Vocabulary : Murdress to Murexoin

Murdress : A battlement in ancient fortifications with interstices for firing through.
Mure : A wall. ;; To inclose in walls; to wall; to immure; to shut up.
Mured : of Mure
Murenger : One who had charge of the wall of a town, or its repairs.
Murenoid : Like or pertaining to the genus Muraena, or family Muraenidae.

Mures : of Mus
Murex : A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.
Murexan : A complex nitrogenous substance obtained from murexide, alloxantin, and other ureids, as a white, or yellowish, crystalline which turns red on exposure to the air; -- called also uramil, dialuramide, and formerly purpuric acid.
Murexide : A crystalline nitrogenous substance having a splendid dichroism, being green by reflected light and garnet-red by transmitted light. It was formerly used in dyeing calico, and was obtained in a large quantities from guano. Formerly called also ammonium purpurate.
Murexoin : A complex nitrogenous compound obtained as a scarlet crystalline substance, and regarded as related to murexide.

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