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muscle
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Word definitions for muscle in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
muscle \mus"cle\, v. t. To compel by threat of force; as, they muscled the shopkeeper into paying protection money. To moved by human force; as, to muscle the piano onto the truck.
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
Muscle is a soft tissue found in most animals. Muscle cells contain protein filaments of actin and myosin that slide past one another, producing a contraction that changes both the length and the shape of the cell. Muscles function to produce force and ...
Usage examples of muscle.
In virtual, hours ago, he had been young and solid, just as Abrim remembered him, his shoulders rounded with muscle.
Panting, Abrim let his muscles go slack, black spots crowding the edge of his vision.
The clavicle was fractured two inches from the acromial end, and the sternal end was driven high up into the muscles of the neck.
On the fifth day the line of demarcation extended to the spine of the scapula, laying bare the bone and exposing the acromion process and involving the pectoral muscles.
Here the impression caused by the light stimulus, upon reaching the medulla along an afferent nerve, is deflected to a motor nerve and, without any conscious control of the movements, the muscles of the eyelid receive the necessary impulse to close.
Now, as he stood before her, naked torso gleaming in the candlelight, muscles rippling, eyes afire with their ebony fury, she was bleakly sorry.
The spoor was but a couple of days old when the two discovered it, which meant that the slow-moving caravan was but a few hours distant from them whose trained and agile muscles could carry their bodies swiftly through the branches above the tangled undergrowth which had impeded the progress of the laden carriers of the white men.
Even ahorse, the man looked tall and heavily muscled in his upper body and legs.
The silver ailettes topped a breastplate of gold, sculpted with muscles.
The muscles are blood-rich and full of organic compounds, aldehydes, ketones and lactic acid.
Seregil, showing Alec deep indentations in the lean muscle on either side of his left thigh.
Her muscles tensed in anticipation of the pain the amah and her grandmother had told her she faced.
A broadly sinuous ambery crevice parted the globes, which by reflexive instinct poor Miss Medbury tried to close by contracting all her muscles in a useless defense.
That seemed to satisfy Amir in some obscure manner and he kissed each of her knees then placed his mouth to the soft muscle inside each limb and fiercely suckled and bit, leaving a bold mark like a brand on each.
A tube of muscle protruded from the opening, and a high-pressure stream of water pulsed out, jetting the ammonite up and into the blue waters.