mitella mi-těl -la, s. [Lat. a head-band, a kind of turban; dimin. of mitra. Named from the form of its capsule.] [MITER.] Bot.: False Sanicle; Bishop's Cap. A genus of Saxifragacea, consisting of low, slender plants with whitish or greenish flowers. Found in North America. mi-ter, mi-tre (tre as ter), *mi-tere, *my-ter, 8. [Fr. mitre, from Lat. mitra-a_cap, from Gr. mitra a belt, a girdle, a head-band, a fillet, a turban; Ital. & Sp. mitra.] I. Ordinary Language: 2735 miter-wheel, s. One of two bevel-wheels of 1. Ord. Lang.: To adorn with a miter; to raise to 1. A form of head-dress worn by the inhabitants entitled to wear a miter; of episcopal rank. 2. In the same sense as II. 2. "In this opinion many politicians concurred, who had no dislike to rochets and mitres.”—Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xiii. 3. The office, rank, or position of a bishop. II. Technically: 1. Carp.: A miter-joint (q. v.). 2. Religions: (1) Jewish: The divinely-appointed head-dress of the Jewish High Priest. It had on it a golden plate, inscribed "Holiness to the Lord." (Exod. xxxix. 28-30.) (2) Christian: The head-dress of a bishop. Miters are supposed to have been first worn between the seventh century and the tenth. Cardinals at first wore them too, till the Council of Lyons, in 1245, enjoined them to use hats. The episcopal miter was doubtless suggested by that of the Jewish High Priest. It is, however, considered to symbol ize the "cloven tongues as of fire" which descended on the early church on the day of Pentecost. miter-sill, s. Hydraul. Engin.: A raised step on the floor of a lock-bay against which the feet of the lock-gates shut. miter-square, s. A bevel-square whose blades are set immovably at an angle of 45° with each other. The term is used somewhat loosely to denote a square whose blade is adjustable to any angle; a bevel. miter-valve, s. A valve whose rim forms a miter-joint, with the face of the seat at an angle of 45 with the axis of the valve-disc. [PUPPET VALVE.] 1. Bookbind.: A term applied to fillet ornamenta- 2. Carp.: United with a miter-joint. mi'-ter-ing, mi'-tre-ing (tre as ter), pr. par. mitering-machine, s. 1. Print.: A machine for mitering printers' rules, mi-ter-wort, s. [Eng. miter, and suff. -wort Bot. The genus Mitella (q. v.).. False Miterwort is the genus Tiarella. Mith-rǎs, Mith'-ra, s. [Zend.] Compar. Relig.: The principal god of the Parsees Donne: Progress of the Soul; Second Anniversary. Bot.: The same as PENNY-CRESS (q. v.). *mith-ri-da-ti-on, s. [See extract.] An un- "Cratevas hath ascribed the invention of one hearbe to King Mithridates himselfe, called after his name Mithridation."-P. Holland: Pliny, bk. xxv., ch. vi. mit'-ig-a-ble, a. (Lat. mitigabilis, from mitigo to mitigate (q. v.).] Capable of being mitigated. "The rigor of that ceremonious law was mitigable."Barrow: Sermons, vol. ii., ser. 15. mit -I-gant, adj. [Latin mitigans, pr. par. of mitigo to mitigate (q. v.).] Softening, mitigating, soothing, lenitive. mit-1-gāte, *mit-i-gat, v. t. & i. [Latin mitisoft, gentle, and ago to make; Fr. mitiger; Sp. gatus, pa. par. of mitigo to make gentle; mitis mitigar; Ital. mitigare.] A. Transitive: 1. To make less rigorous, severe, or harsh; to Milton: P. L., x. 76. 3. To assuage, to lessen, to abate, to soften. *4. To cool, to temper, to moderate. B. Intransitive: 1. To relax or soften the rigor, harshness, or severity of anything. "A mitigating clause was added by way of rider."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xi. çhin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; boil, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, mitrailleuse *2. To become softened, cooled, assuaged, or lessened. "As his years increase, his fires assuage, Allay with time, and mitigate with age." Brookes: Jerusalem Delivered, bk. i. mit-I-ga-tion, *mit-i-ga-ci-oun, s. [Fr. mitigation, from Lat. mitigationem, accus. of mitigatio, from mitigatus, pa. par. of mitigo to mitigate (q. v.); Sp. mitigacion; Ital. mitigazione.] The act of mitigating, abating, relaxing, or moderating; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, or afflictive. "These share man's general lot With little mitigation." Wordsworth: Excursion, bk. v. mit'-I-gå-tive, a. & s. [O. Fr. mitigatif, from Lat. mitigativus, from mitigatus, pa. par. of mitigo to mitigate (q. v.).] A. As adj.: Mitigating, alleviating, or abating; lenitive. B. As subst.: Anything which alleviates, abates, or moderates; a lenitive. mit-I-ga-tor, s. [Eng. mitigat(e); -or.] One who or that which mitigates, alleviates, or moder ates. from mitigatus, pa. par. of mitigo-to mitigate A. As adj.: Tending to mitigate; mitigative. "In cases of life and such mitigatories."-North: Examen, p. 316. *mit -ing, 8. [Eng. mit(e) (2); -ing.] A little one; a term of endearment. mit-kul, s. [Native word.] A coin of account in Morocco, value about 77 cents. mi'-trą, 8. [Lat., from Gr. mitra-an Asiatic head-dress, a coif, a turban.] 1. Zool.: Miter-shell, Bishop's Miter, Tiara; a genus of prosobranchiate holostomatous gasteropods, family Muricide. The spire is elevated, the apex acute; the shell thick, with small aperture, plaited, and the and notched in front; the columella obliquely operculum very has a long probos small. The animal cis; and when irritated emits a purple liquid of nauseous odor. The popular names Mitra. have reference to the shape of the shell and its ornamentation, Known species 420, mostly from tropical seas, ranging from low-water to eighty fathoms. Mitra episcopalis is one of the commonest species; M. regina is the most beautiful; the most valuable is M. stamforthii. 2. Palæont.: The genus appears for the first time in the Cretaceous period, but the fossil species are mainly distributed through the Tertiary formations. (Nicholson.) mi-træ-form, a. [MITRIForm.] iron, copper, &c., grape-shot, from O. Fr. mitaille, tmit-rail, *mit'-raille, s. [Fr.=small pieces of from mite a small piece, a mite.] An old name for grape or case shot, or for charges of fragments of metal that were sometimes fired from guns. [MITE, 2.] mitrailleur, s. [MITRAILLEUSE.] mitrailleuse (as mi-tra-yěz'), *mitrailleur of cartridges in a short time. The name is given (as mi-tra-yer'), s. [Fr.] [MITRAILLE, 8.] Ord.: A weapon designed to fire a large number chiefly to those which are intended for use against men, firing, therefore, ordinary rifle bullets; but weapons of higher caliber, designed to discharge heavier projectiles against "material," are usually called "machine guns." In each instance, however, the weapon is a breechloader, and the shot is carried in a metal cartridge. The earliest forms were the French mitrailleuse and the Belgian Montigny mitraillense, both being composed of a num ber of barrels fastened in a group surrounded by a metal casing, the cartridges being contained in steel blocks, which are dropped successively into a "slot" or opening in the breech, and replaced, when discharged, by a fresh plate. The rate of fir ing of the Montigny was about 444 shots per minute, of the French piece 300 per minute. Those at present mostly in use are the Gatling (caliber '45inch), with ten revolving barrels, and the light Nordenfeldt and Gardner patterns, with fixed barrels. These are fed from a drum containing cartridges, which is placed over a slot on the upper surface of the case covering the barrels. A scattering arrangement is usually fitted to the mitrail leuse, which causes the barrels to move from side to side while the piece is being discharged. The machine guns firing shot large enough to penetrate sin, aş; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. -sious -ble, -dle, &c. mitral even thin iron plates are the Gatling (caliber '65inch), the Nordenfeldt (caliber 1-inch), and the Hotchkiss (caliber 146-inch), and all these have fixed barrels without any scattering machinery. The first-mentioned fires 200 rounds per minute; the Nordenfeldt, 100 rounds in the same time. The Nordenfeldt pattern consists of four barrels fastened side by side horizontally in a frame. It is fed from a carrier on top of the breech of the machine, which is filled by hand as it becomes empty. In the Hotchkiss gun the barreis, five in number, revolve, and in addition to solid cast-iron and steel shots, it fires explosive shells and canister, at the rate of 25 per minute. *mi-tral, mi-trali, a. [Fr.] Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter. "Wholly omitted in the mitrall crown."-Browne: Garden of Cyrus, ch. ii. mitral-valve, s. 1. Anat.: A valve situated at the left auricular opening of the heart. Called also the Bicuspid valve. 2. Pathol.: The chief diseases of the mitral valve are mitral-obstruction, mitral-regurgitant disease, and mitral-valvular disease. mi-tri-form, mi-træ-form, a. [Lat. mitra= a miter, and forma form, shape.] Bot.: Formed like a miter, conical. Used of the calyptra of a moss when it is torn away equally from the base, so as to hang equally over the sporangium. tmi-tri-næ, s. pl. [Lat. mitra, and fem. pl. adj. suff. -inc.] Zool. A sub-family of Volutide, type Mitra (q. v.). mi-try, a. [Eng. mit(e)r; -y.] Her.: Charged with eight miters. (Said of a bordure.) mitt, s. [An abbreviation of mitten (q.v.).] A mitten; a covering for the hand and the wrist only, but not for the fingers. Mitry. mit -těn, *mit-aine, *mit-tain, s. [Fr. mitaine, a word of disputed origin: perhaps from M. H. Ger. mittemo, mittamo-the middle; Gael. miotag; Ir. miolog a mitten; Gael. & Ir. mutan=a muff, a thick glove.] 1. A hand-covering, generally of worsted, worn as a protection against cold or other injury. It differs from a glove in not having separate and distinct cells for each finger, the thumb alone being separate. 2. A covering for the forearm only. (1) To get the mitten: To be jilted or discarded, as a lover. (2) To give one the mitten: To jilt, to discard, as a lover. (3) To handle without mittens: To handle roughly. *mit-tent, a. [Lat. mittens, pr. par. of mitto= to send.] Sending out or forth; emitting. "The fluxion proceedeth from humors peccant in quantity or quality, thrust forth by the part mittent upon the inferior weak parts."-Wiseman: Surgery. mit -ti-mus, 8. [Lat. we send; 1st pers. pl. pres. indic. of mitto-to send.] Law: 1. A precept or command in writing given by a justice of the peace, or other proper officer, directed to the keeper of a prison, requiring him to receive and hold in safe keeping an offender charged with any crime until he be delivered by due course of law; a warrant of commitment to prison. 2. A writ for removing records from one court to another. mi-tu, s. [Brazilian mitu poranga.] Ornith. Ourar mitu, one of the Cracidae (Curassows). It is found in South America. [OUrax.] mit-, a. [English mit(e) (1); -y.] Full of or abounding with mites; as, mity cheese. mix, v. t. & i. [By metathesis for misk, from A. S. miscan to mix; cogn, with Ger. mischen to mix; O. H. Ger. miskan; Wel. mysgn: Gael. measg; Ir. measgaim; Russ. mieshate; Lith. maiszyti; Lat. misceo; Gr. misgō.] A. Transitive: 1. To unite or blend into one mass or compound; to mingle promiscuously; to blend, to compound. "There drinckes the nectar with ambrosia mixt." Spenser: Shepherd's Calendar; November. mixed-questions, s. pl. Questions arising from *4. To join, to associate, to unite. B. Intransitive: 1. To become united, blended, or mingled in one compound; as, Oil and water will not mix. 2. To join, to associate, to mingle, to intermeddle. "Nobly distinguished above all the six By deeds in which the world must never mix." Cowper: Progress of Error, 162. mix-a-ble, *mix -1-ble, a. [Eng, mix; -able.] Capable of being mixed or compounded; mixable, miscible. "Mixion unites things mixible by change." Davies: Summa Totalis, p. 9. mixed, *mixt, pa. par. & a. [MIX.] A. As pa. par.: (See the verb.) B. As adjective: I. Ordinary Language: 1. United or blended into one compound or mass. ties; promiscuous. 2. Consisting of various kinds, qualities, or varie "The company is 'mixed' (the phrase I quote is T (1) Mixed ratio or proportion: Math.: A ratio or proportion in which the sum of the antecedent and consequent is compared with the difference of the antecedent and consequent: Thus, if a: b:: c: d, then a+b; a-b:: c+d: c-d is the mixed ratio or proportion. (2) 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, or vice versa. mixed-action, s. mixed-contract, s. Civil Law: A contract in which one party confers a benefit on another, but requires a lesser benefit from him, as when he leaves him a legacy, burdened with the obligation of paying from it a lesser one. mixed-fabrics, s. pl. Those in which two or more fibers are combined. The varieties are numer ous, as tweeds, poplins, cassinets, &c. mixed-government, s. Politics: A government not solely monarchical, aristocratical, or democratical, but a mixture of all the three. Typical example, the British Government. mixed-larceny, s. Law: Larceny of an aggravated type, as when it is attended by violence to the person or theft from a house. mixed-laws, s. pl. Laws which concern both person and property. mixed-marriages, s. pl. Roman Theol.: Marriages between persons of dif ferent religions. In the United States the term generally defines a marriage between a Catholic and a Protestant. In England a marriage between a baptized and an unbaptized person is ecclesiastically invalid, one between a member of the Roman Church and of any other Christian communion is valid, but illicit, unless a dispensation is first obtained. In the last century mixed marriages led to serious dissensions in Europe, and opposition to them, in obedience to Papal briefs, to the imprisonment of the Archbishop of Cologne in 1837, and of the Archbishop of Posen in 1839. olic and a Protestant desire to marry, they must, If a Roman Cathaccording to Catholic practice, promise that the children shall be brought up in the Roman communion; the bishop may then grant a dispensation must take place in a Roman Catholic church, without any repetition of the ceremony in a Protestant church. 2. To form or produce by mingling or blending and the marriage, without the nuptial benediction, two or more ingredients. "Hadst thou no poison mixed?" Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, iii, 3. 3. To join, to unite, to mingle, to intersperse. "That hath been thy craft, By mixing somewhat true to vent more lies." Milton: P. R., i. 433. fate, făt, färe, mixed-number, s. A number consisting of a whole number and a fraction, as 22. mixed-property, s. mixed-tithes, s. pl. Tithes consisting of auimals or material products, but in part nurtured or preserved by the care of man. Example, pigs, wool, milk. (Eng.) mixed-train, s. A train of cars composed of both freight and passenger cars. mixed-voices, s. pl. Male and female voices united in the same performance. mix -ěd-lý, *mixt'-ly, adv. [Eng. mixed, *mixt; -ly.] In a mixed manner. "With a commission not to proceed precisely, or merely according to the laws and customs either of England or Scotland, but mixtly."-Bacon: Union of England and Scotland. mix-en, *myx-en, *myx-ene, s. [A. S. mixen, from mix, meox=dung, filth.] A dung-hill, a dungheap. "The sonne that shineth on the myrene.”—Chaucer: Persones Tale. 1. Ord. Lang.: The act of mingling or compounding two or more ingredients into one body, mass, or compound; mixture. 2. Cloth: The uniting of wool of different colors for mixed cloth, called medleys. mixing-sieve, s. A sieve by which ingredients are intimately combined by sifting together. *mix-ion (x as sh), s. [Lat. mixus, pa. par. of misceo to mix.] A mixing; mixture. [See example under Mixable.] mix-ite, s. [Named by Schrauf after A. Mixa; suff. -ite (Min.); Ger. mixit.] Min.: A mineral occurring as an encrustation on bismite (q. v.), sometimes spherical, with concentric, fibrous structure; also crystalline to cryptocrystalline. Crystallization, monoclinic or triclinic. Hardness, 3-4; specific gravity, 266; color, shades of emerald-green; translucent to transparent. Analysis yielded: Phosphoric and arsenic acids, 30'45; sesquioxide of bismuth, 1307; protoxide of copper, 43 21; water, 1107; protoxide of iron, 153; lime, 083=100 15. Found at Joachimsthal, Bohemia. mix-og-a-moŭs, a. [Gr. miris, in comp. miroa mingling, communion, and gamos=marriage.] (For def. see extract.) "The majority of Teleostei are mirogamous; that is, the males and females congregate on the spawning-beds, and the number of the former being in excess, several males attend to the same female, frequently changing from one female to another. The same habit has been observed in Lepidosteus."-Günther: Study of Fishes, p. 177. mix-o-lyd'-1-an, a. [Gr. mixis, in comp. mixo=a mingling, and Eng. Lydian (q.v.).] Music: The epithet applied to the seventh ecclesiastical mode (q. v.). *mixt, pa. par. or a. [MIx.] mix -tie, mix-ty, a. (See the compound.) mixtie-maxtie, mixty-maxty, a. Confusedly mixed or mingled together. (Scotch.) = "Yon mixtie-martie, queer hotch-potch The Coalition." Burns: Cry and Prayer. forma=form.] Of mixed shapes. *mix-ti-form, a. [Lat. mixtus mixed, and Revol., pt. i., bk. vii., ch. ix. "That so mixtiform National Assembly."-Carlyle: Fr. mix-ti-lin'-ě-al, mix-ti-lin'-ě-ar, a. [Latin mixtus, pa. par. of misceo-to mix, and linea=a lines, right, curved, &c. line.] Consisting of a mixture or combination of mix-tion (x as c), s. [Lat, mixtio, from mixtus, pa. par. of misceo to mix; Fr. mixtion; Sp. mistion; Ital. mistione.] *1. Ord. Lang.; The act of mixing; a mixture; a promiscuous assemblage. 2. Art: A term used by French artists to desig nate the medium or mordant used for aflixing leafgold to wood or distemper pictures, and formed by a mixture of one pound of amber with four ounces of pure mastic and one of Jew's pitch or asphaltum. *mixt-lý, adv. [MIXEDLY.] pine, pit, sïre, sir, Law: A compound of realty and personalty. amidst, what, fâll, father; wē, wět, hëre, camel, her, thêre; marîne; gỗ, pot, mixture mix-ture, s. [Latin mixtura, from mixturus, fut. par. of misceo to mix; Fr. mixture; Ital. & Sp. mistura.] I. Ordinary Language: 1. The act of mixing or blending together; the state of being mixed or blended together; commix ture. "The wine of the wrath of God, which is poured out without mixture into the cup of his indignation."-Reve. lation xiv. 10. 2. That which is mixed or blended with other things; the ingredient added and mixed. "Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist, that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution."-Addison: Freeholder. 3. The result of the act of mixing; a mixed body, mess, or compound. "What if this mixture do not work at all?" II. Technically: Shakesp.: Romeo and Juliet, iv. 3. 1. Chem.: A composition of different chemical substances which remain unaltered in their character even when thoroughly commingled. 2. Music: An organ stop, consisting of several ranks of pipes to each note. It is only used in combination with the foundation and compound stops, as it consists of high harmonics of the ground tone. 3. Pharm. (pl.): Mistura. Insoluble principles suspended in water by means of gummy or similar substances contained in the medicines, or added to them by mixture. More rarely, soluble substances dissolved in the water or other liquid. Mi-zar, s. [Arabic.] Astron.: A fixed star, Zeta Ursa Majoris. miz'-en, s. & a. [MIZZEN.] *miz-māze, *mizz-mazz, 8. [A redup. of maze (q. v.).] A maze, a labyrinth. "The clue to lead them through the mizmaze of variety of opinions and authors to truth."-Locke: Conduct of the Understanding, § 20. miz-zen, miz'-en, *mis-en, *mys-son, s. & a. [Fr. misaine, from Ital. mezzana, from Low Lat. medianus middle, of middle size, from Lat. medius =middle. The name was probably taken from its mid-position between the bowsprit and main-mast, for it was once a foresail. (Skeat.)] A. As substantive: 1. The aftermost of the fore-and-aft sails of a ship; called also the spanker or spencer. “The mizen is a large sail of an oblong figure extended upon the mizen-mast."-Falconer: Shipwreck, ch. ii., note 6. 2. The aftermost mast in a three-masted ship, or in those two-masted ships in which the forward mast is the larger, such as the ketch and yawl. The main is always the larger mast. When the larger mast in a twomasted vessel is forward, the one abaft is the mizzen; when the larger mast is abaft, the one nearer the bows is the fore-mast. Mizzen. The word mizzen indicates the relation of many parts, as mizzen-top, mizzen-shrouds, mizzen-rigging, &c. The bonaventure mizzen is a second or additional mizzen-mast employed in some ships with four masts. B. As adj.: Of or pertaining to the mizzen; as, mizzen-yards, &c. mizzen-mast, 8. [MIZZEN, A. 2.] miz-zle, v. i. [A frequent. from mist (q. v.).] (MISLE.] 1. Lit.: To rain in very fine drops; to misle, to arizzle. 2. Fig.: To disappear suddenly; to decamp. (Slang.) "Eh! what? he has mizzled, has he?"—Allingham: For tune's Frolic, i. 1. miz'-zle, s. [MIZZLE, v.] Very small, fine rain. miz-zled (zled as zęld), a. [Etym. doubtful.] Spotted; of different colors. (Scotch.) mizz -on-ite (zz as tz), s. [Gr. meizōn=greater; suff. -ite (Min.).] Min.: A tetragonal mineral belonging to the scapolite group of unisilicates of Dana, and closely resembling meionite (q. v.). Crystals very small. Hardness, 5:5-6; specific gravity, 2623; luster, vitreous; colorless; transparent. An analysis yielded: Silica, 54-70: alumina, 23.80; magnesia, 0-22; lime, 8.77; soda, 983; potash, 2:14; loss by ignition, 0.13= 99-59. Found on Monte Somma, Vesuvius. 2737 miz-zy, 8. [Etym. doubtful.] A bog, a quagmire. (Prov.) mnē-mon-ic, mnē-mon'-ic-al (initial m mute), a. [MNEMONICS.] Of or pertaining to mnemonics; tending or intended to assist the memory. "That would engage and fix the memory of those characters alone, and thereby hinder the further use of the mnemonical table."-Boyle: Works, vi. 326. mnē-mon-I-cian (initial m mute), s. English mnemonic; ian.] One skilled in mnemonics; a teacher or professor of mnemonics. mnē-mon-Ics (initial m mute), s. [Gr. mně. monika, neut. pl. of mnemonikos pertaining to memory; mněmōn (genit. mnemonos) = mindful; mnaomai to remember; Fr. mnémonique.] The art of memory; the principles and rules of some method to assist the memory. tmné-mo-těch-nics (initial m mute), s. [MNE- "On what principle of mnemotechnics the ideas were Mne-mos-y-në (initial m mute), s. [Gr.=mem- 1. Class. Mythol.: The daughter of Coelus and Bot.: A tribe of Mnioidea. They have the habit mni-a-děl-phã'-çĕ-æ (m mute), s. pl. [Modern Bot.: A family of Pleurocarpous Mosses having mnî'-ăm (initial m mute), s. [Latinized from Gr. Bot. The typical genus of the tribe Mniaceae, and the family Mnioides. It resembles Bryum, but differs in habit. Mnium hornum (Bryum hornum) and M. undulatum are common. *mō, a. & adv. [A. S. má.] More. mo-a, s. [Maori.] The name given by the natives mōan, *mene, *mone, v. i. & t. [A. S. mœnan, 1. To utter a low, dull, and prolonged sound, moan. "And through the ancient oaks o'erhead 2. To produce or give out a low dull sound like a 3. To murmur. †1. To lament, to deplore; to moan or groan over. tress. mobbish moan, *mone, s. [MOAN, v.] 1. A low, dull and prolonged sound, as from one in pain or grief; a low or suppressed groan; lamentation. *2. Grief, sorrow. "Thine being but a moiety of my moan." Shakesp.: Richard III., ii. 2. 3. A low, dull sound like that made by a person moaning; as, the moan of the wind. mōan'-fùl, *mone-fule, a. [Eng. moan; -ful(l).] Full of moaning or grief; sorrowing, grieving. mōan -fül-ly, adv. [Eng. moanful; -ly.] In a moanful, sad manner; with moans or lamentations. Mō-är'-I-a, s. [From Maori moa (q. v.).] Geol.: A name sometimes given to a southern continent assumed by Dr. Mantell to have been submerged, leaving as the culminating points Philip and Norfolk Islands, Chatham and Auckland 1sOver this continent Dr. lands, and New Zealand. Mantell believes that the Moa roamed. (Mantell: Petrifactions and their Teachings, p. 132.) moat, moate, *mote, subst. [O. Fr. mote (Fr. motte); Low Lat. mota a mound consisting of the earth dug from a trench for water. "Just as in the case of dike and ditch, the word moat originally meant either the trench dug out or the embankment "(Skeat.)] thrown up.' Fort.: A deep ditch or trench round a fort, &c., generally filled with water. moat, v. t. [Fr. motter.] To surround or protect with a moat. [MOAT, 8.] "A great castle near Valladolid, Moated and high, and by fair woodlands hid." Longfellow: Theologian's Tale. *mōate, v. t. [MUTE, v.] To void excrement, as birds; to mute. mõat -ěd, a. [Eng. moat; ed.] Furnished or surrounded with a moat. "There, at the moated grange, resides this dejected Mariana."-Shakesp.: Measure for Measure, iii. 1. Mō-ǎt'-ta-lite, s. [MUTAZILITE.] mob (1), *mobb, s. [A contr. for mobile in the Lat. phrase mobile vulgus the fickle common people. [MOBILE.] Introduced into the English language during the latter part of the reign of Charles II. Speaking of the Green Ribbon Club, North, in 1740, says: "It was their beast of burden, and called first mobile vulgus, but fell naturally into the contraction of one syllable, and ever since is become proper English." (Examen, p. 574.)] A disorderly crowd; a promiscuous assemblage of rough, riotous persons; a rabble. "Nane were keener against it than the Glasgow folk, wi' their rabblings and their risings, and their mobs, as they ca' them now-a-days."-Scott: Rob Roy, ch. xxxii. *mob-driver, s. A demagogue, an agitator. "Colonel Mildmay, an old Rumper, and late mob-driver in Essex."-North: Examen, p. 126. mob-law, s. The rule of the mob; rough and ready administration of justice by the mob; lynchlaw. *mob-master, 8. A demagogue. *mob-reader, 8. An ignorant or illiterate reader. *mob-story, 8. A vulgar story or tale current among the common people. mob (2), s. [Dut. mop-muts = a woman's night. cap; mop a woman's coif.] A mob-cap (q. v.). "She could harangue with wond'rous grace, On gowns, and mobs, and Lloyd: Spirit of Contra- mob-cap, s. A cap or head- "The moon is charming; so Are pretty maidens in mob Praed: County Ball. *mob (2), v. t. [MOB (2), 8.] To wrap up or cover in a cowl or veil; to muffle up. Mob-cap. "Having most of them chins as smooth as women's, and their faces mob'd in hoods and long coats like petticoats." -More: On the Seven Churches. (Pref.) *mob'-bl-fy, v. t. [Eng. mob; -fy.] To mob; to crowd round. P. "Mobbify out at elections conformable loyal gentlemen, whom we will cry down for High Men."-North: Examen, 345. mob'-bish, a. [Eng. mob; -ish.] Like or consisting of a mob; characteristic of a mob; rough, tumultuous, vulgar, mean, low. , aş 172 mo-bee, s. [MOBBY.] A fermented liquor made by the negroes of the West Indies from sugar, gin. ger, and snakeroot. mō-bile, *mō-bil, a. & s. [French, from Lat. mobilis (for movibilis)=easy to be moved; moveo= to move; Ital. mobile; Sp. moble, meuble.] A. As adjective: 1. Capable of being moved; movable; not fixed. 2. Easily moved, changed, or altered; as, mobile features. 3. Fickle, changeable. *B. As subst. The mob, the common people, the populace. MOB (1), 8.] "Muf. (making up to the mobile.) Good people, here you are met together."-Dryden: Don Sebastian, iv. 1. (1) Mobile equilibrium: [EQUILIBRIUM.] (2) Primum mobile: [PRIMUM.] mō-bil'-I-ty, s. [Fr. mobilité, from Lat. mobilitatem, accus. of mobilitas, from mobilis=mobile (q. v.); Ital. mobilità; Sp. mobilidad.] 1. Capability of being moved; susceptibility of motion. (In Bot. sometimes used for the susceptibility of motion possessed by sensitive plants.) "That extreme mobility which belongs only to the fluid state."-Herschel: Astronomy, § 386. 2. Aptitude for motion; readiness to move or change; as, mobility of features. 3. Activity, fleetness. *4. Fickleness, changeability, inconstancy. *5. The mob, the populace. (A use suggested by nobility.) "She singled you out with her eye, as commander-in. chief of the mobility."—Dryden: Don Sebastian, iv. 1. mob-1-li-zā -tion, s. [French mobilisation, from mobiliser to mobilize (q. v.).] Mil.: The act of mobilizing; the state of being mobilized; the calling of troops into active service; the placing of an army on a war-footing or readi ness for active service. It includes the calling out of the reserve and men on furlough, the organ izing of the artillery, medical, commissariat, and transport services, the accumulation of provisions, munitions, &c. mob-i-lize, v. t. [Fr. mobiliser, from mobile= movable.] 1. Ord. Lang.: To put in a state of readiness for service. "To equalize, mobilize, and drill into a sort of uniform. ity the whole class of agricultural laborers."-London Times. 2. Mil. To put in a state of readiness for active service, as troops; to call out for active service. *mo'-ble, v. t. [A freq, from mob (2), v. (q. v.)] To wrap or muffle up, as in a hood; to mob. mō -bleş, s. pl. [See def.] Law: A corruption of movables (q. v.). mob-oc-ra-çy, s. [Eng. mob (1), s.; o connective, and Gr. kratos strength, might.] The rule or authority of the mob; the tyranny of the mob; mob-law. "The cries did not cause him to desist or deviate from his line of argument. Mobocracy had taken possession of the House, anarchy was being given an object lesson, and the followers of Johann Most were being invited to give practical illustrations of their diabolical theories.' -Chicago Inter Ocean, Feb. 24, 1894. mob-o-crăt -ic, a. [MOвOCRACY.] Of or pertaining to mobocracy. *mobş-man, s. [Eng. mob (1), s., and man.] A member of the swell mob; a pickpocket, a thief, a swindler. moc-ca-sin, moc-cason, moc-as-sin, moccas-sin, subst. [A North American Indian word; Algonquin makissin.] 1. Ord. Lang.: A deerskin sandal, the sole and upper of which are formed of one piece of leather. It is the ordinary foot-cover Moccasin. ing worn by the North American Indians. 2. Zool.: [MoCCASIN-SNAKE.] moccasin-snake, s. Zoology: 1. Cenchris piscivorus, of the family Crotalida, sometimes called the Water-viper, from its frequenting marshy places. It is a fish-eating snake, fate, făt, färe, amidst, 2738 as its specific name denotes. Habitat, North Carolina, the country to the south, and across to the Rocky Mountains. 2. The name is sometimes, but improperly, applied to Trigonocephalus contortrix, the Copperhead Snake. Both these reptiles are extremely poisonous, but neither possesses a rattle. Mo-cha, s. [Arab.] 1. Geog.: A fortified sea-port town of Arabia. 2. Entom.: Ephyra omicronarca, a whitish June and September on the maple. straw-colored moth, the larva of which is found in Mocha-stone, s. Min.: A variety of chalcedony inclosing dendritic iron. These frequently present a remarkable reforms of binoxide of manganese and peroxide of semblance to organic forms, especially to those of confervoid plants, but their mineral origin has now been placed beyond doubt. [AGATE] moch'-a-dō, s. [MOCKADO.] moche, s. [Fr.] A bale of raw silk, as imported. [MICKLE.] *moch-el, *moche, *moch-il, adj. & adverb. A. As adj.: Great in quantity, number, or degree; much. B. As adv.: Much, greatly. "And over al this yit seide he mochil more." Chaucer: C. T., 2,852. mo-chrǎs, s. [Arab. Mocha-ras the sap of Mocha. Three dye-stuffs: (1) a mahogany-colored gum of rounded, convoluted, hollow pieces, obtained from Bombax malabaricum; (2) a heavy, light mahogany-colored gum in large, solid bars, pale-colored interiorly, obtained from Moringa pterygosperma; (3) curiously convoluted, yellowish, opaque pieces of resinous substance, obtained from Areca catechu. mock, *mokke, *mocke, v. t. & i. [Old French mocquer (Fr. moquer), from the same root as Ger. mucken to mumble, to mutter; Sw. mucka; Ital. mocca a grimace; moccare to mock; Gael. mag to scoff, to deride; Wel. morcio-to mimic; late Gr. mokos mockery; Lat. maccus-a buffoon.] A. Transitive: icule, or contempt. 1. To deride, to laugh at; to treat with scorn, rid "Elijah mocked them and said, Cry aloud."-1 Kings xviii. 27. 2. To set at nought; to defy, to ignore. "Fill our bowls once more, Let's mock the midnight bell." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra, iii. 13. 3. To imitate or mimic, especially in contempt, ridicule, or derision; to deride by mimicry, to ridi cule. "Pray, do not mock me: I am a very foolish fond old man." 4. To illude, to deceive, to disappoint; to fool, to beguile. "False Jacobites who had mocked their banished sover. eign year after year with professions of attachment."Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxii. *5. Toimitate, to mimic, to resemble. "To see the life as lively mocked, as ever Shakesp.: Winter's Tale, v. 3. *6. To pretend, to feign. "He mocks the pauses that he makes." Shakesp.: Antony and Cleopatra, v. 1. B. Intrans.: To make use of ridicule or derision; to make sport, to jeer, to ridicule, to speak jestingly. (Generally followed by at.) "The adversaries saw her, and did mock at her sabbaths."-Lamentations i. 7. mock, s. & a. [Mock, v.] A. As substantive: 1. The act of mocking; ridicule, derision, sneer, gibe, jeer. "The loud world's random mock." Tennyson: Will, 4. 2. Imitation, mimicry, mockery. B. As adj.: False, counterfeit, assumed, sham; not genuine or real. "This mock royalty was of short duration."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. i. mock-apple, s. Bot.: A Canadian name for Echinocystis lobata. mock-disease, s. A quasi-disease, caused or ex. aggerated by morbid fancy, as hysteria, &c. *mock-God, s. A derider of God. "You monsters, scorners, and mock-Gods."—Ward: Sermons, p. 100. mock-heroic, adj. Burlesquing the heroic in character, action, &c. mocking-stock mock-lead, mock-ore, s. [BLENDE.] mock-orange, s. Bot.: Philadelphus coronarius. It is so called because its large, creamy-white flowers have a pow erful odor somewhat resembling that of orange blossoms. The flavor of the leaves is like that of cucumbers. It is cultivated in shrubberies and cottage gardens. mock-plane, s. Bot.: Acer pseudo-platanus. mock-privet, s. Bot.: Phillyrea virgata, more commonly called by the book-name of Privet-leaved Phillyrea. mock-sun, s. A parhelion (q. v.). head, in imitation of turtle-soup. mock-turtle, 8. A soup prepared from calf's mock-velvet, s. A fabric made in imitation of velvet. mock-a-ble, adj. [Eng. mock; -able.] Exposed to derision; ridiculous. "The behavior of the country is most mockable at court."-Shakesp.: As You Like It, iii. 2. mock'-a-dō, s. [Mock, v.] 1. A fabric made in imitation of velvet; mock. velvet. It was made specially in Queen Elizabeth's time. 2. Mockery. *mock-age (age as Iġ), s. [Eng. mock; -age.} Mockery. mock-bird, s. [English mock, and bird.] The Mocking-bird (q. v.). mock -er, s. [Eng. mock; -er.] 1. One who mocks; a scoffer, a ridiculer, a jeerer. "There should be mockers in the last time, who should walk after their own ungodly lusts."-Jude 18. 2. One who mocks, illudes, or disappoints. "If thou diest before I come, thou art a mocker of my labor."-Shakesp.: As You Like It, ii. 6. mocker-nut, s. Bot.: Juglans tomentosa, called also Whitehearted Hickory, or Common Hickory (q. v.). mock-er-y, s. & a. [Fr. moquerie, from moquet = to mock.] 1. The act of ridiculing, deriding, or jeering; mockery. 2. An imitation, a counterfeit. "It is a pretty mocking of the life." Shakesp.: Timon of Athens, i. 1. mocking-bird, s. Ornith. The popular name of Mimus polyglottus. Ashy brown above, white beneath; wings black, varied with white, tail black. Its range in this country, of which it is native, is from 40° north to Mexico. It is also said to occur in Cuba. "The vocal powers of the mocking-bird exceed both in their imitative notes and in their natural song, those of any other species. The wild scream of the eagle and the soft notes of the blue-bird are repeated with exactness, and with apparently equal facility, while in both force and sweetness the mockingbird will often improve upon the original. The natural notes are bold, rich, and full and are varied almost without limitation."-Baird, Brewer, and Ridgway: North American Birds. *mocking-stock, s. A butt for merriment; a laughing-stock. "Philip was taken by the consul; made mocking-stock; and sent away prisoner to Rome." Raleigh: Hist. World, bk. v., ch. v., § 7. what, fâll, father; wē, wět, here, camel, her, thêre; pine, pit, sire, sir, marîne; gō, pot, mockingly mock-ing-ly, adv. [Eng. mocking; -ly.] In a mocking, jeering manner; with mockery; jeeringly, derisively. "'Let's meete,' quoth Eccho, mockingly.” Warner: Albion's England, bk. ix., ch. xlv. *mock -Ish, a. [Eng. mock; -ish.] Mock, sham, counterfeit. mō-cō, s. [A South American name (?); French moco; cf. Sp. moco-moldiness.] moco, the Rock Cavy, a South American rodent, Zool.: Cavia (Kerodon) rupestris, or Kerodon akin to the guinea pig, but larger. It lives in rocky places in Brazil. mod -al, a. [Eng. mod(e); -al; Fr. modale.] Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; relating to the form or mode, not the essence. modal-proposition, s. Logic: A proposition which affirms or denies with a qualification or limitation. mōd-al-ist, s. [Eng. modal; -ist.] Eccles. One who regards the three Persons of the Trinity as different modes of being, not as distinct Persons. mô-đăl-1-tỷ, s. [Eng. modal;-ity.] *1. Ord. Lang.: The quality or state of being modal; accidental difference. "By their modalities, suppositalities . and twenty other such chimeras."-South: Sermons, vol. iv., ser. 7. 2. Philos.: One of the four divisions of the Kantian Categories. It embraces Possibility, Existence, and Necessity, with their opposites Impossibility, Nonexistence, and Contingency. [KANTIAN PHILOSOPHY.] mōde (1), *mood, *moode, s. [Fr. mode, from Lat. modus a measure, manner, way; cogn. with Gr. medos a plan; mēdomai=to plan.] I. Ordinary Language: 2739 cocoa-nut, is used in pains of the chest. The leaves Lat. mo-dec-çe-æ, s. pl. [Mod. Lat. modecca; moderate *mod-er, a. [Lat. moderor to moderate (q. v.).] To moderate, to calm, to quiet. "These tydynges somewhat modered dyuers mennes harts." Berners: Froissart; Cronycle, vol. ii., ch. clxxxvii. *mŏd'-er-a-ble, adj. [Latin moderabilis, from modero= to moderate (q. v.).] Temperate, moder. ate. Moderation. *mod-er-ançe, s. [Lat. moderantia, from moderans, pr. par. of moderor = to moderate (q. v.).] mod-er-ant -işm, s. [Lat. moderans, pa. par. of moderor to moderate (q. v.); Eng. suff. -ism.] *1. Originally, as the etymology suggests, a little Moderation in opinion or measures, especially political. exemplar; a small sample. I. Ordinary Language: "That small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to our bones." 3. A form or pattern in miniature of something Which was the model of that Danish seal." 8. A system, a plan. "He preferred the episcopal to the synodical model." 1. A manner, method, way, or style of doing any- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xxi. thing; as, the mode of dressing or speaking. 2. Gradation, degree, measure, variety. "In ample mode, A robe of military purple flow'd Pope: Homer's Odyssey, xix. 262. 3. Fashion, custom; prevailing style. 4. A kind of silk. II. Technically: 1. Gram.: The same as MOOD (1), II. 1 (q. v.). 2. Logic: The same as MOOD (1), II. 2 (q. v.). 3. Phil.: The first of the three heads (with two divisions, Simple and Mixed) to which Locke reduced his Complex Ideas. "Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of substances; such are the ideas signified by the words Triangle, Gratitude, Murther, &c. . . . Of these Modes there are two sorts. First, there are some which are only variations, or different combinations of the same simple idea, without the mixture of any other, as a Dozen, a Score, which are nothing but the ideas of so many distinct units added together; and these I call simple Modes, as being contained within the bounds of one simple idea. There are others compounded of simple ideas of several kinds, put together, to make one complex one; v. g. Beauty, consisting of certain composition of color and figure, causing delight in the beholder; and these I call mixed Modes."-Human Understanding, bk. ii., ch. xii., SS 4, 5. 4. Music: A name given to the ancient Greek scales, and also to the old Church-scales founded on them, as Dorian mode, Phrygian mode, &c. In modern music a species of scale, of which two kinds are now recognized, viz., the major-mode and the minor mode. A major-mode is that division of the octave by which the intervals between the third and fourth and between the seventh and eighth are half-tones, all the other intervals being whole tones, The minor-mode is that division by which the intervals between the second and third and the fifth and sixth are half-tones. [MAJOR, MINOR.] 5. Metaphysics: Form as opposed to matter. mode-book, 8. A fashion-book. "Her head-dress cannot be described; it was like nothing in the mode-book or out of it."-Mrs. Wood: East Lynne, ch. vii. mōde (2), s. [MOOD (2), A.] *mōde, v. i. [MODE (1), 8.] To follow the mode or fashion; to be fashionable. "He could not mode it with the Italians."-Fuller: Worthies, ii. 388. mo-děc -cą, s. [Latinized from the East Indian name.] in II. Art: Every object which the artist proposes to imitate. The term is used in an absolute sense by the sculptor or painter to express the living model, male or female, from which he studies and executes a figure. The sculptor also applies the term to the original of a work modeled in clay, which he intends afterward to execute in marble, and also the plaster model from this first figure. The clay model is the work directly from the hand of the sculptor, and, properly speaking, is the original work, of which the marble work is the copy. model-wood, s. Bot.: A genus of Papayaceæ, according to Lindley; by others considered a genus of Passifloraceæ. Modecca palmata, a plant like bryony, grows tropical Asia. The root, rubbed down with oils, is a corroborant, and, mixed with the milk of the boll, boy; pout, jowl; cat, çell, chorus, Bot.: Nauclea cordifolia. mod-el, v. t. & i. [MODEL, 8.] A. Trans.: To plan, form, construct or carry out after some model or pattern; to form or construct to serve as a model or pattern; to mold, to shape. "Many a ship that sailed the main Was modeled o'er and o'er again." Longfellow: Building of the Ship. B. Intrans.: To make a model or models; to construct representations of things in clay, or to take casts therefrom as molds for reproductions. mod -el-er, s. [English model; er.] One who models; especially one who molds in clay, plaster, or wax. "A great proposal-maker and modeler of state."-Wood: Athena Oxon; Lilbourne. mod -el-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [MODEL, v.] (1) Not carried or pushed to excess; not extreme, violent, or rigorous. "He was himself inclined to a mild and moderate policy."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xv. (2) Of medium or mediocre quantity; not excessive, medium. "A moderate and beseeming share." Milton: Comus, 769. (3) Fair, not excessively high. "What was then considered as the moderate interest of eight per cent."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xx. (4) Not too luxurious or expensive; as, a moder ate table. (5) Not too severe, tolerably mild. "The milde ayre with season moderate." Spenser: F. Q., II. xii. 51. B. As substantive: Scotch Church Hist. (pl.): A party in the Estab lished Church of Scotland, which was dominant in its councils during the greater part of the eighteenth century and the early part of the nineteenth. It claimed to avoid extremes of doctrine, discipline, &c. The germ of moderatism began to develop soon after the Revolution Settlement of 1689; it was strengthened by the Act of Parliament, passed in 1712, reintroducing patronage, of which the moderate party ultimately became the warm defenders, and which they carried out so rigidly as sometimes to welcome the aid of military force to settle a presentee on a recalcitrant congregation. Some of them were men of literary culture, Principal Robertson, author of Charles V., the History of America, &c., being their leader from about 1751 to 1781. In 1796 the General Assembly, under moderate guidance, declined to take any steps in favor of Foreign Missions. From the time of the French Reign of Terror in 1793, the evangelical party, with which the moderates had long been in conflict, gained yearly an accession of strength, till, on May 27, 1834, the moderate party was defeated by 184 to 138 votes, on a motion giving a certain veto on the settlement of an unacceptable minister [VETO], and the moderate ascendency was temporarily overthrown. During the ten years' conflict, which ended in the disruption of 1843, the moderate party, in large measure, approved of the action of the law courts, and when the evangelical party seceded from the Church, they regained their old ascendency in the Scottish establishment. Since then their their earnest request patronage (q. v.) has been abolished. A. & B. As pr. par. & particip. adj.: (See the views have become considerably modified, and at verb.) C. As subst.: The act or art of making models; the act of forming or carrying out after a model; the art of constructing representations of things in clay, or of taking casts therefrom, as molds for reproductions. modeling-board, s. A board used in loam-molding to give shape to the mold. modeling-loft, s. The same as MOLD-LOFT (q. v.). modeling-plane, s. A short plane used in planing rounding surfaces. It has a length of from 1 inch to 5 inches, a width of from inch to 2 inches. The irons are fron inch to 14 inches wide. *mŏd'-el-ize, v. t. [Eng. model; -ize.] To form or model after a pattern; to give shape to; to mold. "Which some silly saints and devout bunglers will undertake to manage and modelize."-Gauden: Tears of the Church, p. 426. Mō'-den-êşe, a. & s. [See def.] A. As adj.: Of or belonging to Modena, or its inhabitants. B. As subst.: A native or inhabitant of Modena; as a plural, the inhabitants of Modena. chin, bench; go, |