METROSIDEROS METE-BORDE,† n. An eating-table. [Chaucer.] METE CORN, n. [See METE.] A measure or portion of corn given by a lord to customary tenants, as a reward and encouragement for their duties of la bour. METE GAVEL,† n. [Sax. meat-tax.] A tribute or rent paid in victuals. METE'LY,† a. Proportionable; as, a metely mouth. [Chaucer.] METEOR, n. [add.] In a figurative sense, anything that transiently dazzles or strikes with wonder. METEOR'IC STONES, n. Aerolites. [See AEROLITE.] METEORISM, n. Distension of the abdomen by gas. METEOR'OLITE, instead of ME'TEOROLITE. METEOR OMANCY, instead of METEOROM'ANCY. METEOR OSCOPE, instead of ME'TEOROSCOPE. METH'ODIZER, n. One who metho dizes. METHODOLOGY, n. [Gr. pestodos, method, and yes, discourse.] A discourse concerning method. ME THOL, n. A liquid produced in the distillation of wood. METHYLE, n. Same as METHULE,which see. METHYLIC ETHER, n. Oxide of methyle, a colourless gas. METIS, n. One of the small planets or asteroids, between the orbits of Mars and Jupiter, discovered by Mr. Graham, an Irish astronomer, April 25, 1848. It revolves round the sun in 1345-65 solar days, and is about two and a half times the distance of the earth from the sun. METON'OMY, instead of MET'ONOMY. METOPOSCOPICAL, a. Relating to metoposcopy. METRE, n. See METER. METRI CIENS,† n. plur. Writers in verse. [Chaucer.] MET RIFIER, n. A metrist; a versifier. METROSCOPE, n. [Gr. unrea, the uterus, and exoria, to observe.] An instrument for examining the os-uteri. METROSIDE ROS, n. [Gr. are, the heart of a tree, and onges, iron.] A genus of plants, nat. order Myrtaceæ. M. vera, true iron-wood, is a tree, a native of Java and Amboyna. Of the wood of this tree the Chinese and Japanese make rudders, anchors, &c., for their ships and boats. The bark is used Iron-wood, Metrosideros vera. in Japan as a remedy in dysentery, diarrhoea, and mucous discharges. M. polymorpha grows in the Sandwich MICROSCOPIUM Islands, and is said to be the plant from which are made the clubs and other weapons used in warfare by the South Sea Islanders. METROX'YLON, n. A genus of plants, nat. order Palmaceæ. M. sagus, of Rotböll, is the sago-plant. [See SAGO.] METTE, pret. of Mete. Dreamed. MET,† S [Chaucer.] ME UM ET TU'UM. [L.] Mine and thine; words used in law for the proper guides of right. MEV'ABLE,ta. Movable. [Chaucer.] MEVE,† v. t. To move. MEWE, n. [See MEW.] In mewe, in secret. [Chaucer.] MEWES, n. plur. [See MEw.] Prisons. [Spenser.] MEW ET,† a. [Fr. muet.] Mute.-In mewet, dumbly; speaking inwardly. [Chaucer.] MEWS, n. plur. The royal stables in London, so called because built where the king's hawks were once mewed or confined. [See MEW.] MEX'ICAN, n. A native of Mexico. MEZ ZOTINT,n.Same as MEZZOTINTO. MEZZOTINT'ER, n. One who practises mezzotinto engraving. MI. (mē.) The third note in the musical scale, between re and fa. MIA'NA-BUG, n. A species of tick (Argas persicus), said to be very poisonous. It is found at Miana, in Persia, and is reported to attack strangers visiting that place. MIAR GYRITE, n. A sulphur salt obtained from red silver. MI'ASCITE, n. A columnar variety of bitter-spar intermixed with asbestos, from Miaska in Siberia. MIASMATICAL, a. Same as MIAS MATIC. MIAS' MATIST, n. One versed in miasmata. MICA CEOUS, a. [add.] Micaceous rocks, rocks of which mica is the chief ingredient, as mica-slate and clay-slate. -Micaceous schist, mica-slate,-which see. MICH, v. i. See MICHE. [Spenser.] MICK LE, a. See MEIKLE in this Supp. MICROCOS MIC, a. Pertaining to the microcosm.-Microcosmic salt, of soda, ammonia, and phosphoric acid, originally obtained from urine. It is much employed as a flux in experiments with the blow-pipe. MICRODON, n. [Gr. zgos, small, and ódous, a tooth.] A genus of extinct fishes, belonging to the pycnodont or thicktoothed family, in the system of Agassiz. MICROMETER, n. [add.] Besides the wire-micrometer, there are various other kinds, as the circular or annular micrometer, the divided object-glass micrometer, the prism-micrometer, &c.Micrometer-screw. [See SCREW.] MICROPHONICS, n. The science of augmenting small sounds. MICROSCOPE, n. [add.] Oxyhydrogen microscope. [See under O.] Lucernal microscope. [See under L in this Supp.] MICROSCOPE, v. t. To examine with a microscope. [Rare.] MICROSCOPIST, n. One versed in microscopy. MICROSCOPIUM, n. The Microscope, a modern southern constellation, situated above Grus and Indus, at the junction of Capricornus and Sagittarius. It contains ten stars. MILEAGE MICROZOA'RIA, n. [Gr. xos, and wa, small animals.] The name given by De Blainville to the infusory animalcules of the earlier writers. They are distinguished into the Heteropoda and Apoda. MID, n. Middle; midst; as, the mid of heaven. [Rar. us.] MID-AIR, n. The middle of the sky. MI'DAS, n. A subgenus of South American monkeys, of a small size, called Ouistitis. The common name for the species of this subgenus is Tamarin. MI'DAS'S-EAR, n. In zool., a species of Auricula, the A. mida. MID'DEN-CROW, n. A name given, in some parts of England, to the common crow. MIDDLE-DECK, n. The deck below the upper or main deck, in a first-rate ship-of-war. MID'DLE-EPOCH, n. In geol., an epoch characterized by the presence of the new red sandstone. MID'DLE-MAN, n. An agent between two parties; a man who has the disposal or sale of goods, or of renting of lands or estates.-In Ireland, middlemen are such as take land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rent it out in small portions to the peasantry, at a greatly enhanced price. MID'DLE-SIZED, a. Being of middle or average size. MID-EARTH, n. The middle of the earth. MID-GALLEY, n. The middle of a ship. MID GES, n. Gnats; Scottish mosquitoes. [Scotch.] MIDG'ET, n. The Canadian name for the sand-fly. MIDST, prep. Poetically used for amidst. MID WIFISH, a. Relating to midwifery. MIEVE,† v. t. To move; to agitate. [Spenser.] MIFF, v. t. To give a slight offence; to displease. [Colloquial.] MIF FED, pp. or a. Slightly offended; displeased. [Colloquial.] MIGHT,† pp. of May. [Chaucer.] MIGHT EN,† pret. plur. of May. [Chaucer.] MIGHT NA. Might not. [Scotch.] MIGRANT, a. Changing place; migratory. MIKA'NIA, n. A genus of plants, nearly allied to Eupatorium, nat. order Compositæ. M. officinalis is a native of Brazil. Its leaves contain a bitter principle, and an aromatic oil, and are used in the same way and for the same diseases as the cascarilla and cinchona barks. M. quaco, guaco-plant, is used in South America, both internally and externally, as a remedy against the bites of poisonous serpents. M. opifera is used for the same purpose. MILANESE', n. sing. and plur. A native or natives of Milan. MIL'DEW-MORTIFICATION, n. A gangrenous disease, supposed to arise from the use of grain vitiated by blight or mildew. MILE, n. [add.] Geographical mile, the sixtieth part of a degree of latitude, or 6079 feet nearly.-Nautical mile, a minute of a great circle of the sphere. Its length is the same as that of the geographical mile. MILE AGE, n. [add.] In law, travelling expenses, which are allowed to witnesses, sheriffs, and bailiffs, according to certain scales of fees, settled by the MILLING masters of the several courts of law and equity. MILE'-POST, n. A post set up to mark the miles. MILE'SIAN, n. From Miletus, a city of ancient Greece. The citizens were called Milesians; hence the term applied to the Irish, who are said, by certain historians, to be descended from the Milesians. MILIA'RIA, n. [L. milium, a milletseed.] Miliary fever, a disease attended by an eruption resembling millet-seed. MILITARY COURTS, n. The court of chivalry, and courts-martial. MILITARY FEUDS, n. The original feuds, which were in the hands of military men, who performed military duty for their tenures. MILITARY OFFENCES, n. Matters which are cognizable by the courtsmartial. MILITARY STATE, n. The soldiery of the kingdom. MILITARY TESTAMENT, n. A nuncupative will, by which a soldier may dispose of his goods, wages, and other personal chattels, without the forms and solemnities which the law requires in other cases. MILITIA-MAN, n. One who belongs to the militia. MILK'-ABSCESS, n. A tumour seated in the breast, arising from a redundancy of milk after child-birth. MILK'-QUARTZ,Į n. A subspecies of ROSE-QUARTZ, rhomboidal quartz, of a milk-white or rose-red colour. It occurs in Bavaria, in beds of quartz in granite. MILK'-SICKNESS, n. A malignant spasmodic disease of the western United States, which affects both man and beast. In cattle, it is supposed to arise from something eaten or drunken by them; and in man, from using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. MILK'-TEETH, n. The first set of teeth in children. MILK'-TREFOIL, n. A plant, the Cytisus laburnum. MILK'-WARM, a. Warm as milk in its natural state, or as it comes from the breast or udder. MILK'-WOOD, n. A tree, the Brosimum spurium, common in woods in the West Indies. MILK'Y JUICES, n. Certain vegetable juices, so named from their white colour, rather than from their properties. These juices are characteristic of several tribes of vegetables, especially of the Artocarpeæ, Apocynacea, and Euphorbiacea. MILL, v. t. [add.] In cant lan, to beat severely with the fists, as if in a fullingmill; to fight. MILL, MULL, n. A snuff-box. [Scotch.] MIL'LED, pp. [add.] In cant lan., soundly beaten with the fists. MIL'LEGRAM. See MILLIGRAM. MILLEN'IANISM, Įn. MillenarianMILLEN'IARISM, ism,-which see. MIL'LEPEDE, n. [add.] The millepedes are myriapoda, of the family Julidæ. MILL-HAND, n. A workman employed in a mill. MILL-HOLMS, n. Low meadows and other fields in the vicinity of mills, or watery places about mill-dams. MIL'LIGRAMME, n. [Fr.] See MILLI MINIARDIZE operation of making raised impressions on the edges of coin, which is effected by machinery; also, the impressions thus made. In cant lan., a beating with the fists. MILL REA, Įn. [add.] A gold coin of MILL'REA, Portugal, commonly estimated at 58. sterling. The small millrea, of 1775, was worth only 3s. 2d. sterling. MILL-WHEEL, n. A wheel used in a mill; a water-wheel. MILNE ́-STONES,† n. plur. Millstones. [Chaucer.] MILORD', n. Sometimes used for my lord, especially by foreigners. MIL'SEY, n. A sieve for straining milk. [Local.] MILTON'IЄ, a. Relating to Milton, or his poetry. MIL'VUS, n. The kite, a genus of falcons. [See KITE.] MIM, a. Prudish; prim; demure; precise; affectedly modest; quiet; mute. [Scotch.] MIM ETENE, n. The mineral arseniate of lead. MIM'I¤, n. [add.] An actor. [Shak.] MIM'IC-BEETLES, n. Coleopterous insects, of the family Histeridæ, so named from their feigning death when disturbed. MIM'-MOUED, a. Reserved in discourse, implying the idea of affectation of modesty; affectedly moderate at the table. [Scotch.] MIMO'SA, n. A genus of plants. [See MIMOSEE, and SENSITIVE PLANT.] MI'NA, n. The Indian graple (Eulabes religiosa), a common Indian blackbird with wattles on the head. MINCED ́-COL ́LOPS, n. Minced beef. [Scotch.] MIND, v. t. [add.] To recollect; to remember; to take care of. [Vulgar.] To heed; to notice with uneasiness or embarassment; as, they went on with their work, without minding the strange gentleman who had just entered. MIND, v. i. To remember; to design; to intend. [Scotch. MINDE,† n. [See MIND.] Remembrance. [Chaucer.] MINE, v. i. [add.] To penetrate. [Chaucer.] MIN'EON,† n. [Fr. mignon.] A minion; a wanton.--Mincing mineon, an affected wanton. [Spenser.] MIN'ERAL, n. [add.] A mine. [Shak.] MIN'ERAL ACIDS, n. A name given to the sulphuric, nitric, and hydrochloric acids. MINERAL KINGDOM, n. That grand division of natural objects which includes minerals or inorganic bodies, and of which mineralogy is the science. MINERALOG'I€, a. Same as MINER ALOGICAL. MINERAL'OGIST, n. [add.] Shells of the genus Phorus are often so called, from the pieces of stone of various kinds which are attached to the shells. MINERAL SALTS, n. Salts found native, being formed of mineral acids and bases. MIN'ERAL SOLUTION, n. Arsenical liquor, or liquor potassæ arsenitis. MINGLE-MAN'GLE,† n. A medley; a hotch-potch. MINGLINGLY, adv. Unitingly. MIN'IARD, a. [add.] Treated or esteemed as a minion; having the manners or appearances of a minion. MIN'IARDĪZE, v. t. [add.] To fondle or wanton with; to treat with wantonness or effeminacy. MINT MIN'IARDIZED, pp. instead of MINIARDIZED. MINIATURE, a. Representing nature, or objects on a small scale; diminutive. MINIATURE, n. [add.] In miniature, upon a small scale; as, a portrait in miniature. MIN'IBUS, n. [See OMNIBUS.] A light sort of vehicle or carriage to accommodate four persons, drawn by one horse, and used for conveying persons short distances, as in a city, or from a city to its environs. MIN'IME,† n. [See MINIM.] A little song. [Spenser.] MIN'IMENT, n. In law, the eviMUN'IMENT, dences or writings whereby a man is enabled to defend the title of his estate. It includes all manner of evidences. [See MUNIMENT.] MIN'IMENTS,† n. [From L. minimum.] Toys; trifles. [Spenser.] MIN'ING COMPANY, n. A joint-stock association for carrying on mining operations. MIN'ION, a. [add.] Small; delicate. MIN'ISHT,† pp. Minished; diminished. [Spenser.] MIN'ISTRALLES,†) n. plur. MinMINISTERS,† strels. [Chaucer.] } MINISTRATIVE, a. Affording service; assisting. MIN'ISTRES,† n. plur. [Fr.] Officers of justice. [Chaucer.] MIN'ISTRYSHIP, n. [add.] The office of a prime-minister. [Swift.] MIN ́IVER, n. The Siberian squirrel, which has fine white fur; also, the fur itself. MIN'NIE, n. An infantine word for mamma. [Scotch.] MINOR, a. [add.] Minor key, in music, is that key or arrangement of tones and semitones which is adapted to solemn and mournful subjects. It is distinguished from the major key, by having a minor third instead of a major third. -Minor term, in logic, the subject of the conclusion of a categorical syllogism.-Minor premiss, that which contains the minor term. MI'NORESS, n. A female under age. MINORESSÉ,† n. A nun under the rule of St. Clare. [Chaucer.] MI'NOS, n. [Gr. Mos.] In classical myth., a celebrated lawgiver, the son of Jupiter and Europa, and king of Crete. He was so celebrated for his justice on earth, that after his death he was appointed a judge of the infernal regions. His grandson, of the same name, was also king of Crete, and according to fable, his wife, Pasiphæ, by her unnatural lust, gave birth to the Minotaur. The name is also, with the association of Æacus and Rhadamanthus, applied to critics. MINOTAUR, n. [add.] The son of Pasipha, wife of Minos, by a bull. He is fabled to have had the body of a man, with the head of a bull, and to have fed on human flesh, on which account Minos shut him up in the labyrinth of Dædalus, and at first exposed to him criminals, but afterwards the youths and maidens yearly sent from Athens as a tribute. In the Dict. the name is derived from man, and Latin, taurus, a bull; but it is much more likely to have been formed from Minos, the king above-mentioned, and taurus. MIN'OUR, n. A miner. [Chaucer.] MIN'STRALCIE,† n. [Fr.] Music; musical instruments. [Chaucer.] MINT, n. [add.] A pretended place of MISACCEPTATION privilege in Southwark, near the Queen's prison, where persons sheltered themselves from justice, under the pretext that this place was an ancient palace of the crown. It is now abolished. MINT, v. i. To aim; to take aim; to attempt; to endeavour; to insinuate; to hint. [Scotch.] MINT-JULEP, n. A dram made of brandy, or other spirit, sugar, and iced water, with an infusion of mint. [American.] MINT-MÄRK, n. A privy mark, which the masters and workers of the mint are obliged, in the indentures made with them, to make in all the money which they coin, as well of gold as of silver, so that it may be known what monies of gold and silver are of their own making, and what not. At every new trial of the pix, it is usual to change this privy mark. MINUS CULA, n. [L. minusculum.] A small or minute sort of letter or character, used in MSS. in the middle ages. MINUS CULE, a. Small; minute; relating to a kind of letter so called. MIN UTE, a. (min'it.) Showing the minutes; repeated every minute. MINUTE', a. [add.] Attentive to the smallest particulars; applied to persons; as, he is so minute and circumstantial in his observations. MIN UTE-JACK, n. Another name for Jack-of-the-clock-house, or a figure which strikes the hour of a clock. MIRA, n. [L. mirus, wonderful.] A singular star of the third magnitude, in the neck of Cetus. It appears and disappears periodically seven times in six years. MIRAB'ILARY,† n. A writer or rela ter of wonders. MIRABILIS, n. A genus of plants, nat, order Nyctaginaceæ. M. jalapa is the marvel of Peru. [See MARVEL.] MIRACH, n. A star of the second magnitude, in the constellation Andromeda. Also called 8 Andromeda. MIRACLE, n. [add.] To a miracle, wonderfully; admirably; as, he did his part to a miracle. MIRACULIZE,† v. t. To represent as a miracle. MIRAGE, n. (me-räzhe ́.) MIRK, a. [add.] Pit mirk (pick mirk), dark as pitch. [Scotch.] MIRKE, a. [See MIBK.] Dark; obscure. [Spenser.] MIRKE'SOME,+ a. Darksome. [Spenser.] MIRK'Y, a. Smiling; merry. [Scotch.] MIR LIGOES, n. Dizziness; megrims in the head. [Scotch.] MIRROR, v. t. To reflect as in a mirror; to represent or exhibit by means of a mirror. MIRRORED, pp. or a. Reflected as in a mirror. MIRRORING, ppr. Reflecting as in a mirror. MIR ROUR,† n. A looking glass. [Chaucer.] MIRTHE LESS,† a. Without mirth. [Chaucer.] MIS,† v. i. [See Miss.] To fail; to err. [Spenser.] MIS,† adv. Ill; amiss. [See Mis, prefix.] [Chaucer.] MIS,† n. A wrong. [Chaucer.] MIS. An initial syllable of various words, from the Gr., to hate; hence misanthrope, a hater of mankind. MISACCEPTATION, n. Act of taking or understanding in a wrong sense. 11.-SUPP. MISCONSTER MISACCOMP ́TED,† pp. Misreckoned. [Chaucer.] MISADVISÈ', v.t. To give bad advice to. MISAFFECT', v. t. To dislike. MISAFFIRM', v. t. To affirm incorrectly. MISALLEGE', v. t. To state erroneously; to cite falsely as a proof or argument. MISALLIED', a. Ill-associated. MISAPPRECIATED, a. Not well appreciated; improperly appreciated. MISAPPROPRIATION, n. Wrong appropriation. MISARRANGEMENT,† n. Wrong or disorderly arrangement. MISAVEN'TURE,† n. Misfortune. [Chaucer.] MISAVISE,† v. t. To advise wrongly. [Chaucer.] MISBEAR',†) v. i. To misbehave. MISBEFITTING, a. Not befitting. MISBORNE,† pp. of Misbear. Misbehaved. [Chaucer.] MISCA', v. t. To miscal; to abuse and call names; to reprove. [Scotch.] MISCARRIAGE, n. [add.] This term is usually restricted by medical writers to the expulsion of the fetus from the uterus within six weeks after conception. If the expulsion takes place between six weeks and six months after conception, it is called abortion; and if it takes place after the six months, when the fetus may live, it is called premature labour. The terms miscarriage and abortion are, however, often used synonymously. MISCAR ́RY, v. t. [add.] To expel the embryo or fetus from the uterus within six weeks after conception. MISCARRY, v. i. [add.] To fail of arriving at the proper place of destination; as, the letters have miscarried; to be brought forth before the proper time, as a child. [Shak.] MISCARRYING, ppr. or a. [add.] Bringing forth within six weeks after conception. MISCÄST', v. t. To cast or reckon erroneously. MISCÄST', n. An erroneous cast or reckoning. MISCEE', n. An Indian dentrifice which produces a black jet upon the teeth, but destroys the tartar and hardens the gums, without injuring the enamel. Its ingredients are not known. MISCELL'ANIST, n. A writer of miscellanies; a miscellanarian. MIS CHEFE,† n. Misfortune. [Chaucer.] MIS CHIEF, n. [add.] An executor of mischief. [Dryden.] MISCHIEVE', v. t. To hurt; to do a mischief to. [Scotch.] MISCHRISTEN, v. t. To christen MISDOUBT', †n. Suspicion of crime or danger; irresolution; hesitation. MISDOUBT',† v. t. and i. To suspect of deceit or danger. MISDOUBTFUL,† a. Misgiving. in a writ of right. MÏSE-MŎNEY, n. In law, money paid by way of contract or composition, to purchase any liberty, &c. MISENTERED, pp. Entered wrong, as an account. MI'SER, n. In well-sinking, &c., an iron cylinder attached to the lower end of the boring-rod, sometimes three feet in diameter, in which the earthy matters are collected, or misered-up, in the process of sinking. The bottom is conical, with a valved opening, through which the earth can pass upwards. MISERICORDE,† n. [Fr.] Mercy; pity. [Chaucer.] MISESE',† n. Misease; uneasiness. [Chaucer.] MISEXPOUND', v. t. To expound erroneously. MISFAL', instead of MISFALL'. MISGIE',f v. t. To misguide. [Chaucer.] MISGIED'† pp. of Misgie. Misguided. [Chaucer.] MISGO,v.i. To go wrong. [Chaucer.] MISGON',† Lpp. of Misgo. Gone MISGO,+ wrong. [Chaucer.] MISGOTTEN, a. Unjustly obtained. MISGROWTH', n. A wrong growth. MISGUG'GLE, v. 1. To mangle and MISGOG'GLE, disfigure; to spoil; MISGRUG'LE, to rumple; to han dle roughly. [Scotch.] MISGUG’GLED, pp. Mangled and disfigured; rumpled; disordered. [Scotch.] MISHANT ER, n. Misfortune; disMISCHANTER, aster; an unlucky chance. [Scotch. MISHAP PING,† ppr. Falling amiss. [Chaucer.] MISHEAR', v. t. To mistake in hearing. MISHEARD ́, pp. Heard mistakenly or imperfectly. MISINFER', v. t. To draw a wrong inference. MISINSTRUCT', v. t. To instruct amiss. MISINSTRUЄ'TED, pp. Instructed amiss. MISREPRESENTATIVE MISJOIN'DER, n. In law, a joining of parties in a suit or action who ought not to have been so joined. MISKEN NING,†n. Wrongful citation. MISKIN'DLE, v. t. To kindle amiss; to inflame to a bad purpose. MISLEAR'D', a. Unmannerly; mischievous; ill-taught. [Scotch.] MISLEDE',† v. t. To mislead; to conduct amiss. [Chaucer.] MISLIKE ́, v. i. To entertain dislike or disapprobation. MISLIKE', n. Dislike; disapprobation; aversion. MISLIK ER, n. One that dislikes. MISLİK'ING, ppr. Disliking; disapproving. MISLIP PEN, v. t. To disappoint; to deceive; to neglect anything put under one's charge. [Scotch.] MISLIV ED,† pp. Having lived to a bad purpose. [Chaucer.] MISMÄRCH', v. i. To march ill or wrong. MISMÄRK ED, pp. Wrongly marked. MISMATCH', v. t. To match unsuitably. MISMATCH'ED, pp. Unsuitably matched; ill-joined. MISMATCHING, ppr. Matching in an unsuitable manner. MISMEASURE, v. t. To measure incorrectly. MISMĒT’RE,† v. t. To spoil the metre of verses, by writing or reading them ill. [Chaucer.] MISNO MER, n. [add.] In real and mixed actions at common-law, a misnomer is a ground for abatement; but in personal actions, no plea in abatement for a misnomer is allowed. Misnomers in proceedings are now frequently amended by the court, provided the other parties have neither been misled nor prejudiced by them. MISOG'AMY, n. [Gr. usw, to hate, and ya, marriage.] Hatred of marriage. MISOPINION,† n. Erroneous opinion. MISOR'DER,† v. t. To order ill; to manage erroneously; to conduct badly. MISOR ́DER,† n. Irregularity; disorderly proceedings. [We now use DisORDER.] MISOR DERLY, a. Irregular; disorderly. MISÖRDINATION, n. Wrong ordina tion. MISPERCEPTION, n. Wrong percep tion. MISPLACE MENT, n. The act of putting in the wrong place. MISPLEAD'ING, ppr. Making a mistake in pleading. MISPLEADING, n. A mistake in pleading. MISPOINT', v. t. To point improperly; to err in punctuation. MISPOINT ED, pp. Pointed wrong. MISPOLICY, n. Wrong policy; impolicy. MISPRACTICE, n. Wrong practice. MISPRISION, n. (misprizh ́on.) [add.] Misprision of felony, the mere concealment of felony. MISPROUD',f a. Viciously proud. MISRECEIVE', v. t. To receive erroneously. MISRÉCIT AL, n. An inaccurate recital. MISRECOLLECTION, n. Erroneous recollection. MISREMEMBER, v. i. To mistake in what one endeavours to remember; to err by failure of memory. [Locke.] MISREPRESENTATIVE, a. Representing wrongly. MISTRETH MISREPŪTE', v. t. To have in wrong estimation. MISRULE', n. [add.] Lord of misrule. [See LORD in this Supp.] MISRO'LY, a. Unruly; ungovernable; turbulent. MISS, n. [add.] With respect to the use of this title, when two or more persons of the same name are spoken of or addressed, there is a good deal of diversity. Some give the plural to the name, as, the Miss Smiths; others to the title, as, the Misses Smith. In conversation, the former prevails; but in written and printed composition, usage is divided; and in addressing letters, the latter is the more common. MISS, v. t. [add.] To miss stays, in nautical lan. [See STAY.] MISSATE',† pret. of Misset, Misbecame. [Chaucer.] MISSAYD',† pp. of Missay. Said or spoken wrong, or erroneously.-"She brought forth speeches mild when she would have missaud," that is, she uttered mild speeches when she would have spoken otherwise, or the contrary. [Spenser.] MISSAYDE',† pp. of Missaye. Ill spoken of. [Chaucer.] MISSAY ER,† n. An evil - speaker. [Chaucer.] MISSE,† v. i. To fail. [Chaucer.] MIS'SELTO, n. A plant. [See MISLETOE.] MISSEMĒT RE,† v. t. See MISMETRE in this Supp. [Chaucer.] MISSEND', v. t. To send amiss, or incorrectly. MISSENT', pret. and pp. of Missend. MISSET,† v. t. To place or set wrongly, unfitly, or unsuitably. MISSET', pp. Disordered; put out of sorts; out of humour. Scotch.] MIS'SHAPE', n. A bad or incorrect form. MISSHAP ENLY, adv. In a misshapen MIS'SINGLY, adv. With omission; not MISSTAY', v. i. In nautical lan., to fail MISSTRI'AL, n. In law, a false or erroneous trial. MISSUMMA'TION, n. A wrong sum mation. MISSWEAR', v. i. To swear falsely. MISS WEAR'IN G, ppr. Swearing falsely. MISSWORN', a. Perjured. MISTER,† v. t. or i. To need; to have MIX Mister. It signifies not; it needs not; as, it mistreth not to tell. [Spenser.] MISTRIST', v. t. for MISTRUST. [Chaucer.] MISTRYST', v. t. To break an engage. ment; to disappoint; to bring into trouble or confusion by disappointing; to deceive; to use ill. [Scotch.] MISTURA, n. [L. from misceo, to mix.] A mixture. MISUSER, n. (misyüz ́er.) One who misuses. In law, abuse of any liberty or benefit which works a forfeiture of it. MISVOUCH', v. t. To vouch falsely. MISWAIE',† 'n. A wrong way. [Chaucer.] MISWENDE',† v. i. [See MISWEND.] [Chaucer.] MISWENT',† pp. of Miswend. Gone amiss; gone astray. [Chaucer, Spenser.] MISYOK'ED, pp. Improperly yoked. MISYOK'ING, ppr. Yoking improperly. MITA, n. [Sp.] A conscription, or a division made by drawing lots, among the Indians, for any public service; a tribute paid by the Indians to their caziques. MIT AINE,† n. [Fr.] A mitten; a glove [Chaucer] MITCHE, n. [Fr. miche.] A manchet; a loaf of fine bread. [Chaucer.] MITCHELL, n. Purbeck stone from fifteen to twenty-four inches square, and hewn, used in building. MITEL LA, n. [add.] A genus of North American plants, nat. order Saxifra gaceæ. The species are herbaceous plants with white flowers, and are well adapted for the front of flower-borders, or to grow on rock-work. MITH ́ER, n. Mother. [Scotch.] MITIGATORY, a. Tending to miti gate; softening. MITRA, n. The mitres, a genus of mollusca, inhabiting a small and pretty turreted shell. The shells exhibit a great Pope's Mitre, Mitra pontificalis. variety of patterns, and they are variegated with every kind of hue. They abound in the seas of hot climates. MITRAL, a. Pertaining to a mitre; resembling a mitre; as, the mitral valves of the left ventricle of the heart. MITRE-DRAINS, ) 1. The CROSS MITRE-DRAINS, drains laid within the metalling of roads, to convey the water to the side-drains. MITRE-JOINT, n. In arch. [See MITRE, and JOINT.] MITRE-MUSHROOM, n. A fungaceous plant, of the genus Helvella (H. mitra, Linn.), so named from the shape of the pileus. It grows in woods, and is a delicate article of food. MITRE-SHELLS, n. A genus of mollusca. [See MITRA in this Supp.] MITRINE, n. A subfamily of the Volutidæ, comprehending the mitre MODELLING the Greeks and Trojans mixed in mortal fight. MIX'ABLE, a. Capable of being mixed; miscible. MIXED, pp. or a. [add.] Mixed actions, in law. [See ACTION.] Mixed actions are now abolished, except the action of ejectment.- Mixed government, a form of monarchical government, which combines monarchy, aristocracy, and democracy, as the British constitution.Mixed laws, those which concern both person and property.-Mixed questions, questions which arise from the conflict of foreign and domestic laws.-Mixed subjects of property, such as fall within the definition of things real, but which, nevertheless, are attended with some of the legal qualities of things personal, as emblements, fixtures, shares in undertakings connected with land. There are also other subjects, which, though things personal in point of definition, are, in respect of some of their legal qualities, in the nature of things real; as charters and deeds, court-rolls, ancient family-pictures, tombstones, &c. MIZ ZLES, n. Measles. [Scotch.] MIZʻZLING, ppr. or a. Falling in very fine drops; as, mizzling rain. MNE MOTECHNY, n. (ne'motekny.) [Gr. μu, and rix] Same as MNE MOCCASIN. See MOCCASON. MOCHA DO,† n. [Fr. moche, floss-silk.] A manufacture of silk, sometimes called mock-velvet, much used in the 16th and 17th centuries. MOCH EL,†) a. [See MICKLE, Mucn.] MOCHE, Great in quantity, in number, or in degree. MOCH EL, adv. Much; greatly. MOCHE, [Chaucer.] MOCKES,† n. plur. [See MOCK.] Sportive insults; contemptuous gibes or jeers.-Mockes and mowes, derisive insults by distortions of the countenance, or by making mouths. [Spenser.] MOCK'-HEROIC, a. Burlesquing an epic poem. MOCK'ING-BIRD, n. [add.] This bird forms the type of the genus Mimus, and belongs to a different family to the genus Turdus. MO'CO, n. A South American rodent quadruped of the genus Kerodon, allied to the guinea-pig. MODE, n. [add.] Mode, in modern musical lan., signifies the same as key, but is rarely used in that sense in this country. MOD'EL, v. t. or i. In the fine arts, to make a pattern, from which some work is to be executed; also, to form a work of some plastic material; as, to model in wax. MOD ELLING, n. [add.] In the fine arts, the making of a model from which a work of art is to be executed, as a statue, &c. Also, the formation of a work of art from some plastic material, as, the modelling of a countenance in wax. Sculptors usually employ pot. ter's clay in the formation of their models. MOEHRINGIA MOD'ER,†) n. [Sax.] Mother; the MOD'RE,+ matrix, or principal plate of the astrolabe. [Chaucer.] MODERATE, v. t. [add.] To preside over, decide, direct, or regulate, as a moderator. MODERA'TRIX, n. A woman who moderates or governs. MOD ́ERN EPOCH, n. In geol., the present period, which comprehends all those deposits which owe their origin to causes now in action. It has also reference to the phenomena that are taking place at the surface of the earth. MODERNIZATION, n. Act of mo dernizing. MOD ́IFI¤ÃTE, v. t. To qualify. [Rar. us.] MODIL'LON, n. [Fr.] Same as Mo DILLION. MOD ́IOLAR, a. [L. modius, a bushel.] Shaped like a bushel measure. MODI'OLUS, n. [L. dimin. of modius, a measure.] In anat., the bony pillar in the centre of the cochlea, encircled by the lamina spirules. MO'DIST, n. A follower of the mode or fashion. MOD'IUS, n. [L.] A Roman measure used chiefly for the measurement of corn. It is frequently rendered bushel, but seems to have been only about an English peck. It contained sixteen sextarii. MO'DO ET FOR'MA. [L.] In manner and form; a phrase frequently used in law pleadings. MODULUS OF ELASTICITY, n. In physics, the modulus of elasticity of any substance, is a column of that substance of such weight, that any addition to it would increase it as much as the weight added would shorten (by its pressure) a column of the substance of equal diameter. Thus, if a rod of iron, 1 inch square, and 100 inches long, were compressed 1 inch by a weight of 220,000 lbs., the weight of the modulus of elasticity would be 220,000 × 99 lbs., which is to 22,000,000 lbs. in the same ratio as 99 inches to 100 inches; and the height of the modulus would be 6,933,333 feet, reckoning a cubic inch of the iron at lbs. The height of the modulus is, of course, the same, whatever its breadth and thickness may be; for atmospheric air it is about five miles; for steel about 1600 miles. MO'DUS, n. [add.] The modus decimandi is a particular manner of tithing, arising from immemorial usage, differing from the payment of one-tenth of the annual increase. It is sometimes a pecuniary compensation; as a certain sum of money annually for every acre of land, in lieu of tithes. In other cases, a smaller quantity of produce is given, and the residue made up in labour. In short, any means whereby the general law of tithing is altered, and a new method of taking tithes introduced, is called a modus decimandi, or special manner of tithing. MOE,† n. A distorted mouth.-Also, as a verb, to make mouths. [See Mow.] MOE,† adv. More. MOEHRIN GIA, n. [From Moehring, a German physician.] A genus of plants, nat. order Caryophyllaceæ, of which some species only differ from Arenaria, by having an inconspicuous appendage to the coat of the seed. The species are well suited for ornamenting rock-work, or to be grown in pots. M. trinervis, usually called Arenaria trinervis, is a native of Britain. MOLECULE MOEN CHIA, n. A genus of plants, nat. order Caryophyllaceæ. M. erecta is a British species. It is a small herbaceous plant, growing in dry, gravelly, and sandy places. MŒE'SO-GOTH'I¤, a. Relating to the Maso-Goths, a branch of the Goths, who settled in Moesia. The Bible was translated into their language by Ulphilas. MOG’GANS, n. plur. Long sleeves for women's arms, wrought like stockings; hose without feet. [Scotch.] MO'HA, n. A plant, German millet (Setaria germanica). MOHAM ́MEDANISM, n. Same as MOHAMMEDISM. MOHAMMEDANĪZE, v. t. Same as MOHAMMEDIZE. MOHUR RUM, n. An annual Mahometan festival, celebrated in memory of Hossein and Houssein, sons of Ali, and nephews of the Prophet. It is celebrated with great pomp and splendour by the Sheah sect in Hindostan. MOIETY, n. [add.] A portion; a small portion; a share. [Shak.] MOIS ON,† n. [Fr.] Growth; harvest. [Chaucer.] MOIST,† n. [L. musteus, new.] MOIST Y,† New; fresh. [Chaucer.] MOIST'-STAR, n. The moon. [Shah.] MOISTURELESS, a. Without mois ture. MOKA ́DOR,† n. A bib; a handkerchief. MO'KÄHI, n. The title of a doctor of laws in Turkey. MOK'EL,† n. [See MOCHEL in this Supp.] Size; magnitude; stature. [Chaucer.] MO'LAR, n. instead of MOL'AR. MOLA'RES, n. plur. [L.] The double or grinding teeth. [See MOLAR.] MO'LAR GLANDS, n. Two salivary glands situated on each side of the mouth, between the masseter and buccinator muscles. MOLD,† n. for MOLE. A spot; a mark. [Spenser.] MÕLD'-WARP. See MOULD-WARP. MÕLE'-BUT, n. Fish of the genus Orthagoriscus. MOLE ́-CRICKET, n. [add.] The Gryllotalpa vulgaris, which derives its name Mole-cricket, Gryllotalpa vulgaris. from the peculiar similarity of its anterior extremities, and from the resemblance in its habits to those of the mole. It is about an inch and a half long, and of a brown colour. In its making burrows, it cuts through or detaches all the roots of plants which it encounters, and commits great devastation in gardens. A larger species than ours is found in South America. MOLECULAR ATTRACTION, n. That species of attraction which operates upon the molecules or particles of a body, as distinguished from the attraction of gravitation. Cohesion and chemical affinity are instances of molecular attraction. MÖL'ECULE, instead of MOLEC’ULE, n. [add.] Active molecules, minute moving particles, found in all vegetable |