mutton 
Reckon with my father about that; . . . he will pay you 
gallantly ; a French mutton for every hide I have spoiled. 
Scott, Fair Maid of Perth, vi. 
Laced mutton^, a loose woman. [Slang.] 
I. a lost mutton, gave your letter to her, a laced mtitton ; 
and she, a laced mutton, . . . gave me, a lost mutton, no- 
thing for my labour ! Shale., T. G. of V., i. 1. 102. 
Cupid hath got me a stomach, and I long for laced mut- 
ton. Middleton, Blurt, Master-Constable, i. 2. 
mutton-bird (mut'n-berd), . A bird of the 
family Procellariida; and genus (Estrelata; one 
of several kinds of petrels found in the southern 
seas, as CE. lessoni, which is also called white 
night-hawk. See cut at (Estretota. 
mutton-chop (mut'n-chop'), n. and a. I. n. A 
rib-piece of mutton for broiling or frying, hav- 
ing the bone cut, or chopped off at the small 
end. The name is also extended to other small 
pieces cut for broiling. 
II, a. Having a form narrow and prolonged at 
one end and rounded at the other, like that of 
a mutton-chop. This designation is especially applied 
to side whiskers when the chin is shaved both in front and 
beneath, and the whiskers are trimmed short : also called 
mutton-cutlet whiskers. 
muttonert, motonert, n. A wencher ; a mutton- 
monger. Lydgate, p. 168. (Ealliwell.) [Slang.] 
mutton-fish (mut'n-fish), . 1. A fish of the 
family Lycodidw, Zoarces anguittaris. It is of a 
stout eel-like form, with confluent vertical fins and an in- 
terrupted posterior interval in the dorsal where the rays 
Mutton-fish (Zoarces an^ttillarii). 
are replaced by short spines. The color is generally red- 
dish-brown mottled with olive. It is an inhabitant of the 
eastern American coast, from Delaware to Labrador, and 
is used as food. Also called conger-eel, ling, and lamper- 
eel. 
2. A kind of ormer or ear-shell, Haliotis iris, of 
New Zealand. 
mutton-fist (mut'n-fist), . A large, thick, 
brawny fist. 
Will he who saw the soldier's mutton-fist, 
And saw thee maul'd, appear within the list 
To witness truth? 
Dryden, tr. of Juvenal's Satires, xvi. 45. 
mutton-ham (mut'n-ham), . A leg of mutton 
salted and prepared as ham. 
muttonhead (mut'n-hed), . A dull or stupid 
person. 
mutton-headed (mut'n-hed"ed), a. Dull ; stu- 
pid. 
A lion an animal that has a majestic aspect and noble 
antecedents, but is both tyrannical and mean, mutton- 
headed and stealthy. P. Robinson, Under the Sun, p. 194. 
mutton-legger (fhut'n-leg // er), n. A leg-of- 
mutton sail ; also, a boat carrying this style of 
sail. 
mutton-mongert (mut'n-mung"ger), n. One 
who has to do with prostitutes; a wencher. 
[Slang.] 
Is 't possible the lord Hipolito, whose face is as civil 
as the outside of a dedicatory book, should be a mutton- 
monger? Dekker and Middleton, Honest Whore, ii. 
mutton-thumper (mut'n-thum"per), " A bun- 
gling bookbinder. [Slang, Eng.] 
muttony (mut'n-i), a. [< mutton + -y 1 .] Re- 
sembling mutton in flavor, appearance, or other 
of its qualities ; consisting of mutton. 
mutual (mu'tu-al), . [< F. mutuel (= Sp. mu- 
tual), with suffix -el, E. -al, < OF. mutu = Sp. 
mutuo = Pg. It. muttto, < L. mutuus, reciprocal, 
in exchange, borrowed, < mutare, change, ex- 
change: see mute 2 .] 1. Reciprocally given and 
received; pertaining alike or reciprocally to 
both sides; interchanged: as, mutual love ; to 
entertain a mutual aversion. 
To take away all such mutual grievances, injuries, and 
wrongs, there was no way but only by growing unto com- 
position and agreement amongst themselves. 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, i. 10. 
A contract of eternal bond of love, 
Conflrm'd by mutual joinder of your hands. 
Shak., T. N., v. 1. 160. 
And many were found to kill one an other with mutuall 
combats. Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. 158. 
Among uneqnals what society 
Can sort, what harmony, or true delight? 
Which must be mutual, in proportion due 
Given and received. Maton, P. L., viil. 385. 
We ... do conceive it our bounden duty, without de- 
lay, to enter into a present consociation amongst ourselves 
tor mutual help and strength in all future concernment. 
Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 122. 
Who buried their mutual animosities in their common 
detestation against the creditors of the Nabob of Arcot. 
Burke, Nabob of Arcot's Debts. 
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Love between husband and wife may be all on one side, 
then it is not mutual. It may be felt on both sides, then 
it is mutual. They are mutual friends, and something 
better ; but if a third person step in, though loyal regard 
may make him a friend of both, no power in language can 
make him their mutual friend. 
JV. and Q., 7th ser., VI. 192. 
2. Equally relating to or affecting two or more 
together; common to two or more combined; 
depending on, proceeding from, or exhibiting 
a certain community of action; shared alike. 
Allide with bands of mutuall couplement. 
Spenser, F. Q., IV. iii. 52. 
High over seas 
Flying, and over lands, with mutual wing 
Easing their flight. Milton, P. L., vii. 429. 
In this manner, notwithoutalmostni(oZ tears, I part- 
ed from him. Evelyn, Diary, Aug., 1673. 
3. Common: used in this sense loosely and 
improperly (but not infrequently, and by many 
writers of high rank), especially in the phrase 
a mutual friend. 
I have little intercourse with Dr. Blair, but will take 
care to have the poems communicated to him by the in- 
tervention of some mutual friend. 
Blacklock, 1786, quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 298. 
Sir Walter Scott, writing to Messrs. Hurst, Robinson & 
Co., under date Feb. 26, 1822, says, I desired our mutual 
friend, Mr. James Ballantyne, &c. 
Quoted in N. and Q., 7th ser., V. 298. 
"By the by, ma'am," said Mr. Boffin, . . . "you have a 
lodger? ... I may call him Our Mutual Friend." 
Dickens, Our Mutual Friend, ix. 
Mutual accounts, accounts in which each of two parties 
has one or more charges against the other. Mutual 
contract. See contract. Mutual distinction, one 
which separates its two members equally from each 
other, and not like a distinction between whole and part. 
Mutual gable, Induction, etc. See the nouns. 
Mutual promises, concurrent and reciprocal promises 
which serve as considerations to support each other, un- 
less one or the other is void, as where one man promises 
to pay money to another, and he, in consideration thereof, 
promises to do a certain act, etc. Wharton. Mutual 
will. See will. =Syn. See reciprocal. 
mutualism (mu'tu-al-izm), . [< mutual + 
-4sm.] A symbiosis in which two organisms 
living together mutually and permanently help 
and support one another. (DeBary.) Lichens 
are examples among plants. 
mutualist (mu'tu-al-ist), n. [= F. mutualiste; 
as mutual + -isi.] In zool., one of two com- 
mensals which are associated, neither of which 
shares the food of or preys upon the other. E. 
Van Beneden. 
mutuality (mu-tu-al'i-ti), . [= F. mutualite; 
as mutual + -ity.] 1. The state or quality of 
being mutual; reciprocity; interchange. Thus, 
a contract that has no consideration is said to 
be void for want of mutuality. 
There is no sweeter taste of friendship than the cou- 
pling of souls in this mutuality, either of condoling or com- 
forting. Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
In both [parts of an organic aggregate or of a social ag- 
gregate], too, this mutuality increases as the evolution ad- 
vances. H. Spencer, Prin. of Sociol., 217. 
2f. Interchange of acts or expressions of affec- 
tion or kindness; familiarity. 
When these mutualities so marshal the way, hard at 
hand comes the master and main exercise. 
Shak., Othello, ii. 1. 267. 
His kindnesses seldom exceed courtesies. He loves not 
deeper mutualities. 
Bp. Earle, Micro-cosmographie, A Plausible Man. 
mutually (mu'tu-al-i), adv. 1. In a mutual 
manner; reciprocally; in a manner of giving 
and receiving. 
A friend, with whom I mutually may share 
Gladness and anguish, by kind intercourse 
Of speech and offices. J. Philipn, Cider, i. 
There sat we down upon a garden mound, 
Two mutually enfolded ; Love, the third, 
Between us, in the circle of his arms 
Enwound us both. Tennyson, Gardener's Daughter. 
2. Equally or alike by two or more ; conjointly ; 
in common. [Held to be an erroneous use: 
see mutual, 3.] 
So then it seems your most off enceful act 
Was mutually committed. 
Shak., M. for M., ii. 3. 27. 
mutuary (mu'tu-a-ri), n. ; pi. mutuaries (-riz). 
[= Pg. mutuario, a borrower, < LL. mutuarius, 
mutual, < L. mutuus, borrowed, mutual: see 
mutual.] In law, one who borrows personal 
chattels to be consumed by him in the use, and 
returned to the lender in kind. 
mutuatet (mu'tu-at), v. t. [< L. mutuatus, pp. 
of mutuare (> It. mutuare = Pg. mutuar}, bor- 
row, < mutuus, borrowed: see mutual.] To bor- 
row. 
Wliiche for to set themselfes and their band the more 
gorgeously forward had mutuate and borowed dyuerse 
and sondry summes of money. 
Hall, Henry VII., an. 7. (HaUiwell.) 
muzzle 
mutuationt (mu-tu-a'shqn), n. [= Pg. mutua- 
gao = It. mutuazione, < L. mutuatio(n-), a bor- 
rowing. < mutuare, pp. mutuatus, borrow, < mu- 
tuus, borrowed: see mutual.] The act of bor- 
rowing. 
mutuatitioust (mu''tu-a-tish'us), . [< LL. 
muttiatitius, borrowed, < L. mutuare, borrow: 
see mutilation.] Borrowed; taken from some 
other. 
The mutuatitioui good works of their pretended holy 
men and women. 
Dr. H. More, Antidote against Idolatry, x. 
mutule (mu'tul), n. [= F. mutule = It. mutulo, 
< L. mutulus, a mutule, modillion.] In arch., 
a projecting piece in the form of a flat block 
m m, Greek Mutules. 2. nr' **', Roman Murules. 
under the corona of the Doric cornice, corre- 
sponding to the modillion of other orders. The 
mutules are placed one over every triglyph and metope, 
and bear on the under side guttee or drops, which repre- 
sent the heads of pegs or treenails in the primitive wood- 
en construction, to the rafter-ends of which the mutules 
correspond. See cut under gvtta. 
mutuum (mu'tu-um), n. [L., a loan; neut. of 
mutuus, borrowed: see mutual.] In Scots law, 
a contract by which such things are lent as are 
consumed in the use, or cannot be used with- 
out their extinction or alienation, such as corn, 
wine, money, etc. 
muwett, A Middle English form of mute 1 . 
Chaucer. 
mux 1 (muks),. t. [A var. of mix*, confused with 
muss 1 , mush 1 .] To botch; make a mess of; 
spoil: often with an indefinite it: as, he muxen 
it badly that time. [Colloq.] 
By vice of mismanagement on the part of my mother and 
Nicholas Snowe, who had thoroughly muxed up everything. 
B. D. Blacktnore, 1,0111:1 Doone, Ixii. 
mux 1 (muks), n. [< mux 1 , v.] Work performed 
in an awkward or improper manner ; a botch ; 
a mess : as, he made a mux of it. rColloq.] 
mux 2 (muks), n. [A var. of mix?.] Dirt ; filth : 
same as mix 2 . [Prov. Eng.] 
muxy (muk'si), a. [< mux" 2 + -y 1 .] Muddy; 
murky. Also muclcsy. [Prov. Eng.] 
The ground . . . was . . . soaked and sodden as we call 
it, mucksy. Jt. D. Blackmore, Lorna Doone, xlvi. 
Muzarab (mu-zar'ab), n. A variant of Mo- 
znrab. 
Muzarabic (mu-zar'a-bik), a. A variant of 
Mozarabic. 
muzhik (mo-zhik'), . [Russ. muzhiku, a peas- 
ant.] A Russian peasant. Also written mu- 
jik, moujik. 
There stood the patient bearded muzhik (peasant) in his 
well-worn sheep-skin. D. M. Wallace, Russia, p. 405. 
Muzio gambit. See gambit. 
muzz (muz), v. i. [Prob. a dial. var. of mime."] 
To muse idly ; loiter foolishly. 
If you but knew, cried I, to whom I am going to-night, 
and who I shall see to-night, you would not dare keep me 
muzzing here. Mme. D'Arblay, Diary, 1. 158. (Danes.) 
muzzelthrush (muz '1 -thrush), n. Same as 
mistlethnish. [Prov. Eng.] 
muzziness (muz'i-nes), n. [< muzzy + -urss.] 
The state of being muzzy. 
muzzle (muz'l), n. [Early mod. E. also muzle, 
musle, mousle, musell, wozell ; < ME. mosel, < 
OF. musel, museau, muzeau (F. museau), orig. 
"morsel (> Bret, morzeel, muzeel) = Pr. mvrsel, 
mursol (ML. reflex musellus, musellum; cf. Gael. 
muiseal, < E.), the muzzle, snout, or nose of a 
beast, mouth, opening, aperture, dim. of OF. 
muse, mouse = Pr. mus = It. muso, muzzle, < L. 
morsus, a bite, ML. also the muzzle of a beast 
(ML. musum, mitsus, after OF.): see morse 2 , 
morsel.] 1. The projecting jaws and nose of 
an animal, as an ox or a dog ; the snout. 
It [the hogfish] feedeth on the grasse that groweth on 
the banks of the Riuer, and neuer goeth out; it hath a 
mouth like the muzell of an Oxe. 
Purchas, Pilgrimage, p. <i!)7. 
His [William the Testy's] nose turned up, and the cor- 
ners of his month turned down, pretty much liketheit- 
zle of an irritable pug-dog. Irving, Knickerbocker, p. 210. 
The creature laid his muzzle on your lap. 
Tennyson, Princess, ii. 
