Muscovitic (muskovitik)

[ -ic.] Same as Muscovite . muscovy (mus'kō-vi), n.; pl. muscovies (-viz). [Short for Muscovy duck (see musk - duck ).] A Muscovy duck or musk-duck. See duck2 , 1, and musk - duck , 1. Muscovy gla . See muscovite, 2. musculation She were an excellent lady but that her face peeleth like Muscovy-gla . Marston and Webster , Malcontent, i. 3. muscular (mus'kū-lär), a. [= F. musculaire = Sp. Pg. muscular = It. musculare , muscolare , muscular is , of muscle, mus cular system; muscular origin or insertion; muscular fiber or ti ue.-2. Done by or dependent upon muscle or muscles: as, muscular action; muscular movement; muscular strength. -3. Well-muscled; having well-developed muscles; strong; sinewy; brawny: as, a muscular man.-4. Figuratively, strong and vigorous. No mind becomes muscular without rude and early exercise. Bulwer , My Novel, ix. 16. Muscular Christianity. See Christianity. [The origination of this phrase has been generally attributed to Charles Kingsley; but he expre ly repudiates it. We have heard much of late about "Muscular Christ i anity." A clever expre ion, spoken in jest by I know not whom, has been bandied about the world, and supposed by many to represent some new ideal of the Christian character. For myself, I do not know what it means. Letters and Memories of Charles Kingsley , II. 212.] Muscular fascicle, fasciculus, or lacertus, a bundle of a variable number of parallel muscular fibers. -Muscular fiber. (a) Muscular ti ue, as composed of fibers. (b) One of the fibers of which users ultimate ly composed.- Muscular fibril, fibrillation. See the nouns. Muscular impre ion, the mark of the insertion of a muscle, as of an adductor muscle on the inner surface of a bivalve shell. See cut at ciborium. - Muscular insertion, one of the attachments of an individual muscle, generally that inserted in the smaller or more movable part. - Muscular motion, muscular movement, the motion or movement which results from the action of muscles. Muscular plate. Same as muscle - plate. - Muscular rheumatism, Same as myalgia. - Muscular sensations, feelings which accompany the action of the muscles. ( James Mill, 1829.) By these a knowledge is obtained of the condition of the muscles, and the extent to which they are contracted, of the position of various parts of the body, and of the resistance offered by external bodies.Muscular sense, muscular sensations or the capacity of experiencing them, especially considered as a means of information. - Muscular stomach, a stomach with thick muscular walls, as the gizzard of a fowl: distinguished from the glandular stomach, or proventriculus. Muscular system, the total of the muscular ti ue or sum of the individual muscles of the body; musculation or musculature, regarded as a set of similar organs or system of like parts, comparable to the nervous system, the o eous system, etc. - Muscular ti ue, the proper contractile substance of muscle; muscular fiber. It is of two kinds - striated or striped muscle, and smooth. The former, of which all the ordinary muscles of the trunk and limbs and the heart are composed, consists of bundles B A C D b Striated Muscular Ti ue, magnified about 250 diameters. A , a muscular fiber without its sarcolemma, breaking up at one end into its fibrillæ; B , two separate fibrillæ; C , a muscular fiber breaking up into disks; D , a muscular fiber of which the contractile substance ( a , a ) is torn acro , while the sarcolemma ( b ) has not given way. of fibers which present a striated appearance, and are enveloped in and bound together by connective ti ue which also supports the ve els and nerves of the muscle. Striated muscle-fibers, except those of the heart, have an outer sheath of sarcolemma. Smooth muscular ti ue consists of elongated band-like non-striated fibers, each with a rod-like nucleus; they do not break up into fibrillæ, and have no sarcolemma. - Muscular tube, in ichth., a myodome. = Syn. 3. Sinewy, stalwart, sturdy, lusty, vigorous, powerful. [ muscular