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. [Obs.]
Multisect (a.) (Zool.) Divided into many similar segments; -- said of an insect or myriapod.
Multiseptate (a.) (Bot.) Divided into many chambers by partitions, as the pith of the pokeweed.
Multiserial (a.) (Bot.) Arranged in many rows, or series, as the scales of a pine cone, or the leaves of the houseleek.
Multisiliquous (a.) (Bot.) Having many pods or seed vessels.
Multisonous (a.) Having many sounds, or sounding much.
Multispiral (a.) (Zool.) 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. [R.] -- Mul`ti*syl*lab"ic, a.
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.
But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them. -- Matt. ix. 36.
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.
It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues. -- I. Watts.
A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high. -- Longfellow.
Multitude (n.) The state of being many; numerousness.
They came as grasshoppers for multitude. -- Judg. v. i. 5.
The multitude, the populace; the mass of men.
Syn: Throng; crowd; assembly; assemblage; commonalty; swarm; populace; vulgar. See Throng.
Multitude (n.) A large indefinite number; "a battalion of ants"; "a multitude of TV antennas"; "a plurality of religions" [syn: battalion, large number, multitude, plurality, pack].
Multitude (n.) A large gathering of people [syn: multitude, throng, concourse].
Multitude (n.) The common people generally; "separate the warriors from the mass"; "power to the people" [syn: multitude, masses, mass, hoi polloi, people, the great unwashed].
Multitude, () The meaning of this word is not very certain. By some it is said that to make a multitude there must be ten persons at least, while others contend that the law has not fixed any number. Co. Litt. 257.
Multitude, (n.) A crowd; the source of political wisdom and virtue. In a republic, the object of the statesman's adoration. "In a multitude of counsellors there is wisdom," saith the proverb. If many men of equal individual wisdom are wiser than any one of them, it must be that they acquire the excess of wisdom by the mere act of getting together. Whence comes it? Obviously from nowhere -- as well say that a range of mountains is higher than the single mountains composing it. A multitude is as wise as its wisest member if it obey him; if not, it is no wiser than its most foolish.
Multitudinary (a.) Multitudinous.
Multitudinous (a.) Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves. "The multitudinous seas." -- Shak.
A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. -- G. Kennan.
Multitudinous (a.) Of or pertaining to a multitude. "The multitudinous tongue." -- Shak. -- Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ly, adv. -- Mul`ti*tu"di*nous*ness, n. Multivagant
Multitudinous (a.) Too numerous to be counted; "incalculable riches"; "countless hours"; "an infinite number of reasons"; "innumerable difficulties"; "the multitudinous seas"; "myriad stars"; "untold thousands" [syn: countless, infinite, innumerable, innumerous, multitudinous, myriad, numberless, uncounted, unnumberable, unnumbered, unnumerable].
Multivagant (a.) Alt. of Multivagous
Multivagous (a.) Wandering much. [Obs.]
Multivalence (n.) (Chem.) Quality, state, or degree, of a multivalent element, atom, or radical.
Multivalence (n.) (Chemistry) The state of having a valence greater than two [syn: polyvalence, polyvalency, multivalence,
multivalency]
Multivalent (a.) (Chem.) Having a valence greater than one, as silicon.
Multivalent (a.) (Chem.) Having more than one degree of valence, as sulphur.
Multivalent (a.) (Immunology) Having multiple antigen-binding sites; -- of antibody molecules.
Multivalent (a.) (Immunology) Containing several types of antibody, to protect against more than one disease; polyvalent; -- of vaccines.
Multivalent (a.) Used of the association of three or more homologous chromosomes during the first division of meiosis [ant: bivalent, double, univalent].
Multivalent (a.) Having more than one valence, or having a valence of 3 or higher [syn: polyvalent, multivalent] [ant: monovalent, univalent].
Multivalent (a.) Having many values, meanings, or appeals; "subtle, multivalent allegory" [syn: multivalent, multi-valued].
Multivalve (n.) Any mollusk which has a shell composed of more than two pieces. Multivalve
Multivalve (a.) Alt. of Multivalvular
Multivalvular (a.) Having many valves.
Multivalvular (a.) (Zool.) 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. [Obs.]
Multivocal (a.) Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." -- Coleridge.
Multivocal (n.) A multivocal word. [R.] -- Fitzed. Hall.
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. -- Craig.
Hard multum, a preparation made from Cocculus Indicus, etc., used to impart an intoxicating quality to beer.
Multungulate (a.) Having many hoofs.
Multure (n.) (Scots Law) The toll for grinding grain. -- Erskine.
Multure (n.) A grist or grinding; the grain ground.
Multure, () Scotch law. The quantity of grain or meal payable to the proprietor of the mill, or to the multurer, his tacksman, for manufacturing the corns. Ersk. Prin. Laws of Scotl. B. 2 t. 9, n. 19.
Mum (a.) Silent; not speaking ; as, to keep mum. -- Thackeray.
The citizens are mum, and speak not a word. -- Shak.
Mum's the word, Keep this a secret; don't tell anybody.
Mum (interj.) Be silent! Hush!
Mum, then, and no more. -- Shak.
Mum (n.) Silence. [R.] -- Hudibras.
Mum (n.) A sort of strong
beer, originally made in
The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum. -- Pope.
Mum (a.) Failing to speak or communicate etc when expected to; "the witness remained silent" [syn: mum, silent].
Mum (n.) Of China [syn: florist's chrysanthemum, florists' chrysanthemum, mum, Dendranthema grandifloruom, Chrysanthemum morifolium].
Mum (n.) Informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy]
Mum (n.) Secrecy; "mum's the word".
Mumbled (imp. & p. p.) of Mumble
Mumbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mumble
Mumble (v. t.) To utter with a low, inarticulate voice. -- Bp. Hall.
Mumble (v. t.) To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth.
Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain. -- Dryden.
Mumble (v. t.) To suppress, or utter imperfectly. Mumbledy peg
Mumble (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Mumbled; p. pr. & vb. n. Mumbling.] 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.
Peace, you mumbling fool. -- Shak.
A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself. -- Otway.
Mumble (v. t.) To chew something gently with closed lips.
Mumble (n.) A soft indistinct utterance
Mumble (v.) Talk indistinctly; usually in a low voice [syn: mumble, mutter, maunder, mussitate].
Mumble (v.) Grind with the gums; chew without teeth and with great difficulty; "the old man had no teeth left and mumbled his food" [syn: mumble, gum].
Mumble (interj.) Said when the correct response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it out. Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to get into a long discussion. ? Don't you think that we could improve LISP performance by using a hybrid reference-count transaction garbage collector, if the cache is big enough and there are some extra cache bits for the microcode to use?? ?Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about it.?
Mumble (interj.) [MIT] Expression of not-quite-articulated agreement, often used as an informal vote of consensus in a meeting: ?So, shall we dike out the COBOL emulation?? ?Mumble!?
Mumble (interj.) Sometimes used as an expression of disagreement (distinguished from {VAX">sense 2 by tone of voice and other cues). ?I think we should buy a {VAX. ? ?Mumble!? Common variant: mumble frotz (see frotz; interestingly, one does not say ?mumble frobnitz? even though ?frotz? is short for ?frobnitz?).
Mumble (interj.) Yet another metasyntactic variable, like foo.
Mumble (interj.) When used as a question (?Mumble??) means ?I didn't understand you?.
Mumble (interj.) Sometimes used in ?public? contexts on-line as a placefiller for things one is barred from giving details about. For example, a poster with pre-released hardware in his machine might say ?Yup, my machine now has an extra 16M of memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for Mumbleco.?
Mumble, (interj.) A conversational wild card used to designate something one doesn't want to bother spelling out, but which can be glarked from context. Compare {blurgle.}
Mumble, (interj.) [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further discussion would be fruitless.
Mumble , () Said when the correct
response is too complicated to enunciate, or the speaker has not thought it
out. Often prefaces a longer answer, or indicates a general reluctance to
get into a long discussion. "Don't you think that we could improve
LISP performance by using a hybrid reference-count transaction garbage collector,
if the cache is big enough and there are some extra cache bits for the
microcode to use?" "Well, mumble ... I'll have to think about
it."
Mumble , () Yet another metasyntactic variable, like foo.
Mumble , () Sometimes used in "public" contexts on-line as a placefiller for things one is barred from giving details about. For example, a poster with pre-released hardware in his machine might say "Yup, my machine now has an extra 16M of memory, thanks to the card I'm testing for Mumbleco."
Mumble , () A conversational wild card used to designate something one doesn't want to bother spelling out, but which can be glarked from context. Compare blurgle.
Mumble , () [XEROX PARC] A colloquialism used to suggest that further discussion would be fruitless. (1997-03-27)
Mumblenews (n.) A talebearer. [Obs.]
Mumbler (n.) One who mumbles.
Mumbler (n.) A person who speaks softly and indistinctly [syn: mutterer, mumbler, murmurer].
Mumbling (a.) Low; indistinct; inarticulate. -- Mum"bling*ly, adv.
Mumbling (n.) Indistinct enunciation.
Mumbling (n.) Ineffectual chewing (as if without teeth) [syn: mumbling, gumming].
Mumbo Jumbo (n.) Among the Mandingos of the western Sudan, a bugbear by means of which the women are terrified and disciplined by societies of the men, one of whom assumes a masquerade for the purpose; hence, loosely, any Negro idol, fetish, or bugaboo.
Mumbo Jumbo (n.) An object of superstitious homage and fear. -- Carlyle.
Mumbo Jumbo (n.) Incomprehensible or senseless language, usually intended to avoid answering plainly, confuse a listener, or obscure an issue.
Mumbo Jumbo (n.) Language so arcane or obscure as to be unintelligible to the listener.
Mumbo jumbo (n.) Language or ritual causing, or intending to cause, confusion.
Mum-chance (n.) A game of hazard played with cards in silence. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] -- Decker.
Mum-chance (n.) A silent, stupid person. [Prov. Eng.] -- Halliwell.
Mum-chance (a.) Silent and idle. [Colloq.]
Boys can't sit mum-chance always. -- J. H. Ewing.
Mu-meson, mu meson (n.)
(Physics) an elementary particle with a negative charge and a half-life of 2
microseconds; the muon. It is a lepton, not a true meson, and decays to an
electron and neutrino and antineutrino.
Syn: muon, negative muon.
Mu-meson (n.) An elementary particle with a negative charge and a half- life of 2 microsecond; decays to electron and neutrino and antineutrino [syn: muon, negative muon, mu-meson].
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.
With mumming and with masking all around. -- Spenser.
Mummer (n.) One who mumms, or makes diversion in disguise; a masker; a buffon.
Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers. -- Milton.
Mummer (n.) An actor who communicates entirely by gesture and facial expression [syn: mime, mimer, mummer, pantomimer, pantomimist].
Mummeries (n. pl. ) of Mummery
Mummery (n.) Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery.
The mummery of foreign strollers. -- Fenton.
Mummery (n.) Farcical show; hypocritical disguise and parade or ceremonies. -- Bacon.
Compare: Minnow
Minnow (n.) [Written also minow.] (Zool.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish ({Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; -- called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
Minnow (n.) (Zool.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.
Mummichog (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]
Mummichog (n.) Silver-and-black killifish of saltwater marshes along the Atlantic coast of the United States [syn: mummichog, Fundulus heteroclitus].
Mummification (n.) The act of making a mummy.
Mummification (n.) A condition resembling that of a mummy; "bureaucratic mummification in red tape".
Mummification (n.) (Pathology) Gangrene that develops in the presence of arterial obstruction and is characterized by dryness of the dead tissue and a dark brown color [syn: dry gangrene, cold gangrene, mumification necrosis, mummification].
Mummification (n.) Embalmment and drying a dead body and wrapping it as 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. -- Hall (1646).
Mummify (v. i.) To turn into a mummy-like corpse; to dry up with unusually little decomposition; -- said of dead animals; as, A mummified body was found in the attic.
Mummify (v.) Preserve while making lifeless; "mummified ideas and institutions should be gotten rid of".
Mummify (v.) Remove the organs and dry out (a dead body) in order to preserve it; "Th Egyptians mummified their pharaohs".
Mummify (v.) Dry up and shrivel due to complete loss of moisture; "a mummified body was found" [syn: {mummify}, {dry up}].
Mummies (n. 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. -- Bacon.
Mummy (n.) Dried flesh of a mummy. [Obs.] -- Sir. J. Hill.
Mummy (n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties. [Obs.] -- Shak. -- Sir T. Herbert.
Mummy (n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).
Mummy (n.) (Gardening) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.
Mummy (n.) One whose affections and energies are withered.
Mummy brown, A brown color, nearly intermediate in tint between burnt umber and raw umber. A pigment of this color is prepared from bitumen, etc., obtained from Egyptian tombs.
Mummy wheat (Bot.), Wheat found in the ancient mummy cases of Egypt. No botanist now believes that genuine mummy wheat has been made to germinate in modern times.
To beat to a mummy, To beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.
Mummied (imp. & p. p.) of Mummy
Mummying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mummy
Mummy (v. t.) To embalm; to mummify.
Mummy (n.) Informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy].
Mummy (n.) A body embalmed and dried and wrapped for burial (as in ancient Egypt).
Mummy (n.) An ancient Egyptian, formerly in universal use among modern civilized nations as medicine, and now engaged in supplying art with an excellent pigment. He is handy, too, in museums in gratifying the vulgar curiosity that serves to distinguish man from the lower animals.
By means of the Mummy, mankind, it is said, Attests to the gods its respect for the dead.
We plunder his tomb, be he sinner or saint, Distil him for physic and grind him for paint, Exhibit for money his poor, shrunken frame, And with levity flock to the scene of the shame.
O, tell me, ye gods, for the use of my rhyme: For respecting the dead what's the limit of time? Scopas Brune
Mummichog (n.) [Amer. Indian name.] (Zool.) Any one of several species of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]
Mummychog (n.) (Zool.) See Mummichog.
Mump (v. i.) To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.
He mumps, and lovers, and hangs the lip. -- Taylor, 1630.
Mump (v. i.) To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.
Mump (v. i.) To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.
And then when mumping with a sore leg, . . . canting and whining. -- Burke.
Mump (v. i.) To be sullen or sulky. [Prov. Eng.]
Mumped (imp. & p. p.) of Mump
Mumping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mump
Mump (v. t.) To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.
Old men who mump their passion. -- Goldsmith.
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.
Deceived by the tales of a Lincoln's Inn mumper. -- Macaulay.
Mumpish (a.) Sullen, sulky. -- Mump"ish*ly, adv. -- Mump"ish*ness, n.
Mumps (n.) pl. Sullenness; silent displeasure; the sulks. -- Skinner.
Mumps (n.) (Med.) A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands, and sometimes causing inflammation of the testes or ovaries; also called epidemic parotitis or infectious parotitis. It is caused by infection with a paramyxovirus.
Mumps (n.) An acute contagious viral disease characterized by fever and by swelling of the parotid glands [syn: mumps,
epidemic parotitis].
MUMPS, () Massachusetts general hospital Utility Multi-Programming System
MUMPS, () Multi-User Multi-Programming System ??? (OS, DEC)
Mumpsimus (n.) 對擺明不合理的傳統習俗的莫名堅持的人、事、物；知過不改 A traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable; "he still holds to the old mumpsimus that a woman's place is in the kitchen".
Mun (n.) The mouth. [Obs.]
One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns. -- Old Rhyme. -- Halliwell.
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. [Formerly written also maunch and mounch.]
I could munch your good dry oats. -- Shak.
Munch (n.) Norwegian painter (1863-1944) [syn: Munch, Edvard Munch].
Munch (n.) A large bite; "he tried to talk between munches on the sandwich".
Munch (v.) Chew noisily; "The children crunched the celery sticks" [syn: crunch, munch].
Munch (v. t.) [often confused with mung, q.v.] To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation. To trace down a data structure. Related to crunch and nearly synonymous with grovel, but connotes less pain.
Munch, () To transform information in a serial fashion, often requiring large amounts of computation. To trace down a data structure.
Related to crunch and nearly synonymous with grovel, but connotes less pain.
Often confused with mung. [{Jargon File] (1995-01-10)
Munchausenism (n.) An extravagant fiction embodying an account of some marvelous exploit or adventure.