muckbar (mukbar)

An iron bar which has been pa ed through the muck-rolls only. muckendert, muckindert (muk'en-der), n. [Also muckinger, mucketer, muckiter, corrupt forms, appar. simulating muck1, 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 Paphian widows shall after their husbands' funerals offer their wet muckinders. Chapman, Widow's Tears, iv. 1. Be of good comfort; take my muck in der And dry thine eyes. Slimy; ropy; moist, soft, and slightly viscid; partaking of the nature of mucilage: as, a ти cilaginous gum. -Mucilaginous extracts, in chem., extracts which di olve readily in water but scarcely at all in alcohol, and undergo spirituous fermentation. - Mucilaginous glands. See gland . - Mucilaginous sheath, an envelop or coat of mucilage surrounding the filaments of certain algæ, occurring particularly in the Conjugatæ . mucilaginous ne (mu-si-laj'i-nus-nes), n . The state of being mucilaginous; slimine ; stickine .