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To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

One who, or that which, mythologizes. Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer. Lowell.

A fabulous narrative; a myth. [R.] May we not ... consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil Geddes.

The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.

A narration of mere fable.

Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives. The mythopoeic fertility of the Greeks. Grote.

Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidæ.

A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.

A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.

The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.

A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Myxine. -- n.

A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.

, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland. -- Myx`o*dem"a*tous (#), a., Myx`o*dem"ic (#), a.

A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.

A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerly regarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to be plants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta). They are found on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which…

A phylum of the vegetable kingdom consisting of the class Myxomycetes. By some botanists it is not separated from the Thallophyta.

A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.

The Marsipobranchiata.