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Mithridatic (mĭthrĭdătĭk), a. Of or pertaining to King Mithridates, or to a mithridate.
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Mitigable (?), a. Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.
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Mitigant (?), a. [L. mitigans, p. pr. of mitigare. See .] Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lenitive. Johnson.
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Mitigate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mitigated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mitigating.] [L. mitigatus, p. p. of mitigare to soften, mitigate; mitis mild, soft + the root of agere to do, drive.] 1. 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.
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2. To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons. [Obs.]
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This opinion . . . mitigated kings into companions. Burke.
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Syn. -- To alleviate; assuage; allay. See .
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mitigated adj. made less severe or intense. unmitigated
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mitigating adj. serving to reduce blame; -- of situations; as, mitigating factors; mitigating circumstances. Opposite of aggravating. [Narrower terms: exculpatory]
Syn. -- extenuating.
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Mitigation (?), n. [OE. mitigacioun, F. mitigation, fr. L. mitigatio.] 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.
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Syn. -- Alleviation; abatement; relief.
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Mitigative (?), a. [L. mitigativus: cf. F. mitigatif.] Tending to mitigate; alleviating.
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Mitigator (?), n. One who, or that which, mitigates.
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Mitigatory (?), a. Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.
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Miting (?), n. [From .] A little one; -- used as a term of endearment. [Obs.] Skelton.
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Mitis casting (?). [Perh. fr. L. mitis mild.] A process, invented by P. Ostberg, for producing malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminum is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay; also, a casting made by this process; -- called also wrought-iron casting.
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Mitis metal. The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; -- called also simply mitis.
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Mitome (?), n. [Gr. � a thread.] (Biol.) The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell. [archaic]
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Mitosis (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. � a thread.] (Biol.) See .
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Mitotic (?), a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic. -- Mitotically (#), adv.
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Mitraille (?), n. [F. See .] Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
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Mitrailleur (?), n. [F.] 1. (Mil.) One who serves a mitrailleuse.
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2. A mitralleuse.
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Mitrailleuse (?), n. [F., fr. mitrailler to fire grapeshot, fr. mitraille old iron, grapeshot, dim. of OF. mite a mite.] (Mil.) 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. [obsolescent]
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Mitral (?), a. [Cf. F. mitral. See .] Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.
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Mitre (?), n. & v. See .
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mitrewort n. Any of various rhizomatous perennial herbs of the genus Mitella having a capsule resembling a bishop's miter. [Also spelled miterwort.]
Syn. -- miterwort, bishop's cap.
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Mitriform (?), a. [Miter + -form: cf. F. mitriforme.] Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra. Gray.
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Mitt (?), n. [Abbrev. fr. mitten.] 1. A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers, usually worn by women.
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2. (Baseball) A large glove, usually made of leather or similar material, with differing degrees of padding and usually some form of webbing in the large space between the thumb insert and the insert for the index finger; a baseball glove. It is used to assist in catching the baseball. The catcher's mitt has more padding and less webbing.
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3. A hand; -- used mostly in slang expressions; as, keep your mitts off my box of chocolates!
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Mitten (?), n. [OE. mitaine, meteyn, F. mitaine, perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Ir. miotog, Gael. miotag, Ir. & Gael. mutan a muff, a thick glove. Cf. .] 1. 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. Chaucer.
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2. A cover for the wrist and forearm.
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Coloq. To give the mitten to , to dismiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. [Colloq.] -- Coloq. To handle without mittens , to treat roughly; to handle without gloves. [Colloq.]
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Mittened (?), a. Covered with a mitten or mittens. “Mittened hands.” Whittier.
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Mittent (?), a. [L. mittens, p. pr. of mittere to send.] Sending forth; emitting. [Obs.] Wiseman.
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Mittimus (?), n. [L., we send, fr. mittere to send.] (Law) (a) A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison. Burrill. (b) A writ for removing records from one court to another. Brande & C.
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Mittler's green (?). (Chem.) A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.
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Mitty (?), n. The stormy petrel. [Prov. Eng.]
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Mitu (mīt�), n. [Braz. mitu poranga.] (Zoöl.) A South American curassow of the genus Mitua.
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Mity (?), a. [From .] Having, or abounding with, mites.
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Mix (mĭks), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mixed (mĭkst) (less properly Mixt); p. pr. & vb. n. Mixing.] [AS. miscan; akin to OHG. misken, G. mischen, Russ. mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. misgein, mignynai, Skr. miçra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. ), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. miscere. Cf. , to bruise, .] 1. 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.
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Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words. Shak.
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2. To unite with in company; to join; to associate.
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Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. Hos. vii. 8.
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3. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts.
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Hast thou no poison mixed? Shak.
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I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations. Bacon.
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4. To combine (two or more activities) within a specified or implied time frame; as, to mix studying and partying while at college.
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Mix (?), v. i. 1. To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together.
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2. To associate; to mingle; as, Democrats and Republicans mixed freely at the party.
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He had mixed
Again in fancied safety with his kind. Byron.
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Mixable (?), a. Capable of being mixed.
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Mixed (?), a. Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See , v. t. & i.
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Coloq. Mixed action (Law), a suit combining the properties of a real and a personal action. -- Coloq. Mixed angle , a mixtilineal angle. -- Coloq. Mixed fabric , a textile fabric composed of two or more kinds of fiber, as a poplin. -- Coloq. Mixed marriage , a marriage between persons of different races or religions; specifically, one between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant. -- Coloq. Mixed number , a whole number and a fraction taken together. -- Coloq. Mixed train , a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars. -- Coloq. Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females united in the same performance.
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Mixedly (?), adv. In a mixed or mingled manner.
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Mixen (?), n. [AS. mixen, myxen, fr. meohx, meox, dung, filth; akin to E. mist. See .] A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.
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Mixer (?), n. 1. One who, or that which, mixes.
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2. A person who has social intercourse with others of many sorts; a person viewed as to his casual sociability; -- commonly used with some characterizing adjective; as, a good mixer; a bad mixer. [Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]
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3. a social gathering, game, or dance organized to provide an opportunity for people to meet each other; as, on the first night of the conference they had a wine-and-cheese mixer.
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4. a nonalcoholic beverage (such as fruit juice, club soda or ginger ale) added to an alcoholic beverage to produce a mixed drink.
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5. any device used for mixing.
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6. an electronic device for blending or manipulating sounds from different sources to produce a composite soundtrack, for an audio recording, video recording, or a movie.
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7. The technician who operates a .
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Mixogamous (?), a. [Gr. � a mixing + � marriage.] (Zoöl.) Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.
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Mixolydian mode (?). [Gr. � a mixing + E. Lydian.] (Mus.) The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.
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{ Mixtilineal (?), Mixtilinear (?), } a. [L. mixtus mixed (p. p. of miscere to mix) + E. lineal, linear.] 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. [R.]
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Mixtion (?), n. [L. mixtio, mistio: cf. F. mixtion. See , .] 1. Mixture. [Obs.]
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2. A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.
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Mixtly (?), adv. With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.
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Mixture (?), n. [L. mixtura, fr. miscere, mixtum, to mix: cf. F. mixture. See .] 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. Hooker.
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2. That which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley.
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There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God, to serve the ends of his providence. Atterbury.
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3. An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient.
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Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution. Addison.
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4. (Med.) A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.
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5. (Physics & Chem.) A mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound and solution; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.
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6. (Mus.) An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
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Syn. -- Union; admixture; intermixture; medley.
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mix up n. 1. To confuse the identities of (two or more objects); to mistake (one object for another); as, at the family gathering he mixed up his two nieces, to their great amusement.
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2. To mix together; -- usually implying a mistake, whether done intentionally or unintentionally; as, the mixed up this year's receipts with last year's, and it took hours to find the right ones.
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mix-up n. a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.
Syn. -- confusion, confounding.
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mizenmast n. mizzenmast.
Syn. -- mizzen, mizen.
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Mizmaze (?), n. A maze or labyrinth. [Obs.]
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Mizzen (?), a. [It. mezzana, fr. mezzano middle, fr. mezzo middle, half: cf. F. misaine foresail. See .] (Naut.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.
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Mizzen, n. (Naut.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
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Mizzenmast (?), n. (Naut.) the third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy. The definition varies slightly with the dictionary; in some dictionaries it is the last mast of a three-masted vessel; in others, it is the mast after the mainmast of a vessel of three or more masts. PJC.
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Mizzle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mizzled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mizzling (?).] [See , and cf. .] 1. To rain in very fine drops; to drizzle. Spenser.
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2. To take one's self off; to go. [Slang]
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As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned,
And then he mizzled. Epigram, quoted by Wright.
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Mizzle, n. Mist; fine rain.
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Mizzy (?), n. [Cf. F. moisi moldy, musty, p. p. of moisir to mold, fr. L. mucere to be moldy.] A bog or quagmire. [Obs.] Ainsworth.
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ml (?), n. milliliter; -- the IS standard abbreviation. [abbreviation]
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mm (?), n. millimeter; -- the IS standard abbreviation. [abbreviation]
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mM (?), a. Chem.) millimolar; -- the IS standard abbreviation. [abbreviation]
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Mn (?), n. (Chem.) The chemical symbol for manganese.
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M'-Naught (m�kn�t), v. t. (Steam Engines) To increase the power of (a single-cylinder beam engine) by adding a small high-pressure cylinder with a piston acting on the beam between the center and the flywheel end, using high-pressure steam and working as a compound engine, -- a plan introduced by M'Naught, a Scottish engineer, in 1845.
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{ Mnemonic (n�mŏnĭk), Mnemonical (n�mŏnĭk�l), } a. [Gr. mnhmonikos, fr. mnhmwn mindful, remembering, mnhmh memory, mna^sqai to think on, remember; akin to E. mind.] Assisting in memory; helping to remember; as, a mnemonic device.
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mnemonic n. 1. Something used to assist the memory, as an easily remembered acronym or verse.
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2. An abbreviated word that resembles the full word, used so as to be easily recognized; as, the CIDE uses ... tags as mnemnonics for an italicised word or field.
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In basic organic chemistry class, one may learn the mnenomic “Oh my, such good apple pie” to help remember the names of the dicarboxylic acids in increasing order of length, namely: oxalic, malonic, succinic, glutaric, adipic, and pimelic acids. (From L. Fieser's Organic Chemistry text).

Mnemonician (?), n. One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.
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Mnemonics (?), n. [Gr. ta~ mnhmonika: cf. F. mnémonique.] The art of memory; a method for improving the memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
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Mnemosyne (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. mnhmosynh remembrance, memory, and the goddess of memory. See .] (Class Myth.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
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mnemotechnical adj. 1. same as .
Syn. -- mnemonic, mnemotechnic.
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Mnemotechny (?), n. [Gr. � memory + � art: cf. F. mnémotechnie.] Mnemonics.
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Mniaceae prop. n. A natural family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses andgonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae.
Syn. -- family Mniaceae.
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Mnium prop. n. A genus of mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
Syn. -- genus Mnium.
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Mo (mō), a., adv., & n. [Written also moe.] [AS. mā. See .] More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.]
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An hundred thousand mo. Chaucer.
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Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. Fuller.
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Mo (�), (Chem.) chemical symbol for the element .
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MO (�), abbreviation for , manner of operating; -- often used to refer to the method an habitual criminal uses to perpetrate his crime.
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-mo (?). 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.
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Moa (mōȧ), n. [Native name.] (Zoöl.) 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.
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Moabite (?), n. One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.
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Moabitess (?), n. A female Moabite. Ruth i. 22.
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Moabite stone (?). (Archæol.) A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phœnician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over Israel (2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27).
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Moabitish (?), a. Moabite. Ruth ii. 6.
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Moan (mōn), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Moaned (mōnd); p. pr. & vb. n. Moaning.] [AS. mǣnan to moan, also, to mean; but in the latter sense perh. a different word. Cf. to intend.] 1. To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
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Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans. Thomson.
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Let there bechance him pitiful mischances,
To make him moan. Shak.
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2. To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
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Moan, v. t. 1. To bewail audibly; to lament.
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Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan
My dear Columbo, dead and gone. Prior.
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2. To afflict; to distress. [Obs.]
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Which infinitely moans me. Beau. & Fl.
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Moan, n. [OE. mone. See , v. i.] 1. A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
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Sullen moans, hollow groans. Pope.
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2. A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.
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Rippling waters made a pleasant moan. Byron.
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Moanful (?), a. Full of moaning; expressing sorrow. -- Moanfully, adv.
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Moat (?), n. [OF. mote hill, dike, bank, F. motte clod, turf: cf. Sp. & Pg. mota bank or mound of earth, It. motta clod, LL. mota, motta, a hill on which a fort is built, an eminence, a dike, Prov. G. mott bog earth heaped up; or perh. F. motte, and OF. mote, are from a LL. p. p. of L. movere to move (see ). The name of moat, properly meaning, bank or mound, was transferred to the ditch adjoining: cf. F. dike and ditch.] (Fort.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
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Moat, v. t. To surround with a moat. Dryden.
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Moate (?), v. i. [See to molt.] To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]
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Mob (?), n. [See .] A mobcap. Goldsmith.
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Mob, v. t. To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
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Mob, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See , n.] 1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
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A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison.
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2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
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The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope.
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Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison.
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Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson.
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Coloq. Mob law , law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Coloq. Swell mob , well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.
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Mob, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mobbed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mobbing.] To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
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Mobbish (?), a. Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act. Bp. Kent.
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Mobcap (?), n. [D. mop-muts; OD. mop a woman's coif + D. muts cap.] 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. Thackeray.
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Mobile (?), a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to move: cf. F. mobile. See .] 1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. “Fixed or else mobile.” Skelton.
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2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
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3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. Testament of Love.
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The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.
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4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
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5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
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6. Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.
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7. Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.
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Mobile (mōbĭl; L. mŏbĭlē), n. [L. mobile vulgus. See , a., and cf. 3d .] The mob; the populace. [Obs.] “The unthinking mobile.” South.
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Mobile (mōbēl), n. a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.
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mobilise n. 1. Mobilize. [Chiefly Brit.]
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mobilisation n. Mobilization. [Chiefly Brit.]
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