Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 83

Muncher (n.) One who munches.

Mund (n.) See Mun.

Mundane (a.) Of or pertaining to the world; worldly; earthly; terrestrial; as, the mundane sphere.

Mundanity (n.) Worldliness.

Mundation (n.) The act of cleansing.

Mundatory (a.) Cleansing; having power to cleanse.

Mundic (n.) Iron pyrites, or arsenical pyrites; -- so called by the Cornish miners.

Mundificant (a.) Serving to cleanse and heal.

Mundificant (n.) A mundificant ointment or plaster.

Mundification (n.) The act or operation of cleansing.

Mundificative (a.) Cleansing.

Mundificative (n.) A detergent medicine or preparation.

Mundify (v. t.) To cleanse.

Mundil (n.) A turban ornamented with an imitation of gold or silver embroidery.

Mundivagant (a.) Wandering over the world.

Mundungus (n.) A stinking tobacco.

Munnerary (a.) Having the nature of a gift.

Munnerate (v. t.) To remunerate.

Muneration (n.) Remuneration.

Mung (n.) Green gram, a kind of pulse (Phaseolus Mungo), grown for food in British India.

Munga (n.) See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

Mungcorn (n.) Same as Mangcorn.

Mungo (n.) A fibrous material obtained by deviling rags or the remnants of woolen goods.

Mungoose (n.) Alt. of Mungoos

Mungoos (n.) See Mongoose.

Mungrel (n. & a.) See Mongrel.

Municipal (a.) Of or pertaining to a city or a corporation having the right of administering local government; as, municipal rights; municipal officers.

Municipal (a.) Of or pertaining to a state, kingdom, or nation.

Municipalism (n.) Municipal condition.

Municipalities (pl. ) of Municipality

Municipality (n.) A municipal district; a borough, city, or incorporated town or village.

Municipally (adv.) In a municipal relation or condition.

Munific (a.) Munificent; liberal.

Munificate (v. t.) To enrich.

Munificence (n.) Means of defense; fortification.

Munificence (n.) The quality or state of being munificent; a giving or bestowing with extraordinary liberality; generous bounty; lavish generosity.

Munificent (a.) Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; as, a munificent benefactor.

Munify (v. t. & i.) To prepare for defense; to fortify.

Muniment (n.) The act of supporting or defending.

Muniment (n.) That which supports or defends; stronghold; place or means of defense; munition; assistance.

Muniment (n.) A record; the evidences or writings whereby a man is enabled to defend the title to his estate; title deeds and papers.

Munite (v. t.) To fortify; to strengthen.

Munition (n.) Fortification; stronghold.

Munition (n.) Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds.

Munity (n.) Freedom; security; immunity.

Munjeet (n.) See Indian madder, under Madder.

Munjistin (n.) An orange-red coloring substance resembling alizarin, found in the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia munjista).

Munnion (n.) See Mullion.

Muntin (n.) Alt. of Munting

Munting (n.) Same as Mullion; -- especially used in joiner's work.

Muntjac (n.) Any one of several species of small Asiatic deer of the genus Cervulus, esp. C. muntjac, which occurs both in India and on the East Indian Islands.

Muntz metal () See under Metal.

Muraena (n.) A genus of large eels of the family Miraenidae. They differ from the common eel in lacking pectoral fins and in having the dorsal and anal fins continuous. The murry (Muraena Helenae) of Southern Europe was the muraena of the Romans. It is highly valued as a food fish.

Muraenoid (a.) Alt. of Murenoid

Murenoid (a.) Like or pertaining to the genus Muraena, or family Muraenidae.

Murage (n.) A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

Mural (a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.

Mural (a.) Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural precipice.

Murder (n.) The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.

Murdered (imp. & p. p.) of Murder

Murdering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Murder

Murder (n.) To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.

Murder (n.) To destroy; to put an end to.

Murder (n.) To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.

Murderer (n.) One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

Murderer (n.) A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.

Murderess (n.) A woman who commits murder.

Murderment (n.) Murder.

Murderous (a.) Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder; bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous intent; a murderous assault.

Murdress (n.) A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.

Mure (n.) A wall.

Mured (imp. & p. p.) of Mure

Mure (n.) To inclose in walls; to wall; to immure; to shut up.

Murenger (n.) One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.

Murices (pl. ) of Murex

Murex (n.) A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

Murexan (n.) A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.

Murexide (n.) A crystalline nitrogenous substance having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.

Murexoin (n.) A complex nitrogenous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.

Muriate (n.) A salt of muriatic hydrochloric acid; a chloride; as, muriate of ammonia.

Muriated (a.) Put in brine.

Muriated (a.) Combined or impregnated with muriatic or hydrochloric acid.

Muriated (a.) Prepared with chloride of silver through the agency of common salt.

Muriatic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric.

Muriatiferous (a.) Producing muriatic substances or salt.

Muricate (a.) Alt. of Muricated

Muricated (a.) Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences.

Muricoid (a.) Like, or pertaining to, the genus Murex, or family Muricidae.

Muriculate (a.) Minutely muricate.

Muride (n.) Bromine; -- formerly so called from its being obtained from sea water.

Muriform (a.) Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.

Murine (a.) Pertaining to a family of rodents (Muridae), of which the mouse is the type.

Murine (n.) One of a tribe of rodents, of which the mouse is the type.

Muringer (n.) See Murenger.

Murk (a.) Dark; murky.

Murk (n.) Darkness; mirk.

Murk (n.) The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.

Murkily (adv.) Darkly; gloomily.

Murkiness (n.) The state of being murky.

Murky (superl.) Dark; obscure; gloomy.

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