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   Maclura
         n 1: yellowwood trees or shrubs [syn: {Maclura}, {genus
               Maclura}]

English Dictionary: Maclura pomifera by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Maclura pomifera
n
  1. small shrubby deciduous yellowwood tree of south central United States having spines, glossy dark green leaves and an inedible fruit that resembles an orange; its hard orange-colored wood used for bows by Native Americans; frequently planted as boundary hedge
    Synonym(s): osage orange, bow wood, mock orange, Maclura pomifera
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
macular area
n
  1. a small yellowish central area of the retina that is rich in cones and that mediates clear detailed vision
    Synonym(s): macula, macula lutea, macular area, yellow spot
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
macular degeneration
n
  1. eye disease caused by degeneration of the cells of the macula lutea and results in blurred vision; can cause blindness
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
macular edema
n
  1. an eye disease caused by a swelling of the macula resulting from leakage and accumulation of fluid
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maxillaria
n
  1. any of numerous orchids of the genus Maxillaria often cultivated for their large brilliantly colored solitary flowers
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maxillary
adj
  1. of or relating to the upper jaw
n
  1. the jaw in vertebrates that is fused to the cranium [syn: upper jaw, upper jawbone, maxilla, maxillary]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maxillary artery
n
  1. either of two arteries branching from the external carotid artery and supplying structure of the face
    Synonym(s): maxillary artery, arteria maxillaris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maxillary sinus
n
  1. one of a pair of sinuses forming a cavity in the maxilla
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maxillary vein
n
  1. posterior continuation of the pterygoid plexus; joins the superficial temporal vein to form the retromandibular vein
    Synonym(s): maxillary vein, vena maxillaris
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
McCullers
n
  1. United States novelist (1917-1967) [syn: McCullers, Carson McCullers, Carson Smith McCullers]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov
n
  1. Russian writer (1814-1841) [syn: Lermontov, {Mikhail Yurievich Lermontov}]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muscle relaxant
n
  1. a drug that reduces muscle contractility by blocking the transmission of nerve impulses or by decreasing the excitability of the motor end plate or by other actions
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muscular
adj
  1. of or relating to or consisting of muscle; "muscular contraction"
  2. having a robust muscular body-build characterized by predominance of structures (bone and muscle and connective tissue) developed from the embryonic mesodermal layer
    Synonym(s): mesomorphic, muscular
    Antonym(s): ectomorphic, endomorphic, pyknic
  3. having or suggesting great physical power or force; "the muscular and passionate Fifth Symphony"
  4. (of a person) possessing physical strength and weight; rugged and powerful; "a hefty athlete"; "a muscular boxer"; "powerful arms"
    Synonym(s): brawny, hefty, muscular, powerful, sinewy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muscular contraction
n
  1. (physiology) a shortening or tensing of a part or organ (especially of a muscle or muscle fiber)
    Synonym(s): contraction, muscular contraction, muscle contraction
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muscular dystrophy
n
  1. any of several hereditary diseases of the muscular system characterized by weakness and wasting of skeletal muscles
    Synonym(s): muscular dystrophy, dystrophy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muscular structure
n
  1. the muscular system of an organism [syn: {muscular structure}, musculature, muscle system]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muscular tissue
n
  1. animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells
    Synonym(s): muscle, muscular tissue
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muscular tonus
n
  1. normal tonicity of the muscles; "exercise improves muscle tone"
    Synonym(s): muscular tonus, muscle tone
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muscularity
n
  1. the physiological state of having or consisting of muscle
  2. possessing muscular strength
    Synonym(s): brawn, brawniness, muscle, muscularity, sinew, heftiness
  3. an imaginative lively style (especially style of writing); "his writing conveys great energy"; "a remarkable muscularity of style"
    Synonym(s): energy, muscularity, vigor, vigour, vim
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muzzler
n
  1. someone who muzzles animals
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   d8Bois d'arc \[d8]Bois" d'arc"\ [F., bow wood. So called because
      used for bows by the Western Indians.] (Bot.)
      The Osage orange ({Maclura aurantiaca}).
  
               The bois d'arc seems to be the characteristic growth of
               the black prairies.                                 --U. S. Census
                                                                              (1880).

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morintannic \Mo`rin*tan"nic\, a. [NL. Morus fustic + E. tannic.]
      (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid
      extracted from fustic ({Maclura, formerly Morus, tinctoria})
      as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also {maclurin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morin \Mo"rin\, n. (Chem.)
      A yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted
      from fustic ({Maclura tinctoria}, formerly called {Morus
      tinctoria}); -- called also {moric acid}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Fustic \Fus"tic\, n. [F. fustoc, Sp. fustoc. Cf. {Fustet}.]
      The wood of the {Maclura tinctoria}, a tree growing in the
      West Indies, used in dyeing yellow; -- called also {old
      fustic}. [Written also {fustoc}.]
  
      Note: Other kinds of yellow wood are often called fustic; as
               that of species of {Xanthoxylum}, and especially the
               {Rhus Cotinus}, which is sometimes called young fustic
               to distinguish it from the {Maclura}. See {Fustet}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maclurin \Ma*clu"rin\, n. (Chem.)
      See {Morintannic}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morintannic \Mo`rin*tan"nic\, a. [NL. Morus fustic + E. tannic.]
      (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid
      extracted from fustic ({Maclura, formerly Morus, tinctoria})
      as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also {maclurin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maclurin \Ma*clu"rin\, n. (Chem.)
      See {Morintannic}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Morintannic \Mo`rin*tan"nic\, a. [NL. Morus fustic + E. tannic.]
      (Chem.)
      Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannic acid
      extracted from fustic ({Maclura, formerly Morus, tinctoria})
      as a yellow crystalline substance; -- called also {maclurin}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maxillar \Max"il*lar\, Maxillary \Max"il*la*ry\, a. [L.
      maxillaris, fr. maxilla jawbone, jaw: cf. F. maxillaire.]
      1. (Anat.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw,
            but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. -- n. The
            principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maxillar \Max"il*lar\, Maxillary \Max"il*la*ry\, a. [L.
      maxillaris, fr. maxilla jawbone, jaw: cf. F. maxillaire.]
      1. (Anat.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw,
            but now usually applied to the upper jaw only. -- n. The
            principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Measelry \Mea"sel*ry\, n. [OE. meselrie, OF. mesellerie. See lst
      {Measle}.]
      Leprosy. [Obs.] --R. of Brunne.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Megalerg \Meg"a*lerg\, n. [Megalo- + erg.] (Physics)
      A million ergs; a megerg.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Megerg \Meg"erg`\, n. [Mega- + erg.] (Physics)
      One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million
      ergs; -- called also {megalerg}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Megalerg \Meg"a*lerg\, n. [Megalo- + erg.] (Physics)
      A million ergs; a megerg.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Megerg \Meg"erg`\, n. [Mega- + erg.] (Physics)
      One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million
      ergs; -- called also {megalerg}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Meselry \Me"sel*ry\, n.
      Leprosy. [Obs.] --Chaucer.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Miscolor \Mis*col"or\, v. t.
      To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth
      erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts. --C.
      Kingsley.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mislayer \Mis*lay"er\, n.
      One who mislays.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mislearn \Mis*learn"\, v. t.
      To learn wrongly.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscle reading \Mus"cle read`ing\
      The art of making discriminations between objects of choice,
      of discovering the whereabouts of hidden objects, etc., by
      inference from the involuntary movements of one whose hand
      the reader holds or with whom he is otherwise in muscular
      contact.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See {Muscle}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
            consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
            muscular fiber.
  
                     Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
                     awkwardness.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
            [bd]The muscular motion.[b8] --Arbuthnot.
  
      3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
            muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
            muscular body or arm.
  
      {Muscular Christian}, one who believes in a part of religious
            duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
            --T. Hughes.
  
      {Muscular CHristianity}.
            (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
                  believe that it is a part of religious duty to
                  maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
                  therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
                  conductive to good health, good morals, and right
                  feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
            (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
                  opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
  
      {Muscular excitability} (Physiol.), that property in virtue
            of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
            irritability.
  
      {Muscular sense} (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
            by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
            muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
            the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
            resistance offering by external objects.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See {Muscle}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
            consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
            muscular fiber.
  
                     Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
                     awkwardness.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
            [bd]The muscular motion.[b8] --Arbuthnot.
  
      3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
            muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
            muscular body or arm.
  
      {Muscular Christian}, one who believes in a part of religious
            duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
            --T. Hughes.
  
      {Muscular CHristianity}.
            (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
                  believe that it is a part of religious duty to
                  maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
                  therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
                  conductive to good health, good morals, and right
                  feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
            (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
                  opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
  
      {Muscular excitability} (Physiol.), that property in virtue
            of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
            irritability.
  
      {Muscular sense} (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
            by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
            muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
            the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
            resistance offering by external objects.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See {Muscle}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
            consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
            muscular fiber.
  
                     Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
                     awkwardness.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
            [bd]The muscular motion.[b8] --Arbuthnot.
  
      3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
            muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
            muscular body or arm.
  
      {Muscular Christian}, one who believes in a part of religious
            duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
            --T. Hughes.
  
      {Muscular CHristianity}.
            (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
                  believe that it is a part of religious duty to
                  maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
                  therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
                  conductive to good health, good morals, and right
                  feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
            (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
                  opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
  
      {Muscular excitability} (Physiol.), that property in virtue
            of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
            irritability.
  
      {Muscular sense} (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
            by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
            muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
            the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
            resistance offering by external objects.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See {Muscle}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
            consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
            muscular fiber.
  
                     Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
                     awkwardness.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
            [bd]The muscular motion.[b8] --Arbuthnot.
  
      3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
            muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
            muscular body or arm.
  
      {Muscular Christian}, one who believes in a part of religious
            duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
            --T. Hughes.
  
      {Muscular CHristianity}.
            (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
                  believe that it is a part of religious duty to
                  maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
                  therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
                  conductive to good health, good morals, and right
                  feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
            (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
                  opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
  
      {Muscular excitability} (Physiol.), that property in virtue
            of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
            irritability.
  
      {Muscular sense} (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
            by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
            muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
            the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
            resistance offering by external objects.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscular \Mus"cu*lar\, a. [Cf. F. musculaire. See {Muscle}.]
      1. Of or pertaining to a muscle, or to a system of muscles;
            consisting of, or constituting, a muscle or muscles; as,
            muscular fiber.
  
                     Great muscular strength, accompanied by much
                     awkwardness.                                       --Macaulay.
  
      2. Performed by, or dependent on, a muscle or the muscles.
            [bd]The muscular motion.[b8] --Arbuthnot.
  
      3. Well furnished with muscles; having well-developed
            muscles; brawny; hence, strong; powerful; vigorous; as, a
            muscular body or arm.
  
      {Muscular Christian}, one who believes in a part of religious
            duty to maintain a healthful and vigorous physical state.
            --T. Hughes.
  
      {Muscular CHristianity}.
            (a) The practice and opinion of those Christians who
                  believe that it is a part of religious duty to
                  maintain a vigorous condition of the body, and who
                  therefore approve of athletic sports and exercises as
                  conductive to good health, good morals, and right
                  feelings in religious matters. --T. Hughes.
            (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as
                  opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. --C. Kingsley.
  
      {Muscular excitability} (Physiol.), that property in virtue
            of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated;
            irritability.
  
      {Muscular sense} (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense
            by which we obtain knowledge of the condition of our
            muscles and to what extent they are contracted, also of
            the position of the various parts of our bodies and the
            resistance offering by external objects.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Work \Work\, n. [OE. work, werk, weork, AS. weorc, worc; akin to
      OFries. werk, wirk, OS., D., & G. werk, OHG. werc, werah,
      Icel. & Sw. verk, Dan. v[91]rk, Goth. gawa[a3]rki, Gr. [?],
      [?], work, [?] to do, [?] an instrument, [?] secret rites,
      Zend verez to work. [?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Bulwark}, {Energy},
      {Erg}, {Georgic}, {Liturgy}, {Metallurgy}, {Organ},
      {Surgeon}, {Wright}.]
      1. Exertion of strength or faculties; physical or
            intellectual effort directed to an end; industrial
            activity; toil; employment; sometimes, specifically,
            physically labor.
  
                     Man hath his daily work of body or mind Appointed.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
      2. The matter on which one is at work; that upon which one
            spends labor; material for working upon; subject of
            exertion; the thing occupying one; business; duty; as, to
            take up one's work; to drop one's work.
  
                     Come on, Nerissa; I have work in hand That you yet
                     know not of.                                       --Shak.
  
                     In every work that he began . . . he did it with all
                     his heart, and prospered.                  --2 Chron.
                                                                              xxxi. 21.
  
      3. That which is produced as the result of labor; anything
            accomplished by exertion or toil; product; performance;
            fabric; manufacture; in a more general sense, act, deed,
            service, effect, result, achievement, feat.
  
                     To leave no rubs or blotches in the work. --Shak.
  
                     The work some praise, And some the architect.
                                                                              --Milton.
  
                     Fancy . . . Wild work produces oft, and most in
                     dreams.                                             --Milton.
  
                     The composition or dissolution of mixed bodies . . .
                     is the chief work of elements.            --Sir K.
                                                                              Digby.
  
      4. Specifically:
            (a) That which is produced by mental labor; a composition;
                  a book; as, a work, or the works, of Addison.
            (b) Flowers, figures, or the like, wrought with the
                  needle; embroidery.
  
                           I am glad I have found this napkin; . . . I'll
                           have the work ta'en out, And give 't Iago.
                                                                              --Shak.
            (c) pl. Structures in civil, military, or naval
                  engineering, as docks, bridges, embankments, trenches,
                  fortifications, and the like; also, the structures and
                  grounds of a manufacturing establishment; as, iron
                  works; locomotive works; gas works.
            (d) pl. The moving parts of a mechanism; as, the works of
                  a watch.
  
      5. Manner of working; management; treatment; as, unskillful
            work spoiled the effect. --Bp. Stillingfleet.
  
      6. (Mech.) The causing of motion against a resisting force.
            The amount of work is proportioned to, and is measured by,
            the product of the force into the amount of motion along
            the direction of the force. See {Conservation of energy},
            under {Conservation}, {Unit of work}, under {Unit}, also
            {Foot pound}, {Horse power}, {Poundal}, and {Erg}.
  
                     Energy is the capacity of doing work . . . Work is
                     the transference of energy from one system to
                     another.                                             --Clerk
                                                                              Maxwell.
  
      7. (Mining) Ore before it is dressed. --Raymond.
  
      8. pl. (Script.) Performance of moral duties; righteous
            conduct.
  
                     He shall reward every man according to his works.
                                                                              --Matt. xvi.
                                                                              27.
  
                     Faith, if it hath not works, is dead. --James ii.
                                                                              17.
  
      {Muscular work} (Physiol.), the work done by a muscle through
            the power of contraction.
  
      {To go to work}, to begin laboring; to commence operations;
            to contrive; to manage. [bd]I 'll go another way to work
            with him.[b8] --Shak.
  
      {To set on work}, to cause to begin laboring; to set to work.
            [Obs.] --Hooker.
  
      {To set to work}, to employ; to cause to engage in any
            business or labor.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscularity \Mus`cu*lar"i*ty\, n.
      The state or quality of being muscular. --Grew.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscularize \Mus"cu*lar*ize\, v. t.
      To make muscular. --Lowell.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muscularly \Mus"cu*lar*ly\, adv.
      In a muscular manner.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Musk \Musk\, n. [F. musc, L. muscus, Per. musk, fr. Skr. mushka
      testicle, orig., a little mouse. See {Mouse}, and cd.
      {Abelmosk}, {Muscadel}, {Muscovy duck}, {Nutmeg}.]
      1. A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of
            the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind
            the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter
            taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and
            enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant
            antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of
            various other animals, having a similar odor.
  
      2. (Zo[94]l.) The musk deer. See {Musk deer} (below).
  
      3. The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat
            similar.
  
      4. (Bot.)
            (a) The musk plant ({Mimulus moschatus}).
            (b) A plant of the genus {Erodium} ({E. moschatum}); --
                  called also {musky heron's-bill}.
            (c) A plant of the genus {Muscari}; grape hyacinth.
  
      {Musk beaver} (Zo[94]l.), muskrat (1).
  
      {Musk beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a European longicorn beetle
            ({Aromia moschata}), having an agreeable odor resembling
            that of attar of roses.
  
      {Musk cat}. See {Bondar}.
  
      {Musk cattle} (Zo[94]l.), musk oxen. See {Musk ox} (below).
           
  
      {Musk deer} (Zo[94]l.), a small hornless deer ({Moschus
            moschiferus}), which inhabits the elevated parts of
            Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are
            developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has
            scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce
            is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish
            below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil
            and napu.
  
      {Musk duck}. (Zo[94]l.)
            (a) The Muscovy duck.
            (b) An Australian duck ({Biziura lobata}).
  
      {Musk lorikeet} (Zo[94]l.), the Pacific lorikeet
            ({Glossopsitta australis}) of Australia.
  
      {Musk mallow} (Bot.), a name of two malvaceous plants:
            (a) A species of mallow ({Malva moschata}), the foliage of
                  which has a faint musky smell.
            (b) An Asiatic shrub. See {Abelmosk}.
  
      {Musk orchis} (Bot.), a European plant of the Orchis family
            ({Herminium Minorchis}); -- so called from its peculiar
            scent.
  
      {Musk ox} (Zo[94]l.), an Arctic hollow-horned ruminant
            ({Ovibos moschatus}), now existing only in America, but
            found fossil in Europe and Asia. It is covered with a
            thick coat of fine yellowish wool, and with long dark
            hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the neck and
            shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred
            pounds.
  
      {Musk parakeet}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Musk lorikeet} (above).
           
  
      {Musk pear} (Bot.), a fragrant kind of pear much resembling
            the Seckel pear.
  
      {Musk plant} (Bot.), the {Mimulus moschatus}, a plant found
            in Western North America, often cultivated, and having a
            strong musky odor.
  
      {Musk root} (Bot.), the name of several roots with a strong
            odor, as that of the nard ({Nardostachys Jatamansi}) and
            of a species of {Angelica}.
  
      {Musk rose} (Bot.), a species of rose ({Rosa moschata}),
            having peculiarly fragrant white blossoms.
  
      {Musk seed} (Bot.), the seed of a plant of the Mallow family
            ({Hibiscus moschatus}), used in perfumery and in
            flavoring. See {Abelmosk}.
  
      {Musk sheep} (Zo[94]l.), the musk ox.
  
      {Musk shrew} (Zo[94]l.), a shrew ({Sorex murinus}), found in
            India. It has a powerful odor of musk. Called also
            {sondeli}, and {mondjourou}.
  
      {Musk thistle} (Bot.), a species of thistle ({Carduus
            nutans}), having fine large flowers, and leaves smelling
            strongly of musk.
  
      {Musk tortoise}, {Musk turtle} (Zo[94]l.), a small American
            fresh-water tortoise ({Armochelys, [or] Ozotheca,
            odorata}), which has a distinct odor of musk; -- called
            also {stinkpot}.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Mc Cleary, WA
      Zip code(s): 98557

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Mc Clure, IL
      Zip code(s): 62957
   Mc Clure, OH
      Zip code(s): 43534
   Mc Clure, PA
      Zip code(s): 17841
   Mc Clure, VA
      Zip code(s): 24269

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Mc Clurg, MO
      Zip code(s): 65701

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   McCleary, WA (town, FIPS 41225)
      Location: 47.05525 N, 123.26761 W
      Population (1990): 1235 (502 housing units)
      Area: 2.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   McClure, OH (village, FIPS 45794)
      Location: 41.37054 N, 83.94199 W
      Population (1990): 781 (291 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
   McClure, PA (borough, FIPS 45992)
      Location: 40.70764 N, 77.31133 W
      Population (1990): 1070 (426 housing units)
      Area: 9.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Mescalero, NM (CDP, FIPS 47920)
      Location: 33.15081 N, 105.79599 W
      Population (1990): 1159 (337 housing units)
      Area: 39.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 88340
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