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murmurer — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A person who complains in a low, grumbling way.↗

murmuring — Everyday, meaning 1: Saying something quietly and softly, so it is hard to hear.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Making a low, soft, continuous sound, like a stream, bees or the wind in leaves.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (noun) Murmurings are quiet complaints or rumours: «murmurings of unhappiness».↗ Example: The murmuring stream sent me to sleep.↗ · We could hear voices murmuring behind the door.↗ · Bees were murmuring in the lavender.↗ · There were murmurings in class when the trip was cancelled.↗ · The river went on murmuring through the night.↗ · Mum sat murmuring a lullaby to the baby.↗ · The crowd was murmuring before the show began.↗ · The faint sound of murmuring people was in the air.↗ · 'I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel.↗ (Torah EXO.16.12, JPS 1917)↗ · 'How long shall I bear with this evil congregation, that keep murmuring against Me?↗ (Torah NUM.14.27, JPS 1917)↗ · I have heard the murmurings of the children of Israel, which they keep murmuring against Me.↗ (Torah NUM.14.27, JPS 1917)↗

murrain — In Jewish tradition, meaning 1: A deadly disease of cattle and farm animals.↗ Early Modern English, meaning 1: A deadly disease that kills cattle and other farm animals.↗ Example: behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain.↗ (Torah EXO.9.3, JPS 1917)↗ · behold, the hand of the LORD is upon thy cattle which are in the field, upon the horses, upon the asses, upon the camels, upon the herds, and upon the flocks; there shall be a very grievous murrain.↗ (Torah EXO.9.3, JPS 1917) · Perchance thou hast watered them with foul water, so that their blood is stagnant, and their flesh inflamed?"--"The murrain take 'em if I know thy meaning!" cried the poor brother.↗ (Cossack Fairy Tales and Folk Tales)

muscat — Everyday, meaning 1: Muscat is the capital city of Oman, a country on the Arabian Peninsula, on the Gulf of Oman.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A muscat is a kind of sweet grape with a musky, flowery flavour, used for eating, raisins and sweet wine.↗ Example: Muscat is the capital of Oman.↗ · The old forts of Muscat guard the harbour.↗ · Muscat grapes taste sweet and flowery.↗ · Dried muscat grapes make big juicy raisins.↗ · Ships from Muscat sailed to India and Zanzibar.↗ · We flew to Muscat on holiday.↗

muscle — Everyday, meaning 1: A part of the body made of stretchy tissue that tightens and relaxes to make bones and parts of the body move.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Strength: «It takes muscle to lift that».↗ Example: Muscles help you move your bones.↗ · Your heart is a muscle.↗ · I pulled a muscle playing football.↗ · Exercise makes your muscles stronger.↗ · The biceps muscle bends your arm.↗ · Stretch your muscles after running.↗ · He has strong leg muscles from cycling.↗ · You use muscles in your face to smile.↗ · After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar.↗

muscular — Everyday, meaning 1: Muscular means having big, strong muscles.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Muscular means to do with the muscles of the body: «muscular pain», «the muscular system».↗ Example: The weightlifter had muscular arms.↗ · The muscular system and the skeleton work together to move us.↗ · A horse has strong muscular legs.↗ · Swimming makes your back more muscular.↗ · The heart is a muscular organ that pumps blood.↗ · He felt muscular pain after the long run.↗ · He had strong muscular power, as could be seen when he leapt from rock to rock.↗

musculature — Everyday, meaning 1: (formal, science) All the muscles of a body or of one part of the body, and the way they are arranged.↗ Example: The musculature of a cheetah is built for speed.↗ · The poster showed the musculature of the human arm.↗ · Gymnasts develop strong upper-body musculature.↗ · The artist studied horse musculature to paint them well.↗ · A snake's musculature lets it move without legs.↗ · The doctor checked the musculature of his injured shoulder.↗ · Our heart's musculature never rests.↗

muse — Everyday, meaning 1: To muse is to think quietly and slowly about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A muse is one of the nine goddesses of the arts in Greek myth, such as the muse of Tragedy.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A muse can also be a person or thing that gives an artist ideas.↗ Example: MELPOMENE is the muse of Tragedy.↗ · Fionn mused for a long time before he answered.↗ · The poet asked the muse for help.↗ · I will meditate also upon all Thy work, and muse on Thy doings.'↗ (Writings PSA.77.13, JPS 1917)↗ · When I think thereon, O God, I must moan; when I muse thereon, my spirit fainteth.↗ (Writings PSA.77.4, JPS 1917)↗ · Thy heart shall muse on the terror: 'Where is he that counted, where is he that weighed?↗ (Prophets ISA.33.18, JPS 1917)↗

museum — Everyday, meaning 1: A museum is a building where people go to look at old, rare or interesting things, like dinosaur bones, paintings or machines.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: There are museums of history, art, science, natural history and even toys.↗ Example: 120 people visited the museum.↗ · A ticket to the museum costs 6 dollars.↗ · The museum has 8 rooms.↗ · The class went to the museum.↗ · We saw a dinosaur skeleton at the museum.↗ · Please don't touch the paintings in the museum.↗ · Entry to many museums in London is free.↗ · The science museum has a hands-on room for children.↗ · "That is most likely a museum of art," thought he, "and they have forgotten to take down the sign."↗ · A MSS. copy dated 1719, in the British Museum.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · I add here the full titles of the three Latin versions; they are all to be found in the British Museum Library.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗ · I add here the full titles of the three Latin versions ; they are all to be found in the British Museum Library.↗ (Sefer Yetzirah, Westcott 1893)↗

mush — Everyday, meaning 1: A soft, wet, squashed mass of something, like overcooked food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Silly, soppy talk or writing about love.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: (interjection) A shout telling sled dogs to start or go faster; (verb) to travel with a dog sled.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (UK slang, old-fashioned) A way of calling a man, like "mate"; also slang for a person's face or mouth, as in "Shut your mush".↗ Example: The peas were boiled so long they turned to mush.↗ · After the exam my brain felt like mush.↗ · The banana at the bottom of my bag was mush.↗ · "Mush!" shouted the musher, and the huskies ran.↗ · They mushed across the snow for three days.↗ · The film was all romantic mush.↗ · "Oi, mush, you dropped your wallet!"↗ (UK slang)↗

mushroom — Everyday, meaning 1: A mushroom is a fungus with a stalk and a round cap; some kinds are eaten as food.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: To mushroom means to grow or spread very fast.↗ e.g. New houses mushroomed in the town.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: A mushroom can also be a round, mushroom-shaped stopper, used to plug a hole.↗ Example: We had mushroom soup for lunch.↗ · Never pick and eat wild mushrooms.↗ · Mushrooms grow in damp, dark places.↗ · A mushroom is a kind of fungus.↗ · Some mushrooms are poisonous.↗ · There were mushrooms growing on the old log.↗ · Mushrooms spread by tiny spores.↗ · The town mushroomed into a city.↗ · It was the custom of the boys to stop it with a mushroom when enemies were in the neighbourhood.↗

mushy — Everyday, meaning 1: Mushy means soft and squashy, like mashed food or over-ripe fruit.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (informal) Mushy means too sentimental, full of soppy love feelings: a mushy film.↗ Example: The banana went mushy in my lunchbox.↗ · We had fish and chips with mushy peas.↗ · The cereal turns mushy if you leave it in the milk too long.↗ · Ugh, this film is too mushy!↗ · Cook the carrots longer if you like them mushy.↗ · The card was full of mushy poems.↗

music — Everyday, meaning 1: Music is sounds arranged in a pleasant or interesting way, made by singing or playing instruments.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Music is the written notes that show how to play a piece: «sheet music».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Music is a school subject where you learn to sing, play and listen.↗ Example: I listen to music on the way to school.↗ · We have music on Tuesdays.↗ · She plays music on the violin.↗ · Turn the music down a little.↗ · Can you read music?↗ · The music made everyone dance.↗ · «No homework!» was music to my ears.↗ · He broke the window and had to face the music.↗ · Then she gave one last burst of music.↗ · For the Leader; with string-music; on the Sheminith.↗ (Writings PSA.6.1, JPS 1917)↗ · The elders have ceased from the gate, the young men from their music.↗ (Writings LAM.5.14, JPS 1917)↗ · That thrum on the psaltery, that devise for themselves instruments of music, like David; (Prophets AMO.6.5, JPS 1917)↗

musical — Everyday, meaning 1: Connected with music: «musical instruments», «musical notes».↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Good at music, or liking it a lot: «a very musical family».↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Pleasant to hear, like music: «a musical voice».↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (noun) A play or film in which the story is told with songs and dancing, like «The Lion King» or «Matilda».↗ Example: The violin is a musical instrument.↗ · Our school is putting on a musical this year.↗ · She comes from a very musical family.↗ · We played musical chairs at the party.↗ · He has a soft, musical voice.↗ · I learned to read musical notes.↗ · «The Sound of Music» is a famous musical.↗ · The Decad, which is the sum of the four former, comprehends all arithmetical and musical proportions.↗ (Mordell, The Origin of Letters and Numerals according to Sefer Yetzirah (1914))↗ · and his brethren, Shemaiah, and Azarel, Milalai, Gilalai, Maai, Nethanel, and Judah, Hanani, with the musical instruments of David the man of God; and Ezra the scribe was before them; (Writings NEH.12.36, JPS 1917)↗

musician — Everyday, meaning 1: A musician is a person who plays a musical instrument or sings, especially as a job or with great skill.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: A musician can also be someone who writes music (a composer).↗ Example: My aunt is a musician in an orchestra.↗ · The street musician played the guitar outside the station.↗ · Mozart was a brilliant musician from a young age.↗ · Musicians practise for hours every day.↗ · The band has four musicians.↗ · You don't have to be famous to be a musician — anyone who plays can be one.↗ · ‘Oh, my dear musician, how beautifully you play!↗

musing — Everyday, meaning 1: Musing is thinking quietly and slowly about something.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Musings are thoughts a person has while thinking quietly.↗ Example: He walked on, musing on the strange affair.↗ · His musings kept him from noticing the time.↗ · Her musings were full of happy memories.↗ · Let my musing be sweet unto Him; as for me, I will rejoice in the LORD.↗ (Writings PSA.104.34, JPS 1917)↗ · My heart waxed hot within me; while I was musing, the fire kindled; then spoke I with my tongue: (Writings PSA.39.4, JPS 1917)↗

musk — Everyday, meaning 1: Musk is a strong-smelling substance first taken from a gland of the male musk deer, used in making perfumes; today most musk in perfumes is man-made.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Musk is any strong, warm, animal-like smell, such as the smell of some animals or plants.↗ Everyday, meaning 3: Musk is used in names of animals and plants with this smell: musk ox, muskrat, musk rose, musk mallow.↗ Everyday, meaning 4: (a name) Musk is a surname, for example of a well-known businessman who runs electric car and space rocket companies.↗ Example: Musk ox live in the cold Arctic tundra.↗ · Some perfumes have a smell of musk.↗ · The musk deer has no antlers but long tusk-like teeth.↗ · The fox left a strong musky smell.↗ · Muskrats build homes in rivers and marshes.↗ · Musk roses smell sweet in summer.↗ · Most musk in perfume today is made in a lab.↗ · The news reported on Musk's latest rocket launch.↗

musket — Everyday, meaning 1: A musket is an old kind of long gun, loaded through the front of the barrel, used by soldiers and hunters long ago.↗ Example: The men came armed with knives and muskets.↗ · The musket went off with a bang.↗ · Buldeo carried the Tower musket.↗

muskrat — Everyday, meaning 1: A muskrat is a small water animal with thick brown fur, found in North America and Europe, which lives near rivers and ponds.↗ Example: The muskrat laughed at the snake.↗ · Rikki scornfully asked if a snake-killer kills muskrats.↗ · The hungry muskrat would not run the race.↗

muslim — Everyday, meaning 1: A person who follows the religion of Islam.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: (adjective) To do with Islam or Muslims: «Muslim festivals».↗ Example: My friend Aisha is Muslim and celebrates Eid.↗ · Muslims pray in a mosque.↗ · Many Muslims fast during Ramadan.↗ · Our class learned about Muslim festivals.↗ · Muslim families often share food with neighbours at Eid.↗ · Muslims live in every country of the world.↗

muslin — Everyday, meaning 1: Muslin is a thin, light cotton cloth.↗ Everyday, meaning 2: Muslin is used for baby wraps, for straining food in the kitchen and in old times for dresses and curtains.↗ Example: She bought 6 yards of muslin.↗ · Muslin costs 20 cents a yard.↗ · How much do 4 yards of muslin cost?↗ · The baby was wrapped in a soft muslin.↗ · Strain the yoghurt through a piece of muslin.↗ · In the old story, the girl wore a white muslin dress.↗ · The curtains are made of thin muslin.↗ · Everybody was looking on, and the King was chuckling to himself at the idea of finding the piece of muslin in a nutshell.↗