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A thin, soft kind of muslin.

A fine, soft muslin; mull.

A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.

Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. G. Eliot.

an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.

Soft; sticky, and dirty. [Prov. Eng.] See Mucky.

A genus of bivalve mollusks, including the common long, or soft-shelled, clam.

A soft white substance constituting the medullary sheats of nerve fibers, and composed mainly of cholesterin, lecithin, cerebrin, albumin, and some fat.

Having a quality imparted by means of the nose; and specifically, made by lowering the soft palate, in some cases with closure of the oral passage, the voice thus issuing (wholly or partially) through the nose, as in the consonants m, n, ng (see Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nas…

's-foot, an oil obtained by boiling the feet of neat cattle. It is used to render leather soft and pliable.

Soft; tender; delicate. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]

A kind of soft sweet-milk cheese; -- so called from Neufchâtel- en-Bray in France.

king), a small opening in a furnace, before which a globe of crown glass is held and kept soft at the beginning of the flattening process. -- Nose key (Carp.), a fox wedge. -- Nose leaf (Zoöl.), a thin, broad, membranous fold of skin on the nose of many species of bats. It varies greatly in size and form. -- Nose of…

An incipient ovule of soft cellular tissue.

n the mud. And nuzzling in his flank, the loving swine Sheathed, unaware, the tusk in his soft groin. Shak. He charged through an army of lawyers, sometimes . . . nuzzling like an eel in the mud. Arbuthnot.

That which serves to anoint; any soft unctuous substance used for smearing or anointing; an unguent.

A soft ointment prepared from oil. Dunglison.

Soft mud or slime; earth so wet as to flow gently, or easily yield to pressure. "My son i' the ooze is bedded." Shak.

sheep and calf skins by mechanically forcing ooze through them; esp., such leather with a soft, finely granulated finish (called sometimes velvet finish) put on the flesh side for special purposes. Ordinary ooze leather is used for shoe uppers, in bookbinding, etc. Hence Ooze calf, Ooze finish, etc.…

Miry; containing soft mud; resembling ooze; as, the oozy bed of a river. Pope.