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Impertinently inquisitive; prying; meddlesome. "Mousing saints." L'Estrange.

Mucin. [R.]

In a musing manner.

An albuminous body present in dead muscle, being formed in the process of coagulation which takes place in rigor mortis; the clot formed in the coagulation of muscle plasma. See Muscle plasma, under Plasma.

A ferment, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds.

Of or pertaining to Narcissus.

Sneezing. [Obs.] "By his neesings a light doth shine." Job xli. 18.

The substance constituting the edible bird's nest.

A dark blue dyestuff, of the induline group; -- called also azodiphenyl blue.

The state or quality of being noisy.

Not condensing; discharging the steam from the cylinder at a pressure nearly equal to or above that of the atmosphere and not into a condenser.

That part of the treadboard of a stair which projects over the riser; hence, any like projection, as the projecting edge of a molding.

Supplying or taking nourishment from, or as from, the breast; as, a nursing mother; a nursing infant.

A natural mixture of a terebinthinate oil and a resin.

To surpass in singing.

The act of praising unduly; excessive praise. Milton.

A compound, originally made from gun cotton and castor oil, but later from different materials, and used as a substitute for vulcanized India rubber and for ivory; -- called also xylotile.

The act of one who, or that which, passes; the act of going by or away. Passing bell, a tolling of a bell to announce that a soul is passing, or has passed, from its body (formerly done to invoke prayers for the dying); also, a tolling during the passing of a funeral procession to the grave, or during funeral ceremonie…

Exceedingly. Wyclif.

With pauses; haltingly. Shak.