muscle
/ˈmʌs.əl/ noun B1- A contractile form of tissue which animals use to effect movement. · Muscle consists largely of actin and myosin filaments.
- An organ composed of muscle tissue.
- A well-developed physique, in which the muscles are enlarged from exercise.
- Strength, force.
- Hired strongmen or bodyguards.
Plural muscles
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Mowgli put up his strong brown hand, and just under Bagheera’s silky chin, where the giant rolling muscles were all hid by the glossy hair, he came upon a little bald spot.
Now a snake, especially a wary old python like Kaa, very seldom shows that he is angry, but Baloo and Bagheera could see the big swallowing muscles on either side of Kaa’s throat ripple and bulge.
After an hour he began to move, muscle by muscle, toward the jar.
Cyril Overton, Trinity College, Cambridge, announced the arrival of an enormous young man, sixteen stone of solid bone and muscle, who spanned the doorway with his broad shoulders, and looked from one of us to the other with a comely face which was haggard with anxiety.
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