[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?
Shak.
3. To mutilate, spoil, or deform, as if with malice or cruelty; to
mangle; as, to murder the king's English.
Syn. -- To kill; assassinate; slay. See Kill.
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Mur"der*er (mûr"dr*r), n. 1. One guilty of murder; a person who, in
possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with
premeditated malice.
2. A small cannon, formerly used for clearing a ship's decks of
boarders; -- called also murdering piece. [Obs.]
Mur"der*ess, n. A woman who commits murder.
Mur"der*ment (?), n. Murder. [Obs.] Farfax.
Mur"der*ous (?), a. Of or pertaining to murder; characterized by, or
causing, murder or bloodshed; having the purpose or quality of murder;
bloody; sanguinary; as, the murderous king; murderous rapine; murderous
intent; a murderous assault. "Murderous coward." Shak. --
Mur"der*ous*ly, adv.
Syn. -- Bloody; sanguinary; bloodguilty; bloodthirsty; fell; savage;
cruel.
Mur"dress (?), n. A battlement in ancient fortifications with
interstices for firing through.
Mure (?), n. [L. murus; or F. mur, fr. L. murus. Cf. Munition.] A wall.
[Obs.] Shak.
Mure, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mured (?).] [F. murer, L. murare. See Mure,
n.] To inclose in walls; to wall; to immure; to shut up. Spenser.
The five kings are mured in a cave.
John. x. (Heading).
Mu"ren*ger (?), n. One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its
repairs.
||Mu"rex (?), n.; pl. Murices (#). [L., the purple fish.] (Zoöl.) A
||genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose,
||shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They
||abound in tropical seas.
Mu*rex"an (?), n. [From Murexide.] (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous
substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a
white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the
air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.
Mu*rex"ide (?), n. [L. murex the purple fish, purple.] (Chem.) A
crystalline nitrogenous substance having a splendid dichroism, being
green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was
formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities
from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.
Mu*rex"o*ïn (?), n. (Chem.) A complex nitrogenous compound obtained as
a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.
Mu"ri*ate (?), n. [See Muriatic.] (Chem.) A salt of muriatic
hydrochloric acid; a chloride; as, muriate of ammonia.
This term, as also the word muriatic, was formerly applied to the
chlorides before their true composition was understood, and while they
were erroneously supposed to be compounds of an acid with an oxide.
Muriate and muriatic are still occasionally used as commercial terms,
but are obsolete in scientific language.
Mu"ri*a`ted (?), a. 1. Put in brine. Evelyn.