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

Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.

Destitute of acid properties; hence, basic; metallic; positive; -- said of certain atoms and radicals.

Lack of coincidence.

Not coincident.

Characterized by the absence of a decidua; indeciduate.

opposed to Asia; now, also, the Western hemisphere. Chaucer. I may wander from east to occident. Shak.

Of, pertaining to, or situated in, the occident, or west; western; -- opposed to oriental; as, occidental climates, or customs; an occidental planet.

Western Christians of the Latin rite. See Orientals. Shipley.

Western; occidental. [R.] Blount.

A genus of tropical orchidaceous plants, the flower of one species of which (O. Papilio) resembles a butterfly.

See Oxyacid.

An acid containing oxygen, as chloric acid or sulphuric acid; - - contrasted with the hydracids, which contain no oxygen, as hydrochloric acid. See Acid, and Hydroxy-.

Anything used to destroy parasites. Quain.

One who kills one's own parent; a parricide. [R.]

Of or pertaining to parricide; guilty of parricide.

Properly, one who murders one's own father; in a wider sense, one who murders one's father or mother or any ancestor.

Parricidal. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

The crime of one who murders his father. Same as Parricide.