A genus of ranunculaceous plants (Myosurus), in which the prolonged receptacle is covered with imbricating achenes, and so resembles the tail of a mouse.
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Diminutive for Mouse.
The act of hunting mice.
To sport with roughly; to rumple.
A musketeer, esp. one of the French royal musketeers of the 17th and 18th centuries, conspicuous both for their daring and their fine dress.
A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.
Muslin.
Mustache.
A large bushy moustache.
Infested with mice; smelling of mice.
The Chinese tree peony (Paeonia Mountan), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.
To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.
Having the basal joints of the legs converted into jaws.
Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt.
Furnished with a mouth.
One who mouths; an affected speaker.
As much as is usually put into the mouth at one time.
Destitute of a mouth.
The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe.
a medicated solution used for gargling and rinsing the mouth.
meat from a mature sheep.
Movableness.
An article of wares or goods; a commodity; a piece of property not fixed, or not a part of real estate; generally, in the plural, goods; wares; furniture.
The quality or state of being movable; mobility; susceptibility of motion.
In a movable manner or condition.
The act of moving; a movement.
movable.
affected emotionally. Opposite of unmoved.
Motionless; fixed.
The act of moving in space; change of place or posture; motion; as, the movement of an army in marching or maneuvering; the movement of a wheel or a machine.
That which moves anything.
A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.
A motion picture.
The act of changing place or posture; esp., the act of changing one's dwelling place or place of business.
In a moving manner.
The power of moving.
To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away.
To heat and ferment in the mow, as hay when housed too green.
See 1st 2d Mow.
One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.
The act of one who, or the operation of that which, mows.
Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.
A mower.
A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.
energy; pep.
Mud poured out from volcanoes during eruptions; -- so called in South America.
See Moil, and Moile.
A cape, with a small hood; -- worn by the pope and other dignitaries of the Roman Catholic Church.
Amall shrubby African tree (Brachystegia speciformis) having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
See mutual savings bank.
See monosodium glutamate.
Mountain Standard Time, the time of the 105th meridian, used in the mountain states of the U.S.
A metric ton, a unit of weight equivalent to 1000 kilograms.
The 12th letter of the Greek alphabet (/, /).
an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2 microseconds; the muon. It is a lepton, not a true meson, and decays to an electron and neutrino and antineutrino.
Same as muezzin.
Same as muezzin.
The acid amide of mucic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
A salt of mucic acid.
See Muse, and Muset.
A yellowish white, amorphous, nitrogenous substance found in wheat, rye, etc., and resembling gluten; -- formerly called also mucin.
To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.
Much.
Greatness; extent.
Nearly; almost; much.
Pertaining to, or derived from, gums and micilaginous substances; specif., denoting an acid obtained by the oxidation of gums, dulcite, etc., as a white crystalline substance isomeric with saccharic acid.
Musty; moldy; slimy; mucous.
Inducing or stimulating the secretion of mucus; blennogenous.
Resembling mucus; having the character or appearance of mucus.
A substance which is formed in mucous epithelial cells, and gives rise to mucin.
Connected with the formation of mucin; resembling mucin.
A gummy or gelatinous substance produced in certain plants by the action of water on the cell wall, as in the seeds of quinces, of flax, etc.
Partaking of the nature of, or resembling, mucilage; moist, soft, and viscid; slimy; ropy; as, a mucilaginous liquid.
See Mucedin.
Same as Mucigen.
Secreting, or producing, mucus or mucin.
An insect which feeds on mucus, or the sap of plants, as certain Diptera, of the tribe Mucivora.
Dung in a moist state; manure.
To excavate and remove muck{5}. Often used with out, as, to muck out a round.
The broken material at the face of a tunnel being bored, after being crushed by blasting.
A rake for scraping up muck or dung. See Muckrake, v. i., below.
A handkerchief.
To scrape together, as money, by mean labor or shifts.
An excavating machine designed to remove particulate material from within a confined area, as in a tunnel or mine.
A miser; a niggard.
The quality of being mucky.
Much.
A dunghill.
To seek for, expose, or charge, especially habitually, corruption, real or alleged, on the part of public men and corporations.
A person who habitually muckrakes.
Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy.
A larva or grub that lives in muck or manure; -- applied to the larvae of the tumbledung and allied beetles.
Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.
An enlargement or protrusion of the mucous membrane of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter.
One of a class of mucinlike substances yielding on decomposition a reducing carbohydrate together with some form of proteinaceous matter.
A salt of muconic acid.
Of, pertaining to, or designating, an organic acid (C6H6O4, 2-4-hexadienedoic acid), obtained indirectly from mucic acid, and somewhat resembling itaconic acid. Various other means of synthesis have been reported.
Having the character or appearance of both mucus and pus.
A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.
An order of mostly saprophytic fungi.
The mucus-secreting membrane lining all body cavities or passages that communicate with the exterior; called also mucous membrane.
The quality or state of being mucous or slimy; mucousness.
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, mucus; slimy, ropy, or stringy, and lubricous; as, a mucous substance.
The quality or state of being mucous; sliminess.
A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.
Ending abruptly in a sharp point; abruptly tipped with a short and sharp point; as, a mucronate leaf.
Having, or tipped with, a small point or points.
Slimy; moist, and moderately viscous.
A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. 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.
Mucin.
To bury in mud.
A large catfish (Pylodictus olivaris, formerly Leptops olivaris) of the central U. S. having a flattened head and projecting jaw.
A crab of the genus Panop/us (also written Panopeus).
A wasp of the family Sphegidae (Sphecidae) which builds a nest of mud and stores insects and spiders in it; a digger-wasp.
Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and Calotropis procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.
A brown, amorphous, bitter substance having a strong emetic action, extracted from the root of the mudar.
a racehorse that exhibits a better than usual performance when the racetrack is wet or muddy.
In a muddy manner; turbidly; without mixture; cloudily; obscurely; confusedly.
The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness caused by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.
A state of being turbid or confused; hence, intellectual cloudiness or dullness.
A stupid person; a blunderer.
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