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1. In a great degree; by far: before some word of comparison.

Gen.

Isaac, thou art much mightier than we.
Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much
Proverbs.

less do lying lips a prince.

We have had fathers of our flesh which corrected us, and we gave them reverence; shall we not much rather be in subjection unto the Father of spirits, and live? Hebrerus.

If they escaped not who refused him that spoke on earth, much more shall not we escape, if we turn away from him that speaketh from heaven. Hebrews.

Full of doubt I stand, Whether I should repent me now of sin By me done or occasioned, or rejoice Much more, that much more goed thereof shall Milton.

spring.

Patron or intercessor none appear'd, Much less that durst upon his own head draw The deadly, forfeiture.

2. To a certain degree.

Milton.

He charged them that they should tell no man; but the more he charged them, so much the more a great deal they published it. Mark. There is, said Michael, if thou well observe, The rule of not too much, by temp'rance taught. Milton.

3. To a great degree.

Henceforth I fiy no death, nor would prolong Life much, bent rather how I may be quit Fairest and easiest of this cumbrous charge.

Milton.

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abundance in quantity: opposed to a little.

They gathered against Moses and Aaron, and said, Ye take too much upon you. Numbers. Nor grudge I thee the much the Grecians give, Nor murm'ring take the little I receive. Dryd. They have much of the poetry of Mecænas, but little of his liberality. Dryden.

The fate of love is such, That still it sees too little or too much. Dryden. Much suffring heroes next their honours

claim;

Those of less noisy and less guilty fame, Fair virtue's silent train.

Pope.

2. More than enough; a heavy service or burden.

Thou think'st it much to tread the ooze Of the salt deep.

Shaksp.

He thought not much to clothe his enemies.
Milton.

This gracious act the ladies all approve, Who thorght it much a man should die for love, And with their mistress join'd in close debate.

Dryden. 3. Any assignable quantity or degree.

The waters covered the chariots and horsemen; there remained not so much as one. Exod. We will cut wood out of Lebanon as much as 2 Chronicles.

thou shalt need.

The matter of the universe was created before the flood; and if any more was created, then there must be as much annihilated to make room for it.

Burnet.

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It is much, if men were from eternity, that, they should not find out the way of writing all that long duration which had past before that time. Tillotson.

5. To make MUCH of. To treat with regard; to fondle; to pamper.

Though he knew his discourse was to entertain him from a more streight parley, yet he durst not but kiss his rod, and gladly make much of that entertainment which she allotted unto him.

Sidney.

The king understanding of their adventure, suddenly falls to take a pride in making much of them, extolling them with infinite praises. Sidn.

When thou camest first,

Thou stroaked'st, and mad'st much of me; and would'st give me

Water with berries in't.

Shakspeare.

MUCH at one. Nearly of equal value; of equal influence.

Then prayers are vain as curses, much at one In a slave's mouth, against a monarch's power.

Dryden. MUCHWHAT. adv. [much and what.] Nearly.

The motion being conveyed from the brain of man to the fancy of another, it is there received; and the same kind of strings being moved, and muchwhat after the same manner as in the first imaginant. Glanville.

The bigness of her body and bill, as likewise the form of them, is muchwhat as follows.

More.

If we will disbelieve every thing, because we cannot know all things, we shall do muchwhat as

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MUCH is often used in a kind of composition with participles both active and passive: when it is joined with a passive, as much loved, it seems to be an adverb; when it is joined with an active, as much enduring, it may be more properly considered as a noun.

MU'CHEL. adj. for muckle or mickle. [mycel, Sax.] Much.

He had in arms abroad won mucbel fame, And till'd far lands with glory of his might.

Spenser. MUCID. adj. [mucidus, Lat. mucre, Fr.] Slimy; musty.

MU'CIDNESS. n.s. [from mucid.] Slimi

Ainsworth.

ness; mustiness. MU'CILAGE. n. s. [mucilage, Fr.] A slimy or viscous mass; a body with moisture sufficient to hold it together. Dissolution of gum tragacanth, and oil of sweet almonds, do commingle, the oil remaining on the top till they be stirred, and make the mucilage somewhat more liquid.

Bacon.

Your alaternus seed move with a broom, that the seeds clog not together, unless you will separate it from the mucilage, for then you must a little bruise it wet.

Evelyn.

Both the ingredients improve one another; for the mucilage adds to the lubricity of the oil, and the oil preserves the mucilage from inspissa

tion.

Ray.

MU'CILAGINOUS. adj. [mucilagineux, Fr. from mucilage.] Slimy; viscous; soft with some degree of tenacity.

There is a twofold liquor prepared for the inunction and lubrification of the heads or ends of the bones; an oily one, furnished by the marrow; and a mucilaginous, supplied by certain glandules seated in the articulations.

Ray.

There is a sort of magnetism in all, not mucilaginous but resinous gums, even in common

rosin.

MUCILA GINOUs glands.

Grew.

Mucilaginous glands are of two sorts: some are small, and in a manner milliary glands; the other sort are conglomerated, or many glandules collected and planted one upon another. Quincy. MUCILA GINOUSNESS.n.s. [from mucilaginous.] Sliminess; viscosity. MUCK.n.s. [meox, Sax. myer, Islandick.] 1. Dung for manure of grounds.

Hale out thy mucke, and plow out thy ground.
Tusser.

It is usual to help the ground with muck, and likewise to recomfort with milck put to the roots; but to water it with much water, which is like to be more forcible, is not practised.

Bacon.

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And low abase the high heroick spirit
That joys for crowns.

Fairy Queen. 3. To run a MUCK, signifies, I know not from what derivation, to run madly and attack all that we meet.

Frontless and satire-proof he scow'rs the

streets,

And runs an Indian muck at all he meets. Dryd. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run a muck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope To MUCK. v. a. [from the noun.] To manure with muck; to dung.

Thy garden plot lately wel trencht and muskt Would now be twifallowed. Tusser.

MU'CKENDER. n.s. [mouchoir, Fr. mocadero, Spanish; muccinium, low Lat.] A handkerchief.

For thy dull fancy a muckender is fit, To wipe the slabberings of thy snotty wit. Dors. To MUCKER. v. a. [from muck.] To scramble for money; to hoard up; to get or save meanly: a word 'used by Chaucer, and still retained in conversation.

MUCKERER. n.s. [from mucker.] One that muckers.

MU'CKHILL. n. s. [muck and bill.] A dunghill.

Old Euclio in Plautus, as he went from home, seeing a crow-scrat upon the much-bill, returned in all haste, taking it for an ill sign his money Burton. was digged up.

MUCKINESS. n.s. [from mucky.] Nastiness; filth. MUCKLE. adj. [mýcel, Sax.] Much. MU'CKSWEAT. n.s. [muck and sweat: in this low word, muck, signifies wet, *moist.] Profuse sweat.

MU'CKWORM. n.s. [muck and worm.] 1. A worm that lives in dung. 2. A miser; a curmudgeon. Worms suit all conditions; Misers are muckworms, silk worms beaus, And death-watches physicians. Swift. MUCKY. adj. [from muck.] Nasty; filthy. Mucky filth his branching arms annoys, And with uncomely weeds the gentle wave accloys. Fairy Queen. Mu'cous. adj. [mucosus, Lat.] Slimy; viscous.

The salamander being cold in the fourth, and moist in the third degree, and having also a mucous humidity above and under the skin, may a while endure the flame. Brorun.

About these the nerves and other vessels make a fine web, covered over with a mous substance, to moisten these papillæ pyramidales. Cheyne. MU'COUSNESS.n.s. [from mucous.] Slime; viscosity.

MUCRO. n.s. [Latin.] A point.

The mucro, or point of the heart inclineth unto the left, by this position it giving way unto the ascension of the midriff. Brown. MU'CRONATED. adj. [mucro, Lat.] Narrowed to a sharp point.

Gems are here shot into cubes consisting of six sides, and mucronated or terminating in a point.

Woodward.

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mudilled; they carried me from tavern to ta

vern.

Arbuthnot.

Epicurus seems to have had his brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way, though the main maxim of his philosophy was to trust to his senses, and follow his nose. Bentley.

MUDDY. adj. [from mud.] 1. Turbid; foul with mud.

A woman mov'd is like a fountain troubled, Muddy, ill-seeming, thick, bereft of beauty. Shabspeare.

Her garments, heavy with their drink, Pull'd the poor wretch from her melodious lay To muddy death. Shaksp.

Carry it among the whitsters in Datchet mead, and there empty it in the mudly ditch, close by the Thames."

Shaksp.

Who can a pure and crystal current bring From such a muddy and polluted spring? Sandys. I strove in vain th' infected blood to cure, Streams will run muddy where the spring's imRoscommon. Till by the fury of the storm full blown, The muddy bottom o'er the clouds is thrown. Dryden.

pure.

Out of the true fountains of science painters and statuaries are bound to draw, without amusing themselves with dipping in streams which are often muddy, at least troubled; I mean the manner of their masters after whom they creep. Dryden.

2. Impure; dark; gross.

'There's not the smallest orb which thou be
hold'st,

But in his motion like an angel sings,
Still quining to the young ey'd cherubims;
Such harmony is in immortal sounds;
But whilst this muddy vesture of decay
Doth grossly close us in, we cannot hear it.
Shakspeare.

If you chuse, for the composition of such ointment, such ingredients as do make the spirits a little more gross or muddy, thereby the imagination will fix the better.

3. Soiled with mud.

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Expos'd in muddy weeds, upon the miry shore.

4. Dark; not bright.

The black

A more inferior station seeks, Leaving the fiery red behind, And mingles in her mudly cheeks. 5. Cloudy in mind; dull.

Dryden.

Swift.

Do'st think I am so muddy, so unsettled, To appoint myself in this vexation. Shaksp.

Yet 1,

A dull and muddy mettled rascal, peak, Like John-a-dreams, unpregnant in my cause, And can say nothing. Shaksp. To MUDDY v. a. [from mud.] To make muddy; to cloud; to disturb. The people muddied

Thick and unwholesome in their thoughts and

whispers.

Shaksp.

Excess, either with an apoplexy, knocks a man on the head; or with a fever, like fire in a strong-water-shop, burns him down to the ground, or if it flames not out, char'ss him to a coal; maddies the best wit, and makes it only to flutter and froth high.

Grew.

MU'DSUCKER. n. s. [mul and suck.] A seafowl.

In all water-fowl, their legs and feet correspond to that way of life; and in mudsuckers, two of the toes are somewhat joined, that they may not easily sink.

Deruan.

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Dryden.

Addison.

Balbutius muffled in his sable cloke, Like an old Druid from his hollow oak. Young. 2. To blindfold.

Alas that love, whose view is muffled still, Should without eyes see pathways to his ill.

Shakspeare. We've caught the woodcock, and will keep him muffled. Sbakspeare.

Our understandings lie grovelling in this lower region, muffled up in mists and darkness. Glanv. Loss of sight is the misery of life, and usually the forerunner of death: when the malefactor comes once to be muffled, and the fatal cloth drawn over his eyes, we know that he is not far from his execution.

Bright Lucifer

South.

That night his heav'nly form obscur'd with
tears;
And since he was forbid to leave the skies,
He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.

Dryden.

One muffled up in the infallibility of his sect, will not enter into debate with a person that will question any of those things which to him are sacred.

3. To conceal; to involve.

Locke.

This is one of the strongest examples of a personation that ever was: although the king's manner of shewing things by pieces, and by dark lights, hath so muffled it, that it hath left it almost as a mystery.

Bacon.

No muffling clouds, nor shades infernal, can From his inquiry hide offending man.

Sandys.

The thoughts of kings are like religious groves, The walks of muffled gods.

Dryden.

They were in former ages muffled up in dark

ness and superstition.

Arbutbrot.

To MUFFLE. v. n. [maffelen, moffelen, Dutch.] To speak inwardly; to speak without clear and distinct articulation.

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Mr. Hales has found out the best expedients for preventing immediate suffocation from tainted air, by breathing through mufflers, which imbibe these vapours. Arbuthnot.

2. A part of a woman's dress by which the face was covered.

Isaiab.

There is no woman's gown big enough for him; otherwise he might put on a hat, a muffler, and a handkerchief, and so escape. Sbakspeare. The Lord will take away your tinkling ornaments, chains, bracelets, and mufflers. MUFTI. n. s. [a Turkish word.] The high priest of the Mahometans. MUG. n. ś. [Skinner derives it from mugl, Welsh, warm.] A cup to drink in. Ah Bowzybee, why didst thou stay so long? The mugs were large, the drink was wond'rous

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n.s. [monberiz, Sax. MU'LBERRY tree. morus, Lat.] 1. The tree.

It hath large, rough, roundish leaves; the male flowers, or katkins, which have a calyx consisting of four leaves, are sometimes produced upon separate trees, at other times at remote distances from the fruit on the same tree: the fruit is composed of several protuberances, te each of which adhere four small leaves; the seeds are roundish, growing singly in each protuberance; it is planted for the delicacy of the fruit. The white mulberry is commonly cultivated for its leaves to feed silk worms, in France and Italy, though the Persians always make use of the common black mulberry for that purpose.

Miller

Morton, archbishop of Canterbury, was content to use mer upon a tun; and sometimes a mulberry tree, called morus in Latin, out of a

tun.

2. The fruit of the tree.

The ripest mulberry That will not hold the handling. A body black, round, with small bercles on the surface; not very berry.

Camden.

Sbakspeare. grain like tuunlike a mulWoodward.

MULCT. N.S. [mulcta, Lat.] A fine; a penalty; used commonly of pecuniary penalty.

Doe you then Argive Hellena, with all her treasure here

Restore to us, and pay the mulct, that by your vows is due. Chapman. Because this is a great part, and Eusebius hath said nothing, we will, by way of mulct or pain, lay it upon him. Bacon.

Look humble upward, see his will disclose The forfeit first, and then the fine impose; A malet thy poverty could never pay,

Had not eternal wisdom found the way. Dryden. TO MULCT. v. a. [mulcto, Lat. mulcter, or forfeiture.

To punish with fine

Fr.) Marriage without consent of parents, they do Ma not make void, but they mulct it in the inheritors; for the children of such marriages are not admitted to inherit above a third part of their parents inheritance.

Bacon. MULE. N. 5. [mule, mulet, Fr. mula, Lat.] An animal generated between a he ass and a mare, or sometimes between a horse and a she ass.

You have among you many a purchas'd slave, Which, like your asses, and your dogs, and mules, You use in abject and in slavish part. Shaksp. Five hundred asses yearly took the horse, Producing mules of greater speed and force.

Sandys.

Those effluvia in the male seed have the greatest stroke in generation, as is demonstrable in a mule, which doth more resemble the parent, that is, the ass, than the female,

Ray.

Twelve young mules, a strong laborious race.

Pope. MU'LETEER. n. s. [muletier, Fr. mulio, Lat.] Mule-driver; horse boy.

Base muleteers,

Like peasant foot-boys, do they keep the walls, And dare not take up arms gentlemen. Shakspeare.

Your ships are not well mann'd, Your mariners are muletters, reapers. Shaksp. MULIEBRITY. n.s. [muliebris, Latin.] Womanhood; the contrary to virility; the manners and character of woman.

To MULL. v. a. [mollitus, Lat.] 1. To soften and dispirit, as wine is when burnt and sweetened.

Hanmer.

Peace is a very apoplexy, lethargy Mull'd, deaf, sleepy, insensible. Shakspeare. 2. To heat any liquor, and sweeten and spice it.

Drink new cyder mull'd, with ginger warm. Gay. MULLE IN. N. s. [verbascum, Lat.] A plant. Miller. MU'LLER. N. s. [mouleur, Fr.] A stone held in the hand, with which any powder is ground upon a horizontal stone. It is now often called improperly mullet,

The best grinder is the porphyry, white of green marble, with a muller or upper stone of the same, cut very even without flaws or holes; you may make a muller also of a flat pebble, by grinding it smooth at a grind-stone. Peacham.

MULLET. n. S. [mullus, Lat. mulet, Fr.] A sea fish.

Of carps and mullets why prefer the great? Yet for small turbots such esteem profess. Pope. MU'LLIGRUBS. n. 5. Twisting of the guts; sometimes sullenness. Ainsworth. MU'LLOCK. n.s. Rubbish. Ainsworth. MULSE. n. s. [mulsum, Lat.] Wine boiled and mingled with honey. MULTANGULAR. adj. [multus and angulus, Lat.] Many cornered; having many corners; polygonal.

Dict.

MULTANGULARLY. adv. [from multangular.] Polygonally; with many cor

ners.

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Bentley.

MULTIFA'RIOUSNESS.n.s. [from multifarious.] Multiplied diversity.

According to the multifariousness of this imitability, so are the possibilities of being. Norris.

MULTIFIDOUS. adj. [multifidus, Latin.] Having many partitions; cleft into many branches.

These animals are only excluded without sight which are multiparous and multifidous, which have many at a litter, and have feet divided into many portions. Brorun.

MULTIFORM. adj. [multiformis, Latin.]
Having various shapes or appearances.
Ye that in quaternion run
Perpetual circle, multiform.

Milton.

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