<B>muffineer, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a utensil like a large saltshaker for sprinkling sugar, cinnamon, or other granular condiment, over muffins. <BR> <I>Ex. Silver and turquoise inlaid muffineers (London Daily News).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a covered dish for keeping muffins, biscuits, and the like, hot. </DL>
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<B>muffin tin,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a metal dish with cup-shaped holes for baking muffins and cupcakes. </DL>
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<B>muffle</B> (1), verb, <B>-fled,</B> <B>-fling,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to wrap in something in order to soften or stop the sound. <BR> <I>Ex. to muffle oars, to muffle a drum. A bell can be muffled with cloth.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to dull or deaden (a sound). <BR> <I>Ex. I heard voices, too, speaking with a hollow sound, and as if muffled by a rush of wind or water (Charlotte Bronte).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to wrap or cover up in order to keep warm and dry. <BR> <I>Ex. She muffled her throat in a warm scarf.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to wrap up the head of (a person) in order to keep him from speaking. <DD><B> 5. </B>(Figurative.) to wrap or pull over so as to conceal. <BR> <I>Ex. to muffle one's face with a scarf. Alas, that love, whose view is muffled still Should, without eyes, see pathways to his will (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>to dim (light). <BR> <I>Ex. through the dim length of the apartment, where crimson curtains muffled the glare of sunshine (Hawthorne).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to wrap oneself in garments or other covering. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a muffled sound. <DD><B> 2. </B>a thing that muffles. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Obsolete.) a boxing glove. <BR> <I>Ex. Just like a black eye in a recent scuffle (For sometimes we must box without a muffle) (Byron).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Scottish.) a mitten. <BR> <I>Ex. A muffle has only two divisions; one for the thumb and the other for the four fingers (D. Nicholson).</I> </DL>
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<B>muffle</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the thick, bare part of the upper lip and nose of cows, moose, rabbits, and certain other animals. </DL>
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<B>muffle</B> (3), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an oven or arched chamber in a furnace or kiln, used for heating substances without direct contact with the fire. <BR> <I>Ex. Pottery and porcelain are fired in a muffle.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a furnace containing such a chamber. </DL>
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<B>muffler, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>anything used to deaden sound. An automobile muffler, attached to the end of the exhaust pipe, deadens the sound of the engine's exhaust. <DD><B> 2. </B>a wrap or scarf worn around the neck for warmth. (SYN) tippet. <DD><B> 3. </B>any covering, such as a veil, used to conceal the face of a person. <DD><B> 4. </B>a glove or mitten. </DL>
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<B>mufti, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tis.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>ordinary clothes, not a uniform, especially when worn by someone who usually wears a uniform. <BR> <I>Ex. The retired general appeared in mufti.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a Moslem official who assists a judge by formal exposition of the religious law. <DD><B> 3. </B>the official head of the state religion in Turkey, or one of his deputies. </DL>
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<B>mug</B> (1), noun, verb, <B>mugged,</B> <B>mugging.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a heavy earthenware or metal drinking cup with a handle. <BR> <I>Ex. a coffee mug, a large mug of cider.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the amount a mug holds. <BR> <I>Ex. to drink a mug of milk.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>the face. <BR> <I>Ex. an ugly mug.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>the mouth. <BR> <I>Ex. Shut your mug!</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Slang.) a grimace. <DD><B> 5. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a ruffian; hoodlum; petty criminal. <BR> <I>Ex. Many a mug on the edge of the big time thinks there is a formula for dealing with newsmen: intimidate or bribe (Time).</I> <DD><B> 6. </B>(Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>a prize fighter, especially an inferior fighter. <BR> <I>Ex. People mostly figure once a fighter, always a mug (New Yorker).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a fighter with a disfigured face. <DD><B> 7. </B>(British Slang.) a fool; dupe; simpleton. <DD><I>v.t. </I> (Slang.) <B>1. </B>to attack (a person) from behind, usually to rob, and especially by locking the forearm around the neck and choking. <BR> <I>Ex. Even as the raid was going on, ... four youths mugged a 45-year-old woman (Birmingham News).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to make a photograph of (a person's face) for police purposes. <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Slang.) to exaggerate one's facial expressions, as in acting. <BR> <I>Ex. Sutherland smirks and mugs through his dual role (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>mug up,</B> </I>(British Slang.) to study assiduously. <BR> <I>Ex. No longer do you have to mug up a set of dull figures (Evening Standard).</I> </DL>
<B>mugful, </B>noun, pl. <B>-fuls.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> enough to fill a mug. <BR> <I>Ex. a mugful of cocoa. Water is retailed by the bucket, and a potent brand of sherry by the mugful (Daily Telegraph).</I> </DL>
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<B>muggar, </B>noun. <B>=mugger</B> (2).</DL>
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<B>mugger</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) a person who mugs. <BR> <I>Ex. Other groups became counterfeiters, moonshiners, muggers (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>mugger</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a large, freshwater crocodile of India, Pakistan, and Ceylon (Sri Lanka), having a broad snout and growing to about 12 feet in length. </DL>
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<B>muggily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a muggy manner; damply. </DL>
<B>muggins, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Slang.) a simpleton. <DD><B> 2. </B>a certain game played with dominoes. <DD><B> 3. </B>any one of various simple card games. </DL>
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<B>muggle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a marijuana cigarette. </DL>
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<B>muggur, </B>noun. <B>=mugger</B> (2).</DL>
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<B>muggy, </B>adjective, <B>-gier,</B> <B>-giest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> warm and humid; damp and close. <BR> <I>Ex. muggy weather, a muggy day.</I> (SYN) sultry. </DL>
<B>mugho pine,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a low, shrubby pine tree of the Swiss Alps, popular as a specimen plant. </DL>
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<B>mug-shoot, </B>transitive verb, <B>-shot,</B> <B>-shooting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) to take a mug shot of; photograph for police purposes. <BR> <I>Ex. It was not until late in the afternoon that the wrongest man in Palo Alto was finally mug-shot, fingerprinted and given a summons to appear in court ... on a charge of "rioting" (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>mug shot,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a photograph of a person for police purposes. <BR> <I>Ex. Scotland Yard, the FBI and the Royal Canadian Mounted Police exchanged "mug shots" of some of their most wanted criminals (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>mugwort, </B>noun. <B>=wormwood.</B></DL>
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<B>mugwump, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a person who is independent in politics. <BR> <I>Ex. We cannot afford to modify our principles to secure the support of a limited number of mugwumps (Newsweek).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a Republican who refused to support the party candidate, James G. Blaine, for President in 1884. </DL>
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<B>mugwumpery, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the principles or practice of mugwumps. </DL>
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<B>mugwumpism, </B>noun. <B>=mugwumpery.</B></DL>
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<B>Muhammadan</B> or <B>Muhammedan, </B>adjective, noun. <B>=Mohammedan.</B></DL>
<B>Muharram, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the first month of the Moslem year. It has 30 days. <DD><B> 2. </B>Moslem religious celebration held during this month. Also, <B>Moharram.</B> </DL>
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<B>muishond, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Afrikaans.) the zoril. </DL>
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<B>mujaheddin</B> or <B>mujahedin, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> Moslem guerrilla fighters, especially in Iran and Afghanistan. <BR> <I>Ex. The mujahedin use the rocky enclosure to observe Afghan government convoys (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>mujahideen</B> or <B>mujahedeen, </B>noun pl. <B>=mujaheddin.</B></DL>
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<B>mujik, </B>noun. <B>=muzhik.</B></DL>
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<B>mujtahid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Shiite religious teacher or mullah. <BR> <I>Ex. "Khomeini may not be the supreme Islamic scholar in the Shiite sect today," said Ayatollah Gawad Gharawi ... , "but he is the greatest of the Mujtahids and clearly the people's choice" (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>mukhtar</B> or <B>muhtar, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the elected headman of an Arab or Turkish town or village. </DL>
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<B>mukluk, </B>noun. <B>=muckluck.</B></DL>
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<B>muktuk, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the thin outer skin of the beluga or white whale, or of the narwhal, used as food by the Eskimos. </DL>
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<B>mulatto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-toes,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a person having one white and one Negro parent. <DD><B> 2. </B>any person of mixed white and Negro descent. <DD><I>adj. </I> of the color of a mulatto; tawny. </DL>
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<B>mulberry, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ries.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a tree with small, berrylike fruit that can be eaten. The leaves of one kind are used for feeding silkworms. <DD><B> 2. </B>its sweet, usually dark purple fruit. <DD><B> 3. </B>a dark purplish red. <BR> <I>Ex. If ever there was a wolf in a mulberry suit that 'ere Job Trotter's him (Dickens).</I> </DL>
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<B>mulberry-colored, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> dark purplish-red. </DL>
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<B>mulberry family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees, found chiefly in tropical regions. The family includes the fig, breadfruit, Osage orange, rubber plant, and banyan. </DL>
