MUSTER-ROLL
MUS'TER-ROLL, noun A roll or register of the troops in each company, troop or regiment.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MUSTILY
MUS'TILY, adverb [from musty.] Moldily; sourly.
MUSTINESS
MUS'TINESS, noun The quality of being musty or sour; moldiness; damp foulness.
MUSTY
MUS'TY, adjective [from must.] Moldy; sour; foul and fetid; as a musty cask; musty corn or straw; musty books.1. State; spoiled by age.The proverb is somewhat musty2. Having an ...
MUTABILITY
MUTABIL'ITY, noun [Latin mutabilitas, from mutabilis, muto, to change.]1. Changeableness; susceptibility of change; the quality of being subject to change or alteration, either ...
MUTABLE
MU'TABLE, adjective [Latin mutabilis, from muto, to change.]1. Subject to change; changeable; that may be altered in form, qualities or nature. Almost every thing we see on eart...
MUTABLENESS
MU'TABLENESS, noun Changeableness; mutability; instability.
MUTATION
MUTA'TION, noun [Latin mutatio.] The act or process of changing.1. Change; alteration, either in form or qualities.The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit ...
MUTE
MUTE, adjective [Latin mutus.]1. Silent; not speaking; not uttering words, or not having the power of utterance; dumb. mute may express temporary silence, or permanent inability...
MUTELY
MU'TELY, adverb Silently; without uttering words or sounds.
MUTENESS
MU'TENESS, noun Silence; forbearance of speaking.
MUTILATE
MU'TILATE, verb transitive [Latin mutilo, probably from the root of meto, to cut off.]1. To cut off a limb or essential part of an animal body. To cut off the hand or foot is to...
MUTILATED
MU'TILATED, participle passive Deprived of a limb or of an essential part.MU'TILATEDMU'TILATE, adjective In botany, the reverse of luxuriant; not producing a corol, when not reg...
MUTILATING
MU'TILATING, participle present tense Retrenching a limb or an essential part.
MUTILATION
MUTILA'TION, noun [Latin mutilatio.] The act of mutilating; deprivation of a limb or of an essential part.1.mutilation is a term of very general import, applied to bodies, to st...
MUTILATOR
MU'TILATOR, noun One who mutilates.
MUTILOUS
MU'TILOUS, adjective Mutilated; defective; imperfect.Mutine, a mutineer, and mutine, to mutiny, are not in use.
MUTINEER
MUTINE'ER, noun [See Mutiny.] One guilty of mutiny; a person in military or naval service, who rises in opposition to the authority of the officers, who openly resists the gover...
MUTING
MU'TING, noun The dung of fowls.
MUTINOUS
MU'TINOUS, adjective Turbulent; disposed to resist the authority of laws and regulations in an army or navy, or openly resisting such authority.1. Seditious. [See Mutiny.]
MUTINOUSLY
MU'TINOUSLY, adverb In a manner or with intent to oppose lawful authority or due subordination in military or naval service.
MUTINOUSNESS
MU'TINOUSNESS, noun The state of being mutinous; opposition to lawful authority among military men.
MUTINY
MU'TINY, noun [Latin muto, to change.] An insurrection of soldiers or seamen against the authority of their commanders; open resistance of officers or opposition to their author...
MUTTER
MUT'TER, verb intransitive [Latin mutio, muttio, and musso, mussito; allied perhaps to muse, which see.]1. To utter words with a low voice and compressed lips, with sullenness o...
MUTTERED
MUT'TERED, participle passive Uttered in a low murmuring voice.
MUTTERER
MUT'TERER, noun A grumbler; one that mutters.
MUTTERING
MUT'TERING, participle present tense Uttering with a low murmuring voice; grumbling; murmuring.