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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.

Mung

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.

Munga

See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

Mungo

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.

Municipal

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

Municipality

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

Municipalize

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

Munificence

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

Munificent

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

Munify

To prepare for defense; to fortify.

Muniment

The act of supporting or defending.

Munite

To fortify; to strengthen.

Munity

Freedom; security; immunity.

munja munj

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

Munjeet

See Indian madder, under Madder.

Munjistin

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

Muntjac

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.

Muraena

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.

Murage

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

Mural

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

Murder

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

murdered

killed unlawfully; as, the murdered woman.

Murderer

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

Murderous

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.

Murdress

A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

Mure

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

Murenger

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

Murex

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.

Murexan

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.

Murexide

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.

Murexoin

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

Muriate

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

Muriatic

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

Muricated Muricate

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

Muricoid

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

Muride

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

Muriform

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

Murine

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

Murk

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

Murmur

To utter or give forth in low or indistinct words or sounds; as, to murmur tales.

Murmuring

Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining.

Murmurous

Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring.

Murnival

In the game of gleek, four cards of the same value, as four aces or four kings; hence, four of anything.

Murrain

Having, or afflicted with, murrain.

Murrayin

A glucoside found in the flowers of a plant (Murraya exotica) of South Asia, and extracted as a white amorphous slightly bitter substance.

Murre

Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot.

Murrelet

One of several species of sea birds of the genera Synthliboramphus and Brachyramphus, inhabiting the North Pacific. They are closely related to the murres.

Murrey

A dark red color. Of a dark red color.

Murrhine

Made of the stone or material called by the Romans murrha; -- applied to certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels.

Murza

One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, esp. one of the second class.

Mus

A genus of small rodents, including the common mouse and rat.

Musa

A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana (Musa sapientum), the plantain (Musa paradisiaca of Linnaeus, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian (Musa Ensete), the Philippine Island (Musa textilis, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of Banana and Plantain.

Musaceae

A natural family of treelike tropical Asian herbs including the banana tree.

Musaceous

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, plants of the genus Musa.

Musal

Of or pertaining to the Muses, or to Poetry.

Musales

An order of tropical plants.

Musang

A small animal of Java (Paradoxirus fasciatus), allied to the civets. It swallows, but does not digest, large quantities of ripe coffee berries, thus serving to disseminate the coffee plant; hence it is called also coffee rat.

Musar

An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe.

Musard

A dreamer; an absent-minded person.

Musca

A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species.

Muscadet

A white grape grown esp. in the Loire Valley in France.

Muscadine

A name given to several very different kinds of grapes, but in America used chiefly for the scuppernong, or southern fox grape, which is said to be the parent stock of the Catawba. See Grapevine.

Muscales

An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticae and sphagna.

Muscardin

The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor.

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