Muse (n.) To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate.
Muse (n.) To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study.
Muse (n.) To wonder.
Muse (v. t.) To think on; to meditate on.
Muse (v. t.) To wonder at.
Muse (n.) Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study.
Muse (n.) Wonder, or admiration.
Museful (a.) Meditative; thoughtfully silent.
Museless (a.) Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical.
Muser (n.) One who muses.
Muset (n.) A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.
Musette (n.) A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.
Musette (n.) An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.
Museum (n.) A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
Mush (n.) Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
Mush (v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
Mushroom (n.) An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.
Mushroom (n.) Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.
Mushroom (n.) One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
Mushroom (a.) Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.
Mushroom (a.) Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.
Mushroom-headed (a.) Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.
Mushy (a.) Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.
Music (n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
Music (n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
Music (n.) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
Music (n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
Music (n.) Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
Music (n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.
Musical (a.) Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons.
Musical (n.) Music.
Musical (n.) A social entertainment of which music is the leading feature; a musical party.
Musicale (n.) A social musical party.
Musically (adv.) In a musical manner.
Musicalness (n.) The quality of being musical.
Musician (n.) One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.
Musicomania (n.) A kind of monomania in which the passion for music becomes so strong as to derange the intellectual faculties.
Musimon (n.) See Mouflon.
Musingly (adv.) In a musing manner.
Musit (n.) See Muset.
Musk (n.) A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.
Musk (n.) The musk deer. See Musk deer (below).
Musk (n.) The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.
Musk (n.) The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).
Musk (n.) A plant of the genus Erodium (E. moschatum); -- called also musky heron's-bill.
Musk (n.) A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.
Musk (v. t.) To perfume with musk.
Muskadel (n.) See Muscadel.
Muskat (n.) See Muscat.
Muskellunge (n.) A large American pike (Esox nobilitor) found in the Great Lakes, and other Northern lakes, and in the St. Lawrence River. It is valued as a food fish.
Musket (n.) The male of the sparrow hawk.
Musket (n.) A species of firearm formerly carried by the infantry of an army. It was originally fired by means of a match, or matchlock, for which several mechanical appliances (including the flintlock, and finally the percussion lock) were successively substituted. This arm has been generally superseded by the rifle.
Musketeer (n.) A soldier armed with a musket.
Musketo (n.) See Mosquito.
Musketoon (n.) A short musket.
Musketoon (n.) One who is armed with such a musket.
Musketry (n.) Muskets, collectively.
Musketry (n.) The fire of muskets.
Muskiness (n.) The quality or state of being musky; the scent of musk.
Muskmelon (n.) The fruit of a cucubritaceous plant (Cicumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon.
Muskogees (n. pl.) A powerful tribe of North American Indians that formerly occupied the region of Georgia, Florida, and Alabama. They constituted a large part of the Creek confederacy.
Muskrat (n.) A North American aquatic fur-bearing rodent (Fiber zibethicus). It resembles a rat in color and having a long scaly tail, but the tail is compressed, the bind feet are webbed, and the ears are concealed in the fur. It has scent glands which secrete a substance having a strong odor of musk. Called also musquash, musk beaver, and ondatra.
Muskrat (n.) The musk shrew.
Muskrat (n.) The desman.
Muskwood (n.) The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).
Muskwood (n.) The wood of an Australian tree (Eurybia argophylla).
Musky (a.) Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like.
Muslim (n.) See Moslem.
Muslin (n.) A thin cotton, white, dyed, or printed. The name is also applied to coarser and heavier cotton goods; as, shirting and sheeting muslins.
Muslinet (n.) A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.
Musmon (n.) See Mouflon.
Musomania (n.) See Musicomania.
Musquash (n.) See Muskrat.
Musquaw (n.) The American black bear. See Bear.
Musquet (n.) See Musket.
Musquito (n.) See Mosquito.
Musrole (n.) Alt. of Musrol
Musrol (n.) The nose band of a horse's bridle.
Muss (n.) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.
Muss (n.) A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble.
Mussed (imp. & p. p.) of Muss
Mussing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Muss
Muss (v. t.) To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple.
Muss (n.) A term of endearment.
Mussel (n.) Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidae. The common mussel (Mytilus edulis; see Illust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel (Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as food in Europe.
Mussel (n.) Any one of numerous species of Unio, and related fresh-water genera; -- called also river mussel. See Naiad, and Unio.
Mussitation (n.) A speaking in a low tone; mumbling.
Mussite (n.) A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside.
Mussulmans (pl. ) of Mussulman
Mussulman (n.) A Mohammedan; a Moslem.
Mussulmanic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or like, the Mussulmans, or their customs: Mohammedan.
Mussulmanish (a.) Mohammedan.
Mussulmanism (n.) Mohammedanism.
Mussulmanly (adv.) In the manner of Moslems.
Mussy (a.) Disarranged; rumpled.
Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
Must (v. i. / auxiliary) To be morally required; to be necessary or essential to a certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane.
Must (n.) The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.
Must (n.) Mustiness.
Must (v. t. & i.) To make musty; to become musty.