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.) 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.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.
Muggy (a.) Warm, damp, and close; 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.
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.
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).
Muhammadan (a. & n.) Alt. of Muhammedan.
Muhammedan (a. & n.) Mohammedan.
Muhammadanism (n.) Mohammedanism.
Mulada (n.) A moor.
Mulada (n.) A drove of mules.
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.
Mulattress (n.) A female mulatto.
Mulberries (n. 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.
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.
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.
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.) 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.) 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.
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]