Muscularize Mus"cu·lar·ize transitive verb To make muscular. Lowell.

Muscularly Mus"cu·lar·ly adverb In a muscular manner.

Musculation Mus`cu·la"tion noun (Anat.) The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts.

Musculature Mus"cu·la·ture noun [ Confer French musculature .] (Anat.) Musculation.

Muscule Mus"cule noun [ Latin musculus : confer French muscule .] (Mil.) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

Musculin Mus"cu·lin noun [ Latin musculus a muscle.] (Physiol. Chem.) See Syntonin .

Musculocutaneous Mus`cu·lo·cu·ta"ne·ous adjective [ Latin musculus + English cutaneous .] (Anat.) Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve.

Musculophrenic Mus`cu·lo·phren"ic adjective [ Latin musculus muscle + English phrenic .] (Anat.) Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm; as, the musculophrenic artery.

Musculosity Mus`cu·los"i·ty noun The quality or state of being musculous; muscularity. [ Obsolete]

Musculospiral Mus`cu·lo·spi"ral adjective [ Latin musculus muscle + English spiral .] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.

Musculous Mus"cu·lous adjective [ Latin musculosus : confer French musculeux .] Muscular. [ Obsolete] Jonhson.

Muse Muse noun [ From French musse . See Muset .] A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.

Find a hare without a muse .

Old Prov.

Muse Muse noun [ French Muse , Latin Musa , Greek .... Confer Mosaic , noun , Music .] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural.

Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring:
What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing?

Pope.

» The names of the Muses were Calliope , Clio , Erato , Euterpe , Melpomene , Polymnia or Polyhymnia , Terpsichore , Thalia , and Urania .

2. A particular power and practice of poetry. Shak.

3. A poet; a bard. [ R.] Milton.

Muse Muse intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mused ; present participle & verbal noun Musing .] [ French muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand with open mouth, from Late Latin musus , morsus , muzzle, snout, from Latin morsus a biting, bite, from mordere to bite. See Morsel , and confer Amuse , Muzzle , noun ] 1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. "Thereon mused he." Chaucer.

He mused upon some dangerous plot.

Sir P. Sidney.

2. To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study. Daniel.

3. To wonder. [ Obsolete] Spenser. B. Jonson.

Syn. -- To consider; meditate; ruminate. See Ponder .

Muse Muse transitive verb 1. To think on; to meditate on.

Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.

Thomson.

2. To wonder at. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Muse Muse noun 1. Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study. Milton.

2. Wonder, or admiration. [ Obsolete] Spenser.

Museful Muse"ful adjective Meditative; thoughtfully silent. " Museful mopings." Dryden. - - Muse"ful*ly , adverb

Museless Muse"less adjective Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.

Muser Mus"er noun One who muses.

Muset Mu"set noun [ Old French mussette , dim. of musse , muce , a hiding place, from French musser , Old French mucier , muchier , to conceal, hide. Confer Micher .] A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse. Shak.

Musette Mu·sette" noun [ French, dim. of Old French muse .] 1. A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

2. An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.

Museum Mu·se"um noun [ Latin , a temple of the Muses, hence, a place of study, from Greek ..., from ... a Muse.] A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.

Museum beetle , Museum pest . (Zoology) See Anthrenus .

Mush Mush noun [ Confer Gael. mus , muss , pap, porridge, any thick preparation of fruit, Old High German muos ; akin to Anglo-Saxon & Old Saxon mōs food, and prob, to English meat . See Meat .] Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [ U.S.]

Mush Mush transitive verb [ Confer French moucheter to cut with small cuts.] To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Mush Mush noun [ Perh. short for mush on , a corrupt of English marchons , the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.] A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; as, he had a long mush before him; -- also used attributively. [ Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S.]

Mush Mush intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mushed ; present participle & verbal noun Mushing .] To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs. -- transitive verb To cause to travel or journey. [ Rare] [ Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S.]

Mush Mush transitive verb To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

Mushroom Mush"room noun [ Middle English muscheron , Old French mouscheron , French mousseron ; perhaps from mousse moss, of German origin. See Moss .] 1. (Botany) (a) An edible fungus ( Agaricus campestris ), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus . This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn. (b) Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus ; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.

2. One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart. Bacon.

Mushroom Mush"room adjective 1. Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.

2. Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.

Mushroom anchor , an anchor shaped like a mushroom, capable of grasping the ground in whatever way it falls. -- Mushroom coral (Zoology) , any coral of the genus Fungia. See Fungia . -- Mushroom spawn (Botany) , the mycelium, or primary filamentous growth, of the mushroom; also, cakes of earth and manure containing this growth, which are used for propagation of the mushroom.

Mushroom-headed Mush"room-head`ed adjective (Botany) Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.

Mushy Mush"y adjective Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.

She 's not mushy , but her heart is tender.

G. Eliot.

Music Mu"sic noun [ French musique , from Latin musica , Greek ... (sc. ...), any art over which the Muses presided, especially music, lyric poetry set and sung to music, from ... belonging to Muses or fine arts, from ... Muse.] 1. 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.

» Not all sounds are tones . Sounds may be unmusical and yet please the ear. Music deals with tones , and with no other sounds. See Tone .

2. (a) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones. (b) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.

3. The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

4. Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.

The man that hath no music in himself
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.

Shak.

5. (Zoology) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation .

Magic music , a game in which a person is guided in finding a hidden article, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid as he approaches success, and slower as he recedes. Tennyson. -- Music box . See Musical box , under Musical . -- Music hall , a place for public musical entertainments. -- Music loft , a gallery for musicians, as in a dancing room or a church. - - Music of the spheres , the harmony supposed to be produced by the accordant movement of the celestial spheres. -- Music paper , paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. -- Music pen , a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff. -- Music shell (Zoology) , a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell ( Voluta musica ) found in the East Indies; -- so called because the color markings often resemble printed music. Sometimes applied to other shells similarly marked. -- To face the music , to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. [ Colloq. or Slang]

Music drama Mu"sic dra`ma An opera in which the text and action are not interrupted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a fusion of poetry, music, action, and scene into an organic whole. The term is applied esp. to the later works of Wagner: "Tristan und Isolde," "Die Meistersinger," "Rheingold," "Walküre," "Siegfried," "Götterdämmerung," and "Parsifal."

Music hall Music hall A place for public musical entertainments; specif. (Eng.), esp. a public hall for vaudeville performances, in which smoking and drinking are usually allowed in the auditorium.

Musical Mu"sic·al adjective [ Confer French musical .] Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons.

Musical , or Music , box , a box or case containing apparatus moved by clockwork so as to play certain tunes automatically. -- Musical fish (Zoology) , any fish which utters sounds under water, as the drumfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc. -- Musical glasses , glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged that when struck, or rubbed, they produce musical notes. Confer Harmonica , 1.

Musical Mu"sic·al noun 1. Music. [ Obsolete]

To fetch home May with their musical .

Spenser.

2. A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party. [ Colloq.]

Musicale Mu`si`cale" noun [ French Confer Soirée musicale .] A social musical party. [ Colloq.]

Musically Mu"sic·al·ly adverb In a musical manner.

Musicalness Mu"sic·al·ness noun The quality of being musical.

Musician Mu·si"cian noun [ French musicien .] One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.

Musicomania Mu`si·co·ma"ni·a noun [ Music + mania : confer French musicomanie .] (Medicine) A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties. Dunglison.

Musimon Mus"i·mon noun [ See Musmon .] (Zoology) See Mouflon .

Musingly Mus"ing·ly adverb In a musing manner.

Musit Mu"sit noun See Muset .

Musk Musk noun [ French musc , Latin muscus , Persian musk , from Sanskrit mushka testicle, orig., a little mouse. See Mouse , and cd. Abelmosk , Muscadel , Muscovy duck , Nutmeg .] 1. A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.

2. (Zoology) The musk deer. See Musk deer (below).

3. The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.

4. (Botany) (a) The musk plant ( Mimulus moschatus ). (b) A plant of the genus Erodium ( E. moschatum ); -- called also musky heron's-bill . (c) A plant of the genus Muscari ; grape hyacinth.

Musk beaver (Zoology) , muskrat (1). -- Musk beetle (Zoology) , a European longicorn beetle ( Aromia moschata ), having an agreeable odor resembling that of attar of roses. -- Musk cat . See Bondar . -- Musk cattle (Zoology) , musk oxen. See Musk ox (below). -- Musk deer (Zoology) , a small hornless deer ( Moschus moschiferus ), which inhabits the elevated parts of Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil and napu. -- Musk duck . (Zoology) (a) The Muscovy duck . (b) An Australian duck ( Biziura lobata ). -- Musk lorikeet (Zoology) , the Pacific lorikeet ( Glossopsitta australis ) of Australia. -- Musk mallow (Botany) , a name of two malvaceous plants : (a) A species of mallow ( Malva moschata ), the foliage of which has a faint musky smell . (b) An Asiatic shrub. See Abelmosk . - - Musk orchis (Botany) , a European plant of the Orchis family ( Herminium Minorchis ); -- so called from its peculiar scent. -- Musk ox (Zoology) , an Arctic hollow-horned ruminant ( Ovibos moschatus ), now existing only in America, but found fossil in Europe and Asia. It is covered with a thick coat of fine yellowish wool, and with long dark hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the neck and shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred pounds. -- Musk parakeet . (Zoology) Same as Musk lorikeet (above). -- Musk pear (Botany) , a fragrant kind of pear much resembling the Seckel pear. -- Musk plant (Botany) , the Mimulus moschatus , a plant found in Western North America, often cultivated, and having a strong musky odor. -- Musk root (Botany) , the name of several roots with a strong odor, as that of the nard ( Nardostachys Jatamansi ) and of a species of Angelica . -- Musk rose (Botany) , a species of rose ( Rosa moschata ), having peculiarly fragrant white blossoms. -- Musk seed (Botany) , the seed of a plant of the Mallow family ( Hibiscus moschatus ), used in perfumery and in flavoring. See Abelmosk . -- Musk sheep (Zoology) , the musk ox. -- Musk shrew (Zoology) , a shrew ( Sorex murinus ), found in India. It has a powerful odor of musk. Called also sondeli , and mondjourou . -- Musk thistle (Botany) , a species of thistle ( Carduus nutans ), having fine large flowers, and leaves smelling strongly of musk. -- Musk tortoise , Musk turtle (Zoology) , a small American fresh- water tortoise ( Armochelys, or Ozotheca, odorata ), which has a distinct odor of musk; -- called also stinkpot .

Musk Musk (mŭsk) transitive verb To perfume with musk.

Muskadel Mus"ka·del` (mŭs"kȧ*dĕl`) noun See Muscadel .

Muskat Mus"kat (mŭs"kăt) noun See Muscat .

Muskellunge Mus"kel·lunge noun [ From the Amer. Indian name.] (Zoology) A large American pike ( Esox nobilior ) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish. [ Written also maskallonge , maskinonge , muskallonge , muskellonge , and muskelunjeh .]

Musket Mus"ket noun [ French mousquet , Italian moschetto , formerly, a kind of hawk; confer Old French mousket , moschet , a kind of hawk falcon, French mouchet , prop., a little fly (the hawk probably being named from its size), from Latin musca a fly. Confer Mosquito .] [ Sometimes written also musquet .] 1. (Zoology) The male of the sparrow hawk.

2. A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.

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