Must

6 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Must \Must\, n. [AS. must, fr. L. mustum (sc. vinum), from
     mustus young, new, fresh. Cf. {Mustard}.]
     1. The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before
        fermentation. "These men ben full of must." --Wyclif (Acts
        ii. 13.).
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              No fermenting must fills . . . the deep vats.
                                                    --Longfellow.
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     2. [Cf. {Musty}.] Mustiness.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Must \Must\ (m[u^]st), v. i. or auxiliary. [OE. moste, a pret.
     generally meaning, could, was free to, pres. mot, moot, AS.
     m[=o]ste, pret. m[=o]t, pres.; akin to D. moetan to be
     obliged, OS. m[=o]tan to be free, to be obliged, OHG. muozan,
     G. m["u]ssen to be obliged, Sw. m[*a]ste must, Goth.
     gam[=o]tan to have place, have room, to able; of unknown
     origin.]
     1. To be obliged; to be necessitated; -- expressing either
        physical or moral necessity; as, a man must eat for
        nourishment; we must submit to the laws.
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     2. To be morally required; to be necessary or essential to a
        certain quality, character, end, or result; as, he must
        reconsider the matter; he must have been insane.
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              Likewise must the deacons be grave.   --1 Tim. iii.
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              Morover, he [a bishop] must have a good report of
              them which are without.               --1 Tim. iii.
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     Note: The principal verb, if easily supplied by the mind, was
           formerly often omitted when must was used; as, I must
           away. "I must to Coventry." --Shak.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Must \Must\, v. t. & i.
     To make musty; to become musty.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  must \must\, musth \musth\(m[u^]st), a. [Hind. mast intoxicated,
     ruttish, fr. Skr. matta, p.p. of mad to rejoice, intoxicate.]
     (Zool.)
     Being in a condition of dangerous frenzy, usually connected
     with sexual excitement; -- said of adult male elephants which
     become so at irregular intervals, typicaly due to increased
     testosterone levels. -- n.
     (a) The condition of frenzy.
     (b) An elephant in must.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  must
       adj : highly recommended; "a book that is must reading" [syn: {must(a)}]
       n 1: a necessary or essential thing; "seat belts are an absolute
            must"
       2: grape juice before or during fermentation
       3: the quality of smelling or tasting old or stale or mouldy
          [syn: {mustiness}, {moldiness}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  163 Moby Thesaurus words for "must":
     absolute, allegiance, assigned task, bare necessities, be forced,
     be in for, be necessary, be obliged, binding, blast, blight,
     bounden duty, burden, burning, business, call for, call of duty,
     cancer, canker, cannot do otherwise, cannot help but, charge,
     commitment, committal, compulsory, conclusive, condition,
     de rigueur, decisive, deference, demand, demand for, demi-sec,
     desideration, desideratum, devoir, devotion, dictated,
     domestic wine, dry rot, duties and responsibilities, duty,
     entailed, essential, essentials, estral, estrous, estrual, ethics,
     extra sec, fealty, fetidity, fetidness, final, foulness, frowst,
     frowstiness, frowziness, fungus, funkiness, fustiness,
     hard-and-fast, have, have got to, have need to, have to, homage,
     hot, imperative, imperious, imported wine, imposed, in heat,
     in must, in rut, indispensable, irrevocable, light wine,
     line of duty, loyalty, malodorousness, mandated, mandatory, mildew,
     mission, mold, moldiness, moth, moth and rust, must item,
     mustiness, musty, necessaries, necessary, necessities, necessity,
     need, need for, need to, needs must, new wine, noisomeness,
     nonvintage wine, obligation, obligatory, occasion, odorousness,
     offensiveness, onus, ought, ought to, peremptory, pest, pink wine,
     place, prerequirement, prerequisite, prescript, prescriptive,
     putridness, rancidity, rancidness, rankness, reastiness, red wine,
     repulsiveness, required, requirement, requisite, requisition,
     respect, right, rose wine, rot, rottenness, rust, rutting, ruttish,
     rutty, sec, self-imposed duty, should, sine qua non, smelliness,
     smooth wine, smut, sparkling wine, still wine, stinkingness,
     stuffiness, sweet wine, the necessary, the needful, thin wine,
     ultimate, vin, vino, vintage wine, want, white wine, wine,
     without appeal, worm