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.

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.

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.

Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled.

a bully employed by a gangster.

Exhibition or representation of the muscles.

See Muskogees.

A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.

A superfamily of two-winged flies esp. the families: Muscidae; Gasterophilidae; Calliphoridae; and Tachinidae.

Bryology.

Mossiness.

Unrefined or raw sugar.

A native or inhabitant of Muscovy or ancient Russia; hence, a Russian.

Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.

The state or quality of being muscular.

To make muscular.

In a muscular manner.

Musculature.

The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts; musculation.

A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

See Syntonin.

Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve.

Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm; as, the musculophrenic artery.

The quality or state of being musculous; muscularity.

Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.

Muscular.

Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.

Meditative; thoughtfully silent.

Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical.

One who muses.

A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.

A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs. To cause to travel or journey.

Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.

to grow or expand rapidly.

Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.

Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.

Music.

A social musical party.

In a musical manner.

The quality of being musical.

One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.

A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties.

See Mouflon.

Thinking long and intensely.

In a musing manner.

See Muset.

To perfume with musk.

See Muscadel.

See Muscat.

A large American pike (Esox masquinongy formerly Esox nobilior) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish.

The male of the sparrow hawk.

A soldier armed with a musket.

See Mosquito.

A short musket.

Muskets, collectively.