<B>murderous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>able to inflict great harm or to kill. <BR> <I>Ex. The villain aimed a murderous blow at the hero's back. (Figurative.) murderous heat.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>ready to murder; guilty or capable of murder. <BR> <I>Ex. a murderous villain. Enforced to fly Thence into Egypt, till the murderousking Were dead, who sought his life (Milton).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>causing murder. <BR> <I>Ex. a murderous plot, a murderous hate.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>characterized by or involving murder, death, or bloodshed; bloody. <BR> <I>Ex. a murderous riot. A murderous deed (Shakespeare).</I> adv. <B>murderously.</B> noun <B>murderousness.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="mure">
<B>mure, </B>verb, <B>mured,</B> <B>muring,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> (Archaic.) to shut up; imprison; immure. <DD><I>noun </I> (Obsolete.) a wall. </DL>
<A NAME="murex">
<B>murex, </B>noun, pl. <B>murices,</B> <B>murexes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a group of marine gastropods with a rough, ridged, or spiny shell. The secretion from a gland in two species was the chief source of the famous purple dye of the ancient Phoenicians. </DL>
<A NAME="murgeon">
<B>murgeon, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Scottish.) <DD><I>noun </I> a grimace. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to make grimaces at (a person). <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to grimace. <DD><B> 2. </B>to mutter. </DL>
<A NAME="muriate">
<B>muriate, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a chloride, especially potassium chloride, used as, or in making, fertilizer. </DL>
<A NAME="muriated">
<B>muriated, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>charged with or containing a chloride or chlorides. <BR> <I>Ex. muriated mineral water.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>salted; briny. </DL>
<A NAME="muriateofpotash">
<B>muriate of potash,</B> =potassium chloride.</DL>
<A NAME="muriaticacid">
muriatic acid, =hydrochloric acid.</DL>
<A NAME="muricate">
<B>muricate, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> covered with many sharp points; prickly. </DL>
<A NAME="muricated">
<B>muricated, </B>adjective. =muricate.</DL>
<A NAME="murid">
<B>murid, </B>adjective, noun. =murine.</DL>
<A NAME="muriform">
<B>muriform, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Botany.) like or suggesting a wall made of bricks arranged in courses. <BR> <I>Ex. muriform cellular tissue.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="murine">
<B>murine, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>of or belonging to the family of rodents that includes many mice and rats. <DD><B> 2. </B>of or like a mouse or rat. <DD><I>noun </I> a rodent of this family. </DL>
<A NAME="murinetyphus">
<B>murine typhus,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mild, endemic form of typhus spread among humans by fleas from rats, occurring in many parts of the world. </DL>
<A NAME="murk">
<B>murk, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>darkness; gloom. <BR> <I>Ex. A light flashed through the murk of the night.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>thick or murky air or vapor. <DD><I>adj. </I> dark; gloomy; murky. Also, <B>mirk.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="murkily">
<B>murkily, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a murky manner; darkly; gloomily. </DL>
<A NAME="murkiness">
<B>murkiness, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> murky condition; darkness; gloominess; gloom. <BR> <I>Ex. As if within that murkiness of mind Work'd feelings fearful, and yet undefined (Byron).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="murky">
<B>murky, </B>adjective, <B>murkier,</B> <B>murkiest.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>very dark or gloomy. <BR> <I>Ex. a murky prison, a murky day, the murky blackness of the night.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>very thick and dark; misty; hazy. <BR> <I>Ex. a murky fog, a cloud of murky smoke.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) hard to understand; obscure. <BR> <I>Ex. a murky argument.</I> <DD> Also, <B>mirky.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="murmur">
<B>murmur, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a soft, low, indistinct sound that rises and falls a little and goes on without breaks. <BR> <I>Ex. the murmur of a stream, the murmur of little waves, the murmur of voices in another room. Faint murmurs from the meadows come (Tennyson).</I> (SYN) hum, babble. <DD><B> 2. </B>a sound in the heart or lungs, especially an abnormal sound caused by a leaky valve in the heart. <DD><B> 3. </B>a softly spoken word or speech. <BR> <I>Ex. a murmur of thanks. The visitor made a grateful little murmur of acquiescence (Hawthorne).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>a complaint made under the breath, not aloud. <BR> <I>Ex. In the City of London, lately so turbulent, scarcely a murmur was heard (Macaulay).</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) a rumor. <BR> <I>Ex. There was a murmur ... that he possesses other sciences, now lost to the world (Scott).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to make a soft, low, indistinct sound. <DD><B> 2. </B>to speak softly and indistinctly. <BR> <I>Ex. We saw the lights and heard The voices murmuring (Tennyson).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to complain under the breath; grumble. <BR> <I>Ex. Many were murmuring against the leader they had chosen, and wished to depose him (Francis Parkman).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> to utter in a murmur. <BR> <I>Ex. The shy girl murmured her thanks. The angry boy murmured a threat.</I> noun <B>murmurer.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="murmuration">
<B>murmuration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the action of murmuring. <BR> <I>Ex. General shoe shuffling and non-committal murmuration (Punch).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="murmuring">
<B>murmuring, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a continuous murmur; low, confused noise. <BR> <I>Ex. As when you hear the murmuring of a throng (Michael Drayton).</I> <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>having a low, continuous noise. <BR> <I>Ex. murmuring sound.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>grumbling; complaining. <BR> <I>Ex. the ... rock out of which Moses brought water to the murmuring Israelites (John Evelyn).</I> adv. <B>murmuringly.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="murmurous">
<B>murmurous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characterized by murmurs; murmuring. <BR> <I>Ex. There was a slight murmurous sound in the room, as of wind long pent up in many lungs suddenly exhaled (W. H. Hudson).</I> adv. <B>murmurously.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="murphy">
<B>murphy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-phies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Slang.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a white potato. <DD><B> 2. </B>a Murphy game. </DL>
<A NAME="murphybed">
<B>Murphy bed,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bed that folds away on hinges into a closet; in-a-door bed. </DL>
<A NAME="murphygame">
<B>Murphy game,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a confidence game in which the confidence man exchanges an envelope with his victim's money in it for an identical one filled with paper scraps. </DL>
<A NAME="murphyslaw">
<B>Murphy's Law,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various humorous rules of thumb. <BR> <I>Ex. Your reference to Murphy's Law touches on only part of that ancient Irish potentate's laws ... His set of the laws of life refer with circularity to nothing, everything and anything. They are: 1) nothing is as easy as it looks; 2) everything takes longer than you think it will; and 3) if anything can go wrong, it will (Time).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="murra">
<B>murra, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a substance, perhaps fluorite, porcelain, or agate, from which the ancient Romans made vases, wine cups, and other utensils. Also, <B>murrha.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="murrain">
<B>murrain, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an infectious disease of cattle, such as anthrax or tick fever. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) a pestilence; plague. <BR> <I>Ex. A murrain on your monster! (Shakespeare).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="murre">
<B>murre, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any one of a group of brown and white sea birds related to the guillemots, such as a common variety of the northern Atlantic. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=razor-billed auk.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="murrelet">
<B>murrelet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain small auks of the North Pacific. </DL>
<A NAME="murrey">
<B>murrey, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> a dark purplish-red color. <DD><I>adj. </I> dark purplish-red. </DL>
<A NAME="murrha">
<B>murrha, </B>noun. =murra.</DL>
<A NAME="murrhine">
<B>murrhine, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or like murra. <DD><I>noun </I> a murrhine vase. </DL>
<A NAME="murrhineglass">
<B>murrhine glass,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>glassware supposed to resemble the ancient Roman. <DD><B> 2. </B>glassware in which gems, metals, or colored glass are embedded. </DL>
<B>Murut, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a member of a Dyak people living in the hilly interior of Borneo and in Sarawak, a state in the Federation of Malaysia. </DL>
<B>musaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to the banana family of plants. </DL>
<A NAME="musang">
<B>musang, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an East Indian palm cat or palm civet. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various related or similar animals. </DL>
<A NAME="musb">
<B>Mus.B.</B> or <B>Mus.Bac.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Bachelor of Music (Latin, <I>Musicae Baccalaureus</I>). </DL>
<A NAME="musca">
<B>Musca, </B>noun, genitive <B>Muscae.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a southern constellation near Crux, thought of as arranged in the shape of a fly. </DL>
<A NAME="muscadel">
<B>muscadel, </B>noun. =muscatel.</DL>
<A NAME="muscadelle">
<B>muscadelle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of muscat grape grown especially in France. </DL>
<A NAME="muscadet">
<B>muscadet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a light, dry, fresh white wine of the Loire valley. <BR> <I>Ex. Lacking the acidity which enables wine to last, muscadet tends to become flavourless if it is not drunk young (London Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="muscadin">
<B>muscadin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a party of men of fashion or of privilege that held moderate or reactionary opinions during the French Revolution. <DD><B> 2. </B><B>=dandy </B>(def. 1). </DL>
<A NAME="muscadine">
<B>muscadine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a species of grape native to the southern United States, of which there are several varieties, such as the scuppernong. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) muscatel (wine). </DL>
<A NAME="muscae">
<B>Muscae, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> genitive of <B>Musca.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="muscaevolitantes">
<B>muscae volitantes,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> spots before the eyes. They may be caused by defects in the vitreous humor or in the lens. </DL>
