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Having many titles.

Having many tubes; as, a multitubular boiler.

The state of being many; numerousness. They came as grasshoppers for multitude. Judg. vi. 5. The multitude, the populace; the mass of men.

Having many valves.

Turning into many shapes; assuming many forms; protean.

Having many ways or roads; by many ways. [Obs.]

Signifying many different things; of manifold meaning; equivocal. "An ambiguous multivocal word." Coleridge. -- n.

Having many eyes, or more than two.

Having many hoofs.

ungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.

A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation. Magic music, a game in which a person is guided in finding a hidden article, or in doing a specific art required, by music which is made more loud or rapid as he approaches success, and slower as he recedes. Tennyson. -- Music box. See M…

cucubritaceous plant (Cicumis Melo), having a peculiar aromatic flavor, and cultivated in many varieties, the principal sorts being the cantaloupe, of oval form and yellowish flesh, and the smaller nutmeg melon with greenish flesh. See Illust. of Melon.

Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus Mytilus, and related genera, of the family Mytidæ. The common mussel (Mytilus edulis; see Illust. under Byssus), and the larger, or horse, mussel (Modiola modiolus), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used…

An extensive group of rodents which includes the rats, mice, jerboas, and many allied forms.

An immense number; a very great many; an indefinitely large number.

aller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.

or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant (M. molesta), and many others.

A pearly substance which lines the interior of many shells, and is most perfect in the mother-of-pearl. [Written also nacker and naker.] See Pearl, and Mother-of-pearl.

the horny scale of plate of epidermis at the end of the fingers and toes of man and many apes. His nayles like a briddes claws were. Chaucer.

Floating in water, as the leaves of water lilies, or submersed, as those of many aquatic plants.