muscle

A tissue composed of fibers capable of contracting to effect bodily movement.

A contractile organ consisting of a special bundle of muscle tissue, which moves a particular bone, part, or substance of the body.

Muscular strength.

Power or authority.

To make one’s way by or as if by force.

To move or force with strength.

See mussel.

A kind of animal tissue consisting of bundles of fibers whose essential physiological characteristic is contractility, or the capability of contracting in length and dilating in breadth on the application of a proper stimulus, as the impulse of a motor nerve, or a shock of electricity; flesh; “lean meat.”

A certain portion of muscle or muscular tissue, having definite position and relation with surrounding parts, and usually fixed at one or both ends.

A part, organ, or tissue, of whatever histological character, which has the property of contractility, and is thus capable of motion in itself.