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- English Word Musette Definition A small bagpipe formerly in use, having a soft and sweet tone.
- English Word Musette Definition An air adapted to this instrument; also, a kind of rustic dance.
- English Word Museum Definition A repository or a collection of natural, scientific, or literary curiosities, or of works of art.
- English Word Mush Definition Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
- English Word Mush Definition To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.
- English Word Mushroom Definition An edible fungus (Agaricus campestris), having a white stalk which bears a convex or oven flattish expanded portion called the pileus. This is whitish and silky or somewhat scaly above, and bears on the under side radiating gills which are at first flesh-colored, but gradually become brown. The plant grows in rich pastures and is proverbial for rapidity of growth and shortness of duration. It has a pleasant smell, and is largely used as food. It is also cultivated from spawn.
- English Word Mushroom Definition Any large fungus, especially one of the genus Agaricus; a toadstool. Several species are edible; but many are very poisonous.
- English Word Mushroom Definition One who rises suddenly from a low condition in life; an upstart.
- English Word Mushroom Definition Of or pertaining to mushrooms; as, mushroom catchup.
- English Word Mushroom Definition Resembling mushrooms in rapidity of growth and shortness of duration; short-lived; ephemerial; as, mushroom cities.
- English Word Mushroom-headed Definition Having a cylindrical body with a convex head of larger diameter; having a head like that of a mushroom.
- English Word Mushy Definition Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.
- English Word Music Definition The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.
- English Word Music Definition Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.
- English Word Music Definition Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.
- English Word Music Definition The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.
- English Word Music Definition Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.
- English Word Music Definition A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.
- English Word Musical Definition Of or pertaining to music; having the qualities of music; or the power of producing music; devoted to music; melodious; harmonious; as, musical proportion; a musical voice; musical instruments; a musical sentence; musical persons.
- English Word Musical Definition Music.