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at by which one thing is attached to another; connection; as, to cut the attachments of a muscle. The human mind . . . has exhausted its forces in the endeavor to rend the supernatural from its attachment to this history. I. Taylor.

Lifting up; raising; as, an attollent muscle. Derham.

Odd; having no fellow; not one of a pair; single; as, the azygous muscle of the uvula.

The byssus of certain shellfish, as the muscle.

e human belly in protuberance or in cavity; the innermost part; as, the belly of a flask, muscle, sail, ship. Out of the belly of hell cried I. Jonah ii. 2.

A muscle having two heads or origins; -- applied particularly to a flexor in the arm, and to another in the thigh.

Having two heads or origins, as a muscle.

Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.

ned by prominences called teeth. The shell is closed by the contraction of two transverse muscles attached to the inner surface, as in the clam, -- or by one, as in the oyster. See Mollusca.

(Anat.) Having two bellies or protuberances; as, a biventral, or digastric, muscle, or the biventral lobe of the cerebellum.

A muscle that bends a limb, esp. the arm. [Obs.] His rawbone arms, whose mighty brawned bowers Were wont to rive steel plates and helmets hew. Spenser. Best bower, Small bower. See the Note under Anchor.

A muscle; flesh. [Obs.] Formed well of brawns and of bones. Chaucer.

Having large, strong muscles; muscular; fleshy; strong. "Brawny limbs." W. Irving.

A muscle of the cheek; -- so called from its use in blowing wind instruments.

Induration of the heart, caused by development of fibrous tissue in the cardiac muscle.

a hydroscopic monobasic acid, C10H15O5N3, obtained as a cleavage product from an acid of muscle tissue.

Of a pertaining to flesh; fleshy. A distinct carnose muscle. Ray.

d condition caused by an overwhelming shock or extreme fear and marked by rigidity of the muscles. -- Cat`a*plec"tic (#), a.

ing rise to severe headaches, tenderness of the back of the neck, paralysis of the ocular muscles, etc. It is sometimes marked by a cutaneous eruption, when it is often called spotted fever. It is not contagious.

A rheumatic affection of the muscles of the breast and fore legs of a horse, affecting motion and respiration.