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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mutiny \Mu"ti*ny\, verb (used without an object) [imp. & p. p. {Mutinied}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mutinying}.]
1. To rise against, or refuse to obey, lawful authority in military or naval service; to excite, or to be guilty of, mutiny or mutinous conduct; to revolt against one's superior officer, or any rightful authority.
2. To fall into strife; to quarrel. [Obs.] --Shak.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mutiny \Mu"ti*ny\, noun; pl. {Mutinies}. [From mutine to mutiny, fr. F. se mutiner, fr. F. mutin stubborn, mutinous, fr. OF. meute riot, LL. movita, fr. movitus, for L. motus, p. p. of movere to move. See {Move}.]
1. Insurrection against constituted authority, particularly military or naval authority; concerted revolt against the rules of discipline or the lawful commands of a superior officer; hence, generally, forcible resistance to rightful authority; insubordination.
In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader. --Macaulay.
2. Violent commotion; tumult; strife. [Obs.]
To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves. --Shak.
{Mutiny act} (Law), an English statute re["e]nacted annually to punish mutiny and desertion. --Wharton.
Syn: See {Insurrection}.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
mutiny
noun: open rebellion against constituted authority (especially by seamen or soldiers against their officers)
verb: engage in a mutiny against an authority [also: {mutinied}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
51 Moby Thesaurus words for "mutiny": arise, civil disorder, disobedience, disobey, emeute, general uprising, indiscipline, insubordination, insurge, insurgence, insurgency, insurrect, insurrection, interregnum, irresponsibility, jacquerie, lawlessness, levee en masse, license, licentiousness, mount the barricades, mutineer, outbreak, overthrow, peasant revolt, power vacuum, putsch, rampant will, rebel, rebellion, reluct, reluctate, revolt, revolute, revolution, revolutionize, riot, rise, rise against, rise up, rising, run riot, strike, subversion, subversiveness, subvert, unaccountability, uncontrol, unrestraint, uprising, willfulness
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