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M Dictionary M - As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin.
Ma Dictionary M - noun A child's word for mother.
Maa Dictionary M - noun The common European gull (Larus canus); - called also mar. See New, a gull.
Maad Dictionary M - past participle Made.
Maalin Dictionary M - noun The sparrow hawk.
Ma'am Dictionary M - noun Madam; my lady; - a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.
Maara shell Dictionary M - A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used as an ornament.
Maasha Dictionary M - noun An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee.
Maat Dictionary M - adjective Dejected; sorrowful; downcast.
Mad Dictionary M - noun A slattern.
Mabble Dictionary M - verb transitive To wrap up.
Mabby Dictionary M - noun A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; - used in the Barbadoes.
Mabolo Dictionary M - noun A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.
Mac Dictionary M - A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.
Macaco Dictionary M - noun Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta).
Macacus Dictionary M - noun A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows.
Macadamization Dictionary M - noun The process or act of macadamizing.
Macadamized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Macadamize.
Macadamizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Macadamize.
Macadamize Dictionary M - verb transitive To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.
Maoadam road Dictionary M - A macadamized road.
Macao Dictionary M - noun A macaw.
Macaque Dictionary M - noun Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.
Macaranga gum Dictionary M - A gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (Macaranga Indica) that grows in the East Indies. It is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine.
Macarize Dictionary M - verb transitive To congratulate.
Macaronis Dictionary M - pleural of Macaroni.
Macaronies Dictionary M - pleural of Macaroni.
Macaroni Dictionary M - noun Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.
Macaronian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Macaronic.
Macaronic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
Macaroon Dictionary M - noun A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.
Macartney Dictionary M - noun A fire-backed pheasant. See Fireback.
Macassar oil Dictionary M - A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; - so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil.
Macauco Dictionary M - noun Any one of several species of small lemurs, as Lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size.
Macavahu Dictionary M - noun A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix torquatus), #NAME?.
Macaw Dictionary M - noun 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.
Maccabean Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.
Maccabees Dictionary M - noun plural The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel.
Maccaboy Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Maccoboy.
Maccoboy Dictionary M - noun A kind of snuff.
Macco Dictionary M - noun A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century.
Mace Dictionary M - noun A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.
Macedonian Dictionary M - adjective Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia.
Macedonianism Dictionary M - noun The doctrines of Macedonius.
Macer Dictionary M - noun A mace bearer; an officer of a court.
Macerated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Macerate.
Macerating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Macerate.
Macerate Dictionary M - verb transitive To make lean; to cause to waste away.
Macerater Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.
Maceration Dictionary M - noun The act or process of macerating.
Machaerodus Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Machairodus.
Machairodus Dictionary M - noun A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; - hence called saber-toothed tigers.
Machete Dictionary M - noun A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, - used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
Machiavelian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.
Machiavelism Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Machiavelianism.
Machiavelianism Dictionary M - noun The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.
Machicolated Dictionary M - adjective Having machicolations.
Machicolation Dictionary M - noun An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.
Machicoulis Dictionary M - noun Same as Machicolation.
Machinal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to machines.
Machinated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Machinate.
Machinating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Machinate.
Machinate Dictionary M - intransitive verb To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.
Machination Dictionary M - noun The act of machinating.
Machinator Dictionary M - noun One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
Machine Dictionary M - noun In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.
Machined Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Machine.
Machining Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Machine.
Machiner Dictionary M - noun One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
Machinery Dictionary M - noun Machines, in general, or collectively.
Machinist Dictionary M - noun A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
Macho Dictionary M - noun The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).
Macilency Dictionary M - noun Leanness.
Macilent Dictionary M - adjective Lean; thin.
Macintosh Dictionary M - noun Same as Mackintosh.
Mackerel Dictionary M - noun A pimp; also, a bawd.
Mackinaw blanket Dictionary M - Alt. of Mackinaw.
Mackinaw Dictionary M - A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.
Mackintosh Dictionary M - noun A waterproof outer garment; - so called from the name of the inventor.
Mackle Dictionary M - noun Same Macule.
Macle Dictionary M - noun Chiastolite; - so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.
Macled Dictionary M - adjective Marked like macle (chiastolite).
Maclurea Dictionary M - noun A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.
Maclurin Dictionary M - noun See Morintannic.
Macrame lace Dictionary M - A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.
Macrencephalic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Macrencephalous.
Macrencephalous Dictionary M - adjective Having a large brain.
Macro- Dictionary M - A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.
Macrobiotic Dictionary M - adjective Long-lived.
Macrobiotics Dictionary M - noun The art of prolonging life.
Macrocephalous Dictionary M - adjective Having a large head.
Macro-chemistry Dictionary M - noun The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; - distinguished from micro-chemistry.
Macrochires Dictionary M - noun plural A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.
Macrocosm Dictionary M - noun The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; - contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.
Macrocosmic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the macrocosm.
Macrocystis Dictionary M - noun An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.
Macrodactyl Dictionary M - noun One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes.
Macrodactylic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Macrodactylous.
Macrodactylous Dictionary M - adjective Having long toes.
Macrodiagonal Dictionary M - noun The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.
Macrodome Dictionary M - noun A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.
Macrodont Dictionary M - adjective Having large teeth.
Macrofarad Dictionary M - noun See Megafarad.
Macroglossia Dictionary M - noun Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.
Macrognathic Dictionary M - adjective Long-jawed.
Macrology Dictionary M - noun Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.
Macrometer Dictionary M - noun An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.
Macron Dictionary M - noun A short, straight, horizontal mark -, placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; /, in s/am, etc.
Macropetalous Dictionary M - adjective Having long or large petals.
Macrophyllous Dictionary M - adjective Having long or large leaves.
Macropinacoid Dictionary M - noun One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.
Macropod Dictionary M - noun Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; - called also spider crab.
Macropodal Dictionary M - adjective Having long or large feet, or a long stem.
Macropodian Dictionary M - noun A macropod.
Macropodous Dictionary M - adjective Having long legs or feet.
Macroprism Dictionary M - noun A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.
Macropteres Dictionary M - noun plural A division of birds; the Longipennes.
Macropterous Dictionary M - adjective Having long wings.
Macropus Dictionary M - noun genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.
Macropyramid Dictionary M - noun See Macroprism.
Macroscopic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Macroscopical.
Macroscopical Dictionary M - adjective Visible to the unassisted eye; - as opposed to microscopic.
Macrosporangium Dictionary M - noun A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; - opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.
Macrospore Dictionary M - noun One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.
Macrosporic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to macrospores.
Macrotone Dictionary M - noun Same as Macron.
Macrotous Dictionary M - adjective Large-eared.
Macroura Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Macroural.
Macroural Dictionary M - adjective Same as Macrura, Macrural, etc.
Macrozoospore Dictionary M - noun A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; - found in certain green algae.
Macrura Dictionary M - noun plural A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda.
Macrural Dictionary M - adjective Same as Macrurous.
Macruran Dictionary M - noun One of the Macrura.
Macruroid Dictionary M - adjective Like or pertaining to the Macrura.
Macrurous Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Macrura; having a long tail.
Mactation Dictionary M - noun The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.
Mactra Dictionary M - noun Any marine bivalve shell of the genus Mactra, and allied genera. Many species are known. Some of them are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe. See Surf clam, under Surf.
Maculae Dictionary M - pleural of Macula.
Macula Dictionary M - noun A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.
Maculate Dictionary M - verb To spot; to stain; to blur.
Maculated Dictionary M - adjective Having spots or blotches; maculate.
Maculation Dictionary M - noun The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.
Maculatory Dictionary M - adjective Causing a spot or stain.
Maculature Dictionary M - noun Blotting paper.
Macule Dictionary M - noun A spot.
Maculose Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to spots upon a surface; spotted; maculate.
Madded Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mad.
Madding Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mad.
Madams Dictionary M - pleural of Madam.
Mesdames Dictionary M - pleural of Madam.
Madam Dictionary M - noun 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.
Madame Dictionary M - noun My lady; - a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women.
Mad-apple Dictionary M - noun See Eggplant.
Madbrain Dictionary M - adjective Hot-headed; rash.
Madbrained Dictionary M - adjective Disordered in mind; hot-headed.
Madcap Dictionary M - adjective Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.
Maddened Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Madden.
Maddening Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Madden.
Madden Dictionary M - verb transitive To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.
Madder Dictionary M - noun A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.
Madderwort Dictionary M - noun A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder.
Maddish Dictionary M - adjective Somewhat mad.
Made Dictionary M - noun See Mad, n.
Madecass Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Madecassee.
Madecassee Dictionary M - noun A native or inhabitant of Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar. See Malagasy.
Madefaction Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Madefication.
Madefication Dictionary M - noun The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet.
Madefied Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Madefy.
Madefying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Madefy.
Madefy Dictionary M - verb transitive To make wet or moist.
Madegassy Dictionary M - noun & adjective See Madecassee.
Madeira Dictionary M - noun A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.
Mesdemoiselles Dictionary M - pleural of Mademoiselle.
Mademoiselle Dictionary M - noun A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss.
Madge Dictionary M - noun The barn owl.
Mad-headed Dictionary M - adjective Wild; crack-brained.
Madhouse Dictionary M - noun A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.
Madia Dictionary M - noun A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table.
Madid Dictionary M - adjective Wet; moist; as, a madid eye.
Madisterium Dictionary M - noun An instrument to extract hairs.
Madjoun Dictionary M - noun An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; - used by the Turks and Hindoos.
Madly Dictionary M - adjective In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.
Madmen Dictionary M - pleural of Madman.
Madman Dictionary M - noun A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.
Madnep Dictionary M - noun The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).
Madness Dictionary M - adjective The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.
Madonna Dictionary M - noun My lady; - a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English.
Madoqua Dictionary M - noun A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare.
Madrague Dictionary M - noun A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.
Madreperl Dictionary M - noun Mother-of-pearl.
Madrepora Dictionary M - noun A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched.
Madreporaria Dictionary M - noun plural An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa.
Madrepore Dictionary M - noun Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.
Madreporian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Madreporic.
Madreporic Dictionary M - adjective Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.
Madreporiform Dictionary M - adjective Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.
Madreporite Dictionary M - noun A fossil coral.
Madrier Dictionary M - noun A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes.
Madrigal Dictionary M - noun A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.
Madrigaler Dictionary M - noun A madrigalist.
Madrigalist Dictionary M - noun A composer of madrigals.
Madrilenian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants.
Madrina Dictionary M - noun An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.
Madro a Dictionary M - noun A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madro a apples.
Madwort Dictionary M - noun A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.
Maegbote Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Magbote.
Magbote Dictionary M - noun Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.
Maelstrom Dictionary M - noun A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.
Maenad Dictionary M - noun A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.
Maestoso Dictionary M - adjective & adverb Majestic or majestically; - a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.
Maestricht monitor Dictionary M - The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.
Maestro Dictionary M - noun A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.
Maffle Dictionary M - intransitive verb To stammer.
Maffler Dictionary M - noun A stammerer.
Magazine Dictionary M - noun A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.
Magazined Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Magazine.
Magazining Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Magazine.
Magaziner Dictionary M - noun One who edits or writes for a magazine.
Magazinist Dictionary M - noun One who edits or writes for a magazine.
Magdala Dictionary M - adjective Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.
Magdalen Dictionary M - noun A reformed prostitute.
Magdaleon Dictionary M - noun A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.
Magdeburg Dictionary M - noun A city of Saxony.
Mage Dictionary M - noun A magician.
Magellanic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator.
Magenta Dictionary M - noun An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; - so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.
Magged Dictionary M - adjective Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace.
Maggiore Dictionary M - adjective Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.
Maggot Dictionary M - noun The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
Maggotiness Dictionary M - noun State of being maggoty.
Maggotish Dictionary M - adjective Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.
Maggot-pie Dictionary M - noun A magpie.
Maggoty Dictionary M - adjective Infested with maggots.
Maghet Dictionary M - noun A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.
Magi Dictionary M - noun plural A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.
Magian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Magi.
Magic Dictionary M - adjective 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.
Magical Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.
Magically Dictionary M - adverb In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.
Magician Dictionary M - noun One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.
Magilp Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Magilph.
Magilph Dictionary M - noun See Megilp.
Magister Dictionary M - noun Master; sir; - a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.
Magisterial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.
Magisteriality Dictionary M - noun Magisterialness; authoritativeness.
Magisterially Dictionary M - adverb In a magisterial manner.
Magisterialness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being magisterial.
Magistery Dictionary M - noun Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.
Magistracies Dictionary M - pleural of Magistracy.
Magistracy Dictionary M - noun The office or dignity of a magistrate.
Magistral Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.
Magistrality Dictionary M - noun Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.
Magistrally Dictionary M - adverb In a magistral manner.
Magistrate Dictionary M - noun A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.
Magistratic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Magistratical.
Magistratical Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.
Magistrature Dictionary M - noun Magistracy.
Magma Dictionary M - noun Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.
Magna Charta Dictionary M - The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.
Magnality Dictionary M - noun A great act or event; a great attainment.
Magnanimity Dictionary M - noun The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.
Magnanimous Dictionary M - adjective Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.
Magnanimously Dictionary M - adverb In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.
Magnase black Dictionary M - A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body.
Magnate Dictionary M - A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.
Magnes Dictionary M - noun Magnet.
Magnesia Dictionary M - noun A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.
Magnesian Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.
Magnesic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.
Magnesite Dictionary M - noun Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.
Magnesium Dictionary M - noun A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75.
Magnet Dictionary M - noun The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; - called also natural magnet.
Magnetic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Magnetical.
Magnetical Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.
Magnetically Dictionary M - adverb By or as by, magnetism.
Magneticalness Dictionary M - noun Quality of being magnetic.
Magnetician Dictionary M - noun One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.
Maneticness Dictionary M - noun Magneticalness.
Magnetics Dictionary M - noun The science of magnetism.
Magnetiferous Dictionary M - adjective Producing or conducting magnetism.
Magnetism Dictionary M - noun The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet.
Magnetist Dictionary M - noun One versed in magnetism.
Magnetite Dictionary M - noun An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron.
Magnetizable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of magnetized.
Magnetization Dictionary M - noun The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized.
Magnetized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Magnetize.
Magnetizing Dictionary M - preparticle & adverb of Magnetize.
Magnetize Dictionary M - verb transitive To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle.
Magnetizee Dictionary M - noun A person subjected to the influence of animal magnetism.
Magnetizer Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.
Magneto- Dictionary M - A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some way connected with, magnetism.
Magneto-electric Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Magneto-electrical.
Magneto-electrical Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction.
Magneto-electricity Dictionary M - noun Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.
Magnetograph Dictionary M - noun An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.
Magnetometer Dictionary M - noun An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.
Magnetometric Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.
Magnetomotor Dictionary M - noun A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.
Magnetotherapy Dictionary M - noun The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.
Magnifiable Dictionary M - adjective Such as can be magnified, or extolled.
Magnific Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Magnifical.
Magnifical Dictionary M - adjective Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.
Magnificat Dictionary M - noun The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; - so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.
Magnificate Dictionary M - verb transitive To magnify or extol.
Magnification Dictionary M - noun The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.
Magnificence Dictionary M - noun The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.
Magnificent Dictionary M - adjective Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
Magnificently Dictionary M - adverb In a Magnificent manner.
Magnificoes Dictionary M - pleural of Magnifico.
Magnifico Dictionary M - noun A grandee or nobleman of Venice; - so called in courtesy.
Magnifier Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, magnifies.
Magnified Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Magnify.
Magnifying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Magnify.
Magnify Dictionary M - verb transitive To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.
Magniloquence Dictionary M - noun The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.
Magniloquent Dictionary M - adjective Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.
Magniloquous Dictionary M - adjective Magniloquent.
Magnitude Dictionary M - noun Extent of dimensions; size; - applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.
Magnolia Dictionary M - noun A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.
Magnoliaceous Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceae) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.
Magnum Dictionary M - noun A large wine bottle.
Magot Dictionary M - noun The Barbary ape.
Magot-pie Dictionary M - noun A magpie.
Magpie Dictionary M - noun Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.
Maguari Dictionary M - noun A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail.
Maguey Dictionary M - noun The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.
Magyar Dictionary M - noun One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.
Maha Dictionary M - noun A kind of baboon; the wanderoo.
Mahabarata Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mahabharatam.
Mahabharatam Dictionary M - noun A celebrated epic poem of the Hindoos. It is of great length, and is chiefly devoted to the history of a civil war between two dynasties of ancient India.
Mahaled Dictionary M - noun A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.
Maharajah Dictionary M - noun A sovereign prince in India; - a title given also to other persons of high rank.
Maharif Dictionary M - noun An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.
Maharmah Dictionary M - noun A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.
Mahdi Dictionary M - noun Among Mohammedans, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Mohammedans, believe that he is yet to appear.
Mahl-stick Dictionary M - noun See Maul-stick.
Mahoe Dictionary M - noun 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.
Mahogany Dictionary M - noun A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.
Maholi Dictionary M - noun A South African lemur (Galago maholi), having very large ears.
Mahomedan Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mahometan.
Mahometan Dictionary M - noun See Mohammedan.
Mahometanism Dictionary M - noun See Mohammedanism.
Mahometanized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mahometanize.
Mahometanizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mahometanize.
Mahometanize Dictionary M - verb transitive To convert to the religion of Mohammed; to Mohammedanize.
Mahometism Dictionary M - noun See Mohammedanism.
Mahometist Dictionary M - noun A Mohammedan.
Mahometry Dictionary M - noun Mohammedanism.
Mahone Dictionary M - noun A large Turkish ship.
Mahonia Dictionary M - noun The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.
Mahon stock Dictionary M - An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.
Mahoohoo Dictionary M - noun The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).
Mahori Dictionary M - noun One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.
Mahound Dictionary M - noun A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil.
Mahout Dictionary M - noun The keeper and driver of an elephant.
Mahovo Dictionary M - noun A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.
Mahrati Dictionary M - noun The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in the Deccan and Concan.
Mahratta Dictionary M - noun One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit.
Mahumetan Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mahumetanism.
Mahumetanism Dictionary M - noun See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.
Mahwa tree Dictionary M - An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.
Maia Dictionary M - noun A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).
Maian Dictionary M - noun Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.
Maid Dictionary M - noun An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
Maiden Dictionary M - noun An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
Maidenhair Dictionary M - noun A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.
Maidenhead Dictionary M - noun The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
Maidenhood Dictionary M - noun The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity.
Maidenlike Dictionary M - adjective Like a maiden; modest; coy.
Maidenliness Dictionary M - noun The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
Maidenly Dictionary M - adjective Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.
Maidenship Dictionary M - noun Maidenhood.
Maidhood Dictionary M - noun Maidenhood.
Maidmarian Dictionary M - noun The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.
Maidpale Dictionary M - adjective Pale, like a sick girl.
Maidservant Dictionary M - noun A female servant.
Maid's hair Dictionary M - The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).
Maieutic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Maieutical.
Maieutical Dictionary M - adjective Serving to assist childbirth.
Maieutics Dictionary M - noun The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
Maiger Dictionary M - noun The meagre.
Maigre Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.
Maihem Dictionary M - noun See Maim, and Mayhem.
Maikel Dictionary M - noun A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.
Maikong Dictionary M - noun A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
Mail Dictionary M - noun A spot.
Mailed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mail.
Mailing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mail.
Mailable Dictionary M - adjective Admissible lawfully into the mail.
Mailclad Dictionary M - adjective Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor.
Mail-shell Dictionary M - noun A chiton.
Maimed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Maim.
Maiming Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Maim.
Maim Dictionary M - verb transitive 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.
Maimedly Dictionary M - adverb In a maimed manner.
Maimedness Dictionary M - noun State of being maimed.
Main Dictionary M - noun A hand or match at dice.
Maine Dictionary M - noun One of the New England States.
Main-gauche Dictionary M - noun The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; - used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.
Main-hamper Dictionary M - noun A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.
Mainland Dictionary M - noun The continent; the principal land; - opposed to island, or peninsula.
Mainly Dictionary M - adverb Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree.
Mainmast Dictionary M - noun The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.
Mainor Dictionary M - noun A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.
Mainpernable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.
Mainpernor Dictionary M - noun A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.
Mainpin Dictionary M - noun A kingbolt.
Mainprise Dictionary M - noun A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete.
Mainprised Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mainprise.
Mainprising Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mainprise.
Mains Dictionary M - noun The farm attached to a mansion house.
Mainsail Dictionary M - noun The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.
Mainsheet Dictionary M - noun One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.
Mainspring Dictionary M - noun The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.
Mainstay Dictionary M - noun The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.
Mainswear Dictionary M - intransitive verb To swear falsely.
Maintained Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Maintain.
Maintaining Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Maintain.
Maintain Dictionary M - verb transitive To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.
Maintainable Dictionary M - adjective That maybe maintained.
Maintainer Dictionary M - noun One who maintains.
Maintainor Dictionary M - noun One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.
Maintenance Dictionary M - noun The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.
Maintop Dictionary M - noun The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.
Main yard Dictionary M - The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.
Maioid Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Maia, or family Maiadeae.
Maister Dictionary M - noun Master.
Maistre Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Maistry.
Maistrie Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Maistry.
Maistry Dictionary M - noun Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery.
Maistress Dictionary M - noun Mistress.
Maithes Dictionary M - noun Same as Maghet.
Maize Dictionary M - noun A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals.
Majestatic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Majestatal.
Majestatal Dictionary M - adjective Majestic.
Majestic Dictionary M - adjective Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand.
Majestical Dictionary M - adjective Majestic.
Majesticness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being majestic.
Majesties Dictionary M - pleural of Majesty.
Majesty Dictionary M - noun The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; - usually applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns.
Majolica Dictionary M - noun A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century.
Major Dictionary M - adjective Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.
Majorat Dictionary M - adjective The right of succession to property according to age; - so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
Majorate Dictionary M - noun The office or rank of a major.
Majoration Dictionary M - noun Increase; enlargement.
Majorcan Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Majorca.
Major-domo Dictionary M - noun A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.
Major general Dictionary M - An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.
Majorities Dictionary M - pleural of Majority.
Majority Dictionary M - noun The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
Majorship Dictionary M - noun The office of major.
Majoun Dictionary M - noun See Madjoun.
Majusculae Dictionary M - noun plural Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.
Majuscule Dictionary M - noun A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculae.
Makable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being made.
Makaron Dictionary M - noun See Macaroon, 2.
Make Dictionary M - noun A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.
Making Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Make.
Makebate Dictionary M - noun One who excites contentions and quarrels.
Make-belief Dictionary M - noun A feigning to believe; make believe.
Make-believe Dictionary M - noun A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
Maked Dictionary M - past participle Made.
Make-game Dictionary M - noun An object of ridicule; a butt.
Makeless Dictionary M - adjective Matchless.
Make-peace Dictionary M - noun A peacemaker.
Maker Dictionary M - noun One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.
Makeshift Dictionary M - noun That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
Make-up Dictionary M - noun The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
Makeweight Dictionary M - noun That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
Maki Dictionary M - noun A lemur. See Lemur.
Making-iron Dictionary M - noun A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
Making-up Dictionary M - noun The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
Mal- Dictionary M - 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.
Mala Dictionary M - noun Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
Malabar Dictionary M - noun A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.
Malacatune Dictionary M - noun See Melocoton.
Malacca Dictionary M - noun A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
Malachite Dictionary M - noun Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
Malacissant Dictionary M - adjective Softening; relaxing.
Malacissation Dictionary M - noun The act of making soft or supple.
Malacobdella Dictionary M - noun A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.
Malacoderm Dictionary M - noun One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.
Malacolite Dictionary M - noun A variety of pyroxene.
Malacologist Dictionary M - noun One versed in the science of malacology.
Malacology Dictionary M - noun The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.
Malacopoda Dictionary M - noun plural A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; - called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.
Malacopterygian Dictionary M - noun One of the Malacopterygii.
Malacopterygii Dictionary M - noun plural An order of fishes in which the fin rays, except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins, are closely jointed, and not spiny. It includes the carp, pike, salmon, shad, etc. Called also Malacopteri.
Malacopterygious Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to the Malacopterygii.
Malacosteon Dictionary M - noun A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.
Malacostomous Dictionary M - adjective Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
Malacostraca Dictionary M - noun plural A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.
Malacostracan Dictionary M - noun One of the Malacostraca.
Malacostracology Dictionary M - noun That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; - called also carcinology.
Malacostracous Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to the Malacostraca.
Malacotoon Dictionary M - noun See Melocoton.
Malacozoa Dictionary M - noun plural An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.
Malacozoic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa.
Maladdress Dictionary M - noun Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one.
Maladjustment Dictionary M - noun A bad adjustment.
Maladministration Dictionary M - noun Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs.
Maladroit Dictionary M - adjective Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.
Maladies Dictionary M - pleural of Malady.
Malady Dictionary M - noun Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
Malaga Dictionary M - noun A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.
Malagash Dictionary M - noun Same as Malagasy.
Malagasy Dictionary M - noun singular & plural A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.
Malaise Dictionary M - noun An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
Malamate Dictionary M - noun A salt of malamic acid.
Malambo Dictionary M - noun A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.
Malamethane Dictionary M - noun A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
Malamic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.
Malamide Dictionary M - noun The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.
Malanders Dictionary M - noun plural A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
Malapert Dictionary M - adjective Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.
Malapropism Dictionary M - noun A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Malapropos Dictionary M - adjective & adverb Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
Malapterurus Dictionary M - noun A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric.
Malar Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.
Malaria Dictionary M - noun Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
Malarial Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Malarious.
Malarian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Malarious.
Malarious Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.
Malashaganay Dictionary M - noun The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).
Malassimilation Dictionary M - noun Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.
Malate Dictionary M - noun A salt of malic acid.
Malax Dictionary M - verb transitive Alt. of Malaxate.
Malaxate Dictionary M - verb transitive To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance.
Malaxation Dictionary M - noun The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters.
Malaxator Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass.
Malay Dictionary M - noun One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
Malayan Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country.
Malayalam Dictionary M - noun The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.
Malbrouck Dictionary M - noun A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).
Malconformation Dictionary M - noun Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
Malcontent Dictionary M - adjective discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.
Malcontented Dictionary M - adjective Malcontent.
Maldanian Dictionary M - noun Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidae. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.
Male- Dictionary M - See Mal-.
Male Dictionary M - adjective Evil; wicked; bad.
Naleadministration Dictionary M - noun Maladministration.
Maleate Dictionary M - noun A salt of maleic acid.
Malebranchism Dictionary M - noun The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.
Maleconformation Dictionary M - noun Malconformation.
Malecontent Dictionary M - adjective Malcontent.
Maledicency Dictionary M - noun Evil speaking.
Maledicent Dictionary M - adjective Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.
Maledict Dictionary M - adjective Accursed; abominable.
Malediction Dictionary M - noun A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; - opposed to benediction.
Malefaction Dictionary M - noun A crime; an offense; an evil deed.
Malefactor Dictionary M - noun An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
Malefactress Dictionary M - noun A female malefactor.
Malefeasance Dictionary M - noun See Malfeasance.
Malefic Dictionary M - adjective Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful.
Malefice Dictionary M - noun An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.
Maleficence Dictionary M - noun Evil doing, esp. to others.
Maleficent Dictionary M - adjective Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.
Maleficial Dictionary M - adjective Injurious.
Maleficiate Dictionary M - verb transitive To bewitch; to harm.
Maleficiation Dictionary M - noun A bewitching.
Maleficience Dictionary M - noun The doing of evil, harm, or mischief.
Maleficient Dictionary M - adjective Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
Maleformation Dictionary M - noun See Malformation.
Maleic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.
Malengine Dictionary M - noun Evil machination; guile; deceit.
Maleo Dictionary M - noun A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.
Male-odor Dictionary M - noun See Malodor.
Malepractice Dictionary M - noun See Malpractice.
Male-spirited Dictionary M - adjective Having the spirit of a male; vigorous; courageous.
Malet Dictionary M - noun A little bag or budget.
Maletreat Dictionary M - verb transitive See Maltreat.
Malevolence Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.
Malevolent Dictionary M - adjective Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.
Malevolently Dictionary M - adverb In a malevolent manner.
Malevolous Dictionary M - adjective Malevolent.
Malexecution Dictionary M - noun Bad execution.
Maleyl Dictionary M - noun A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.
Malfeasance Dictionary M - noun The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.
Malformation Dictionary M - noun Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.
Malgracious Dictionary M - adjective Not graceful; displeasing.
Malgre Dictionary M - preposition See Mauger.
Malic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.
Malice Dictionary M - noun Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.
Malicho Dictionary M - noun Mischief.
Malicious Dictionary M - adjective Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.
Malign Dictionary M - adjective Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; - opposed to benign.
Maligned Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Malign.
Maligning Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Malign.
Malignance Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Malignancy.
Malignancy Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
Malignant Dictionary M - adjective Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
Malignantly Dictionary M - adverb In a malignant manner.
Maligner Dictionary M - noun One who maligns.
Malignified Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Malignify.
Malignifying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Malignify.
Malignify Dictionary M - verb transitive To make malign or malignant.
Malignity Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
Malignly Dictionary M - adverb In a malign manner; with malignity.
MAlingered Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Malinger.
Malingering Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Malinger.
Malinger Dictionary M - intransitive verb To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
Malingerer Dictionary M - noun In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.
Malingery Dictionary M - noun The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
Malison Dictionary M - noun Malediction; curse; execration.
Malkin Dictionary M - noun Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
Mall Dictionary M - noun A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.
Malled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mall.
Malling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mall.
Mallard Dictionary M - adjective A drake; the male of Anas boschas.
Malleability Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being malleable; - opposed to friability and brittleness.
Malleable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; - applied to metals.
Malleableize Dictionary M - verb transitive To make malleable.
Malleableness Dictionary M - noun Quality of being malleable.
Malleal Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to the malleus.
Malleated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Malleate.
Malleating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Malleate.
Malleate Dictionary M - verb transitive To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Malleation Dictionary M - noun The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
Mallecho Dictionary M - noun Same as Malicho.
Mallee bird Dictionary M - The leipoa. See Leipoa.
Mallemock Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mallemoke.
Mallemoke Dictionary M - noun See Mollemoke.
Mallenders Dictionary M - noun plural Same as Malanders.
Malleolar Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
Malleoli Dictionary M - pleural of Malleolus.
Malleolus Dictionary M - noun A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.
Mallet Dictionary M - noun A small maul with a short handle, - used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, - used in playing croquet.
Mallei Dictionary M - pleural of Malleus.
Malleus Dictionary M - noun The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
Mallophaga Dictionary M - noun plural An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; - called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.
Mallotus Dictionary M - noun A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.
Mallow Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mallows.
Mallows Dictionary M - noun A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.
Mallowwort Dictionary M - noun Any plant of the order Malvaceae.
Malm Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Malmbrick.
Malmbrick Dictionary M - noun A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
Malma Dictionary M - noun A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; - called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.
Malmag Dictionary M - noun The tarsius, or spectral lemur.
Malmsey Dictionary M - noun A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.
Malnutrition Dictionary M - noun Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
Malobservation Dictionary M - noun Erroneous observation.
Malodor Dictionary M - noun An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.
Malonate Dictionary M - adjective At salt of malonic acid.
Malonic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.
Malonyl Dictionary M - noun A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.
Malpighia Dictionary M - noun A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.
Malpighiaceous Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.
Malpighian Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
Malposition Dictionary M - noun A wrong position.
Malpractice Dictionary M - noun Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
Malt Dictionary M - noun 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.
Malted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Malt.
Malting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Malt.
Maltalent Dictionary M - noun Ill will; malice.
Maltese Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants.
Maltha Dictionary M - noun A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.
Malthusian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.
Mathusian Dictionary M - noun A follower of Malthus.
Malthusianism Dictionary M - noun The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.
Maltin Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Maltine.
Maltine Dictionary M - noun The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.
Maltmen Dictionary M - pleural of Maltman.
Maltman Dictionary M - noun A man whose occupation is to make malt.
Maltonic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.
Maltose Dictionary M - noun A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.
Maltreated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Maltreat.
Maltreating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Maltreat.
Maltreat Dictionary M - verb transitive To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.
Maltreament Dictionary M - noun Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.
Maltster Dictionary M - noun A maltman.
Maltworm Dictionary M - noun A tippler.
Malty Dictionary M - adjective Consisting, or like, malt.
Malum Dictionary M - noun An evil. See Mala.
Malvaceous Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it.
Malversation Dictionary M - noun Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.
Malvesie Dictionary M - noun Malmsey wine. See Malmsey.
Mam Dictionary M - noun Mamma.
Mama Dictionary M - noun See Mamma.
Mamaluke Dictionary M - noun Same as Mameluke.
Mamelon Dictionary M - noun A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.
Mameluco Dictionary M - noun A child born of a white father and Indian mother.
Mameluke Dictionary M - noun One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.
Mamillated Dictionary M - adjective See Mammillated.
Mamma Dictionary M - noun Mother; - word of tenderness and familiarity.
Mammae Dictionary M - pleural of Mamma.
Mammals Dictionary M - pleural of Mammal.
Mammal Dictionary M - noun One of the Mammalia.
Mammalia Dictionary M - noun plural The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.
Mammalian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.
Mammaliferous Dictionary M - adjective Containing mammalian remains; - said of certain strata.
Mammalogical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to mammalogy.
Mammalogist Dictionary M - noun One versed in mammalogy.
Mammalogy Dictionary M - noun The science which relates to mammals or the Mammalia. See Mammalia.
Mammary Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the mammae or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.
Mammee Dictionary M - noun A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana); also, its fruit. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.
Mammer Dictionary M - intransitive verb To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully.
Mammet Dictionary M - noun An idol; a puppet; a doll.
Mammetry Dictionary M - noun See Mawmetry.
Mammifer Dictionary M - noun A mammal. See Mammalia.
Mammiferous Dictionary M - adjective Having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the Mammalia.
Mammiform Dictionary M - adjective Having the form of a mamma (breast) or mammae.
Mammilae Dictionary M - pleural of Mammilla.
Mammilla Dictionary M - noun The nipple.
Mammillary Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.
Mammillate Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mammillated.
Mammillated Dictionary M - adjective Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammae.
Mammilliform Dictionary M - adjective Having the form of a mammilla.
Mammilloid Dictionary M - adjective Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.
Mammock Dictionary M - noun A shapeless piece; a fragment.
Mammodis Dictionary M - noun Coarse plain India muslins.
Mammology Dictionary M - noun Mastology. See Mammalogy.
Mammon Dictionary M - noun Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.
Mammonish Dictionary M - adjective Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon.
Mammonism Dictionary M - noun Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.
Mammonist Dictionary M - noun A mammonite.
Mammonite Dictionary M - noun One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon.
Mammonization Dictionary M - noun The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.
Mammonize Dictionary M - verb transitive To make mammonish.
Mammose Dictionary M - adjective Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.
Mammoth Dictionary M - noun An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.
Mammothrept Dictionary M - noun A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.
Mammies Dictionary M - pleural of Mammy.
Mammy Dictionary M - noun A child's name for mamma, mother.
Mamzer Dictionary M - noun A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.
Man Dictionary M - noun A human being; - opposed tobeast.
Manned Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Man.
Manning Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Man.
Manable Dictionary M - adjective Marriageable.
Manace Dictionary M - noun & verb Same as Menace.
Manacle Dictionary M - noun A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; - usually in the plural.
Manacled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manacle.
Manacling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manacle.
Manage Dictionary M - noun The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.
Managed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manage.
Managing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manage.
Manageability Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.
Manageable Dictionary M - adjective Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.
Manageless Dictionary M - adjective Unmanageable.
Management Dictionary M - verb The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.
Manager Dictionary M - noun One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.
Managerial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities.
Managership Dictionary M - noun The office or position of a manager.
Managery Dictionary M - noun Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.
Manakin Dictionary M - noun Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.
Manatee Dictionary M - noun Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; - called alsosea cow.
Manation Dictionary M - noun The act of issuing or flowing out.
Manbote Dictionary M - noun A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant).
Manca Dictionary M - noun See Mancus.
Manche Dictionary M - noun A sleeve.
Manchet Dictionary M - noun Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.
Manchineel Dictionary M - noun A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.
Manchu Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants.
Mancipate Dictionary M - verb transitive To enslave; to bind; to restrict.
Mancipation Dictionary M - noun Slavery; involuntary servitude.
Manciple Dictionary M - noun A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
Mancona bark Dictionary M - See Sassy bark.
Mancus Dictionary M - noun An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.
-mancy Dictionary M - A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.
Mand Dictionary M - noun A demand.
Mandamus Dictionary M - noun A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.
Mandarin Dictionary M - noun A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.
Mandarinate Dictionary M - noun The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.
Mandarinic Dictionary M - adjective Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.
Mandarining Dictionary M - noun The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid.
Mandarinism Dictionary M - noun A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.
Mandatary Dictionary M - noun One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.
Mandate Dictionary M - noun An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.
Mandator Dictionary M - noun A director; one who gives a mandate or order.
Mandatory Dictionary M - adjective Containing a command; preceptive; directory.
Mandelate Dictionary M - noun A salt of mandelic acid.
Mandelic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; - called also phenyl glycolic acid.
Mander Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive See Maunder.
Manderil Dictionary M - noun A mandrel.
Mandible Dictionary M - noun The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; - also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.
Mandibular Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.
Mandibulate Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mandibulated.
Mandibulated Dictionary M - adjective Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.
Mandibuliform Dictionary M - adjective Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
Mandibulohyoid Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.
Mandil Dictionary M - noun A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.
Mandilion Dictionary M - noun See Mandil.
Mandingos Dictionary M - noun plural; singular. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.
Mandioc Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mandioca.
Mandioca Dictionary M - noun See Manioc.
Mandlestone Dictionary M - noun Amygdaloid.
Mandment Dictionary M - noun Commandment.
Mandolin Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mandoline.
Mandoline Dictionary M - noun A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.
Mandore Dictionary M - noun A kind of four-stringed lute.
Mandragora Dictionary M - noun A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.
Mandragorite Dictionary M - noun One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.
Mandrake Dictionary M - noun A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region.
Mandrel Dictionary M - noun A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.
Mandrill Dictionary M - noun a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.
Manducable Dictionary M - adjective Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten.
Manducated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manducate.
Manducating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manducate.
Manducate Dictionary M - verb transitive To masticate; to chew; to eat.
Manducation Dictionary M - noun The act of chewing.
Manducatory Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.
Manducus Dictionary M - noun A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.
Mane Dictionary M - noun 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.
Man-eater Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.
Maned Dictionary M - adjective Having a mane.
Manege Dictionary M - noun Art of horsemanship, or of training horses.
Maneh Dictionary M - noun A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.
Maneless Dictionary M - adjective Having no mane.
Manequin Dictionary M - noun An artist's model of wood or other material.
Manerial Dictionary M - adjective See Manorial.
Manes Dictionary M - noun plural The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.
Manesheet Dictionary M - noun A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.
Maneuver Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manoeuvre.
Manoeuvre Dictionary M - noun Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.
Maneuvered Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manoeuvre.
Manoeuvred Dictionary M - of Manoeuvre.
Maneuvering Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manoeuvre.
Manoeuvring Dictionary M - of Manoeuvre.
Maneuverer Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manoeuvrer.
Manoeuvrer Dictionary M - noun One who maneuvers.
Manful Dictionary M - adjective Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
Mamgabey Dictionary M - noun Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black.
Mangan Dictionary M - noun See Mangonel.
Manganate Dictionary M - noun A salt of manganic acid.
Manganesate Dictionary M - noun A manganate.
Manganese Dictionary M - noun An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8.
Manganesian Dictionary M - adjective Manganic.
Manganesic Dictionary M - adjective Manganic.
Manganesious Dictionary M - adjective Manganous.
Manganesium Dictionary M - noun Manganese.
Manganesous Dictionary M - adjective Manganous.
Manganic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous compounds. Cf. Manganous.
Manganiferous Dictionary M - adjective Containing manganese.
Manganite Dictionary M - noun One of the oxides of manganese; - called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.
Manganium Dictionary M - noun Manganese.
Manganous Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, designating, those compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with manganic compounds; as, manganous oxide.
Mangcorn Dictionary M - noun A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain.
Mange Dictionary M - noun The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.
Mangel-wurzel Dictionary M - noun A kind of large field beet (B. macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, - by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet.
Manger Dictionary M - noun A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.
Mangily Dictionary M - adverb In a mangy manner; scabbily.
Manginess Dictionary M - noun The condition or quality of being mangy.
Mangled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mangle.
Mangling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mangle.
Mangle Dictionary M - verb transitive To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.
Mangler Dictionary M - noun One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.
Mangoes Dictionary M - pleural of Mango.
Mango Dictionary M - noun The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.
Mangoldwurzel Dictionary M - noun See Mangel-wurzel.
Mangonel Dictionary M - noun A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.
Mangonism Dictionary M - noun The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage.
Mangonist Dictionary M - noun One who mangonizes.
Mangonize Dictionary M - verb transitive To furbish up for sale; to set off to advantage.
Mangosteen Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mangostan.
Mangostan Dictionary M - noun A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.
Mangrove Dictionary M - noun The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.
Mangue Dictionary M - noun The kusimanse.
Mangy Dictionary M - superlative Infected with the mange; scabby.
Manhaden Dictionary M - noun See Menhaden.
Manhead Dictionary M - noun Manhood.
Manhole Dictionary M - noun A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or repairing.
Manhood Dictionary M - noun The state of being man as a human being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.
Mania Dictionary M - noun Violent derangement of mind; madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.
Maniable Dictionary M - adjective Manageable.
Maniac Dictionary M - adjective Raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.
Maniacal Dictionary M - adjective Affected with, or characterized by, madness; maniac.
Manicate Dictionary M - adjective Covered with hairs or pubescence so platted together and interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.
Manichaean Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manichee.
Manichean Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manichee.
Manichee Dictionary M - noun A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil.
Manichaeism Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manicheism.
Manicheism Dictionary M - noun The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the Manichaeans.
Manicheist Dictionary M - noun Manichaean.
Manichord Dictionary M - Alt. of Manichordon.
Manichordon Dictionary M - The clavichord or clarichord; - called also dumb spinet.
Manicure Dictionary M - noun A person who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their nails.
Manid Dictionary M - noun Any species of the genus Manis, or family Manidae.
Manie Dictionary M - noun Mania; insanity.
Manifest Dictionary M - adjective Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
Manifests Dictionary M - pleural of Manifest.
Manifested Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manifest.
Manifesting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manifest.
Manifestable Dictionary M - adjective Such as can be manifested.
Manifestation Dictionary M - noun The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, that which manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation.
Manifestible Dictionary M - adjective Manifestable.
Manifestly Dictionary M - adverb In a manifest manner.
Manifestness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being manifest; obviousness.
Manifestoes Dictionary M - pleural of Manifesto.
Manifesto Dictionary M - noun & adjective A public declaration, usually of a prince, sovereign, or other person claiming large powers, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives in reference to some act done or contemplated by him; as, a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives.
Manifold Dictionary M - adjective Various in kind or quality; many in number; numerous; multiplied; complicated.
Manifolded Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manifold.
Manifolding Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manifold.
Manifoldly Dictionary M - adverb In a manifold manner.
Manifoldness Dictionary M - noun Multiplicity.
Maniform Dictionary M - adjective Shaped like the hand.
Maniglion Dictionary M - noun Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.
Manihoc Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manihot.
Manihot Dictionary M - noun See Manioc.
Manikin Dictionary M - noun A little man; a dwarf; a pygmy; a manakin.
Manila Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Manilla.
Manilla Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Manila or Manilla, the capital of the Philippine Islands; made in, or exported from, that city.
Manilio Dictionary M - noun See Manilla, 1.
Manille Dictionary M - noun See 1st Manilla, 1.
Manioc Dictionary M - noun The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared; also, cassava.
Maniple Dictionary M - adjective A handful.
Manipular Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the maniple, or company.
Manipulated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manipulate.
Manipulating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manipulate.
Manipulate Dictionary M - verb transitive To treat, work, or operate with the hands, especially when knowledge and dexterity are required; to manage in hand work; to handle; as, to manipulate scientific apparatus.
Manipulation Dictionary M - noun The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art.
Manipulative Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to manipulation; performed by manipulation.
Manipulator Dictionary M - noun One who manipulates.
Manipulatory Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to manipulation.
Manis Dictionary M - noun A genus of edentates, covered with large, hard, triangular scales, with sharp edges that overlap each other like tiles on a roof. They inhabit the warmest parts of Asia and Africa, and feed on ants. Called also Scaly anteater. See Pangolin.
Manito Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manitu.
Manitou Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manitu.
Manitu Dictionary M - noun A name given by tribes of American Indians to a great spirit, whether good or evil, or to any object of worship.
Manitrunk Dictionary M - noun The anterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Insect.
Mankind Dictionary M - noun The human race; man, taken collectively.
Manks Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the language or people of the of Man.
Manless Dictionary M - adjective Destitute of men.
Manlessly Dictionary M - adverb Inhumanly.
Manlike Dictionary M - adjective Like man, or like a man, in form or nature; having the qualities of a man, esp. the nobler qualities; manly.
Manliness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being manly.
Manling Dictionary M - noun A little man.
Manly Dictionary M - superlative Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble.
Manna Dictionary M - noun The food supplied to the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia; hence, divinely supplied food.
Manna croup Dictionary M - The portions of hard wheat kernels not ground into flour by the millstones: a kind of semolina prepared in Russia and used for puddings, soups, etc. - called also manna groats.
Manner Dictionary M - noun Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion.
Mannered Dictionary M - adjective Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self.
Mannerism Dictionary M - noun Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art.
Mannerist Dictionary M - noun One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.
Mannerliness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance.
Mannerly Dictionary M - adjective Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant.
Mannheim gold Dictionary M - A kind of brass made in imitation of gold. It contains eighty per cent of copper and twenty of zinc.
Mannide Dictionary M - noun A white amorphous or crystalline substance, obtained by dehydration of mannite, and distinct from, but convertible into, mannitan.
Mannish Dictionary M - adjective Resembling a human being in form or nature; human.
Mannitan Dictionary M - noun A white amorphous or crystalline substance obtained by the partial dehydration of mannite.
Mannitate Dictionary M - noun A salt of mannitic acid.
Mannite Dictionary M - noun A white crystalline substance of a sweet taste obtained from a so-called manna, the dried sap of the flowering ash (Fraxinus ornus); - called also mannitol, and hydroxy hexane. Cf. Dulcite.
Mannitic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, resembling, or derived from, mannite.
Mannitol Dictionary M - noun The technical name of mannite. See Mannite.
Mannitose Dictionary M - noun A variety of sugar obtained by the partial oxidation of mannite, and closely resembling levulose.
Men-of-war Dictionary M - pleural of Manofwar.
Manofwar Dictionary M - n A government vessel employed for the purposes of war, esp. one of large size; a ship of war.
Manometer Dictionary M - noun An instrument for measuring the tension or elastic force of gases, steam, etc., constructed usually on the principle of allowing the gas to exert its elastic force in raising a column of mercury in an open tube, or in compressing a portion of air or other gas in a closed tube with mercury or other liquid intervening, or in bending a metallic or other spring so as to set in motion an index; a pressure gauge. See Pressure, and Illust. of Air pump.
Manometric Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Manometrical.
Manometrical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the manometer; made by the manometer.
Manor Dictionary M - noun 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.
Manorial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a manor.
Manoscope Dictionary M - noun Same as Manometer.
Manoscopy Dictionary M - noun The science of the determination of the density of vapors and gases.
Manovery Dictionary M - noun A contrivance or maneuvering to catch game illegally.
Manqueller Dictionary M - noun A killer of men; a manslayer.
Manred Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Manrent.
Manrent Dictionary M - noun Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage.
Manrope Dictionary M - noun One of the side ropes to the gangway of a ship.
Mansard roof Dictionary M - A hipped curb roof; that is, a roof having on all sides two slopes, the lower one being steeper than the upper one.
Manse Dictionary M - noun A dwelling house, generally with land attached.
Manservant Dictionary M - noun A male servant.
Mansion Dictionary M - noun A dwelling place, - whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
Mansionary Dictionary M - adjective Resident; residentiary; as, mansionary canons.
Mansionry Dictionary M - noun The state of dwelling or residing; occupancy as a dwelling place.
Manslaughter Dictionary M - noun The slaying of a human being; destruction of men.
Manslayer Dictionary M - noun One who kills a human being; one who commits manslaughter.
Manstealer Dictionary M - noun A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.
Manstealing Dictionary M - noun The act or business of stealing or kidnaping human beings, especially with a view to e/slave them.
Mansuete Dictionary M - adjective Tame; gentle; kind.
Mansuetude Dictionary M - noun Tameness; gentleness; mildness.
Manswear Dictionary M - intransitive verb To swear falsely. Same as Mainswear.
Manta Dictionary M - noun See Coleoptera and Sea devil.
Mantchoo Dictionary M - adjective & noun Same as Manchu.
Manteaux Dictionary M - pleural of Manteau.
Manteaus Dictionary M - pleural of Manteau.
Manteau Dictionary M - noun A woman's cloak or mantle.
Mantel Dictionary M - noun The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports.
Mantelet Dictionary M - noun A short cloak formerly worn by knights.
Mantelpiece Dictionary M - noun Same as Mantel.
Mantelshelf Dictionary M - noun The shelf of a mantel.
Manteltree Dictionary M - noun The lintel of a fireplace when of wood, as frequently in early houses.
Mantic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity; prophetic.
Mantilla Dictionary M - noun A lady's light cloak of cape of silk, velvet, lace, or the like.
Mantis Dictionary M - noun Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera. They are remarkable for their slender grotesque forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina.
Mantispid Dictionary M - noun Any neuropterous insect of the genus Mantispa, and allied genera. The larvae feed on plant lice. Also used adjectively. See Illust. under Neuroptera.
Mantissa Dictionary M - noun The decimal part of a logarithm, as distinguished from the integral part, or characteristic.
Mantle Dictionary M - noun A loose garment to be worn over other garments; an enveloping robe; a cloak. Hence, figuratively, a covering or concealing envelope.
Mantled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mantle.
Mantling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mantle.
Mantlet Dictionary M - noun See Mantelet.
Manto Dictionary M - noun See Manteau.
Mantologist Dictionary M - noun One who is skilled in mantology; a diviner.
Mantology Dictionary M - noun The act or art of divination.
Mantra Dictionary M - noun A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm.
Mantrap Dictionary M - noun A trap for catching trespassers.
Mantua Dictionary M - noun A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.
Mantuamaker Dictionary M - noun One who makes dresses, cloaks, etc., for women; a dressmaker.
Mantuan Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Mantua.
Manu Dictionary M - noun One of a series of progenitors of human beings, and authors of human wisdom.
Manual Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the hand; done or made by the hand; as, manual labor; the king's sign manual.
Manualist Dictionary M - noun One who works with the hands; an artificer.
Manually Dictionary M - adverb By hand.
Manuary Dictionary M - adjective Manual.
Manubial Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to spoils; taken in war.
Manubrial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a manubrium; shaped like a manubrium; handlelike.
Manubria Dictionary M - pleural of Manubrium.
Manubriums Dictionary M - pleural of Manubrium.
Manubrium Dictionary M - noun A handlelike process or part; esp., the anterior segment of the sternum, or presternum, and the handlelike process of the malleus.
Manucode Dictionary M - noun Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.
Manuducent Dictionary M - noun One who leads by the hand; a manuductor.
Manuduction Dictionary M - noun Guidance by the hand.
Manductor Dictionary M - noun A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music.
Manufactory Dictionary M - noun Manufacture.
Manufactural Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to manufactures.
Manufacture Dictionary M - noun The operation of making wares or any products by hand, by machinery, or by other agency.
Manufactured Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manufacture.
Manufacturing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manufacture.
Manufacturer Dictionary M - noun One who manufactures.
Manul Dictionary M - noun A wild cat (Felis manul), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks.
Manumise Dictionary M - verb transitive To manumit.
Manumission Dictionary M - noun The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.
Manumitted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manumit.
Manumitting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manumit.
Manumit Dictionary M - verb transitive To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave.
Manumotive Dictionary M - adjective Movable by hand.
Manumotor Dictionary M - noun A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it.
Manurable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of cultivation.
Manurage Dictionary M - noun Cultivation.
Manurance Dictionary M - noun Cultivation.
Manured Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Manure.
Manuring Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Manure.
Manure Dictionary M - verb transitive To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.
Manurement Dictionary M - noun Cultivation.
Manurer Dictionary M - noun One who manures land.
Manurial Dictionary M - adjective Relating to manures.
Manus Dictionary M - pleural of Manus.
Manuscript Dictionary M - adjective Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.
Manuscriptal Dictionary M - adjective Manuscript.
Manutenency Dictionary M - noun Maintenance.
Manway Dictionary M - noun A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through.
Manx Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language.
Many Dictionary M - noun A retinue of servants; a household.
Many-minded Dictionary M - adjective Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.
Manyplies Dictionary M - noun The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.
Many-sided Dictionary M - adjective Having many sides; - said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.
Manyways Dictionary M - adverb Alt. of Manywise.
Manywise Dictionary M - adverb In many different ways; variously.
Manzanita Dictionary M - noun A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.
Maoris Dictionary M - pleural of Maori.
Maori Dictionary M - noun One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand.
Map Dictionary M - noun A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; - usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.
Mapped Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Map.
Mapping Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Map.
Mapach Dictionary M - noun The raccoon.
Maple Dictionary M - noun 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.
Maplike Dictionary M - adjective Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.
Mappery Dictionary M - noun The making, or study, of maps.
Maqui Dictionary M - noun A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.
Mar Dictionary M - noun A small lake. See Mere.
Marred Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mar.
Marring Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mar.
Mara Dictionary M - noun The principal or ruling evil spirit.
Marabou Dictionary M - noun A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.
Marabout Dictionary M - noun A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
Maracan Dictionary M - noun A macaw.
Marai Dictionary M - noun A sacred inclosure or temple; - so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.
Maranatha Dictionary M - noun Our Lord cometh; - an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.
Maranta Dictionary M - noun A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.
Maraschino Dictionary M - noun A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.
Marasmus Dictionary M - noun A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.
Marauded Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Maraud.
Marauding Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Maraud.
Maraud Dictionary M - intransitive verb To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.
Marauder Dictionary M - verb A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.
Maravedi Dictionary M - noun A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.
Marble Dictionary M - noun A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
Marbled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Marble.
Marbling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Marble.
Marble-edged Dictionary M - adjective Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.
Marbleized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Marbleize.
Marbleizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Marbleize.
Marbleize Dictionary M - verb transitive To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.
Marbler Dictionary M - noun One who works upon marble or other stone.
Marbly Dictionary M - adjective Containing, or resembling, marble.
Marbrinus Dictionary M - noun A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; - much used in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Marc Dictionary M - noun The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes.
Marcantant Dictionary M - noun A merchant.
Marcasite Dictionary M - noun A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites.
Marcasitic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Marcasitical.
Marcasitical Dictionary M - adjective Containing, or having the nature of, marcasite.
Marcassin Dictionary M - noun A young wild boar.
Marcato Dictionary M - adjective In a marked emphatic manner; - used adverbially as a direction.
Marceline Dictionary M - noun A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.
Marcescent Dictionary M - adjective Withering without/ falling off; fading; decaying.
Marcescible Dictionary M - adjective Li/ble to wither or decay.
March Dictionary M - noun The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
Marched Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of March.
Marching Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of March.
Macher Dictionary M - noun One who marches.
Marcher Dictionary M - noun The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.
Marchet Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Merchet.
Merchet Dictionary M - noun In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.
Marchioness Dictionary M - noun The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
March-mad Dictionary M - adjective Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month.
Marchman Dictionary M - noun A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.
Marchpane Dictionary M - noun A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar.
March-ward Dictionary M - noun A warden of the marches; a marcher.
Marcian Dictionary M - adjective Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold.
Marcid Dictionary M - adjective Pining; lean; withered.
Marcidity Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being withered or lean.
Marcionite Dictionary M - noun A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.
Marcobrunner Dictionary M - noun A celebrated Rhine wine.
Marcor Dictionary M - noun A wasting away of flesh; decay.
Marcosian Dictionary M - noun One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.
Mardi gras Dictionary M - noun The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; - in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.
Mare Dictionary M - noun The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
Marechal Niel Dictionary M - A kind of large yellow rose.
Mareis Dictionary M - noun A Marsh.
Marena Dictionary M - noun A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.
Mareschal Dictionary M - noun A military officer of high rank; a marshal.
Mare's-nest Dictionary M - noun A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grosaly absurd.
Mare's-tail Dictionary M - noun A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud.
Margarate Dictionary M - noun A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.
Margaric Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.
Margarin Dictionary M - noun A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin.
Marasritaceous Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.
Margarite Dictionary M - noun A pearl.
Margaritic Dictionary M - adjective Margaric.
Margaritiferous Dictionary M - adjective Producing pearls.
Margarodite Dictionary M - noun A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite.
Margarone Dictionary M - noun The ketone of margaric acid.
Margarous Dictionary M - adjective Margaric; - formerly designating a supposed acid.
Margate fish Dictionary M - A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; - called also red-mouth grunt.
Margay Dictionary M - noun An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.
Marge Dictionary M - noun Border; margin; edge; verge.
Margent Dictionary M - noun A margin; border; brink; edge.
Margin Dictionary M - noun A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.
Margined Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Margin.
Marginging Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Margin.
Marginal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a margin.
Marginalia Dictionary M - noun plural Marginal notes.
Marginally Dictionary M - adverb In the margin of a book.
Marginate Dictionary M - noun Having a margin distinct in appearance or structure.
Marginated Dictionary M - adjective Same as Marginate, a.
Marginella Dictionary M - noun A genus of small, polished, marine univalve shells, native of all warm seas.
Marginicidal Dictionary M - adjective Dehiscent by the separation of united carpels; - said of fruits.
Margosa Dictionary M - noun A large tree of genus Melia (M. Azadirachta) found in India. Its bark is bitter, and used as a tonic. A valuable oil is expressed from its seeds, and a tenacious gum exudes from its trunk. The M. Azedarach is a much more showy tree, and is cultivated in the Southern United States, where it is known as Pride of India, Pride of China, or bead tree. Various parts of the tree are considered anthelmintic.
Margravate Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Margraviate.
Margraviate Dictionary M - noun The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.
Margrave Dictionary M - noun Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.
Margravine Dictionary M - noun The wife of a margrave.
Marguerite Dictionary M - noun The daisy (Bellis perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster.
Marian Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII.
Marie Dictionary M - interjection Marry.
Mariet Dictionary M - noun A kind of bellflower, Companula Trachelium, once called Viola Mariana; but it is not a violet.
Marigenous Dictionary M - adjective Produced in or by the sea.
Marigold Dictionary M - noun A name for several plants with golden yellow blossoms, especially the Calendula officinalis (see Calendula), and the cultivated species of Tagetes.
Marikina Dictionary M - noun A small marmoset (Midas rosalia); the silky tamarin.
Marimba Dictionary M - noun A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck.
Marimonda Dictionary M - noun A spider monkey (Ateles belzebuth) of Central and South America.
Marinade Dictionary M - noun A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish.
Marinate Dictionary M - verb transitive To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar; to prepare by the use of marinade.
Marine Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the sea; having to do with the ocean, or with navigation or naval affairs; nautical; as, marine productions or bodies; marine shells; a marine engine.
Marined Dictionary M - adjective Having the lower part of the body like a fish.
Mariner Dictionary M - noun One whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships; a seaman or sailor.
Marinership Dictionary M - noun Seamanship.
Marinorama Dictionary M - noun A representation of a sea view.
Mariolater Dictionary M - noun One who worships the Virgin Mary.
Mariolatry Dictionary M - noun The worship of the Virgin Mary.
Marionette Dictionary M - noun A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.
Mariotte's law Dictionary M - See Boyle's law, under Law.
Mariposa lily Dictionary M - One of a genus (Calochortus) of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also butterfly lily. Most of them are natives of California.
Mariput Dictionary M - noun A species of civet; the zoril.
Marish Dictionary M - noun Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor.
Marital Dictionary M - verb Of or pertaining to a husband; as, marital rights, duties, authority.
Maritated Dictionary M - adjective Having a husband; married.
Maritimal Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Maritimale.
Maritimale Dictionary M - adjective See Maritime.
Maritime Dictionary M - adjective Bordering on, or situated near, the ocean; connected with the sea by site, interest, or power; having shipping and commerce or a navy; as, maritime states.
Marjoram Dictionary M - noun A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.
Mark Dictionary M - noun A license of reprisals. See Marque.
Marked Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mark.
Marking Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mark.
Markable Dictionary M - adjective Remarkable.
Markee Dictionary M - noun See Marquee.
Marker Dictionary M - noun One who or that which marks.
Market Dictionary M - noun A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
Marketed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Market.
Marketing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Market.
Marketable Dictionary M - adjective Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacaye/ provisions are not marketable.
Marketableness Dictionary M - noun Quality of being marketable.
Marketer Dictionary M - noun One who attends a market to buy or sell; one who carries goods to market.
Marketstead Dictionary M - noun A market place.
Markhoor Dictionary M - noun A large wild goat (Capra megaceros), having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.
Markis Dictionary M - noun A marquis.
Markisesse Dictionary M - noun A marchioness.
Markman Dictionary M - noun A marksman.
Marksmen Dictionary M - pleural of Marksman.
Marksman Dictionary M - noun One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.
Marksmanship Dictionary M - noun Skill of a marksman.
Marl Dictionary M - verb transitive To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding.
Marled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Marl.
Marling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Marl.
Marlaceous Dictionary M - adjective Resembling marl; partaking of the qualities of marl.
Marlin Dictionary M - noun The American great marbled godwit (Limosa fedoa). Applied also to the red-breasted godwit (Limosa haematica).
Marline Dictionary M - verb A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting.
Marlite Dictionary M - noun A variety of marl.
Marlitic Dictionary M - adjective Partaking of the qualites of marlite.
Marlpit Dictionary M - noun Apit where marl is dug.
Marlstone Dictionary M - noun A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.
Marly Dictionary M - superlative Consisting or partaking of marl; resembling marl; abounding with marl.
Marmalade Dictionary M - noun A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence.
Marmalet Dictionary M - noun See Marmalade.
Marmatite Dictionary M - noun A ferruginous variety of shalerite or zinc blende, nearly black in color.
Marmolite Dictionary M - noun A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color.
Marmoraceous Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or like, marble.
Marmorate Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Marmorated.
Marmorated Dictionary M - adjective Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble.
Marmoration Dictionary M - noun A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.
Marmoratum opus Dictionary M - A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.
Marmoreal Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Marmorean.
Marmorean Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble.
Marmorosis Dictionary M - noun The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble.
Marmose Dictionary M - noun A species of small opossum (Didelphus murina) ranging from Mexico to Brazil.
Marmoset Dictionary M - noun Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidae. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey.
Marmot Dictionary M - noun Any rodent of the genus Arctomys. The common European marmot (A. marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.
Marmottes oil Dictionary M - A fine oil obtained from the kernel of Prunus brigantiaca. It is used instead of olive or almond oil.
Marmozet Dictionary M - noun See Marmoset.
Marone Dictionary M - noun See Maroon, the color.
Maronites Dictionary M - pleural of Maronite.
Maronite Dictionary M - noun One of a body of nominal Christians, who speak the Arabic language, and reside on Mount Lebanon and in different parts of Syria. They take their name from one Maron of the 6th century.
Maroon Dictionary M - noun In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
Marooned Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Maroon.
Marooning Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Maroon.
Marplot Dictionary M - noun One who, by his officious /nterference, mars or frustrates a design or plot.
Marque Dictionary M - noun A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals.
Marquee Dictionary M - noun A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank.
Marquess Dictionary M - noun A marquis.
Marquetry Dictionary M - noun Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.
Marquis Dictionary M - noun A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.
Marquisate Dictionary M - noun The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis; the territory governed by a marquis.
Marquisdom Dictionary M - noun A marquisate.
Marquise Dictionary M - noun The wife of a marquis; a marchioness.
Marquisship Dictionary M - noun A marquisate.
Marram Dictionary M - noun A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach.
Marrer Dictionary M - noun One who mars or injures.
Marriable Dictionary M - adjective Marriageable.
Marriage Dictionary M - verb transitive The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
Marriageability Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being marriageable.
Marriageable Dictionary M - adjective Fit for, or capable of, marriage; of an age at which marriage is allowable.
Marrried Dictionary M - adjective Being in the state of matrimony; wedded; as, a married man or woman.
Marrier Dictionary M - noun One who marries.
Marron Dictionary M - adjective A large chestnut.
Marroon Dictionary M - noun & adjective Same as 1st Maroon.
Marrot Dictionary M - noun The razor-billed auk. See Auk.
Marrow Dictionary M - noun The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color.
Marrowed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Marrow.
Marrowing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Marrow.
Marrowbone Dictionary M - noun A bone containing marrow; pl. ludicrously, knee bones or knees; as, to get down on one's marrowbones, i. e., to kneel.
Marrowfat Dictionary M - noun A rich but late variety of pea.
Marrowish Dictionary M - adjective Of the nature of, or like, marrow.
Marrowless Dictionary M - adjective Destitute of marrow.
Marrowy Dictionary M - adjective Full of marrow; pithy.
Marrubium Dictionary M - noun A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.
Married Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Marry.
Marrying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Marry.
Marry Dictionary M - verb transitive 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.
Mars Dictionary M - noun The god of war and husbandry.
Marsala Dictionary M - noun A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily.
Marsdenia Dictionary M - noun A genus of plants of the Milkweed family, mostly woody climbers with fragrant flowers, several species of which furnish valuable fiber, and one species (Marsdenia tinctoria) affords indigo.
Marseillais Dictionary M - adjective f.]] Alt. of Marseillaise.
Marseillaise Dictionary M - adjective f.]] Of or pertaining to Marseilles, in France, or to its inhabitants.
Marseilles Dictionary M - noun A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; - so named because first made in Marseilles, France.
Marsh Dictionary M - noun A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass.
Marshal Dictionary M - noun Originally, an officer who had the care of horses; a groom.
Marshaled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Marshal.
Marshalled Dictionary M - of Marshal.
Marshaling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Marshal.
Marshalling Dictionary M - of Marshal.
Marshaler Dictionary M - noun One who marshals.
Marshalsea Dictionary M - noun The court or seat of a marshal; hence, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.
Marshalship Dictionary M - noun The office of a marshal.
Marshbanker Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Marsebanker.
Marsebanker Dictionary M - noun The menhaden.
Marshiness Dictionary M - noun The state or condition of being marshy.
Marsh marigold Dictionary M - A perennial plant of the genus Caltha (C. palustris), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.
Marshy Dictionary M - adjective Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.
Marsipobranch Dictionary M - noun One of the Marsipobranchia.
Marsipobranchia Dictionary M - noun plural A class of Vertebrata, lower than fishes, characterized by their purselike gill cavities, cartilaginous skeletons, absence of limbs, and a suckerlike mouth destitute of jaws. It includes the lampreys and hagfishes. See Cyclostoma, and Lamprey. Called also Marsipobranchiata, and Marsipobranchii.
Marsupial Dictionary M - adjective Having a pouch for carrying the immature young; of or pertaining to the Marsupialia.
Marsupialia Dictionary M - noun plural A subclass of Mammalia, including nearly all the mammals of Australia and the adjacent islands, together with the opossums of America. They differ from ordinary mammals in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.
Marsupialian Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Marsupian.
Marsupian Dictionary M - noun One of the Marsupialia.
Marsupiate Dictionary M - adjective Related to or resembling the marsupials; furnished with a pouch for the young, as the marsupials, and also some fishes and Crustacea.
Marsupion Dictionary M - noun Same as Marsupium.
Marsupite Dictionary M - noun A fossil crinoid of the genus Marsupites, resembling a purse in form.
Marsupia Dictionary M - pleural of Marsupium.
Marsupium Dictionary M - noun The pouch, formed by a fold of the skin of the abdomen, in which marsupials carry their young; also, a pouch for similar use in other animals, as certain Crustacea.
Mart Dictionary M - noun A market.
Martagon Dictionary M - noun A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.
Martel Dictionary M - intransitive verb To make a blow with, or as with, a hammer.
Martel de fer Dictionary M - A weapon resembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; - used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor.
Marteline Dictionary M - noun A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.
Martello tower Dictionary M - A building of masonry, generally circular, usually erected on the seacoast, with a gun on the summit mounted on a traversing platform, so as to be fired in any direction.
Marten Dictionary M - noun A bird. See Martin.
Martern Dictionary M - noun Same as Marten.
Mar-text Dictionary M - noun A blundering preacher.
Martial Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or suited for, war; military; as, martial music; a martial appearance.
Martialism Dictionary M - noun The quality of being warlike; exercises suitable for war.
Martialist Dictionary M - noun A warrior.
Martialized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Martialize.
Martializing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Martialize.
Martialize Dictionary M - verb transitive To render warlike; as, to martialize a people.
Martially Dictionary M - adverb In a martial manner.
Martialness Dictionary M - noun The quality of being martial.
Martin Dictionary M - noun A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.
Martinet Dictionary M - noun In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.
Martineta Dictionary M - noun A species of tinamou (Calopezus elegans), having a long slender crest.
Martinetism Dictionary M - noun The principles or practices of a martinet; rigid adherence to discipline, etc.
Martingale Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Martingal.
Martingal Dictionary M - noun A strap fastened to a horse's girth, passing between his fore legs, and fastened to the bit, or now more commonly ending in two rings, through which the reins pass. It is intended to hold down the head of the horse, and prevent him from rearing.
Martinmas Dictionary M - noun The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November; - often called martlemans.
Martite Dictionary M - noun Iron sesquioxide in isometric form, probably a pseudomorph after magnetite.
Martlemas Dictionary M - noun See Martinmas.
Martlet Dictionary M - noun The European house martin.
Martyr Dictionary M - noun One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel; one who is put to death for his religion; as, Stephen was the first Christian martyr.
Martyred Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Martyr.
Martyring Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Martyr.
Martyrdom Dictionary M - noun The condition of a martyr; the death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of adherence to the Christian faith, or to any cause.
Martyrization Dictionary M - noun Act of martyrizing, or state of being martyrized; torture.
Martyrize Dictionary M - verb transitive To make a martyr of.
Martyrly Dictionary M - adverb In the manner of a martyr.
Martyrologe Dictionary M - noun A martyrology.
Martyrologic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Martyrological.
Martyrological Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to martyrology or martyrs; registering, or registered in, a catalogue of martyrs.
Martyrologist Dictionary M - noun A writer of martyrology; an historian of martyrs.
Martyrology Dictionary M - noun A history or account of martyrs; a register of martyrs.
Martyrship Dictionary M - noun Martyrdom.
Marvel Dictionary M - noun That which causes wonder; a prodigy; a miracle.
Marveled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Marvel.
Marvelled Dictionary M - of Marvel.
Marveling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Marvel.
Marvelling Dictionary M - of Marvel.
Marvelous Dictionary M - noun Exciting wonder or surprise; astonishing; wonderful.
Marvelously Dictionary M - adverb In a marvelous manner; wonderfully; strangely.
Marvelousness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being marvelous; wonderfulness; strangeness.
Marver Dictionary M - noun A stone, or cast-iron plate, or former, on which hot glass is rolled to give it shape.
Mary Dictionary M - noun Marrow.
Mary-bud Dictionary M - noun The marigold; a blossom of the marigold.
Maryolatry Dictionary M - noun Mariolatry.
Marysole Dictionary M - noun A large British fluke, or flounder (Rhombus megastoma); - called also carter, and whiff.
Mascagnin Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mascagnite.
Mascagnite Dictionary M - noun Native sulphate of ammonia, found in volcanic districts; - so named from Mascagni, who discovered it.
Mascle Dictionary M - noun A lozenge voided.
Mascled Dictionary M - adjective Composed of, or covered with, lozenge-shaped scales; having lozenge-shaped divisions.
Mascot Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mascotte.
Mascotte Dictionary M - noun A person who is supposed to bring good luck to the household to which he or she belongs; anything that brings good luck.
Masculate Dictionary M - verb transitive To make strong.
Masculine Dictionary M - adjective Of the male sex; not female.
Masculinity Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness.
Mase Dictionary M - noun & verb See Maze.
Maselyn Dictionary M - noun A drinking cup. See 1st Maslin, 2.
Maser Dictionary M - noun Same as Mazer.
Mash Dictionary M - noun A mesh.
Mashed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mash.
Mashing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mash.
Masher Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, mashes; also (Brewing), a machine for making mash.
Mashlin Dictionary M - noun See Maslin.
Mashy Dictionary M - adjective Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash.
Mask Dictionary M - noun 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.
Masked Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mask.
Masking Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mask.
Masker Dictionary M - noun One who wears a mask; one who appears in disguise at a masquerade.
Maskery Dictionary M - noun The dress or disguise of a maske/; masquerade.
Maskinonge Dictionary M - noun The muskellunge.
Mask shell Dictionary M - Any spiral marine shell of the genus Persona, having a curiously twisted aperture.
Maslach Dictionary M - noun An excitant containing opium, much used by the Turks.
Maslin Dictionary M - noun A mixture composed of different materials.
Mason Dictionary M - noun One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
Masonic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Freemasons or to their craft or mysteries.
Masonry Dictionary M - noun The art or occupation of a mason.
Masoola boat Dictionary M - A kind of boat used on the coast of Madras, India. The planks are sewed together with strands of coir which cross over a wadding of the same material, so that the shock on taking the beach through surf is much reduced.
Masora Dictionary M - noun A Jewish critical work on the text of the Hebrew Scriptures, composed by several learned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries.
Masoret Dictionary M - noun A Masorite.
Masoretic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Masoretical.
Masoretical Dictionary M - adjective Of or relating to the Masora, or to its authors.
Masorite Dictionary M - noun One of the writers of the Masora.
Masque Dictionary M - noun A mask; a masquerade.
Masquerade Dictionary M - noun An assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions.
Masqueraded Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Masquerade.
Masquerading Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Masquerade.
Masquerader Dictionary M - noun One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.
Mass Dictionary M - noun The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host.
Massed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mass.
Massing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mass.
Massacre Dictionary M - noun The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; as, the massacre on St. Bartholomew's Day.
Massacred Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Massacre.
Massacring Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Massacre.
Massacrer Dictionary M - noun One who massacres.
Massage Dictionary M - noun A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.
Massasauga Dictionary M - noun The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, / Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley.
Masse Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Masse shot.
Masse shot Dictionary M - noun A stroke made with the cue held vertically.
Masser Dictionary M - noun A priest who celebrates Mass.
Masseter Dictionary M - noun The large muscle which raises the under jaw, and assists in mastication.
Masseteric Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the masseter.
Masseterine Dictionary M - adjective Masseteric.
Masseur Dictionary M - noun f.]] Alt. of Masseuse.
Masseuse Dictionary M - noun f.]] One who performs massage.
Massicot Dictionary M - noun Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.
Massiness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being massy; ponderousness.
Massive Dictionary M - adjective Forming, or consisting of, a large mass; compacted; weighty; heavy; massy.
Massively Dictionary M - adverb In a heavy mass.
Massiveness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being massive; massiness.
Massoola boat Dictionary M - See Masoola boat.
Massora Dictionary M - noun Same as Masora.
Massoret Dictionary M - noun Same as Masorite.
Massy Dictionary M - superlative 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.
Mast Dictionary M - noun The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
Masted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mast.
Masting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mast.
Mastax Dictionary M - noun The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food.
Master Dictionary M - noun A vessel having (so many) masts; - used only in compounds; as, a two-master.
Mastered Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Master.
Mastering Dictionary M - past particle verb noun of Master.
Masterdom Dictionary M - noun Dominion; rule; command.
Masterful Dictionary M - adjective Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary.
Masterfully Dictionary M - adverb In a masterful manner; imperiously.
Masterhood Dictionary M - noun The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector.
Masterless Dictionary M - adjective Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable.
Masterliness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.
Masterly Dictionary M - adjective Suitable to, or characteristic of, a master; indicating thorough knowledge or superior skill and power; showing a master's hand; as, a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly policy.
Masterous Dictionary M - adjective Masterly.
Masterpiece Dictionary M - noun Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement.
Mastership Dictionary M - noun The state or office of a master.
Mastersinger Dictionary M - noun One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.
Masterwort Dictionary M - noun A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).
Masteries Dictionary M - pleural of Mastery.
Mastery Dictionary M - noun The position or authority of a master; dominion; command; supremacy; superiority.
Mastful Dictionary M - adjective Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut.
Masthead Dictionary M - noun The top or head of a mast; the part of a mast above the hounds.
Masthouse Dictionary M - noun A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.
Mastic Dictionary M - noun A low shrubby tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; - called also, mastic tree.
Masticable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being masticated.
Masticador Dictionary M - noun A part of a bridle, the slavering bit.
Masticated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Masticate.
Masticating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Masticate.
Masticate Dictionary M - verb transitive To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
Masticater Dictionary M - noun One who masticates.
Mastication Dictionary M - noun The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food.
Masticator Dictionary M - noun One who masticates.
Masticatory Dictionary M - adjective Chewing; adapted to perform the office o/ chewing food.
Mastich Dictionary M - noun See Mastic.
Masticin Dictionary M - noun A white, amorphous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic.
Masticot Dictionary M - noun Massicot.
Mastiffs Dictionary M - pleural of Mastiff.
Mastives Dictionary M - pleural of Mastiff.
Mastiff Dictionary M - noun A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries.
Mastigopod Dictionary M - noun One of the Mastigopoda.
Mastigopoda Dictionary M - noun plural The Infusoria.
Mastigure Dictionary M - noun Any one of several large spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastix. They inhabit Southern Asia and North Africa.
Mastitis Dictionary M - noun Inflammation of the breast.
Mastless Dictionary M - adjective Bearing no mast; as, a mastless oak or beech.
Mastlin Dictionary M - noun See Maslin.
Mastodon Dictionary M - noun An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.
Mastodonsaurus Dictionary M - noun A large extinct genus of labyrinthodonts, found in the European Triassic rocks.
Mastodontic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions.
Mastodynia Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mastodyny.
Mastodyny Dictionary M - noun Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, - a form of neuralgia.
Mastoid Dictionary M - adjective Resembling the nipple or the breast; - applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.
Mastoidal Dictionary M - adjective Same as Mastoid.
Mastology Dictionary M - noun The natural history of Mammalia.
Mastress Dictionary M - noun Mistress.
Masturbation Dictionary M - noun Onanism; self-pollution.
Masty Dictionary M - adjective Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.
Masula boat Dictionary M - Same as Masoola boat.
Mat Dictionary M - noun A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
Matted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mat.
Matting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mat.
Matachin Dictionary M - noun An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
Mataco Dictionary M - noun The three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutis tricinctus). See Illust. under Loricata.
Matadore Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Matador.
Matador Dictionary M - noun The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.
Matagasse Dictionary M - noun A shrike or butcher bird; - called also mattages.
Matamata Dictionary M - noun The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.
Matanza Dictionary M - noun A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.
Match Dictionary M - noun 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.
Matched Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Match.
Matching Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Match.
Matchable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.
Match-cloth Dictionary M - noun A coarse cloth.
Match-coat Dictionary M - noun A coat made of match-cloth.
Matcher Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.
Matchless Dictionary M - adjective Having no equal; unequaled.
Matchlock Dictionary M - noun An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
Matchmaker Dictionary M - noun One who makes matches for burning or kinding.
Matchmaking Dictionary M - noun The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
Mate Dictionary M - noun The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
Mated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mate.
Mating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mate.
Mateless Dictionary M - adjective Having no mate.
Matelote Dictionary M - noun A dish of food composed of many kinds of fish.
Mateology Dictionary M - noun A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry.
Mateotechny Dictionary M - noun Any unprofitable science.
Mater Dictionary M - noun See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.
Material Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
Materialism Dictionary M - noun The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
Materialist Dictionary M - noun One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.
Materialistic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Materialistical.
Materialistical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism.
Materiality Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.
Materialization Dictionary M - noun The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
Materialized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Materialize.
Materializing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Materialize.
Materialize Dictionary M - verb transitive To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.
Materially Dictionary M - adverb In the state of matter.
Materialness Dictionary M - noun The state of being material.
Materia medica Dictionary M - Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; - a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine.
Materiarian Dictionary M - noun See Materialist.
Materiate Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Materiated.
Materiated Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of matter.
Materiation Dictionary M - noun Act of forming matter.
Materiel Dictionary M - noun That in a complex system which constitutes the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; as, the baggage, munitions, provisions, etc., of an army; or the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers.
Materious Dictionary M - adjective See Material.
Maternal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.
Maternally Dictionary M - adverb In a motherly manner.
Maternity Dictionary M - noun The state of being a mother; the character or relation of a mother.
Matfelon Dictionary M - noun The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).
Math Dictionary M - noun A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; - chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.
Mathematic Dictionary M - adjective See Mathematical.
Mathematical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness.
Mathematician Dictionary M - noun One versed in mathematics.
Mathematics Dictionary M - noun That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.
Mather Dictionary M - noun See Madder.
Mathes Dictionary M - noun The mayweed. Cf. Maghet.
Mathesis Dictionary M - noun Learning; especially, mathematics.
Mathurin Dictionary M - noun See Trinitarian.
Matico Dictionary M - noun A Peruvian plant (Piper, / Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.
Matie Dictionary M - noun A fat herring with undeveloped roe.
M/tin Dictionary M - noun A French mastiff.
Matin Dictionary M - noun Morning.
Matinal Dictionary M - adjective Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.
Matinee Dictionary M - noun A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See SoirEe.
Matrass Dictionary M - noun A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.
Matress Dictionary M - noun See Matress.
Matriarch Dictionary M - noun The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.
Matriarchal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch.
Matriarchate Dictionary M - noun The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.
Matrice Dictionary M - noun See Matrix.
Matricidal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to matricide.
Matricide Dictionary M - noun The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.
Matriculated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Matriculate.
Matriculating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Matriculate.
Matriculate Dictionary M - verb transitive To enroll; to enter in a register; specifically, to enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.
Matriculation Dictionary M - noun The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.
Matrimoine Dictionary M - noun Matrimony.
Matrimonial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to marriage; derived from marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as, matrimonial rights or duties.
Matrimonially Dictionary M - adverb In a matrimonial manner.
Matrimonious Dictionary M - adjective Matrimonial.
Matrimony Dictionary M - noun The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.
Matrices Dictionary M - pleural of Matrix.
Matrix Dictionary M - noun The womb.
Matron Dictionary M - noun A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
Matronage Dictionary M - noun The state of a matron.
Matronal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.
Matronhood Dictionary M - noun The state of being a matron.
Matronized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Matronize.
Matronizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Matronize.
Matronize Dictionary M - verb transitive To make a matron of; to make matronlike.
Matronlike Dictionary M - adjective Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.
Matronly Dictionary M - adjective Advanced in years; elderly.
Matronymic Dictionary M - noun See Metronymic.
Matross Dictionary M - noun Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.
Matt Dictionary M - noun See Matte.
Mattages Dictionary M - noun A shrike or butcher bird; - written also matagasse.
Mattamore Dictionary M - noun A subterranean repository for wheat.
Matte Dictionary M - noun 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.
Matter Dictionary M - noun That of which anything is composed; constituent substance; material; the material or substantial part of anything; the constituent elements of conception; that into which a notion may be analyzed; the essence; the pith; the embodiment.
Mattered Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Matter.
Mattering Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Matter.
Matterless Dictionary M - adjective Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.
Matter-of-fact Dictionary M - adjective Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.
Mattery Dictionary M - adjective Generating or containing pus; purulent.
Mattock Dictionary M - noun An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.
Mattowacca Dictionary M - noun An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; - called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.
Mattress Dictionary M - noun A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss, or other suitable material, and quilted or otherwise fastened.
Maturant Dictionary M - noun A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.
Maturated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Maturate.
Maturating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Maturate.
Maturate Dictionary M - adjective To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen.
Maturation Dictionary M - noun The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.
Maturative Dictionary M - adjective Conducing to ripeness or maturity; hence, conducing to suppuration.
Mature Dictionary M - superlative Brought by natural process to completeness of growth and development; fitted by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe.
Matured Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mature.
Maturing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mature.
Maturely Dictionary M - adverb In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely.
Matureness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being mature; maturity.
Maturer Dictionary M - noun One who brings to maturity.
Maturescent Dictionary M - adjective Approaching maturity.
Maturity Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.
Matutinal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the morning; early.
Matutinary Dictionary M - adjective Matutinal.
Matutine Dictionary M - adjective Matutinal.
Matweed Dictionary M - noun A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.
Maty Dictionary M - noun A native house servant in India.
Matzoth Dictionary M - noun A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.
Maucaco Dictionary M - noun A lemur; - applied to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs.
Maud Dictionary M - noun A gray plaid; - used by shepherds in Scotland.
Maudle Dictionary M - verb transitive To throw onto confusion or disorder; to render maudlin.
Maudlin Dictionary M - adjective Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.
Maudeline Dictionary M - noun An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.
Muadlinism Dictionary M - noun A maudlin state.
Maudlinwort Dictionary M - noun The oxeye daisy.
Mauger Dictionary M - preposition Alt. of Maugre.
Maugre Dictionary M - preposition In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.
Maukin Dictionary M - noun See Malkin.
Maul Dictionary M - noun A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
Mauled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Maul.
Mauling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Maul.
Maule Dictionary M - noun The common mallow.
Maul-stick Dictionary M - noun A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working.
Maumet Dictionary M - noun See Mawmet.
Maunch Dictionary M - verb transitive To munch.
Maund Dictionary M - noun A hand basket.
Maunder Dictionary M - intransitive verb To beg.
Maunderer Dictionary M - noun One who maunders.
Maundril Dictionary M - noun A pick with two prongs, to pry with.
Maundy Thursday Dictionary M - The Thursday in Passion week, or next before Good Friday.
Maungy Dictionary M - adjective Mangy.
Mauresque Dictionary M - adjective & noun See Moresque.
Maurist Dictionary M - noun A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature.
Mausolean Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.
Mausoleums Dictionary M - pleural of Mausoleum.
-lea Dictionary M - pleural of Mausoleum.
Mausoleum Dictionary M - noun A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Mauther Dictionary M - noun A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench.
Mauvaniline Dictionary M - noun See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.
Mauve Dictionary M - noun A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.
Mauveine Dictionary M - noun An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.
Mauvine Dictionary M - adjective Mauve-colored.
Maverick Dictionary M - noun In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; - said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.
Mavis Dictionary M - noun The European throstle or song thrush (Turdus musicus).
Maw Dictionary M - noun A gull.
Mawk Dictionary M - noun A maggot.
Mawkin Dictionary M - noun See Malkin, and Maukin.
Mawkingly Dictionary M - adverb Slatternly.
Mawkish Dictionary M - adjective Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.
Mawkishly Dictionary M - adverb In a mawkish way.
Mawkishness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being mawkish.
Mawks Dictionary M - noun A slattern; a mawk.
Mawky Dictionary M - adjective Maggoty.
Mawmet Dictionary M - noun A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed.
Mawmetry Dictionary M - noun The religion of Mohammed; also, idolatry. See Mawmet.
Mawmish Dictionary M - adjective Nauseous.
Mawseed Dictionary M - noun The seed of the opium poppy.
Mawworm Dictionary M - noun Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species.
Maxillae Dictionary M - pleural of Maxilla.
Maxilla Dictionary M - noun The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
Maxillar Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Maxillary.
Maxillary Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.
Maxilliform Dictionary M - adjective Having the form, or structure, of a maxilla.
Maxilliped Dictionary M - noun One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw.
Maxillo-mandibular Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo-mandibular nerve.
Maxillo-palatine Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.
Maxilloturbinal Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
Maxim Dictionary M - noun An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
Maximilian Dictionary M - noun A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.
Maximization Dictionary M - noun The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.
Maximize Dictionary M - verb transitive To increase to the highest degree.
Maxima Dictionary M - pleural of Maximum.
Maximum Dictionary M - noun The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; - opposed to minimum.
Might Dictionary M - imperative of May.
May Dictionary M - verb An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; - now oftener expressed by can.
Maya Dictionary M - noun The name for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
Maybe Dictionary M - adverb Perhaps; possibly; peradventure.
Maybird Dictionary M - noun The whimbrel; - called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap.
Maybloom Dictionary M - noun The hawthorn.
Maybush Dictionary M - noun The hawthorn.
Mayduke Dictionary M - noun A large dark-red cherry of excellent quality.
Mayfish Dictionary M - noun A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis). See Minnow.
Mayflower Dictionary M - noun In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.
Mayhap Dictionary M - adverb Perhaps; peradventure.
Mayhem Dictionary M - noun The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim.
Maying Dictionary M - noun The celebrating of May Day.
Mayonnaise Dictionary M - noun A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; - used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce.
Mayor Dictionary M - noun The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge.
Mayoral Dictionary M - noun The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.
Mayoralty Dictionary M - noun The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.
Mayoress Dictionary M - noun The wife of a mayor.
Mayorship Dictionary M - noun The office of a mayor.
Maypole Dictionary M - noun A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.
Maypop Dictionary M - noun The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.
Mayweed Dictionary M - noun A composite plant (Anthemis Cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States.
Mazama Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mazame.
Mazame Dictionary M - noun A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; - called also mountain goat.
Mazard Dictionary M - noun A kind of small black cherry.
Mazarine Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661.
Mazdean Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian.
Mazdeism Dictionary M - noun The Zoroastrian religion.
Maze Dictionary M - noun A wild fancy; a confused notion.
Mazed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Maze.
Mazing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Maze.
Mazedness Dictionary M - noun The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment.
Mazeful Dictionary M - adjective Mazy.
Mazer Dictionary M - noun A large drinking bowl; - originally made of maple.
Mazily Dictionary M - adverb In a mazy manner.
Maziness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being mazy.
Mazological Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to mazology.
Mazologist Dictionary M - noun One versed in mazology or mastology.
Mazology Dictionary M - noun Same as Mastology.
Mazourka Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mazurka.
Mazurka Dictionary M - noun A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat.
Mazy Dictionary M - adjective Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.
Me Dictionary M - pronoun One. See Men, pron.
Meach Dictionary M - intransitive verb To skulk; to cower. See Mich.
Meacock Dictionary M - noun An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.
Mead Dictionary M - noun A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.
Meadow Dictionary M - noun A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
Meadowsweet Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Meadowwort.
Meadowwort Dictionary M - noun The name of several plants of the genus Spiraea, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
Meadowy Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.
Meager Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Meagre.
Meagre Dictionary M - adjective Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
Meagerly Dictionary M - adverb Alt. of Meagrely.
Meagrely Dictionary M - adverb Poorly; thinly.
Meagerness Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Meagreness.
Meagreness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Meak Dictionary M - noun A hook with a long handle.
Meaking Dictionary M - noun The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
Meal Dictionary M - noun A part; a fragment; a portion.
Mealies Dictionary M - noun plural Maize or Indian corn; - the common name in South Africa.
Mealiness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being mealy.
Meal-mouthed Dictionary M - adjective See Mealy-mouthed.
Mealtime Dictionary M - noun The usual time of eating a meal.
Mealy Dictionary M - superlative Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.
Mealy-mouthed Dictionary M - adjective Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
Meant Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mean.
Meaning Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mean.
Mean Dictionary M - verb transitive To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?.
Meander Dictionary M - noun A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
Meandered Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Meander.
Meandering Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Meander.
Meandrian Dictionary M - adjective Winding; having many turns.
Meandrina Dictionary M - noun A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
Meandrous Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Meandry.
Meandry Dictionary M - adjective Winding; flexuous.
Meanly Dictionary M - adverb Moderately.
Meanness Dictionary M - noun The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
Mean-spirited Dictionary M - adjective Of a mean spirit; base; groveling.
Meantime Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Meanwhile.
Meanwhile Dictionary M - noun The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).
Mear Dictionary M - noun A boundary. See Mere.
Mease Dictionary M - noun Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings.
Measelry Dictionary M - noun Leprosy.
Measle Dictionary M - noun A leper.
Measled Dictionary M - adjective Infected or spotted with measles, as pork.
Measles Dictionary M - noun Leprosy; also, a leper.
Measly Dictionary M - adjective Infected with measles.
Measurable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.
Measure Dictionary M - noun A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.
Measured Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Measure.
Measuring Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Measure.
Measureless Dictionary M - adjective Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.
Measurement Dictionary M - noun The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.
Measurer Dictionary M - noun One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.
Meat Dictionary M - noun 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.
Meatal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus.
Meated Dictionary M - adjective Fed; fattened.
Meath Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Meathe.
Meathe Dictionary M - noun A sweet liquor; mead.
Meatiness Dictionary M - noun Quality of being meaty.
Meatless Dictionary M - adjective Having no meat; without food.
Meatoscope Dictionary M - noun A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.
Meatotome Dictionary M - noun An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.
Meatuses Dictionary M - pleural of Meatus.
Meatus Dictionary M - noun singular & plural A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.
Meaty Dictionary M - adjective Abounding in meat.
Meaw Dictionary M - noun The sea mew.
Meawl Dictionary M - intransitive verb See Mewl, and Miaul.
Meazel Dictionary M - noun See 1st Measle.
Meazling Dictionary M - adjective Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.
Mebles Dictionary M - noun plural See Moebles.
Mecate Dictionary M - noun A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.
Meccawee Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia.
Mechanic Dictionary M - adjective The art of the application of the laws of motion or force to construction.
Mechanical Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, governed by, or in accordance with, mechanics, or the laws of motion; pertaining to the quantitative relations of force and matter, as distinguished from mental, vital, chemical, etc.; as, mechanical principles; a mechanical theory; mechanical deposits.
Mechanicalize Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause to become mechanical.
Mechanically Dictionary M - adverb In a mechanical manner.
Mechanicalness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being mechanical.
Mechanician Dictionary M - noun One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist.
Mechanico-chemical Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; - said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.
Mechanics Dictionary M - noun That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.
Mechanism Dictionary M - noun The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.
Mechanist Dictionary M - noun A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.
Mechanized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mechanize.
Mechanizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mechanize.
Mechanize Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause to be mechanical.
Mechanograph Dictionary M - noun One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.
Mechanographic Dictionary M - adjective Treating of mechanics.
Mechanographist Dictionary M - noun An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.
Mechanography Dictionary M - noun The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.
Mechanurgy Dictionary M - noun That branch of science which treats of moving machines.
Mechitarist Dictionary M - noun One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.
Mechlin Dictionary M - noun A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.
Mechoacan Dictionary M - noun A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); - so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.
Meckelian Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist.
Meconate Dictionary M - noun A salt of meconic acid.
Meconic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
Meconidine Dictionary M - noun An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.
Meconidium Dictionary M - noun A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel.
Meconin Dictionary M - noun A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.
Meconinic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.
Meconium Dictionary M - noun Opium.
Medal Dictionary M - noun 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.
Medaled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Medal.
Medalled Dictionary M - of Medal.
Medaling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Medal.
Medalling Dictionary M - of Medal.
Medalet Dictionary M - noun A small medal.
Medalist Dictionary M - noun A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals.
Medallic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals.
Medallion Dictionary M - noun A large medal or memorial coin.
Medalurgy Dictionary M - noun The art of making and striking medals and coins.
Meddled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Meddle.
Meddling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Meddle.
Meddle Dictionary M - intransitive verb To mix; to mingle.
Meddler Dictionary M - noun One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
Meddlesome Dictionary M - adjective Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.
Meddlingly Dictionary M - adverb In a meddling manner.
Mede Dictionary M - noun A native or inhabitant of Media in Asia.
Media Dictionary M - noun plural of Medium.
Mediae Dictionary M - pleural of Media.
Mediacy Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being mediate.
Mediaeval Dictionary M - adjective Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture.
Mediaevalism Dictionary M - noun The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages.
Mediaevalist Dictionary M - noun One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages.
Mediaevally Dictionary M - adverb In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance with mediaevalism.
Mediaevals Dictionary M - noun plural The people who lived in the Middle Ages.
Medial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.
Medialuna Dictionary M - noun See Half-moon.
Median Dictionary M - adjective Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
Mediant Dictionary M - noun The third above the keynote; - so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
Mediastinal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a mediastinum.
Mediastine Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mediastinum.
Mediastinum Dictionary M - noun A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.
Mediate Dictionary M - adjective Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate.
Mediated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mediate.
Mediating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mediate.
Mediately Dictionary M - adverb In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; - opposed to immediately.
Mediateness Dictionary M - noun The state of being mediate.
Mediation Dictionary M - adjective The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.
Mediative Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts.
Mediatization Dictionary M - noun The act of mediatizing.
Mediatized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mediatize.
Mediatizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mediatize.
Mediatize Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; - specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank.
Mediator Dictionary M - noun One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor.
Mediatorial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office.
Mediatorship Dictionary M - noun The office or character of a mediator.
Mediatory Dictionary M - adjective Mediatorial.
Mediatress Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mediatrix.
Mediatrix Dictionary M - noun A female mediator.
Medic Dictionary M - noun A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is M. sativa.
Medicable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.
Medical Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.
Medically Dictionary M - adverb In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.
Medicament Dictionary M - noun Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.
Medicamental Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments.
Medicaster Dictionary M - noun A quack.
Medicated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Medicate.
Medicating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Medicate.
Medicate Dictionary M - verb transitive To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug.
Medication Dictionary M - The act or process of medicating.
Medicative Dictionary M - adjective Medicinal; acting like a medicine.
Medicean Dictionary M - adjective Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.
Medicinable Dictionary M - adjective Medicinal; having the power of healing.
Medicinal Dictionary M - adjective Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.
Medicinally Dictionary M - adverb In a medicinal manner.
Medicine Dictionary M - noun The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
Medico-legal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.
Medicommissure Dictionary M - noun A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure.
Medicornua Dictionary M - pleural of Medicornu.
Medicornu Dictionary M - noun The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.
Medics Dictionary M - noun Science of medicine.
Mediety Dictionary M - noun The middle part; half; moiety.
Medieval Dictionary M - Alt. of Medievalist.
Medievalism Dictionary M - Alt. of Medievalist.
Medievalist Dictionary M - Same as Medi/val, Medi/valism, etc.
Medina epoch Dictionary M - A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.
Medino Dictionary M - noun Same as Para.
Mediocral Dictionary M - adjective Mediocre.
Mediocre Dictionary M - adjective Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.
Mediocrist Dictionary M - noun A mediocre person.
Mediocrity Dictionary M - noun The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate.
Mediostapedial Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to that part of the columella of the ear which, in some animals, connects the stapes with the other parts of the columella.
Medioxumous Dictionary M - adjective Intermediate.
Meditance Dictionary M - noun Meditation.
Meditated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Meditate.
Meditating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Meditate.
Meditate Dictionary M - intransitive verb To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect.
Meditation Dictionary M - noun The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.
Meditatist Dictionary M - noun One who is given to meditation.
Meditative Dictionary M - adjective Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.
Mediterranean Dictionary M - adjective Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.
Mediterraneous Dictionary M - adjective Inland.
Mediums Dictionary M - pleural of Medium.
Medium Dictionary M - noun That which lies in the middle, or between other things; intervening body or quantity. Hence, specifically: (a) Middle place or degree; mean.
Medium-sized Dictionary M - adjective Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.
Medii Dictionary M - pleural of Medius.
Medius Dictionary M - noun The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.
Medlar Dictionary M - noun A tree of the genus Mespilus (M. Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay.
Medle Dictionary M - verb transitive To mix; to mingle; to meddle.
Medleys Dictionary M - pleural of Medley.
Medley Dictionary M - noun A mixture; a mingled and confused mass of ingredients, usually inharmonious; a jumble; a hodgepodge; - often used contemptuously.
Medly Dictionary M - verb transitive See Medle.
Medoc Dictionary M - noun A class of claret wines, including several varieties, from the district of Medoc in the department of Gironde.
Medregal Dictionary M - noun See Bonito, 3.
Medrick Dictionary M - noun A species of gull or tern.
Medulla Dictionary M - noun Marrow; pith; hence, essence.
Medullar Dictionary M - adjective See Medullary.
Medullary Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, marrow or medulla.
Medullated Dictionary M - adjective Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.
Medullin Dictionary M - noun A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.
Medusa Dictionary M - noun The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.
Medusae Dictionary M - pleural of Medusa.
Medusian Dictionary M - noun A medusa.
Medusiform Dictionary M - adjective Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.
Medusoid Dictionary M - adjective Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; - said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids.
Meech Dictionary M - intransitive verb See Mich.
Meed Dictionary M - noun That which is bestowed or rendered in consideration of merit; reward; recompense.
Meedful Dictionary M - adjective Worthy of meed, reward, or recompense; meritorious.
Meedfully Dictionary M - adverb According to merit; suitably.
Meek Dictionary M - superlative Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive.
Meeken Dictionary M - verb transitive To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility.
Meekly Dictionary M - adverb In a meek manner.
Meekness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being meek.
Meer Dictionary M - adjective Simple; unmixed. See Mere, a.
Meerkat Dictionary M - noun A South African carnivore (Cynictis penicillata), allied to the ichneumons.
Meerschaum Dictionary M - noun A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite.
Met Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Meet.
Meeting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Meet.
Meet Dictionary M - verb transitive 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.
Meeten Dictionary M - verb transitive To render fit.
Meeter Dictionary M - noun One who meets.
Meeth Dictionary M - noun Mead. See Meathe.
Meetinghouse Dictionary M - noun A house used as a place of worship; a church; - in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
Meetly Dictionary M - adverb Fitly; suitably; properly.
Meetness Dictionary M - noun Fitness; suitableness; propriety.
Meg- Dictionary M - Alt. of Megalo-.
Mega Dictionary M - Alt. of Megalo-.
Megalo- Dictionary M - Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm.
Megacephalic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Megacephalous.
Megacephalous Dictionary M - adjective Large headed; - applied to animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads.
Megaceros Dictionary M - noun The Irish elk.
Megachile Dictionary M - noun A leaf-cutting bee of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf.
Megacosm Dictionary M - noun See Macrocosm.
Megacoulomb Dictionary M - noun A million coulombs.
Megaderm Dictionary M - noun Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.
Megadyne Dictionary M - noun One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.
Megafarad Dictionary M - noun One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.
Megalerg Dictionary M - noun A million ergs; a megerg.
Megalesian Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.
Megalethoscope Dictionary M - noun An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.
Megalith Dictionary M - noun A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building.
Megalocyte Dictionary M - noun A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anaemia.
Megalomania Dictionary M - noun A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
Megalonyx Dictionary M - noun An extinct quaternary mammal, of great size, allied to the sloth.
Megalophonous Dictionary M - adjective Having a loud voice.
Megalopolis Dictionary M - noun A chief city; a metropolis.
Megalops Dictionary M - noun A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.
Megalopsychy Dictionary M - noun Greatness of soul.
Megalosaur Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Megalosaurus.
Megalosaurus Dictionary M - noun A gigantic carnivorous dinosaur, whose fossil remains have been found in England and elsewhere.
Megameter Dictionary M - noun An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.
Megametre Dictionary M - noun In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.
Megampere Dictionary M - noun A million amperes.
Megaphone Dictionary M - noun A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.
Megaphyton Dictionary M - noun An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.
Megapode Dictionary M - noun Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.
Megapolis Dictionary M - noun A metropolis.
Megarian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Megaric.
Megaric Dictionary M - adjective Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece.
Megascope Dictionary M - noun A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
Megaseme Dictionary M - adjective Having the orbital index relatively large; having the orbits narrow transversely; - opposed to microseme.
Megass Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Megasse.
Megasse Dictionary M - noun See Bagasse.
Megasthene Dictionary M - noun One of a group which includes the higher orders of mammals, having a large size as a typical characteristic.
Megasthenic Dictionary M - adjective Having a typically large size; belonging to the megasthenes.
Megastome Dictionary M - noun One of a group of univalve shells, having a large aperture or mouth.
Megathere Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Megatherium.
Megatherium Dictionary M - noun An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
Megatheroid Dictionary M - noun One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
Megavolt Dictionary M - noun One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.
Megaweber Dictionary M - noun A million webers.
Megerg Dictionary M - noun One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; - called also megalerg.
Megilp Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Megilph.
Megilph Dictionary M - noun A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.
Megohm Dictionary M - noun One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.
Megrim Dictionary M - noun A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
Meibomian Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Meibomius.
Meine Dictionary M - verb transitive See Menge.
Meiny Dictionary M - noun A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.
Meiocene Dictionary M - adjective See Miocene.
Meionite Dictionary M - noun A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.
Meiosis Dictionary M - noun Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.
Melostemonous Dictionary M - adjective Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.
Meistersinger Dictionary M - noun See Mastersinger.
Mekhitarist Dictionary M - noun See Mechitarist.
Melaconite Dictionary M - noun An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.
Melada Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Melado.
Melado Dictionary M - noun A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.
Melaena Dictionary M - noun A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.
Melain Dictionary M - noun The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.
Melainotype Dictionary M - noun See Melanotype.
Melam Dictionary M - noun A white or buff-colored granular powder, C6H9N11, obtained by heating ammonium sulphocyanate.
Melamine Dictionary M - noun A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, - formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide.
Melampode Dictionary M - noun The black hellebore.
Melampyrin Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Melampyrite.
Melampyrite Dictionary M - noun The saccharine substance dulcite; - so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.
Melanaemia Dictionary M - noun A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
Melanagogue Dictionary M - noun A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.
Melancholia Dictionary M - noun A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.
Melancholian Dictionary M - noun A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.
Melancholic Dictionary M - adjective Given to melancholy; depressed; melancholy; dejected; unhappy.
Melancholily Dictionary M - adverb In a melancholy manner.
Melancholiness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being melancholy.
Melancholious Dictionary M - adjective Melancholy.
Melancholist Dictionary M - noun One affected with melancholy or dejection.
Melancholize Dictionary M - intransitive verb To become gloomy or dejected in mind.
Melancholy Dictionary M - noun Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess.
Melanesian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Melanesia.
Melange Dictionary M - noun A mixture; a medley.
Melanian Dictionary M - noun One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.
Melanic Dictionary M - adjective Melanotic.
Melaniline Dictionary M - noun A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; - called also diphenyl guanidin.
Melanin Dictionary M - noun A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.
Melanism Dictionary M - noun An undue development of dark-colored pigment in the skin or its appendages; - the opposite of albinism.
Melanistic Dictionary M - adjective Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.
Melanite Dictionary M - noun A black variety of garnet.
Melanochroi Dictionary M - noun plural A group of the human race, including the dark whites.
Melanochroic Dictionary M - adjective Having a dark complexion; of or pertaining to the Melanochroi.
Melanochroite Dictionary M - noun A mineral of a red, or brownish or yellowish red color. It is a chromate of lead; - called also phoenicocroite.
Melanocomous Dictionary M - adjective Having very dark or black hair; black-haired.
Melanorrhoea Dictionary M - noun An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu, and yelds a valuable black varnish.
Melanoscope Dictionary M - noun An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.
Melanosis Dictionary M - The morbid deposition of black matter, often of a malignant character, causing pigmented tumors.
Melanosperm Dictionary M - noun An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp.
Melanotic Dictionary M - adjective Melanistic.
Melanotype Dictionary M - noun A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture.
Melanterite Dictionary M - noun A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol.
Melanure Dictionary M - noun A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).
Melanuric Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid obtained by decomposition of melam, or of urea, as a white crystalline powder; - called also melanurenic acid.
Melaphyre Dictionary M - noun Any one of several dark-colored augitic, eruptive rocks allied to basalt.
Melasma Dictionary M - noun A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison's melasma, or Addison's disease.
Melasses Dictionary M - noun See Molasses.
Melassic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid obtained from molasses or glucose, and probably identical with saccharic acid. See Saccharic.
Melastoma Dictionary M - noun A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; - so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.
Melastomaceous Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to the order of which Melastoma is the type.
Melchite Dictionary M - noun One of a sect, chiefly in Syria and Egypt, which acknowledges the authority of the pope, but adheres to the liturgy and ceremonies of the Eastern Church.
Meleagrine Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Meleagris.
Meleagris Dictionary M - noun A genus of American gallinaceous birds, including the common and the wild turkeys.
Melee Dictionary M - noun A fight in which the combatants are mingled in one confused mass; a hand to hand conflict; an affray.
Melena Dictionary M - noun See Melaena.
Melene Dictionary M - noun An unsaturated hydrocarbon, C30H60, of the ethylene series, obtained from beeswax as a white, scaly, crystalline wax; - called also melissene, and melissylene.
Melenite Dictionary M - noun An explosive of great destructive power; - so called from its color, which resembles honey.
Meletin Dictionary M - noun See Quercitin.
Melezitose Dictionary M - noun A variety of sugar, isomeric with sucrose, extracted from the manna of the larch (Larix).
Meliaceous Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a natural order (Meliacae) of plants of which the genus Melia is the type. It includes the mahogany and the Spanish cedar.
Melibean Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Melib/an.
Melib/an Dictionary M - adjective Alternately responsive, as verses.
Melic Dictionary M - Of or pertaining to song; lyric; tuneful.
Melicerous Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of or containing matter like honey; - said of certain encysted tumors.
Melic grass Dictionary M - A genus of grasses (Melica) of little agricultural importance.
Melicotoon Dictionary M - noun See Melocoton.
Melicratory Dictionary M - noun A meadlike drink.
Melilite Dictionary M - noun A mineral occurring in small yellow crystals, found in the lavas (melilite basalt) of Vesuvius, and elsewhere.
Melilot Dictionary M - noun Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart's clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus caerulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese.
Melilotic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, sweet clover or melilot; specifically, designating an acid of the aromatic series, obtained from melilot as a white crystalline substance.
Meliorated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Meliorate.
Meliorating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Meliorate.
Meliorate Dictionary M - verb transitive To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable.
Meliorater Dictionary M - noun Same as Meliorator.
Melioration Dictionary M - noun The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.
Meliorator Dictionary M - noun One who meliorates.
Meliorism Dictionary M - noun The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement.
Meliority Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being better; melioration.
Meliphagan Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to the genus Meliphaga.
Meliphagous Dictionary M - adjective Eating, or feeding upon, honey.
Melismata Dictionary M - pleural of Melisma.
Melisma Dictionary M - noun A piece of melody; a song or tune, - as opposed to recitative or musical declamation.
Melissa Dictionary M - noun A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis).
Melissic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, beeswax; specif., denoting an acid obtained by oxidation of myricin.
Melissyl Dictionary M - noun See Myricyl.
Melissylene Dictionary M - noun See Melene.
Melitose Dictionary M - noun A variety of sugar isomeric with sucrose, extracted from cotton seeds and from the so-called Australian manna (a secretion of certain species of Eucalyptus).
Mell Dictionary M - verb intransitive & transitive To mix; to meddle.
Mellate Dictionary M - noun A mellitate.
Mellay Dictionary M - noun A melee; a conflict.
Mellic Dictionary M - adjective See Mellitic.
Melliferous Dictionary M - adjective Producing honey.
Mellific Dictionary M - adjective Producing honey.
Mellification Dictionary M - noun The making or production of honey.
Mellifluence Dictionary M - noun A flow of sweetness, or a sweet, smooth flow.
Mellifluent Dictionary M - adjective Flowing as with honey; smooth; mellifluous.
Mellifluently Dictionary M - adverb In a mellifluent manner.
Mellifluous Dictionary M - adjective Flowing as with honey; smooth; flowing sweetly or smoothly; as, a mellifluous voice.
Melligenous Dictionary M - adjective Having the qualities of honey.
Melligo Dictionary M - noun Honeydew.
Melliloquent Dictionary M - adjective Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.
Melliphagan Dictionary M - noun See Meliphagan.
Melliphagous Dictionary M - adjective See Meliphagous.
Mellitate Dictionary M - noun A salt of mellitic acid.
Mellite Dictionary M - noun A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina.
Mellitic Dictionary M - adjective Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; as, mellitic diabetes.
Mellone Dictionary M - noun A yellow powder, C6H3N9, obtained from certain sulphocyanates. It has acid properties and forms compounds called mellonides.
Mellonide Dictionary M - noun See Mellone.
Mellow Dictionary M - superlative Soft or tender by reason of ripeness; having a tender pulp; as, a mellow apple.
Mellowed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mellow.
Mellowing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mellow.
Mellowly Dictionary M - adverb In a mellow manner.
Mellowness Dictionary M - noun Quality or state of being mellow.
Mellowy Dictionary M - adjective Soft; unctuous.
Melluco Dictionary M - noun A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes.
Melne Dictionary M - noun A mill.
Melocoton Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Melocotoon.
Melocotoon Dictionary M - noun A quince.
Melodeon Dictionary M - noun A kind of small reed organ; - a portable form of the seraphine.
Melodic Dictionary M - adjective Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.
Melodics Dictionary M - noun The department of musical science which treats of the pitch of tones, and of the laws of melody.
Melodiograph Dictionary M - noun A contrivance for preserving a record of music, by recording the action of the keys of a musical instrument when played upon.
Melodious Dictionary M - adjective Containing, or producing, melody; musical; agreeable to the ear by a sweet succession of sounds; as, a melodious voice.
Melodist Dictionary M - noun A composer or singer of melodies.
Melodized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Melodize.
Melodizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Melodize.
Melodize Dictionary M - verb transitive To make melodious; to form into, or set to, melody.
Melodrama Dictionary M - noun Formerly, a kind of drama having a musical accompaniment to intensify the effect of certain scenes. Now, a drama abounding in romantic sentiment and agonizing situations, with a musical accompaniment only in parts which are especially thrilling or pathetic. In opera, a passage in which the orchestra plays a somewhat descriptive accompaniment, while the actor speaks; as, the melodrama in the gravedigging scene of Beethoven's "Fidelio".
Melodramatic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to melodrama; like or suitable to a melodrama; unnatural in situation or action.
Melodramatist Dictionary M - noun One who acts in, or writes, melodramas.
Melodrame Dictionary M - noun Melodrama.
Melodies Dictionary M - pleural of Melody.
Melody Dictionary M - noun A sweet or agreeable succession of sounds.
Meloe Dictionary M - 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.
Melograph Dictionary M - noun Same as Melodiograph.
Melolonthidian Dictionary M - noun A beetle of the genus Melolontha, and allied genera. See May beetle, under May.
Melon Dictionary M - noun The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
Melopiano Dictionary M - noun A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.
Meloplastic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.
Meloplasty Dictionary M - noun The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.
Melop/ia Dictionary M - noun The art of forming melody; melody; - now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.
Melotype Dictionary M - noun A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.
Melpomene Dictionary M - noun The Muse of tragedy.
Melrose Dictionary M - noun Honey of roses.
Melt Dictionary M - noun See 2d Milt.
Melted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Melt.
Molten Dictionary M - past participle of Melt.
Melting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Melt.
Meltable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being melted.
Melter Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, melts.
Melton Dictionary M - noun A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.
Member Dictionary M - verb transitive To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.
Membered Dictionary M - adjective Having limbs; - chiefly used in composition.
Membership Dictionary M - noun The state of being a member.
Membral Dictionary M - adjective Relating to a member.
Membranaceous Dictionary M - adjective Same as Membranous.
Membrane Dictionary M - noun A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.
Membraneous Dictionary M - adjective See Membranous.
Membraniferous Dictionary M - adjective Having or producing membranes.
Membraniform Dictionary M - adjective Having the form of a membrane or of parchment.
Membranology Dictionary M - noun The science which treats of membranes.
Membranous Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.
Mementos Dictionary M - pleural of Memento.
Memento Dictionary M - noun A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
Meminna Dictionary M - noun A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.
Memnon Dictionary M - noun A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
Memoir Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Memoirs.
Memoirs Dictionary M - noun A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.
Memoirist Dictionary M - noun A writer of memoirs.
Memorabilia Dictionary M - noun plural Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
Memorability Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being memorable.
Memorable Dictionary M - adjective Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
Memorandums Dictionary M - pleural of Memorandum.
Memoranda Dictionary M - pleural of Memorandum.
Memorandum Dictionary M - noun A record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.
Memorate Dictionary M - verb transitive To commemorate.
Memorative Dictionary M - adjective Commemorative.
Memoria Dictionary M - noun Memory.
Memorial Dictionary M - adjective Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.
Memorialist Dictionary M - noun One who writes or signs a memorial.
Memorialized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Memorialize.
Memorializing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Memorialize.
Memorialize Dictionary M - verb transitive To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
Memorializer Dictionary M - noun One who petitions by a memorial.
Memorist Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.
Memoriter Dictionary M - adverb By, or from, memory.
Memorized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Memorize.
Memorizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Memorize.
Memorize Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.
Memories Dictionary M - pleural of Memory.
Memory Dictionary M - noun The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.
Memphian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt; hence, Egyptian; as, Memphian darkness.
Menaccanite Dictionary M - noun An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.
Menace Dictionary M - noun The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.
Menaced Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Menace.
Menacing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Menace.
Menacer Dictionary M - noun One who menaces.
Menacingly Dictionary M - adverb In a threatening manner.
Menage Dictionary M - noun See Manage.
Menagerie Dictionary M - noun A piace where animals are kept and trained.
Menagogue Dictionary M - noun Emmenagogue.
Menaia Dictionary M - pleural of Menaion.
Menaion Dictionary M - noun A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same.
Menald Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Menild.
Menild Dictionary M - adjective Covered with spots; speckled; variegated.
Mended Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mend.
Mending Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mend.
Mend Dictionary M - verb transitive To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.
Mendable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being mended.
Mendacious Dictionary M - adjective Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.
Mendacities Dictionary M - pleural of Mendacity.
Mendacity Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.
Mender Dictionary M - noun One who mends or repairs.
Mendiant Dictionary M - noun See Mendinant.
Mendicancy Dictionary M - noun The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.
Mendicant Dictionary M - adjective Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.
Mendicate Dictionary M - [[v. t.& intransitive To beg.
Mendication Dictionary M - noun The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy.
Mendicity Dictionary M - noun The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.
Mendinant Dictionary M - noun A mendicant or begging friar.
Mendment Dictionary M - noun Amendment.
Mendole Dictionary M - noun The cackerel.
Mendregal Dictionary M - noun Medregal.
Mends Dictionary M - noun See Amends.
Mente Dictionary M - imperative of Menge.
Meinte Dictionary M - of Menge.
Ment Dictionary M - past participle of Menge.
Meint Dictionary M - of Menge.
Menge Dictionary M - intransitive verb To mix.
Menhaden Dictionary M - noun An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; - called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.
Menhir Dictionary M - noun A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.
Menial Dictionary M - noun Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.
Meniere's disease Dictionary M - A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoordination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Meniere, a French physician.
Menilite Dictionary M - noun See Opal.
Meningeal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the meninges.
Meninges Dictionary M - noun plural The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.
Meningitis Dictionary M - noun Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
Meniscal Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
Meniscoid Dictionary M - adjective Concavo-convex, like a meniscus.
Menisci Dictionary M - pleural of Meniscus.
Meniscuses Dictionary M - pleural of Meniscus.
Meniscus Dictionary M - noun A crescent.
Menispermaceous Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermace/) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.
Menispermic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus.
Menispermine Dictionary M - noun An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; - called also menispermina.
Meniver Dictionary M - adjective Same as Miniver.
Mennonist Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mennonite.
Mennonite Dictionary M - noun One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.
Menobranch Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Menobranchus.
Menobranchus Dictionary M - noun A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills.
Menologia Dictionary M - pleural of Menology.
Menologies Dictionary M - pleural of Menology.
Menologium Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Menology.
Menology Dictionary M - noun A register of months.
Menopause Dictionary M - noun The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.
Menopoma Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Menopome.
Menopome Dictionary M - noun The hellbender.
Menorrhagia Dictionary M - noun Profuse menstruation.
Menostasis Dictionary M - noun Stoppage of the mences.
Menostation Dictionary M - noun Same as Menostasis.
Menow Dictionary M - noun A minnow.
Men-pleaser Dictionary M - noun One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God.
Mensal Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensal conversation.
Mense Dictionary M - noun Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility.
Menses Dictionary M - noun plural The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.
Menstrual Dictionary M - adjective Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.
Menstruant Dictionary M - adjective Subject to monthly flowing or menses.
Menstruate Dictionary M - adjective Menstruous.
Menstruated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Menstruate.
Menstruating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Menstruate.
Menstruation Dictionary M - noun The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.
Menstrue Dictionary M - noun The menstrual flux; menses.
Menstruous Dictionary M - adjective Having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.
Menstruums Dictionary M - pleural of Menstruum.
Menstrua Dictionary M - pleural of Menstruum.
Menstruum Dictionary M - noun Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.
Mensurability Dictionary M - noun The quality of being mensurable.
Mensurable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being measured; measurable.
Mensurableness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.
Mensural Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to measure.
Mensurate Dictionary M - verb To measure.
Mensuration Dictionary M - noun The act, process, or art, of measuring.
-ment Dictionary M - A suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or process; the result of an act or process; state or condition; as, aliment, that which nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging, imprisonment, movement, adjournment; amazement, state of being amazed, astonishment.
Mentagra Dictionary M - noun Sycosis.
Mental Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.
Mentality Dictionary M - noun Quality or state of mind.
Mentally Dictionary M - adverb In the mind; in thought or meditation; intellectually; in idea.
Mentha Dictionary M - noun A widely distributed genus of fragrant herbs, including the peppermint, spearmint, etc. The plants have small flowers, usually arranged in dense axillary clusters.
Menthene Dictionary M - noun A colorless liquid hydrocarbon resembling oil of turpentine, obtained by dehydrating menthol. It has an agreeable odor and a cooling taste.
Menthol Dictionary M - noun A white, crystalline, aromatic substance resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (Mentha); - called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor.
Menthyl Dictionary M - noun A compound radical forming the base of menthol.
Menticultural Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind.
Mention Dictionary M - noun A speaking or notice of anything, - usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.
Mentioned Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mention.
Mentioning Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mention.
Mentionable Dictionary M - adjective Fit to be mentioned.
Mentomeckelian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the chin and lower jaw.
Mentor Dictionary M - noun A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.
Mentorial Dictionary M - adjective Containing advice or admonition.
Mentum Dictionary M - noun The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.
Menu Dictionary M - noun The details of a banquet; a bill of fare.
Menuse Dictionary M - intransitive verb See Amenuse.
Meow Dictionary M - [[v. i. & noun See 6th and 7th Mew.
Mephistophelian Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.
Mephitic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mephitical.
Mephitical Dictionary M - adjective Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.
Mephitis Dictionary M - noun Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
Mephitism Dictionary M - noun Same as Mephitis, 1.
Meracious Dictionary M - adjective Being without mixture or adulteration; hence, strong; racy.
Mercable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being bought or sold.
Mercantile Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
Mercaptal Dictionary M - noun Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.
Mercaptan Dictionary M - noun Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.
Mercaptide Dictionary M - noun A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.
Mercat Dictionary M - noun Market; trade.
Mercatante Dictionary M - noun A foreign trader.
Mercator's chart Dictionary M - See under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under Projection.
Mercature Dictionary M - noun Commerce; traffic; trade.
Merce Dictionary M - verb transitive To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
Mercenaria Dictionary M - noun The quahog.
Mercenarian Dictionary M - noun A mercenary.
Mercenarily Dictionary M - adverb In a mercenary manner.
Mercenariness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being mercenary; venality.
Mercenary Dictionary M - adjective Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
Mercenaries Dictionary M - pleural of Mercenary.
Mercer Dictionary M - noun Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.
Mercership Dictionary M - noun The business of a mercer.
Mercery Dictionary M - noun The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.
Merchand Dictionary M - intransitive verb To traffic.
Merchandisable Dictionary M - adjective Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
Merchandise Dictionary M - noun The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
Merchandised Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Merchandise.
Merchandising Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Merchandise.
Merchandiser Dictionary M - noun A trader.
Merchandry Dictionary M - noun Trade; commerce.
Merchant Dictionary M - noun One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
Merchantable Dictionary M - adjective Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
Merchantly Dictionary M - adjective Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant.
Merchantmen Dictionary M - pleural of Merchantman.
Merchantman Dictionary M - noun A merchant.
Merchantry Dictionary M - noun The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.
Merciable Dictionary M - adjective Merciful.
Merciful Dictionary M - adjective Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.
Mercify Dictionary M - verb transitive To pity.
Merciless Dictionary M - adjective Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; - said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.
Mercurammonium Dictionary M - noun A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.
Mercurial Dictionary M - adjective Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
Mercurialist Dictionary M - noun One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.
Mercurialized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mercurialize.
Mercurializing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mercurialize.
Mercurialize Dictionary M - verb transitive To affect with mercury.
Mercurially Dictionary M - adverb In a mercurial manner.
Mercuric Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; - said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion.
Mercurification Dictionary M - noun The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
Mercurified Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mercurify.
Mercurifying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mercurify.
Mercurify Dictionary M - verb transitive To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed.
Mercurism Dictionary M - noun A communication of news; an announcement.
Mercurous Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; - said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.
Mercury Dictionary M - noun A Latin god of commerce and gain; - treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
Mercies Dictionary M - pleural of Mercy.
Mercy Dictionary M - noun Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
Merd Dictionary M - noun Ordure; dung.
-mere Dictionary M - A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.
Mere Dictionary M - noun A pool or lake.
Merely Dictionary M - adverb Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Merenchyma Dictionary M - noun Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.
Meresman Dictionary M - noun An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries.
Merestead Dictionary M - noun The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm.
Merestone Dictionary M - noun A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.
Meretricious Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
Merganser Dictionary M - noun Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill.
Merged Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Merge.
Merging Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Merge.
Merge Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
Merger Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, merges.
Mericarp Dictionary M - noun One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.
Meride Dictionary M - noun A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides.
Meridian Dictionary M - adjective Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
Meridional Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the meridian.
Meridionality Dictionary M - noun The state of being in the meridian.
Meridionally Dictionary M - adverb In the direction of the meridian.
Merils Dictionary M - noun A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.
Meringue Dictionary M - noun A delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, - with jam or cream added.
Merino Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain.
Merinos Dictionary M - pleural of Merino.
Merismatic Dictionary M - adjective Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.
Meristem Dictionary M - noun A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.
Merit Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Merited Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Merit.
Meriting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Merit.
Meritable Dictionary M - adjective Deserving of reward.
Meritedly Dictionary M - adverb By merit; deservedly.
Merithal Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Merithallus.
Merithallus Dictionary M - noun Same as Internode.
Meritmonger Dictionary M - noun One who depends on merit for salvation.
Meritorious Dictionary M - adjective Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Meritory Dictionary M - adjective Meritorious.
Meritot Dictionary M - noun A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
Merk Dictionary M - noun An old Scotch silver coin; a mark or marc.
Merke Dictionary M - adjective Murky.
Merkin Dictionary M - noun Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon.
Merl Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Merle.
Merle Dictionary M - noun The European blackbird. See Blackbird.
Merlin Dictionary M - noun A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. aesalon).
Merling Dictionary M - noun The European whiting.
Merlon Dictionary M - noun One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
Merluce Dictionary M - noun The European hake; - called also herring hake and sea pike.
Mermaid Dictionary M - noun A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Mermen Dictionary M - pleural of Merman.
Merman Dictionary M - noun The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.
Meroblast Dictionary M - noun An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; - opposed to holoblast.
Meroblastic Dictionary M - adjective Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; - opposed to holoblastic.
Merocele Dictionary M - noun Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia.
Meroistic Dictionary M - adjective Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.
Meropidan Dictionary M - noun One of a family of birds (Meropidae), including the bee-eaters.
Meropodite Dictionary M - noun The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.
Merorganization Dictionary M - noun Organization in part.
Meros Dictionary M - noun The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.
Merosome Dictionary M - noun One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.
Merostomata Dictionary M - noun plural A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.
Merou Dictionary M - noun See Jack, 8 (c).
Merovingian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France.
Merrily Dictionary M - adverb In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.
Merrimake Dictionary M - noun See Merrymake, n.
Merriment Dictionary M - noun Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.
Merriness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.
Merry Dictionary M - superlative Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
Merry-andrew Dictionary M - noun One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.
Merry-go-round Dictionary M - noun Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
Merrymake Dictionary M - noun Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival.
Merrymaker Dictionary M - noun One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
Merrymaking Dictionary M - adjective Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
Merrymeeting Dictionary M - noun A meeting for mirth.
Merrythought Dictionary M - noun The forked bone of a fowl's breast; - called also wishbone. See Furculum.
Mersion Dictionary M - noun Immersion.
Merulidan Dictionary M - noun A bird of the Thrush family.
Merus Dictionary M - noun See Meros.
Mervaille Dictionary M - noun Marvel.
Mes- Dictionary M - See Meso-.
Mesa Dictionary M -A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.
Mesaconate Dictionary M - noun A salt of mesaconic acid.
Mesaconic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid.
Mesad Dictionary M - adverb Same as Mesiad.
Mesal Dictionary M - adjective Same as Mesial.
Mesalliance Dictionary M - noun A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.
Mesally Dictionary M - adverb Same as Mesially.
Mesam/boid Dictionary M - noun One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.
Mesaraic Dictionary M - adjective Mesenteric.
Mesaticephalic Dictionary M - adjective Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.
Mesaticephalous Dictionary M - adjective Mesaticephalic.
Mescal Dictionary M - noun A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave.
Meseemed Dictionary M - imperative of Meseems.
Meseems Dictionary M - v. impers. It seems to me.
Mesel Dictionary M - noun A leper.
Meselry Dictionary M - noun Leprosy.
Mesembryanthemum Dictionary M - noun A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and f/eshy. The flowers usually open about midday, whence the name.
Mesencephalic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.
Mesencephalon Dictionary M - noun The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.
Mesenchyma Dictionary M - noun The part of the mesoblast which gives rise to the connective tissues and blood.
Mesenteric Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.
Mesenteron Dictionary M - noun All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod/um, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod/um, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast.
Mesentery Dictionary M - noun The membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. The mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesocaecum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.
Meseraic Dictionary M - adjective Mesaraic.
Mesethmoid Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone.
Mesh Dictionary M - noun 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.
Meshed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mesh.
Meshing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mesh.
Meshy Dictionary M - adjective Formed with meshes; netted.
Mesiad Dictionary M - adverb Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; - opposed to laterad.
Mesial Dictionary M - adjective Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; - opposed to lateral.
Mesially Dictionary M - adverb In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.
Mesityl Dictionary M - noun A hypothetical radical formerly supposed to exist in mesityl oxide.
Mesitylenate Dictionary M - noun A salt of mesitylenic acid.
Mesitylene Dictionary M - noun A colorless, fragrant liquid, C6H3(CH3)3, of the benzene series of hydrocarbons, obtained by distilling acetone with sulphuric acid.
Mesitylol Dictionary M - noun A crystalline substance obtained from mesitylene.
Meslin Dictionary M - noun See Maslin.
Mesmeree Dictionary M - noun A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized.
Mesmeric Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mesmerical.
Mesmerical Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.
Mesmerism Dictionary M - noun The art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.
Mesmerist Dictionary M - noun One who practices, or believes in, mesmerism.
Mesmerization Dictionary M - noun The act of mesmerizing; the state of being mesmerized.
Mesmerized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mesmerize.
Mesmerizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mesmerize.
Mesmerize Dictionary M - verb transitive To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep.
Mesmerizer Dictionary M - noun One who mesmerizes.
Mesne Dictionary M - adjective 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.
Meso- Dictionary M - Alt. of Mes-.
Mesoarium Dictionary M - noun The fold of peritoneum which suspends the ovary from the dorsal wall of the body cavity.
Mesoblast Dictionary M - noun The mesoderm.
Mesoblastic Dictionary M - adjective Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.
Mesobranchial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.
Mesobronchia Dictionary M - pleural of Mesobronchium.
Mesobronchium Dictionary M - noun The main bronchus of each lung.
Mesocaecum Dictionary M - noun The fold of peritoneum attached to the caecum.
Mesocarp Dictionary M - noun The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers.
Mesocephalic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the middle of the head; as, the mesocephalic flexure.
Mesocephalon Dictionary M - noun The pons Varolii.
Mesocephalous Dictionary M - adjective Mesocephalic.
Mesocoele Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mesocoelia.
Mesocoelia Dictionary M - noun The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.
Mesocolon Dictionary M - noun The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon.
Mesocoracoid Dictionary M - noun A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.
Mesocuneiform Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mesocuniform.
Mesocuniform Dictionary M - noun One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
Mesoderm Dictionary M - noun The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm.
Mesodermal Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or derived from, the mesoderm; as, mesodermal tissues.
Mesodermic Dictionary M - adjective Same as Mesodermal.
Mesodont Dictionary M - adjective Having teeth of moderate size.
Mesogaster Dictionary M - noun The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.
Mesogastric Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach.
Mesogastrium Dictionary M - noun The umbilical region.
Mesogl/a Dictionary M - noun A thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain coelenterates.
Mesognathous Dictionary M - adjective Having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.
Mesohepar Dictionary M - noun A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.
Mesohippus Dictionary M - noun An extinct mammal of the Horse family, but not larger than a sheep, and having three toes on each foot.
Mesolabe Dictionary M - noun An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube.
Mesole Dictionary M - noun Same as Thomsonite.
Mesolite Dictionary M - noun A zeolitic mineral, grayish white or yellowish, occuring in delicate groups of crystals, also fibrous massive. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina, lime, and soda.
Mesologarithm Dictionary M - noun A logarithm of the cosine or cotangent.
Mesometrium Dictionary M - noun The fold of the peritoneum supporting the oviduct.
Mesomyodian Dictionary M - noun A bird having a mesomyodous larynx.
Mesomyodous Dictionary M - adjective Having the intrinsic muscles of the larynx attached to the middle of the semirings.
Meson Dictionary M - noun 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.
Mesonasal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.
Mesonephric Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.
Mesonephros Dictionary M - noun The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.
Mesonotum Dictionary M - noun The dorsal portion of the mesothorax of insects.
Mesophl/um Dictionary M - noun The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.
Mesophryon Dictionary M - noun See Glabella.
Mesophyllum Dictionary M - noun The parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces.
Mesoplast Dictionary M - noun The nucleus of a cell; mesoblast.
Mesopodial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the mesopodialia or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
Mesopodialia Dictionary M - pleural of Mesopodiale.
Mesopodiale Dictionary M - noun One of the bones of either the carpus or tarsus.
Mesopodium Dictionary M - noun The middle portion of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.
Mesopterygium Dictionary M - noun The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
Mesorchium Dictionary M - noun The fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.
Mesorectum Dictionary M - noun The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum.
Mesorhine Dictionary M - adjective Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.
Mesosauria Dictionary M - noun Same as Mosasauria.
Mesoscapula Dictionary M - noun A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.
Mesoscapular Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.
Mesoscutum Dictionary M - noun The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.
Mesoseme Dictionary M - adjective Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.
Mesosiderite Dictionary M - noun See the Note under Meteorite.
Mesosperm Dictionary M - noun A membrane of a seed. See Secundine.
Mesostate Dictionary M - noun A product of metabolic action.
Mesosternal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.
Mesosternum Dictionary M - noun The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.
Mesotartaric Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid.
Mesotheca Dictionary M - noun The middle layer of the gonophore in the Hydrozoa.
Mesothelium Dictionary M - noun Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the c/lum.
Mesothoracic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.
Mesothorax Dictionary M - noun The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
Mesotrochal Dictionary M - adjective Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; - said of the larvae of certain marine annelids.
Mesotype Dictionary M - noun An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.
Mesovarium Dictionary M - noun The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.
Mesoxalate Dictionary M - noun A salt of mesoxalic acid.
Mesoxalic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.
Mesozoa Dictionary M - noun plural A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata.
Mesozoic Dictionary M - adjective Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.
Mesprise Dictionary M - noun Contempt; scorn.
Mesquite Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mesquit.
Mesquit Dictionary M - noun A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.
Mess Dictionary M - noun Mass; church service.
Messed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mess.
Messing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mess.
Message Dictionary M - noun Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.
Messager Dictionary M - noun A messenger.
Messenger Dictionary M - noun One who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages.
Messet Dictionary M - noun A dog.
Messiad Dictionary M - noun A German epic poem on the Messiah, by Klopstock.
Messiah Dictionary M - noun The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.
Messiahship Dictionary M - noun The state or office of the Messiah.
Messianic Dictionary M - adjective Of or relating to the Messiah; as, the Messianic office or character.
Messias Dictionary M - noun The Messiah.
Messidor Dictionary M - noun The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendEmiaire.
Messieurs Dictionary M - noun plural Sirs; gentlemen; - abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of Mr.
Messinese Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Messina, or its inhabitans.
Messmate Dictionary M - noun An associate in a mess.
Messuage Dictionary M - noun A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.
Mest Dictionary M - adjective Most.
Mestee Dictionary M - noun The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; - so called in the West Indies.
Mester Dictionary M - noun See Mister, a trade.
Mestinos Dictionary M - pleural of Mestino.
Mestino Dictionary M - noun See Mestizo.
Mestizos Dictionary M - pleural of Mestizo.
Mestizo Dictionary M - noun The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Mestling Dictionary M - noun A kind of brass. See Maslin.
Mesymnicum Dictionary M - noun A repetition at the end of a stanza.
Meta- Dictionary M - Alt. of Met-.
Met- Dictionary M - A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.
Metabases Dictionary M - pleural of Metabasis.
Metabasis Dictionary M - noun A transition from one subject to another.
Metabola Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Metabole.
Metabole Dictionary M - noun A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.
Metabolia Dictionary M - noun plural A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.
Metabolian Dictionary M - noun An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.
Metabolic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
Metabolisis Dictionary M - noun Metabolism.
Metabolism Dictionary M - noun The act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).
Metabolite Dictionary M - noun A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.
Metabolize Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.
Metabranchial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.
Metacarpal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the metacarpus.
Metacarpus Dictionary M - noun That part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. In man it consists of five bones. See Illust. of Artiodactyla.
Metacenter Dictionary M - noun Alt. of -tre.
-tre Dictionary M - noun The point of intersection of a vertical line through the center of gravity of the fluid displaced by a floating body which is tipped through a small angle from its position of equilibrium, and the inclined line which was vertical through the center of gravity of the body when in equilibrium.
Metacetone Dictionary M - noun A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; - so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.
Metachloral Dictionary M - noun A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.
Metachronism Dictionary M - noun An error committed in chronology by placing an event after its real time.
Metachrosis Dictionary M - noun The power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc.
Metacinnabarite Dictionary M - noun Sulphide of mercury in isometric form and black in color.
Metacism Dictionary M - noun A defect in pronouncing the letter m, or a too frequent use of it.
Metacrolein Dictionary M - noun A polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. It is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.
Metacromion Dictionary M - noun A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.
Metadiscoidal Dictionary M - adjective Discoidal by derivation; - applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.
Metagastric Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
Metage Dictionary M - verb Measurement, especially of coal.
Metagenesis Dictionary M - noun The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. Opposed to monogenesis. See Alternate generation, under Generation.
Metagenetic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to metagenesis.
Metagenic Dictionary M - adjective Metagenetic.
Metagnathous Dictionary M - adjective Cross-billed; - said of certain birds, as the crossbill.
Metagrammatism Dictionary M - noun Anagrammatism.
Metagraphic Dictionary M - adjective By or pertaining to metagraphy.
Metagraphy Dictionary M - noun The art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration.
Metal Dictionary M - noun 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.
Metaled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Metal.
Metalled Dictionary M - of Metal.
Metaling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Metal.
Metalling Dictionary M - of Metal.
Metalammonium Dictionary M - noun A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.
Metalbumin Dictionary M - noun A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.
Metaldehyde Dictionary M - noun A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
Metalepses Dictionary M - pleural of Metalepsis.
Metalepsis Dictionary M - noun The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
Metalepsy Dictionary M - noun Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis.
Metaleptic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.
Metaleptical Dictionary M - adjective Metaleptic.
Metallic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.
Metallical Dictionary M - adjective See Metallic.
Metallicly Dictionary M - adverb In a metallic manner; by metallic means.
Metallifacture Dictionary M - noun The production and working or manufacture of metals.
Metalliferous Dictionary M - adjective Producing metals; yielding metals.
Metalliform Dictionary M - adjective Having the form or structure of a metal.
Metalline Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties.
Metallist Dictionary M - noun A worker in metals, or one skilled in metals.
Metallization Dictionary M - noun The act or process of metallizing.
Metallized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Metallize.
Metallizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Metallize.
Metallize Dictionary M - verb transitive To impart metallic properties to; to impregnate with a metal.
Metallochrome Dictionary M - noun A coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.
Metallochromy Dictionary M - noun The art or process of coloring metals.
Metallograph Dictionary M - noun A print made by metallography.
Metallographic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.
Metallographist Dictionary M - noun One who writes on the subject of metals.
Metallography Dictionary M - noun The science or art of metals and metal working; also, a treatise on metals.
Metalloid Dictionary M - noun Formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; - applied by Sir H. Davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.
Metalloidal Dictionary M - adjective Metalloid.
Metallorganic Dictionary M - adjective Metalorganic.
Metallotherapy Dictionary M - noun Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.
Metallurgic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Metallurgical.
Metallurgical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to metallurgy.
Metallurgist Dictionary M - noun One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy.
Metallurgy Dictionary M - noun The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.
Metalmen Dictionary M - pleural of Metalman.
Metalman Dictionary M - noun A worker in metals.
Metalogical Dictionary M - adjective Beyond the scope or province of logic.
Metalorganic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.
Metamer Dictionary M - noun Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene.
Metamere Dictionary M - noun One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.
Metameric Dictionary M - adjective Having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.
Metamerically Dictionary M - adverb In a metameric manner.
Metamerism Dictionary M - noun The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.
Metamorphic Dictionary M - adjective Subject to change; changeable; variable.
Metamorphism Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.
Metamorphist Dictionary M - noun One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.
Metamorphize Dictionary M - verb transitive To metamorphose.
Metamorphosed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Metamorphose.
Metamorphosing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Metamorphose.
Metamorphose Dictionary M - verb transitive To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.
Metamorphoser Dictionary M - noun One who metamorphoses.
Metamorphosic Dictionary M - adjective Changing the form; transforming.
Metamorphoses Dictionary M - pleural of Metamorphosis.
Metamorphosis Dictionary M - noun Change of form, or structure; transformation.
Metanauplius Dictionary M - noun A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.
Metanephritic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the metanephros.
Metanephros Dictionary M - noun The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.
Metanotum Dictionary M - noun The dorsal portion of the metaphorax of insects.
Metantimonate Dictionary M - noun A salt of metantimonic acid.
Metantimonic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3).
Metapectic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a supposed acid obtained from pectin.
Metapectin Dictionary M - noun A substance obtained from, and resembling, pectin, and occurring in overripe fruits.
Metapeptone Dictionary M - noun An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.
Metaphor Dictionary M - noun The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.
Metaphoric Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Metaphorical.
Metaphorical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense.
Metaphorist Dictionary M - noun One who makes metaphors.
Metaphosphate Dictionary M - noun A salt of metaphosphoric acid.
Metaphosphoric Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid.
Metaphrase Dictionary M - noun A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; - opposed to paraphrase.
Metaphrased Dictionary M - adjective Translated literally.
Metaphrasis Dictionary M - noun Metaphrase.
Metaphrast Dictionary M - noun A literal translator.
Metaphrastic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Metaphrastical.
Metaphrastical Dictionary M - adjective Close, or literal.
Metaphysic Dictionary M - noun See Metaphysics.
Metaphysical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to metaphysics.
Metaphysically Dictionary M - adverb In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician.
Metaphysician Dictionary M - noun One who is versed in metaphysics.
Metaphysics Dictionary M - noun The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles.
Metaphysis Dictionary M - noun Change of form; transformation.
Metaplasm Dictionary M - noun A change in the letters or syllables of a word.
Metaplast Dictionary M - noun A word having more than one form of the root.
Metapode Dictionary M - noun The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.
Metapodial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the metapodialia, or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
Metapodialia Dictionary M - pleural of Metapodiale.
Metapodiale Dictionary M - noun One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus.
Metapodia Dictionary M - pleural of Metapodium.
Metapodium Dictionary M - noun Same as Metapode.
Metapophyses Dictionary M - pleural of Metapophysis.
Metapophysis Dictionary M - noun A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebr/; a mammillary process.
Metapterygium Dictionary M - noun The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
Metasilicate Dictionary M - noun A salt of metasilicic acid.
Metasilicic Dictionary M - adjective Designating an acid derived from silicic acid by the removal of water; of or pertaining to such an acid.
Metasomatism Dictionary M - noun An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; - opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization.
Metasome Dictionary M - noun One of the component segments of the body of an animal.
Metastannate Dictionary M - noun A salt of metastannic acid.
Metastannic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a compound of tin (metastannic acid), obtained, as an isomeric modification of stannic acid, in the form of a white amorphous substance.
Metastases Dictionary M - pleural of Metastasis.
Metastasis Dictionary M - noun A spiritual change, as during baptism.
Metastatic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth.
Metasternal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the metasternum.
Metasternum Dictionary M - noun The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.
Metastoma Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Metastome.
Metastome Dictionary M - noun A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.
Metatarsal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the metatarsus.
Metatarse Dictionary M - noun Metatarsus.
Metatarsi Dictionary M - pleural of Metatarsus.
Metatarsus Dictionary M - noun That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix.
Metatheses Dictionary M - pleural of Metathesis.
Metathesis Dictionary M - noun Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.
Metathetic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Metathetical.
Metathetical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to metathesis.
Metathoracic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
Metathorax Dictionary M - noun The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
Metatitanic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.
Metatungstate Dictionary M - noun A salt of metatungstic acid.
Metatungstic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.
Metavanadate Dictionary M - noun A salt of metavanadic acid.
Metavanadic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.
Metaxylene Dictionary M - noun That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colorless inf/ammable liquid.
Metayage Dictionary M - noun A system of farming on halves.
Metayer Dictionary M - adjective One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord.
Metazoa Dictionary M - noun plural Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, - the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.
Metazoans Dictionary M - pleural of Metazoan.
Metazoan Dictionary M - noun One of the Metazoa.
Metazoic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Metazoa.
Metazoon Dictionary M - noun One of the Metazoa.
Mete Dictionary M - noun Meat.
Mette Dictionary M - imperative of Mete.
Meted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mete.
Meting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mete.
Metecorn Dictionary M - noun A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.
Metely Dictionary M - adjective According to measure or proportion; proportionable; proportionate.
Metempiric Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Metempirical.
Metempirical Dictionary M - adjective Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics.
Metempiricism Dictionary M - noun The science that is concerned with metempirics.
Metempirics Dictionary M - noun The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience.
Metempsychosed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Metempsychose.
Metempsychosing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Metempsychose.
Metempsychose Dictionary M - verb transitive To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another.
Metempsychosis Dictionary M - noun The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls.
Metemptosis Dictionary M - noun The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.
Metencephalon Dictionary M - noun The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.
Metensomatosis Dictionary M - noun The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.
Meteor Dictionary M - noun Any phenomenon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc.
Meteoric Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.
Meteorical Dictionary M - adjective Meteoric.
Meteorism Dictionary M - noun Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.
Meteorite Dictionary M - noun A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aerolite.
Meteorize Dictionary M - intransitive verb To ascend in vapors; to take the form of a meteor.
Meteorograph Dictionary M - noun An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions.
Meteorographic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to meteorography.
Meteorography Dictionary M - noun The registration of meteorological phenomena.
Meteoroid Dictionary M - noun A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor.
Meteoroidal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.
Meteorolite Dictionary M - noun A meteoric stone; an aerolite; a meteorite.
Meteoroligic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Meteorological.
Meteorological Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the atmosphere and its phenomena, or to meteorology.
Meteorologist Dictionary M - noun A person skilled in meteorology.
Meteorology Dictionary M - noun The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc.
Meteoromancy Dictionary M - noun A species of divination by meteors, chiefly by thunder and lightning, which was held in high estimation by the Romans.
Meteorometer Dictionary M - noun An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc.
Meteoroscope Dictionary M - noun An astrolabe; a planisphere.
Meteorous Dictionary M - adjective Of the nature or appearance of a meteor.
-meter Dictionary M - A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
Meter Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
Metre Dictionary M - noun 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.
Meterage Dictionary M - noun The act of measuring, or the cost of measuring.
Metergram Dictionary M - noun A measure of energy or work done; the power exerted in raising one gram through the distance of one meter against gravitation.
Metewand Dictionary M - noun A measuring rod.
Meteyard Dictionary M - noun A yard, staff, or rod, used as a measure.
Meth Dictionary M - noun See Meathe.
Methaemoglobin Dictionary M - noun A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.
Methal Dictionary M - noun A white waxy substance, found in small quantities in spermaceti as an ethereal salt of several fatty acids, and regarded as an alcohol of the methane series.
Methane Dictionary M - noun A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas.
Metheglin Dictionary M - noun A fermented beverage made of honey and water; mead.
Methene Dictionary M - noun See Methylene.
Methenyl Dictionary M - noun The hypothetical hydrocarbon radical CH, regarded as an essential residue of certain organic compounds.
Methide Dictionary M - noun A binary compound of methyl with some element; as, aluminium methide, Al2(CH3)6.
Methought Dictionary M - imperative of Methinks.
Methinks Dictionary M - v. impers. It seems to me; I think. See Me.
Methionate Dictionary M - noun A salt of methionic acid.
Methionic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or designating, a sulphonic (thionic) acid derivative of methane, obtained as a stable white crystalline substance, CH2.(SO3H)2, which forms well defined salts.
Method Dictionary M - noun An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.
Methodic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Methodical.
Methodical Dictionary M - adjective Arranged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise.
Methodios Dictionary M - noun The art and principles of method.
Methodism Dictionary M - noun The system of doctrines, polity, and worship, of the sect called Methodists.
Methodist Dictionary M - noun One who observes method.
Methodistic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Methodistical.
Methodistical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to methodists, or to the Methodists.
Methodization Dictionary M - noun The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.
Methodized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Methodize.
Methodizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Methodize.
Methodize Dictionary M - verb transitive To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner; as, to methodize one's work or thoughts.
Methodizer Dictionary M - noun One who methodizes.
Methodological Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to methodology.
Methodology Dictionary M - noun The science of method or arrangement; a treatise on method.
Methol Dictionary M - noun The technical name of methyl alcohol or wood spirit; also, by extension, the class name of any of the series of alcohols of the methane series of which methol proper is the type. See Methyl alcohol, under Methyl.
Methoxyl Dictionary M - noun A hypothetical radical, CH3O, analogous to hydroxyl.
Methyl Dictionary M - noun A hydrocarbon radical, CH3, not existing alone but regarded as an essential residue of methane, and appearing as a component part of many derivatives; as, methyl alcohol, methyl ether, methyl amine, etc.
Methylal Dictionary M - noun A light, volatile liquid, H2C(OCH3)2, regarded as a complex ether, and having a pleasant ethereal odor. It is obtained by the partial oxidation of methyl alcohol. Called also formal.
Methylamine Dictionary M - noun See Methyl amine, under Methyl.
Methylate Dictionary M - noun An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa.
Methylated Dictionary M - adjective Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits.
Methylene Dictionary M - noun A hydrocarbon radical, CH2, not known in the free state, but regarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivatives of methane; as, methylene bromide, CH2Br2; - formerly called also methene.
Methylic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, methyl; specifically, designating methyl alcohol. See under Methyl.
Methysticin Dictionary M - noun A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; - called also kanakin.
Metic Dictionary M - noun A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.
Meticulous Dictionary M - adjective Timid; fearful.
Metif Dictionary M - noun f.]] Alt. of Metive.
Metive Dictionary M - noun f.]] See Metis.
Metis Dictionary M - noun f.]] Alt. of Metisse.
Metisse Dictionary M - noun f.]] The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
Metoche Dictionary M - noun The space between two dentils.
Metonic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian.
Metonymic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Metonymical.
Metonymical Dictionary M - adjective Used by way of metonymy.
Metonymy Dictionary M - noun A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.
Metope Dictionary M - noun The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.
Metopic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture.
Metopomancy Dictionary M - noun Fortune telling by physiognomy.
Metoposcopic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Metoposcopical.
Metoposcopical Dictionary M - adjective Of or relating to metoposcopy.
Metoposcopist Dictionary M - noun One versed in metoposcopy.
Metoposcopy Dictionary M - noun The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face.
Metosteon Dictionary M - noun The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification.
Metric Dictionary M - adjective Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
Metrical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
Metrically Dictionary M - adverb In a metrical manner.
Metrician Dictionary M - noun A composer of verses.
Metric system Dictionary M - See Metric, a.
Metrification Dictionary M - noun Composition in metrical form; versification.
Metrify Dictionary M - intransitive verb To make verse.
Metrist Dictionary M - noun A maker of verses.
Metritis Dictionary M - noun Inflammation of the womb.
Metrochrome Dictionary M - noun An instrument for measuring colors.
Metrograph Dictionary M - noun An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.
Metrological Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to metrology.
Metrology Dictionary M - noun The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject.
Metromania Dictionary M - noun A mania for writing verses.
Metromaniac Dictionary M - noun One who has metromania.
Metrometer Dictionary M - noun An instrument for measuring the size of the womb.
Metronome Dictionary M - noun An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.
Metronomy Dictionary M - noun Measurement of time by an instrument.
Metronymic Dictionary M - adjective Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. - A metronymic appellation.
Metropole Dictionary M - noun A metropolis.
Metropolis Dictionary M - noun The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
Metropolitan Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
Metropolitanate Dictionary M - noun The see of a metropolitan bishop.
Metropolite Dictionary M - noun A metropolitan.
Metropolitical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair.
Metrorrhagia Dictionary M - noun Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.
Metroscope Dictionary M - noun A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.
Metrosideros Dictionary M - noun A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood.
Metrotome Dictionary M - noun An instrument for cutting or scarifying the uterus or the neck of the uterus.
Metrotomy Dictionary M - noun The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Caesarean section.
-metry Dictionary M - A suffix denoting the art, process, or science, of measuring; as, acidmetry, chlorometry, chronometry.
Mettle Dictionary M - noun Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; - usually in a good sense.
Mettled Dictionary M - adjective Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.
Mettlesome Dictionary M - adjective Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse.
Meute Dictionary M - noun A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1.
Meve Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To move.
Mew Dictionary M - noun A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
Mewed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mew.
Mewing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mew.
Mewled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mewl.
Mewling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mewl.
Mewl Dictionary M - intransitive verb To cry, as a young child; to squall.
Mewler Dictionary M - noun One that mewls.
Mews Dictionary M - noun singular & plural An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.
Mexal Dictionary M - mexcal. Alt. of Mexical.
Mexical Dictionary M - mexcal. See Mescal.
Mexican Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.
Mexicanize Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause to be like the Mexicans, or their country, esp. in respect of frequent revolutions of government.
Neyne Dictionary M - noun Same as Meine.
Mezcal Dictionary M - noun Same as Mescal.
Mezereon Dictionary M - noun A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine.
Mezquita Dictionary M - noun A mosque.
Mezuzoth Dictionary M - noun A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; - in use among orthodox Hebrews.
Mezzanine Dictionary M - noun Same as Entresol.
Mezza voce Dictionary M - With a medium fullness of sound.
Mezzo Dictionary M - adjective Mean; not extreme.
Mezzo-relievo Dictionary M - noun Mezzo-rilievo.
Mezzo-rilievo Dictionary M - noun A middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief.
Mezzo-soprano Dictionary M - adjective Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; - said of the voice of a female singer.
Mezzotint Dictionary M - noun A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced.
Mezzotinter Dictionary M - noun One who engraves in mezzotint.
Mezzotinto Dictionary M - noun Mezzotint.
Mezzotintoed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mezzotinto.
Mezzotintoing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mezzotinto.
Mhorr Dictionary M - noun See Mohr.
Mi Dictionary M - noun A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system.
Miamis Dictionary M - noun plural A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.
Miargyrite Dictionary M - noun A mineral of an iron-black color, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver.
Mias Dictionary M - noun The orang-outang.
Miascite Dictionary M - noun A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elaeolite, and sodalite.
Miasm Dictionary M - noun Miasma.
Miasmata Dictionary M - pleural of Miasma.
Miasma Dictionary M - noun Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.
Miasmal Dictionary M - adjective Containing miasma; miasmatic.
Miasmatic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Miasmatical.
Miasmatical Dictionary M - adjective Containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as, miasmatic diseases.
Miasmatist Dictionary M - noun One who has made a special study of miasma.
Miasmology Dictionary M - noun That department of medical science which treats of miasma.
Miauled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Miaul.
Miauling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Miaul.
Miaul Dictionary M - intransitive verb To cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul.
Mica Dictionary M - noun 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.
Micaceo-calcareous Dictionary M - adjective Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; - applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.
Micaceous Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica.
Mice Dictionary M - noun pl of Mouse.
Micellae Dictionary M - pleural of Micella.
Micella Dictionary M - noun A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.
Mich Dictionary M - intransitive verb Alt. of Miche.
Miche Dictionary M - intransitive verb To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly.
Michaelmas Dictionary M - noun The feat of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn.
Micher Dictionary M - noun One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc.
Michery Dictionary M - noun Theft; cheating.
Miching Dictionary M - adjective Hiding; skulking; cowardly.
Mickle Dictionary M - adjective Much; great.
Micmacs Dictionary M - noun plural A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
Mico Dictionary M - noun A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.
Micracoustic Dictionary M - adjective Same as Microustic.
Micraster Dictionary M - noun A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; - from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.
Micrencephalous Dictionary M - Having a small brain.
Micro- Dictionary M - Alt. of Micr-.
Micr- Dictionary M - A combining form.
Microampere Dictionary M - noun One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampere.
Microbacteria Dictionary M - noun plural In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria.
Microbe Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Microbion.
Microbion Dictionary M - noun A microscopic organism; - particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.
Microbian Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.
Microbic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a microbe.
Microbicide Dictionary M - noun Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.
Microcephalic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Microcephalous.
Microcephalous Dictionary M - adjective Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; - opposed to megacephalic.
Micro-chemical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.
Micro-chemistry Dictionary M - noun The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; - distinguished from macro-chemistry.
Microchronometer Dictionary M - noun A chronoscope.
Microcline Dictionary M - noun A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.
Micrococcal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci.
Micrococci Dictionary M - pleural of Micrococcus.
Micrococcus Dictionary M - noun A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.
Microcosm Dictionary M - noun A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.
Microcosmic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Microcosmical.
Microcosmical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the microcosm.
Microcosmography Dictionary M - noun Description of man as a microcosm.
Microcoulomb Dictionary M - noun A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.
Microcoustic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining, or suited, to the audition of small sounds; fitted to assist hearing.
Microcrith Dictionary M - noun The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith.
Microcrystalline Dictionary M - adjective Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.
Microcyte Dictionary M - noun One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anaemia.
Microdont Dictionary M - adjective Having small teeth.
Microfarad Dictionary M - noun The millionth part of a farad.
Microform Dictionary M - noun A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism microscopic size.
Micro-geological Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to micro-geology.
Micro-geology Dictionary M - noun The part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.
Micrograph Dictionary M - noun An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.
Micrographic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to micrography.
Micrography Dictionary M - noun The description of microscopic objects.
Microhm Dictionary M - noun The millionth part of an ohm.
Microlepidoptera Dictionary M - noun plural A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.
Microlestes Dictionary M - noun An extinct genus of small Triassic mammals, the oldest yet found in European strata.
Microlite Dictionary M - noun A rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute.
Microlith Dictionary M - noun Same as Microlite, 2.
Microlithic Dictionary M - adjective Formed of small stones.
Micrologic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Micrological.
Micrological Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to micrology; very minute; as, micrologic examination.
Micrology Dictionary M - noun That part of science which treats of microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation.
Micromere Dictionary M - noun One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.
Micrometer Dictionary M - noun An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass.
Micrometric Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Micrometrical.
Micrometrical Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to micrometry; made by the micrometer.
Micrometry Dictionary M - noun The art of measuring with a micrometer.
Micromillimeter Dictionary M - noun The millionth part of a meter.
Micron Dictionary M - noun A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.
Micronesian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.
Micronesians Dictionary M - noun plural A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.
Micronometer Dictionary M - noun An instrument for noting minute portions of time.
Microorganism Dictionary M - noun Any microscopic form of life; - particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
Micropantograph Dictionary M - noun A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.
Micropegmatite Dictionary M - noun A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite).
Microphone Dictionary M - noun An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.
Microphonics Dictionary M - noun The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.
Microphonous Dictionary M - adjective Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.
Microphotograph Dictionary M - noun A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.
Microphotography Dictionary M - noun The art of making microphotographs.
Microphthalmia Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Microphthalmy.
Microphthalmy Dictionary M - noun An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.
Microphyllous Dictionary M - adjective Small-leaved.
Microphytal Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.
Microphyte Dictionary M - noun A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.
Micropyle Dictionary M - noun An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted.
Microscopal Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope.
Microscope Dictionary M - noun An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye.
Microscopial Dictionary M - adjective Microscopic.
Microscopic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Microscopical.
Microscopical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the microscope or to microscopy; made with a microscope; as, microscopic observation.
Microscopically Dictionary M - adverb By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.
Microscopist Dictionary M - noun One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.
Microscopy Dictionary M - noun The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.
Microseme Dictionary M - adjective Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; - opposed to megaseme.
Microspectroscope Dictionary M - noun A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.
Microsporangium Dictionary M - noun A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.
Microspore Dictionary M - noun One of the exceedingly minute spores found in certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.
Microsporic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to microspores.
Microsthene Dictionary M - noun One of a group of mammals having a small size as a typical characteristic. It includes the lower orders, as the Insectivora, Cheiroptera, Rodentia, and Edentata.
Microsthenic Dictionary M - adjective Having a typically small size; of or pertaining to the microsthenes.
Microtasimeter Dictionary M - noun A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. See Tasimeter.
Microtome Dictionary M - noun An instrument for making very thin sections for microscopical examination.
Microtomist Dictionary M - noun One who is skilled in or practices microtomy.
Microtomy Dictionary M - noun The art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome.
Microvolt Dictionary M - noun A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.
Microweber Dictionary M - noun The millionth part of one weber.
Microzoa Dictionary M - noun plural The Infusoria.
Microzoospore Dictionary M - noun A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae.
Microzyme Dictionary M - noun A microorganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.
Micturition Dictionary M - noun The act of voiding urine; also, a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.
Mid Dictionary M - superlative Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean.
Mida Dictionary M - noun The larva of the bean fly.
Midas Dictionary M - noun A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.
Midas's ear Dictionary M - A pulmonate mollusk (Auricula, / Ellobium, aurismidae); - so called from resemblance to a human ear.
Midbrain Dictionary M - noun The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
Midday Dictionary M - adjective The middle part of the day; noon.
Midden Dictionary M - noun A dunghill.
Midden crow Dictionary M - The common European crow.
Middest Dictionary M - superlative Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost.
Midding Dictionary M - noun Same as Midden.
Middle Dictionary M - adjective Equally distant from the extreme either of a number of things or of one thing; mean; medial; as, the middle house in a row; a middle rank or station in life; flowers of middle summer; men of middle age.
Middle-age Dictionary M - Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediaeval.
Middle-aged Dictionary M - adjective Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.
Middle-earth Dictionary M - noun The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.
Middle-ground Dictionary M - noun That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
Middlemen Dictionary M - pleural of Middleman.
Middleman Dictionary M - noun An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
Middlemost Dictionary M - adjective Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
Middler Dictionary M - noun One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
Middling Dictionary M - adjective Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
Middlings Dictionary M - noun plural A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; - formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.
Middies Dictionary M - pleural of Middy.
Middy Dictionary M - noun A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.
Midfeather Dictionary M - noun A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.
Midgard Dictionary M - noun The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.
Midge Dictionary M - noun Any one of many small, delicate, long-legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvae are usually aquatic.
Midget Dictionary M - noun A minute bloodsucking fly.
Midgut Dictionary M - noun The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.
Midheaven Dictionary M - noun The midst or middle of heaven or the sky.
Midland Dictionary M - adjective Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as, midland towns or inhabitants.
Midmain Dictionary M - noun The middle part of the main or sea.
Midmost Dictionary M - adjective Middle; middlemost.
Midnight Dictionary M - noun The middle of the night; twelve o'clock at night.
Midrashim Dictionary M - pleural of Midrash.
Midrashoth Dictionary M - pleural of Midrash.
Midrash Dictionary M - noun A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.
Midrib Dictionary M - noun A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
Midriff Dictionary M - noun See Diaphragm, n., 2.
Mid sea Dictionary M - Alt. of Mid-sea.
Mid-sea Dictionary M - The middle part of the sea or ocean.
Midship Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to, or being in, the middle of a ship.
Midshipmen Dictionary M - pleural of Midshipman.
Midshipman Dictionary M - noun Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required.
Midships Dictionary M - adverb In the middle of a ship; - properly amidships.
Midst Dictionary M - noun The interior or central part or place; the middle; - used chiefly in the objective case after in; as, in the midst of the forest.
Midsummer Dictionary M - noun The middle of summer.
Midward Dictionary M - adjective Situated in the middle.
Midway Dictionary M - noun The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course.
Midweek Dictionary M - noun The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.
Midwives Dictionary M - pleural of Midwife.
Midwife Dictionary M - noun A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.
Midwifery Dictionary M - noun The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
Midwinter Dictionary M - noun The middle of winter.
Midwive Dictionary M - verb transitive To midwife.
Mien Dictionary M - noun Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.
Miff Dictionary M - noun A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense.
Mightful Dictionary M - adjective Mighty.
Mightily Dictionary M - adverb In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.
Mightiness Dictionary M - noun The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity.
Mightless Dictionary M - adjective Without; weak.
Mighty Dictionary M - noun Possessing might; having great power or authority.
Mighties Dictionary M - pleural of Mighty.
Migniard Dictionary M - adjective Soft; dainty.
Migniardise Dictionary M - noun Delicate fondling.
Mignon Dictionary M - adjective See 3d Minion.
Mignonette Dictionary M - noun A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
Migraine Dictionary M - noun Same as Megrim.
Migrant Dictionary M - adjective Migratory.
Migrated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Migrate.
Migrating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Migrate.
Migrate Dictionary M - intransitive verb To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.
Migration Dictionary M - noun The act of migrating.
Migratory Dictionary M - adjective Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.
Mikado Dictionary M - noun The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan.
Mikmaks Dictionary M - noun Same as Micmacs.
Milage Dictionary M - noun Same as Mileage.
Milanese Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants.
Milch Dictionary M - adjective Giving milk; - now applied only to beasts.
Mild Dictionary M - superlative 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.
Milden Dictionary M - verb transitive To make mild, or milder.
Mildew Dictionary M - noun A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.
Mildewed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mildew.
Mildewing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mildew.
Mildly Dictionary M - adverb In a mild manner.
Mildness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
Mile Dictionary M - noun A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
Mileage Dictionary M - noun An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
Milepost Dictionary M - noun A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.
Milesian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.
Milestone Dictionary M - noun A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.
Milfoil Dictionary M - noun A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.
Miliaria Dictionary M - noun A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.
Miliary Dictionary M - adjective Like millet seeds; as, a miliary eruption.
Milice Dictionary M - noun Militia.
Miliola Dictionary M - noun A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
Miliolite Dictionary M - noun A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola.
Miliolitic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.
Militancy Dictionary M - noun The state of being militant; warfare.
Militant Dictionary M - adjective Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
Militar Dictionary M - adjective Military.
Militarily Dictionary M - adverb In a military manner.
Militarism Dictionary M - noun A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
Militarist Dictionary M - noun A military man.
Military Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as, a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
Militated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Militate.
Militating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Militate.
Militate Dictionary M - intransitive verb To make war; to fight; to contend; - usually followed by against and with.
Militia Dictionary M - noun In the widest sense, the whole military force of a nation, including both those engaged in military service as a business, and those competent and available for such service; specifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies.
Militiamen Dictionary M - pleural of Militiaman.
Militiaman Dictionary M - noun One who belongs to the militia.
Militiate Dictionary M - intransitive verb To carry on, or prepare for, war.
Milk Dictionary M - noun 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.
Milked Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Milk.
Milking Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Milk.
Milken Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of milk.
Milker Dictionary M - noun One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
Milkful Dictionary M - adjective Full of milk; abounding with food.
Milkily Dictionary M - adverb In a milky manner.
Milkiness Dictionary M - noun State or quality of being milky.
Milk-livered Dictionary M - adjective White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
Milkmaid Dictionary M - noun A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
Milkmen Dictionary M - pleural of Milkman.
Milkman Dictionary M - noun A man who sells milk or delivers is to customers.
Milksop Dictionary M - noun A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
Milk vetch Dictionary M - A leguminous herb (Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats.
Milkweed Dictionary M - noun Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge.
Milkwort Dictionary M - noun A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
Milky Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of, or containing, milk.
Mill Dictionary M - noun A money of account of the United States, having the value of the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.
Milled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mill.
Milling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mill.
Millboard Dictionary M - noun A kind of stout pasteboard.
Mill-cake Dictionary M - noun The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.
Milldam Dictionary M - noun A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.
Millefiore glass Dictionary M - Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; - used for paperweights and other small articles.
Millenarian Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.
Millenarianism Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Millenarism.
Millenarism Dictionary M - noun The doctrine of Millenarians.
Millenary Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of a thousand; millennial.
Millennial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the millennium, or to a thousand years; as, a millennial period; millennial happiness.
Millennialist Dictionary M - noun One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also, a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period.
Millennialism Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Millenniarism.
Millenniarism Dictionary M - noun Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
Millennist Dictionary M - noun One who believes in the millennium.
Millennium Dictionary M - noun A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.
Milleped Dictionary M - noun A myriapod with many legs, esp. a chilognath, as the galleyworm.
Millepora Dictionary M - noun A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.
Millepore Dictionary M - noun Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.
Milleporite Dictionary M - noun A fossil millepore.
Miller Dictionary M - noun One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
Millerite Dictionary M - noun A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.
Millesimal Dictionary M - adjective Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as, millesimal fractions.
Millet Dictionary M - noun The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica.
Milli- Dictionary M - A prefix denoting a thousandth part of; as, millimeter, milligram, milliampere.
Milliampere Dictionary M - noun The thousandth part of one ampere.
Milliard Dictionary M - noun A thousand millions; - called also billion. See Billion.
Milliary Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a mile, or to distance by miles; denoting a mile or miles.
Milliaries Dictionary M - pleural of Milliary.
Millier Dictionary M - noun A weight of the metric system, being one million grams; a metric ton.
Millifold Dictionary M - adjective Thousandfold.
Milligram Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Milligramme.
Milligramme Dictionary M - noun A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois.
Milliliter Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Millilitre.
Millilitre Dictionary M - noun A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce.
Millimeter Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Millimetre.
Millimetre Dictionary M - noun A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.
Milliner Dictionary M - noun Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women.
Millinery Dictionary M - noun The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
Millinet Dictionary M - noun A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.
Million Dictionary M - noun The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, - written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred.
Millionaire Dictionary M - noun One whose wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more.
Millionairess Dictionary M - noun A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire.
Millionary Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as, the millionary chronology of the pundits.
Millioned Dictionary M - adjective Multiplied by millions; innumerable.
Millionnaire Dictionary M - noun Millionaire.
Millionth Dictionary M - adjective Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.
Milliped Dictionary M - noun The same Milleped.
Millistere Dictionary M - noun A liter, or cubic decimeter.
Milliweber Dictionary M - noun The thousandth part of one weber.
Millrea Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Millreis.
Millree Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Millreis.
Millreis Dictionary M - noun See Milreis.
Millrind Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Millrynd.
Millrynd Dictionary M - noun A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.
Mill-sixpence Dictionary M - noun A milled sixpence; - the sixpence being one of the first English coins milled (1561).
Millstone Dictionary M - noun One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.
Millwork Dictionary M - noun The shafting, gearing, and other driving machinery of mills.
Millwright Dictionary M - noun A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.
Milreis Dictionary M - noun A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also, a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.
Milt Dictionary M - noun The spleen.
Milter Dictionary M - noun A male fish.
Miltonian Dictionary M - adjective Miltonic.
Miltonic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.
Miltwaste Dictionary M - A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.
Milvine Dictionary M - adjective Of or resembling birds of the kite kind.
Milvus Dictionary M - noun A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.
Mime Dictionary M - noun A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
Mimeograph Dictionary M - noun An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.
Mimesis Dictionary M - noun Imitation; mimicry.
Mimetene Dictionary M - noun See Mimetite.
Mimetic Dictionary M - Alt. of Mimetical.
Mimetical Dictionary M - Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
Mimetism Dictionary M - noun Same as Mimicry.
Mimetite Dictionary M - noun A mineral occurring in pale yellow or brownish hexagonal crystals. It is an arseniate of lead.
Mimic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mimical.
Mimical Dictionary M - adjective Imitative; mimetic.
Mimicked Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mimic.
Mimicking Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mimic.
Mimically Dictionary M - adverb In an imitative manner.
Mimicker Dictionary M - noun One who mimics; a mimic.
Mimicry Dictionary M - noun The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.
Mimographer Dictionary M - noun A writer of mimes.
Mimosa Dictionary M - noun A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants (Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica).
Mimotannic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or designating, a variety of tannin or tannic acid found in Acacia, Mimosa, etc.
Minae Dictionary M - pleural of Mina.
Minas Dictionary M - pleural of Mina.
Mina Dictionary M - noun An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.
Minable Dictionary M - adjective Such as can be mined; as, minable earth.
Minacious Dictionary M - adjective Threatening; menacing.
Minacity Dictionary M - noun Disposition to threaten.
Minaret Dictionary M - noun A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.
Minargent Dictionary M - noun An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; - used by jewelers.
Minatorially Dictionary M - adverb Alt. of Minatorily.
Minatorily Dictionary M - adverb In a minatory manner; with threats.
Minatory Dictionary M - adjective Threatening; menacing.
Minaul Dictionary M - noun Same as Manul.
Minced Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mince.
Minging Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mince.
Mince Dictionary M - verb transitive To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat.
Mince-meat Dictionary M - noun Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; - used in making mince pie.
Mince pie Dictionary M - A pie made of mince-meat.
Mincer Dictionary M - noun One who minces.
Mincing Dictionary M - adjective That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.
Mincingly Dictionary M - adverb In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.
Mind Dictionary M - verb The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; - often in distinction from the body.
Minded Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mind.
Minding Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mind.
Minder Dictionary M - noun One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as, a minder of a loom.
Mindful Dictionary M - adjective Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.
Mindless Dictionary M - adjective Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
Mine Dictionary M - noun See Mien.
Mined Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mine.
Mining Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mine.
Miner Dictionary M - noun One who mines; a digger for metals, etc.; one engaged in the business of getting ore, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; one who digs military mines; as, armies have sappers and miners.
Mineral Dictionary M - intransitive verb An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
Mineralist Dictionary M - noun One versed in minerals; mineralogist.
Mineralization Dictionary M - noun The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
Mineralized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mineralize.
Mineralizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mineralize.
Mineralize Dictionary M - verb transitive To transform into a mineral.
Mineralizer Dictionary M - noun An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.
Mineralogical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as, a mineralogical table.
Mineralogically Dictionary M - adverb According to the principles of, or with reference to, mineralogy.
Mineralogist Dictionary M - noun One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
Mineralogize Dictionary M - intransitive verb To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals.
Mineralogies Dictionary M - pleural of Mineralogy.
Mineralogy Dictionary M - noun The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
Minerva Dictionary M - noun The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; - identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
Minette Dictionary M - noun The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
Minever Dictionary M - noun Same as Miniver.
Minge Dictionary M - verb transitive To mingle; to mix.
Mingled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mingle.
Mingling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mingle.
Mingle Dictionary M - verb transitive To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
Mingleable Dictionary M - adjective That can be mingled.
Mingledly Dictionary M - adverb Confusedly.
Mingle-mangle Dictionary M - verb transitive To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of.
Minglement Dictionary M - noun The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed.
Mingler Dictionary M - noun One who mingles.
Minglingly Dictionary M - adverb In a mingling manner.
Minaceous Dictionary M - adjective Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
Miniard Dictionary M - adjective Migniard.
Miniardize Dictionary M - verb transitive To render delicate or dainty.
Miniated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Miniate.
Miniating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Miniate.
Miniate Dictionary M - verb transitive To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript.
Miniature Dictionary M - verb Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
Miniaturist Dictionary M - noun A painter of miniatures.
Minibus Dictionary M - noun A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.
Minie ball Dictionary M - A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.
Minie rifle Dictionary M - A rifle adapted to minie balls.
Minified Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Minify.
Minifying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Minify.
Minify Dictionary M - verb transitive To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.
Minikin Dictionary M - noun A little darling; a favorite; a minion.
Minim Dictionary M - noun Anything very minute; as, the minims of existence; - applied to animalcula; and the like.
Miniment Dictionary M - noun A trifle; a trinket; a token.
Minimization Dictionary M - noun The act or process of minimizing.
Minimized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Minimize.
Minimizimg Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Minimize.
Minimize Dictionary M - verb transitive To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum.
Minima Dictionary M - pleural of Minimum.
Minimum Dictionary M - noun The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; - opposed to maximum.
Minimi Dictionary M - pleural of Minimus.
Minimus Dictionary M - noun A being of the smallest size.
Minion Dictionary M - noun Minimum.
Minionette Dictionary M - adjective Small; delicate.
Minioning Dictionary M - noun Kind treatment.
Minionize Dictionary M - verb transitive To flavor.
Minionlike Dictionary M - adjective & adverb Alt. of Minionly.
Minionly Dictionary M - adjective & adverb Like a minion; daintily.
Minionship Dictionary M - noun State of being a minion.
Minious Dictionary M - adjective Of the color of red or vermilion.
Minish Dictionary M - adjective To diminish; to lessen.
Minishment Dictionary M - noun The act of diminishing, or the state of being diminished; diminution.
Minister Dictionary M - noun A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
Ministered Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Minister.
Ministering Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Minister.
Ministerial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.
Ministerialist Dictionary M - noun A supporter of the ministers, or the party in power.
Ministerially Dictionary M - adverb In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.
Ministery Dictionary M - noun See Ministry.
Ministracy Dictionary M - noun Ministration.
Ministral Dictionary M - adjective Ministerial.
Ministrant Dictionary M - adjective Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate.
Ministration Dictionary M - noun The act of ministering; service; ministry.
Ministrative Dictionary M - adjective Serving to aid; ministering.
Ministress Dictionary M - noun A woman who ministers.
Ministry Dictionary M - noun The act of ministering; ministration; service.
Ministryship Dictionary M - noun The office of a minister.
Minium Dictionary M - noun A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb3O4, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.
Miniver Dictionary M - noun A fur esteemed in the Middle Ages as a part of costume. It is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.
Minivet Dictionary M - noun A singing bird of India of the family Campephagidae.
Mink Dictionary M - noun 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.
Minnesinger Dictionary M - noun A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.
Minnow Dictionary M - noun A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish (Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; - called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
Minny Dictionary M - noun A minnow.
Mino bird Dictionary M - An Asiatic bird (Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words.
Minor Dictionary M - adjective Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as, minor divisions of a body.
Minorate Dictionary M - verb transitive To diminish.
Minoration Dictionary M - noun A diminution.
Minoress Dictionary M - noun See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.
Minorite Dictionary M - noun A Franciscan friar.
Minorities Dictionary M - pleural of Minority.
Minority Dictionary M - adjective & noun The state of being a minor, or under age.
Minos Dictionary M - noun A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
Minotaur Dictionary M - noun A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.
Minow Dictionary M - noun See Minnow.
Minster Dictionary M - noun A church of a monastery. The name is often retained and applied to the church after the monastery has ceased to exist (as Beverly Minster, Southwell Minster, etc.), and is also improperly used for any large church.
Minstrel Dictionary M - noun In the Middle Ages, one of an order of men who subsisted by the arts of poetry and music, and sang verses to the accompaniment of a harp or other instrument; in modern times, a poet; a bard; a singer and harper; a musician.
Minstrelsy Dictionary M - noun The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel.
Mint Dictionary M - noun The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.
Minted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mint.
Minting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mint.
Mintage Dictionary M - noun The coin, or other production, made in a mint.
Minter Dictionary M - noun One who mints.
Mintmen Dictionary M - pleural of Mintman.
Mintman Dictionary M - noun One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.
Mint-master Dictionary M - noun The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively.
Minuend Dictionary M - noun The number from which another number is to be subtracted.
Minuet Dictionary M - noun A slow graceful dance consisting of a coupee, a high step, and a balance.
Minum Dictionary M - noun A small kind of printing type; minion.
Minus Dictionary M - adjective Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity.
Minuscule Dictionary M - noun Any very small, minute object.
Minutary Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes.
Minute Dictionary M - noun The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as, 4 h. 30 m.).
Minute-jack Dictionary M - noun A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; - called also jack of the clock house.
Minutely Dictionary M - adverb In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.
Minutemen Dictionary M - pleural of Minuteman.
Minuteman Dictionary M - noun A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment's notice; - a term used in the American Revolution.
Minuteness Dictionary M - noun The quality of being minute.
Minutiae Dictionary M - pleural of Minutia.
Minutia Dictionary M - noun A minute particular; a small or minor detail; - used chiefly in the plural.
Minx Dictionary M - noun A pert or a wanton girl.
Miny Dictionary M - adjective Abounding with mines; like a mine.
Miocene Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary.
Miohippus Dictionary M - noun An extinct Miocene mammal of the Horse family, closely related to the genus Anhithecrium, and having three usable hoofs on each foot.
Miquelet Dictionary M - noun An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.
Mir Dictionary M - noun A Russian village community.
Mira Dictionary M - noun A remarkable variable star in the constellation Cetus (/ Ceti).
Mirabilaries Dictionary M - pleural of Mirabilary.
Mirabilary Dictionary M - noun One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders.
Mirabilis Dictionary M - noun A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.
Mirabilite Dictionary M - noun Native sodium sulphate; Glauber's salt.
Mirable Dictionary M - adjective Wonderful; admirable.
Miracle Dictionary M - noun A wonder or wonderful thing.
Miraculize Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause to seem to be a miracle.
Miraculous Dictionary M - adjective Of the nature of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency of almighty power, and not by natural causes.
Mirador Dictionary M - noun Same as Belvedere.
Mirage Dictionary M - noun An optical effect, sometimes seen on the ocean, but more frequently in deserts, due to total reflection of light at the surface common to two strata of air differently heated. The reflected image is seen, commonly in an inverted position, while the real object may or may not be in sight. When the surface is horizontal, and below the eye, the appearance is that of a sheet of water in which the object is seen reflected; when the reflecting surface is above the eye, the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage.
Mirbane Dictionary M - noun See Nitrobenzene.
Mire Dictionary M - noun An ant.
Mired Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mire.
Miring Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mire.
Mirific Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mirifical.
Mirifical Dictionary M - adjective Working wonders; wonderful.
Mirificent Dictionary M - adjective Wonderful.
Miriness Dictionary M - noun The quality of being miry.
Mirk Dictionary M - adjective Dark; gloomy; murky.
Mirksome Dictionary M - adjective Dark; gloomy; murky.
Mirky Dictionary M - adjective Dark; gloomy. See Murky.
Mirror Dictionary M - noun A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
Mirrored Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mirror.
Mirroring Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mirror.
Mirth Dictionary M - noun Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity.
Mirthful Dictionary M - adjective Full of mirth or merriment; merry; as, mirthful children.
Mirthless Dictionary M - adjective Without mirth.
Miry Dictionary M - adjective Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road.
Mirza Dictionary M - noun The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.
Mis- Dictionary M - A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.
Mis Dictionary M - adjective & adverb Wrong; amiss.
Misacceptation Dictionary M - noun Wrong acceptation; understanding in a wrong sense.
Misaccompt Dictionary M - verb transitive To account or reckon wrongly.
Misadjust Dictionary M - verb transitive To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment.
Misadjustment Dictionary M - noun Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.
Misadventure Dictionary M - noun Mischance; misfortune; ill lick; unlucky accident; ill adventure.
Misadventured Dictionary M - adjective Unfortunate.
Misadventurous Dictionary M - adjective Unfortunate.
Misadvertence Dictionary M - noun Inadvertence.
Misadvice Dictionary M - noun Bad advice.
Misadvise Dictionary M - verb transitive To give bad counsel to.
Misadvised Dictionary M - adjective Ill advised.
Misaffect Dictionary M - verb transitive To dislike.
Misaffected Dictionary M - adjective Ill disposed.
Misaffection Dictionary M - noun An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected.
Misaffirm Dictionary M - verb transitive To affirm incorrectly.
Misaimed Dictionary M - adjective Not rightly aimed.
Misallegation Dictionary M - noun A erroneous statement or allegation.
Misallege Dictionary M - verb transitive To state erroneously.
Misalliance Dictionary M - noun A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.
Misallied Dictionary M - adjective Wrongly allied or associated.
Misallotment Dictionary M - noun A wrong allotment.
Misalter Dictionary M - verb transitive To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse.
Misanthrope Dictionary M - noun A hater of mankind; a misanthropist.
Misanthropic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Misanthropical.
Misanthropical Dictionary M - adjective Hating or disliking mankind.
Misanthropist Dictionary M - noun A misanthrope.
Misanthropos Dictionary M - noun A misanthrope.
Misanthropy Dictionary M - noun Hatred of, or dislike to, mankind; - opposed to philanthropy.
Misapplication Dictionary M - noun A wrong application.
Misapplied Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misapply.
Misapplying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misapply.
Misapply Dictionary M - verb transitive To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as, to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.
Misappreciated Dictionary M - adjective Improperly appreciated.
Misapprehend Dictionary M - verb transitive To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand.
Misapprehension Dictionary M - noun A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.
Misapprehensively Dictionary M - adverb By, or with, misapprehension.
Misappropriate Dictionary M - verb transitive To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.
Misappropriation Dictionary M - noun Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.
Misarranged Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misarrange.
Misarranging Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misarrange.
Misarrange Dictionary M - verb transitive To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.
Misarrangement Dictionary M - noun Wrong arrangement.
Misarcribe Dictionary M - verb transitive To ascribe wrongly.
Misassay Dictionary M - verb transitive To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully.
Misassign Dictionary M - verb transitive To assign wrongly.
Misattend Dictionary M - verb transitive To misunderstand; to disregard.
Misaventure Dictionary M - noun Misadventure.
Misavize Dictionary M - verb transitive To misadvise.
Misbear Dictionary M - verb transitive To carry improperly; to carry (one's self) wrongly; to misbehave.
Misbecome Dictionary M - verb transitive Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to.
Misbecoming Dictionary M - adjective Unbecoming.
Misbode Dictionary M - imperative of Misbede.
Misboden Dictionary M - past participle of Misbede.
Misbede Dictionary M - verb transitive To wrong; to do injury to.
Misbefitting Dictionary M - adjective No befitting.
Misbegot Dictionary M - particle adjective Alt. of Misbegotten.
Misbegotten Dictionary M - particle adjective Unlawfully or irregularly begotten; of bad origin; pernicious.
Misbehaved Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misbehave.
Misbehaving Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misbehave.
Misbehave Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly; - often used with a reciprocal pronoun.
Misbehavior Dictionary M - noun Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct.
Misbelief Dictionary M - noun Erroneous or false belief.
Misbelieve Dictionary M - intransitive verb To believe erroneously, or in a false religion.
Misbeliever Dictionary M - noun One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.
Misbeseem Dictionary M - verb transitive To suit ill.
Misbestow Dictionary M - verb transitive To bestow improperly.
Misbestowal Dictionary M - noun The act of misbestowing.
Misbileve Dictionary M - noun Misbelief; unbelief; suspicion.
Misborn Dictionary M - adjective Born to misfortune.
Miscalculate Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To calculate erroneously; to judge wrongly.
Miscall Dictionary M - verb transitive To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.
Miscarriage Dictionary M - noun Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination.
Miscarriageable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of miscarrying; liable to fail.
Miscarried Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Miscarry.
Miscarrying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Miscarry.
Miscarry Dictionary M - intransitive verb To carry, or go, wrong; to fail of reaching a destination, or fail of the intended effect; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat.
Miscast Dictionary M - verb transitive To cast or reckon wrongly.
Miscegenation Dictionary M - noun A mixing of races; amalgamation, as by intermarriage of black and white.
Miscellanarian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to miscellanies.
Miscellane Dictionary M - noun A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; - now called maslin and meslin.
Miscellanea Dictionary M - noun plural A collection of miscellaneous matters; matters of various kinds.
Miscellaneous Dictionary M - adjective Mixed; mingled; consisting of several things; of diverse sorts; promiscuous; heterogeneous; as, a miscellaneous collection.
Miscellanist Dictionary M - noun A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.
Miscellanies Dictionary M - pleural of Miscellany.
Miscellany Dictionary M - noun A mass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects.
Miscensure Dictionary M - verb transitive To misjudge.
Mischance Dictionary M - noun Ill luck; ill fortune; mishap.
Mischanceful Dictionary M - adjective Unlucky.
Mischaracterize Dictionary M - verb transitive To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.
Mischarge Dictionary M - verb transitive To charge erroneously, as in account.
Mischief Dictionary M - noun Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport.
Mischiefable Dictionary M - adjective Mischievous.
Mischiefful Dictionary M - adjective Mischievous.
Mischief-maker Dictionary M - noun One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.
Mischief-making Dictionary M - adjective Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels.
Mischievous Dictionary M - adjective Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; - now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child.
Mischna Dictionary M - noun See Mishna.
Mischnic Dictionary M - adjective See Mishnic.
Mischose Dictionary M - imperative of Mischoose.
Mischosen Dictionary M - past participle of Mischoose.
Mischoosing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mischoose.
Mischoose Dictionary M - verb transitive To choose wrongly.
Mischristen Dictionary M - verb transitive To christen wrongly.
Miscibility Dictionary M - noun Capability of being mixed.
Miscible Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being mixed; mixable; as, water and alcohol are miscible in all proportions.
Miscitation Dictionary M - noun Erroneous citation.
Miscite Dictionary M - verb transitive To cite erroneously.
Misclaim Dictionary M - noun A mistaken claim.
Miscognizant Dictionary M - adjective Not cognizant; ignorant; not knowing.
Miscognize Dictionary M - verb transitive To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand.
Miscollocation Dictionary M - noun Wrong collocation.
Miscolor Dictionary M - verb transitive To give a wrong color to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts.
Miscomfort Dictionary M - noun Discomfort.
Miscomprehend Dictionary M - verb transitive To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.
Miscomputation Dictionary M - noun Erroneous computation; false reckoning.
Miscompute Dictionary M - verb transitive To compute erroneously.
Misconceit Dictionary M - noun Misconception.
Misconceived Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misconceive.
Misconceiving Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misconceive.
Misconceive Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To conceive wrongly; to interpret incorrectly; to receive a false notion of; to misjudge; to misapprehend.
Misconceiver Dictionary M - noun One who misconceives.
Misconception Dictionary M - noun Erroneous conception; false opinion; wrong understanding.
Misconclusion Dictionary M - noun An erroneous inference or conclusion.
Misconduct Dictionary M - noun Wrong conduct; bad behavior; mismanagement.
Misconfident Dictionary M - adjective Having a mistaken confidence; wrongly trusting.
Misconjecture Dictionary M - noun A wrong conjecture or guess.
Misconsecrate Dictionary M - verb transitive To consecrate amiss.
Misconsecration Dictionary M - noun Wrong consecration.
Misconsequence Dictionary M - noun A wrong consequence; a false deduction.
Misconstruable Dictionary M - adjective Such as can be misconstrued, as language or conduct.
Misconstruct Dictionary M - verb transitive To construct wrongly; to construe or interpret erroneously.
Misconstruction Dictionary M - noun Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation.
Misconstrued Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misconstrue.
Misconstruing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misconstrue.
Misconstrue Dictionary M - verb transitive To construe wrongly; to interpret erroneously.
Misconstruer Dictionary M - noun One who misconstrues.
Miscontent Dictionary M - adjective Discontent.
Miscontinuance Dictionary M - noun Discontinuance; also, continuance by undue process.
Miscopy Dictionary M - verb transitive To copy amiss.
Miscorrect Dictionary M - verb transitive To fail or err in attempting to correct.
Miscounsel Dictionary M - verb transitive To counsel or advise wrongly.
Miscount Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To count erroneously.
Miscovet Dictionary M - verb transitive To covet wrongfully.
Miscreance Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Miscreancy.
Miscreancy Dictionary M - noun The quality of being miscreant; adherence to a false religion; false faith.
Miscreant Dictionary M - noun One who holds a false religious faith; a misbeliever.
Miscreate Dictionary M - adjective Miscreated; illegitimate; forged; as, miscreate titles.
Miscreated Dictionary M - adjective Formed unnaturally or illegitimately; deformed.
Miscreative Dictionary M - adjective Creating amiss.
Miscredent Dictionary M - noun A miscreant, or believer in a false religious doctrine.
Miscredulity Dictionary M - noun Wrong credulity or belief; misbelief.
Miscue Dictionary M - noun A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired.
Misdated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misdate.
Misdating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misdate.
Misdate Dictionary M - verb transitive To date erroneously.
Misdealt Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misdeal.
Misdealing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misdeal.
Misdeal Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To deal or distribute wrongly, as cards; to make a wrong distribution.
Misdeed Dictionary M - noun An evil deed; a wicked action.
Misdeem Dictionary M - verb transitive To misjudge.
Misdemean Dictionary M - verb transitive To behave ill; - with a reflexive pronoun; as, to misdemean one's self.
Misdemeanant Dictionary M - noun One guilty of a misdemeanor.
Misdemeanor Dictionary M - noun Ill behavior; evil conduct; fault.
Misdempt Dictionary M - p. p. of Misdeem.
Misdepart Dictionary M - verb transitive To distribute wrongly.
Misderive Dictionary M - verb transitive To turn or divert improperly; to misdirect.
Misdescribe Dictionary M - verb transitive To describe wrongly.
Misdesert Dictionary M - noun Ill desert.
Misdevotion Dictionary M - noun Mistaken devotion.
Misdiet Dictionary M - noun Improper.
Misdight Dictionary M - adjective Arrayed, prepared, or furnished, unsuitably.
Misdirect Dictionary M - verb transitive To give a wrong direction to; as, to misdirect a passenger, or a letter; to misdirect one's energies.
Misdirection Dictionary M - noun The act of directing wrongly, or the state of being so directed.
Misdisposition Dictionary M - noun Erroneous disposal or application.
Misdistinguish Dictionary M - verb transitive To make wrong distinctions in or concerning.
Misdivide Dictionary M - verb transitive To divide wrongly.
Misdivision Dictionary M - noun Wrong division.
Misdid Dictionary M - imperative of Misdo.
Misdone Dictionary M - past participle of Misdo.
Misdoing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misdo.
Misdo Dictionary M - verb To do wrongly.
Misdoer Dictionary M - noun A wrongdoer.
Misdoubt Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To be suspicious of; to have suspicion.
Misdoubtful Dictionary M - a Misgiving; hesitating.
Misdread Dictionary M - noun Dread of evil.
Mise Dictionary M - noun The issue in a writ of right.
Misease Dictionary M - noun Want of ease; discomfort; misery.
Miseased Dictionary M - adjective Having discomfort or misery; troubled.
Miseasy Dictionary M - adjective Not easy; painful.
Misedition Dictionary M - noun An incorrect or spurious edition.
Miseducate Dictionary M - verb transitive To educate in a wrong manner.
Misemploy Dictionary M - verb transitive To employ amiss; as, to misemploy time, advantages, talents, etc.
Misemployment Dictionary M - noun Wrong or mistaken employment.
Misenter Dictionary M - verb transitive To enter or insert wrongly, as a charge in an account.
Misentreat Dictionary M - verb transitive To treat wrongfully.
Misentry Dictionary M - noun An erroneous entry or charge, as of an account.
Miser Dictionary M - noun A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune.
Miserable Dictionary M - adjective Very unhappy; wretched.
Miserableness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being miserable.
Miserably Dictionary M - adverb In a miserable; unhappily; calamitously; wretchedly; meanly.
Miseration Dictionary M - noun Commiseration.
Miserere Dictionary M - noun The psalm usually appointed for penitential acts, being the 50th psalm in the Latin version. It commences with the word miserere.
Misericorde Dictionary M - noun Compassion; pity; mercy.
Misericordia Dictionary M - noun An amercement.
Miserly Dictionary M - adjective Like a miser; very covetous; sordid; niggardly.
Miseries Dictionary M - pleural of Misery.
Misery Dictionary M - noun Great unhappiness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe.
Misesteem Dictionary M - noun Want of esteem; disrespect.
Misestimate Dictionary M - verb transitive To estimate erroneously.
Misexplanation Dictionary M - noun An erroneous explanation.
Misexplication Dictionary M - noun Wrong explication.
Misexposition Dictionary M - noun Wrong exposition.
Misexpound Dictionary M - verb transitive To expound erroneously.
Misexpression Dictionary M - noun Wrong expression.
Misfaith Dictionary M - noun Want of faith; distrust.
Misfell Dictionary M - imperative of Misfall.
Misfallen Dictionary M - past participle of Misfall.
Misfalling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misfall.
Misfall Dictionary M - verb transitive To befall, as ill luck; to happen to unluckily.
Misfare Dictionary M - intransitive verb To fare ill.
Misfashion Dictionary M - verb transitive To form wrongly.
Misfeasance Dictionary M - noun A trespass; a wrong done; the improper doing of an act which a person might lawfully do.
Misfeature Dictionary M - noun Ill feature.
Misfeeling Dictionary M - adjective Insensate.
Misfeign Dictionary M - intransitive verb To feign with an evil design.
Misfit Dictionary M - noun The act or the state of fitting badly; as, a misfit in making a coat; a ludicrous misfit.
Misformed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misform.
Misforming Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misform.
Misform Dictionary M - verb transitive To make in an ill form.
Misformation Dictionary M - noun Malformation.
Misfortunate Dictionary M - adjective Producing misfortune.
Misfortune Dictionary M - noun Bad fortune or luck; calamity; an evil accident; disaster; mishap; mischance.
Misfortuned Dictionary M - adjective Unfortunate.
Misframe Dictionary M - verb transitive To frame wrongly.
Misget Dictionary M - verb transitive To get wrongfully.
Misgie Dictionary M - verb transitive See Misgye.
Misgave Dictionary M - imperative of Misgive.
Misgiven Dictionary M - past participle of Misgive.
Misgiving Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misgive.
Misgive Dictionary M - verb transitive To give or grant amiss.
Migo Dictionary M - intransitive verb To go astray.
Misgotten Dictionary M - adjective Unjustly gotten.
Misgovern Dictionary M - verb transitive To govern ill; as, to misgovern a country.
Misgovernance Dictionary M - noun Misgovernment; misconduct; misbehavior.
Misgoverned Dictionary M - adjective Ill governed, as a people; ill directed.
Misgovernment Dictionary M - noun Bad government; want of government.
Misgracious Dictionary M - adjective Not gracious.
Misgraff Dictionary M - verb transitive To misgraft.
Misgraft Dictionary M - verb transitive To graft wrongly.
Misground Dictionary M - verb transitive To found erroneously.
Misgrowth Dictionary M - noun Bad growth; an unnatural or abnormal growth.
Misguess Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To guess wrongly.
Misguidance Dictionary M - noun Wrong guidance.
Misguide Dictionary M - verb transitive To guide wrongly; to lead astray; as, to misguide the understanding.
Misguiding Dictionary M - adjective Misleading.
Misgye Dictionary M - verb transitive To misguide.
Mishandle Dictionary M - verb transitive To handle ill or wrongly; to maltreat.
Mishap Dictionary M - noun Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance.
Mishappen Dictionary M - intransitive verb To happen ill or unluckily.
Mishappy Dictionary M - adjective Unhappy.
Mishcup Dictionary M - noun The scup.
Mishear Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To hear incorrectly.
Mishmash Dictionary M - noun A hotchpotch.
Mishna Dictionary M - noun A collection or digest of Jewish traditions and explanations of Scripture, forming the text of the Talmud.
Mishnic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Mishna.
Misimagination Dictionary M - noun Wrong imagination; delusion.
Misimprove Dictionary M - verb transitive To use for a bad purpose; to abuse; to misuse; as, to misimprove time, talents, advantages, etc.
Misimprovement Dictionary M - noun Ill use or employment; use for a bad purpose.
Misincline Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.
Misinfer Dictionary M - verb transitive To infer incorrectly.
Misinform Dictionary M - verb transitive To give untrue information to; to inform wrongly.
Misinformant Dictionary M - noun A misinformer.
Misinformation Dictionary M - noun Untrue or incorrect information.
Misinformer Dictionary M - noun One who gives or incorrect information.
Misinstruct Dictionary M - verb transitive To instruct amiss.
Misinstruction Dictionary M - noun Wrong or improper instruction.
Misintelligence Dictionary M - noun Wrong information; misinformation.
Misintend Dictionary M - verb transitive To aim amiss.
Misinterpret Dictionary M - verb transitive To interpret erroneously; to understand or to explain in a wrong sense.
Misinterpretable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.
Misinterpretation Dictionary M - noun The act of interpreting erroneously; a mistaken interpretation.
Misinterpreter Dictionary M - noun One who interprets erroneously.
Misjoin Dictionary M - verb transitive To join unfitly or improperly.
Misjoinder Dictionary M - noun An incorrect union of parties or of causes of action in a procedure, criminal or civil.
Misjudge Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To judge erroneously or unjustly; to err in judgment; to misconstrue.
Misjudgment Dictionary M - noun A wrong or unjust judgment.
Miskeep Dictionary M - verb transitive To keep wrongly.
Misken Dictionary M - verb transitive Not to know.
Miskin Dictionary M - noun A little bagpipe.
Miskindle Dictionary M - verb transitive To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose; to excite wrongly.
Misknow Dictionary M - verb transitive To have a mistaken notion of or about.
Mislactation Dictionary M - noun Defective flow or vitiated condition of the milk.
Mislaid Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mislay.
Mislaying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mislay.
Mislay Dictionary M - verb transitive To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source.
Mislayer Dictionary M - noun One who mislays.
Misled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misle.
Misling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misle.
Misle Dictionary M - intransitive verb To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle.
Misleading Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mislead.
Mislead Dictionary M - verb transitive To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive.
Misleader Dictionary M - noun One who leads into error.
Mislearn Dictionary M - verb transitive To learn wrongly.
Milen Dictionary M - noun See Maslin.
Misletoe Dictionary M - noun See Mistletoe.
Mislight Dictionary M - verb transitive To deceive or lead astray with a false light.
Misliked Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mislike.
Misliking Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mislike.
Mislike Dictionary M - verb To dislike; to disapprove of; to have aversion to; as, to mislike a man.
Misliker Dictionary M - noun One who dislikes.
Mislin Dictionary M - noun & adjective See Maslin.
Mislive Dictionary M - intransitive verb To live amiss.
Mislodge Dictionary M - verb transitive To lodge amiss.
Misluck Dictionary M - noun Ill luck; misfortune.
Misly Dictionary M - adjective Raining in very small drops.
Mistake Dictionary M - verb transitive To make or form amiss; to spoil in making.
Mismanage Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To manage ill or improperly; as, to mismanage public affairs.
Mismanagement Dictionary M - noun Wrong or bad management; as, he failed through mismagement.
Mismanager Dictionary M - noun One who manages ill.
Mismark Dictionary M - verb transitive To mark wrongly.
Mismatch Dictionary M - verb transitive To match unsuitably.
Mismate Dictionary M - verb transitive To mate wrongly or unsuitably; as, to mismate gloves or shoes; a mismated couple.
Mismeasure Dictionary M - verb transitive To measure or estimate incorrectly.
Mismeasurement Dictionary M - noun Wrong measurement.
Mismeter Dictionary M - verb transitive To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.
Misname Dictionary M - verb transitive To call by the wrong name; to give a wrong or inappropriate name to.
Misnomer Dictionary M - noun The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title.
Misnumber Dictionary M - verb transitive To number wrongly.
Misnurture Dictionary M - verb transitive To nurture or train wrongly; as, to misnurture children.
Misobedience Dictionary M - noun Mistaken obedience; disobedience.
Misobserve Dictionary M - verb transitive To observe inaccurately; to mistake in observing.
Misobserver Dictionary M - noun One who misobserves; one who fails to observe properly.
Misogamist Dictionary M - noun A hater of marriage.
Misogamy Dictionary M - noun Hatre/ of marriage.
Misogynist Dictionary M - noun A woman hater.
Misogynous Dictionary M - adjective Hating women.
Misogyny Dictionary M - noun Hatred of women.
Misology Dictionary M - noun Hatred of argument or discussion; hatred of enlightenment.
Misopinion Dictionary M - noun Wrong opinion.
Misorder Dictionary M - verb transitive To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly.
Misorderly Dictionary M - adjective Irregular; disorderly.
Misordination Dictionary M - noun Wrong ordination.
Misotheism Dictionary M - noun Hatred of God.
Mispaint Dictionary M - verb transitive To paint ill, or wrongly.
Mispassion Dictionary M - noun Wrong passion or feeling.
Mispay Dictionary M - verb transitive To dissatisfy.
Mispell Dictionary M - verb transitive Alt. of Mispend.
Mispend Dictionary M - verb transitive See Misspell, Misspend, etc.
Mispense Dictionary M - noun See Misspense.
Misperception Dictionary M - noun Erroneous perception.
Mispersuade Dictionary M - verb transitive To persuade amiss.
Mispersuasion Dictionary M - noun A false persuasion; wrong notion or opinion.
Mispickel Dictionary M - noun Arsenical iron pyrites; arsenopyrite.
Misplaced Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misplace.
Misplacing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misplace.
Misplace Dictionary M - verb transitive To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.
Misplacement Dictionary M - noun The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.
Misplead Dictionary M - intransitive verb To err in pleading.
Mispleading Dictionary M - noun An error in pleading.
Mispoint Dictionary M - verb transitive To point improperly; to punctuate wrongly.
Mispolicy Dictionary M - noun Wrong policy; impolicy.
Mispractice Dictionary M - noun Wrong practice.
Mispraise Dictionary M - verb transitive To praise amiss.
Misprint Dictionary M - verb transitive To print wrong.
Misprise Dictionary M - verb transitive See Misprize.
Misprision Dictionary M - noun The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake.
Misprize Dictionary M - verb To slight or undervalue.
Misproceeding Dictionary M - noun Wrong or irregular proceding.
Misprofess Dictionary M - intransitive verb To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.
Mispronounced Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mispronounce.
Mispronouncing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mispronounce.
Mispronounce Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To pronounce incorrectly.
Mispronunciation Dictionary M - noun Wrong or improper pronunciation.
Misproportion Dictionary M - verb transitive To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
Misproud Dictionary M - adjective Viciously proud.
Mispunctuate Dictionary M - verb transitive To punctuate wrongly or incorrectly.
Misquotation Dictionary M - noun Erroneous or inaccurate quotation.
Misquote Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To quote erroneously or incorrectly.
Misraise Dictionary M - verb transitive To raise or exite unreasonable.
Misrate Dictionary M - verb transitive To rate erroneously.
Misread Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misread.
Misreading Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misread.
Misreceive Dictionary M - verb transitive To receive wrongly.
Misrecital Dictionary M - noun An inaccurate recital.
Misrecite Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To recite erroneously.
Misreckon Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate.
Misreckoning Dictionary M - noun An erroneous computation.
Misrecollect Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To have an erroneous remembrance of; to suppose erroneously that one recollects.
Misrecollection Dictionary M - noun Erroneous or inaccurate recollection.
Misreform Dictionary M - verb transitive To reform wrongly or imperfectly.
Misregard Dictionary M - noun Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
Misregulate Dictionary M - verb transitive To regulate wrongly or imperfectly; to fail to regulate.
Misrehearse Dictionary M - verb transitive To rehearse or quote incorrectly.
Misrelate Dictionary M - verb transitive To relate inaccurately.
Misrelation Dictionary M - noun Erroneous relation or narration.
Misreligion Dictionary M - noun False religion.
Misremember Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
Misrender Dictionary M - verb transitive To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly.
Misrepeat Dictionary M - verb transitive To repeat wrongly; to give a wrong version of.
Misreport Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To report erroneously; to give an incorrect account of.
Misrepresent Dictionary M - verb transitive To represent incorrectly (almost always, unfacorably); to give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly.
Misrepresentation Dictionary M - noun Untrue representation; false or incorrect statement or account; - usually unfavorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives.
Misrepresentative Dictionary M - adjective Tending to convey a wrong impression; misrepresenting.
Misrepresenter Dictionary M - noun One who misrepresents.
Misrepute Dictionary M - verb transitive To have in wrong estimation; to repute or estimate erroneously.
Misrule Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To rule badly; to misgovern.
Misruly Dictionary M - adjective Unruly.
Misses Dictionary M - pleural of Miss.
Miss Dictionary M - noun A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See Mistress, 5.
Missed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Miss.
Missing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Miss.
Missae Dictionary M - pleural of Missa.
Missa Dictionary M - noun The service or sacrifice of the Mass.
Missal Dictionary M - noun The book containing the service of the Mass for the entire year; a Mass book.
Missay Dictionary M - verb transitive To say wrongly.
Misseek Dictionary M - verb transitive To seek for wrongly.
Misseem Dictionary M - intransitive verb To make a false appearance.
Missel Dictionary M - noun Mistletoe.
Misseldine Dictionary M - noun The mistletoe.
Misseltoe Dictionary M - noun See Mistletoe.
Missemblance Dictionary M - noun False resemblance or semblance.
Missend Dictionary M - verb transitive To send amiss or incorrectly.
Misserve Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To serve unfaithfully.
Misset Dictionary M - verb transitive To set pr place wrongly.
Misshape Dictionary M - verb transitive To shape ill; to give an ill or unnatural from to; to deform.
Misshapen Dictionary M - adjective Having a bad or ugly form.
Missheathed Dictionary M - adjective Sheathed by mistake; wrongly sheathed; sheathed in a wrong place.
Missificate Dictionary M - intransitive verb To perform Mass.
Missile Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being thrown; adapted for hurling or to be projected from the hand, or from any instrument or rngine, so as to strike an object at a distance.
Missingly Dictionary M - adverb With a sense of loss.
Mission Dictionary M - noun The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission.
Missionaries Dictionary M - pleural of Missionary.
Missionary Dictionary M - n One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion.
Missioner Dictionary M - noun A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6.
Missis Dictionary M - noun A mistress; a wife; - so used by the illiterate.
Missish Dictionary M - adjective Like a miss; prim; affected; sentimental.
Missit Dictionary M - verb transitive To sit badly or imperfectly upon; to misbecome.
Missive Dictionary M - noun Specially sent; intended or prepared to be sent; as, a letter missive.
Missound Dictionary M - verb transitive To sound wrongly; to utter or pronounce incorrectly.
Misspeak Dictionary M - intransitive verb To err in speaking.
Misspeech Dictionary M - noun Wrong speech.
Misspelled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misspell.
Misspelt Dictionary M - of Misspell.
Misspelling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misspell.
Misspell Dictionary M - verb transitive To spell incorrectly.
Misspent Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misspend.
Misspending Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misspend.
Misspend Dictionary M - verb transitive To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money.
Misspender Dictionary M - noun One who misspends.
misspense Dictionary M - noun A spending improperly; a wasting.
Misstate Dictionary M - verb transitive To state wrongly; as, to misstate a question in debate.
Misstatement Dictionary M - noun An incorrect statement.
Misstayed Dictionary M - adjective Having missed stays; - said of a ship.
Misstep Dictionary M - noun A wrong step; an error of conduct.
Missuccess Dictionary M - noun Failure.
Missuggestion Dictionary M - noun Wrong or evil suggestion.
Missummation Dictionary M - noun Wrong summation.
Misswear Dictionary M - intransitive verb To swear falsely.
Missy Dictionary M - noun See Misy.
Mist Dictionary M - noun Visible watery vapor suspended in the atmosphere, at or near the surface of the earth; fog.
Misted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mist.
Misting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mist.
Mistakable Dictionary M - adjective Liable to be mistaken; capable of being misconceived.
Mistook Dictionary M - imperative & obs. past particle of Mistake.
Mistaken Dictionary M - past participle of Mistake.
Mistaking Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mistake.
Mistakenly Dictionary M - adverb By mistake.
Mistakenness Dictionary M - noun Erroneousness.
Mistaker Dictionary M - noun One who mistakes.
Mistakingly Dictionary M - adverb Erroneously.
Mistaught Dictionary M - adjective Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth.
Misteaching Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misteach.
Misteach Dictionary M - verb transitive To teach wrongly; to instruct erroneously.
Mistold Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mistell.
Mistelling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mistell.
Mistell Dictionary M - verb transitive To tell erroneously.
Mistemper Dictionary M - verb transitive To temper ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head.
Mister Dictionary M - noun A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a man or youth. It is usually written in the abbreviated form Mr.
Misterm Dictionary M - verb transitive To call by a wrong name; to miscall.
Mistery Dictionary M - noun See Mystery, a trade.
Mistful Dictionary M - adjective Clouded with, or as with, mist.
Misthink Dictionary M - intransitive verb To think wrongly.
Misthought Dictionary M - noun Erroneous thought; mistaken opinion; error.
Misthrive Dictionary M - intransitive verb To thrive poorly; to be not thrifty or prosperous.
Misthrow Dictionary M - verb transitive To throw wrongly.
Mistic Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mistico.
Mistico Dictionary M - noun A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.
Mistide Dictionary M - intransitive verb To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune.
Mistigris Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mistigri.
Mistigri Dictionary M - noun A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.
Mistihead Dictionary M - noun Mistiness.
Mistily Dictionary M - adverb With mist; darkly; obscurely.
Mistime Dictionary M - verb transitive To time wrongly; not to adapt to the time.
Mistiness Dictionary M - noun State of being misty.
Mistion Dictionary M - noun Mixture.
Mistitle Dictionary M - verb transitive To call by a wrong title.
Mistle Dictionary M - intransitive verb To fall in very fine drops, as rain.
Mistletoe Dictionary M - noun A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit.
Mistonusk Dictionary M - noun The American badger.
Mistradition Dictionary M - noun A wrong tradition.
Mistrain Dictionary M - verb transitive To train amiss.
Mistral Dictionary M - noun A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.
Mistranslate Dictionary M - verb transitive To translate erroneously.
Mistranslation Dictionary M - noun Wrong translation.
Mistransport Dictionary M - verb transitive To carry away or mislead wrongfully, as by passion.
Mistreading Dictionary M - noun Misstep; misbehavior.
Mistreat Dictionary M - verb transitive To treat amiss; to abuse.
Mistreatment Dictionary M - noun Wrong treatment.
Mistress Dictionary M - noun A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc.
Mistressship Dictionary M - noun Female rule or dominion.
Mistrial Dictionary M - noun A false or erroneous trial; a trial which has no result.
Mistrist Dictionary M - verb transitive To mistrust.
Mistrow Dictionary M - intransitive verb To think wrongly.
Mistrust Dictionary M - noun Want of confidence or trust; suspicion; distrust.
Mistruster Dictionary M - noun One who mistrusts.
Mistrustful Dictionary M - adjective Having or causing mistrust, suspicions, or forebodings.
Mistrustingly Dictionary M - adverb With distrust or suspicion.
Mistrustless Dictionary M - adjective Having no mistrust or suspicion.
Mistune Dictionary M - verb transitive To tune wrongly.
Mistura Dictionary M - noun A mingled compound in which different ingredients are contained in a liquid state; a mixture. See Mixture, n., 4.
Misturn Dictionary M - verb transitive To turn amiss; to pervert.
Mistutor Dictionary M - verb transitive To instruct amiss.
Misty Dictionary M - superlative Accompained with mist; characterized by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.
Misunderstood Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Misunderstand.
Misunderstanding Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Misunderstand.
Misunderstand Dictionary M - verb transitive To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.
Misunderstander Dictionary M - noun One who misunderstands.
Misurato Dictionary M - adjective Measured; - a direction to perform a passage in strict or measured time.
Misusage Dictionary M - noun Bad treatment; abuse.
Misuse Dictionary M - verb transitive To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents.
Misusement Dictionary M - noun Misuse.
Misuser Dictionary M - noun One who misuses.
Misvalue Dictionary M - verb transitive To value wrongly or too little; to undervalue.
Misvouch Dictionary M - verb transitive To vouch falsely.
Miswander Dictionary M - intransitive verb To wander in a wrong path; to stray; to go astray.
Misway Dictionary M - noun A wrong way.
Miswear Dictionary M - verb transitive To wear ill.
Miswed Dictionary M - verb transitive To wed improperly.
Misween Dictionary M - intransitive verb To ween amiss; to misjudge; to distrust; to be mistaken.
Miswend Dictionary M - intransitive verb To go wrong; to go astray.
Misword Dictionary M - verb transitive To word wrongly; as, to misword a message, or a sentence.
Misworship Dictionary M - noun Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion.
Misworshiper Dictionary M - noun One who worships wrongly.
Miswrite Dictionary M - verb transitive To write incorrectly.
Miswrought Dictionary M - adjective Badly wrought.
Misy Dictionary M - noun An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite.
Misyoke Dictionary M - verb transitive To yoke improperly.
Miszealous Dictionary M - adjective Mistakenly zealous.
Mite Dictionary M - noun A minute arachnid, of the order Acarina, of which there are many species; as, the cheese mite, sugar mite, harvest mite, etc. See Acarina.
Miter Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mitre.
Mitre Dictionary M - noun A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks.
Mitered Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mitre.
Mitred Dictionary M - of Mitre.
Mitering Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mitre.
Mitring Dictionary M - of Mitre.
Miterwort Dictionary M - noun Any plant of the genus Mitella, - slender, perennial herbs with a pod slightly resembling a bishop's miter; bishop's cap.
Mithic Dictionary M - adjective See Mythic.
Mithras Dictionary M - noun The sun god of the Persians.
Mithridate Dictionary M - noun An antidote against poison, or a composition in form of an electuary, supposed to serve either as a remedy or a preservative against poison; an alexipharmic; - so called from King Mithridates, its reputed inventor.
Mithridatic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to King Mithridates, or to a mithridate.
Mitigable Dictionary M - adjective Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.
Mitigant Dictionary M - adjective Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lentitive.
Mitigated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mitigate.
Mitigating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mitigate.
Mitigate Dictionary M - verb transitive To make less severe, intense, harsh, rigorous, painful, etc.; to soften; to meliorate; to alleviate; to diminish; to lessen; as, to mitigate heat or cold; to mitigate grief.
Mitigation Dictionary M - noun The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.
Mitigative Dictionary M - adjective Tending to mitigate; alleviating.
Mitigator Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, mitigates.
Mitigatory Dictionary M - adjective Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.
Miting Dictionary M - noun A little one; - used as a term of endearment.
Mitome Dictionary M - noun The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.
Mitosis Dictionary M - noun See Karyokinesis.
Mitraille Dictionary M - noun Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
Mitrailleur Dictionary M - noun One who serves a mitrailleuse.
Mitrailleuse Dictionary M - noun A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.
Mitral Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.
Mitriform Dictionary M - adjective Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra.
Mitt Dictionary M - noun A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.
Mitten Dictionary M - noun A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger.
Mittened Dictionary M - adjective Covered with a mitten or mittens.
Mittent Dictionary M - adjective Sending forth; emitting.
Mittimus Dictionary M - noun A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison.
Mitter's green Dictionary M - A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.
Mitty Dictionary M - noun The stormy petrel.
Mitu Dictionary M - noun A South American curassow of the genus Mitua.
Mity Dictionary M - adjective Having, or abounding with, mites.
Mixed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mix.
Mixt Dictionary M - of Mix.
Mixing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mix.
Mix Dictionary M - verb transitive To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines.
Mixable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being mixed.
Mixedly Dictionary M - adverb In a mixed or mingled manner.
Mixen Dictionary M - noun A compost heap; a dunghill.
Mixer Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, mixes.
Mixogamous Dictionary M - adjective Pairing with several males; - said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.
Mixolydian mode Dictionary M - The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.
Mixtilineal Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mixtilinear.
Mixtilinear Dictionary M - adjective Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.
Mixtion Dictionary M - noun Mixture.
Mixtly Dictionary M - adverb With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly.
Mixture Dictionary M - noun The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.
Mizmaze Dictionary M - noun A maze or labyrinth.
Mizzen Dictionary M - adjective Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.
Mizzenmast Dictionary M - noun The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
Mizzled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mizzle.
Mizzling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mizzle.
Mizzle Dictionary M - intransitive verb To rain in very fine drops.
Mizzy Dictionary M - noun A bog or quagmire.
Mnemonic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mnemonical.
Mnemonical Dictionary M - adjective Assisting in memory.
Mnemonician Dictionary M - noun One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.
Mnemonics Dictionary M - noun The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
Mnemosyne Dictionary M - noun The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
Mnemotechny Dictionary M - noun Mnemonics.
Mo Dictionary M - [[a., adverb, & noun More; - usually, more in number.
-mo Dictionary M - A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16 , 18 , etc.
Moa Dictionary M - noun Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.
Moabite Dictionary M - noun One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.
Moabitess Dictionary M - noun A female Moabite.
Moabitish Dictionary M - adjective Moabite.
Moaned Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moan.
Moaning Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moan.
Moan Dictionary M - intransitive verb To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
Moanful Dictionary M - adjective Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.
Moat Dictionary M - noun A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
Moate Dictionary M - intransitive verb To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute.
Mob Dictionary M - noun A mobcap.
Mobbed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mob.
Mobbing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mob.
Mobbish Dictionary M - adjective Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.
Mobcap Dictionary M - noun A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself.
Mobile Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
Mobility Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.
Mobilization Dictionary M - noun The act of mobilizing.
Mobilized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mobilize.
Mobilizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mobilize.
Mobilize Dictionary M - verb transitive To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.
Moble Dictionary M - verb transitive To wrap the head of in a hood.
Mobles Dictionary M - noun plural See Moebles.
Mobocracy Dictionary M - noun A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.
Mobocrat Dictionary M - noun One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
Mobocratic Dictionary M - adjective Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.
Moccasin Dictionary M - noun A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.
Moccasined Dictionary M - adjective Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins.
Mocha Dictionary M - noun A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea.
Moche Dictionary M - noun A bale of raw silk.
Mochel Dictionary M - adjective & adverb Much.
Mochila Dictionary M - noun A large leather flap which covers the saddletree.
Mocked Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mock.
Mocking Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mock.
Mock Dictionary M - verb transitive To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
Mockable Dictionary M - adjective Such as can be mocked.
Mockado Dictionary M - noun A stuff made in imitation of velvet; - probably the same as mock velvet.
Mockadour Dictionary M - noun See Mokadour.
Mockage Dictionary M - noun Mockery.
Mockbird Dictionary M - noun The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).
Mocker Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
Mockeries Dictionary M - pleural of Mockery.
Mockery Dictionary M - noun The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
Mockingly Dictionary M - adverb By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.
Mockingstock Dictionary M - noun A butt of sport; an object of derision.
Mockish Dictionary M - adjective Mock; counterfeit; sham.
Mockle Dictionary M - adjective See Mickle.
Moco Dictionary M - noun A South American rodent (Cavia rupestris), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; - called also rock cavy.
Modal Dictionary M - adjective 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.
Modalist Dictionary M - noun One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity.
Modality Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being modal.
Modally Dictionary M - adverb In a modal manner.
Mode Dictionary M - noun Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
Model Dictionary M - noun A miniature representation of a thing, with the several parts in due proportion; sometimes, a facsimile of the same size.
Modeled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Model.
Modelled Dictionary M - of Model.
Modeling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Model.
Modelling Dictionary M - of Model.
Modeler Dictionary M - noun One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art.
Modelize Dictionary M - verb transitive To model.
Modena Dictionary M - noun A certain crimsonlike color.
Modenese Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants.
Moder Dictionary M - noun A mother.
Moderable Dictionary M - adjective Modeate; temperate.
Moderance Dictionary M - noun Moderation.
Moderate Dictionary M - adjective Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained.
Moderated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moderate.
Moderating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moderate.
Moderately Dictionary M - adverb In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.
Moderateness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
Moderation Dictionary M - noun The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
Moderatism Dictionary M - noun Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.
Moderato Dictionary M - adjective & adverb With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately.
Moderator Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
Moderatorship Dictionary M - noun The office of a moderator.
Moderatress Dictionary M - noun A female moderator.
Moderatrix Dictionary M - noun A female moderator.
Modern Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the present time, or time not long past; late; not ancient or remote in past time; of recent period; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice.
Modernism Dictionary M - noun Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
Modernist Dictionary M - noun One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Modernity Dictionary M - noun Modernness; something modern.
Modernization Dictionary M - noun The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
Modernized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Modernize.
Modernizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Modernize.
Modernize Dictionary M - verb transitive To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
Modernizer Dictionary M - noun One who modernizes.
Modernly Dictionary M - adverb In modern times.
Modernness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.
Modest Dictionary M - adjective Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.
Modestly Dictionary M - adverb In a modest manner.
Modesty Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.
Modicity Dictionary M - noun Moderateness; smallness; meanness.
Modicum Dictionary M - noun A little; a small quantity; a measured simply.
Modifiability Dictionary M - noun Capability of being modified; state or quality of being modifiable.
Modifiable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being modified; liable to modification.
Modificable Dictionary M - adjective Modifiable.
Modificate Dictionary M - verb transitive To qualify.
Modification Dictionary M - noun The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light.
Modificative Dictionary M - noun That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause.
Modificatory Dictionary M - adjective Tending or serving to modify; modifying.
Modifier Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, modifies.
Modified Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Modify.
Modifying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Modify.
Modify Dictionary M - verb transitive To change somewhat the form or qualities of; to alter somewhat; as, to modify a contrivance adapted to some mechanical purpose; to modify the terms of a contract.
Modillion Dictionary M - noun The enriched block or horizontal bracket generally found under the cornice of the Corinthian and Composite entablature, and sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; - so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.
Modiolar Dictionary M - adjective Shaped like a bushel measure.
Modioli Dictionary M - pleural of Modiolus.
Modiolus Dictionary M - noun The central column in the osseous cochlea of the ear.
Modish Dictionary M - adjective According to the mode, or customary manner; conformed to the fashion; fashionable; hence, conventional; as, a modish dress; a modish feast.
Modist Dictionary M - noun One who follows the fashion.
Modiste Dictionary M - noun A female maker of, or dealer in, articles of fashion, especially of the fashionable dress of ladies; a woman who gives direction to the style or mode of dress.
Modii Dictionary M - pleural of Modius.
Modius Dictionary M - noun A dry measure, containing about a peck.
Modocs Dictionary M - noun plural A tribe of warlike Indians formerly inhabiting Northern California. They are nearly extinct.
Modular Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.
Modulated Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Modulate.
Modulating Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Modulate.
Modulate Dictionary M - verb transitive To form, as sound, to a certain key, or to a certain portion.
Modulation Dictionary M - noun The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; as, the modulation of the voice.
Modulator Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, modulates.
Module Dictionary M - noun A model or measure.
Moduli Dictionary M - pleural of Modulus.
Modulus Dictionary M - noun A quantity or coefficient, or constant, which expresses the measure of some specified force, property, or quality, as of elasticity, strength, efficiency, etc.; a parameter.
Modi Dictionary M - pleural of Modus.
Modus Dictionary M - noun The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.
Mody Dictionary M - adjective Fashionable.
Moe Dictionary M - noun A wry face or mouth; a mow.
Moebles Dictionary M - noun plural Movables; furniture; - also used in the singular (moeble).
Moelline Dictionary M - noun An unguent for the hair.
Moellon Dictionary M - noun Rubble masonry.
Moesogothic Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to the Moesogoths, a branch of the Goths who settled in Moesia.
Moeve Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To move.
Moff Dictionary M - noun A thin silk stuff made in Caucasia.
Moggan Dictionary M - noun A closely fitting knit sleeve; also, a legging of knitted material.
Mogul Dictionary M - noun A person of the Mongolian race.
Moha Dictionary M - noun A kind of millet (Setaria Italica); German millet.
Mohair Dictionary M - noun The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric.
Mohammedan Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Mohammed, or the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed.
Mohammedanism Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mohammedism.
Mohammedism Dictionary M - noun The religion, or doctrines and precepts, of Mohammed, contained in the Koran; Islamism.
Mohammedanize Dictionary M - verb transitive Alt. of Mohammedize.
Mohammedize Dictionary M - verb transitive To make conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism.
Mohawk Dictionary M - noun One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.
Mohicans Dictionary M - noun plural A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York.
Moho Dictionary M - noun A gallinule (Notornis Mantelli) formerly inhabiting New Zealand, but now supposed to be extinct. It was incapable of flight. See Notornis.
Mohock Dictionary M - noun See Mohawk.
Moholi Dictionary M - noun See Maholi.
Mohr Dictionary M - noun A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar.
Mohur Dictionary M - noun A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21.
Mohurrum Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Muharram.
Muharram Dictionary M - noun The first month of the Mohammedan year.
Moider Dictionary M - intransitive verb To toil.
Moidore Dictionary M - noun A gold coin of Portugal, valued at about 27s. sterling.
Moieties Dictionary M - pleural of Moiety.
Moiety Dictionary M - adjective One of two equal parts; a half; as, a moiety of an estate, of goods, or of profits; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation.
Moiled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moil.
Moiling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moil.
Moil Dictionary M - verb transitive To daub; to make dirty; to soil; to defile.
Moile Dictionary M - noun A kind of high shoe anciently worn.
Moineau Dictionary M - noun A small flat bastion, raised in the middle of an overlong curtain.
Moira Dictionary M - noun The deity who assigns to every man his lot.
Moire Dictionary M - noun 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.
Moire metallique Dictionary M - A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.
Moist Dictionary M - adjective Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air.
Moistened Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moisten.
Moistening Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moisten.
Moisten Dictionary M - verb transitive To make damp; to wet in a small degree.
Moistener Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, moistens.
Moistful Dictionary M - adjective Full of moisture.
Moistless Dictionary M - adjective Without moisture; dry.
Moistness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being moist.
Moisture Dictionary M - noun A moderate degree of wetness.
Moistureless Dictionary M - adjective Without moisture.
Moisty Dictionary M - adjective Moist.
Moither Dictionary M - verb transitive To perplex; to confuse.
Mokadour Dictionary M - noun A handkerchief.
Moke Dictionary M - noun A donkey.
Moky Dictionary M - adjective Misty; dark; murky; muggy.
Mola Dictionary M - noun See Sunfish, 1.
Molar Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a mass of matter; - said of the properties or motions of masses, as distinguished from those of molecules or atoms.
Molary Dictionary M - adjective Same as 2d Molar.
Molasse Dictionary M - noun A soft Tertiary sandstone; - applied to a rock occurring in Switzerland. See Chart of Geology.
Molasses Dictionary M - noun The thick, brown or dark colored, viscid, uncrystallizable sirup which drains from sugar, in the process of manufacture; any thick, viscid, sweet sirup made from vegetable juice or sap, as of the sorghum or maple. See Treacle.
Mold Dictionary M - noun A spot; a blemish; a mole.
Mould Dictionary M - verb Crumbling, soft, friable earth; esp., earth containing the remains or constituents of organic matter, and suited to the growth of plants; soil.
Molded Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mould.
Moulded Dictionary M - of Mould.
Molding Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mould.
Moulding Dictionary M - of Mould.
Moldable Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mouldable.
Mouldable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being molded or formed.
Moldboard Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mouldboard.
Mouldboard Dictionary M - noun A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.
Molder Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Moulder.
Moulder Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.
Moldered Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moulder.
Mouldered Dictionary M - of Moulder.
Moldering Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moulder.
Mouldering Dictionary M - of Moulder.
Moldery Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Mouldery.
Mouldery Dictionary M - adjective Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.
Moldiness Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mouldiness.
Mouldiness Dictionary M - noun The state of being moldy.
Moldwarp Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mouldwarp.
Mouldwarp Dictionary M - noun See Mole the animal.
Moldy Dictionary M - superlative Alt. of Mouldy.
Mouldy Dictionary M - superlative Overgrown with, or containing, mold; as, moldy cheese or bread.
Mole Dictionary M - noun A spot; a stain; a mark which discolors or disfigures.
Moled Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mole.
Moling Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mole.
Molebut Dictionary M - noun The sunfish (Orthagoriscus, or Mola).
Molecast Dictionary M - noun A little elevation of earth made by a mole; a molehill.
Molech Dictionary M - noun The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch.
Molecular Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, connected with, produced by, or consisting of, molecules; as, molecular forces; molecular groups of atoms, etc.
Molecularity Dictionary M - noun The state of consisting of molecules; the state or quality of being molecular.
Molecularly Dictionary M - adverb With molecules; in the manner of molecules.
Molecule Dictionary M - noun One of the very small invisible particles of which all matter is supposed to consist.
Mole-eyed Dictionary M - adjective Having eyes like those of the mole; having imperfect sight.
Molehill Dictionary M - noun A little hillock of earth thrown up by moles working under ground; hence, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty.
Molendinaceous Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Molendinarious.
Molendinarious Dictionary M - adjective Resembling the sails of a windmill.
Moleskin Dictionary M - noun Any fabric having a thick soft shag, like the fur of a mole; esp., a kind of strong twilled fustian.
Molested Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Molest.
Molesting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Molest.
Molest Dictionary M - verb transitive To trouble; to disturb; to render uneasy; to interfere with; to vex.
Molestation Dictionary M - noun The act of molesting, or the state of being molested; disturbance; annoyance.
Molester Dictionary M - noun One who molests.
Molestful Dictionary M - adjective Troublesome; vexatious.
Molestie Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Molesty.
Molesty Dictionary M - noun Molestation.
Molewarp Dictionary M - noun See Moldwarp.
Moliminous Dictionary M - adjective Of great bulk or consequence; very important.
Moline Dictionary M - noun The crossed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind.
Molinism Dictionary M - noun The doctrines of the Molinists, somewhat resembling the tenets of the Arminians.
Molinist Dictionary M - noun A follower of the opinions of Molina, a Spanish Jesuit (in respect to grace); an opposer of the Jansenists.
Moll Dictionary M - adjective Minor; in the minor mode; as, A moll, that is, A minor.
Mollah Dictionary M - noun One of the higher order of Turkish judges; also, a Turkish title of respect for a religious and learned man.
Molle Dictionary M - adjective Lower by a semitone; flat; as, E molle, that is, E flat.
Mollebart Dictionary M - noun An agricultural implement used in Flanders, consisting of a kind of large shovel drawn by a horse and guided by a man.
Mollemoke Dictionary M - noun Any one of several species of large pelagic petrels and fulmars, as Fulmarus glacialis, of the North Atlantic, and several species of Aestrelata, of the Southern Ocean. See Fulmar.
Mollient Dictionary M - adjective Serving to soften; assuaging; emollient.
Molliently Dictionary M - adverb Assuagingly.
Mollifiable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being mollified.
Mollification Dictionary M - noun The act of mollifying, or the state of being mollified; a softening.
Mollifier Dictionary M - noun One who, or that which, mollifies.
Mollified Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mollify.
Mollifying Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mollify.
Mollify Dictionary M - verb transitive To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground.
Mollinet Dictionary M - noun A little mill.
Mollipilose Dictionary M - adjective Having soft hairs; downy.
Mollities Dictionary M - noun Unnatural softness of any organ or part.
Mollitude Dictionary M - noun Softness; effeminacy; weakness.
Mollusc Dictionary M - noun Same as Mollusk.
Mollusca Dictionary M - noun plural One of the grand divisions of the animal kingdom, including the classes Cephalopoda, Gastropoda, PteropodaScaphopoda, and Lamellibranchiata, or Conchifera. These animals have an unsegmented bilateral body, with most of the organs and parts paired, but not repeated longitudinally. Most of them develop a mantle, which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.
Molluscan Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to mollusks.
Molluscoid Dictionary M - adjective Resembling the true mollusks; belonging to the Molluscoidea.
Molluscoidal Dictionary M - adjective Molluscoid.
Molluscoidea Dictionary M - noun plural A division of Invertebrata which includes the classes Brachiopoda and Bryozoa; - called also Anthoid Mollusca.
Molluscous Dictionary M - adjective Molluscan.
Molluscum Dictionary M - noun A cutaneous disease characterized by numerous tumors, of various forms, filled with a thick matter; - so called from the resemblance of the tumors to some molluscous animals.
Mollusk Dictionary M - noun One of the Mollusca.
Molly Dictionary M - noun Same as Mollemoke.
Molly-mawk Dictionary M - noun See Mollemoke.
Moloch Dictionary M - noun The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.
Molosse Dictionary M - noun See Molossus.
Molosses Dictionary M - noun Molasses.
Molossine Dictionary M - noun A bat of the genus Molossus, as the monk bat.
Molossus Dictionary M - noun A foot of three long syllables.
Molt Dictionary M - imp. of Melt.
Molted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moult.
Moulted Dictionary M - of Moult.
Molting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moult.
Moulting Dictionary M - of Moult.
Moult Dictionary M - verb transitive To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird.
Moltable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of assuming a molten state; meltable; fusible.
Molto Dictionary M - adverb Much; very; as, molto adagio, very slow.
Moly Dictionary M - noun 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.
Molybdate Dictionary M - noun A salt of molybdic acid.
Molybdena Dictionary M - noun See Molybdenite.
Molybdenite Dictionary M - noun A mineral occurring in soft, lead-gray, foliated masses or scales, resembling graphite; sulphide of molybdenum.
Molybdenous Dictionary M - adjective See Molybdous.
Molybdenum Dictionary M - noun A rare element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic weight 95.9.
Molybdic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which the element has a higher valence, as contrasted with molybdous compounds; as, molybdic oxide.
Molybdite Dictionary M - noun Molybdic ocher.
Molybdous Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or containing, molybdenum; specif., designating those compounds in which molybdenum has a lower valence as contrasted with molybdic compounds.
Mome Dictionary M - noun A dull, silent person; a blockhead.
Moment Dictionary M - noun A minute portion of time; a point of time; an instant; as, at thet very moment.
Momental Dictionary M - adjective Lasting but a moment; brief.
Momentally Dictionary M - adverb For a moment.
Momentaneous Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Momentany.
Momentany Dictionary M - adjective Momentary.
Momentarily Dictionary M - adverb Every moment; from moment to moment.
Momentariness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being momentary; shortness of duration.
Momentary Dictionary M - adjective Done in a moment; continuing only a moment; lasting a very short time; as, a momentary pang.
Momently Dictionary M - adverb For a moment.
Momentous Dictionary M - adjective Of moment or consequence; very important; weighty; as, a momentous decision; momentous affairs.
Momenta Dictionary M - pleural of Momentum.
Momentums Dictionary M - pleural of Momentum.
Momentum Dictionary M - noun The quantity of motion in a moving body, being always proportioned to the quantity of matter multiplied into the velocity; impetus.
Momier Dictionary M - noun A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.
Mommery Dictionary M - noun See Mummery.
Momot Dictionary M - noun See Motmot.
Momus Dictionary M - noun The god of mockery and censure.
Mon- Dictionary M - Same as Mono-.
Mona Dictionary M - noun A small, handsome, long-tailed West American monkey (Cercopithecus mona). The body is dark olive, with a spot of white on the haunches.
Monachal Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to monks or a monastic life; monastic.
Monachism Dictionary M - noun The system and influences of a monastic life; monasticism.
Monacid Dictionary M - adjective Having one hydrogen atom replaceable by a negative or acid atom or radical; capable of neutralizing a monobasic acid; - said of bases, and of certain metals.
Monad Dictionary M - noun An ultimate atom, or simple, unextended point; something ultimate and indivisible.
Monadaria Dictionary M - noun plural The Infusoria.
Monadelphia Dictionary M - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants having the stamens united into a tube, or ring, by the filaments, as in the Mallow family.
Monadelphian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monadelphous.
Monadelphous Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Monadelphia; having the stamens united in one body by the filaments.
Monadic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monadical.
Monadical Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. See Monad, n.
Monadiform Dictionary M - adjective Having the form of a monad; resembling a monad in having one or more filaments of vibratile protoplasm; as, monadiform young.
Monadology Dictionary M - noun The doctrine or theory of monads.
Monal Dictionary M - noun Any Asiatic pheasant of the genus Lophophorus, as the Impeyan pheasant.
Monamide Dictionary M - noun An amido compound with only one amido group.
Monamine Dictionary M - noun A basic compound containing one amido group; as, methyl amine is a monamine.
Monander Dictionary M - noun One of the Monandria.
Monandria Dictionary M - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants embracing those having but a single stamen.
Monandrian Dictionary M - adjective Same as Monandrous.
Monandric Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to monandry; practicing monandry as a system of marriage.
Monandrous Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the monandria; having but one stamen.
Monandry Dictionary M - noun The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; - contrasted with polyandry.
Monanthous Dictionary M - adjective Having but one flower; one-flowered.
Monarch Dictionary M - noun A sole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief.
Monarchal Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a monarch; suiting a monarch; sovoreign; regal; imperial.
Monarchess Dictionary M - noun A female monarch.
Monarchial Dictionary M - adjective Monarchic.
Monarchian Dictionary M - noun One of a sect in the early Christian church which rejected the doctrine of the Trinity; - called also patripassian.
Monarchic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monarchical.
Monarchical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a monarch, or to monarchy.
Monarchism Dictionary M - noun The principles of, or preference for, monarchy.
Monarchist Dictionary M - noun An advocate of, or believer in, monarchy.
Monarchized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Monarchize.
Monarchizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Monarchize.
Monarchize Dictionary M - intransitive verb To play the sovereign; to act the monarch.
Monarchizer Dictionary M - noun One who monarchizes; also, a monarchist.
Monarcho Dictionary M - noun The nickname of a crackbrained Italian who fancied himself an emperor.
Monarchies Dictionary M - pleural of Monarchy.
Monarchy Dictionary M - noun A state or government in which the supreme power is lodged in the hands of a monarch.
Monas Dictionary M - noun A genus of minute flagellate Infusoria of which there are many species, both free and attached. See Illust. under Monad.
Monasterial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to monastery, or to monastic life.
Monasteries Dictionary M - pleural of Monastery.
Monastery Dictionary M - noun A house of religious retirement, or of secusion from ordinary temporal concerns, especially for monks; - more rarely applied to such a house for females.
Monastic Dictionary M - noun A monk.
Monastical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to monasteries, or to their occupants, rules, etc., as, monastic institutions or rules.
Monastically Dictionary M - adverb In a monastic manner.
Monasticism Dictionary M - noun The monastic life, system, or condition.
Monasticon Dictionary M - noun A book giving an account of monasteries.
Monatomic Dictionary M - adverb Consisting of, or containing, one atom; as, the molecule of mercury is monatomic.
Monaxial Dictionary M - adjective Having only one axis; developing along a single line or plane; as, monaxial development.
Monazite Dictionary M - noun A mineral occurring usually in small isolated crystals, - a phosphate of the cerium metals.
Monday Dictionary M - noun The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.
Monde Dictionary M - noun The world; a globe as an ensign of royalty.
Mone Dictionary M - noun The moon.
Monecian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monecious.
Monecious Dictionary M - adjective See Monoecian, and Monoecious.
Monembryony Dictionary M - noun The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo.
Moner Dictionary M - noun One of the Monera.
Monera Dictionary M - noun plural The lowest division of rhizopods, including those which resemble the amoebas, but are destitute of a nucleus.
Moneral Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Monera.
Moneran Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Monera.
Monerons Dictionary M - pleural of Moneron.
Moneron Dictionary M - noun One of the Monera.
Monerula Dictionary M - noun A germ in that stage of development in which its form is simply that of a non-nucleated mass of protoplasm. It precedes the one-celled germ. So called from its likeness to a moner.
Monesia Dictionary M - noun The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and astringent.
Monesin Dictionary M - noun The acrid principle of Monesia, sometimes used as a medicine.
Monest Dictionary M - verb transitive To warn; to admonish; to advise.
Monetary Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to money, or consisting of money; pecuniary.
Moneth Dictionary M - noun A month.
Monetization Dictionary M - noun The act or process of converting into money, or of adopting as money; as, the monetization of silver.
Monetize Dictionary M - verb transitive To convert into money; to adopt as current money; as, to monetize silver.
Moneys Dictionary M - pleural of Money.
Money Dictionary M - noun 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.
Moneyage Dictionary M - noun A tax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin.
Moneyed Dictionary M - adverb Supplied with money; having money; wealthy; as, moneyey men.
Moneyer Dictionary M - noun A person who deals in money; banker or broker.
Moneyless Dictionary M - adjective Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious.
Money-maker Dictionary M - noun One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money.
Money-making Dictionary M - noun The act or process of making money; the acquisition and accumulation of wealth.
Moneywort Dictionary M - noun A trailing plant (Lysimachia Nummularia), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils.
Mongcorn Dictionary M - noun See Mangcorn.
Monger Dictionary M - noun A trader; a dealer; - now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.
Mongol Dictionary M - noun One of the Mongols.
Mongolian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Mongolia or the Mongols.
Mongolic Dictionary M - adjective See Mongolian.
Mongoloid Dictionary M - adjective Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols.
Mongols Dictionary M - noun plural Alt. of Mongolians.
Mongolians Dictionary M - noun plural One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.
Mongoose Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mongoos.
Mongoos Dictionary M - noun A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus).
Mongrel Dictionary M - noun The progeny resulting from a cross between two breeds, as of domestic animals; anything of mixed breed.
Mongrelize Dictionary M - verb transitive & intransitive To cause to be mongrel; to cross breeds, so as to produce mongrels.
'Mongst Dictionary M - preposition See Amongst.
Monied Dictionary M - adjective See Moneyed.
Monifier Dictionary M - noun A fossil fish.
Moniliform Dictionary M - adjective Joined or constricted, at regular intervals, so as to resemble a string of beads; as, a moniliform root; a moniliform antenna. See Illust. of Antenna.
Moniment Dictionary M - noun Something to preserve memory; a reminder; a monument; hence, a mark; an image; a superscription; a record.
Monish Dictionary M - verb transitive To admonish; to warn. See Admonish.
Monisher Dictionary M - noun One who monishes; an admonisher.
Monishment Dictionary M - noun Admonition.
Monism Dictionary M - noun That doctrine which refers all phenomena to a single ultimate constituent or agent; - the opposite of dualism.
Monist Dictionary M - noun A believer in monism.
Monistic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or involving, monism.
Monition Dictionary M - noun Instruction or advice given by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution.
Monitive Dictionary M - adjective Conveying admonition; admonitory.
Monitor Dictionary M - noun One who admonishes; one who warns of faults, informs of duty, or gives advice and instruction by way of reproof or caution.
Monitorial Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a monitor or monitors.
Monitorially Dictionary M - adverb In a monitorial manner.
Monitorship Dictionary M - noun The post or office of a monitor.
Monitory Dictionary M - adjective Giving admonition; instructing by way of caution; warning.
Monitress Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Monitrix.
Monitrix Dictionary M - noun A female monitor.
Monk Dictionary M - noun A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.
Monkeries Dictionary M - pleural of Monkery.
Monkery Dictionary M - noun The life of monks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; - now usually applied by way of reproach.
Monkeys Dictionary M - pleural of Monkey.
Monkey Dictionary M - noun In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.
Monkey-bread Dictionary M - noun The fruit of the Adansonia digitata; also, the tree. See Adansonia.
Monkey-cup Dictionary M - noun See Nepenthes.
Monkey-pot Dictionary M - noun The fruit of two South American trees (Lecythis Ollaria, and L. Zabucajo), which have for their fruit large, pot-shaped, woody capsules containing delicious nuts, and opening almost explosively by a circular lid at the top. Vases and pots are made of this capsule.
Monkey's puzzle Dictionary M - A lofty coniferous Chilian tree (Araucaria imbricata), the branches of which are so crowded and intertwisted "as to puzzle a monkey to climb." The edible nuts are over an inch long, and are called pi on by the Chilians.
Monkeytail Dictionary M - noun A short, round iron bar or lever used in naval gunnery.
Monkfish Dictionary M - noun The angel fish (Squatina).
Monkflower Dictionary M - noun A name of certain curious orchids which bear three kinds of flowers formerly referred to three genera, but now ascertained to be sexually different forms of the same genus (Catasetum tridentatum, etc.).
Monkhood Dictionary M - noun The character or condition of a monk.
Monking Dictionary M - adjective Monkish.
Monkish Dictionary M - adjective Like a monk, or pertaining to monks; monastic; as, monkish manners; monkish dress; monkish solitude.
Monkly Dictionary M - adjective Like, or suitable to, a monk.
Monkshood Dictionary M - noun A plant of the genus Aconitum; aconite. See Aconite.
Monk's seam Dictionary M - An extra middle seam made at the junction of two breadths of canvas, ordinarily joined by only two rows of stitches.
Mono- Dictionary M - Alt. of Mon-.
Mono Dictionary M - noun The black howler of Central America (Mycetes villosus).
Monobasic Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being neutralized by a univalent base or basic radical; having but one acid hydrogen atom to be replaced; - said of acids; as, acetic, nitric, and hydrochloric acids are monobasic.
Monocarbonic Dictionary M - adjective Containing one carboxyl group; as, acetic acid is a monocarbonic acid.
Monocardian Dictionary M - adjective Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians.
Monocarp Dictionary M - noun A monocarpic plant.
Monocarpellary Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.
Monocarpic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monocarpous.
Monocarpous Dictionary M - adjective Bearing fruit but once, and dying after fructification, as beans, maize, mustard, etc.
Monocephalous Dictionary M - adjective Having a solitary head; - said of unbranched composite plants.
Monoceros Dictionary M - noun A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn.
Monochlamydeous Dictionary M - adjective Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.
Monochord Dictionary M - noun An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
Monochromatic Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of one color, or presenting rays of light of one color only.
Monochrome Dictionary M - noun A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.
Monochromic Dictionary M - adjective Made, or done, with a single color; as, a monochromic picture.
Monochromy Dictionary M - noun The art of painting or drawing in monochrome.
Monochronic Dictionary M - adjective Existing at the same time; contemporaneous.
Monociliated Dictionary M - adjective Having but one cilium.
Monocle Dictionary M - noun An eyeglass for one eye.
Monoclinal Dictionary M - adjective Having one oblique inclination; - applied to strata that dip in only one direction from the axis of elevation.
Monocline Dictionary M - noun A monoclinal fold.
Monoclinic Dictionary M - adjective Having one oblique intersection; - said of that system of crystallization in which the vertical axis is inclined to one, but at right angles to the other, lateral axis. See Crystallization.
Monoclinous Dictionary M - adjective Hermaphrodite, or having both stamens and pistils in every flower.
Monocondyla Dictionary M - noun plural A group of vertebrates, including the birds and reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the Sauropsida.
Monocotyl Dictionary M - noun Any monocotyledonous plant.
Monocotyle Dictionary M - adjective Monocotyledonous.
Monocotyledon Dictionary M - noun A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe.
Monocotyledonous Dictionary M - adjective Having only one cotyledon, seed lobe, or seminal leaf.
Monocracy Dictionary M - noun Government by a single person; undivided rule.
Monocrat Dictionary M - noun One who governs alone.
Monocrotic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or showing, monocrotism; as, a monocrotic pulse; a pulse of the monocrotic type.
Monocrotism Dictionary M - noun That condition of the pulse in which the pulse curve or sphygmogram shows but a single crest, the dicrotic elevation entirely disappearing.
Monocular Dictionary M - adjective Having only one eye; with one eye only; as, monocular vision.
Monocule Dictionary M - noun A small crustacean with one median eye.
Monoculous Dictionary M - adjective Monocular.
Monocystic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a division (Monocystidea) of Gregarinida, in which the body consists of one sac.
Monodactylous Dictionary M - adjective Having but one finger or claw.
Monodelph Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Monodelphian.
Monodelphian Dictionary M - noun One of the Monodelphia.
Monodelphia Dictionary M - noun plural The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See Mammalia.
Monodelphic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monodelphous.
Monodelphous Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Monodelphia.
Monodic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monodical.
Monodical Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to a monody.
Monodimetric Dictionary M - adjective Dimetric.
Monodist Dictionary M - noun A writer of a monody.
Monodrama Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Monodrame.
Monodrame Dictionary M - noun A drama acted, or intended to be acted, by a single person.
Monodramatic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to a monodrama.
Monodies Dictionary M - pleural of Monody.
Monody Dictionary M - noun A species of poem of a mournful character, in which a single mourner expresses lamentation; a song for one voice.
Monodynamic Dictionary M - adjective Possessing but one capacity or power.
Monodynamism Dictionary M - noun The theory that the various forms of activity in nature are manifestations of the same force.
Monoecia Dictionary M - noun plural A Linnaean class of plants, whose stamens and pistils are in distinct flowers in the same plant.
Monoecian Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Monoecia; monoecious.
Monoecious Dictionary M - adjective Having the sexes united in one individual, as when male and female flowers grow upon the same individual plant; hermaphrodite; - opposed to dioecious.
Monoecism Dictionary M - noun The state or condition of being monoecious.
Monogam Dictionary M - noun One of the Monogamia.
Monogamia Dictionary M - noun plural A Linnaean order of plants, having solitary flowers with united anthers, as in the genus Lobelia.
Monogamian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monogamic.
Monogamic Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to, or involving, monogamy.
Monogamist Dictionary M - noun One who practices or upholds monogamy.
Monogamous Dictionary M - adjective Upholding, or practicing, monogamy.
Monogamy Dictionary M - noun Single marriage; marriage with but one person, husband or wife, at the same time; - opposed to polygamy. Also, one marriage only during life; - opposed to deuterogamy.
Monogastric Dictionary M - adjective Having but a single stomach.
Monogenesis Dictionary M - noun Oneness of origin; esp. (Biol.), development of all beings in the universe from a single cell; - opposed to polygenesis. Called also monism.
Monogenetic Dictionary M - adjective One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; - used of a mountain range.
Monogenic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to monogenesis.
Monogenism Dictionary M - noun The theory or doctrine that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species.
Monogenist Dictionary M - noun One who maintains that the human races are all of one species; - opposed to polygenist.
Monogenistic Dictionary M - adjective Monogenic.
Monogenous Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to monogenesis; as, monogenous, or asexual, reproduction.
Monogeny Dictionary M - noun Monogenesis.
Monogoneutic Dictionary M - adjective Having but one brood in a season.
Monogram Dictionary M - noun A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works.
Monogrammal Dictionary M - adjective See Monogrammic.
Monogrammatic Dictionary M - adjective Monogrammic.
Monogrammic Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a monogram.
Monogrammous Dictionary M - adjective Monogrammic.
Monograph Dictionary M - noun A written account or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.
Monographer Dictionary M - noun A writer of a monograph.
Monographic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monographical.
Monographical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a monograph, or to a monography; as, a monographic writing; a monographic picture.
Monographist Dictionary M - noun One who writes a monograph.
Monographous Dictionary M - adjective Monographic.
Monography Dictionary M - noun Representation by lines without color; an outline drawing.
Monogyn Dictionary M - noun One of the Monogynia.
Monogynia Dictionary M - noun plural A Linnaean order of plants, including those which have only one style or stigma.
Monogynian Dictionary M - adjective Pertaining to the Monogynia; monogynous.
Monogynous Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Monogynia; having only one style or stigma.
Monogyny Dictionary M - noun Marriage with the one woman only.
Monohemerous Dictionary M - adjective Lasting but one day.
Monoicous Dictionary M - adjective Monoecious.
Monolatry Dictionary M - noun Worship of a single deity.
Monolith Dictionary M - noun A single stone, especially one of large size, shaped into a pillar, statue, or monument.
Monolithal Dictionary M - adjective Monolithic.
Monolithic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a monolith; consisting of a single stone.
Monologist Dictionary M - noun One who soliloquizes; esp., one who monopolizes conversation in company.
Monologue Dictionary M - noun A speech uttered by a person alone; soliloquy; also, talk or discourse in company, in the strain of a soliloquy; as, an account in monologue.
Monology Dictionary M - noun The habit of soliloquizing, or of monopolizing conversation.
Monomachia Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Monomachy.
Monomachy Dictionary M - noun A duel; single combat.
Monomachist Dictionary M - noun One who fights in single combat; a duelist.
Monomane Dictionary M - noun A monomaniac.
Monomania Dictionary M - noun Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.
Monomaniac Dictionary M - noun A person affected by monomania.
Monomaniacal Dictionary M - adjective Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.
Monome Dictionary M - noun A monomial.
Monomerous Dictionary M - adjective Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.
Monometallic Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of one metal; of or pertaining to monometallism.
Monometallism Dictionary M - noun The legalized use of one metal only, as gold, or silver, in the standard currency of a country, or as a standard of money values. See Bimetallism.
Monometallist Dictionary M - noun One who believes in monometallism as opposed to bimetallism, etc.
Monometer Dictionary M - noun A rhythmic series, consisting of a single meter.
Monometric Dictionary M - adjective Same as Isometric.
Monomial Dictionary M - noun A single algebraic expression; that is, an expression unconnected with any other by the sign of addition, substraction, equality, or inequality.
Monomorphic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monomorphous.
Monomorphous Dictionary M - adjective Having but a single form; retaining the same form throughout the various stages of development; of the same or of an essentially similar type of structure; - opposed to dimorphic, trimorphic, and polymorphic.
Monomphalus Dictionary M - noun A form of double monster, in which two individuals are united by a common umbilicus.
Monomya Dictionary M - noun plural Alt. of Monomyaria.
Monomyaria Dictionary M - noun plural An order of lamellibranchs having but one muscle for closing the shell, as the oyster.
Monomyarian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monomyary.
Monomyary Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Monomya.
Mononomial Dictionary M - noun & adjective Monomyal.
Monoousian Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monoousious.
Monoousious Dictionary M - adjective Having but one and the same nature or essence.
Monopathy Dictionary M - noun Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function.
Monopersonal Dictionary M - adjective Having but one person, or form of existence.
Monopetalous Dictionary M - adjective Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.
Monophanous Dictionary M - adjective Having one and the same appearance; having a mutual resemblance.
Monophonic Dictionary M - adjective Single-voiced; having but one part; as, a monophonic composition; - opposed to polyphonic.
Monophthong Dictionary M - noun A single uncompounded vowel sound.
Monophthongal Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of, or pertaining to, a monophthong.
Monophyletic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a single family or stock, or to development from a single common parent form; - opposed to polyphyletic; as, monophyletic origin.
Monophyllous Dictionary M - adjective One-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx.
Monophyodont Dictionary M - adjective Having but one set of teeth; - opposed to diphyodont.
Monophysite Dictionary M - noun One of a sect, in the ancient church, who maintained that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively.
Monophysitical Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to Monophysites, or their doctrines.
Monoplast Dictionary M - noun A monoplastic element.
Monoplastic Dictionary M - adjective That has one form, or retains its primary form, as, a monoplastic element.
Monoplegia Dictionary M - noun Paralysis affecting a single limb.
Monopneumona Dictionary M - noun plural A suborder of Dipnoi, including the Ceratodus.
Monopode Dictionary M - noun One of a fabulous tribe or race of Ethiopians having but one leg and foot.
Monopodial Dictionary M - adjective Having a monopodium or a single and continuous axis, as a birchen twig or a cornstalk.
Monopodia Dictionary M - pleural of Monopodium.
-ums Dictionary M - pleural of Monopodium.
Monopodium Dictionary M - noun A single and continuous vegetable axis; - opposed to sympodium.
Monopody Dictionary M - noun A measure of but a single foot.
Monopoler Dictionary M - noun A monopolist.
Monopolist Dictionary M - noun One who monopolizes; one who has a monopoly; one who favors monopoly.
Monopolistic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a monopolist.
Monopolite Dictionary M - noun A monopolist.
Monopolized Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Monopolize.
Monopolizing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Monopolize.
Monopolize Dictionary M - verb transitive To acquire a monopoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.
Monopolizer Dictionary M - noun One who monopolizes.
Monopolies Dictionary M - pleural of Monopoly.
Monopoly Dictionary M - noun The exclusive power, or privilege of selling a commodity; the exclusive power, right, or privilege of dealing in some article, or of trading in some market; sole command of the traffic in anything, however obtained; as, the proprietor of a patented article is given a monopoly of its sale for a limited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product.
Monopolylogue Dictionary M - noun An exhibition in which an actor sustains many characters.
Monopsychism Dictionary M - noun The doctrine that there is but one immortal soul or intellect with which all men are endowed.
Monopteral Dictionary M - adjective Round and without a cella; consisting of a single ring of columns supporting a roof; - said esp. of a temple.
Monoptera Dictionary M - pleural of Monopteron.
Monopteron Dictionary M - noun A circular temple consisting of a roof supported on columns, without a cella.
Monoptote Dictionary M - noun A noun having only one case.
Monopyrenous Dictionary M - adjective Having but a single stone or kernel.
Monorganic Dictionary M - adjective Belonging to, or affecting, a single organ, or set of organs.
Monorhina Dictionary M - noun plural The Marsipobranchiata.
Monorhyme Dictionary M - noun A composition in verse, in which all the lines end with the same rhyme.
Monosepalous Dictionary M - adjective Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.
Monosperm Dictionary M - noun A monospermous plant.
Monospermal Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monospermous.
Monospermous Dictionary M - adjective Having only one seed.
Monospherical Dictionary M - adjective Consisting of one sphere only.
Monostich Dictionary M - noun A composition consisting of one verse only.
Monostichous Dictionary M - adjective Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridae.
Monostrophe Dictionary M - noun A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.
Monostrophic Dictionary M - adjective Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure.
Monosulphide Dictionary M - noun A sulphide containing one atom of sulphur, and analogous to a monoxide; - contrasted with a polysulphide; as, galena is a monosulphide.
Monosulphuret Dictionary M - noun See Monosulphide.
Monosyllabic Dictionary M - adjective Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language.
Monosyllabism Dictionary M - noun The state of consisting of monosyllables, or having a monosyllabic form; frequent occurrence of monosyllables.
Monosyllable Dictionary M - noun A word of one syllable.
Monosyllabled Dictionary M - adjective Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables.
Monosymmetric Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monosymmetrical.
Monosymmetrical Dictionary M - adjective Same as Monoclinic.
Monotessaron Dictionary M - noun A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony.
Monothalama Dictionary M - noun plural A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.
Monothalaman Dictionary M - noun A foraminifer having but one chamber.
Monothalamous Dictionary M - adjective One-chambered.
Monothalmic Dictionary M - adjective Formed from one pistil; - said of fruits.
Monothecal Dictionary M - adjective Having a single loculament.
Monotheism Dictionary M - noun The doctrine or belief that there is but one God.
Monotheist Dictionary M - noun One who believes that there is but one God.
Monotheistic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to monotheism.
Monothelism Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Monothelitism.
Monothelitism Dictionary M - noun The doctrine of the Monothelites.
Monothelite Dictionary M - noun One of an ancient sect who held that Christ had but one will as he had but one nature. Cf. Monophysite.
Monothelitic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Monothelites, or their doctrine.
Monotocous Dictionary M - adjective Bearing fruit but once; monocarpic.
Monotomous Dictionary M - adjective Having a distinct cleavage in a single direction only.
Monotone Dictionary M - noun A single unvaried tone or sound.
Monotonic Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monotonical.
Monotonical Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous.
Monotonist Dictionary M - noun One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced.
Monotonous Dictionary M - adjective Uttered in one unvarying tone; continued with dull uniformity; characterized by monotony; without change or variety; wearisome.
Monotony Dictionary M - noun A frequent recurrence of the same tone or sound, producing a dull uniformity; absence of variety, as in speaking or singing.
Monotremata Dictionary M - noun plural A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna.
Monotrematous Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the Monotremata.
Monotreme Dictionary M - noun One of the Monotremata.
Monotriglyph Dictionary M - noun A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.
Monotropa Dictionary M - noun A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.
Monotype Dictionary M - adjective Alt. of Monotypic.
Monotypic Dictionary M - adjective Having but one type; containing but one representative; as, a monotypic genus, which contains but one species.
Monovalent Dictionary M - adjective Having a valence of one; univalent. See Univalent.
Monoxide Dictionary M - noun An oxide containing one atom of oxygen in each molecule; as, barium monoxide.
Monoxylon Dictionary M - noun A canoe or boat made from one piece of timber.
Monoxylous Dictionary M - adjective Made of one piece of wood.
Monozoa Dictionary M - noun plural A division of Radiolaria; - called also Monocyttaria.
Monroe doctrine Dictionary M - See under Doctrine.
Messeigneurs Dictionary M - pleural of Monseigneur.
Monseigneur Dictionary M - noun My lord; - a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of 1789. (Abbrev. Mgr.).
Monsel's salt Dictionary M - A basic sulphate of iron; - so named from Monsel, a Frenchman.
Monsel's solution Dictionary M - An aqueous solution of Monsel's salt, having valuable styptic properties.
Monsieur Dictionary M - noun The common title of civility in France in speaking to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir.
MM. Dictionary M - pleural of Monsieur.
Messrs. Dictionary M - pleural of Monsieur.
Monsignors Dictionary M - pleural of Monsignore.
Monsignore Dictionary M - noun My lord; - an ecclesiastical dignity bestowed by the pope, entitling the bearer to social and domestic rank at the papal court. (Abbrev. Mgr.).
Monsoon Dictionary M - noun A wind blowing part of the year from one direction, alternating with a wind from the opposite direction; - a term applied particularly to periodical winds of the Indian Ocean, which blow from the southwest from the latter part of May to the middle of September, and from the northeast from about the middle of October to the middle of December.
Monster Dictionary M - noun Something of unnatural size, shape, or quality; a prodigy; an enormity; a marvel.
Monstrance Dictionary M - noun A transparent pyx, in which the consecrated host is exposed to view.
Monstration Dictionary M - noun The act of demonstrating; proof.
Monstrosities Dictionary M - pleural of Monstrosity.
Monstrosity Dictionary M - noun The state of being monstrous, or out of the common order of nature; that which is monstrous; a monster.
Monstrous Dictionary M - adjective Marvelous; strange.
Monstrously Dictionary M - adverb In a monstrous manner; unnaturally; extraordinarily; as, monstrously wicked.
Monstrousness Dictionary M - noun The state or quality of being monstrous, unusual, extraordinary.
Monstruosity Dictionary M - noun Monstrosity.
Monstruous Dictionary M - adjective Monstrous.
Mont Dictionary M - noun Mountain.
Montaigne Dictionary M - noun A mountain.
Montanic Dictionary M - noun Of or pertaining to mountains; consisting of mountains.
Montanist Dictionary M - noun A follower of Mintanus, a Phrygian enthusiast of the second century, who claimed that the Holy Spirit, the Paraclete, dwelt in him, and employed him as an instrument for purifying and guiding men in the Christian life.
Montant Dictionary M - noun An upward thrust or blow.
Mont de piete Dictionary M - One of certain public pawnbroking establishments which originated in Italy in the 15th century, the object of which was to lend money at a low rate of interest to poor people in need; - called also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.
Monte Dictionary M - noun A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.
Monte-acid Dictionary M - noun An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.
Monteith Dictionary M - noun See Monteth.
Montem Dictionary M - noun A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of going every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.
Montero Dictionary M - noun An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen.
Monteth Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Monteith.
Montgolfier Dictionary M - noun A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; - so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.
Month Dictionary M - noun 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.
Monthling Dictionary M - noun That which is a month old, or which lives for a month.
Monthly Dictionary M - adjective Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.
Monthlies Dictionary M - pleural of Monthly.
Monticle Dictionary M - noun A little mount; a hillock; a small elevation or prominence.
Monticulate Dictionary M - adjective Furnished with monticles or little elevations.
Monticule Dictionary M - noun See Monticle.
Monticulous Dictionary M - adjective Monticulate.
Montiform Dictionary M - adjective Resembling a mountain in form.
Montigenous Dictionary M - adjective Produced on a mountain.
Montoir Dictionary M - noun A stone used in mounting a horse; a horse block.
Monton Dictionary M - noun A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.
Montross Dictionary M - noun See Matross.
Montrue Dictionary M - noun That on which anything is mounted; a setting; hence, a saddle horse.
Monument Dictionary M - noun Something which stands, or remains, to keep in remembrance what is past; a memorial.
Monumental Dictionary M - adjective Of, pertaining to, or suitable for, a monument; as, a monumental inscription.
Monumentally Dictionary M - adverb By way of memorial.
Monureid Dictionary M - noun Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid.
Moo Dictionary M - [[adv., & noun See Mo.
Mooed Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moo.
Mooing Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moo.
Mood Dictionary M - noun Manner; style; mode; logical form; musical style; manner of action or being. See Mode which is the preferable form).
Mooder Dictionary M - noun Mother.
Moodily Dictionary M - adverb In a moody manner.
Moodiness Dictionary M - noun The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
Moodir Dictionary M - noun The governor of a province in Egypt, etc.
Moodish Dictionary M - adjective Moody.
Moodishly Dictionary M - adverb Moodily.
Moody Dictionary M - superlative Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.
Moolah Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Moollah.
Moollah Dictionary M - noun See Mollah.
Moolley Dictionary M - noun Same as Mulley.
Moon Dictionary M - noun The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eightieth that of the earth. See Lunar month, under Month.
Mooned Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moon.
Mooning Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moon.
Moonbeam Dictionary M - noun A ray of light from the moon.
Moonblind Dictionary M - adjective Dim-sighted; purblind.
Moonblink Dictionary M - noun A temporary blindness, or impairment of sight, said to be caused by sleeping in the moonlight; - sometimes called nyctalopia.
Mooncalf Dictionary M - noun A monster; a false conception; a mass of fleshy matter, generated in the uterus.
Moon-culminating Dictionary M - adjective Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; - said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.
Mooner Dictionary M - noun One who abstractedly wanders or gazes about, as if moonstruck.
Moonery Dictionary M - noun Conduct of one who moons.
Moonet Dictionary M - noun A little moon.
Moon-eye Dictionary M - noun A eye affected by the moon; also, a disease in the eye of a horse.
Moon-eyed Dictionary M - adjective Having eyes affected by the moon; moonblind; dim-eyed; purblind.
Moon-faced Dictionary M - adjective Having a round, full face.
Moonfish Dictionary M - noun An American marine fish (Vomer setipennis); - called also bluntnosed shiner, horsefish, and sunfish.
Moonflower Dictionary M - noun The oxeye daisy; - called also moon daisy.
Moong Dictionary M - noun Same as Mung.
Moonglade Dictionary M - noun The bright reflection of the moon's light on an expanse of water.
Moonie Dictionary M - noun The European goldcrest.
Moonish Dictionary M - adjective Like the moon; variable.
Moonless Dictionary M - adjective Being without a moon or moonlight.
Moonlight Dictionary M - noun The light of the moon.
Moonling Dictionary M - noun A simpleton; a lunatic.
Moonlit Dictionary M - adjective Illumined by the moon.
Moonraker Dictionary M - noun Same as Moonsail.
Moonrise Dictionary M - noun The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
Moonsail Dictionary M - noun A sail sometimes carried in light winds, above a skysail.
Moonseed Dictionary M - noun A climbing plant of the genus Menispermum; - so called from the crescentlike form of the seeds.
Moonset Dictionary M - noun The descent of the moon below the horizon; also, the time when the moon sets.
Moonshee Dictionary M - noun A Mohammedan professor or teacher of language.
Moonshine Dictionary M - noun The light of the moon.
Moonshiner Dictionary M - noun A person engaged in illicit distilling; - so called because the work is largely done at night.
Moonshiny Dictionary M - adjective Moonlight.
Moonstone Dictionary M - noun A nearly pellucid variety of feldspar, showing pearly or opaline reflections from within. It is used as a gem. The best specimens come from Ceylon.
Moonsticken Dictionary M - adjective See Moonstruck.
Moonstruck Dictionary M - adjective Mentally affected or deranged by the supposed influence of the moon; lunatic.
Moonwort Dictionary M - noun The herb lunary or honesty. See Honesty.
Moony Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to the moon.
Moor Dictionary M - noun One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.
Moored Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moor.
Mooring Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moor.
Moorage Dictionary M - noun A place for mooring.
Moorball Dictionary M - noun A fresh-water alga (Cladophora Aegagropila) which forms a globular mass.
Moorband Dictionary M - noun See Moorpan.
Mooress Dictionary M - noun A female Moor; a Moorish woman.
Moorish Dictionary M - adjective Having the characteristics of a moor or heath.
Moorland Dictionary M - noun Land consisting of a moor or moors.
Moorpan Dictionary M - noun A clayey layer or pan underlying some moors, etc.
Moorstone Dictionary M - noun A species of English granite, used as a building stone.
Mooruk Dictionary M - noun A species of cassowary (Casuarius Bennetti) found in New Britain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.
Moory Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish.
Moose Dictionary M - noun 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.
Moosewood Dictionary M - noun The striped maple (Acer Pennsylvanicum).
Moot Dictionary M - verb See 1st Mot.
Mooted Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Moot.
Mooting Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Moot.
Mootable Dictionary M - adjective Capable of being mooted.
Mooter Dictionary M - noun A disputer of a mooted case.
Moot-hall Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Moot-house.
Moot-house Dictionary M - noun A hall for public meetings; a hall of judgment.
Moot-hill Dictionary M - noun A hill of meeting or council; an elevated place in the open air where public assemblies or courts were held by the Saxons; - called, in Scotland, mute-hill.
Mootmen Dictionary M - pleural of Mootman.
Mootman Dictionary M - noun One who argued moot cases in the inns of court.
Mop Dictionary M - noun A made-up face; a grimace.
Mopped Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mop.
Mopping Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mop.
Mopboard Dictionary M - noun A narrow board nailed against the wall of a room next to the floor; skirting board; baseboard. See Baseboard.
Moped Dictionary M - imperative & past particle of Mope.
Moping Dictionary M - past particle & verb noun of Mope.
Mope Dictionary M - intransitive verb To be dull and spiritless.
Mope-eyed Dictionary M - adjective Shortsighted; purblind.
Mopeful Dictionary M - adjective Mopish.
Mopish Dictionary M - adjective Dull; spiritless; dejected.
Moplah Dictionary M - noun One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.
Moppet Dictionary M - noun A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
Mopsey Dictionary M - noun Alt. of Mopsy.
Mopsy Dictionary M - noun A moppet.
Mopsical Dictionary M - adjective Shortsighted; mope-eyed.
Mopstick Dictionary M - noun The long handle of a mop.
Mopus Dictionary M - noun A mope; a drone.
Moquette Dictionary M - noun A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.
Mora Dictionary M - noun A game of guessing the number of fingers extended in a quick movement of the hand, - much played by Italians of the lower classes.
Moraine Dictionary M - noun An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
Morainic Dictionary M - adjective Of or pertaining to a moranie.
Moral Dictionary M - adjective 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