MUNITIONS. Provisions; naval and military stores.
MUNITION SHIPS. Those which carry the naval stores for a fleet, as distinguished from the victuallers.
MUNJAK. A kind of pitch used in the Bay of Honduras for vessels' bottoms.
MUNNIONS, or Muntins. The divisional pieces of the stern-lights; the pieces that separate the lights in the galleries.
MURÆNA. An eel-like fish, very highly esteemed by the ancient Romans.
MURDERER. The name formerly used for large blunderbusses, as well as for those small pieces of ordnance which were loaded by shifting metal chambers placed in the breech.
MURLOCH. The young pickled dog-fish.
MURRE. The Cornish name for the razor-bill, Alca torda.
MURROCH. A term for shell-fish in general on the west coast of Scotland.
MUSKET. The regulation fire-arm for infantry and small-arm men. That of the English service, when a smooth bore, threw its bullet of about an ounce 250 yards with good effect; now, rifling has trebled its range, whilst breech-loading has done at least as much by its rapidity of fire.