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Milksop

MILK'SOP, noun A soft, effeminate, feeble-minded man.

MILK'-THISTLE, noun A plant of the genus Carduus.

Milktooth

MILK'TOOTH, noun The fore tooth of a foal, which is cast within two or three years.

Milkwhite

MILK'WHITE, adjective White as milk.

Milkwoman

MILK'WOMAN, noun A woman that sells milk.

Milky

MILK'Y, adjective Made of milk.

1. Resembling milk; as milky sap or juice.

2. Yielding milk; as milky mothers.

3. Soft; mild; gentle; timorous; as a milky heart.

Milky-Way

MILK'Y-WAY, noun The galaxy; a broad luminous path or circle in the heavens, supposed to be the blended light of innumerable fixed stars, which are not distinguishable with ordinary telescopes.

Mill

MILL, noun [Latin mille, a thousand.] A money of account of the United States, value the tenth of a cent, or the thousandth of a dollar.

MILL, noun [Latin mola, molo, mel, honey, mollis; Eng. mellow, mild, mold, meal.

1. A complicated engine or machine for grinding and reducing to fine particles, grain, fruit or other substance, or for performing other operations by means of wheels and a circular motion; as a grist-mill for grain; a coffee-mill; a cider-mill; a bark-mill. The original purpose of mills was to comminute grain for food, but the word mill is now extended to engines or machines moved by water, wind or steam, for carrying on many other operations. We have oil-mills, saw-mills, slitting-mills, bark-mills, fulling-mills, etc.

2. The house or building that contains the machinery for grinding, etc.

MILL, verb transitive To grind; to comminute; to reduce to fine particles or to small pieces.

1. To beat up chocolate.

2. To stamp coin.

3. To full, as cloth.

Millcog

MILL'COG, n. The cog of a mill wheel.

Milldam

MILL'DAM, noun A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to an altitude sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

Millenarian

MILLENA'RIAN, adjective Consisting of a thousand years; pertaining to the millenium.

MILLENA'RIAN, noun A chiliast; one who believes in the millenium, and that Christ will reign on earth with his saints a thousand years before the end of the world.

Millenary

MIL'LENARY, adjective Consisting of a thousand.

Millenial

MILLEN'IAL, adjective Pertaining to the millenium, or to a thousand years; as millenial period; millenial happiness.

Millenist

MIL'LENIST, noun One who holds to the millenium. [Not used.]

Millenium

MILLEN'IUM, noun [Latin mille, a thousand, and annus, year.]

A thousand years; a word used to denote the thousand years mentioned in Revelations 20. during which period Satan shall be bound and restrained from seducing men to sin, and Christ shall reign on earth with his saints.

Milleped

MIL'LEPED, noun [Latin mille, a thousand, and pes, foot.] The wood-louse, an insect having many feet, a species of Oniscus.

Millepore

MIL'LEPORE, noun [Latin mille, a thousand, and porus, a pore.]

A genus of lithophytes or polypiers of various forms, which have the surface perforated with little holes or pores, or even without any apparent perforation.

Milleporite

MIL'LEPORITE, noun Fossil millepores.

Miller

MIL'LER, noun [from mill.] One whose occupation is to attend a grist-mill.

1. An insect whose wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes.

Millers-Thumb

MIL'LER'S-THUMB, noun A small fish found in small streams.

Millesimal

MILLES'IMAL, adjective [Latin millesimus, from mille, a thousand.]

Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as millesimal fractions.

Millet

MIL'LET, noun [Latin milium.] A plant of the genus Milium, of several species, one of which is cultivated as an esculent grain.

The Indian millet is of the genus Holcus.

Millhorse

MILL'HORSE, noun A horse that turns a mill.

Milliary

MIL'LIARY, adjective [Latin milliarium, a milestone.]

Pertaining to a mile; denoting a mile; as a milliary column.

Milligram

MIL'LIGRAM, noun [Latin mille, a thousand, and Gr. a gram.]

In the system of French weights and measures, the thousandth part of a gram, equal to a cubic millimeter of water.

The milligram is equal to .0154 English grains.

Milliliter

MIL'LILITER, noun [Latin mille, a thousand, and liter.]

A French measure of capacity containing the thousandth part of a liter or cubic decimeter, equal to .06103 decimals of a cubic inch.

Millimeter

MILLIM'ETER, noun [Latin mille, a thousand, and metrum, a measure.]

A French lineal measure containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 decimals of an inch. It is the least measure of length.

Milliner

MIL'LINER, noun [Johnson supposes this word to be Milaner, form Milan, in Italy.] A woman who makes and sells head-dresses, hats or bonnets, etc. for females.

Millinery

MIL'LINERY, noun The articles made or sold by milliners, as head-dresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons and the like.

Million

MILLION, noun mil'yun. [Latin mille, a thousand.]

1. The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand. It is used as a noun or an adjective; as a million of men, or a million men. As a noun, it has a regular plural, millions.

2. In common usage, a very great number, indefinitely.

There are millions of truths that men are not concerned to know.

Millionary

MILL'IONARY, adjective Pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as the millionary chronology of the Pundits.

Millioned

MILL'IONED, adjective Multiplied by millions. [Not used.]

Millionth

MILL'IONTH, adjective The ten hundred thousandth.

Millpond

MILL'POND, noun A pond or reservoir of water raised for driving a mill wheel.

Millrace

MILL'RACE, noun The current of water that drives a mill wheel, or the canal in which it is conveyed.

MILL'-SIXPENCE, noun An old English coin first milled in 1561.

Millrea

MILLRE'A

MILLREE', noun A coin of Portugal of the value of $1.24 cents.

Millree

MILLREE', n. A coin of Portugal of the value of $1.24 cents.

Millstone

MILL'STONE, noun A stone used for grinding grain.

MILL'-TOOTH, noun plural mill-teeth. A grinder, dens molaris.

Milter

MILT'ER, noun A male fish.

Miltwort

MILT'WORT, noun A plant of the genus Asplenium.

Mime

MIME, noun A buffoon. [See Mimic.]

1. A kind of dramatic farce.

MIME, verb intransitive To mimic, or play the buffoon. [See Mimic.]

Mimer

MI'MER, noun A mimic. [See Mimic.]

Mimesis

MIME'SIS, noun [Gr.] In rhetoric, imitation of the voice or gestures of another.

Mimetic

MIMET'IC, adjective [Gr.] Apt to imitate; given to aping or mimicry.

Mimic

MIM'IC

MIM'ICAL, adjective [Latin mimus, mimicus; Gr. to imitate.]

1. Imitative; inclined to imitate or to ape; having the practice or habit of imitating.

Man is of all creatures the most mimical in gestures, speech, etc.

2. Consisting of imitation; as mimic gestures.

Mimic implies often something droll or ludicrous, or less dignified than imitative.

MIM'IC, noun One who imitates or mimics; a buffoon who attempts to excite laughter or derision by acting or speaking in the manner of another.

1. A mean or servile imitator.

Of France the mimic and of Spain the prey.

Mimick

MIM'ICK, verb transitive To imitate or ape for sport; to attempt to excite laughter or derision by acting or speaking like another; to ridicule by imitation.

--The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply,

The habit mimick and the mien belie.

Mimicry

MIM'ICRY, noun Ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.

Mimographer

MIMOG'RAPHER, noun [Gr.] A writer of farces.

Mina

MI'NA, noun [Latin mina ] A weight or denomination of money. The mina of the Old Testament was valued at sixty shekels. The Greek or Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas, about f2. l7s.sterling, $10.44 cents.

Minacious

MINA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin minax, from minor, to threaten.]

Threatening; menacing.

Minacity

MINAC'ITY, noun [Latin minax.] Disposition to threaten. [Little used.]

Minaret

MIN'ARET, noun A small spire or steeple, or spire-like ornament in Saracen architecture.

Minatory

MIN'ATORY, adjective Threatening; menacing.

Mince

MINCE, verb transitive mins. [Latin minuo, to diminish; Latin minor, smaller; minuo, to diminish; Gr. small, slender; to diminish; Latin minutus, minute.

1. To cut or chop into very small pieces; as, to mince meat.

2. To diminish in speaking; to retrench, cut off or omit a part for the purpose of suppressing the truth; to extenuate in representation.

I know no way to mince it in love, but to say directly, I love you.

Siren, now mince the sin,

And mollify damnation with a phrase--

If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him.

These--were forced to mince the matter.

3. To speak with affected softness; to clip words; not to utter the full sound.

4. To walk with short or diminished steps.

MINCE, verb intransitive To walk with short steps; to walk with affected nicety; to affect delicacy in manner.

I'll turn two mincing steps

Into a manly stride.

Because the daughters of Zion are haughty--

walking and mincing as they go. Isaiah 3:1.

1. To speak softly, or with affected nicety.

Mince-Pie

MINCE-PIE

MIN'CED, participle passive Cut or chopped into very small pieces.

Minced

MIN'CED, pp. Cut or chopped into very small pieces.

Minced-Pie

MINCED-PIE, noun A pie made with minced meat and other ingredients, baked in paste.

Mincing

MIN'CING, participle present tense Cutting into small pieces; speaking or walking affectedly.

Mincingly

MIN'CINGLY, adverb In small parts; not fully.

Mind

MIND, noun [Latin reminiscor; Latin mens; Gr. memory, mention, to remember, mind ardor of mind vehemence; anger. mind signifies properly intention, a reaching or inclining forward to an object, from the primary sense of extending, stretching or inclining, or advancing eagerly, pushing or setting forward, whence the Greek sense of the word, in analogy with the Teutonic mod, moed, muth, mind courage, spirit, mettle. So Latin animus, animosus.]

1. Intention; purpose; design.

The sacrifice of the wicked is abomination; how much more, when he bringeth it with a wicked mind Proverbs 21:27.

2. Inclination; will; desire; a sense much used, but expressing less than settled purpose; as in the common phrases, 'I wish to know your mind; ' 'let me know your mind; ' 'he had a mind to go; ' 'he has a partner to his mind '

3. Opinion; as, to express one's mind We are of one mind

4. Memory; remembrance; as, to put one in mind; to call to mind; the fact is out of my mind; time out of mind From the operations of the intellect in man, this word came to signify.

5. The intellectual or intelligent power in man; the understanding; the power that conceives, judges or reasons.

I fear I am not in my perfect mind

So we speak of a sound mind a disordered mind a weak mind a strong mind with reference to the active powers of the understanding; and in a passive sense, it denotes capacity, as when we say, the mind cannot comprehend a subject.

6. The heart or seat of affection.

Which were a grief of mind to Isaac and Rebekah. Genesis 26:35.

7. The will and affection; as readiness of mind Acts 17:11.

8. The implanted principle of grace. Romans 7:23.

MIND, verb transitive To attend to; to fix the thoughts on; to regard with attention.

Cease to request me; let us mind our way.

MIND not high things. Romans 12:2.

1. To attend to or regard with submission; to obey. His father told him to desist, but he would not mind him.

2. To put in mind; to remind.

3. To intend; to mean.

MIND, verb intransitive To be inclined or disposed to incline.

When one of them mindeth to go into rebellion.

Mind-Stricken

MIND-STRICKEN, adjective Moved; affected in mind. [Not used.]

Minded

MINDED, adjective Disposed; inclined.

If men were minded to live virtuously.

Joseph was minded to put her away privily. Matthew 1:19.

MINDED is much used in composition; as high-minded; low-minded; feeble-minded; sober-minded; double-minded.

Mindedness

MINDEDNESS, noun Disposition; inclination towards any thing; as heavenly mindedness

Mindfilling

MINDFILLING, adjective Filling the mind.

Mindful

MINDFUL, adjective Attentive; regarding with care; bearing in mind; heedful; observant.

I promise to be mindful of your admonitions.

What is man, that thou art mindful of him? Psalms 7:1.

Mindfully

MINDFULLY, adverb Attentively; heedfully.

Mindfulness

MINDFULNESS, noun Attention; regard; heedfulness.

Minding

MINDING, participle present tense Regarding; heeding.

MINDING, noun Regard.

Mindless

MINDLESS, adjective Inattentive; heedless; forgetful; negligent; careless.

Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth.

1. Not endued with mind or intellectual powers; as mindless bodies.

2. Stupid; unthinking; as a mindless slave.

Mine

MINE, adjective called sometimes a pronominal adj. [Latin meus.]

My; belonging to me. It was formerly used before nouns beginning with vowels. 'I kept myself from mine iniquity.' Psalms 18:3. But this use is no longer retained. We now use my before a vowel as well as before an articulation; as my iniquity. In present usage, my always precedes the noun, and mine follows the noun, and usually the verb; as, this is my book; this book is mine; it is called my book; the book is called mine:it is acknowledged to be mine

MINE sometimes supplies the place of a noun. Your sword and mine are different in construction.

MINE, noun

1. A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, mineral substances and other fossil bodies are taken by digging. The pits from which stones only are taken, are called quarries.

2. In the military art, a subterraneous canal or passage dug under the wall or rampart of a fortification, where a quantity of power may be lodged for blowing up the works.

3. A rich source of wealth or other good.

MINE, verb intransitive To dig a mine or pit in the earth.

1. To form a subterraneous canal or hole by scratching; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth, as animals; as the mining coney.

2. To practice secret means in injury.

MINE, verb transitive To sap; to undermine; to dig away or otherwise remove the substratum or foundation; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.

They mined the walls.

In a metaphorical sense, undermine is generally used.

Mine-Digger

MI'NE-DIGGER, noun One that digs mines.

Miner

MI'NER, noun One that digs for metals and other fossils.

1. One who digs canals or passages under the walls of a fort, etc. Armies have sappers and miners.

Mineral

MIN'ERAL, noun [Low Latin minera, a matrix or vein of metals, whence mineralia; all from mine.]

A body destitute of organization, and which naturally exists within the earth or at its surface.

Minerals were formerly divided into salts, earths, inflammables and ores; a division which serves for a general distribution, but a more scientific arrangement into classes, orders, genera, species, subspecies and varieties, has been adopted to meet the more precise views of modern mineralogists.

MIN'ERAL, adjective Pertaining to minerals; consisting of fossil substances; as the mineral kingdom.

1. Impregnated with minerals or fossil matter; as mineral waters; a mineral spring.

Mineralist

MIN'ERALIST, noun One versed or employed in minerals.

Mineralization

MINERALIZA'TION, noun [See Mineralize.]

1. The process of forming an ore by combination with another substance; the natural operation of uniting a metallic substance with another.

2. The process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.

3. The act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.

Mineralize

MIN'ERALIZE, verb transitive [from mineral] In mineralogy, to combine with a metal in forming an ore or mineral. Sulphur mineralizes many of the metals.

1. To convert into a mineral.

In these caverns, the bones are not mineralized.

2. To impregnate with a mineral substance; as, to mineralize water.

Mineralized

MIN'ERALIZED, participle passive Deprived of its usual properties by being combined with another substance or formed into an ore; as, metallic substances are mineralized

1. Converted into a mineral.

2. Impregnated with a mineral.

Mineralizer

MIN'ERALIZER, noun A substance which mineralizes another or combines with it in an ore, and thus deprives it of its usual and peculiar properties. Sulphur is one of the most common mineralizers.

Mineralogical

MINERALOG'ICAL, adjective [See Mineralogy.] Pertaining to the science of minerals; as a mineralogical table.

Mineralogically

MINERALOG'ICALLY, adverb In mineralogy.

Mineralogist

MINERAL'OGIST, noun One who is versed in the science of minerals, or one who treats or discourses of the properties of mineral bodies.

Mineralogy

MINERAL'OGY, noun [mineral and Gr. discourse.] The science which treats of the properties of mineral substances, and teaches us to characterize, distinguish and class them according to their properties. It comprehends the study or science of all inorganic substances in the earth or on its surface.

Mingle

MIN'GLE, verb transitive

1. To mix; to blend; to unite in one body; as, to mingle liquors of different kinds.

2. To mix or blend without order or promiscuously.

There was fire mingled with hail. Exodus 9:24.

3. To compound; to unite in a mass, as solid substances; as, to mingle flour, sugar and eggs in cookery.

4. To join in mutual intercourse or in society.

The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands. Ezra 9:2. Psalms 106:35.

5. To contaminate; to render impure; to debase by mixture.

The best of us appear contented with a mingled imperfect virtue.

6. To confuse.

There mingle broils.

MIN'GLE, verb intransitive To be mixed; to be united with.

She, when she saw her sister nymphs, suppressed

Her rising fears, and mingled with the rest.

MIN'GLE, noun Mixture; medley; promiscuous mass. [Not used.]

Mingled

MIN'GLED, participle passive Mixed; united promiscuously.

Mingledly

MIN'GLEDLY, adverb Confusedly.

Mingler

MIN'GLER, noun One that mingles.

Mingling

MIN'GLING, participle present tense Mixing; uniting without order.

Miniard

MIN'IARD, adjective Soft; dainty. [Little used.]

Miniardize

MIN'IARDIZE, verb transitive To render soft, delicate or dainty.

Miniate

MIN'IATE, verb transitive [Latin minium, vermillion.] To paint or tinge with vermillion.

Miniature

MIN'IATURE, noun

1. A painting in water colors on vellum, ivory or paper, with points or dots; sometimes in oil colors. The term is usually applied to portraits painted on a very small scale.

2. A picture or representation in a small compass, or less than the reality.

3. Red letter; rubric distinction.

Minikin

MIN'IKIN, adjective Small; diminutive; used in slight contempt.

MIN'IKIN, noun A small sort of pins.

1. A darling; a favorite. [See Minion.]

Minim

MIN'IM, noun

1. A little man or being; a dwarf.

2. One of a certain reformed order of Franciscans or Minimi.

3. A note in music, equal to half a semi-breve or two crotchets.

4. A short poetical encomium.

5. A small fish.

Minimum

MIN'IMUM, noun [Latin] The least quantity assignable in a given case.

Minimus

MIN'IMUS, noun [Latin] A being of the smallest size.

Mining

MI'NING, participle present tense Digging into the earth, as for fossils and minerals; sapping.

1. adjective Designating the business of digging mines; as the mining districts of Siberia.

Minion

MIN'ION, adjective [infra.] Fine; trim; dainty. [Not used.]

MINION, noun min'yon. A favorite; a darling; particularly, the favorite of a prince, on whom he lavishes his favors; one who gains favors by flattery or mean adulation.

Edward sent an army into Ireland, not for conquest, but to guard the person of his minion Piers Gaviston.

The drowsy tyrant by his minions led.

MIN'ION, noun [Latin minor. See Mince.]

A small kind of printing types.

Minioning

MIN'IONING, noun Kind treatment.

Minionlike

MIN'IONLIKE

MIN'IONLY, adverb Finely; daintily.

Minionship

MIN'IONSHIP, noun State of being a minion.

Minious

MIN'IOUS, noun [from Latin minium.] Of the color of red lead or vermillion.

Minish

MIN'ISH, verb transitive [Latin minuo, to lessen.]

To lessen; to diminish. [See Diminish.]

Minister

MIN'ISTER, noun [Latin]

1. Properly, a chief servant; hence, an agent appointed to transact or manage business under the authority of another; in which sense, it is a word of very extensive application.

Moses rose up and his minister Joshua. Exodus 24:13.

2. One to whom a king or prince entrusts the direction of affairs of state; as minister of state; the prime minister In modern governments, the secretaries or heads of the several departments or branches of government are the ministers of the chief magistrate.

3. A magistrate; an executive officer.

For he is the minister of God to thee for good. Romans 13:4.

4. A delegate; an embassador; the representative of a sovereign at a foreign court; usually such as is resident at a foreign court, but not restricted to such.

5. One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church, duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments. Ephesians 3:7.

6. Christ is called a minister of the sanctuary. Hebrews 8:2.

7. An angel; a messenger of God.

Who maketh his angels spirits, his ministers a flaming fire. Psalms 104:4.

MIN'ISTER, verb transitive [Latin ministro.] To give; to afford; to supply.

He that ministereth seed to the sower--2 Corinthians 9:10.

That it may minister grace to the hearers. Ephesians 4:29.

MIN'ISTER, verb intransitive To attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.

I will sanctify also both Aaron and his sons, to minister to me in the priest's office. Exodus 29:1.

1. To afford supplies; to give things needful; to supply the means of relief; to relieve.

When saw we thee hungry, or thirsty, or a stranger, or naked, or sick, or in prison, and did not minister unto thee?

Matthew 25:44.

2. To give medicines.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?

In this sense, we commonly use administer.

Ministered

MIN'ISTERED, participle passive Served; afforded; supplied.

Ministerial

MINISTE'RIAL, adjective Attending for service; attendant; acting at command.

Enlight'ning spirits and ministerial flames.

1. Acting under superior authority; pertaining to a minister.

For the ministerial offices in court, there must be an eye to them.

2. Pertaining to executive offices, as distinct from judicial. The office and acts of a sheriff are ministerial

3. Sacerdotal; pertaining to ministers of the gospel; as ministerial garments; ministerial duties.

Genuine ministerial prudence keeps back no important truth, listens to no compromise with sin, connives at no fashionable vice, cringes before no lordly worldling.

4. Pertaining to ministers of state; as ministerial circles; ministerial benches.

Ministerially

MINISTE'RIALLY, adverb In a ministerial manner or character.

Ministering

MIN'ISTERING, participle present tense Attending and serving as a subordinate agent; serving under superior authority. Hebrews 1:14.

1. Affording aid or supplies; administering things needful.

Ministery

MINISTERY. [See Ministry.]

Ministral

MIN'ISTRAL, adjective Pertaining to a minister. [Little used.]

Ministrant

MIN'ISTRANT, adjective Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command.

Princedoms and dominations ministrant

Ministration

MINISTRA'TION, noun [Latin ministratio.] The act of performing service as a subordinate agent; agency; intervention for aid or service.

-- Because their widows were neglected in the daily ministrations. Acts 6:1.

1. Office of a minister; service; ecclesiastical function.

As soon as the days of his ministration were ended. Luke 1:23.

Ministress

MIN'ISTRESS, noun A female that ministers.

Ministry

MIN'ISTRY, noun [Latin ministerium.] The office, duties or functions of a subordinate agent of any kind.

1. Agency; service; aid; interposition; instrumentality.

He directs the affairs of this world by the ordinary ministry of second causes.

2. Ecclesiastical function; agency or service of a minister of the gospel or clergyman in the modern church, or of priests, apostles and evangelists in the ancient. Acts 1:17. Romans 12:7. 2 Timothy 4:5. Numbers 4:12.

3. Time of ministration; duration of the office of a minister, civil or ecclesiastical.

The war with France was during the ministry of Pitt.

4. Persons who compose the executive government or the council of a supreme magistrate; the body of ministers of state.

5. Business; employment.

He abhorred the wicked ministry of arms.

Ministryship

MINISTRYSHIP, for ministry, is little used and hardly proper.

Minium

MIN'IUM, noun [Latin] The red oxyd of lead, produced by calcination. Lead exposed to air while melting is covered with a gray dusky pellicle. This taken off and agitated becomes a greenish gray powder, inclining to yellow. This oxyd, separated by sifting from the grains of lead which it contains, and exposed to a more intense heat, takes a deep yellow color, and in this state it is called massicot. The latter, slowly heated, takes a beautiful red color, and is called minium

Mink

MINK, noun An American quadruped of the genus Mustela, an amphibious animal that burrows in the earth on the side of a river or pond, whose fur is more valuable than that of the muskrat.

Minnoc

MINNOC, used by Shakespeare, is supposed by Johnson to be the same as minx.

Minnow

MIN'NOW

MI'NOR, adjective [Latin minuo, to diminish. See Mince.]

1. Less; smaller; sometimes applied to the bulk or magnitude of a single object; more generally to amount, degree or importance. We say, the minor divisions of a body, the minor part of a body; opposed to the major part. We say, minor sums, minor faults, minor considerations, details or arguments. In the latter phrases, minor is equivalent to small, petty, inconsiderable, not principal, important or weighty.

2. In music, less or lower by a lesser semi-tone; as a third minor.

Asia Minor, the Lesser Asia, that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south.

MI'NOR, noun A person of either sex under age; one who is under the authority of his parents or guardians, or who is not permitted by law to make contracts and manage his own property. By the laws of Great Britain and of the United States, persons are minors till they are twenty one years of age.

1. In logic, the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following:

Every act of injustice partakes of meanness.

To take money from another by gaming, or reputation by seduction, are acts of injustice.

Therefore the taking of money from another by gaming, or reputation by seduction, partake of meanness.

2. A Minorite, a Franciscan friar.

3. A beautiful bird of the East Indies.

Minor

MI'NOR, a. [L. minuo, to diminish. See Mince.] 1. Less; smaller; sometimes applied to the bulk or magnitude of a single object; more generally to amount, degree or importance. We say, the minor divisions of a body, the minor part of a body; opposed to the major part. We say, minor sums, minor faults, minor considerations, details or arguments. In the latter phrases, minor is equivalent to small, petty, inconsiderable, not principal, important or weighty.2. In music, less or lower by a lesser semi-tone; as a third minor. Asia Minor, the Lesser Asia, that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south.

MI'NOR, n. A person of either sex under age; one who is under the authority of his parents or guardians, or who is not permitted by law to make contracts and manage his own property. By the laws of Great Britain and of the United States, persons are minors till they are twenty one years of age. 1. In logic, the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness. To take money from another by gaming, or reputation by seduction, are acts of injustice. Therefore the taking of money from another by gaming, or reputation by seduction, partake of meanness.2. A Minorite, a Franciscan friar.3. A beautiful bird of the East Indies.

Minorate

MI'NORATE, verb transitive To diminish. [Not used.]

Minorite

MI'NORITE, noun A Franciscan friar.

Minotaur

MIN'OTAUR, noun [Latin . minotaurus; from man, which must have been in early ages a Latin word, and taurus, a bull.]

A fabled monster, half man and half bull.

Minow

MIN'OW, noun A very small fish, a species of Cyprinus.

Minster

MIN'STER, noun A monastery; an ecclesiastical convent or fraternity; but it is said originally to have been the church of a monastery; a cathedral church.

Minstrel

MIN'STREL, noun A singer and musical performer on instruments. Minstrels were formerly poets as well as musicians, and held in high repute by our rude ancestors. Their attendance was sought and their performances lavishly rewarded by princes. It was in the character of a minstrel that king Alfred entered the camp of the Danes his enemies, and explored their situation.

Minstrelsy

MIN'STRELSY, noun The arts and occupations of minstrels; instrumental music.

1. A number of musicians.

The minstrelsy of heaven.

Minuend

MIN'UEND, noun [Latin minuendus, minuo, to lessen.]

In arithmetic, the number form which another number is to subtracted.

Minuet

MIN'UET, noun

1. A slow graceful dance, consisting of a coupee, a high step and a balance.

2. A tune or air to regulate the movements in the dance so called; a movement of three crotchets or three quavers in a bar.

Minum

MIN'UM, noun

1. A small kind of printing types; now written minion.

2. A note of slow time containing two crotchets; now written minim, which see.

Minute-Book

MIN'UTE-BOOK, noun A book of short hints.

Minute-Glass

MIN'UTE-GLASS, noun A glass, the sand of which measures a minute.

Minute-Guns

MIN'UTE-GUNS, noun Guns discharged every minute.

Minute-Hand

MIN'UTE-HAND, noun The hand that points to the minutes on a clock or watch.

Minute-Watch

MIN'UTE-WATCH, noun A watch that distinguishes minutes of time, or on which minutes are marked.

Minutely

MINU'TELY, adverb [from minute.] To a small point of time, space or matter; exactly; nicely; as, to measure the length of any thing minutely; to ascertain time minutely; to relate a story minutely

MINUTELY, adjective min'itly. Happening every minute.

MIN'UTELY, adverb [from minute.] Every minute; with very little time intervening.

As if it were minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven.

Minuteness

MINU'TENESS, noun Extreme smallness, fineness or slenderness; as the minuteness of the particles of air or of a fluid; the minuteness of the filaments of cotton; the minuteness of details in narration.

1. Attention to small things; critical exactness; as the minuteness of observation or distinction.

Minutiae

MINU'TIAE, noun [Latin] The smaller particulars.

Minx

MINX, noun A pert, wanton girl.

1. A she-puppy.

Miny

MI'NY, adjective [from mine.] Abounding with mines.

1. Subterraneous.

Mirable

MI'RABLE, adjective Wonderful. [Not in use.]

Miracle

MIR'ACLE, noun [Latin miraculum, from miror, to wonder.]

1. Literally, a wonder or wonderful thing; but appropriately,

2. In theology, an event or effect contrary to the established constitution and course of things, or a deviation from the known laws of nature; a supernatural event. Miracles can be wrought only by Almighty power, as when Christ healed lepers, saying, 'I will, be thou clean, ' or calmed the tempest, 'Peace, be still.'

They considered not the miracle of the loaves. Mark 6:52.

A man approved of God by miracles and signs. Acts 2:22.

3. Anciently, a spectacle or dramatic representation exhibiting the lives of the saints.

MIR'ACLE, verb transitive To make wonderful. [Not used.]

Miracle-Monger

MIR'ACLE-MONGER, noun An impostor who pretends to work miracles.

Miraculous

MIRAC'ULOUS, adjective Performed supernaturally, or by a power beyond the ordinary agency of natural laws; effected by the direct agency of Almighty power, and not by natural causes; as the miraculous healing of the sick or raising the dead by Christ.

1. Supernatural; furnished supernaturally, or competent to perform miracles; as the miraculous powers of the Apostles. miraculous applied to the extraordinary powers of the Apostles, may mean conferred by supernatural agency, or competent to work miracles. I believe it is generally used in the latter sense.

2. In a less definite sense, wonderful; extra-ordinary.

Miraculously

MIRAC'ULOUSLY, adverb By miracle; supernaturally.

AEneas, wounded as he was, could not have engaged him in single combat, unless his hurt had been miraculously healed.

1. Wonderfully; by extraordinary means.

Miraculousness

MIRAC'ULOUSNESS, noun The state of being effected by miracle or by supernatural agency.

Mirador

MIRADOR, noun [Latin miror.] A balcony or gallery commanding an extensive view.

Mire

MIRE, noun Deep mud; earth so wet and soft as to yield to the feet and to wheels.

MIRE, verb transitive To plunge and fix in mire; to set or stall in mud. We say, a horse, an ox or a carriage is mired, when it has sunk deep into mud and its progress is stopped.

1. To soil or daub with mud or foul matter.

MIRE, verb intransitive To sink in mud, or to sink so deep as to be unable to move forward.

MIRE, noun An ant. [See Pismire.]

Mire-Crow

MIRE-CROW, noun The sea-crow or pewit gull, of the genus Larus.

Miriness

MI'RINESS, noun [from miry.] The state of consisting of deep mud.

Mirk

MIRK, adjective Dark. [See Murky.]

Mirksome

MIRK'SOME, adjective Dark; obscure. [See Murky.]

Mirksomeness

MIRK'SOMENESS, noun Obscurity. [See Murky.]

Mirror

MIR'ROR, noun [Latin miror, to admire.]

1. A looking glass; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.

In the clear mirror of thy ruling star

I saw, alas! some dread event depend.

2. A pattern; an exemplar; that on which men ought to fix their eyes; that which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen.

O goddess, heavenly bright,

Mirror of grace and majesty divine.

Mirror-Stone

MIR'ROR-STONE, noun A bright stone.

Mirth

MIRTH, noun merth. Social merriment; hilarity; high excitement of pleasurable feelings in company; noisy gayety; jollity. mirth differs from joy and cheerfulness, as always implying noise.

With genial joy to warm the soul,

Bright Helen mixed a mirth-inspiring bowl.

I will cause to cease the voice of mirth from Judah and Jerusalem. Jeremiah 7:34.

Mirthful

MIRTH'FUL, adjective Merry; jovial; festive.

The feast was served, the bowl was crown'd,

To the king's pleasure went the mirthful round.

MIRTH['FULLY, adverb In a jovial manner.

Mirthless

MIRTH'LESS, adjective Without mirth or hilarity.

Miry

MI'RY, adjective [from mire.] Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; as a miry road; a miry lane.

1. Consisting of mire.

Mis

MIS, a prefix, denotes error, or erroneous, wrong, from the verb miss, to err, to go wrong.

Misacceptation

MISACCEPTA'TION, noun The act of taking or understanding in a wrong sense.

Misadventure

MISADVEN'TURE, noun Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; an unlucky accident.

1. In law, homicide by misadventure is when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another. This is called excusable homicide.

Misadventured

MISADVEN'TURED, adjective Unfortunate.

Misadvised

MISADVI'SED, adjective [See Advise.] Ill advised; ill directed.

Misaffect

MISAFFECT', verb transitive To dislike.

Misaffected

MISAFFECT'ED, adjective Ill disposed.

Misaffirm

MISAFFIRM', verb transitive To affirm incorrectly.

Misaimed

MISA'IMED, adjective Not rightly aimed or directed.

Misalledge

MISALLEDGE, verb transitive misallej'. To state erroneously.

Misallegation

MISALLEGA'TION, noun Erroneous statement.

Misalliance

MISALLI'ANCE, noun Improper association.

Misallied

MISALLI'ED, adjective Ill allied or associated.

Misanthrope

MIS'ANTHROPE

MISANTHROP'IC

MISANTHROP'ICAL, adjective Hating or having a dislike to mankind.

Misanthropic

MISANTHROP'IC

Misanthropical

MISANTHROP'ICAL, a. Hating or having a dislike to mankind.

Misanthropist

MISAN'THROPIST, noun [Gr. to hate, and man.] A hater of mankind.

Misanthropy

MISAN'THROPY, noun Hatred or dislike to mankind; opposed to philanthropy.

Misapplication

MISAPPLICA'TION, noun A wrong application; an application to a wrong person or purpose.

Misapplied

MISAPPLI'ED, participle passive Applied to a wrong person or purpose.

Misapply

MISAPPLY', verb transitive To apply to a wrong person or purpose; as to misapply a name or title; to misapply our talents or exertions; to misapply public money.

Misapplying

MISAPPLY'ING, participle present tense Applying to a wrong person or purpose.

Misapprehend

MISAPPREHEND', verb transitive To misunderstand; to take in a wrong sense.

Misapprehending

MISAPPREHEND'ING, participle present tense Misunderstanding.

Misapprehension

MISAPPREHEN'SION, noun A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning or of a fact.

Misascribe

MISASCRI'BE, verb transitive To ascribe falsely or erroneously.

Misassign

MISASSIGN, verb transitive [See Assign.] To assign erroneously.

Misattend

MISATTEND', verb transitive To disregard.

Misbecome

MISBECOME, verb transitive misbecum'. [See Become.]

Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit.

Thy father will not act what misbecomes him.

Misbecoming

MISBECOM'ING, participle present tense or adjective Unseemly; unsuitable; improper; indecorous.

Misbecomingness

MISBECOM'INGNESS, noun Unbecomingness; unsuitableness.

Misbegot

MISBEGOT'

MISBEGOT'TEN, participle present tense or adjective Unlawfully or irregularly begotten.

Misbegotten

MISBEGOT'TEN, ppr. or a. Unlawfully or irregularly begotten.

Misbehave

MISBEHA'VE, verb intransitive To behave ill; to conduct one's self improperly.

Misbehaved

MISBEHA'VED, adjective Guilty of ill behavior; ill bred; rude.

Misbehavior

MISBEHA'VIOR, noun misbeha'vyor. Ill conduct; improper, rude or uncivil behavior.

Misbelief

MISBELIE'F, noun Erroneous belief; false religion.

Misbelieve

MISBELIE'VE, verb transitive To believe erroneously.

Misbeliever

MISBELIE'VER, noun One who believes wrongly; one who holds a false religion.

Misbelieving

MISBELIE'VING, adjective Believing erroneously; irreligious.

Misbeseem

MISBESEE'M, verb transitive To suit ill.

Misbestow

MISBESTOW, verb transitive To bestow improperly.

Misborn

MIS'BORN, adjective Born to evil.

Miscalculate

MISCAL'CULATE, verb transitive To calculate erroneously.

Miscalculated

MISCAL'CULATED, participle passive Erroneously calculated.

Miscalculating

MISCAL'CULATING, participle present tense Committing errors in calculation.

Miscalculation

MISCALCULA'TION, noun Erroneous calculation.

Miscall

MISCALL', verb transitive To call by a wrong name; to name improperly.

Miscalled

MISCALL'ED, participle passive Misnamed.

Miscalling

MISCALL'ING, participle present tense Misnaming.

Miscarriage

MISCAR'RIAGE, noun Unfortunate event of an undertaking; failure.

When a counselor, to save himself,

Would lay miscarriages upon his prince.

1. Ill conduct; evil or improper behavior; as the failings and miscarriages of the righteous.

2. Abortion; the act of bringing forth before the time.

Miscarry

MISCAR'RY, verb intransitive To fail of the intended effect; not to succeed; to be unsuccessful; to suffer defeat; applied to persons or undertakings, and to things. We say, a project, scheme, design, enterprise, attempt, has miscarried.

Have you not heart of Frederick, the great soldier, who miscarried at sea?

My ships have all miscarried.

1. To bring forth young before the proper time; to suffer abortion.

Miscarrying

MISCAR'RYING, participle present tense Failing of the intended effect; suffering abortion. Hosea 9.

Miscast

MISC'AST, verb transitive To cast or reckon erroneously.

MISC'AST, participle passive Erroneously cast or reckoned.

MISC'AST, noun An erroneous cast or reckoning.

Miscasting

MISC'ASTING, participle present tense Casting or reckoning erroneously.

Miscellanarian

MISCELLANA'RIAN, adjective [See Miscellany.]

Belonging to miscellanies; of miscellanies.

Miscellanarian authors.

MISCELLANA'RIAN, noun A writer of miscellanies.

Miscellane

MIS'CELLANE, noun [Latin miscellaneus.] A mixture of two or more sorts of grain; now called meslin.

Miscellaneous

MISCELLA'NEOUS, adjective [Latin miscellaneus, from misceo, to mix.]

Mixed; mingled; consisting of several kinds; as a miscellaneous publication; a miscellaneous rabble.

Miscellaneousness

MISCELLA'NEOUSNESS, noun The state of being mixed; composition of various kinds.

Miscellany

MIS'CELLANY, noun [Latin miscellanea, from misceo, to mix.]

1. A mass or mixture of various kinds; particularly,

2. A book or pamphlet containing a collection of compositions on various subjects, or a collection of various kinds of compositions.

MIS'CELLANY, adjective Miscellaneous.

Miscenter

MISCEN'TER, verb transitive To place amiss. [Not in use.]

Mischance

MISCH'ANCE, noun Ill luck; ill fortune; misfortune; mishap; misadventure.

It is a man's unhappiness, his mischance or calamity, but not his fault.

Mischaracterize

MISCHAR'ACTERIZE, verb transitive [See Character.] To characterize falsely or erroneously; to give a wrong character to.

They totally mischaracterize the action.

Mischarge

MISCH'ARGE, verb transitive To mistake in charging, as an account.

MISCH'ARGE, noun A mistake in charging, as an account; an erroneous entry in an account.

Mischief

MIS'CHIEF, noun

1. Harm; hurt; injury; damage; evil, whether intended or not. A new law is made to remedy the mischief

2. Intentional injury; harm or damage done by design.

Thy tongue deviseth mischief Psalms 52:1.

3. Ill consequence; evil; vexatious affair.

The mischief was, these allies would never allow that the common enemy was subdued.

MIS'CHIEF, verb transitive To hurt; to harm; to injure.

Mischief-Maker

MIS'CHIEF-MAKER, noun One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.

Mischief-Making

MIS'CHIEF-MAKING, adjective Causing harm; exciting enmity or quarrels.

Mischievous

MIS'CHIEVOUS, adjective Harmful; hurtful; injurious; making mischief; of persons; as a mischievous man or disposition.

1. Hurtful; noxious; as a mischievous thing.

2. Inclined to do harm; as a mischievous boy.

Mischievously

MIS'CHIEVOUSLY, adverb With injury, hurt, loss or damage. We say, the law operates mischievously

1. With evil intention or disposition. The injury was done mischievously