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- English Word Muss Definition To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple.
- English Word Muss Definition A term of endearment.
- English Word Mussed Definition of Muss
- English Word Mussel Definition 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.
- English Word Mussel Definition Any one of numerous species of Unio, and related fresh-water genera; -- called also river mussel. See Naiad, and Unio.
- English Word Mussing Definition of Muss
- English Word Mussitation Definition A speaking in a low tone; mumbling.
- English Word Mussite Definition A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside.
- English Word Mussulman Definition A Mohammedan; a Moslem.
- English Word Mussulmanic Definition Of, pertaining to, or like, the Mussulmans, or their customs: Mohammedan.
- English Word Mussulmanish Definition Mohammedan.
- English Word Mussulmanism Definition Mohammedanism.
- English Word Mussulmanly Definition In the manner of Moslems.
- English Word Mussulmans Definition of Mussulman
- English Word Mussy Definition Disarranged; rumpled.
- English Word Must Definition 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.
- English Word Must Definition 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.
- English Word Must Definition The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.
- English Word Must Definition Mustiness.
- English Word Must Definition To make musty; to become musty.
- English Word Mustac Definition A small tufted monkey.
- English Word Mustache Definition That part of the beard which grows on the upper lip; hair left growing above the mouth.
- English Word Mustache Definition A West African monkey (Cercopithecus cephus). It has yellow whiskers, and a triangular blue mark on the nose.
- English Word Mustache Definition Any conspicuous stripe of color on the side of the head, beneath the eye of a bird.
- English Word Mustaches Definition of Mustache
- English Word Mustachios Definition of Mustacho
- English Word Mustacho Definition A mustache.
- English Word Mustachoed Definition Having mustachios.
- English Word Mustaiba Definition A close-grained, neavy wood of a brownish color, brought from Brazil, and used in turning, for making the handles of tools, and the like.
- English Word Mustang Definition The half-wild horse of the plains in Mexico, California, etc. It is small, hardy, and easily sustained.