Mussite – Mytilite

Mussite

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

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

Mussulman

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.

Mussulmanish

MUS'SULMANISH, adjective Mohammedan.

Must

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.

Mustac

MUS'TAC, noun A small tufted monkey.

Mustaches

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

Mustard

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

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.

Musteline

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.

Muster

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.

Muster-Book

MUS'TER-BOOK, noun A book in which forces are registered.

Muster-Master

MUS'TER-M'ASTER, noun One who takes an account of troops, and of their arms and other military apparatus. The chief officer of this kind is called muster-master-general.

Muster-Roll

MUS'TER-ROLL, noun A roll or register of the troops in each company, troop or regiment.

Mustily

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

Mustiness

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

Musty

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.

Mutability

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.

Mutable

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

Mutableness

MU'TABLENESS, noun Changeableness; mutability; instability.

Mutation

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

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.

Mutely

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

Muteness

MU'TENESS, noun Silence; forbearance of speaking.

Mutilate

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.

Mutilated

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.

Mutilating

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

Mutilation

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.

Mutilator

MU'TILATOR, noun One who mutilates.

Mutilous

MU'TILOUS, adjective Mutilated; defective; imperfect.

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

Mutineer

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.

Muting

MU'TING, noun The dung of fowls.

Mutinous

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.]

Mutinously

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

Mutinousness

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

Mutiny

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.

Mutter

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.

Muttered

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

Mutterer

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

Muttering

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

Mutteringly

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

Mutton

MUTTON, noun

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

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

Muttonfist

MUT'TONFIST, noun A large red brawny hand.

Mutual

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.

Mutuality

MUTUAL'ITY, noun Reciprocation; interchange.

Mutually

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.]

Mutuation

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

Mutule

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

Muzzle

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.

Muzzle-Ring

MUZZLE-RING, noun The metalline ring or circle that surrounds the mouth of a cannon or other piece.

My

MY, pronoun. adjective. [contracted from migen, mine. Me was originally mig, and the adjective migen. So in Latin meus. See Mine.]

Belonging to me; as, this is my book. Formerly, mine was used before a vowel, and my before a consonant; my is now used before both. We say, my book; my own book; my old friend. Mine is still used after a verb; as, this book is mine.

Mynheer

MYNHEE'R, noun A Dutchman.

Myographical

MYOGRAPH'ICAL, adjective [See Myography.]

Pertaining to a description of the muscles.

Myographist

MYOG'RAPHIST, noun One who describes the muscles of animals.

Myography

MYOG'RAPHY, noun [Gr. a muscle, and to describe.] A description of the muscles of the body.

Myological

MYOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Myology.]

Pertaining to the description and doctrine of the muscles.

Myology

MYOL'OGY, noun [Gr. muscle, and discourse.]

A description of the muscles, or the doctrine of the muscles of the human body.

Myope

MY'OPE, noun [Gr. to shut, and the eye.] A short-sighted person.

Myopy

MY'OPY, noun Short-sightedness.

Myriad

MYR'IAD, noun [Gr. extreme, innumerable.]

1. The number of ten thousand.

2. An immense number, indefinitely.

Myriameter

MYRIAM'ETER, noun [Gr. ten thousand, and measure.]

In the new system of French measures, the length of ten thousand meters, equal to two mean leagues of the ancient measure.

Myriarch

MYR'IARCH, noun [Gr. ten thousand, and chief.]

A captain or commander of ten thousand men.

Myriare

MYR'IARE, [Gr. are; Latin area.] A French linear measure of ten thousand areas, or 100, 000 square meters.

Myricin

MYR'ICIN, noun The substance which remains after bees-wax, or the wax of the myrica cordifolia, has been digested in alcohol.

Myrioliter

MYRIOL'ITER, noun [Gr. a pound.] A French measure of capacity containing ten thousand liters, or 610, 280 cubic inches.

Myrmidon

MYR'MIDON, noun [Gr. a multitude of ants.] Primarily, the Myrmidons are said to have been a people on the borders of Thessaly, who accompanied Achilles to the war against Troy. Hence the name came to signify a soldier of a rough character, a desperate soldier or ruffian.

Myrobalan

MYROB'ALAN, noun [Latin myrobolanum; Gr. unguent, and a nut.]

A dried fruit of the plum kind brought from the East Indies, of which there are several kinds, all slightly purgative and astringent, but not now used in medicine.

Myropolist

MYROP'OLIST, noun [Gr. unguent, and to sell.]

One that sells unguents. [Little used.]

Myrrh

MYRRH, noun mer. [Latin myrrha.] A gum-resin that comes in the form of drops or globules of various colors and sizes, of a pretty strong but agreeable smell, and of a bitter taste. It is imported from Egypt, but chiefly from the southern or eastern parts of Arabia; from what species of tree or plant it is procured, is unknown. As a medicine, it is a good stomachic, antispasmodic and cordial.

Myrrhine

MYR'RHINE, adjective [Latin myrrhinus.] Made of the myrrhine stone. [See Murrine.]

Myrtiform

MYR'TIFORM, adjective [Latin myrtus, myrtle, and form.]

Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries.

Myrtle

MYR'TLE, noun [Latin myrtus.] A plant of the genus Myrtus, of several species. The common myrtle rises with a shrubby upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close full head, closely garnished with oval lanceolate leaves. It has numerous small, pale flowers from the axillas, singly on each footstalk.

Myrus

MY'RUS, noun A species of sea-serpent, of the anguilliform kind.

Myself

MYSELF', pronoun A compound of my and self, used after I, to express emphasis, marking emphatically the distinction between the speaker and another person; as, I myself will do it; I have done it myself

1. In the objective case, the reciprocal of I. I will defend myself

2. It is sometimes used without I, particularly in poetry.

MYSELF shall mount the rostrum in his favor.

Mystagogue

MYSTAGOGUE, noun mys'tagog. [Gr. one initiated in mysteries, and a leader.]

1. One who interprets mysteries.

2. One that keeps church relics and shows them to strangers.

Mysterial

MYSTE'RIAL, adjective Containing a mystery or enigma.

Mysteriarch

MYSTE'RIARCH, noun [Gr. mystery, and chief.]

One presiding over mysteries.

Mysterious

MYSTE'RIOUS, adjective [See Mystery.] Obscure; hid from the understanding; not clearly understood. The birth and connections of the man with the iron mask in France are mysterious and have never been explained.

1. In religion, obscure; secret; not revealed or explained; hidden from human understanding, or unintelligible; beyond human comprehension. Applied to the divine counsels and government, the word often implies something awfully obscure; as, the ways of God are often mysterious

Mysteriously

MYSTE'RIOUSLY, adverb Obscurely; enigmatically.

1. In a manner wonderfully obscure and unintelligible.

Mysteriousness

MYSTE'RIOUSNESS, noun Obscurity; the quality of being hid from the understanding, and calculated to excite curiosity or wonder.

1. Artful perplexity.

Mystery

MYS'TERY, noun [Latin mysterium; Gr. a secret. This word in Greek is rendered also murium latibulum; but probably both senses are from that of hiding or shutting; Gr. to shut, to conceal.

1. A profound secret; something wholly unknown or something kept cautiously concealed, and therefore exciting curiosity or wonder; such as the mystery of the man with the iron mask in France.

2. In religion, any thing in the character or attributes of

God, or in the economy of divine providence, which is not revealed to man.

3. That which is beyond human comprehension until explained. In this sense, mystery often conveys the idea of something awfully sublime or important; something that excites wonder.

Great is the mystery of godliness. 1 Timothy 3:9.

Having made known to us the mystery of his will. Ephesians 1:9.

We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery 1 Corinthians 2:7.

4. An enigma; any thing artfully made difficult.

5. A kind of ancient dramatic representation.

6. A trade; a calling; any mechanical occupation which supposes skill or knowledge peculiar to those who carry it on, and therefore a secret to others.

[The word in the latter sense has been supposed to have a different origin from the foregoing, viz.]

Mystic

MYS'TIC

MYS'TICAL, adjective [Latin mysticus.] Obscure; hid; secret.

1. Sacredly obscure or secret; remote from human comprehension.

God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural.

2. Involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as mystic dance; mystic Babylon.

Mystical

MYS'TICAL, a. [L.mysticus.] Obscure; hid; secret. 1. Sacredly obscure or secret; remote from human comprehension. God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural.2. Involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as mystic dance; mystic Babylon.

Mystically

MYS'TICALLY, adverb In a manner or by an act implying a secret meaning.

Mysticalness

MYS'TICALNESS, noun The quality of being mystical, or of involving some secret meaning.

Mysticism

MYS'TICISM, noun Obscurity of doctrine.

1. The doctrine of the Mystics, who profess a pure, sublime and perfect devotion, wholly disinterested, and maintain that they hold immediate intercourse with the divine Spirit.

Mystics

MYS'TICS, noun A religious sect who profess to have direct intercourse with the Spirit of God.

Mythic

MYTH'IC, adjective [from Gr. a fable.] Fabulous.

Mythological

MYTHOLOG'ICAL, adjective [See Mythology.]

Relating to mythology; fabulous.

Mythologically

MYTHOLOG'ICALLY, adverb In a way suited to the system of fables.

Mythologist

MYTHOL'OGIST, noun One versed in mythology; one who writes on mythology, or explains the fables of the ancient pagans.

Mythologize

MYTHOL'OGIZE, verb intransitive To relate or explain the fabulous history of the heathen.

Mythology

MYTHOL'OGY, noun [Gr. a fable, and discourse.] A system of fables or fabulous opinions and doctrines respecting the deities which heathen nations have supposed to preside over the world or to influence the affairs of it.

Mytilite

MYT'ILITE, noun [Gr. a kind of shell.]

In geology, a petrified muscle or shell of the genus Mytilus.