Lexicon: mushroom – mutineer

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mushroom, n. [OFr moisseron.]

  1. Type of fungus.
  2. Something that grows very rapidly.

music, adj. [see music, n.]

Melodious.

music, n. [L. < Gk 'art presided over by the Muses'.]

  1. Melody.
  2. Combination of pleasing sounds.
  3. Song of a bird.
  4. Order; harmony in revolutions.

musician (-s), n. [see music, n.]

One who creates music.

musket, n. [It. moschetto, kind of sparrow hawk; later extended to mean 'arrow from a crossbow'.]

  1. Type of gun.
  2. Kind of bird.

muslin, adj. [Fr.]

Lightweight cotton fabric with a fine weave; [fig.] frail; delicate; fragile; insubstantial; immaterial.

must, n. [OE.]

Need; obligation.

mute, adj. [L.]

Silent.

muteness, n. [see mute, adj.]

Silence.

mutineer, n. [see mutiny, n.]

One guilty of mutiny.