Webster's Dictionary 1913

5536

Muffle (2)

Muf″fle, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Muffled (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Muffling (?).] [Cf. F. moufle a mitten, LL. muffula, OD. moffel a muff. See Muff.] 1. To wrap up in something that concea...

5537

Muffle (3)

Muf″fle, v. i. [Cf. F. maffle, mumble, D. moffelen.] To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

5538

Muffle (4)

Muf″fle, n. [F. moufle, prop., a mitten, from the resemblance in shape. See Muffle, v. t., Muff.] 1. Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is muffled; also, a bo...

5539

Muffler

Muf″fler (?), n. 1. Anything used in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet.Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes. ...

5540

Muffler (2)

Muf″fler, n.(Mach.) Any of various devices to deaden the noise of escaping gases or vapors, as a tube filled with obstructions, through which the exhaust gases of an internal-co...

5541

Muflon

Muf″lon (?), n.(Zoöl.) See Mouflon.

5542

Mufti

Muf″ti (?), n.; pl.Muftis (#). [Ar. mufti.] An official expounder of Mohammedan law.

5543

Mufti (2)

Muf″ti, n. Citizen's dress when worn by a naval or military officer; — a term derived from the British service in India.

5544

Mug

Mug (?), n. [Cf. Ir. mugam a mug, mucog a cup.] 1. A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, — usually cylindrical and without a lip.2. The face or mouth. Thackeray.

5545

Muggard

Mug″gard (?), a. [Cf. G. mucker a sulky person, muckish sullen, peevish, mucken to mutter, grumble.] Sullen; displeased.

5546

Mugger

{ Mug″ger (?), n. Also Mug″gar, Mug″gur }. [Hind. magar, fr. Skr. makara sea monster.] The common crocodile (Crocodilus palustris) of India, the East Indies, etc. It becomes twe...

5547

Mugget

Mug″get (?), n. The small entrails of a calf or a hog.

5548

Mugginess

Mug″gi‐ness (?), n. The condition or quality of being muggy.

5549

Muggins

Mug″gins (?), n. 1. A game of dominoes in which the object is to make the sum of the two ends of the line some multiple of five.2. A game at cards which depends upon building in...

5550

Muggins (2)

Mug″gins, v. t. In certain games, to score against, or take an advantage over (an opponent), as for an error, announcing the act by saying “muggins.”

5551

Muggish

Mug″gish (?), a. See Muggy.

5552

Muggletonian

Mug′gle‐to″ni‐an (?), n.(Eccl. Hist.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. Eadie.

5553

Muggy

Mug″gy (mŭg″gy̆), a. [Compar.Muggier (–gĭ‐ẽr); superl.Muggiest.] [Cf. Icel. mugga mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th Mold.] 1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.2. Warm, damp, and close...

5554

Mughouse

Mug″house′ (mŭg″hous′), n. An alehouse; a pothouse. Tickel.

5555

Mugiency

Mu″gi‐en‐cy (?), n. A bellowing.

5556

Mugient

Mu″gi‐ent (?), a. [L. mugiens, p. pr. of mugire to bellow.] Lowing; bellowing. Sir T. Browne.

5557

Mugil

‖Mu″gil (?), n.(Zoöl.) A genus of fishes including the gray mullets. See Mullet.

5558

Mugiloid

Mu″gi‐loid (?), a.(Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil, or family Mugilidæ.

5559

Mugweed

Mug″weed′ (?), n.(Bot.) A slender European weed (Galium Cruciata); — called also crossweed.

5560

Mugwort

Mug″wort′ (?), n. [AS. mucgwyrt. Cf. Midge.] (Bot.) A somewhat aromatic composite weed (Artemisia vulgaris), at one time used medicinally; — called also motherwort.

5561

Mugwump

Mug″wump′ (?), n. [Cf. Algonquin mugquomp a chief.] A bolter from the Republican party in the national election of 1884; an Independent.

5562

Mugwumpery

{ Mug″wump′er‐y (?), Mug″wump‐ism (?), } n. The acts and views of the mugwumps.