mural : Dictionary / Wörterbuch (BEOLINGUS, TU Chemnitz)

English Dictionary: mural	by the DICT Development Group
2 results for mural
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mural adj of or relating to walls; "mural painting" n a painting that is applied to a wall surface [syn: mural, wall painting]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mural \Mu"ral\, a. [F., fr. L. muralis, fr. murus wall. See {Mure} a wall.] 1. Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant. [bd]Mural breach.[b8] --Milton. [bd]Mural fruit.[b8] --Evelyn. 2. Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural precipice. {Mural circle} (Astron.), a graduated circle, in the plane of the meridian, attached permanently to a perpendicular wall; -- used for measuring arcs of the meridian. See {Circle}, n., 3. {Mural crown} (Rom. Antiq.), a golden crown, or circle of gold indented so as to resemble a battlement, bestowed on him who first mounted the wall of a besieged place, and there lodged a standard.