muscule
English
Etymology
From Latin musculus. Compare French muscule, Portuguese músculo.
Noun
muscule (plural muscules)
- (military) A long movable shed used by besiegers in ancient times in attacking the walls of a fortified town.
Noun
muscule (plural muscules)
- Obsolete spelling of muscle [from Middle English – 18th c.]
- 1701, Nehemiah Grew, “Of the Use of Organized Bodies”, in Cosmologia Sacra: Or A Discourse of the Universe as It is the Creature and Kingdom of God. […], London: […] W. Rogers, S. Smith, and B[enjamin] Walford: […], OCLC 642328229, 1st book, paragraph 18, page 27:
- For as the Trunk of the Body, is kept from tilting forvvard by the Muſcules of the Back: So, from falling backvvard, by theſe of the Belly.
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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for muscule in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913)
Anagrams
- seculum
Latin
Noun
mūscule
- vocative singular of mūsculus
Middle English
Noun
muscule
- Alternative form of muscle (“muscle”)
Old French
Etymology
Borrowed from Latin muscule, as if from Latin *mūscula, though the actual nominative plural of mūsculus is mūsculī, not *mūscula.
Noun
muscule f (oblique plural muscules, nominative singular muscule, nominative plural muscules)
- (anatomy) muscle