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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary

1. (n.) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion.

2. (n.) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.

3. (n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting a heavy weight.

4. (n.) See Mussel.

Greek

3119. malakia -- softness, weakness
... softens") the victim. 3119 () is an ailment that -- "a infirmity" causing
the to lose muscle fiber, etc. Word Origin from malakos ...
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4998. sophron -- of sound mind, self-controlled
... balance. [The root () is the root of "," the inner organ (muscle) that regulates
physical life, controlling breathing and heart beat. ...
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Strong's Hebrew

8306. sharir -- sinew, muscle
... 8305, 8306. sharir. 8307 . sinew, muscle. Transliteration: sharir Phonetic
Spelling: (shaw-reer') Short Definition: muscles. Word ...
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Library

An Address to the Man who is Down
... The only way to get character is to have temptation. If a man never exercises
his muscle, he will get no muscle. If a man never ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/ii an address to the.htm

Method and Organization
... with no allegiance of any sort or kind to any organization but the local church
of which it is a part"bone of its bone, flesh of its flesh, muscle of its ...
/.../alexander/the boy and the sunday school/vii method and organization.htm

Life on the Top Floor
... Bone for bone, muscle for muscle and nerve for nerve, you and I are exactly the
same as the higher vertebrae of the animal kingdom; and after we passed through ...
/.../stones rolled away and other addresses to young men/v life on the top.htm

Capacity Extirpated by Disuse
... extirpated by disuse.". This principle has manifold illustrations. The
hand or muscle disused withers in power. The fishes of the ...
/.../peabody/mornings in the college chapel/lv capacity extirpated by disuse.htm

I have Given You one Instance in which He Has Expressed his Own ...
... Let us imagine this creature, then, to have had all its limbs, veins and flesh so
torn apart that neither bone should cleave to bone nor muscle be joined to ...
/.../42 i have given you.htm

February 1:
... If a man does not exercise his arm he develops no biceps muscle; and if a man does
not exercise his soul, he acquires no muscle in his soul, no strength of ...
//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/beautiful thoughts/february 1 0.htm

Lessons from the Angelus
... We cannot dream perfect character; we do not get it in our sleep; it comes
to us as muscle comes, through doing things. Character ...
/...//christianbookshelf.org/drummond/a life for a life/lessons from the angelus.htm

The Three Elements of a Complete Life
... It comes to us as muscle comes, through doing things. It is the muscle of
the soul, and it comes by exercising it upon actual things. ...
/.../vii the three elements of.htm

On the Physical Basis of Life.
... life, picture to yourselves the great Finner whale, hugest of beasts that live,
or have lived, disporting his eighty or ninety feet of bone, muscle, and blubber ...
/.../huxley/lay sermons addresses and reviews/vii on the physical basis.htm

That Evening Vergilius Went to Feast with the Young Herodian ...
... frontiers of Judea. In spite of aching sinew and muscle, they had to stand
like stone to escape the observation of evil eyes. There was ...
/.../christianbookshelf.org/bacheller/vergilius/chapter 4 that evening vergilius.htm

Thesaurus

Muscle (1 Occurrence)
... 3. (n.) Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by lifting
a heavy weight. 4. (n.) See Mussel. ...Muscle (1 Occurrence). ...
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Irritation (2 Occurrences)
... action, by stimulation; -- as, the condition of an organ of sense, when its nerve
is affected by some external body; esp., the act of exciting muscle fibers to ...
/i/irritation.htm - 7k

Eye (145 Occurrences)
... 9. (n.) The scar to which the adductor muscle is attached in oysters and
other bivalve shells; also, the adductor muscle itself, esp. ...
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Muscles (7 Occurrences)

/m/muscles.htm - 8k

Murrain (1 Occurrence)

/m/murrain.htm - 9k

Voluntary (17 Occurrences)
... such as the movements of the leg or arm (in distinction from involuntary motions,
such as the movements of the heart); the voluntary muscle fibers, which are ...
/v/voluntary.htm - 14k

Ossifrage (2 Occurrences)
... It took its name from the fact that after smaller vultures and eagles had stripped
a carcass to the last shred of muscle, the lammergeier then carried the ...
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Origin (25 Occurrences)
... 3. (n.) The point of attachment or end of a muscle which is fixed during contraction; --
in contradistinction to insertion. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Lame (35 Occurrences)
... 1. (superl.) Moving with pain or difficulty on account of injury, defect, or temporary
obstruction of a function; as, a lame leg, arm, or muscle. ...
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Lean (22 Occurrences)
... 9. (n.) That part of flesh which consist principally of muscle without the fat.
10. (n.) Unremunerated copy or work. Multi-Version Concordance ...
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Bible Concordance

Muscle (1 Occurrence)

Genesis 32:32 For this reason the children of Israel, even today, never take that muscle in the hollow of the leg as food, because the hollow of Jacob's leg was touched.
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Subtopics

Muscle

Related Terms

Irritation (2 Occurrences)

Eye (145 Occurrences)

Muscles (7 Occurrences)

Murrain (1 Occurrence)

Voluntary (17 Occurrences)

Ossifrage (2 Occurrences)

Origin (25 Occurrences)

Lame (35 Occurrences)

Lean (22 Occurrences)