Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- Pertaining to a muscle or to muscles.
- Full of muscles; hence, strong; sinewy.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- adjective obsolete Muscular.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective rare
muscular
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Examples
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But even modern baleen whales which are here probably a better comparison as they lack the melons of modern toothed whales have bulbous nostrils which have cartilaginous and musculous parts, what leads to a different external profile and postion of the nostrils than the bare bone would show.
Maiacetus, Part 2 James Gurney 2009
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The horses of the Islands, as of other barren countries, are very low: they are indeed musculous and strong, beyond what their size gives reason for expecting; but a bulky man upon one of their backs makes a very disproportionate appearance.
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This, said Bacbuc, comes of not considering with ourselves, or understanding the motions of the musculous tongue, when the drink glides on it in its way to the stomach.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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This, said Bacbuc, comes of not considering with ourselves, or understanding the motions of the musculous tongue, when the drink glides on it in its way to the stomach.
Five books of the lives, heroic deeds and sayings of Gargantua and his son Pantagruel 2002
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The horses of the Islands, as of other barren countries, are very low: they are indeed musculous and strong, beyond what their size gives reason for expecting; but a bulky man upon one of their backs makes a very disproportionate appearance.
Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland Samuel Johnson 1746
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He had a tongue so musculous and subtile, that he could twist it up into his nose and deliver a strange kind of speech from thence.
A Tale of a Tub Jonathan Swift 1706
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Dragon Flies, &c. hollow, or empty; in others fill'd with some kind of substance; in blue Flies, with a reddish musculous substance, with _fibres_ tending from the center or bottom outwards; and divers other, with various and differing kinds of substances.
Micrographia Some Physiological Descriptions of Minute Bodies Made by Magnifying Glasses with Observations and Inquiries Thereupon Robert Hooke 1669
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This, said Bacbuc, comes of not considering with ourselves, or understanding the motions of the musculous tongue, when the drink glides on it in its way to the stomach.
Gargantua and Pantagruel, Illustrated, Book 5 Fran��ois Rabelais 1518
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