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Webster 1913 Edition

Noun.

(Fine Arts)

Exhibition or representation of the muscles.

[R.]

A good piece, the painters say, must have good

muscling

, as well as coloring and drapery.

Shaftesbury.

muscling

muscling ‎(uncountable)

muscles in the body, meant collectively
The legs are set wide apart due to the very thick muscling.
the process of muscle formation or growth
The effects of muscling were of secondary importance to the effects of fatness.