Muscle
['mʌs(ə)l] or ['mʌsl]
Definition
(noun.) authority or power or force (especially when used in a coercive way); 'the senators used their muscle to get the party leader to resign'.
(noun.) animal tissue consisting predominantly of contractile cells.
(noun.) one of the contractile organs of the body.
(verb.) make one's way by force; 'He muscled his way into the office'.
Edited by Alexander--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.
(n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
(n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.
(n.) See Mussel.
Typed by Freddie
Definition
n. an animal tissue consisting of bundles of fibres through whose contractility bodily movement is effected the fibres of the voluntary muscles being striped those of the involuntary (of intestinal canal blood-vessels and of skin) unstriped.—adj. Mus′cled supplied with muscles.—ns. Mus′cle-read′ing the interpretation of slight involuntary muscular movements; Mus′cling the delineation of muscles as in a picture; Musculā′tion the arrangement of muscles of a body; Musculos′ity.—adj. Mus′culous pertaining to muscle: full of muscles strong.
Editor: Nita
Unserious Contents or Definition
To dream of seeing your muscle well developed, you will have strange encounters with enemies, but you will succeed in surmounting their evil works, and gain fortune. If they are shrunken, your inability to succeed in your affairs is portended. For a woman, this dream is prophetic of toil and hardships.
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Examples
- Crispin listened to this speech without moving a muscle, but a strange look came into his eyes. Fergus Hume. The Island of Fantasy.
- My eyes were bloodshot, starting from my head; every artery beat, methought, audibly, every muscle throbbed, each single nerve felt. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- The bone end had not punctured the skin and the broken end was well into the muscle now. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
- Let him seek here the mighty brawn, the muscle, the abounding blood, the full-fed flesh he worshipped: let all materialists draw nigh and look on. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- Not a muscle of him moved. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- The proteids are the building foods, furnishing muscle, bone, skin cells, etc. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- His small hand's fine mechanism, now flaccid and unbent, would in the growth of sinew and muscle, have achieved works of beauty or of strength. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
- When we look at near objects, the muscles act in such a way that the lens bulges out, and becomes thick in the middle and of the right curvature to focus the near object upon the screen. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- I could feel the muscles of the thin arm round my neck swell with the vehemence that possessed her. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- The assembled warriors and chieftains examined me closely, feeling my muscles and the texture of my skin. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- The spasm causes the muscles of the jaw to contract very quickly and as soon as they are contracted, they let the jaw fall again of its own weight. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
- At last Clayton saw the immense muscles of Tarzan's shoulders and biceps leap into corded knots beneath the silver moonlight. Edgar Rice Burroughs. Tarzan of the Apes.
- In times of excitement, when the muscles of the body in general are in a state of great tension, the pitch is likely to be uncommonly high. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
- A fierce electric energy seemed to flow over all his limbs, his muscles were surcharged, his hands felt hard with strength. D. H. Lawrence. Women in Love .
- He was an almost perfect specimen of manhood; tall, straight as an arrow, superbly muscled and with the carriage and bearing of a ruler of men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
- He was about my own height and well muscled and in every outward detail moulded precisely as are Earth men. Edgar Rice Burroughs. The Gods of Mars.
- While the Martians are immense, their bones are very large and they are muscled only in proportion to the gravitation which they must overcome. Edgar Rice Burroughs. A Princess of Mars.
Editor: Paula