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  • English Word Mithridate Definition 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.
  • English Word Mithridatic Definition Of or pertaining to King Mithridates, or to a mithridate.
  • English Word Mitigable Definition Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.
  • English Word Mitigant Definition Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lentitive.
  • English Word Mitigate Definition 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.
  • English Word Mitigate Definition To make mild and accessible; to mollify; -- applied to persons.
  • English Word Mitigated Definition of Mitigate
  • English Word Mitigating Definition of Mitigate
  • English Word Mitigation Definition 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.
  • English Word Mitigative Definition Tending to mitigate; alleviating.
  • English Word Mitigator Definition One who, or that which, mitigates.
  • English Word Mitigatory Definition Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.
  • English Word Miting Definition A little one; -- used as a term of endearment.
  • English Word Mitome Definition The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.
  • English Word Mitosis Definition See Karyokinesis.
  • English Word Mitraille Definition Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.
  • English Word Mitrailleur Definition One who serves a mitrailleuse.
  • English Word Mitrailleuse Definition 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.
  • English Word Mitral Definition Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.
  • English Word Mitre Definition 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.
  • English Word Mitre Definition The surface forming the beveled end or edge of a piece where a miter joint is made; also, a joint formed or a junction effected by two beveled ends or edges; a miter joint.
  • English Word Mitre Definition A sort of base money or coin.
  • English Word Mitre Definition To place a miter upon; to adorn with a miter.
  • English Word Mitre Definition To match together, as two pieces of molding or brass rule on a line bisecting the angle of junction; to bevel the ends or edges of, for the purpose of matching together at an angle.
  • English Word Mitre Definition To meet and match together, as two pieces of molding, on a line bisecting the angle of junction.
  • English Word Mitre Definition See Miter.
  • English Word Mitred Definition of Mitre
  • English Word Mitriform Definition Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra.
  • English Word Mitring Definition of Mitre
  • English Word Mitt Definition A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.