Mural circle (Astron.), a graduated circle, in the plane of the
meridian, attached permanently to a perpendicular wall; -- used for
measuring arcs of the meridian. See Circle, n., 3. -- Mural crown (Rom.
Antiq.), a golden crown, or circle of gold indented so as to resemble a
battlement, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged
place, and there lodged a standard.
Mur"der (mûr"dr), n. [OE. morder, morther, AS. morðor, fr. morð murder;
akin to D. moord, OS. morð, G., Dan., & Sw. mord, Icel. morð, Goth.
maúrþr, OSlav. mrti to die, Lith. mirti, W. marw dead, L. mors, mortis,
death, mori, moriri, to die, Gr. broto`s (for mroto`s) mortal,
'a`mbrotos immortal, Skr. m to die, mta death. √105. Cf.
Amaranth, Ambrosia, Mortal.] The offense of killing a human being with
malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and
unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer.
The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt
of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry.
Locke.
Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far.
Dryden.
Murder in the second degree, in most jurisdictions, is a malicious
homicide committed without a specific intention to take life. Wharton.
Mur"der, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Murdered (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Murdering.]
[OE. mortheren, murtheren, AS. myrðrian; akin to OHG. murdiren, Goth.
maúrþrjan. See Murder, n.] 1. To kill with premediated malice; to kill
(a human being) willfully, deliberately, and unlawfully. See Murder, n.