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Murderer
- noun - a criminal who commits homicide (who performs the unlawful premeditated killing of another human being)
Murdress
- - A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.
Murenger
- - One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.
Murenoid
- - Like or pertaining to the genus Muraena, or family Muraenidae.
Murexide
- - A crystalline nitrogenous substance (C8H8N6O6, 5-5'-nitrilodibarbituric acid monoammonium salt) having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. It is now synthesized from alloxan. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.
Murexoin
- - A complex nitrogenous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.
Muriatic
- - Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sea salt, or from chlorine, one of the constituents of sea salt; hydrochloric.
Muricoid
- - Like, or pertaining to, the genus Murex, or family Muricidae.
Muriform
- - Resembling courses of bricks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.