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moenia walls, murus
(for moirus) a wall, and Skr. mi to fix, make firm.
Cf. Ammunition.] 1. Fortification;
stronghold. [Obs.]

His place of defense shall be the munitions of
rocks.

Is. xxxiii. 16.

2. Whatever materials are used in war for
defense or for annoying an enemy; ammunition; also, stores and
provisions; military stores of all kinds.

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may
justly be called the sinews of war.

Sir W.
Raleigh.

Mu"ni*ty (?), n. [See Immunity.]
Freedom; security; immunity. [Obs.] W.
Montagu.

Mun*jeet" (?), n. [Hind.
majī&tsdot;h a drug used for dyeing red.] See
Indian madder, under Madder.

Mun"jis*tin (?), n. (Chem.)
An orange-red coloring substance resembling alizarin, found in
the root of an East Indian species of madder (Rubia
munjista).

Mun"nion (?), n. See
Mullion.

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