MPage 198
- English Word Mixture Definition The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.
- English Word Mixture Definition That which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley.
- English Word Mixture Definition An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient.
- English Word Mixture Definition 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.
- English Word Mixture Definition 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; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.
- English Word Mixture Definition 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.
- English Word Mizmaze Definition A maze or labyrinth.
- English Word Mizzen Definition Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.
- English Word Mizzen Definition The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
- English Word Mizzenmast Definition The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.
- English Word Mizzle Definition To rain in very fine drops.
- English Word Mizzle Definition To take one's self off; to go.
- English Word Mizzle Definition Mist; fine rain.
- English Word Mizzled Definition of Mizzle
- English Word Mizzling Definition of Mizzle
- English Word Mizzy Definition A bog or quagmire.
- English Word MM. Definition of Monsieur
- English Word Mnemonic Definition Alt. of Mnemonical
- English Word Mnemonical Definition Assisting in memory.
- English Word Mnemonician Definition One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.
- English Word Mnemonics Definition The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
- English Word Mnemosyne Definition The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
- English Word Mnemotechny Definition Mnemonics.
- English Word Mo Definition More; -- usually, more in number.
- English Word Moa Definition 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.
- English Word Moabite Definition One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.
- English Word Moabitess Definition A female Moabite.
- English Word Moabitish Definition Moabite.
- English Word Moan Definition To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
- English Word Moan Definition To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.