kind.

Mump

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.

Mumper

MUMP'ER, noun A beggar.

Mumping

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

Mumpish

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

Mumps

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

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

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

Muncher

MUNCH'ER, noun One that munches.

Mund

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.

Mundane

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

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

Mundantiy

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

Mundation

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

The act of cleansing. [Not used.]

Mundatory

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

Mundic

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

Mundification

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

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

Mundificative

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

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

Mundify

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

To cleanse. [Little used.]

Munerary

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

Munerate

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

Muneration

MUNERATE, MUNERATION [Not used. See Remunerate.]

Mungrel

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

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

Municipal

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.

Municipality

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

Munificence

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.]

Munificent

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

Munificently

MUNIF'ICENTLY, adverb Liberally; generously.

Muniment

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.

Munite

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

Munition

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.

Munity

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

Munnion

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

Muns

MUNS, noun The mouth. [Vulgar.]

Murage

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

Mural

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.

Murder

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?

Murdered

MUR'DERED, participle passive Slain with malice prepense.

Murderer

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.

Murderess

MUR'DERESS, noun A female who commits murder.

Murdering

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

Murderous

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.

Murderously

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

Mure

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

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

[But immure is chiefly used.]

Muriacite

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

Muriate

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.

Muriated

MU'RIATED, adjective Combined with muriatic acid.

1. Put in brine.

Muriatic

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

Muriatiferous

MURIATIF'EROUS, adjective Producing muriatic substances or salt.

Muricalcite

MURICAL'CITE, noun Rhomb-spar.

Muricated

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.

Muricite

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

Murine

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

Pertaining to a mouse or to mice.

Murk

MURK, noun Darkness. [Little used.]

Murky

MURK'Y, adjective Dark; obscure; gloomy.

A murky storm deep lowering o'er our heads.

Murmur

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.

Murmurer

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

Murmuring

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

Murmuringly

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

Murmurous

MUR'MUROUS, adjective Exciting murmur or complaint.

Murr

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

Murrain

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

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

Murre

MUR'RE, noun A kind of bird.

Murrey

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

Of a dark red color.

Murrhine

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.

Murrion

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

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

Musard

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

Muscadel

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.

Muscadine

MUS'CADINE

Muscat

MUSCAT'

Muscatel

MUS'CATEL , a. 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.

Muscle

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.

Muscovy-Duck

MUS'COVY-DUCK, noun The musk-duck, Anas moschata.

Muscovy-Glass

MUS'COVY-GLASS, noun Mica, which see.

Muscular

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.

Musculite

MUS'CULITE, noun A petrified muscle or shell.

Musculous

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

1. Strong; brawny.

2. Pertaining to a muscle or to muscles.

Museful

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

Full of museful mopings.

Museless

MU'SELESS, adjective Disregarding the power of poetry.

Muser

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

Muset

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

Music

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.

Music-Book

MU'SIC-BOOK, noun A book containing tunes or songs for the voice or for instruments.

Music-Master

MU'SIC-M'ASTER, noun One who teaches music.

Musical

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.

Musically

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

Musicalness

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

Musimon

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.

Musing

MU'SING, participle present tense Meditating in silence.

MU'SING, noun Meditation; contemplation.

Musk

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.

Musketeer

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

Musketoe

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

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

Muskmelon

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.

Muskrat

MUSK'RAT

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

Musky

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

Muslin

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

MUSLINET', noun A sort of coarse cotton cloth.

Musmon

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.

Musrole

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

Muss

MUSS, noun A scramble. [Not used.]

Mussel

MUSSEL. [See Muscle.]