With a low voice and indistinct articulation; in a muttering manner.

A sheep.

A fish (Lutjanus analis) similar to and often marketed as /red snapper/.

A stupid or foolish person; a dolt; a numbskull; a blockhead; -- disparaging and offensive. These words are used to express a low opinion of someone's intelligence.

Like mutton; having a flavor of mutton.

Reciprocally acting or related; reciprocally receiving and giving; reciprocally given and received; reciprocal; interchanged; as, a mutual love, advantage, assistance, aversion, etc.

a state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees. Abbreviated MSB.

The doctrine of mutual dependence as the condition of individual and social welfare.

One practising or advocating the doctrine of mutualism.

The quality of correlation; reciprocation; interchange; interaction; interdependence.

In a mutual manner.

One who borrows personal chattels which are to be consumed by him, and which he is to return or repay in kind.

The act of borrowing or exchanging.

A projecting block worked under the corona of the Doric corice, in the same situation as the modillion of the Corinthian and Composite orders. See Illust. of Gutta.

To mix in an untidy and offensive way; to make a mess of.

Soft; sticky, and dirty.

One of a denomination of Christians formerly living under the government of the Moors in Spain, and having a liturgy and ritual of their own.

Of or pertaining to Muzarabs; as, the Muzarabic liturgy.

A Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917).

The state or quality of being muzzy.

To bring the mouth or muzzle near.

A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle, as distinguished from one which is loaded at the breech.

Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle.

Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid.

most valuable player; the player judged to be the most important to the sport, also the name of the award given to that player.

The symbol for the maxwell, a cgs unit of magnetic flux.

Of or belonging to me; -- used always attributively; as, my body; my book; -- mine is used in the predicate; as, the book is mine. See Mine.

A genus of bivalve mollusks, including the common long, or soft-shelled, clam.

An order of clams.

A natural family of soft-shell clams.

A genus of birds including the solitaires, thrushes noted for their beautiful songs.

Pain in the muscles; muscular rheumatism or neuralgia.

A division of bivalve mollusks of which the common clam (Mya) is the type.

The white threads or filamentous growth from which a mushroom or fungus is developed; the so-called mushroom spawn.

Resembling mycelium.

A genus of South American monkeys, including the howlers. See Howler, 2, and Illust.

The Myxomycetes; -- so called by those who regard them as a class of animals.

A group of rod-shaped bacteria, some saprophytic or causing diseases.

Any of various rod-shaped bacteria, some saprophytic or causing diseases.

One of the forms in which bacteria group themselves; a more or less thick layer of motionless but living bacteria, formed by the bacteria uniting on the surface of the fluid in which they are developed. This production differs from the zoogloea stage of bacteria by not having the intermediary mucous substance.

Of or relating to mycology, or the fungi.

One who is versed in, or who studies, mycology.

That branch of botanical science which relates to the mushrooms and other fungi.

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid of the alloxan group, obtained as a honey-yellow powder. Its solutions have a gelatinous consistency.

The protoplasmic matter of which bacteria are composed.

A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose and obtained from certain lichens and fungi. Called also trehalose.

The chain of micrococci formed by the division of the micrococci in multiplication.

A genus of birds including certain of the wood ibises, including the endangered Mycteria americana; it is sometimes assigned to a subfamily Mycteriinae.

A toxic alkaloid (ptomaine) obtained from putrid flesh and from herring brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation.

A poisonous amido acid, C6H13NO2, separated by Brieger from decaying horseflesh. In physiological action, it is similar to curare.

The teledu.

A long-continued or excessive dilatation of the pupil of the eye.

Causing dilatation of the pupil. A mydriatic medicine or agent, as belladonna.

Same as Vertebrata.

Of or pertaining to the myelencephalon; cerebro-spinal.

The brain and spinal cord; the cerebro-spinal axis. Sometimes abbreviated to myelencephal. The metencephalon.

Of or pertaining to the Myelencephala.

A soft white substance constituting the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers, and composed mainly of cholesterin, lecithin, cerebrin, protein, and some fat. One of a group of phosphorized principles occurring in nerve tissue, both in the brain and nerve fibers.

Of or pertaining to myelin.

Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.

Fibrosis of the bone marrow.

Derived from, or pertaining to, the bone marrow.

Resembling marrow in appearance or consistency; as, a myeloid tumor.

A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers.

The spinal cord. (Sometimes abbrev. to myel.)

Of or pertaining to the myelon; as, the myelonal, or spinal, nerves.

The Vertebrata.

One of the huge multinucleated cells found in the marrow of bone and occasionally in other parts; a giant cell. See Osteoclast.

A genus of very large hairy spiders of the family Ctenizidae, having four lungs and only four spinnerets. They do not spin webs, but usually construct tubes in the earth, which are often furnished with a trapdoor. The South American bird spider (Mygale avicularia), and the crab spider, or matoutou (Mygale cancerides) are among the largest species. They are also called trapdoor spiders. Some of the species are erroneously called tarantulas, as the Texas tarantula (Mygale Hentzii).

A salmon (Salmo mykiss, syn. Salmo purpuratus) marked with black spots and a red throat, found in most of the rivers from Alaska to the Colorado River, and in Siberia; -- called also black-spotted trout, cutthroat trout, and redthroat trout.

The goddess of love and fertility and war; also called Ishtar; the counterpart of Ashtoreth and Astarte.

An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium.

A natural family of extinct South American edentates.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the lower jaw and the hyoid apparatus; as, the mylohyoid nerve.

Any one of numerous species of Asiatic starlings of the genera Acridotheres, Sturnopastor, Sturnia, Gracula, and allied genera. In habits they resemble the European starlings, and like them are often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird.

A nun.

A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England.

The Dutch equivalent of Mr. or Sir; hence, a Dutchman.

Of or pertaining to the myocardium.

Inflammation of the myocardium.

The main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium.

A colored albuminous substance in the serum from red-colored muscles. It is identical with hemoglobin.

A myotome.

The department of physiology which deals with the principles of muscular contraction; the exercise of muscular force or contraction.

A myodynamometer.

An instrument for measuring the muscular strength of man or of other animals; a dynamometer.

Derived from epithelial cells and destined to become a part of the muscular system; -- applied to structural elements in certain embryonic forms.

One of the Myogalodae, a family of Insectivora, including the desman, and allied species.

See Muscle curve, under Muscle.

An instrument for determining and recording the different phases, as the intensity, velocity, etc., of a muscular contraction.

Of or pertaining to myography.

The description of muscles, including the study of muscular contraction by the aid of registering apparatus, as by some form of myograph; myology.

A red-colored respiratory pigment found associated with hemoglobin in the muscle tissue of a large number of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate.

Composed of, or resembling, muscular fiber.

Sarcolemma.

The essential material of muscle fibers.

Of or pertaining to myology.

One skilled in myology.

That part of anatomy which treats of muscles.

A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.

Divination by the movements of mice.

One of the Myomorpha.

An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.

Any affection of the muscles or muscular system.

Of or pertaining to myopathia.

Same as Myopathia.

A person having myopia; a myops.

A contractile striated layer found in the bodies and stems of certain Infusoria.

Nearsightedness; shortsightedness; a condition of the eye in which the rays from distant object are brought to a focus before they reach the retina, and hence form an indistinct image; while the rays from very near objects are normally converged so as to produce a distinct image. It is corrected by the use of a concave lens.

Pertaining to, or affected with, or characterized by, myopia; nearsighted.

See Myope.

The appearance of muscae volitantes. See Muscae volitantes, under Musca.

Myopia.

A protein present in muscle, serving as the principle contractile protein in muscle contraction.

Long-continued contraction of the pupil of the eye.

Myotic.

Inflammation of the muscles.

A genus of plants. See Mouse-ear.

Producing myosis, or contraction of the pupil of the eye, as opium, calabar bean, etc. A myotic agent.

A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma. One of the embryonic muscular segments arising from the protovertebrae; also, one of the protovertebrae themselves. The muscular system of one metamere of an articulate.