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Musculation.

A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.

See Syntonin.

Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve.

Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm; as, the musculophrenic artery.

The quality or state of being musculous; muscularity. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied esp. to a large nerve of the arm.

Muscular. [Obs.] Jonhson.

n a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. Find a hare without a muse. Old Prov.

Meditative; thoughtfully silent. "Museful mopings." Dryden. -- Muse"ful*ly, adv.

Unregardful of the Muses; disregarding the power of poetry; unpoetical. Milton.

One who muses.

A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse. Shak.

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

tory or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art. Museum beetle, Museum pest. (Zoöl.) See Anthrenus.

Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [U.S.]

Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.

ng a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.

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

The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i.e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to e…