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The quality or state of being musculous; muscularity. [Obs.]

See Muset.

A speaking in a low tone; mumbling. [Obs.]

A variety of pyroxene, from the Mussa Alp in Piedmont; diopside.

Myotic.

Inflammation of the muscles.

te or quality of being nebulous; cloudiness; hazeness; mistiness; nebulousness. The nebulosity ... of the mother idiom. I. Disraeli.

Of or pertaining to the doctrine of philosophical necessity in regard to the origin and existence of things, especially as applied to the actings or choices of the will; -- opposed to libertarian.

The doctrine of philosophical necessity; the doctrine that results follow by invariable sequence from causes, and esp. that the will is not free, but that human actions and choices result inevitably from motives; deteminism. M. Arnold.

To make necessary or indispensable; to render unaviolable. Sickness [might] necessitate his removal from the court. South. This fact necessitates a second line. J. Peile.

The act of making necessary, or the state of being made necessary; compulsion. [R.] bp. Bramhall.

In a state of want; necessitous. [Obs.] Shak.

Very needy or indigent; pressed with poverty. Necessitous heirs and penurious parents. Arbuthnot.

Necessitousness; want. Sir M. Hale.

The quality or state of being necessary, unavoidable, or absolutely requisite; inevitableness; indispensableness.

The state of being busy; multitude of business. [Obs.]

Nervousness. [R.]

Nitrate of magnesium, a saline efflorescence closely resembling nitrate of calcium.

The quality of being knotty or nodose; resemblance to a node or swelling; knottiness. Holland.

The general plea or denial in an action of assumpsit.