Having many streaks.

Having many furrows.

A word of many syllables; a polysyllable.

Having many titles.

Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.

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.

Wandering much.

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

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

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

Having many valves.

Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.

Having many ways or roads; by many ways.

Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal.

Having many eyes, or more than two.

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

Having many hoofs.

The toll for grinding grain.

A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.

Silent and idle.

To utter with a low, inarticulate voice.

A talebearer.

One who mumbles.

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.

Low; indistinct; inarticulate.

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.

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

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

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.

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

The act of making a mummy.

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

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

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

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.

To embalm; to mummify.

See Mummichog.

To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.

A beggar; a begging impostor.

Sullen, sulky.

Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.

The mouth.

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

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

One who munches.

See Mun.

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

Worldliness.

The act of cleansing.

Cleansing; having power to cleanse.

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

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

The act or operation of cleansing.

Cleansing. A detergent medicine or preparation.

To cleanse.

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

Wandering over the world.

A stinking tobacco.

To remunerate.

Remuneration.

Green gram, a kind of legume (pulse) (Vigna radiata syn. Phaseolus aureus, syn. Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India; called also gram, mung bean, Chinese mung bean, and green-seeded mung bean. It is an erect, bushy annual producing edible green or yellow seeds, and edible pods and young sprouts.

The mung (Vigna radiata).

See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

Same as Mangcorn.

A material of short fiber and inferior quality obtained by deviling woolen rags or the remnants of woolen goods, specif. those of felted, milled, or hard-spun woolen cloth, as distinguished from shoddy, or the deviled product of loose-textured woolen goods or worsted, -- a distinction often disregarded.

See Mongoose.

See Mongrel.

Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.

Municipal condition.

A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

To bring under municipal oversight or control; as, a municipalized industry.

In a municipal relation or condition.

Munificent; liberal.

To enrich.

The quality or state of being munificent; a giving or bestowing with extraordinary liberality; generous bounty; lavish generosity.

Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor.

To prepare for defense; to fortify.

The act of supporting or defending.

To fortify; to strengthen.

Fortification; stronghold.

Freedom; security; immunity.

A tough Asiatic grass (Saccharum bengalense syn. Saccharum munja) whose culms are used for ropes and baskets.

See Indian madder, under Madder.

An orange-red coloring substance resembling alizarin, found in the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia munjista).

See Mullion.

Same as Mullion; -- especially used in joiner's work.

Any one of several species of small Asiatic deer of the genus Cervulus, esp. Cervulus muntjac, which occurs both in India and on the East Indian Islands.

A genus of large eels of the family Muraenidae. They differ from the common eel in lacking pectoral fins and in having the dorsal and anal fins continuous. The murry (Muraena Helenae) of Southern Europe was the muraena of the Romans. It is highly valued as a food fish.

A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.

To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

killed unlawfully; as, the murdered woman.

One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

A woman who commits murder.

Murder.

Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault.

A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

To inclose in walls; to wall; to immure; to shut up.

One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.

Like or pertaining to the genus Muraena, or family Muraenidae.

A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.

A crystalline nitrogenous substance (C8H8N6O6, 5-5'-nitrilodibarbituric acid monoammonium salt) having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. It is now synthesized from alloxan. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.

A complex nitrogenous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.

A salt of muriatic hydrochloric acid; a chloride; as, muriate of ammonia.

Put in brine.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric.

Producing muriatic substances or salt.

Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Murex, or family Muricidae.

Minutely muricate.

Bromine; -- formerly so called from its being obtained from sea water.

Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.

One of a tribe of rodents, of which the mouse is the type.

See Murenger.

The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.

Darkly; gloomily.

The state of being murky.