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2. Spoiled by age; rank; stale.

The proverb is somewhat musty.

3. Dull; heavy; spiritless. "That he
may not grow musty and unfit for conversation."
Addison.

Mu`ta*bil"i*ty (?), n. [L.
mutabilitas: cf. F. mutabilité.] The
quality of being mutable, or subject to change or alteration, either
in form, state, or essential character; susceptibility of change;
changeableness; inconstancy; variation.

Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the
world are corporeal, and therefore subject to
mutability.

Mu"ta*ble (?), a. [L. mutabilis,
fr. mutare to change. See Move.] 1.
Capable of alteration; subject to change; changeable in form,
qualities, or nature.

Things of the most accidental and mutable
nature.

2. Changeable; inconstant; unsettled;
unstable; fickle.


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