MUSCLED
Adjective
muscled
Bearing muscles or muscle tissue.
Having large muscles.
Verb
muscled
simple past tense and past participle of muscle
Anagrams
• clumsed
Source: Wiktionary
Mus"cled, a.
Definition: Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well
muscled.
MUSCLE
Mus"cle, n. Etym: [F., fr. L. musculus a muscle, a little mouse, dim.
of mus a mouse. See Mouse, and cf. sense 3 (below).]
1. (Anat.)
(a) An organ which, by its contraction, produces motion. See Illust.
of Muscles of the Human Body, in Appendix.
(b) The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.
Note: Muscles are of two kinds, striated and nonstriated. The
striated muscles, which, in most of the higher animals, constitute
the principal part of the flesh, exclusive of the fat, are mostly
under the control of the will, or voluntary, and are made up of great
numbers of elongated fibres bound together into bundles and inclosed
in a sheath of connective tissue, the perimysium. Each fiber is
inclosed in a delicate membrane (the sarcolemma), is made up of
alternate segments of lighter and darker material which give it a
transversely striated appearance, and contains, scattered through its
substance, protoplasmic nuclei, the so-called muscle corpuscles. The
nonstriated muscles are involuntary. They constitute a large part of
the walls of the alimentary canal, blood vessels, uterus, and
bladder, and are found also in the iris, skin, etc. They are made up
of greatly elongated cells, usually grouped in bundles or sheets.
2. Muscular strength or development; as, to show one's muscle by
lifting a heavy weight. [Colloq.]
3. Etym: [AS. muscle, L. musculus a muscle, mussel. See above.]
(Zoöl.)
Definition: See Mussel. Muscle curve (Physiol.), contraction curve of a
muscle; a myogram; the curve inscribed, upon a prepared surface, by
means of a myograph when acted upon by a contracting muscle. The
character of the curve represents the extent of the contraction.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition