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- English Word Munition Definition Fortification; stronghold.
- English Word Munition Definition Whatever materials are used in war for defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and provisions; military stores of all kinds.
- English Word Munity Definition Freedom; security; immunity.
- English Word Munjeet Definition See Indian madder, under Madder.
- English Word Munjistin Definition An orange-red coloring substance resembling alizarin, found in the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia munjista).
- English Word Munnerary Definition Having the nature of a gift.
- English Word Munnerate Definition To remunerate.
- English Word Munnion Definition See Mullion.
- English Word Muntin Definition Alt. of Munting
- English Word Munting Definition Same as Mullion; -- especially used in joiner's work.
- English Word Muntjac Definition 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.
- English Word Muntz metal Definition See under Metal.
- English Word Muraena Definition 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.
- English Word Muraenoid Definition Alt. of Murenoid
- English Word Murage Definition A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.
- English Word Mural Definition Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.
- English Word Mural Definition Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural precipice.
- English Word Murder Definition The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
- English Word Murder Definition To kill with premediated malice; to kill (a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.
- English Word Murder Definition To destroy; to put an end to.
- English Word Murder Definition To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
- English Word Murdered Definition of Murder
- English Word Murderer Definition One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.
- English Word Murderer Definition A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of boarders; -- called also murdering piece.
- English Word Murderess Definition A woman who commits murder.
- English Word Murdering Definition of Murder
- English Word Murderment Definition Murder.
- English Word Murderous Definition 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.
- English Word Murdress Definition A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.
- English Word Mure Definition A wall.