Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 80
Muffler (n.) One who muffles.
Muffler (n.) (Mach.) Any of various devices to deaden the noise of escaping gases or vapors, as a tube filled with obstructions, through which the exhaust gases of an internal-combustion engine, as on an automobile, are passed (called also silencer).
Muffler (n.) A tubular acoustic device inserted in the exhaust system that is designed to reduce noise [syn: silencer, muffler].
Muffler (n.) A scarf worn around the neck.
Muffler (n.) A device that decreases the amplitude of electronic, mechanical, acoustical, or aerodynamic oscillations [syn: damper, muffler].
Muflon (n.) (Zool.) See Mouflon.
Muftis (n. pl. ) of Mufti.
Mufti (n.) An official expounder of Mohammedan law.
Mufti (n.) One of the chief legal advisers to the Sultan of the Ottoman Empire.
Mufti (n.) Ordinary civilian dress when worn by persons who serve in a uniformed service, such as the military or police. It originally was used in reference to British naval or military officers, and originated with the British service in India. [Colloq. Eng.]
Mufti (n.) A jurist who interprets Muslim religious law.
Mufti (n.) Civilian dress worn by a person who is entitled to wear a military uniform.
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; as, I don't want to see your ugly mug again; -- often used contemptuously. [Slang] -- Thackeray.
Mug (v. t.) To take property from (a person) in a public place by threatening or committing violence on the person who is robbed; to rob, especially to rob by use of a weapon such as a knife or gun.
Note: To rob a person or a business indoors is not usually referred to as to mug, but to stick up or hold up.
Syn: rob, stick up.
Mug (n.) The quantity that can be held in a mug [syn: mug, mugful].
Mug (n.) A person who is gullible and easy to take advantage of [syn: chump, fool, gull, mark, patsy, fall guy, sucker, soft touch, mug].
Mug (n.) The human face (`kisser' and `smiler' and `mug' are informal terms for `face' and `phiz' is British) [syn: countenance, physiognomy, phiz, visage, kisser, smiler, mug].
Mug (n.) With handle and usually cylindrical.
Mug (v.) Rob at gunpoint or with the threat of violence; "I was mugged in the streets of New York last night."
Muggard (a.) Sullen; displeased. [Obs.] Muggar; Mugger
Mugger (n.) 【俚】 偷襲搶劫者；強盜；過分誇張的演員；裝怪臉的人；自人背後偷襲搶劫的盜匪 Also Muggar, The common crocodile ({Crocodilus palustris}) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twelve feet or more long.
Mugger (n.) A thief who takes property by threatening (or performing) violence on the person who is robbed; a person who commits a mugging; one who mugs. See {mug}, v. t.
Syn: robber.
Mugger (n.) A robber who takes property by threatening or performing violence on the person who is robbed (usually on the street).
Mugget (n.) The small entrails of a calf or a hog.
Mugginess (n.) The condition or quality of being muggy.
Mugginess (n.) A state of warm humidity.
Muggish (a.) See Muggy.
Muggletonian (n.) (Eccl. Hist.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. -- Eadie.
Muggy (a.) 悶熱的 Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
Muggy (a.) Warm, damp, and windless; uncomfortably hot and humid; sultry; as, muggy air, weather.
Muggy (a.) Hot or warm and humid; "muggy weather"; "the steamy tropics"; "sticky weather" [syn: muggy, steamy, sticky].
Mughouse (n.) An alehouse; a pothouse. -- Tickel.
Mugiency (n.) A bellowing. [Obs.]
Mugient (a.) Lowing; bellowing. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Mugil (n.) (Zool.) A genus of fishes including the gray mullets. See Mullet.
Mugil (n.) Type genus of the Mugilidae: mullets [syn: Mugil, genus Mugil].
Mugiloid (a.) (Zool.) Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidae.
Mugweed (n.) (Bot.) A slender European weed ({Galium Cruciata); -- called also crossweed.
Mugwort (n.) (Bot.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed ({Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; -- called also motherwort.
Mugwort (n.) Any of several weedy composite plants of the genus Artemisia.
Mugwump (n.) A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent. [Political Cant, U.S.]
Mugwump (n.) A person who is undecided about an issue, especially a political one; a person who takes a neutral stance on an issue; a fence-sitter. Mugwumpery
Mugwump (n.) Someone who bolted from the Republican Party during the U.S. presidential election of 1884.
Mugwump (n.) A neutral or uncommitted person (especially in politics) [syn: mugwump, independent, fencesitter].
Mugwump (n.) In politics one afflicted with self-respect and addicted to the vice of independence. A term of contempt.
Mugwump (n.) A bolter from the Republican party in 1884.
Mugwump (n.) A person who is independent (as in politics) or who remains undecided or neutral.
Mugwumpery (n.) Alt. of Mugwumpism.
Mugwumpism (n.) The acts and views of the mugwumps. [Political Cant, U.S.] Muhammadan
Mohammed (n.) 穆罕默德 The prophet who founded Islam (570-632).
Syn: Muhammad, Mahomet, Mahmoud.
Mohammed (or Mahomet (ma*hom"et)) Was born at Mecca, Arabia, about 570: died at Medina, Arabia, June 8, 632. He was the founder of Mohammedanism, or Islam ('surrender,' namely, to God). He was the posthumous son of Abdallah by his wife Amina, of the family of Hashim, the noblest among the Koreish, and was brought up in the desert among the Banu Saad by a Bedouin woman named Halima. At the age of six he lost his mother, and at eight his grandfather, when he was cared for by his uncle Abu-Talib. When about twelve years old (582) he accompanied a caravan to Syria, and may on this occasion have come for the first time in contact with Jews and Christians. A few years later he took part in the "sacrilegious war" (so called because carried on during the sacred months, when fighting was forbidden) which raged between the Koreish and the Banu Hawazin 580-590. He attended sundry preachings and recitations at Okatz, which may have awakened his poetical and rhetorical powers and his religious feelings; and for some time was occupied as a shepherd,
to which he later refers as being in accordance with his career as a prophet, even as it was with that of Moses and David. When twenty-five years old he entered the service of the widow Khadijah, and made a second journey to Syria, on which he again had an opportunity to come in frequent contact with Jews and Christians, and to acquire some knowledge of their religious teachings. He soon married Khadijah, who was fifteen years his senior.
Of the six children which she bore him, Fatima became the most famous. In 605 he attained some influence in Mecca by settling a dispute about the rebuilding of the Kaaba. The impressions which he had gathered from his contact with Judaism and Christianity, and from Arabic lore, began now strongly to engage his mind. He frequently retired to solitary places, especially to the cave of Mount Hira, north of Mecca. He passed at that time (he was then about forty years old) through great mental struggles, and repeatedly meditated suicide. It must have been during these lonely contemplations that the yearnings for a messenger from God for his people, and the thought that he himself might be destined for this mission, were born in his ardent mind. During one of his reveries, in the month of Ramadan, 610, he beheld in sleep the angel Gabriel, who ordered him to read from a scroll which he held before him the words which begin the 96th sura (chapter) of the Koran. After the lapse of some time, a second vision came, and then the revelations began to follow one another frequently. His own belief in his mission as apostle and prophet of God was now firmly established. The first convert was his wife Khadijah, then followed his cousin and adopted son Ali, his other adopted son Zeid, and Abu-Bekr, afterward his father-in-law and first successor (calif). Gradually about 60 adherents rallied about him. But after three years' preaching the mass of the Meccans rose against him, so that part of his followers had to resort to Abyssinia for safety in 614. This is termed the first hejira. Mohammed in the meanwhile continued his meetings in the house of one of his disciples, Arqaan, in front of the Kaaba, which later became known as the "House of Islam." At one time he offered the Koreish a compromise, admitting their gods into his system as intercessors with the Supreme Being, but, becoming conscience-stricken, took back his words. The conversion of Hamza and Omar and 39 others in 615-616 strengthened his cause. The Koreish excommunicated Mohammed and his followers, who were forced to live in retirement. In 620, at the pilgrimage, he won over to his teachings a small party from Medina. In Medina, whither a teacher was deputed, the new religion spread rapidly. To this period belongs the vision or dream of the miraculous ride, on the winged horse Borak, to Jerusalem, where he was received by the prophets, and thence ascended to heaven. In 622 more than 70 persons from Medina bound themselves to stand by Mohammed. The Meccans proposed to kill him, and he fled on the 20th of June, 622, to Medina. This is known as the hejira ('the flight'), and marks the beginning of the Mohammedan era. This event formed a turning-point in the activity of Mohammed. He was thus far a religious preacher and persuader; he became in his Medinian period a legislator and warrior.
He built there in 623 the first mosque, and married Ayesha. In 624 the first battle for the faith took place between Mohammed and the Meccans in the plain of Bedr, in which the latter were defeated. At this time, also, Mohammed began bitterly to inveigh against the Jews, who did not recognize his claims to be the "greater prophet" promised by Moses. He changed the attitude of prayer (kibla) from the direction of Jerusalem to that of the Kaaba in Mecca, appointed Friday as the day for public worship, and instituted the fast of Ramadan and the tithe or poor-rate. The Jewish tribe of the Banu Kainuka, settled at Medina, was driven out; while of another Jewish tribe, the Banu Kuraiza, all the men, 700 in number, were massacred. In 625 Mohammed and his followers were defeated by the Meccans in the battle of Ohud. The following years were filled out with expeditions. One tribe after another submitted to Mohammed, until in 631 something like a definite Mohammedan empire was established. In 632 the prophet made his last pilgrimage to Mecca, known as the "farewell pilgrimage," or the pilgrimage of the "announcement" or of "Islam." In the same year he died while planning an expedition against the frontier of the Byzantine empire. Mohammed was a little above the middle height, of a commanding figure, and is described as being of a modest, tender, and generous disposition. His manner of life was very simple and frugal. He mended his own clothes, and his common diet was barley-bread and water. But he enjoyed perfumes and the charms of women.
His character appears composed of the strongest inconsistencies. He could be tender, kind, and liberal, but on occasions indulged in cruel and perfidious assassinations. With regard to his prophetic claims, it is as difficult to assume that he was sincere throughout, or self-deceived, as that he was throughout an impostor. In his doctrines there is practically nothing original. The legends of the Koran are chiefly drawn from the Old Testament and the rabbinical literature, which Mohammed must have learned from a Jew near Mecca, though he presents them as original revelations by the angel Gabriel, See Koran. [Century Dict. 1906]
Muhammad (n.) Leader of Black Muslims who campaigned for independence for Black Americans (1897-1975) [syn: Muhammad, Elijah Muhammad].
Muhammad (n.) The Arab prophet who, according to Islam, was the last messenger of Allah (570-632) [syn: Mohammed, Mohammad, Muhammad, Mahomet, Mahound].
Muhammad (n.) (also Mohammed) The Arab prophet through whom the Koran was revealed and the religion of Islam established and completed.
Muhammad (n.) [n 1] (Arabic: محمد; pronounced [muħammad]; [n 2] French: Mahomet /məˈhɒmɪt/; Latinized as Mahometus c. 570 CE -- 8 June 632 CE) [1] 穆罕默德（阿拉伯語：محمّد Muḥammad；571年4月24日－632年6月7日）[3][4]，全名是阿布·卡西木·穆罕默德·本·阿布杜拉·本·阿布杜勒-穆塔利卜·本·哈希姆（ابو القاسم محمد ابن عبد الله ابن عبد المطلب ابن هاشم Abū al-Qāsim Muḥammad ibn ʿAbd Allāh ibn ʿAbd al-Muṭṭalib ibn Hāshim），是伊斯蘭教的創始人，同時也是一位政治家、軍事家和社會改革者[5][6][7]。 他成功地使阿拉伯半島的各部落在伊斯蘭一神教下統一。除了阿赫邁底亞的穆斯林以外，穆斯林認為他是「真主」派遣到人類的最後使者、先知和天啟宗教復興者。 其他的使者分別為阿丹（亞當）、努哈（諾亞），易卜拉欣（亞伯拉罕）、穆薩（摩西）、爾薩（耶穌），中國的穆斯林普遍尊稱之為穆聖。Was the founder of Islam. [2] [3] According to Islamic doctrine, he was a prophet and God's messenger, sent to present and confirm the monotheistic teachings preached previously by Adam, Abraham, Moses, Jesus, and other prophets. [3] [4] [5] [6] He is viewed as the final prophet of God in all the main branches of Islam, though some modern denominations diverge from this belief. [n 3] Muhammad united Arabia into a single Muslim polity and his teachings, practices, and the Quran form the basis of Islamic religious belief.
Born approximately 570 CE (Year of the Elephant) in the Arabian city of Mecca, Muhammad was orphaned at an early age; he was raised under the care of his paternal uncle Abu Talib. Periodically, he would seclude himself in a mountain cave named Hira for several nights of prayer; later, at age 40, he reported being visited by Gabriel in the cave, [7] [8] where he stated he received his first revelation from God. Three years later, in 610, [9] Muhammad started preaching these revelations publicly, [10] proclaiming that "God is One", that complete "surrender" (islām) to him is the right course of action (dīn), [11] and that he was a prophet and messenger of God, similar to the other prophets in Islam. [12] [13] [14]
Muhammad gained few early followers, and met hostility from Meccan polytheists. To escape persecution, he sent some followers to Abyssinia before he and his followers migrated from Mecca to Medina (then known as Yathrib) in the year 622. This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar, also known as the Hijri Calendar. In Medina, Muhammad united the tribes under the Constitution of Medina. In December 629, after eight years of intermittent wars with Meccan tribes, Muhammad gathered an army of 10,000 Muslim converts and marched on the city of Mecca. The conquest went largely uncontested and Muhammad seized the city with little bloodshed. In 632, a few months after returning from the Farewell Pilgrimage, he fell ill and died. Before his death, most of the Arabian Peninsula had converted to Islam. [15] [16]
The revelations (each known as Ayah, lit. "Sign [of God]"), which Muhammad reported receiving until his death, form the verses of the Quran, regarded by Muslims as the "Word of God" and around which the religion is based. Besides the Quran, Muhammad's teachings and practices (sunnah), found in the Hadith and sira (biography) literature, are also upheld and used as sources of Islamic law (see Sharia).
Mohammedan (a.) Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed; in the latter sense, synonymous with Islamic, the term preferred by Moslems. [Written also Mahometan, Mahomedan, Muhammadan, etc.]
Mohammedan (n.) A follower of Mohammed, the founder of Islam (also called Islamism or Mohammedanism); an adherent of Islam; one who professes Mohammedanism or Islamism; a Muslim; a Moslem; a Musselman; -- this term is used mostly by non-Moslems, and some Moslems find it offensive. [Written also Muhammadan, Mahometan, Mahomedan, etc.].
Muhammadan, Muhammedan (a. & n.) Mohammedan.
Muhammadan (a.) Of or relating to the Arabian prophet Muhammad or to the religion he founded [syn: Muhammadan, Mohammedan].
Muhammadan (n.) A follower of Mohammed [syn: Mohammedan, Muhammedan, Muhammadan].
Muhammadan (a. & n.) Alt. of Muhammedan.
Muhammedan (a. & n.) Mohammedan.
Muhammadanism (n.) Mohammedanism.
Muhammadanism (n.) The monotheistic religious system of Muslims founded in Arabia in the 7th century and based on the teachings of Muhammad as laid down in the Koran; "Islam is a complete way of life, not a Sunday religion"; "the term Muhammadanism is offensive to Muslims who believe that Allah, not Muhammad, founded their religion" [syn: Islam, Islamism, Mohammedanism, Muhammadanism, Muslimism].
Mulada (n.) A moor. [Scot.] -- Lockhart.
Mulada (n.) A drove of mules. [Southwest. U.S.]
Mulattoes (n. 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.
Mulatto (n.) An offspring of a black and a white parent.
Mulattress (n.) A female mulatto. -- G. W. Gable.
Mulberries (n. pl. ) of Mulberry.
Mulberry (n.) (Bot.) 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 mass. (Biol.) See Morula.
Paper mulberry, A tree ({Broussonetia papyrifera"> Paper mulberry, a tree ({Broussonetia papyrifera), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.
Mulberry (n.) Any of several trees of the genus Morus having edible fruit that resembles the blackberry [syn: mulberry, mulberry tree].
Mulberry (n.) Sweet usually dark purple blackberry-like fruit of any of several mulberry trees of the genus Morus.
Mulberry, () Heb. bakah, "to weep;" rendered "Baca" (R.V., "weeping") in Ps. 84:6. The plural form of the Hebrew bekaim is rendered "mulberry trees" in 2 Sam. 5:23, 24 and 1 Chr. 14:14, 15. The tree here alluded to was probably the aspen or trembling poplar. "We know with certainty that the black poplar, the aspen, and the Lombardy poplar grew in Palestine. The aspen, whose long leaf-stalks cause the leaves to tremble with every breath of wind, unites with the willow and the oak to overshadow the watercourses of the Lebanon, and with the oleander and the acacia to adorn the ravines of Southern Palestine" (Kitto). By "the sound of a going in the tops of the mulberry trees" we are to understand a rustling among the trees like the marching of an army. This was the signal that the Lord himself would lead forth David's army to victory. (See SYCAMINE.)
Mulberry, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 1627
Housing Units (2000): 743
Land area (2000): 7.550665 sq. miles (19.556131 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.189273 sq. miles (0.490216 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 7.739938 sq. miles (20.046347 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48200
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 35.507791 N, 94.057883 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72947
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mulberry, AR
Mulberry
Mulberry, NC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in North Carolina
Population (2000): 2269
Housing Units (2000): 999
Land area (2000): 5.100646 sq. miles (13.210612 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.100646 sq. miles (13.210612 sq. km)
FIPS code: 45560
Located within: North Carolina (NC), FIPS 37
Location: 36.227844 N, 81.165944 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note:
some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
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Mulberry
Mulberry, FL -- U.S. city in Florida
Population (2000): 3230
Housing Units (2000): 1611
Land area (2000): 3.066601 sq. miles (7.942459 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.141444 sq. miles (0.366339 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 3.208045 sq. miles (8.308798 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47200
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.898855 N, 81.974173 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 33860
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Headwords:
Mulberry, FL
Mulberry
Mulberry, OH -- U.S. Census Designated Place in Ohio
Population (2000): 3139
Housing Units (2000): 1229
Land area (2000): 1.514456 sq. miles (3.922424 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.514456 sq. miles (3.922424 sq. km)
FIPS code: 53270
Located within: Ohio (OH), FIPS 39
Location: 39.193980 N, 84.250915 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Mulberry, IN -- U.S. town in Indiana
Population (2000): 1387
Housing Units (2000): 508
Land area (2000): 0.587651 sq. miles (1.522010 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.587651 sq. miles (1.522010 sq. km)
FIPS code: 51840
Located within: Indiana (IN), FIPS 18
Location: 40.343818 N, 86.666086 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 46058
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Headwords:
Mulberry, IN
Mulberry
Mulberry, SC -- U.S. Census Designated Place in South Carolina
Population (2000): 841
Housing Units (2000): 234
Land area (2000): 1.963191 sq. miles (5.084642 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.017374 sq. miles (0.044998 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.980565 sq. miles (5.129640 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48737
Located within: South Carolina (SC), FIPS 45
Location: 33.949972 N, 80.335115 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
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Headwords:
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Mulberry, KS -- U.S. city in Kansas
Population (2000): 577
Housing Units (2000): 287
Land area (2000): 0.507119 sq. miles (1.313431 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.507119 sq. miles (1.313431 sq. km)
FIPS code: 49025
Located within: Kansas (KS), FIPS 20
Location: 37.555955 N, 94.623407 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 66756
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mulberry, KS
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.
Mulch (n.) A protective covering of rotting vegetable matter spread to reduce evaporation and soil erosion.
Mulch (v.) Cover with mulch; "mulch the flowerbeds."
Mulct (n.) A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.
Mulct (n.) A blemish or defect. [Obs.]
Syn: Amercement; forfeit; forfeiture; penalty.
Mulct (n.) Fine, penalty.
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. [Obs.] Mulctary
Mulct (v. t.) To punish by a fine.
Mulct (v. t.) To defraud especially of money : Swindle.
Mulct (v. t.) To obtain by fraud, duress, or theft.
Mulct (n.) Money extracted as a penalty [syn: fine, mulct, amercement].
Mulct (v.) Deprive of by deceit; "He swindled me out of my inheritance"; "She defrauded the customers who trusted her"; "the cashier gypped me when he gave me too little change" [syn: victimize, swindle, rook, goldbrick, nobble, diddle, bunco, defraud, scam, mulct, gyp, gip, hornswoggle, short-change, con].
Mulct (v.) Impose a fine on; "he was fined for littering."
Mulct, () punishment. A fine imposed on the conviction of an offence.
Mulct, () commerce. An imposition laid on ships or goods by a company of trade, for the maintenance of consuls and the like. Obsolete.
Mulctary (a.) Alt. of Mulctuary.
Mulctuary (a.) Imposing a pecuniary penalty; consisting of, or paid as, a fine.
Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments. -- Sir W. Temple.
Mule-jenny (n.) See Mule, 4.
Mule (n.) (Zool.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.
Note: Mules are much used as draught animals. They are hardy, and proverbial for stubbornness.
Mule (n.) (Bot.) 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 (n.) A slipper that has no fitting around the heel.
Syn: mules, scuff, scuffs.
Mule armadillo (Zool.), A long-eared armadillo (Tatusia hybrida), native of Buenos Ayres; -- called also mulita.
See Illust. under Armadillo.
Mule deer (Zool.), A large deer ({Cervus macrotis"> Mule deer (Zool.), a large deer ({Cervus macrotis syn. Cariacus macrotis) of the Western United States. The name refers to its long ears.
Mule pulley (Mach.), An idle pulley for guiding a belt which transmits motion between shafts that are not parallel.
Mule twist, () Cotton yarn in cops, as spun on a mule; -- in distinction from yarn spun on a throstle frame.
Mule (n.) Hybrid offspring of a male donkey and a female horse; usually sterile.
Mule (n.) A slipper that has no fitting around the heel [syn: mule, scuff].
MULE, () MULtilingual Enhancement of GNU EMACS (EMACS, GNU)
Mule, () A multi-lingual enhancement of GNU Emacs. Mule can handle not only ASCII characters (7 bit) and ISO Latin 1 characters (8 bit), but also 16-bit characters like Japanese, Chinese, and Korean. Mule can have a mixture of languages in a single buffer.
Mule runs under the X window system, or on a Hangul terminal, mterm or exterm. (1996-01-28)
Mule, () (Heb. pered), so called from the quick step of the animal or its power of carrying loads. It is not probable that the Hebrews bred mules, as this was strictly forbidden in the law (Lev. 19:19), although their use was not forbidden. We find them in common use even by kings and nobles (2 Sam. 18:9; 1 Kings 1:33; 2 Kings 5:17; Ps. 32:9). They are not mentioned, however, till the time of David, for the word rendered "mules" (R.V. correctly, "hot springs") in Gen. 36:24 (yemim) properly denotes the warm springs of Callirhoe, on the eastern shore of the Dead Sea. In David's reign they became very common (2 Sam. 13:29; 1 Kings 10:25).
Mules are not mentioned in the New Testament. Perhaps they had by that time ceased to be used in Palestine.
Muleteer (n.) One who drives mules.
Muleteer (n.) A worker who drives mules [syn: muleteer, mule skinner, mule driver, skinner].
Mulewort (n.) (Bot.) A fern of the genus Hemionitis.
Compare: Hemionitis
Hemionitis (n.) 銅星蕨屬（學名：Hemionitis）也稱澤瀉蕨屬，為鳳尾蕨科的一屬植物。Hemionitis is a genus of ferns in the subfamily Cheilanthoideae of the family Pteridaceae. [1] Its circumscription varies greatly in different systems of fern classification. In the Pteridophyte Phylogeny Group classification of 2016 (PPG I), it was one of more than 20 genera in the subfamily Cheilanthoideae, and was said to have five species. [1] Other sources treat it as the only genus in the subfamily, and so accept about 450 species. [2] With the restricted circumscription, species are native to tropical America. [1]
Muley (n.) See Mulley.
Muley (n.) (Sawmills) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate.
Muley axle (Railroad), A car axle without collars at the outer ends of the journals. -- Forney.
Mulley, 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. [U. S.] [Written also muley.] mulligan
Muliebrity (n.) 女人的身分；女人之性格；【喻】溫柔 The state of being a woman or of possessing full womanly powers; womanhood; -- correlate of virility.
Muliebrity (n.) Hence: Effeminancy; softness.
Muliebrity (n.) The state of being an adult woman [syn: womanhood, muliebrity].
Muliebrity (n.) The trait of behaving in ways considered typical for women [syn: femininity, muliebrity] [ant: masculinity].
Mulier (n.) A woman.
Mulier (n.) (Law) Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.
Mulier (n.) (Law) (Civ. Law) A woman; a wife; a mother. -- Blount. -- Cowell.
Mulier. () A woman, a wife; sometimes it is used to designate a marriageable virgin, and in other cases the word mulier is employed in opposition to virgo. Poth. Pand. tom. 22, h.t. In its most proper signification, it means a wife.
Mulier. () A son or a daughter, born of a lawful wife, is called filius mulieratus or filia mulierata, a son mulier, or a daughter mulier. The term is used always in contradistinction to a bastard; mulier being always legitimate. Co. Litt. 243.
Mulier. () When a man has a bastard son, and afterwards marries the mother, and has by her another son, the latter is called the mulier puisne. 2 Bl. Com. 248.
Mulierly (adv.) In the manner or condition of a mulier; in wedlock; legitimately. [Obs.]
Mulierose (a.) Fond of woman. [R.] -- Charles Reade.
Mulierosity (n.) A fondness for women. [R.] -- Dr. H. More.
Mulierty (n.) (Law) Condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock.
Mulish (a.) Like a mule; sullen; stubborn. -- Mul"ish*ly, adv. -- Mul"ish*ness, n.
Mulish (a.) Unreasonably rigid in the face of argument or entreaty or attack [syn: hardheaded, mulish].
Mull (n.) A thin, soft kind of muslin.
Mull (n.) A promontory; as, the Mull of Cantyre. [Scot.]
Mull (n.) A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.
Mull (n.) Dirt; rubbish. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Mull (v. t.) To powder; to pulverize. [Prov. Eng.]
Mull (v. i.) To work (over) mentally; to cogitate; to ruminate; -- usually with over; as, to mull over a thought or a problem. [Colloq. U.S.]
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.
New cider, mulled with ginger warm. -- Gay.
Mull (v. t.) To dispirit or deaden; to dull or blunt. -- Shak. Mulla
Mull (n.) A term used in Scottish names of promontories; "the Mull of Kintyre."
Mull (n.) An island in western Scotland in the Inner Hebrides.
Mull (v.) Reflect deeply on a subject; "I mulled over the events of the afternoon"; "philosophers have speculated on the question of God for thousands of years"; "The scientist must stop to observe and start to excogitate" [syn: chew over, think over, meditate, ponder, excogitate, contemplate, muse, reflect, mull, mull over, ruminate, speculate].
Mull (v.) Heat with sugar and spices to make a hot drink; "mulled cider.”
Mulla (n.) Same as Mollah.
Mulla (n.) A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque [syn: Mullah, Mollah, Mulla].
Mullagatawny (n.) An East Indian curry soup.
Compare: Mollah
Mollah (n.) One of the higher order of Turkish; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man. [Written also mullah and moolah.]
Mollah (n.) A title of respect used in Islamic countries for one who is learned in Islamic law; a teacher or expounder of Islamic law.
Mullah (n.) See Mollah.
Mullah (n.) A Muslim trained in the doctrine and law of Islam; the head of a mosque [syn: Mullah, Mollah, Mulla].
Mullar (n.) A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.
Mullein (n.) (Bot.) 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.
Moth
mullein. See under Moth.
Mullein foxglove, An American herb ({Seymeria macrophylla">
Mullein foxglove, an American herb ({Seymeria macrophylla) with
coarse leaves and yellow tubular flowers with a spreading border.
Petty mullein, The cowslip. -- Dr. Prior.
Mullein (n.) Any of various plants of the genus Verbascum having large usually woolly leaves and terminal spikes of yellow or white or purplish flowers [syn: mullein, flannel leaf, velvet plant].
Mullen (n.) (Bot.) See Mullein.
Mullen, NE -- U.S. village in Nebraska
Population (2000): 491
Housing Units (2000): 309
Land area (2000): 0.375445 sq. miles (0.972398 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.375445 sq. miles (0.972398 sq. km)
FIPS code: 33250
Located within: Nebraska (NE), FIPS 31
Location: 42.042480 N, 101.045611 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 69152
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mullen, NE
Mullen
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
Muller (n.) Swiss chemist who synthesized DDT and discovered its use as an insecticide (1899-1965) [syn: Muller, Paul Hermann Muller].
Muller (n.) Swiss physicist who studied superconductivity (born in 1927) [syn: Muller, Karl Alex Muller].
Muller (n.) German physiologist and anatomist (1801-1858) [syn: Muller, Johannes Peter Muller].
Muller (n.) German mathematician and astronomer (1436-1476) [syn: Muller, Johann Muller, Regiomontanus].
Muller (n.) British philologist (born in Germany) who specialized in Sanskrit (1823-1900) [syn: Muller, Max Muller, Friedrich Max Muller].
Muller (n.) United States geneticist who studied the effects of X-rays on genes (1890-1967) [syn: Muller, Hermann Joseph Muller].
Muller (n.) A reflective thinker characterized by quiet contemplation [syn: muser, muller, ponderer, ruminator].
Muller (n.) A heavy tool of stone or iron (usually with a flat base and a handle) that is used to grind and mix material (as grain or drugs or pigments) against a slab of stone [syn: pestle, muller, pounder].
Muller (n.) A vessel in which wine is mulled.
Mullerian (prop. a.) (Anat., Med.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Johannes M["u]ller; as, Mullerian duct; Muellerian tumor; M["u]llerian capsule. M["u]llerian ducts (Anat.), a pair of embryonic ducts which give rise to the genital passages in the female, but disappear in the male.
M["u]llerian fibers (Anat.), The sustentacular or connective-tissue fibers which form the framework of the retina.
Mullet (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) 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 ({Mullus surmulletus) of Southern Europe. The former is the mullet of the Romans. It is noted for the brilliancy of its colors. See Surmullet.
French mullet. See Ladyfish (a).
Mullet (n.) (Her.) 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. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson. Mulley
Mullet (n.) Highly valued lean flesh of marine or freshwater mullet [syn: mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet].
Mullet (n.) Freshwater or coastal food fishes a spindle-shaped body; found worldwide [syn: mullet, grey mullet, gray mullet].
Mullet (n.) Bottom dwelling marine warm water fishes with two barbels on the chin.
Moolley (n.) Same as Mulley. moola
Mulley (n.) Alt. of Moolley.
Moolley (n.) A mulley or polled animal. [U. S.]
Moolley (n.) A cow. [Prov. Eng.; U.S., a child's word.]
Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow. -- Tusser. Mulley
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. [U. S.] [Written also muley.] mulligan
Mulligatawny (n.) See Mullagatawny.
Compare: Mullagatawny
Mullagatawny (n.) An East Indian curry soup.
Mulligatawny (n.) A soup of eastern India that is flavored with curry; prepared with a meat or chicken base.
Mulligrubs (n.) A griping of the intestines; colic. [Slang]
Whose dog lies sick of the mulligrubs? -- Beau. & Fl.
Mulligrubs (n.) Hence, sullenness; the sulks. [Slang]