Mus"co*vy duck` (?). [A corruption of musk duck.] (Zoöl.) A duck
(Cairina moschata), larger than the common duck, often raised in
poultry yards. Called also musk duck. It is native of tropical America,
from Mexico to Southern Brazil.
Mus"co*vy glass` (?). [From Muscovy, the old name of Russia: cf. F.
verre de Moscovie.] Mica; muscovite. See Mica.
Mus"cu*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See Muscle.] 1. Of or pertaining
to a muscle, or to a system of muscles; consisting of, or constituting,
a muscle or muscles; as, muscular fiber.
Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness.
Macaulay.
2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles. "The
muscular motion." Arbuthnot.
3. Well furnished with muscles; having well- developed muscles; brawny;
hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a muscular body or arm.
Muscular Christian, one who believes in a part of religious duty to
maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state. T. Hughes. --
Muscular Christianity. (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians
who believe that it is a part of religious duty to maintain a vigorous
condition of the body, and who therefore approve of athletic sports and
exercises as conductive to good health, good morals, and right feelings
in religious matters. T. Hughes. (b) An active, robust, and cheerful
Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. C. Kingsley.
-- Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a
muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability. -- Muscular sense
(Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain
knowledge of the condition of our muscles and to what extent they are
contracted, also of the position of the various parts of our bodies and
the resistance offering by external objects.
Mus`cu*lar"i*ty (?), n. The state or quality of being muscular. Grew.
Mus"cu*lar*ize (?), v. t. To make muscular. Lowell.
Mus"cu*lar*ly, adv. In a muscular manner.
Mus`cu*la"tion (?), n. (Anat.) The muscular system of an animal, or of
any of its parts.
Mus"cu*la*ture (?), n. [Cf. F. musculature.] (Anat.) Musculation.
Mus"cule (?), n. [L. musculus: cf. F. muscule.] (Mil.) A long movable
shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a
fortified town.
Mus"cu*lin (?), n. [L. musculus a muscle.] (Physiol. Chem.) See
Syntonin.
Mus`cu*lo*cu*ta"ne*ous (?), a. [L. musculus + E. cutaneous.] (Anat.)
Pertaining both to muscles and skin; as, the musculocutaneous nerve.
Mus`cu*lo*phren"ic (?), a. [L. musculus muscle + E. phrenic.] (Anat.)
Pertaining to the muscles and the diaphragm; as, the musculophrenic
artery.
Mus`cu*los"i*ty (?), n. The quality or state of being musculous;
muscularity. [Obs.]
Mus`cu*lo*spi"ral (?), a. [L. musculus muscle + E. spiral.] (Anat.) Of
or pertaining to the muscles, and taking a spiral course; -- applied
esp. to a large nerve of the arm.
Mus"cu*lous (?), a. [L. musculosus: cf. F. musculeux.] Muscular. [Obs.]
Jonhson.
Muse (?), n. [From F. musse. See Muset.] A gap or hole in a hedge,
hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to
pass; a muset.
Find a hare without a muse.
Old Prov.
Muse, n. [F. Muse, L. Musa, Gr. &?;. Cf. Mosaic, n., Music.] 1. (Class.
Myth.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the
different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often
used in the plural.
Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for
Granville can refuse to sing?
Pope.
The names of the Muses were Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene,
Polymnia or Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania.