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Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.

See Mustaiba.

May; must; might. He moot as well say one word as another Chaucer. The wordes mote be cousin to the deed. Chaucer. Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore freres. Chaucer. So mote it be, so be it; amen; -- a phrase in some rituals, as that of the Freemasons.

Mustache.

confound. The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped. Ps. lxiii. 11. Whose mouths must be stopped. Titus i. 11.

Musty; moldy; slimy; mucous. -- Mu"cid*ness, n.

Exhibition or representation of the muscles. [R.] A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery. Shaftesbury.

A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

A thing which is to be changed; something which must be altered; -- used chiefly in the plural.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, mustard; -- used specifically to designate a glucoside called myronic acid, found in mustard seed.

A ferment, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds.

Of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache.

Scrutinizing in detail; close; accurate; exact. But first with narrow search I must walk round This garden, and no corner leave unspied. Milton.

Such as must be; impossible to be otherwise; not to be avoided; inevitable. Death, a necessary end, Will come when it will come. Shak.

Of necessity; necessarily; indispensably; -- often with must, and equivalent to of need. A man must needs love mauger his head. Chaucer. And he must needs go through Samaria. John iv. 4. He would needs know the cause of his reulse. Sir J. Davies.

An act or instance of negligence or carelessness. remarking his beauties, ... I must also point out his negligences and defects. Blair.

to touch rightly; to strike at the precise point or time. The just season of doing things must be nicked, and all accidents improved. L'Estrange.

ing, biting, or cutting with two meeting edges of anything; to clip. The small shoots ... must be nipped off. Mortimer.

ion is made; the central or material portion; -- used both literally and figuratively. It must contain within itself a nucleus of truth. I. Taylor.

t which is required by authority; subjection to rightful restraint or control. Government must compel the obedience of individuals. Ames.