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scle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber. Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness. Macaulay.

The state or quality of being muscular. Grew.

To make muscular. Lowell.

In a muscular manner.

Having two adductor muscles, as a bivalve mollusk.

Pertaining the reaction (contraction) of the muscles under electricity, or their sensibility to it.

Applied to a semipermanent contraction of a muscle, produced by a mechanical irritant.

Between muscles; as, intermuscular septa.

f or pertaining to both nerves and muscles; of the nature of nerves and muscles; as, nervomuscular energy.

Nervomuscular.

Situated underneath a muscle or muscles.

Having only one adductor muscle, and one muscular impression on each valve, as the oyster; monomyarian.

Inability to coördinate muscular actions properly in walking. - - A*ba"sic (#), a.

bsence of power or force. Adynamic fevers, malignant or putrid fevers attended with great muscular debility.

es which carry either venous or arterial blood from the heart. They have tricker and more muscular walls than veins, and are connected with them by capillaries.

Befitting an athlete; strong; muscular; robust; vigorous; as, athletic Celts. "Athletic soundness." South. -- Ath*let"ic*al*ly, adv.

g in India, characterized by multiple inflammatory changes in the nerves, producing great muscular debility, a painful rigidity of the limbs, and cachexy.

e sea animals from which oil is obtained. It lies immediately under the skin and over the muscular flesh.

Full, strong muscles, esp. of the arm or leg, muscular strength; a protuberant muscular part of the body; sometimes, the arm. Brawn without brains is thine. Dryden. It was ordained that murderers should be brent on the brawn of the left hand. E. Hall. And in my vantbrace put this withered brawn. Shak.…

Brawny; strong; muscular. [Obs.] Spenser.