Muscicapine to Musk
Muscicapine
(Mus*cic"a*pine) a. [L. musca a fly + capere to catch.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the
Muscicapidæ, a family of birds that includes the true flycatchers.
Muscid
(Mus"cid) n. Any fly of the genus Musca, or family Muscidæ.
Musciform
(Mus"ci*form) a. [Musca + -form.] (Zoöl.) Having the form or structure of flies of the genus
Musca, or family Muscidæ.
Musciform
(Mus"ci*form), a. [Muscus + - form.] (Bot.) Having the appearance or form of a moss.
Muscle
(Mus"cle) n. [F., fr. L. musculus a muscle, a little mouse, dim. of mus a mouse. See Mouse,
and cf. sense 3 ]
1. (Anat.) (a) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust. of Muscles of the Human
Body, in Appendix. (b) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
Muscles are of two kinds, striated and nonstriated. The striated muscles, which, in most of the higher
animals, constitute the principal part of the flesh, exclusive of the fat, are mostly under the control of the
will, or voluntary, and are made up of great numbers of elongated fibres bound together into bundles
and inclosed in a sheath of connective tissue, the perimysium. Each fiber is inclosed in a delicate membrane
is made up of alternate segments of lighter and darker material which give it a transversely striated appearance,
and contains, scattered through its substance, protoplasmic nuclei, the so-called muscle corpuscles.
The nonstriated muscles are involuntary. They constitute a large part of the walls of the alimentary
canal, blood vessels, uterus, and bladder, and are found also in the iris, skin, etc. They are made up
of greatly elongated cells, usually grouped in bundles or sheets.
2. Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight. [Colloq.]
3. [AS. muscle, L. musculus a muscle, mussel. See above.] (Zoöl.) See Mussel.
Muscle curve (Physiol.), contraction curve of a muscle; a myogram; the curve inscribed, upon a prepared
surface, by means of a myograph when acted upon by a contracting muscle. The character of the curve
represents the extent of the contraction.
Muscled
(Mus"cled) a. Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled.
Muscling
(Mus"cling) n. (Fine Arts) Exhibition or representation of the muscles. [R.]
A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery.
Shaftesbury. Muscogees
(Mus*co"gees) n. pl. See Muskogees.
Muscoid
(Mus"coid) a. [Muscus + - oid: cf. F. muscoide.] (Bot.) Mosslike; resembling moss.
Muscoid
(Mus"coid), n. (Bot.) A term formerly applied to any mosslike flowerless plant, with a distinct
stem, and often with leaves, but without any vascular system.
Muscology
(Mus*col"o*gy) n. [Muscus + -logy.] Bryology.
Muscosity
(Mus*cos"i*ty) n. [L. muscosus mossy, fr. muscus moss.] Mossiness. Jonhson.
Muscovado
(Mus`co*va"do) a. [Corrupted fr. Sp. mascabado; cf. Pg. mascavado, F. moscouade, n.,
formerly also mascovade, It. mascavato.] Pertaining to, or of the nature of, unrefined or raw sugar,
obtained from the juice of the sugar cane by evaporating and draining off the molasses. Muscovado
sugar contains impurities which render it dark colored and moist.
