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- English Word Myristin Definition The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.
- English Word Myristone Definition The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
- English Word Myrmicine Definition Of or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant (M. molesta), and many others.
- English Word Myrmidon Definition One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.
- English Word Myrmidon Definition A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc.
- English Word Myrmidonian Definition Consisting of, or like, myrmidons.
- English Word Myrmotherine Definition Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.
- English Word Myrobalan Definition Alt. of Myrobolan
- English Word Myrobolan Definition A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.
- English Word Myronic Definition Pertaining to, or obtained from, mustard; -- used specifically to designate a glucoside called myronic acid, found in mustard seed.
- English Word Myropolist Definition One who sells unguents or perfumery.
- English Word Myrosin Definition A ferment, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds.
- English Word Myroxylon Definition A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum.
- English Word Myrrh Definition A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Balsamodendron Myrrha. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose.
- English Word Myrrhic Definition Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, myrrh.
- English Word Myrrhine Definition Murrhine.
- English Word Myrtaceous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large and important natural order of trees and shrubs (Myrtaceae), of which the myrtle is the type. It includes the genera Eucalyptus, Pimenta, Lechythis, and about seventy more.
- English Word Myrtiform Definition Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries; having the form of a myrtle leaf.
- English Word Myrtle Definition A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.
- English Word Myself Definition I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.
- English Word Myselven Definition Myself.
- English Word Mysis Definition A genus of small schizopod shrimps found both in fresh and salt water; the opossum shrimps. One species inhabits the Great Lakes of North America, and is largely eaten by the whitefish. The marine species form part of the food of right whales.
- English Word Mystacal Definition Of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache.
- English Word Mystagogic Definition Alt. of Mystagogical
- English Word Mystagogical Definition Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.
- English Word Mystagogue Definition interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.
- English Word Mystagogue Definition One who keeps and shows church relics.
- English Word Mystagogy Definition The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.
- English Word Mysterial Definition Mysterious.
- English Word Mysteriarch Definition One presiding over mysteries.