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.

Having the nature of a gift.

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.

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.

Dark; gloomy.

A seaweed. See Baddrelocks.

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

The act of murmuring; a murmur.

One who murmurs.

Uttering murmurs; making low sounds; complaining.

Attended with murmurs; exciting murmurs or complaint; murmuring.

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

A potato.

A catarrh.

Having, or afflicted with, murrain.

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

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

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

A dark red color. Of a dark red color.

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.

A morion. See Morion.

See Muraena.

Plenty; abundance.

Murder, n. v.

A murderer.

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

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

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.

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

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

Of or pertaining to the Muses, or to Poetry.

An order of tropical plants.

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.

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

A dreamer; an absent-minded person.

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

See Muscatel, n.

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

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.

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

See Muskellunge.

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

A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.

Having the form of a brush.

A solid crystalline substance, C5H13NO2, found in the toadstool (Agaricus muscarius), and in putrid fish. It is a typical ptomaine, and a violent poison.

A name given to several varieties of Old World grapes, differing in color, size, etc., but all having a somewhat musky flavor. The muscat of Alexandria is a large oval grape of a pale amber color.

A common name for several varieties of rich sweet wine, made in Italy, Spain, and France.

A kind of shell limestone, whose strata form the middle one of the three divisions of the Triassic formation in Germany. See Chart, under Geology.

An order or subclass of cryptogamous plants; the mosses. See Moss, and Cryptogamia.

A natural family of Old World (true) flycatchers.

Of or pertaining to the Muscicapidae, a family of birds that includes the true flycatchers.

Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidae.

A natural family of two-winged flies esp. the housefly.

Having the appearance or form of a moss.

A gray flycatcher of Southwestern U. S. and Mexico and Central America having a long forked tail and white breast and salmon and scarlet markings; the scissortailed flycatcher.

An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.

To compel by threat of force; as, they muscled the shopkeeper into paying protection money.

someone who does special exercises to develop the musculature; a bodybuilder.

exercise that builds muscles through tension; bodybuilding.