Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 80

Muffler (n.) One who muffles.

Muflon (n.) See Mouflon.

Muftis (pl. ) of Mufti

Mufti (n.) An official expounder of Mohammedan law.

Mufti (n.) Citizen's dress when worn by a naval or military officer; -- a term derived from the British service in India.

Mug (n.) A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.

Mug (n.) The face or mouth.

Muggard (a.) Sullen; displeased.

Mugget (n.) The small entrails of a calf or a hog.

Mugginess (n.) The condition or quality of being muggy.

Muggish (a.) See Muggy.

Muggletonian (n.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired.

Muggy (superl.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.

Muggy (superl.) Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.

Mughouse (n.) An alehouse; a pothouse.

Mugiency (n.) A bellowing.

Mugient (a.) Lowing; bellowing.

Mugil (n.) A genus of fishes including the gray mullets. See Mullet.

Mugiloid (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidae.

Mugweed (n.) A slender European weed (Galium Cruciata); -- called also crossweed.

Mugwort (n.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.

Mugwump (n.) A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent.

Mugwumpery (n.) Alt. of Mugwumpism

Mugwumpism (n.) The acts and views of the mugwumps.

Muhammadan (a. & n.) Alt. of Muhammedan

Muhammedan (a. & n.) Mohammedan.

Muhammadanism (n.) Mohammedanism.

Mulada (n.) A moor.

Mulada (n.) A drove of mules.

Mulattoes (pl. ) of Mulatto

Mulatto (n.) The offspring of a negress by a white man, or of a white woman by a negro, -- usually of a brownish yellow complexion.

Mulattress (n.) A female mulatto.

Mulberries (pl. ) of Mulberry

Mulberry (n.) The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.

Mulberry (n.) A dark pure color, like the hue of a black mulberry.

Mulberry-faced (a.) Having a face of a mulberry color, or blotched as if with mulberry stains.

Mulch (n.) Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture.

Mulched (imp. & p. p.) of Mulch

Mulching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mulch

Mulch (v. t.) To cover or dress with mulch.

Mulct (n.) A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.

Mulct (n.) A blemish or defect.

Mulcted (imp. & p. p.) of Mulct

Mulcting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mulct

Mulct (v. t.) To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.

Mulct (v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline.

Mulctary (a.) Alt. of Mulctuary

Mulctuary (a.) Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine.

Mule (n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.

Mule (n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

Mule (n.) A very stubborn person.

Mule (n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.

Mule-jenny (n.) See Mule, 4.

Muleteer (n.) One who drives mules.

Mulewort (n.) A fern of the genus Hemionitis.

Muley (n.) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate.

Muley (n.) See Mulley.

Muliebrity (n.) The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.

Muliebrity (n.) Hence: Effeminancy; softness.

Mulier (n.) A woman.

Mulier (n.) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.

Mulier (n.) A woman; a wife; a mother.

Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately.

Mulierose (a.) Fond of woman.

Mulierosity (n.) A fondness for women.

Mulierty (n.) Condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock.

Mulish (a.) Like a mule; sullen; stubborn.

Mull (n.) A thin, soft kind of muslin.

Mull (n.) A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre.

Mull (n.) A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Mull (n.) Dirt; rubbish.

Mull (v. t.) To powder; to pulverize.

Mull (v. i.) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem.

Mull (n.) An inferior kind of madder prepared from the smaller roots or the peelings and refuse of the larger.

Mulled (imp. & p. p.) of Mull

Mulling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mull

Mull (v. t.) To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine.

Mull (v. t.) To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt.

Mulla (n.) Same as Mollah.

Mullagatawny (n.) An East Indian curry soup.

Mullah (n.) See Mollah.

Mullar (n.) A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.

Mullein (n.) Any plant of the genus Verbascum. They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is Verbascum Thapsus.

Mullen (n.) See Mullein.

Muller (n.) One who, or that which, mulls.

Muller (n.) A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.

Muller (n.) A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.

Mullerian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Johannes Muller.

Mullet (n.) Any one of numerous fishes of the genus Mugil; -- called also gray mullets. They are found on the coasts of both continents, and are highly esteemed as food. Among the most valuable species are Mugil capito of Europe, and M. cephalus which occurs both on the European and American coasts.

Mullet (n.) Any species of the genus Mullus, or family Mullidae; called also red mullet, and surmullet, esp. the plain surmullet (Mullus barbatus), and the striped surmullet (M. surmulletus) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet.

Mullet (n.) A star, usually five pointed and pierced; -- when used as a difference it indicates the third son.

Mullet (n.) Small pinchers for curling the hair.

Mulley (n.) Alt. of Moolley

Moolley (n.) A mulley or polled animal.

Moolley (n.) A cow.

Mulley (a.) Alt. of Moolley

Moolley (a.) Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow.

Mulligatawny (n.) See Mullagatawny.

Mulligrubs (n.) A griping of the intestines; colic.

Mulligrubs (n.) Hence, sullenness; the sulks.

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