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The mistletoe. [Obs.] Baret.

Misstep; misbehavior. "To punish my mistreadings." Shak.

Disagreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

The state of being moldy.

or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or retreating, one beyond another. See Cable, n., 3, and Crenelated molding, under Crenelate, v. t.…

Resembling the sails of a windmill.

The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.

A yellow dyestuff extracted from the root bark of an East Indian plant (Morinda citrifolia).

A yellowish white, amorphous, nitrogenous substance found in wheat, rye, etc., and resembling gluten; -- formerly called also mucin.

quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

Multitudinous.

Consisting of a multitude; manifold in number or condition; as, multitudinous waves. "The multitudinous seas." Shak. A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains. G. Kennan.

See Muscardin. Northern muscadine (Bot.), a derivative of the northern fox grape, and scarcely an improvement upon it. -- Royal muscadine (Bot.), a European grape of great value. Its berries are large, round, and of a pale amber color. Called also golden chasselas.

The common European dormouse; -- so named from its odor. [Written also muscadine.]

A disease which is very destructive to silkworms, and which sometimes extends to other insects. It is attended by the development of a fungus (provisionally called Botrytis bassiana). Also, the fungus itself.

The art of making discriminations between objects of choice, of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular contact.

Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle.

A substance, present in the protoplasm of the retinal epithelium cells, and resembling, if not identical with, the substance (myelin) forming the medullary sheaths of nerve fibers.

An African carnivore (Nandinia binotata), allied to the civets. It is spotted with black.

Same as Naphthylamine.