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  • English Word Michaelmas Definition The feat of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn.
  • English Word Miche Definition To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly.
  • English Word Micher Definition One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc.
  • English Word Michery Definition Theft; cheating.
  • English Word Miching Definition Hiding; skulking; cowardly.
  • English Word Mickle Definition Much; great.
  • English Word Micmacs Definition A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.
  • English Word Mico Definition A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.
  • English Word Micr- Definition A combining form
  • English Word Micr- Definition Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope.
  • English Word Micr- Definition A millionth part of; as, microfarad, microohm, micrometer.
  • English Word Micracoustic Definition Same as Microustic.
  • English Word Micraster Definition A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.
  • English Word Micrencephalous Definition Having a small brain.
  • English Word Micro- Definition Alt. of Micr-
  • English Word Micro-chemical Definition Of or pertaining to micro-chemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.
  • English Word Micro-chemistry Definition The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.
  • English Word Micro-geological Definition Of or pertaining to micro-geology.
  • English Word Micro-geology Definition The part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.
  • English Word Microampere Definition One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampere.
  • English Word Microbacteria Definition In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria.
  • English Word Microbe Definition Alt. of Microbion
  • English Word Microbian Definition Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, the microbian theory; a microbian disease.
  • English Word Microbic Definition Of or pertaining to a microbe.
  • English Word Microbicide Definition Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.
  • English Word Microbion Definition A microscopic organism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.
  • English Word Microcephalic Definition Alt. of Microcephalous
  • English Word Microcephalous Definition Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to megacephalic.
  • English Word Microchronometer Definition A chronoscope.
  • English Word Microcline Definition A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.