(n.) The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.

(n.) A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.

(v. i.) To cry, as a young child; to squall.

(n. sing. & pl.) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.

(p. p.) Made.

(n.) The orang-outang.

(n.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.

(n.) A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

(n.) A letter which represents no sound; a silent letter; also, a close articulation; an element of speech formed by a position of the mouth organs which stops the passage of the breath; as, p, b, d, k, t.

(n.) A little utensil made of brass, ivory, or other material, so formed that it can be fixed in an erect position on the bridge of a violin, or similar instrument, in order to deaden or soften the tone.

(n.) A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.

(n.) A person or thing existing only in imagination, or whose actual existence is not verifiable.

(n.) A native house servant in India.

(n.) A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.

(v. t.) To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

(v. t.) To injure greatly; to do much harm to.

(n.) A maggot.

(n.) A slattern; a mawks.

(a.) Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.

(n.) A hook with a long handle.

(n.) A part; a fragment; a portion.

(n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.

(n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.

(n.) Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.

(v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

(v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder.

(v. t.) To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?

(v. t.) To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.

(v. i.) To have a purpose or intention.

(superl.) Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.

(superl.) Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.

(superl.) Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.

(superl.) Of poor quality; as, mean fare.

(superl.) Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.

(a.) Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.

(a.) Intermediate in excellence of any kind.

(a.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.

(n.) That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.

(n.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities.

(n.) That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.

(n.) Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.

(n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.

(n.) Meantime; meanwhile.

(n.) A mediator; a go-between.

(n.) A boundary. See Mere.

(n.) Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg.

(n.) The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat.

(n.) Specifically, dinner; the chief meal.

(v. t.) To supply with food.

(n.) The sea mew.

(v. i.) See Mew, to cry as a cat.

() A combining form of Gr. /, /, a muscle; as, myograph, myochrome.

() A prefix signifying one, single, alone; as, monocarp, monopoly; (Chem.) indicating that a compound contains one atom, radical, or group of that to the name of which it is united; as, monoxide, monosulphide, monatomic, etc.

(n.) The moon.

(n.) A moan.

(n.) A dull, silent person; a blockhead.

() Same as Mono-.

() imp. of Melt.

(v. t.) Alt. of Moult

(v. t.) Alt. of Moult

(n.) Alt. of Moult

(n.) A fabulous herb of occult power, having a black root and white blossoms, said by Homer to have been given by Hermes to Ulysses to counteract the spells of Circe.

(n.) A kind of garlic (Allium Moly) with large yellow flowers; -- called also golden garlic.

(v. t.) To cast off; to molt.

(v. t. & i.) To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds.

(n.) The dung of birds.

(a.) Not speaking; uttering no sound; silent.

(a.) Incapable of speaking; dumb.

(a.) Not uttered; unpronounced; silent; also, produced by complete closure of the mouth organs which interrupt the passage of breath; -- said of certain letters. See 5th Mute, 2.

(a.) Not giving a ringing sound when struck; -- said of a metal.

(n.) One who does not speak, whether from physical inability, unwillingness, or other cause.

(n.) One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.

(n.) A person employed by undertakers at a funeral.

(n.) A person whose part in a play does not require him to speak.

(n.) Among the Turks, an officer or attendant who is selected for his place because he can not speak.

(n.) A donkey.

(n.) A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net.

(a.) Misty; dark; murky; muggy.

(n.) A spot; a blemish; a mole.

(v.) Alt. of Mould

(v. t.) Alt. of Mould

(n.) Alt. of Mould

(v. t.) Alt. of Mould

(v. i.) Alt. of Mould

(n.) Alt. of Mould

(v. t.) Alt. of Mould

(n.) A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor.

(n.) The musk deer. See Musk deer (below).

(n.) The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar.

(n.) The musk plant (Mimulus moschatus).

(n.) A plant of the genus Erodium (E. moschatum); -- called also musky heron's-bill.

(v. t.) To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.

(v. i.) To soil one's self with severe labor; to work with painful effort; to labor; to toil; to drudge.

(n.) A spot; a defilement.

(v. t.) To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple.

(n.) A term of endearment.

(v. i. / auxiliary) 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.

(v. i. / auxiliary) 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.

(n.) The expressed juice of the grape, or other fruit, before fermentation.

(n.) Mustiness.

(v. t. & i.) To make musty; to become musty.

(pl. ) of Modus

(a.) Fashionable.

(n.) A thin silk stuff made in Caucasia.

(n.) A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.

(n.) A plant of the genus Muscari; grape hyacinth.

(v. t.) To perfume with musk.

(n.) See Mad, n.

() imp. & p. p. of Make.

(a.) Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar.

(n.) That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.

(n.) Merit or desert; worth.

(n.) A gift; also, a bride.

(v. t.) To reward; to repay.

(v. t.) To deserve; to merit.

(v. t.) To join, or come in contact with; esp., to come in contact with by approach from an opposite direction; to come upon or against, front to front, as distinguished from contact by following and overtaking.

(v. t.) To come in collision with; to confront in conflict; to encounter hostilely; as, they met the enemy and defeated them; the ship met opposing winds and currents.

(v. t.) To come into the presence of without contact; to come close to; to intercept; to come within the perception, influence, or recognition of; as, to meet a train at a junction; to meet carriages or persons in the street; to meet friends at a party; sweet sounds met the ear.

(v. t.) To perceive; to come to a knowledge of; to have personal acquaintance with; to experience; to suffer; as, the eye met a horrid sight; he met his fate.

(v. t.) To come up to; to be even with; to equal; to match; to satisfy; to ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand.

(v. t.) To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.

(v. t.) To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.

(v. t.) To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.

(v. t.) To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.

(n.) An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.

(a.) Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.

(adv.) Meetly.

(n.) A magician.

(n.) A kind of baboon; the wanderoo.

(n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.

(n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse.

(n.) A female servant.

(n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).

(n.) A spot.

(n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.

(n.) Rent; tribute.

(n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.

(n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.

(n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

(n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

(v. t.) To arm with mail.

(v. t.) To pinion.

(n.) A bag; a wallet.

(n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.

(n.) That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.

(n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.

(v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.

(n.) See 2d Milt.

(v.) To reduce from a solid to a liquid state, as by heat; to liquefy; as, to melt wax, tallow, or lead; to melt ice or snow.

(v.) Hence: To soften, as by a warming or kindly influence; to relax; to render gentle or susceptible to mild influences; sometimes, in a bad sense, to take away the firmness of; to weaken.

(v. i.) To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

(v. i.) To dissolve; as, sugar melts in the mouth.

(v. i.) Hence: To be softened; to become tender, mild, or gentle; also, to be weakened or subdued, as by fear.

(v. i.) To lose distinct form or outline; to blend.

(v. i.) To disappear by being dispersed or dissipated; as, the fog melts away.

(p. p.) of Menge

(n.) Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).

(n.) Manner of conceiving and expressing action or being, as positive, possible, hypothetical, etc., without regard to other accidents, such as time, person, number, etc.; as, the indicative mood; the infinitive mood; the subjunctive mood. Same as Mode.

(n.) Temper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood.

(v.) See 1st Mot.

(n.) A ring for gauging wooden pins.

(v. t.) To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to propose for discussion.

(v. t.) Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.

(v. i.) To argue or plead in a supposed case.

(n.) A meeting for discussion and deliberation; esp., a meeting of the people of a village or district, in Anglo-Saxon times, for the discussion and settlement of matters of common interest; -- usually in composition; as, folk-moot.

(v.) A discussion or debate; especially, a discussion of fictitious causes by way of practice.

(a.) Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.

(v. i.) To be dull and spiritless.

(v. t.) To make spiritless and stupid.

(n.) A dull, spiritless person.

(n.) A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle.

(n.) A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble.

(n.) Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.

(v. t.) To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp.

(v. t.) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.

(v. t.) To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.

(v. t.) To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.

(v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.

(n.) An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.

(n.) Imitation; mimicry.

(a.) Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.

(n.) A South American rodent (Cavia rupestris), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.

() A prefix in composition denoting ill,or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice.

(n.) A retinue of servants; a household.

(a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.

(a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.

(a.) A large or considerable number.

(n.) A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.

(n.) That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge.

(n.) A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show.

(n.) A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters.

(n.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also mascaron.

(n.) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere.

(n.) A screen for a battery.

(n.) The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ.

(v. t.) To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.

(v. t.) To disguise; to cover; to hide.

(v. t.) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of.

(v. t.) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out.

(v. i.) To take part as a masker in a masquerade.

(v. i.) To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way.

(v. i. & t.) To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed.

(a.) To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule or standard; to measure.

(v. i.) To measure.

(n.) Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

(n.) Meat.

(v. t. & i.) To meet.

(a.) Most.

(n.) Mass; church service.

(n.) A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.

(n.) A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.

(n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.

(n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.

(n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.

(v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers.

(v. t.) To supply with a mess.

() denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. Also used adjectively.

(n.) The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.

(v. t.) To catch in a mesh.

(v. i.) To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.

() A combining form denoting in the middle, intermediate;

() See Meso-.

(/.) A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.

(n.) The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.

(n.) An old Scotch silver coin; a mark or marc.

(n.) A mark; a sign.

(n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.

(n.) Ordure; dung.

(n.) A pool or lake.

(n.) A boundary.

(v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound.

(n.) A mare.

(Superl.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.

(Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.

(n.) A demand.

() p. p. of Menge.

(n.) The details of a banquet; a bill of fare.

(v. i. & n.) See 6th and 7th Mew.

(n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.

(a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.

(v. t.) To make into malt; as, to malt barley.

(v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.

(n.) Alt. of Malmbrick

(v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

(v. t.) To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.

(v.) The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

(v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

(n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

(imp. & p. p.) of Make

(v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.

(v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.

(v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.

(v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.

(v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.

(v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.

(v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.

(v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.

(v. t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.

(v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.

(v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

(v. t.) To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.

(v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.

(v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in.

(v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.

(v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.

(v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.

(v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.

(v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue.

(v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

(n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.

(n.) A lemur. See Lemur.

(v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.

(v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.

(a.) Dark; murky.

(n.) Darkness; mirk.

(n.) The refuse of fruit, after the juice has been expressed; marc.

(n.) A catarrh.

(v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.

(v. t.) To afflict; to distress.

(v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.

(v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.

(n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

(v. t.) To surround with a moat.

(n.) A hill.

(n.) A root.

(superl.) Greater; superior; increased

(superl.) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular.

(superl.) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural.

(superl.) Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer.

(n.) A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with.

(n.) That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount.

(adv.) In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree.

(adv.) With a verb or participle.

(adv.) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly.

(adv.) In addition; further; besides; again.

(v. t.) To make more; to increase.

(n.) Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.

(n.) A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.

(v. t.) To offend slightly.

(n.) The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry.

(superl.) Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.

(n.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts.

(n.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.

(n.) An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as, the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.

(n.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster.

(v. t.) To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of.

(v. t.) To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as, to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.

(v. t.) To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder.

(v. i.) To draw or to yield milk.

(n.) See Mosque.

(a.) Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all.

(a.) Greatest in degree; as, he has the most need of it.

(a.) Highest in rank; greatest.

(a.) In the greatest or highest degree.

() of Mot

() of Mot

() of Mot

(pres. subj.) of Mot

(v.) See 1st Mot.

(n.) A meeting of persons for discussion; as, a wardmote in the city of London.

(n.) A body of persons who meet for discussion, esp. about the management of affairs; as, a folkmote.

(n.) A place of meeting for discussion.

(n.) The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort.

(n.) A small particle, as of floating dust; anything proverbially small; a speck.

(v.) pl. of Mow, may.

(n.) A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink (P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.

(n.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

(n.) A place where money is coined by public authority.

(n.) Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.

(v. t.) To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.

(v. t.) To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.

(a.) Abounding with mines; like a mine.

(v. t.) To cause to change place or posture in any manner; to set in motion; to carry, convey, draw, or push from one place to another; to impel; to stir; as, the wind moves a vessel; the horse moves a carriage.

(v. t.) To transfer (a piece or man) from one space or position to another, according to the rules of the game; as, to move a king.

(v. t.) To excite to action by the presentation of motives; to rouse by representation, persuasion, or appeal; to influence.

(v. t.) To arouse the feelings or passions of; especially, to excite to tenderness or compassion; to touch pathetically; to excite, as an emotion.

(v. t.) To propose; to recommend; specifically, to propose formally for consideration and determination, in a deliberative assembly; to submit, as a resolution to be adopted; as, to move to adjourn.

(v. t.) To apply to, as for aid.

(v. i.) To change place or posture; to stir; to go, in any manner, from one place or position to another; as, a ship moves rapidly.

(v. i.) To act; to take action; to stir; to begin to act; as, to move in a matter.

(v. i.) To change residence; to remove, as from one house, town, or state, to another.

(v. i.) To change the place of a piece in accordance with the rules of the game.

(n.) The act of moving; a movement.

(n.) The act of moving one of the pieces, from one position to another, in the progress of the game.

(n.) An act for the attainment of an object; a step in the execution of a plan or purpose.

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(v.) See 4th Mow.

(n. & v.) See 1st & 2d Mow.

(p. p. & a.) Cut down by mowing, as grass; deprived of grass by mowing; as, a mown field.

(n.) A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of Artemisia Chinensis, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.

(n.) A plant from which this substance is obtained, esp. Artemisia Chinensis, and A. moxa.

(Compar. & superl. wa) Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time.

(Compar. & superl. wa) Many in number.

(Compar. & superl. wa) High in rank or position.

(n.) A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I.

(n.) A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable.

(a.) To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly.

() abbreviation of Amuck.

(n.) Dung in a moist state; manure.

(n.) Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps.

(n.) Anything filthy or vile.

(n.) Money; -- in contempt.

(a.) Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork.

(v. t.) To manure with muck.

(n.) An ant.

(n.) Deep mud; wet, spongy earth.

(v. t.) To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon.

(v. t.) To soil with mud or foul matter.

(v. i.) To stick in mire.

(a.) Dark; gloomy; murky.

(n.) Darkness; gloom; murk.

(a.) Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.

() A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

(n.) The issue in a writ of right.

(n.) Expense; cost; disbursement.

(n.) A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom.

(n.) A soft cover of cylindrical form, usually of fur, worn by women to shield the hands from cold.

(n.) A short hollow cylinder surrounding an object, as a pipe.

(n.) A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.

(n.) A stupid fellow; a poor-spirited person.

(n.) A failure to hold a ball when once in the hands.

(n.) The whitethroat.

(v. t.) To handle awkwardly; to fumble; to fail to hold, as a ball, in catching it.

(n.) A hybrid animal; specifically, one generated between an ass and a mare, sometimes a horse and a she-ass. See Hinny.

(n.) A plant or vegetable produced by impregnating the pistil of one species with the pollen or fecundating dust of another; -- called also hybrid.

(n.) A very stubborn person.

(n.) A machine, used in factories, for spinning cotton, wool, etc., into yarn or thread and winding it into cops; -- called also jenny and mule-jenny.

(n.) Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.

(n.) Coarse, watery vapor, floating or falling in visible particles, approaching the form of rain; as, Scotch mist.

(n.) Hence, anything which dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision.

(v. t.) To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim.

(v. i.) To rain in very fine drops; as, it mists.

(v. i.) To sport or make diversion in a mask or disguise; to mask.

(v. i.) To move the lips with the mouth closed; to mumble, as in sulkiness.

(v. i.) To talk imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly; to chatter unintelligibly.

(v. i.) To cheat; to deceive; to play the beggar.

(v. i.) To be sullen or sulky.

(v. t.) To utter imperfectly, brokenly, or feebly.

(v. t.) To work over with the mouth; to mumble; as, to mump food.

(v. t.) To deprive of (something) by cheating; to impose upon.

(n.) An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.

(n.) A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.

(n.) A small coin formerly circulated in England, rated at about a third of a farthing. The name is also applied to a small coin used in Palestine in the time of Christ.

(n.) A small weight; one twentieth of a grain.

(n.) Anything very small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle.

(n.) See Mun.

(n.) A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

(a.) Having, or abounding with, mites.

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