Must
[mʌst]
Definition
(noun.) grape juice before or during fermentation.
(noun.) a necessary or essential thing; 'seat belts are an absolute must'.
(adj.) highly recommended; 'a book that is must reading' .
Typist: Rudy--From WordNet
Definition
(v. i. / auxiliary) To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
(v. i. / auxiliary) To be morally required; to be necessary or essential to a certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must reconsider the matter; he must have been insane.
(n.) The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.
(n.) Mustiness.
(v. t. & i.) To make musty; to become musty.
Typist: Penelope
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. n. Be obliged to, be required to, be bound to, be necessitated to, be under the necessity of.
n. [1]. Grape-juice (unfermented), new wine.[2]. Mould, fust, mustiness, mildew, blight, rust, smut.
Editor: Tess
Definition
n. an occasional state of dangerous frenzy in adult male elephants.
n. wine pressed from the grape but not fermented: potato-pulp prepared for fermentation.
v.i. to be obliged physically or morally.
Inputed by Huntington
Examples
- The human watchdogs must be philosophers or lovers of learning which will make them gentle. Plato. The Republic.
- He must say he thought a drone the embodiment of a pleasanter and wiser idea. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
- I must do what I am told. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- We must begin, for Laura's sake, where there is the best chance of success, I replied. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- So old an art, and so great and continuous a need for its products necessarily must have resulted in much development and progress. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- In speaking of education Plato rather startles us by affirming that a child must be trained in falsehood first and in truth afterwards. Plato. The Republic.
- I must reproach her with her faults, and then--she will throw the plates and dishes in my face! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- That she had chosen to move away from him in this moment of her trouble made everything harder to say, but he must absolutely go on. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Recollect, we must scrunch or be scrunched. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
- They must not be confounded together. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Mrs. Bulstrode did not wish to go nearer to the facts than in the phrase make some amends; knowing that her husband must understand her. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- They would not yet let me go: I must sit down and write before them. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- But if you have followed recent events so closely you must have read about Lord St. Simon and his wedding? Arthur Conan Doyle. The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.
- And still the unjust must appear just; that is 'the homage which vice pays to virtue. Plato. The Republic.
- As I made my way, so my son must make his; and his being married at present is out of the question. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
Inputed by Jeff