Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 82

Multiradiate (a.) Having many rays.

Multiramified (a.) Divided into many branches.

Multiramose (a.) Having many branches.

Multiscious (a.) Having much or varied knowledge.

Multisect (a.) Divided into many similar segments; -- said of an insect or myriapod.

Multiseptate (a.) Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.

Multiserial (a.) Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.

Multisiliquous (a.) Having many pods or seed vessels.

Multisonous (a.) Having many sounds, or sounding much.

Multispiral (a.) Having numerous spiral coils round a center or nucleus; -- said of the opercula of certain shells.

Multistriate (a.) Having many streaks.

Multisulcate (a.) Having many furrows.

Multisyllable (n.) A word of many syllables; a polysyllable.

Multititular (a.) Having many titles.

Multitubular (a.) Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.

Multitude (n.) A great number of persons collected together; a numerous collection of persons; a crowd; an assembly.

Multitude (n.) A great number of persons or things, regarded collectively; as, the book will be read by a multitude of people; the multitude of stars; a multitude of cares.

Multitude (n.) The state of being many; numerousness.

Multitudinary (a.) Multitudinous.

Multitudinous (a.) Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves.

Multitudinous (a.) Of or pertaining to a multitude.

Multivagant (a.) Alt. of Multivagous

Multivagous (a.) Wandering much.

Multivalence (n.) Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.

Multivalent (a.) Having a valence greater than one, as silicon.

Multivalent (a.) Having more than one degree of valence, as sulphur.

Multivalve (n.) Any mollusk which has a shell composed of more than two pieces.

Multivalve (a.) Alt. of Multivalvular

Multivalvular (a.) Having many valves.

Multivalvular (a.) Many-valved; having more than two valves; -- said of certain shells, as the chitons.

Multiversant (a.) Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.

Multivious (a. & adv.) Having many ways or roads; by many ways.

Multivocal (a.) Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal.

Multivocal (n.) A multivocal word.

Multocular (a.) Having many eyes, or more than two.

Multum (n.) An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops.

Multungulate (a.) Having many hoofs.

Multure (n.) The toll for grinding grain.

Multure (n.) A grist or grinding; the grain ground.

Mum (a.) Silent; not speaking.

Mum (interj.) Be silent! Hush!

Mum (n.) Silence.

Mum (n.) A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany.

Mumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Mumble

Mumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mumble

Mumble (v.) To speak with the lips partly closed, so as to render the sounds inarticulate and imperfect; to utter words in a grumbling indistinct manner, indicating discontent or displeasure; to mutter.

Mumble (v.) To chew something gently with closed lips.

Mumble (v. t.) To utter with a low, inarticulate voice.

Mumble (v. t.) To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.

Mumble (v. t.) To suppress, or utter imperfectly.

Mumblenews (n.) A talebearer.

Mumbler (n.) One who mumbles.

Mumbling (a.) Low; indistinct; inarticulate.

Mumbo Jumbo () An object of superstitious homage and fear.

Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence.

Mum-chance (n.) A silent, stupid person.

Mum-chance (a.) Silent and idle.

Mummed (imp. & p. p.) of Mumm

Mumming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mumm

Mumm (v. i.) To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask.

Mummer (n.) One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.

Mummeries (pl. ) of Mummery

Mummery (n.) Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.

Mummery (n.) Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies.

Mummichog (n.) Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow.

Mummification (n.) The act of making a mummy.

Mummified (a.) Converted into a mummy or a mummylike substance; having the appearance of a mummy; withered.

Mummiform (a.) Having some resemblance to a mummy; -- in zoology, said of the pupae of certain insects.

Mummified (imp. & p. p.) of Mummify

Mummifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mummify

Mummify (v. t.) To embalm and dry as a mummy; to make into, or like, a mummy.

Mummies (pl. ) of Mummy

Mummy (n.) A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction.

Mummy (n.) Dried flesh of a mummy.

Mummy (n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.

Mummy (n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).

Mummy (n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.

Mummy (n.) One whose affections and energies are withered.

Mummied (imp. & p. p.) of Mummy

Mummying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mummy

Mummy (v. t.) To embalm; to mummify.

Mummychog (n.) See Mummichog.

Mump (v. i.) To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.

Mump (v. i.) To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.

Mump (v. i.) To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.

Mump (v. i.) To be sullen or sulky.

Mumped (imp. & p. p.) of Mump

Mumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mump

Mump (v. t.) To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.

Mump (v. t.) To work over with the mouth; to mumble; as, to mump food.

Mump (v. t.) To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.

Mumper (n.) A beggar; a begging impostor.

Mumpish (a.) Sullen, sulky.

Mumps (n.) Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks.

Mumps (n.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.

Mun (n.) The mouth.

Munched (imp. & p. p.) of Munch

Munching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Munch

Munch (v. t. & i.) To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls.

Munchausenism (n.) An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.

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