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.

The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.

The fruit of a cucurbitaceous plant (Cucumis Melo) of the gourd family, having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon.

A powerful tribe of North American Indians that formerly occupied the region of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. They constituted a large part of the Creek confederacy.

A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Ondatra zibethica formerly Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the hind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, ondatra, and sometimes water rat.

The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii). The wood of an Australian tree (Eurybia argophylla).

Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like.

The muskellunge.

See Moslem.

A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins. In sheeting, muslin is not as finely woven as percale.

A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.

See Mouflon.

See Musicomania.

See Muskrat.

The American black bear. See Bear.

See Musket.

See Mosquito.

The nose band of a horse's bridle.

A term of endearment.

Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidae. The common mussel (Mytilus edulis; see Illust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel (Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as food in Europe.

A speaking in a low tone; mumbling.

A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside.

Of, pertaining to, or like, the Muslims (Mussulmans), or their customs: Islamic.

Islamic.

Islam.

In the manner of Moslems.

Disarranged; rumpled.

To make musty; to become musty.

A small tufted monkey.

That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.

A mustache.

Having a mustache or mustachios.

See Army organization, above.

A close-grained, heavy wood of a brownish color, brought from Brazil, and used in turning, for making the handles of tools, and the like.

The half-wild horse of the plains in Mexico, California, etc. It is small, hardy, and easily sustained.

The name of several cruciferous plants of the genus Brassica (formerly Sinapis), as white mustard (Brassica alba), black mustard (Brassica Nigra), wild mustard or charlock (Brassica Sinapistrum).

See Mestee.

The type genus of the family Mustelidae: minks and weasels.

A member of the Mustelidae, fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals.

A natural family of fissiped fur-bearing carnivorous mammals including the weasels; polecats; ferrets; minks; fishers; otters; badgers; skunks; wolverines; and martens.

Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidae, or the weasels and martens.

A genus of sharks including certain of the smooth dogfishes.

To be gathered together for parade, inspection, exercise, or the like; to come together as parts of a force or body; as, his supporters mustered in force.

Being in a condition of dangerous frenzy, usually connected with sexual excitement; -- said of adult male elephants which become so at irregular intervals, typicaly due to increased testosterone levels. The condition of frenzy. An elephant in must.

In a musty state.

The quality or state of being musty.

Having the rank, pungent, offensive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.

The quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change; changeableness; inconstancy; variation.

Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form, qualities, or nature.

The quality of being mutable.

Changeably.

See Mytacism.

A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

A chemical compound or other external influence (such as ionizing radiation) which causes mutations{3}.

the causing of a mutation or the occurrence of a mutation{3}.

the degree or measure of the ability to cause mutation{3}; -- said of mutagens.

A thing which is to be changed; something which must be altered; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.

Of or pertaining to or marked by genetic mutation{3}.

The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman.

A liquid measure equal to four gills, or an imperial pint.

One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause. One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute. A person employed by undertakers at a funeral. A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak. Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.

See Moot-hill.

same as quiet; as, the muted atmosphere of a church. Opposite of noisy.

Without uttering words or sounds; in a mute manner; silently.

The quality or state of being mute; speechlessness.

In Turkey prior to the revolution, an administrative authority of any of certain sanjaks. They were appointed directly by the Sultan.

In Turkey, a sanjak whose head is a mutessarif.

Without a point or pointed process; blunt.

To cut off or remove a limb or essential part of; to maim; to cripple; to disfigure; to hack; as, to mutilate the body, a statue, etc.

badly injured, perhaps with amputation or permanent disfigurement; as, mutilated victims of the rocket attack.

The act of mutilating, or the state of being mutilated; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.

One who mutilates.

Mutilated; defective; imperfect.

To mutiny.

One guilty of mutiny.

Dung of birds.

Disposed to mutiny; in a state of mutiny; characterized by mutiny; seditious; insubordinate.

To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.

The condition, state, or habit of being mute, or without speech.

A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion.

An dog that is of inferior quality or of mixed breed.