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Multifariously

With great multiplicity and diversity; with variety of modes and relations.

Multifid

Having many segments; cleft into several parts by linear sinuses; as, a multifid leaf or corolla.

Multiflue

Having many flues; as, a multiflue boiler. See Boiler.

Multifoil

Having more than five divisions or foils.

Multifold

Many times doubled; manifold; numerous.

Multiform

Having many forms, shapes, or appearances.

Multiformity

The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing.

Multigraph

A combined rotary type-setting and printing machine for office use. The type is transferred semi-automatically by means of keys from a type-supply drum to a printing drum. The printing may be done by means of an inked ribbon to print /typewritten/ letters, or directly from inked type or a stereotype plate, as in a printing press.

Multilocular

Having many or several cells or compartments; as, a multilocular shell or capsule.

Multiloquence

Quality of being multiloquent; use of many words; talkativeness.

Multiparous

Producing many, or more than one, at a birth.

Multiphase

Having many phases; pertaining to, or designating, a generator producing, or any system conveying or utilizing, two or more waves of pressure, or electromotive force, not in phase with each other; polyphase.

Multiplane

An airplane with three or more superposed main wings, such as a triplane.

Multiple

A quantity containing another quantity an integral number of times without a remainder.

Multiplicand

The number which is to be multiplied by another number called the multiplier. See Note under Multiplication.

Multiplicate

Consisting of many, or of more than one; multiple; multifold.

Multiplication

The act or process of multiplying, or of increasing in number; the state of being multiplied; as, the multiplication of the human species by natural generation.

Multiplicative

Tending to multiply; having the power to multiply, or incease numbers.

Multiplicator

The number by which another number is multiplied; a multiplier.

Multiplicity

The quality of being multiple, manifold, or various; a state of being many; a multitude; as, a multiplicity of thoughts or objects.

Multiplier

One who, or that which, multiplies or increases number.

Multiply

To become greater in number; to become numerous.

Multipolar

Having many poles; in Anat., designating specif. a nerve cell which has several dendrites.

Multipotent

Having manifold power, or power to do many things.

Multipresent

Being, or having the power to be, present in two or more places at once.

Multisect

Divided into many similar segments; -- said of an insect or myriapod.

Multiseptate

Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.

Multiserial

Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

Multispiral

Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.

Multitude

A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.

Multitudinous

Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves.

Multivalence

Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.

Multivalent

Having a valence greater than one, as silicon. Having more than one degree of valence, as sulphur.

Multivalve

Any mollusk which has a shell composed of more than two pieces.

Multiversant

Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.

Multivious

Having many ways or roads; by many ways.

Multivocal

Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal.

Multum

An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.

Multure

The toll for grinding grain.

Mum

A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.

Mumble

To utter with a low, inarticulate voice.

Mumblety peg Mumbledy peg

A game played with a pocketknife, the object of which is to throw the knife in any of a vairety of ways (such as over the back), or from various positions, and have it stick in the ground or another surface. Also called mumble-the-peg and mumble peg.

Mumbo Jumbo

Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose; hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo.

Mumm

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

Mummer

One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.

Mummery

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.

Mummichog

Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow.

Mummified

Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.

Mummiform

Having some resemblance to a mummy; -- in Zoology, said of the pupae of certain insects.

Mummify

To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy.

mummify

To turn into a mummy-like corpse; to dry up with unusually little decomposition; -- said of dead animals; as, A mummified body was found in the attic.

Mummy

To embalm; to mummify.

Mump

To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.

Mumper

A beggar; a begging impostor.

Mumps

Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.

Munch

To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.

Munchausenism

An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.

Mundane

Of or pertaining to the world; worldly, as contrasted with heavenly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere; mundane concerns.

Mundic

Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the Cornish miners.

Mundificant

Serving to cleanse and heal. A mundificant ointment or plaster.

Mundil

A turban ornamented with an imitation of gold or silver embroidery.

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