(n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.

(v.) A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.

(v.) A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like

(v.) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.

(v.) A matrimonial union; a marriage.

(v.) An agreement, compact, etc.

(v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.

(v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.

(v.) Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.

(v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.

(v. t.) To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.

(v. t.) To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.

(v. t.) To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.

(v. t.) To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.

(v. t.) To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).

(v. t.) To marry; to give in marriage.

(v. t.) To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.

(v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.

(v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mate

(n.) See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

(n.) A fat herring with undeveloped roe.

(n.) Morning.

(n.) Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.

(n.) Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Roman Catholic Church.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.

(n.) A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mew

(a.) Mean; not extreme.

(n.) Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

(n.) A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.

(n.) A dead or dull finish, as in gilding where the gold leaf is not burnished, or in painting where the surface is purposely deprived of gloss.

(n.) See Mohr.

(n.) Miasma.

(v. i.) To cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul.

(n.) The crying of a cat.

() A combining form

() Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope.

(n.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.

(n.) A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century.

(v. t.) To ornament by molding or carving the material of; as, a molded window jamb.

(v. t.) To knead; as, to mold dough or bread.

(v. t.) To form a mold of, as in sand, in which a casting may be made.

(n.) A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose.

(a.) Composed of, or resembling, muscular fiber.

(n.) A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.

(n.) A person having myopy; a myops.

(n.) Myopia.

(n.) A mace bearer; an officer of a court.

() A millionth part of; as, microfarad, microohm, micrometer.

(n.) A hand basket.

(n.) An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.

(v. i.) Alt. of Maunder

(n.) A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.

(n.) A slattern; a mawk.

(a.) Maggoty.

(imp.) of May

(adv.) Perhaps; possibly; peradventure.

(a.) Possible; probable, but not sure.

(n.) Possibility; uncertainty.

(imp. & p. p.) of Maze

(n.) A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple.

(v. i.) To skulk; to cower. See Mich.

(superl.) Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.

(superl.) Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mean

() imp. & p. p. of Mean.

(n.) Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings.

(a.) Abounding in meat.

(n.) An atom or radical whose valence is one, or which can combine with, be replaced by, or exchanged for, one atom of hydrogen.

(n.) Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant.

(n.) A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.

(n.) The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.

(n.) One of the Monera.

(n.) A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin.

(n.) Any written or stamped promise, certificate, or order, as a government note, a bank note, a certificate of deposit, etc., which is payable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

(n.) In general, wealth; property; as, he has much money in land, or in stocks; to make, or lose, money.

(v. t.) To supply with money.

(n.) An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.

(n.) The elementary and indestructible units which were conceived of as endowed with the power to produce all the changes they undergo, and thus determine all physical and spiritual phenomena.

(n.) One of the smallest flangellate Infusoria; esp., the species of the genus Monas, and allied genera.

(n.) A simple, minute organism; a primary cell, germ, or plastid.

(a.) Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid.

(superl.) Alt. of Mouldy

(a.) Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat.

(v. t.) To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.

(v. t.) To cast, as the hair, skin, feathers, or the like; to shed.

(n.) The act or process of changing the feathers, hair, skin, etc.; molting.

(adv.) Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow.

(n.) Having the rank, pungent, offencive odor and taste which substances of organic origin acquire during warm, moist weather; foul or sour and fetid; moldy; as, musty corn; musty books.

(n.) Spoiled by age; rank; stale.

(n.) Dull; heavy; spiritless.

(n.) The close linen or muslin cap of an old woman.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; -- said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.

(a.) Having power to grind; grinding; as, the molar teeth; also, of or pertaining to the molar teeth.

(n.) Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.

(v.) Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.

(v.) Earthy material; the matter of which anything is formed; composing substance; material.

(v. t.) To cover with mold or soil.

(n.) A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.

(v. t.) To cause to become moldy; to cause mold to grow upon.

(v. i.) To become moldy; to be covered or filled, in whole or in part, with a mold.

(n.) The matrix, or cavity, in which anything is shaped, and from which it takes its form; also, the body or mass containing the cavity; as, a sand mold; a jelly mold.

(n.) That on which, or in accordance with which, anything is modeled or formed; anything which serves to regulate the size, form, etc., as the pattern or templet used by a shipbuilder, carpenter, or mason.

(n.) Cast; form; shape; character.

(n.) A group of moldings; as, the arch mold of a porch or doorway; the pier mold of a Gothic pier, meaning the whole profile, section, or combination of parts.

(n.) A fontanel.

(n.) A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

(v. t.) To form into a particular shape; to shape; to model; to fashion.

(n.) A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21.

(n.) A kind of high shoe anciently worn.

(n.) Originally, a fine textile fabric made of the hair of an Asiatic goat; afterwards, any textile fabric to which a watered appearance is given in the process of calendering.

(n.) A watered, clouded, or frosted appearance produced upon either textile fabrics or metallic surfaces.

(a.) Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.

(a.) Fresh, or new.

(v. t.) To moisten.

(a.) Disarranged; rumpled.

(n.) The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.

(n.) A qualification involving the idea of variation or departure from some general rule or form, in the way of either restriction or enlargement, according to the circumstances of the case, as in the will of a donor, an agreement between parties, and the like.

(n.) A fixed compensation or equivalent given instead of payment of tithes in kind, expressed in full by the phrase modus decimandi.

(n.) See Muset.

(n.) A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.

(v. t.) To honor or reward with a medal.

(n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).

(n.) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.

(n.) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.

(n.) A twin crystal.

(v. t.) To mix; to mingle; to meddle.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the Muses, or to Poetry.

(n.) An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe.

(n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.

(v. i.) See Mich.

(n.) Mead. See Meathe.

(a.) In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.

(a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.

(a.) Alt. of Magical

(n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.

(n.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.

(n.) A salve or confection of thick consistency.

(n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

(n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

(n.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.

(n.) The Barbary ape.

(n.) A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage.

(n.) A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.

(n.) Company; band; army.

(n.) A white or buff-colored granular powder, C6H9N11, obtained by heating ammonium sulphocyanate.

(n.) A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.

() Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.

() A genus of beetles without wings, but having short oval elytra; the oil beetles. These beetles are sometimes used instead of cantharides for raising blisters. See Oil beetle, under Oil.

(n.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.

(n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.

(n.) See Amends.

(n.) One of the twelve portions into which the year is divided; the twelfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.

(imp. & p. p.) of Moo

(n.) Same as Mung.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the moon.

(a.) Furnished with a moon; bearing a crescent.

(a.) Silly; weakly sentimental.

(a.) Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.

(n.) A kind of blue cloth made in India.

(n.) A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoologists is considered the same species. See Elk.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mope

(n.) A moppet.

(n.) A slatternly, untidy woman.

(n.) A mope; a drone.

(a.) Relating to duty or obligation; pertaining to those intentions and actions of which right and wrong, virtue and vice, are predicated, or to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules.

(a.) Conformed to accepted rules of right; acting in conformity with such rules; virtuous; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life.

(a.) Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty.

(a.) Acting upon or through one's moral nature or sense of right, or suited to act in such a manner; as, a moral arguments; moral considerations. Sometimes opposed to material and physical; as, moral pressure or support.

(a.) Supported by reason or probability; practically sufficient; -- opposed to legal or demonstrable; as, a moral evidence; a moral certainty.

(a.) Serving to teach or convey a moral; as, a moral lesson; moral tales.

(n.) The doctrine or practice of the duties of life; manner of living as regards right and wrong; conduct; behavior; -- usually in the plural.

(n.) The inner meaning or significance of a fable, a narrative, an occurrence, an experience, etc.; the practical lesson which anything is designed or fitted to teach; the doctrine meant to be inculcated by a fiction; a maxim.

(a.) Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like.

(a.) Suitable to be taken as a model or pattern; as, a model house; a model husband.

(v. t.) To plan or form after a pattern; to form in model; to form a model or pattern for; to shape; to mold; to fashion; as, to model a house or a government; to model an edifice according to the plan delineated.

(v. i.) To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.

(n.) A mother.

(n.) The principal piece of an astrolabe, into which the others are fixed.

(v. t.) To moderate.

(n.) One who muses.

(n.) A small hole or gap through which a wild animal passes; a muse.

(a.) Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental.

(n.) The science and the art of tones, or musical sounds, i. e., sounds of higher or lower pitch, begotten of uniform and synchronous vibrations, as of a string at various degrees of tension; the science of harmonical tones which treats of the principles of harmony, or the properties, dependences, and relations of tones to each other; the art of combining tones in a manner to please the ear.

(n.) Melody; a rhythmical and otherwise agreeable succession of tones.

(n.) Harmony; an accordant combination of simultaneous tones.

(n.) The written and printed notation of a musical composition; the score.

(n.) Love of music; capacity of enjoying music.

(n.) A more or less musical sound made by many of the lower animals. See Stridulation.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.

(a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.

(imp. & p. p.) of Muse

(n.) A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.

(n.) Something intended to serve, or that may serve, as a pattern of something to be made; a material representation or embodiment of an ideal; sometimes, a drawing; a plan; as, the clay model of a sculpture; the inventor's model of a machine.

(n.) Anything which serves, or may serve, as an example for imitation; as, a government formed on the model of the American constitution; a model of eloquence, virtue, or behavior.

(n.) That by which a thing is to be measured; standard.

(n.) Any copy, or resemblance, more or less exact.

(n.) A person who poses as a pattern to an artist.

(v. t.) To wrap the head of in a hood.

(n.) The interior or central part or place; the middle; -- used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.

(n.) Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as, in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs.

(prep.) In the midst of; amidst.

(adv.) In the middle.

() Alt. of Mon-

(a.) Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

(n.) Alt. of Masse shot

(superl.) Compacted into, or consisting of, a mass; having bulk and weight ot substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weight; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock.

(a.) Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.

(n.) See Meter.

(n.) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.

(n. f.) Alt. of Metive

(imp. & p. p.) of Mete

(n.) One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.

(n.) An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.

(n.) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it.

(n.) Alt. of Metre

(n.) Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.

(n.) A poem.

(n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.

(v. t.) To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place.

(v. t.) To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4.

(v. t.) To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife.

(v. t.) To take for husband or wife. See the Note below.

(v. t.) Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.

(v. i.) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife.

(interj.) Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary.

(superl.) Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; abounding with marl.

(n.) A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.

(n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.

(n.) An elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.

(n.) Ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.

(n.) A mine from which ores are taken.

(n.) A wild cat (Felis manul), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks.

(n.) The substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.

(n.) Courage; spirit; mettle. See Mettle.

(n.) The broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.

(n.) The effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.

(n.) Glass in a state of fusion.

(n.) The rails of a railroad.

(v. t.) To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.

() Alt. of Met-

(n.) The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage kept in his own hands, for the use and subsistence of his family.

(n.) A tract of land occupied by tenants who pay a free-farm rent to the proprietor, sometimes in kind, and sometimes by performing certain stipulated services.

(n.) A dwelling house, generally with land attached.

(n.) The parsonage; a clergyman's house.

(n.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the language or people of the of Man.

(n.) The language spoken in the Isle of Man. See Manx.

(a.) Formed with meshes; netted.

(a.) Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord.

(n.) The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.

(n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food.

(n.) A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.

() Alt. of Mes-

(n.) The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.

(n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.

(adv.) Same as Mesiad.

(a.) Same as Mesial.

(n.) A leper.

(n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or many people; as, the tulip mania.

(n.) Any species of the genus Manis, or family Manidae.

(n.) Mania; insanity.

(n.) The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.

(superl.) Infected with the mange; scabby.

(n.) Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

(n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.

(n.) Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.

(n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.

(n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.

(n.) To reward.

(v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

(a.) Having a mane.

(n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.

(v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

(v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.

(n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.

(n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.

(n.) A child's name for mamma, mother.

(n.) A minnow.

(n.) Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility.

(v. t.) To grace.

(a.) Consisting, or like, malt.

(n.) An evil. See Mala.

(n.) A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.

(a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.

() See Mal-.

(v. t.) Alt. of Malaxate

(a.) Alt. of Muticous

(n.) The farm attached to a mansion house.

(superl.) Dark; obscure; gloomy.

(n.) Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus Uria, or Catarractes; a guillemot.

(n.) One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, esp. one of the second class.

(n.) A morality play. See Morality, 5.

(v. i.) To moralize.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, fustic (see Morin); as, moric acid.

(n.) A yellow crystalline substance of acid properties extracted from fustic (Maclura tinctoria, formerly called Morus tinctoria); -- called also moric acid.

() imp. of May.

(v.) Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity.

(n.) A bugbear; false terror.

(a.) Of or pertaining to the morn; morning.

(n.) A ring fitted upon the head of a lance to prevent wounding an adversary in tilting.

(a.) Without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.

(n.) The first or early part of the day, variously understood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.

(n.) The first or early part; as, the morning of life.

(n.) The goddess Aurora.

(a.) Giving milk; -- now applied only to beasts.

(a.) Tender; pitiful; weeping.

(a.) Consisting of, or containing, milk.

(a.) Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as, the water is milky. "Milky juice."

(a.) Yielding milk.

(a.) Mild; tame; spiritless.

(superl.) Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams.

(superl.) Resembling moss; as, mossy green.

() imp. of Mote.

(imp.) of Mot

(a.) Alt. of Mimical

(n.) One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon.

(v. t.) To imitate or ape for sport; to ridicule by imitation.

(v. t.) To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

(a.) Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air.

(n.) A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate polyphonic church style; an anthem.

(pl. ) of Moth

(pl. ) of Mina

(pl. ) of Mina

(a.) Infested with moths; moth-eaten.

(n.) Motive.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mine

(n.) A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later.

(n.) One who, or that which, imparts motion; a source of mechanical power.

(n.) A prime mover; a machine by means of which a source of power, as steam, moving water, electricity, etc., is made available for doing mechanical work.

(n.) Alt. of Motorial

(n.) A clump of trees in a prairie.

(n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, forming part of an heraldic achievment.

(n.) A sentence, phrase, or word, prefixed to an essay, discourse, chapter, canto, or the like, suggestive of its subject matter; a short, suggestive expression of a guiding principle; a maxim.

(a.) Full of, or consisting of, motes.

(v. t.) To mingle; to mix.

(n.) A small biting fly; a midge.

() Alt. of Mouldy

(v. & n.) See Molt.

(n.) Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; -- applied to animalcula; and the like.

(n.) The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.

(n.) A small fish; a minnow.

(n.) A little man or being; a dwarf.

(n.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

(n.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.

(n.) A short poetical encomium.

(a.) Minute.

(v. i.) To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness.

(v. i.) To wear the customary garb of a mourner.

(v. t.) To grieve for; to lament; to deplore; to bemoan; to bewail.

(v. t.) To utter in a mournful manner or voice.

(n.) See Minnow.

(a.) Infested with mice; smelling of mice.

(n.) The opening through which an animal receives food; the aperture between the jaws or between the lips; also, the cavity, containing the tongue and teeth, between the lips and the pharynx; the buccal cavity.

(n.) An opening affording entrance or exit; orifice; aperture;

(n.) The opening of a vessel by which it is filled or emptied, charged or discharged; as, the mouth of a jar or pitcher; the mouth of the lacteal vessels, etc.

(n.) The opening or entrance of any cavity, as a cave, pit, well, or den.

(n.) The opening of a piece of ordnance, through which it is discharged.

(n.) The opening through which the waters of a river or any stream are discharged.

(n.) The entrance into a harbor.

(n.) The crosspiece of a bridle bit, which enters the mouth of an animal.

(n.) A principal speaker; one who utters the common opinion; a mouthpiece.

(n.) Cry; voice.

(n.) Speech; language; testimony.

(n.) A wry face; a grimace; a mow.

(v. t.) To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth or teeth; to chew; to devour.

(v. t.) To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner.

(v. t.) To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her cub.

(v. t.) To make mouths at.

(v. i.) To speak with a full, round, or loud, affected voice; to vociferate; to rant.

(v. i.) To put mouth to mouth; to kiss.

(v. i.) To make grimaces, esp. in ridicule or contempt.

(n.) A small kind of printing type; minion.

(n.) A minim.

(a.) Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.

(imp. & p. p.) of Move

(n.) A person or thing that moves, stirs, or changes place.

(n.) A person or thing that imparts motion, or causes change of place; a motor.

(n.) One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition.

(n.) A proposer; one who offers a proposition, or recommends anything for consideration or adoption; as, the mover of a resolution in a legislative body.

(imp.) of Mow

(p. p.) of Mow

(n.) One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower.

(n.) energy; pep.

(n.) courage, determination.

(n.) Know-how, expertise.

(n. & v.) See Moil, and Moile.

(a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, gums and micilaginous substances; specif., denoting an acid obtained by the oxidation of gums, dulcite, etc., as a white crystalline substance isomeric with saccharic acid.

(a.) Musty; moldy; slimy; mucous.

(n.) See Mucedin.

(n.) An albuminoid substance which is contained in mucus, and gives to the latter secretion its peculiar ropy character. It is found in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mire

(a.) Dark; gloomy. See Murky.

(a.) Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road.

(a.) Vile, in a moral sense; sordid.

(n.) A genus of minute fungi. The plants consist of slender threads with terminal globular sporangia; mold.

(n.) A minute abrupt point, as of a leaf; any small, sharp point or process, terminating a larger part or organ.

(n.) A viscid fluid secreted by mucous membranes, which it serves to moisten and protect. It covers the lining membranes of all the cavities which open externally, such as those of the mouth, nose, lungs, intestinal canal, urinary passages, etc.

(n.) Any other animal fluid of a viscid quality, as the synovial fluid, which lubricates the cavities of the joints; -- improperly so used.

(n.) A gelatinous or slimy substance found in certain algae and other plants.

(n.) Either one of two asclepiadaceous shrubs (Calotropis gigantea, and C. procera), which furnish a strong and valuable fiber. The acrid milky juice is used medicinally.

(n.) The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.

(v.) To do wrongly.

(v.) To do wrong to; to illtreat.

(v. i.) To do wrong; to commit a fault.

(n.) A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.

(n.) A despicable person; a wretch.

(n.) A covetous, grasping, mean person; esp., one having wealth, who lives miserably for the sake of saving and increasing his hoard.

(n.) A kind of large earth auger.

(superl.) Abounding in mud; besmeared or dashed with mud; as, a muddy road or path; muddy boots.

(superl.) Turbid with mud; as, muddy water.

(superl.) Consisting of mud or earth; gross; impure.

(superl.) Confused, as if turbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague.

(superl.) Not clear or bright.

(v. t.) To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.

(v. t.) Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy.

(n.) Same as Moodir.

(a.) Raining in very small drops.

(superl.) Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw.

(superl.) Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather.

(n.) Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture.

(v. t.) To cover or dress with mulch.

(n.) A fine or penalty, esp. a pecuniary punishment or penalty.

(n.) A blemish or defect.

(v. t.) To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.

(v. t.) Hence, to deprive of; to withhold by way of punishment or discipline.

(n.) A stiff, long saw, guided at the ends but not stretched in a gate.

(n.) See Mulley.

(n.) Same as Mollah.

(n.) Wine boiled and mingled with honey.

(n.) A dead body embalmed and dried after the manner of the ancient Egyptians; also, a body preserved, by any means, in a dry state, from the process of putrefaction.

(n.) Dried flesh of a mummy.

(n.) A gummy liquor that exudes from embalmed flesh when heated; -- formerly supposed to have magical and medicinal properties.

(n.) A brown color obtained from bitumen. See Mummy brown (below).

(n.) A sort of wax used in grafting, etc.

(n.) One whose affections and energies are withered.

(v. t.) To embalm; to mummify.

(n.) Alt. of Mitre

(v. t.) Alt. of Mitre

(v. i.) Alt. of Mitre

(n.) See Bonnet monkey, under Bonnet.

(n.) The stormy petrel.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mix

(a.) Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. & i.

(a.) Of or pertaining to a wall; being on, or in, a wall; growing on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant.

(a.) Resembling a wall; perpendicular or steep; as, a mural precipice.

(imp. & p. p.) of Mure

(n.) A genus of marine gastropods, having rough, and frequently spinose, shells, which are often highly colored inside; the rock shells. They abound in tropical seas.

(n.) A compost heap; a dunghill.

(n.) One who, or that which, mixes.

(n.) A bog or quagmire.