mucic 
mUCiC (mu'sik), n. [<//(<) + -<<.] . 
ing to or derived from gums, sp,-, itlcally applied 
to an acid (C,iH 10 Og) formed by the oxidizing action "t 
dilute nitric acid on sugar of milk, gum, pet-tin bodies, or 
in;iniiite. It forms a white crystalline powder, difficultly 
soluble in cold water. 
mucid (mii'sid), n. [= It. mm-idn, < L. iiiin-i- 
dux, moldy, < murrrt; be moldy or musty, < /- 
cux, mucus: see mucus.'] Musty; moldy. Hai/fi/. 
mucidness (mu'sid-ues), n. Mustiness; moldi- 
ness. Ainxirnrth. 
mucidous (mu'si-dus), a. Same as mucid. 
[Rare.] 
muciferoUS (mu-sif'e-rus), a. [< L. mucus, mu- 
cus, -I- ferrc = E. Scar 1 .] Secreting mucus; 
inuciparous. 
The muc\ferou system of many deep-sea fishes is devel- 
oped in an extraordinary degree. 
Giinther, Encyc. Brit., XII. 684. 
muciflc (mu-sif'ik), . [< L. IHHCII.I. mucus, + 
t'tirt re, make.] Muciparous; muciferous. 
muciform (mu'si-form), a. [< L. mucus, mucus, 
+ forma, form.] In mcd. , having the character 
of mucus; resembling mucus. 
mucigen (mu'si-jon), n. [< mc<() -I- -gen, 
producing.] A clear substance secreted by the 
cells of mucous membranes and of certain 
glands, and which becomes converted into 
mucin. 
mucigenous (mu-sij'e-nus), . [< L. TOUCH*, mu- 
cus, + -genus, producing : see -i/enous.'] Same 
as inuciparous. 
Out of the breeding-season none of these mucigenoue 
cells an to be found in the kidneys. Nature, XXXIX. 108. 
mucilage (mu'si-laj), n. [< F. mucilage = Sp. 
mucilago = Pg. mucilagem = It. mucellaggine, 
mucilagine, mucilage, < LL. mucilago, muccilago 
(-gin-), a moldy, musty juice, < L. mucere, be 
moldy or musty: see mucid, mucus.'] If. Moldi- 
ness; mustiness; rottenness; a slimy mass. 
The hardest seeds corrupt and are turned to mucilage 
and rottenness, . . . yet rise again, In the spring, from 
squalor and putrefaction, a solid substance. 
Evelyn, True Religion, I. 196. 
2. Gum extracted from the seeds, roots, and 
bark of plants. It is found universally in plants, but 
much more abundantly in some than in others. The 
marsh-mallow root, tubers of orchids, the bark of the lime 
and elm, the seeds of quinces and flax, are examples of 
plant-products rich in this substance. In the arts the 
name is applied to a great variety of sticky and gummy 
preparations, some of which are merely thickened aque- 
ous solutions of natural gum, which is easily extracted 
from vegetable substances by hot water ; while others are 
preparations of dextrine, glue, or other adhesive mate- 
rials, generally containing some preservative substance 
or compound, as creosote or salicylic acid. 
8. In chem., the general name of a group of 
carbohydrates, having the formula CgHioOsn. 
The mucilages have the common property of swelling 
enormously in water, so that they are in a condition near 
to solution, leaving no jelly-like mass as many gums do. 
Members of the group differ greatly in properties, some 
being closely related to the gums, others to cellulose. 
Their chemical constitution is not yet determined. Ani- 
mal mucilage. Same as mucus, l. Mucilage-canals, 
special mucilage-secreting passages or canals observed in 
many plants, as those traversing the parenchyma of the 
pith and cortex of the Marattiaceto, the stems of the Cyca- 
dacecK, the posterior side of the leaves of some species of 
Liienpodium, etc. Mucilage-reservoirs. Same as mu- 
c&aye-canal*. 
mucilage-cell (mu'si-laj-sel), n. An individual 
cell secreting mucilage, as those which occur 
in various ferns, mosses, etc. 
mucilage-slit (mu'si-laj-slit), n. In hot., in the 
. / n llnicn-titrii; a slit on the under surface of the 
thallus, with no special guard-cells, and lead- 
ing like a stoma into an intercellular space 
filled with mucilage. Goebcl. 
mucilaginous (mu-si-laj'i-nus), a. [< P. iiiiiri- 
luuineujc = Sp. Pg. nuiriliigiiiono = It. nniri llnii- 
i/iniiKit. miirilagiiioso, < LL. as if 'miirilngiiinxiix, 
< nnirilago: see mucilage.] 1. In anat., mucip- 
arous ; secreting a glairy or viscid substance 
like mucus: specifically applied to synovial 
membranes, certain of whose fringed vascu- 
lar processes were called mucilaginous gland* 
by Clopton Havers in 1691. [Obsolete.] 2. 
Slimy; ropy; moist, soft, and slightly viscid; 
partaking of the nature of mucilage : as, a mii- 
riliii/iitiiiix gum Mucilaginous extracts, in chem.. 
fxtiiu-ts \\ liii-li dissolve readily in water but scarcely at all 
in iilcohol, and undergo spirituous fermentation. Muci- 
laglnous glands, see ;ilawl. Mucilaginous sheath, 
an envelop or coat of mucilage surrounding the fllamenta 
of certain algso, occurring particularly in the Conjugate. 
mucilaginousness (mu-si-laj'i-nus-nes). . 
The state of being mucilaginous ; sliminess ; 
stickiness. 
mucin (mu'sin), H. [< L. mums, mucus. + 
-in 2 .] A nitrogenous body found in all con- 
nective (issue, and the chief constituent of 
mucus. It is a glutinous substance, soluble in 
weak alkalis, but not in water. 
IllUcinoid (mu'si-noid), n. f< tinii-in + -niil.\ 
Resembling mucin. 
mucinous (inu'si-nus), a. Pertaining to or of 
the nature of mucin. 
mUCiparOUS (mu-sip'a-rus), it. [=F. iiinri/iai-i. 
< L. martin, mucus, + ///</,. bring forth.] Se- 
creting or producing mucus. Also /</(*. 
Mucivora (mu-siv'o-rjl). n. }>l. [NL., < L. / 
cw*, a moldy 'juice (see mucus), + vorare, de- 
vour.] A group of dipterous inwrts which feed 
upon plant-juices. IJexroiili/, 
mucivore (mu'si-vor), n. [< NL. Miirirurn. 
<[. v.] A raucivorous insect. 
mucivorous (nm-siv'o-rus), . [< NL. iluri- 
vora + -OMS.] Feeding upon the juices of plants, 
as Mucivora. 
muck 1 (muk), H. and a. [< ME. muck, //,, 
mok, mokke, mukke, < Icel. myki = Dan mog, 
dung (whence nit. E. midding, midden, q. v.); 
cf. Dan. mak, grease. Prob. orig. 'heap' (cf. 
a similar sense of dung): cf. Norw. mukka = 
Sw. dial, m&kka = Dan. mokke (Aasen), a heap, 
pile : not connected with AS. meox, dung, for 
which see mix 2 , mixen."] I. n. 1. Dung in a 
moist state ; a mass of dung and putrefied vege- 
table matter. 
With fattening muck 
Besmear the roots. J. Philipt, Cider, t. 
Hence 2. Manure in general. 
And money is like mucke, not good except It be spread. 
Bacon, Seditions and Troubles. 
3. A wet, slimy mass; a mess. [Colloq.] 
One of them, I thought, expressed her sentiments upon 
this occasion In a very coarse manner, when she observed 
that by the living Jingo she was all of a made of sweat. 
Qnidsmith, Vicar, Ix. 
Beer . . . which in made of noxious substitutes [for 
the proper constituents], and which Is fitly described In 
the Eastern counties by the somewhat vigorous word 
muck. Nineteenth Century, XXI. 126. 
4. Money: so called in contempt. 
He married her for tmirifo 1 , she him for lust ; 
The motives fowle, then fowly live they must. 
Dana, Scourge of Folly (1611). (Kara.) 
Swamp-muck, Imperfect peat ; the less compact varie- 
ties of peat, especially the paring or turf overlying peat. 
II. . Resembling muck; mucky; damp. 
[Provincial or rare.] Muck Iron. See iron. 
muck 1 (muk), v. [< ME. mukke, manure with 
muck, remove muck from; < Icel. mykja = 
Dan. moge, manure with muck, Icel. moka = 
Sw. mocka = Dan. muge, remove muck from; 
from the noun.] I. trans. 1. To manure. 2. 
To remove muck or manure from. 
I can always earn a little by ... mucking out his stable. 
Mayhew, London Labour and London Poor, I. 489. 
U. intrans. To labor very hard; toil. Hal- 
liu-ell. [Prov. Eng.] 
muck 2 (muk), n. An erroneous form, due to 
mistaking the adverb amuck for a noun with 
the indefinite article. See amuck. 
Frontless and satire-proof he scow'rs the streets, 
And runs an Indian muck at all he meets. 
Dryden, Hind and Panther, ill. 1188. 
Ran a Malayan muck against the times. 
Tennyson, Aylmer's Field. 
muck-bar (muk'bar), n. An iron bar which has 
been passed through the muck-rolls only. 
muckendert, muckindert (muk'en-der), . 
[Also muckinger, mucketer, muckiter, corrupt 
forms, appar. simulating muck*, of moccador, 
mockador: see moccador.] A handkerchief 
used like the modern pocket-handkerchief, but 
generally carried at the girdle. 
The new-erected altar of Cynthia, to which all the Pa- 
phlan widows shall after their husbands' funerals offer 
their wet muckindcrs. Chapman, Widow's Tears, iv. 1. 
Be of good comfort ; take my muckinder 
And dry thine eyes. 
B. Joiaon. Tale of a Tub, ill. 1. 
mucker 1 (muk'er), . [< ME. mukker; < muckl 
+ -er 1 .] One who removes muck from stables. 
etc. Cattt. Aug., p. 246. 
mucker' 2 (muk''er), v. [< ME. nnn-hvi-tt, miiflc- 
rcn, mokfi-fn; appar. freq. of muck 1 , f.] I.t 
trim*. To hoard up; heap. 
Lord, trow ye a coveytous or a wreeche, 
That blameth love, or halt of it despite, 
That of tho pens that heganmotre[var. motor) and thn hi . 
Was ever yet igeve him suich delite, 
As is in love in o polnte in soon plyte? 
Chaucer, Troilus, 111. 1375. 
But as sone as thy hacke is turned from the preacher, 
thou runest on with al thy forcasting studies, to muckre 
vp ryches. J. Udau, On Jas. I. 
II. intrant. 1. To make a mess or muddle of 
any business: muddle: fail. [Prov. Eng.] 
mucoid 
By-the-bye, Welter has ii<c*-rr.'</; yii know tlmt by thb 
time. H. Kimjutrii, Havenshoe, xlv. 
2. To be dirty or untidy. llnlliin-U. [Prov. 
Kn K .] 
mucker- (muk'er), . [< mucker-, c.] A heavy 
fall as in the mire or muck. [Prov. Eng.] 
He ... earned great honour by leaping in and out of 
the Loddon ; only four more doing it, and one receiving a 
mucker. Kingdey, 1852 (Life, I. 849). (Dana.) 
mucker' ( muk'er), n. [< G. mucker, a sulky per- 
><iii. a hypocrite, < mucken, mutter, grumble.] 
1 . In Germany, a person of canting and gloomy 
religious tendencies ; specifically [coj).], one of 
a sect accused of immoral practices, adherents 
of J. W. Ebel, a clergyman in Kdnigsberg, 
Prussia, about 1810-39. Hence 2. A person 
lacking refinement; a coarse, rough person. 
[Slang.] 
muckerert (muk'er-er), n. [< ME. mokerere; < 
murker- + -fr 1 .] A miser; a niggard. 
Avarice maketh alwey mokererei to ben hated. 
Chaucer, Boethiua, U. prow 5. 
muck-fork (muk'fork), i. A dung-fork; a fork 
for distributing manure, 
muck-heap (muk'hep), n. |X ME. mukkeliepe; 
< muck 1 + heiti>.~\ A dunghill. 
muck-hill (muk'hil), n. [< ME. mukhil, mocliil; 
< murf-i + Wi.] A dunghill. 
muckibus (muk'i-bus), a. [Appar. < muck 1 + 
-ibus, a I .. termination as in omnibus and (as- 
sumed) in circumbendibus, etc.] Confused or 
muddled with drink; tipsy; maudlin. [Old 
slang.] 
She [Lady Coventry] said ... If she drank any more, 
she should be muckibut. Walpole, Letters, III. 10. 
muckindert, n. See muckender. 
muckiness (muk'i-nes), . Filthiness; nasti- 
ness. 
muckingert, " Same as muckender. 
muckintogs, muckingtogs (muk'in-, muk'ing- 
togz), . [A corruption of mackintosh, simu- 
lating mucky (weather) and togs, toggery.] A 
mackintosh. [Vulgar.] 
A little "gallows-looking chap," . . . 
With a carpet-swab ana mucking-togf, and a hat turned 
up with green. Barhain, Ingoldsby Legends, n. 137. 
muckitert, . Same as muckender. 
muckle (muk'l), a. and . A dialectal (Scotch) 
form of mickle. 
muckle-hammer (muk'l-ham'er), n. A heavv 
ax-like hammer for spalling or scaling off small 
flakes of granite, 
muck-midden (muk'mid'n), . A dunghill. 
[Scotch.] 
muck-pit (mnk'pit), n. Apitformanureorfilth. 
Thou must be tumbled into a muckpit. 
Dekker, Wonderful Year. 
muck-rake (muk'rak), . A rake for scraping 
muck or filth. Sunyan, Pilgrim's Progress. 
muckret. " An obsolete form of mucker^. 
muck-rolls (muk'rolz), . pi. The first pair of 
rolls in a mill for rolling iron. The Iron Is passed 
through these rolls, and afterward finished by another pair 
of rolls, called merchant train or puddle-bar train. 
mucks, n. See Mj- 2 . 
muck-sweat (muk'swet), . Profuse sweat. 
Dunglison. 
mucksy, n. See muxy. 
muck-thrift (muk'thrift), n. A miser. D. Jer- 
rold. 
muck-worm (muk'werm), n. 1. A worm that 
lives in muck. 2. A miser; one who scrapes 
together money by mean devices. 
Misers are muck-uxrrmt. silk-worms beaus, 
And death-watches physicians. 
Pop*, To Mr. John Moore. 
O the money-grubbers ! Sempiternal wucktrornu ! 
Lamb. 
mucky (muk'i), a. [< muck 1 + -y 1 .] Contain- 
ing or resembling muck ; filthy; vile. 
Thereafter all that mucky pelfe he tooke, 
The spoile of peoples evil gotten good. 
Spenier, F. Q., V. U. 27. 
mucky (muk'i), r. t. ; pret. and pp. muckinl. 
ppr. muckying. [< mucky, a.] To soil. 
She even brought me a clean towel to spread over my 
dress, "lest," as she said, "I should mueky it." 
Charlotte Bronte, Jane Eyre, xxix. 
mucocele (mu'ko-sel), n. [< L. mucus, mucus, 
-I- Gr. Kifl.ii, a tumor.] An enlarged lacrymal 
-;H : a tumor that contains mucus. 
mucodermal (mu-ko-der'mal), a. [< L. mucus, 
mucus, + Gr. tepua, skin : see dermal.'] Of or 
pertaining to the skin and mucous membrane. 
mucoid (mu'koid), a. [< L. mucus, mucus, + 
Gr. fJ<5oc. form.] Resembling mucus or mucous 
tissue. 
