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† ˈmusculous, a. Obs.
[ad. L. mūsculōs-us, f. mūscul-us: see muscle n. and -ous.]
1. Full of or composed of muscle or muscles.
musculous stomach: cf. muscular a. 2.
1541R. Copland Guydon's Quest. Chirurg. C iij, The other is flesshe musculous or lacertous. 1644Digby Nat. Bodies xxxv. §8. 302 It is a musculous membrane. 1720Quincy tr. Hodges' Acc. Plague 118 The musculous Flesh was..wasted.
b. transf. of vegetable tissue.
1601Holland Pliny II. 18 The Elecampane hath a root shorter than the Skirwirts or Parsnips.., but more musculous and fuller as it were of brawne.
2. Characterized by muscular development. = muscular a. 3.
1609Holland Amm. Marcell. xxx. ix. 397 His bodie was well brawned, musculous & strong. 1668Culpepper & Cole Barthol. Anat. iv. viii. 165, I have sometimes seen..in a musculous man, one triangular muscle [etc.]. 1704Swift T. Tub xi. (1711) 196 He had a Tongue so musculous and subtle, that he could twist it up into his Nose. 1775Johnson Journ. West. Isl., Col, They are indeed musculous and strong.
3. Of or belonging to muscle or a muscle.
1653H. More Antid. Ath. ii. xii. (1712) 79 The Tunicallvea has a Musculous power, and can dilate and contract..the Pupil. 1656Blount Glossogr. s.v. Vein, Musculous vein, the first branch of the flanck veins, tearmed thus because it communicates it self with divers muscles. 1713Derham Phys.-Theol. i. i. 10 note, In the Coat of this Bladder is a Musculous Power to contract it. 1758J. S. Le Dran's Observ. Surg. (1771) Dict. C c iij b, Myodes Platysma, a Musculous Expansion.
Hence † ˈmusculousness, ‘largeness or fulness of muscles’ (Bailey, vol. II, 1727). |