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MUMMY. n. s. [mumie, Fr. mumia, Lat. derived by Salmasius from amomum, by Bochart from the Arabick.]

1. A dead body preserved by the Egyptian art of embalming.

We have two substances for medicinal use

under the name of mummy: one is the dried flesh of human bodies embalmed with myrrh and spice; the other is the liquor running from such mummies when newly prepared, or when affected by great heat, or by damps: this is sometimes of a liquid, sometimes of a solid form, as it is preserved in vials, or suffered to dry: the first kind is brought in large pieces, of a friable texture, light and spungy, of a blackish brown colour, and often black and clammy on the surface; it is of a strong but not agreeable smell: the second, in its liquid state, is a thick, opake, and viscous fluid, of a brackish and a strong, but not disagreeable smell: in its indurated state it is a dry, solid substance, of a fine shining black colour and close texture, easily broken, and of a good smell: this sort is extremely dear, and the first sort so cheap, that we are not to imagine it to be the ancient Egyptian mummy. What our druggists are supplied with is the flesh of any bodies The Jews can get, who fill them with the common bisumen so plentiful in that part of the world, and adding aloes, and some other cheap ingredients, send them to be baked in an oven till the juices are exhaled, and the embalming matter has penetrated. The silk

Hill's Mat. Med.

Was dy'd in mummy, which the skilful Conserv'd of maidens hearts.

Shakspeare.

It is strange how long carcases have continued uncorrupt, as appeareth in the mummies of Egypt, having lasted some of them three thousand years. Bacon.

Sav'd by spice, like mummies, many a year, Old bodies of philosophy appear. Dunciad. 2. Mummy is used among gardeners for a sort of wax used in the planting and grafting of trees. Chambers.

3. To beat to a MUMMY. To beat soundly. Ainsworth.

To MUMP. v. a. [mompelen, Dutch.] 1. To nibble; to bite quick; to chew with a continued motion.

Let him not pry nor listen,

Nor frisk about the house Like a tame mumping squirrel with a bell on. Otway 2. To talk low and quick. 3. [In cant language.] To go a begging.

Ainsworth. MU'MPER. n. s. [In cant language.] A beggar.

MUMPS. n. s. [mompelen, Dutch.] Sullenness; silent anger. Skinner. MUMPS. n. 5. The squinancy. Ainsworth. To MUNCH. v. a. [manger, Fr.] To chew by great mouthfuls. This is likewise written to mounch; see MoUNCH.

Say, sweet love, what thou desir'st to eat? -Truly, a peck of provender; I could munch your good dry oats. Shakspeare. To MUNCH. V. n. To chew eagerly by great mouthfuls.

It is the son of a mare that's broken loose, and munching upon the melons. Dryden. MUNCHER. . s. [from munch.] One that munches.

MUND. n. s.

Mund is peace, from which our lawyers call a breach of the peace, mundbrech: so Eadmund is happy peace; Æthelmund, noble peace; Almund, all peace; with which these are much of the same import: Irenæus, Hesychius, Lenis, Pacatus, Sedatus, Tranquillus, &c. Gibson. MUNDA NE. adj. [undanus, Latin.] Belonging to the world.

The platonical hypothesis of a mundane soul will relieve us.

Glanville. The atoms which now constitute heaven and earth, being once separate in the mundane space, could never without God, by their mechanical affections, have convened into this present frame of things.

Bentley. MUNDATION. n. s. [mundus, Lat.] The act of cleansing.

MUNDA'TORY. adj. [from mundus, Latin.] Having the power to cleanse. MU ́NDICK. n. s. A kind of marcasite or semimetal found in tin mines.

When any metals were in considerable quanti ty, these bodies lose the name of marcasites, and are called ores: in Cornwall and the West they call them mundick. Woodward.

Besides stones, all the sorts of mundick are naturally figured. Grew MUNDIFICATION. n. s. [mundus and facio, Lat.] Cleansing any body, as from dross, or matter of inferiour account to what is to be cleansed. Quincy. MUNDI FICATIVE. adj. [mundus and fa cio, Lat.] Cleansing; having the power to cleanse.

Gall is very mundificative, and was a proper medicine to clear the eyes of Tobit. Brown. We incarned with an addition to the forementioned mundificative. Wiseman. To MUNDIFY. v. a. [mundus and facio, Latin.] To cleanse; to make clean.

Simple wounds, such as are mundified and kept clean, do not need any other hand but that of Brown.

nature.

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Exhale mundungus ill perfuming scent. Philips. MUNERARY. adj. [from munus, Latin.] MU'NGREL. n. s. [frequently written monHaving the nature of a gift. grel. See MONGREL.] Any thing generated between different kinds; any thing partaking of the qualities of different causes or parents.

Mastiff, greyhound, mungrel grim, Hound or spaniel, brache or hym, Or bobtail tyke, or trundle tail. Shakspeare MU'NGREL. adj. Generated between different natures; base-born; degenerate. Thou art the composition of a knave, beggar, coward, pander, and the son and heir of a mun grel bitch. Shakspeare. My people are grown half wild, they would not precipitate themselves else into such a mixt mungrel war, Heruch

Mangrel curs bawl, snarle and snap, where the fox flies before them, and clap their tails between the legs when an adversary makes head against them. L'Estrange.

A foreign son is sought and a mixt mungrel brood. Dryden. MUNICIPAL. adj. [municipal, Fr. municipalis, municipium, Lat.] Belonging to a corporation.

A counsellor, bred up in the knowledge of the unicipal and statute laws, may honestly inform a just prince how far his prerogative extends. Dryden. MUNIFICENCE. n. s. [munificence, Fr. munificentia, Lat.]

1. Liberality; the act of giving.

A state of poverty obscures all the virtues of liberality and munificence. Addison.

2. In Spenser it is used, as it seems, for fortification or strength, from munitiones facere.

Their importune sway

This land invaded with like violence, Until that Locrine for his realms defence, Did head against them make, and strong unifi Spenser. MUNIFICENT. adj. [munificus, Latin.] Liberal; generous.

cence.

Is he not our most munificent benefactor, our wisest counsellor, and most potent protector? Atterbury. MUNIFICENTLY adv. [from munificent.] Liberally; generously.

MUNIMENT. n. s. [munimentum, Lat.] 1. Fortification; strong hold.

2. Support; defence.

The arm our soldier,

Our steed the leg, the tongue our trumpeter;
With other muniments and petty helps
In this our fabrick.

Shakspeare 3. Record; writing upon which claims and rights are founded.

To MUNI'TE. v. a. [munio, Lat.] To fortify; to strengthen. Not in use.

Heat doth attenuate, and the more gross and tangible parts contract, both to avoid vacuum, and to unite themselves against the force of the fire. Bacon.

Bacon.

Men, in the procuring or muniting of religi ous unity, must not dissolve the laws of charity and human society. MUNITION. n. ́s. [munition, Fr. munitio, Lat.]

1. Fortification; strong hold.

Victors under-pin their acquests jure belli, that they might not be lost by the continuation of external forces of standing armies, castles, garrisons, munitions. Hale.

2. Ammunition; materials for war.
What penny hath Rome borne,
What men provided, what munition sent,
To underprop this action?

The king of Tripolie in every hold
Shut up his men, munition and his treasure.

Shakspeare.

Fairfax.

Sandys.

It is a city, strong and well stored with munition.

MUʼNNION. n. s.

The upright posts, that divide the several lights in a window frame, are called munnions. Moxon. MURAGE. n. s. [from murus, Lat.] Money paid to keep walls in repair. MURAL. adj. [muralis, murus, Lat.] Pertaining to a wall.

And repair'd

Her mural breach, returning whence it rowl'd. Milton.

crown.

In the nectarine and the like delicate mural. fruit, the later your pruning the better. Evelyn. A soldier would venture his life for a mural Addison. MURDER. n. s. [mordor, morder, Sax. murdrum, law Latin: the etymology requires that it should be written, as it anciently often was, murther; but of late the word itself has commonly, and its derivatives universally, been written with d.] The act of killing a man unlawfully; the act of killing criminally. Blood hath been shed ere now, i' th' olden

time,

Ere human statute purg'd the general weal;
Ay, and since too, murders have been perform'd
Too terrible for th' ear.
Shakspeare.

Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far, And makes a massacre what was a war. Dryden.

The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offerTo MURDER. v. a. [from the noun.] ing them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. Locke. 1. To kill a man unlawfully.

If he dies, I murder him, not they. Dryden. 2. To destroy; to put an end to.

Can'st thou quake and change thy colour,
Murder thy breath in middle of a word,
And then again begin, and stop again. Shaksp.
Let the mutinous winds

Strike the proud cedars to the fiery sun;
Murd'ring impossibility to make
What cannot be, slight work..

Shakspeare.

MURDER. interj. An outcry when life is in danger.

Kill men i' th' dark! where be these bloody thieves?

Ho murder! murder! Shakspeare. MURDERER. n. s. [from murder.] One who has shed human blood unlawfully ; one who has killed a man criminally. Thou dost kill me with thy falsehood, and it grieves me not to die; but it grieves me that thou art the murderer. Sidney.

I am his host,
Who should against his murdrer shut the door,
Not bear the knife myself. Shakspeare.
Thou tell'st me there is murder in mine eyes;
'Tis pretty sure,

That eyes, that are the frail'st and softest things,
Who shut their coward gates on atomies,
Should be call'd tyrants, butchers, murderers.

Shakspeare.

The very horrour of the fact had stupified all curiosity, and so dispersed the multitude, that even the murderer himself might have escaped. Wotton.

Like some rich or mighty murderer, Too great for prison which he breaks with gold, Who fresher for new mischiefs does appear, And dares the world to tax him with the old. Dryden

This stranger having had a brother killed by the conspirator, and having sought in vain for an opportunity of revenge, chanced to meet the murderer in the temple. Add son.

With equal terrors, not with equal quilt. The murderer dreams of all the blood he suit. Swift.

MURDERESS, n. s. [from murderer.] A

woman that commits moder.

When by thy scorn, O murdress! I am dead, Then shall my ghost come to thy bed,

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All the gates of the city were mured up, except such as were reserved to sally out at. Kaol. MU'RENGER. n. s. [murus, Lat.] An overseer of a wall. Ainsworth.

MURIA TICK. adj. Partaking of the taste or nature of brine, from muria, brine or pickle.

Quincy.

If the scurvy be entirely muriatick, proceeding from a diet of salt flesh or fish, antiscorbutick vegetables may be given with success, but tempered with acids. Arbuthnot.

MURK. n. s. [morck, Danish, dark.] Darkness; want of light.

Ere twice in murk and occidental damp, Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp. Shakspeare. MURK. n.s. Husks of fruit. Ainsworth. MURKY. adj. [morck, Danish.] Dark; cloudy; wanting light.

The murkiest den,

The most opportune place, the strongest suggestion

Shall never melt mine honour into lust. Shaksp.
So scented the grim feature, and up-turn'd'
His nostrils wide into the murky air,
Sagacious of his quarry.

Milton.

A murky storm deep low'ring o'er our heads Hung imminent, that with impervious gloom Oppos'd itself to Cynthia's silver ray. Addison. MURMUR. n. s. [murmur, Lat. murmure, Fr.]

J. A low shrill noise.

Flame as it moveth within itself, or is blown by a bellows, giveth a murmur or interiour sound. Bacon. When the wing'd colonies first tempt the sky,

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Amid an isle around whose rocky shore The forests murmur, and the surges roar, A goddess guards in her enchanted dome. Pep The busy bees with a soft murm'ring strain, Invite to gentle sleep the lab'ring swain. Dryden. 2. To grumble: to utter secret and sullen discontent with at before things, and against before persons.

:

"The good we have enjoy'd from heav'n's free will;

And shall we murmur to endure the ill? Dryd. Murmur not at your sickness, for thereby you will sin against God's providence. Wake.

The good consequences of this scheme, which will execute itself without murmuring against the government, are very visible. wift. MURMURER. n. s. [from murmur.] One who repines; one who complains sullenly; a grumbler; a repiner; a complainer.

Heav'n's peace be with him! That's christian care enough; for living mur

murers

There's places of rebuke.

Shakspeare.

The murmurer is turned off to the company of those doleful creatures, which were to inhabit the ruins of Babylon. Government of the Tongue. Still might the discontented murmurer cry, Ah hapless fate of man! ah wretch doom'd once to die. Blackmore on the Creation. MU ́RNIVAL. n. s. [mornesle, Fr. from morner, to stun.] Four cards of a sort. Skinner and Ainsworth. MU'RRAIN. n. s. [The etymology, of this word is not clear; mur is an old word for a catarrh, which might well answer to the glanders; muriana, low Latin. Skinner derives it from mori, to die.] The plague in cattle.

Away ragg'd rams, care I what murrain kill?
Sidney.

Some trials would be made of mixtures of wa ter in ponds for cattle, to make them more milch, to fatten, or to keep them from murrain. Bacen. A hallowed band

Could tell what murrains, in what months begun. Garth. MURRE. n. s. A kind of bird.

Among the first sort we reckon coots, meawes, murres, creysers, and curlews. Carew.

MURREY. adj. [morée, Fr. morello, Italian; from moro, a moor.] Darkly red.

Leaves of some trees turn a little murrey of reddish. Bacon.

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MURRION. n. s. [often written morion. See MORION. Junius derives it from murus, a wall.] A helmet; a casque; armour for the head.

Their beef they often in their murrions stew'd, And in their basket-hilts their bev'rage brew'd. King. MURTH of Corn. n. s. Plenty of grain.

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Ainsworth. MU'SCADEL. adj. [muscat, muscadel, MU'SCADINE.S Fr. moscatello, Italian either from the fragrance resembling the nutmeg, nux moscata, or from musca, a fly: flies being eager of those grapes.] A kind of sweet grape, sweet wine, and sweet pear.

He quafft off the muscadel,
And threw the sops all in the sexton's face.

Shakspeare. MUSCLE. n. s. [muscle, Fr. musculus, Lat. murcula, Sax.]

1. Muscle is a bundle of thin and parallel plates of fleshy threads or fibres, inclosed by one common membrane: all the fibres of the same plate are parallel to one another, and tied together at extremely little distances by short and transverse fibres: the fleshy ribres are composed of other smaller fibres, inclosed likewise by a common membrane; each lesser fibre consists of very small vesicles or bladders, into which we suppose the veins, arteries, and nerves to open, for every muscle receives branches of all those vessels, which must be distributed to every fibre: the two ends of each muscle or the extremities of the fibres are, in the limbs of animals, fastened to two bones, the one moveable, the other fixed; and therefore, when the muscles contract, they draw the moveable bone according to the direction of their fibres. Quincy.

The instruments of motion are the muscles, the fibres whereof, contracting themselves, move the several parts of the body. Locke.

2. A bivalve shellfish.

Of shell-fish, there are wrinklers, limpers, cockles, and muscles. Carew.

It is the observation of Aristotle, that oysters and muscles grow fuller in the waxing of the Hakerill.

moon.

Two pair of small muscle shells were found in a limestone quarry. Woodward on Fossils. Musco ́SITY. n. s. [muscosus, Lat.] Mossiness.

MUSCULAR. adj. [from musculus, Latin.] Relating to muscles: performed by mus

cles.

By the muscular motion and perpetual flux of the liquids, a great part of the liquids are thrown out of the body. Arbuthnot.

MUSCULARITY. n. s. [from muscular.] The state of having muscles.

The guts of a sturgeon, taken out and cut to pieces, will still move, which may depend upon MUSCULOUS. adj. [musculeux, Fr. mustheir great thickness and muscularity. Grew. culosus, Lat.]

1. Full of muscles; brawny. 2. Pertaining to a muscle.

The uvea has a musculous power, and can dilate and contract that round hole, called the pupil of the eye, for the better moderating the transmission of light. More.

MUSE.

n. s. [from the verb.]

1. Deep thought; close attention; `absence of mind; brown study.

The tidings strange did him abashed make, That still he sat long time astonished

As in great muse, ne word to creature spake. Fairy Queen.

He was fill'd

With admiration and deep muse to hear Of things so high and strange.

2.

The power

of

poetry.

Begin my muse.

The muse-inspired train

Milton.

Cowley.

Triumph, and raise their drooping heads again.

Lodona's fate, in long oblivion cast,

Waller.

The muse shall sing, and what she sings shall last. To MUSE. v. n. [muser, Fr. muysen, Dút. Pope. musso, Latin.]

1. To ponder; to think close; to study in silence.

If he spake courteously, he angled the people's hearts; if he were silent, he mused upon some dangerous plot. Sidney.

St. Augustine, speaking of devout men, noteth, how they daily frequented the church, how attentive ear they give unto the chapters read, how careful they were to remember the same, and to muse thereupon by themselves. Hooker. Cæsar's father oft,

When he hath mus'd of taking kingdoms in,
Bestow'd his lips on that unworthy place,
As it rain'd kisses.
My mouth shall speak of wisdom; and my
heart muse of understanding.
Psalms.

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3. To wonder; to be amazed. Muse not that I thus suddenly proceed;

For what I will, I will.

Shakspeare.

Shakspeare. Deep

Do not muse at me,
I have a strange infirmity.
MU'SEFUL. adj. [from muse.]
thinking; silently thoughtful.

Full of museful mopings, which presage The loss of reason, and conclude in rage. Dryd. MU'SER. n. s. [from muse.] One who muses; one apt to be absent of mind. MU'SET. . . [in hunting.] The place through which the hare goes to relief. Bailey. MUSEUM. M. 12. s. [ugσelov.] A repository of learned curiosities. MUSHROOM. n. s. [muscheron, French.] 1. Mushrooms are by curious naturalists esteemed perfect plants, though their flowers and seeds have not as yet been discovered.

The true champignon or mushroom appears at first of a roundish form like a button, the upper part of which, as also the stalk, is very white, but being opened, the under part is of a livid flesh colour, but the fleshy part, when broken, is very white; when they are suffered to remain undisturbed, they will grow to a large size, and explicate themselves almost to a flatness, and the red part underneath will change to a dark colour: in order to cultivate them, open the ground about the roots of the mushrooms, where you will find the earth very often full of small white knobs, which are the off-sets or young mushrooms, these should be carefully gathered, preserving them in lumps with the earth about them, and planted in hot-beds. Miller.

2. An upstart; a wretch risen from the dunghill.

Mushrooms come up in a night, and yet they are unsown; and therefore such as are upstarts in state, they call in reproach mushrooms. Bacon. Tully, the humble mushroom scarcely known, The lowly native of a country town. Dryden. MUSHROOM STONE. n. s. [mushroom and stone.] A kind of fossil.

Fifteen mushroomstones of the same shape.
Woodward.
MU'SICK. n. s. [μeown; musique, Fr.]
1. The science of harmonical sounds.

The man that hath no musick in himself,
Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds,
Is fit for treasons.
Shakspeare.

Now look into the musick-master's gains,
Where noble youth at vast expence is taught,
But eloquence not valu'd at a great. Dryden.
2. Instrumental or vocal harmony.
When she spake,
Sweet words, like dropping honey, she did shed;
And 'twixt the pearls and rubies softly brake
A silver sound, that heavenly musick seem'd to
make.
Fairy Queen.

Such musick

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What musick, and dancing, and diversions, and songs, are to many in the world, that prayers and Law. devotions, and psalms are to you. MUSICAL. adj. [musical, Fr. from musick.]

1. Harmonious; melodious; sweet sounding. The merry birds Chanted above their chearful harmony,

And made emongst themselves a sweet con

sort,

That quicken'd the dull sp'rit with musical com
fort.
Fairy Queen
Sweet bird that shunn'st the noise of folly,
Most musical, most melancholy;
Thee chauntress oft the woods among,
I woo to hear thy even-song.
Milton,
Neither is it enough to give his author's sense,
in poetical expressions and in musical numbers.
Dryden.

2. Belonging to musick.

Several musical instruments are to be seen in the hands of Apollo's muses, which might give great light to the dispute between the ancient and modern musick. Addison.

MUSICALLY.adv. [from musical.] Harmoniously; with sweet sound. Valentine, musically coy,

Addison.

Shun'd Phædra's arms. MUSICALNESS. n. s. [from musical.] Harmony.

MUSICIAN. n. s. [musicus, Lat. musicien, Fr.] One skilled in harmony; one who performs upon instruments of musick.

Though the musicians that should play to you, Stand in the air a thousand leagues from hence; Yet strait they shall be here. Shakspeare.

The nightingale, if she should sing by day, When every goose is cackling, would be thought No better a musician than the wren. Shakspeare.

A painter may make a better face than ever was; but he must do it by a kind of felicity, as a musician that maketh an excellent air in musick, and not by rule. Bacon's Essays.

The praise of Bacchus then the sweet musi

cian sung;

Of Bacchus ever fair and ever young. Dryden. MUSK. n. s. [muschio, Italian; musc, Fr.] A dry, light, and friable substance of a dark blackish colour, with some tinge of a purplish or blood colour in it, feeling somewhat smooth or unctuous: its smell is highly perfumed, and too strong to be agreeable in any large quantity: its taste is bitterish: it is brought from the East Indies, mostly from the kingdom of Bantam, some from Tonquin and Cochin China: the animal which produces it is of a very singular kind, not agreeing with any established genus: it is of the size of a common goat but taller: the bag which contains the musk, is three inches long and two wide, and situated in the lower part of the creature's belly. Hill.

Some putrefactions and excrements yield excellent odours; as civet and musk. Bacon. MUSK, n.s. [musca, Lat.] Grape hyacinth, or grape flower. MU'SKAPPLE. n. 5. A kind of apple. Ainsworth. MU'SKCAT. n.s. [musk and cat.] The animal from which musk is got.

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