English Dictionary: MAOI | by the DICT Development Group |
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M \M\ ([ecr]m). 1. M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, [sect][sect] 178-180, 242. Note: The letter M came into English from the Greek, through the Latin, the form of the Greek letter being further derived from the Ph[oe]nician, and ultimately, it is believed, from the Egyptian. Etymologically M is related to n, in lime, linden; emmet, ant; also to b. M is readily followed by b and p. the position of the lips in the formation of both letters being the same. The relation of b and m is the same as that of d and t to n. and that of g and k to ng. 2. As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin. | |
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M \M\, n. 1. (Print.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number. [Written also {em}.] 2. (law) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy. {M roof} (Arch.), a kind of roof formed by the junction of two common roofs with a valley between them, so that the section resembles the letter M. | |
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Ma \Ma\ (m[aum]), n. [Cf. {Mamma}.] 1. A child's word for mother. 2. [Hind.] In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother. --Balfour (Cyc. of India). | |
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Maa \Maa\, n. [See {New} a gull.] (Zo[94]l.) The common European gull ({Larus canus}); -- called also {mar}. See {New}, a gull. | |
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Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m[?]w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m[94]we, OHG. m[?]h, Icel. m[be]r.] (Zo[94]l.) A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus}); called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}. | |
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Maa \Maa\, n. [See {New} a gull.] (Zo[94]l.) The common European gull ({Larus canus}); -- called also {mar}. See {New}, a gull. | |
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Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m[?]w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m[94]we, OHG. m[?]h, Icel. m[be]r.] (Zo[94]l.) A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus}); called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}. | |
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Wanderoo \Wan`der*oo"\, n. [Cingalese wanderu a monkey.] (Zo[94]l.) A large monkey ({Macacus silenus}) native of Malabar. It is black, or nearly so, but has a long white or gray beard encircling the face. Called also {maha}, {silenus}, {neelbhunder}, {lion-tailed baboon}, and {great wanderoo}. [Written also {ouanderoo}.] Note: The name is sometimes applied also to other allied species. | |
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Mahoe \Ma"hoe\, n. (Bot.) A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of {Hibiscus}, {Ochroma}, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage. | |
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Maw \Maw\ (m[add]), n. [See {Mew} a gull.] (Zo[94]l.) A gull. | |
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Maw \Maw\, n. [OE. mawe, AS. maga stomach; akin to D. maag, OHG. mago, G. magen, Icel. magi, Sw. mage, Dan. mave. [root]103.] 1. A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt. --Chaucer. Bellies and maws of living creatures. --Bacon. 2. Appetite; inclination. [Obs.] Unless you had more maw to do me good. --Beau. & Fl. {Fish maw}. (Zo[94]l.) See under {Fish}. | |
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Maw \Maw\, n. An old game at cards. --Sir A. Weldon. | |
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May \May\, n. [Cf. Icel. m[91]r, Goth. mawi; akin to E. maiden. [?].] A maiden. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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May \May\, v. [imp. {Might}] [AS. pres. m[91]g I am able, pret. meahte, mihte; akin to D. mogen, G. m[94]gen, OHG. mugan, magan, Icel. mega, Goth. magan, Russ. moche. [?]. Cf. {Dismay}, {Main} strength, {Might}. The old imp. mought is obsolete, except as a provincial word.] An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing: (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can. How may a man, said he, with idle speech, Be won to spoil the castle of his health ! --Spenser. For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible. --Bacon. For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: [bd]It might have been.[b8] --Whittier. (b) Liberty; permission; allowance. Thou mayst be no longer steward. --Luke xvi. 2. (c) Contingency or liability; possibility or probability. Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims, or be right by chance. --Pope. (d) Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark. How old may Phillis be, you ask. --Prior. (e) Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. [bd]May you live happily.[b8] --Dryden. {May be}, [and] {It may be}, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, by chance, peradventure. See 1st {Maybe}. | |
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May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of Mercury by Jupiter.] 1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. --Chaucer. 2. The early part or springtime of life. His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak. 3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn. The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash. Plumes that micked the may. --Tennyson. 4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson. {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S. hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches. {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and allied genera. Called also {June beetle}. {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole. {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed. {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary. {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under {Ephemeral}. {May game}, any May-day sport. {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria majalis}). {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary. {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day. {May thorn}, the hawthorn. | |
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Me \Me\ (m[emac]), pers. pron. [AS. m[emac], dat. & acc., mec, acc. only; akin to D. mij, G. mich, Icel. & Goth. mik, L. me, Gr. me`, 'eme`, Skr. m[be], m[be]m. [root]187. Cf. 2d {Mine}.] The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me. Note: In methinks, me is properly in the dative case, and the verb is impersonal, the construction being, it appears to me. In early use me was often placed before forms of the verb to be with an adjective; as, me were lief. Me rather had my heart might frrl your love Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy. --Shak. | |
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Me \Me\, pron. One. See {Men}, pron. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.] To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak. | |
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Meaw \Meaw\, n. The sea mew. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Meaw \Meaw\, v. i. See {Mew}, to cry as a cat. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.] To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak. | |
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Meaw \Meaw\, n. The sea mew. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Meaw \Meaw\, v. i. See {Mew}, to cry as a cat. | |
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Meow \Me*ow"\, v. i. & n. See 6th and 7th {Mew}. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.] To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak. | |
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Meow \Me*ow"\, v. i. & n. See 6th and 7th {Mew}. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.] To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak. | |
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Mew \Mew\, n. [OE. mue, F. mue change of feathers, scales, skin, the time or place when the change occurs, fr. muer to molt, mew, L. mutare to change. See 2d {Mew}.] 1. A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. --Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. --Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. --Wordsworth. 2. A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. t. [From {Mew} a cage.] To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. More pity that the eagle should be mewed. --Shak. Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. --Dryden. | |
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Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m[?]w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m[94]we, OHG. m[?]h, Icel. m[be]r.] (Zo[94]l.) A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus}); called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.] To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak. | |
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Mew \Mew\, n. The common cry of a cat. --Shak. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mewed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mewing}.] [OE. muen, F. muer, fr. L. mutare to change, fr. movere to move. See {Move}, and cf. {Mew} a cage, {Molt}.] To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. i. To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. --Turbervile. | |
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Spicknel \Spick"nel\, n. [Contr. from spike nail a large, long nail; -- so called in allusion to the shape of its capillary leaves.] (Bot.) An umbelliferous herb ({Meum Athamanticum}) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also {baldmoney}, {mew}, and {bearwort}. [Written also {spignel}.] | |
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Mew \Mew\, n. [OE. mue, F. mue change of feathers, scales, skin, the time or place when the change occurs, fr. muer to molt, mew, L. mutare to change. See 2d {Mew}.] 1. A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. --Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. --Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. --Wordsworth. 2. A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. t. [From {Mew} a cage.] To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. More pity that the eagle should be mewed. --Shak. Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. --Dryden. | |
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Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m[?]w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m[94]we, OHG. m[?]h, Icel. m[be]r.] (Zo[94]l.) A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus}); called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. i. [Of imitative origin; cf. G. miauen.] To cry as a cat. [Written also {meaw}, {meow}.] --Shak. | |
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Mew \Mew\, n. The common cry of a cat. --Shak. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mewed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mewing}.] [OE. muen, F. muer, fr. L. mutare to change, fr. movere to move. See {Move}, and cf. {Mew} a cage, {Molt}.] To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. --Dryden. | |
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Mew \Mew\, v. i. To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance. Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. --Turbervile. | |
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Spicknel \Spick"nel\, n. [Contr. from spike nail a large, long nail; -- so called in allusion to the shape of its capillary leaves.] (Bot.) An umbelliferous herb ({Meum Athamanticum}) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also {baldmoney}, {mew}, and {bearwort}. [Written also {spignel}.] | |
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Mho \Mho\, n. [Anagram of ohm.] (Elec.) A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm. | |
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Mi \Mi\, n. [It.] (Mus.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system. | |
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Centesimo \Cen*tes"i*mo\, n.; pl. {-mi}. [It. & Sp.] A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime. | |
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Mi \Mi\, n. [It.] (Mus.) A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system. | |
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Centesimo \Cen*tes"i*mo\, n.; pl. {-mi}. [It. & Sp.] A copper coin of Italy and Spain equivalent to a centime. | |
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d8Monsieur \[d8]Mon*sieur"\, n.; pl. {Messieurs}. [F., fr. mon my + Sieur, abbrev. of seigneur lord. See {Monseigneur}.] 1. The common title of civility in France in speaking to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir. [Represented by the abbreviation M. or Mons. in the singular, and by {MM.} or {Messrs.} in the plural.] 2. The oldest brother of the king of France. 3. A Frenchman. [Contemptuous] --Shak. | |
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Black \Black\, a. [OE. blak, AS. bl[91]c; akin to Icel. blakkr dark, swarthy, Sw. bl[84]ck ink, Dan. bl[91]k, OHG. blach, LG. & D. blaken to burn with a black smoke. Not akin to AS. bl[be]c, E. bleak pallid. [?]98.] 1. Destitute of light, or incapable of reflecting it; of the color of soot or coal; of the darkest or a very dark color, the opposite of white; characterized by such a color; as, black cloth; black hair or eyes. O night, with hue so black! --Shak. 2. In a less literal sense: Enveloped or shrouded in darkness; very dark or gloomy; as, a black night; the heavens black with clouds. I spy a black, suspicious, threatening cloud. --Shak. 3. Fig.: Dismal, gloomy, or forbidding, like darkness; destitute of moral light or goodness; atrociously wicked; cruel; mournful; calamitous; horrible. [bd]This day's black fate.[b8] [bd]Black villainy.[b8] [bd]Arise, black vengeance.[b8] [bd]Black day.[b8] [bd]Black despair.[b8] --Shak. 4. Expressing menace, or discontent; threatening; sullen; foreboding; as, to regard one with black looks. Note: Black is often used in self-explaining compound words; as, black-eyed, black-faced, black-haired, black-visaged. {Black act}, the English statute 9 George I, which makes it a felony to appear armed in any park or warren, etc., or to hunt or steal deer, etc., with the face blackened or disguised. Subsequent acts inflicting heavy penalties for malicious injuries to cattle and machinery have been called black acts. {Black angel} (Zo[94]l.), a fish of the West Indies and Florida ({Holacanthus tricolor}), with the head and tail yellow, and the middle of the body black. {Black antimony} (Chem.), the black sulphide of antimony, {Sb2S3}, used in pyrotechnics, etc. {Black bear} (Zo[94]l.), the common American bear ({Ursus Americanus}). {Black beast}. See {B[88]te noire}. {Black beetle} (Zo[94]l.), the common large cockroach ({Blatta orientalis}). {Black and blue}, the dark color of a bruise in the flesh, which is accompanied with a mixture of blue. [bd]To pinch the slatterns black and blue.[b8] --Hudibras. {Black bonnet} (Zo[94]l.), the black-headed bunting ({Embriza Sch[d2]niclus}) of Europe. {Black canker}, a disease in turnips and other crops, produced by a species of caterpillar. {Black cat} (Zo[94]l.), the fisher, a quadruped of North America allied to the sable, but larger. See {Fisher}. {Black cattle}, any bovine cattle reared for slaughter, in distinction from dairy cattle. [Eng.] {Black cherry}. See under {Cherry}. {Black cockatoo} (Zo[94]l.), the palm cockatoo. See {Cockatoo}. {Black copper}. Same as {Melaconite}. {Black currant}. (Bot.) See {Currant}. {Black diamond}. (Min.) See {Carbonado}. {Black draught} (Med.), a cathartic medicine, composed of senna and magnesia. {Black drop} (Med.), vinegar of opium; a narcotic preparation consisting essentially of a solution of opium in vinegar. {Black earth}, mold; earth of a dark color. --Woodward. {Black flag}, the flag of a pirate, often bearing in white a skull and crossbones; a signal of defiance. {Black flea} (Zo[94]l.), a flea beetle ({Haltica nemorum}) injurious to turnips. {Black flux}, a mixture of carbonate of potash and charcoal, obtained by deflagrating tartar with half its weight of niter. --Brande & C. {Black fly}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) In the United States, a small, venomous, two-winged fly of the genus {Simulium} of several species, exceedingly abundant and troublesome in the northern forests. The larv[91] are aquatic. (b) A black plant louse, as the bean aphis ({A. fab[91]}). {Black Forest} [a translation of G. Schwarzwald], a forest in Baden and W[81]rtemburg, in Germany; a part of the ancient Hercynian forest. {Black game}, or {Black grouse}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Blackcock}, {Grouse}, and {Heath grouse}. {Black grass} (Bot.), a grasslike rush of the species {Juncus Gerardi}, growing on salt marshes, and making good hay. {Black gum} (Bot.), an American tree, the tupelo or pepperidge. See {Tupelo}. {Black Hamburg (grape)} (Bot.), a sweet and juicy variety of dark purple or [bd]black[b8] grape. {Black horse} (Zo[94]l.), a fish of the Mississippi valley ({Cycleptus elongatus}), of the sucker family; the Missouri sucker. {Black lemur} (Zo[94]l.), the {Lemurniger} of Madagascar; the {acoumbo} of the natives. {Black list}, a list of persons who are for some reason thought deserving of censure or punishment; -- esp. a list of persons stigmatized as insolvent or untrustworthy, made for the protection of tradesmen or employers. See {Blacklist}, v. t. {Black manganese} (Chem.), the black oxide of manganese, {MnO2}. {Black Maria}, the close wagon in which prisoners are carried to or from jail. {Black martin} (Zo[94]l.), the chimney swift. See {Swift}. {Black moss} (Bot.), the common so-called long moss of the southern United States. See {Tillandsia}. {Black oak}. See under {Oak}. {Black ocher}. See {Wad}. {Black pigment}, a very fine, light carbonaceous substance, or lampblack, prepared chiefly for the manufacture of printers' ink. It is obtained by burning common coal tar. {Black plate}, sheet iron before it is tinned. --Knight. {Black quarter}, malignant anthrax with engorgement of a shoulder or quarter, etc., as of an ox. {Black rat} (Zo[94]l.), one of the species of rats ({Mus rattus}), commonly infesting houses. {Black rent}. See {Blackmail}, n., 3. {Black rust}, a disease of wheat, in which a black, moist matter is deposited in the fissures of the grain. {Black sheep}, one in a family or company who is unlike the rest, and makes trouble. {Black silver}. (Min.) See under {Silver}. {Black and tan}, black mixed or spotted with tan color or reddish brown; -- used in describing certain breeds of dogs. {Black tea}. See under {Tea}. {Black tin} (Mining), tin ore (cassiterite), when dressed, stamped and washed, ready for smelting. It is in the form of a black powder, like fine sand. --Knight. {Black walnut}. See under {Walnut}. {Black warrior} (Zo[94]l.), an American hawk ({Buteo Harlani}). Syn: Dark; murky; pitchy; inky; somber; dusky; gloomy; swart; Cimmerian; ebon; atrocious. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Manganese \Man`ga*nese"\, n. [F. mangan[8a]se, It. manganese, sasso magnesio; prob. corrupted from L. magnes, because of its resemblance to the magnet. See {Magnet}, and cf. {Magnesia}.] (Chem.) An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8. Note: An alloy of manganese with iron (called ferromanganese) is used to increase the density and hardness of steel. {Black oxide of manganese}, {Manganese dioxide [or] peroxide}, or {Black manganese} (Chem.), a heavy black powder {MnO2}, occurring native as the mineral pyrolusite, and valuable as a strong oxidizer; -- called also familiarly {manganese}. It colors glass violet, and is used as a decolorizer to remove the green tint of impure glass. {Manganese bronze}, an alloy made by adding from one to two per cent of manganese to the copper and zinc used in brass. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mo \Mo\, a., adv., & n. [Written also {moe}.] [AS. m[be]. See {More}.] More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. --Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. --Fuller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
-mo \-mo\ A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16[f8], 18[f8], etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mo \Mo\, a., adv., & n. [Written also {moe}.] [AS. m[be]. See {More}.] More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. --Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. --Fuller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
-mo \-mo\ A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16[f8], 18[f8], etc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moa \Mo"a\, n. [Native name.] (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to {Dinornis}, and other related genera, of the suborder {Dinornithes}, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mo \Mo\, a., adv., & n. [Written also {moe}.] [AS. m[be]. See {More}.] More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. --Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. --Fuller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, n. A wry face or mouth; a mow. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, a., adv., & n. [AS. m[be] See {More}.] More. See {Mo}. [Obs.] [bd]Sing no more ditties, sing no moe.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, v. i. To make faces; to mow. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [Written also {moe} and {mowe}.] [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.] A wry face. [bd]Make mows at him.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mo \Mo\, a., adv., & n. [Written also {moe}.] [AS. m[be]. See {More}.] More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. --Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. --Fuller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, n. A wry face or mouth; a mow. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, a., adv., & n. [AS. m[be] See {More}.] More. See {Mo}. [Obs.] [bd]Sing no more ditties, sing no moe.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, v. i. To make faces; to mow. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [Written also {moe} and {mowe}.] [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.] A wry face. [bd]Make mows at him.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mo \Mo\, a., adv., & n. [Written also {moe}.] [AS. m[be]. See {More}.] More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. --Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. --Fuller. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, n. A wry face or mouth; a mow. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, a., adv., & n. [AS. m[be] See {More}.] More. See {Mo}. [Obs.] [bd]Sing no more ditties, sing no moe.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moe \Moe\, v. i. To make faces; to mow. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [Written also {moe} and {mowe}.] [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.] A wry face. [bd]Make mows at him.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moha \Mo"ha\, n. (Bot.) A kind of millet ({Setaria Italica}); German millet. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moo \Moo\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mooed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mooing}.] [Of imitative origin.] To make the noise of a cow; to low; -- child's word. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moo \Moo\, n. The lowing of a cow. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moo \Moo\, a., adv., & n. See {Mo}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m[?]w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m[94]we, OHG. m[?]h, Icel. m[be]r.] (Zo[94]l.) A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus}); called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [Written also {moe} and {mowe}.] [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.] A wry face. [bd]Make mows at him.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. i. To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. --Tyndale. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Mew}, a gull. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. t. [imp. {Mowed}; p. p. {Mowed} or {Mown}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mowing}.] [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. m[be]wan; akin to D. maaijen, G. m[84]hen, OHG. m[be]jan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. [?]. Cf. {Math}, {Mead} a meadow, {Meadow}.] 1. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine. 2. To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow. 3. To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. [pres. sing. {Mow}, pl. {Mowe}, {Mowen}, {Moun}.] [AS. magan. See {May}, v.] May; can. [bd]Thou mow now escapen.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. i. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [OE. mowe, AS. m[?]ga.] 1. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn. 2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. t. To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mew \Mew\, n. [AS. m[?]w, akin to D. meeuw, G. m[94]we, OHG. m[?]h, Icel. m[be]r.] (Zo[94]l.) A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus}); called also {sea mew}, {maa}, {mar}, {mow}, and {cobb}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [Written also {moe} and {mowe}.] [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.] A wry face. [bd]Make mows at him.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. i. To make mouths. Nodding, becking, and mowing. --Tyndale. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Mew}, a gull. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. t. [imp. {Mowed}; p. p. {Mowed} or {Mown}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mowing}.] [OE. mowen, mawen, AS. m[be]wan; akin to D. maaijen, G. m[84]hen, OHG. m[be]jan, Dan. meie, L. metere to reap, mow, Gr. [?]. Cf. {Math}, {Mead} a meadow, {Meadow}.] 1. To cut down, as grass, with a scythe or machine. 2. To cut the grass from; as, to mow a meadow. 3. To cut down; to cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. [pres. sing. {Mow}, pl. {Mowe}, {Mowen}, {Moun}.] [AS. magan. See {May}, v.] May; can. [bd]Thou mow now escapen.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. i. To cut grass, etc., with a scythe, or with a machine; to cut grass for hay. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [OE. mowe, AS. m[?]ga.] 1. A heap or mass of hay or of sheaves of grain stowed in a barn. 2. The place in a barn where hay or grain in the sheaf is stowed. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. t. To lay, as hay or sheaves of grain, in a heap or mass in a barn; to pile and stow away. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [Written also {moe} and {mowe}.] [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.] A wry face. [bd]Make mows at him.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. [pres. sing. {Mow}, pl. {Mowe}, {Mowen}, {Moun}.] [AS. magan. See {May}, v.] May; can. [bd]Thou mow now escapen.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mowe \Mowe\, v. See 4th {Mow}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mowe \Mowe\, n. & v. See 1st & 2d {Mow}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, n. [Written also {moe} and {mowe}.] [F. moue pouting, a wry face; cf. OD. mouwe the protruded lip.] A wry face. [bd]Make mows at him.[b8] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mow \Mow\, v. [pres. sing. {Mow}, pl. {Mowe}, {Mowen}, {Moun}.] [AS. magan. See {May}, v.] May; can. [bd]Thou mow now escapen.[b8] [Obs.] --Chaucer. Our walles mowe not make hem resistence. --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mowe \Mowe\, v. See 4th {Mow}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mowe \Mowe\, n. & v. See 1st & 2d {Mow}. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mue \Mue\ (m[umac]), v. i. To mew; to molt. [Obs.] --Quarles. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
My \My\, a. & poss. pron. [OE. mi, fr. min. See {Mine}, and cf., for loss of n, {A}, a., {An}, a.] Of or belonging to me; -- used always attributively; as, my body; my book; -- mine is used in the predicate; as, the book is mine. See {Mine}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
d8Myaria \[d8]My*a"ri*a\, n. pl. [NL.] (Zo[94]l.) A division of bivalve mollusks of which the common clam ({Mya}) is the type. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Spoutfish \Spout"fish\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A marine animal that spouts water; -- applied especially to certain bivalve mollusks, like the long clams ({Mya}), which spout, or squirt out, water when retiring into their holes. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Myo- \My"o-\ A combining form of Gr. [?], [?], a muscle; as, myograph, myochrome. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
M M, GA Zip code(s): 31419 | |
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Mahwah, NJ Zip code(s): 07430 | |
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Maia, AS (village, FIPS 47300) Location: 14.18594 S, 169.41866 W Population (1990): 207 (32 housing units) Area: 4.8 sq km (land), 36.5 sq km (water) | |
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May, OK (town, FIPS 47000) Location: 36.61650 N, 99.74896 W Population (1990): 42 (34 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73851 May, TX Zip code(s): 76857 | |
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Mayo, FL (town, FIPS 43575) Location: 30.05102 N, 83.17666 W Population (1990): 917 (346 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 32066 Mayo, MD (CDP, FIPS 51575) Location: 38.89168 N, 76.50040 W Population (1990): 2537 (1152 housing units) Area: 6.6 sq km (land), 5.6 sq km (water) Mayo, SC (CDP, FIPS 45430) Location: 35.08453 N, 81.85438 W Population (1990): 1569 (627 housing units) Area: 8.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Mio, MI (CDP, FIPS 54660) Location: 44.66303 N, 84.14459 W Population (1990): 1886 (1275 housing units) Area: 19.3 sq km (land), 1.7 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48647 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
M pref. (on units) suff. (on numbers) [SI] See {{quantifiers}}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
M$ Common net abbreviation for Microsoft, everybody's least favorite monopoly. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
M pref. (on units) suff. (on numbers) [SI] See {{quantifiers}}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
M$ Common net abbreviation for Microsoft, everybody's least favorite monopoly. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
mu /moo/ The correct answer to the classic trick question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions". Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word `mu' is actually from Chinese, meaning `nothing'; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense, but native speakers do not recognize the Discordian question-denying use. It almost certainly derives from overgeneralization of the answer in the following well-known Rinzei Zen {koan}: A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?" Joshu retorted, "Mu!" See also {has the X nature}, {Some AI Koans}, and Douglas Hofstadter's "Go"del, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid" (pointer in the {Bibliography} in Appendix C. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
M 1. Alternative name for {MUMPS}. 2. A {C}-like language from {Silicon Compiler Systems} for multilevel {hardware description}. It is currently available in the {GDT} package from {Mentor Graphics}. [{Jargon File}] (1994-10-26) 3. (1995-01-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
m2 A {Modula-2} {compiler} for {VAX} and {MIPS}. A {Pascal} compiler for VAX is also included. The Pascal compiler accepts a language that is almost identical to {Berkeley Pascal}. It was originally designed and built by Michael L. Powell in 1984. Joel McCormack made it faster, fixed lots of bugs, and swiped/wrote a User's Manual. Len Lattanzi ported it to the MIPS. It has the following extensions: {foreign function} and data interface, {dynamic array} variables, {subarray parameter}s, multi-dimensional {open array parameter}s, {inline procedure}s, longfloat type, type-checked interface to {C} library I/O routines. It runs on {VAX} ({Ultrix}, {BSD}) and {MIPS} ({Ultrix}). {(ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/pub/DEC/Modula-2/m2.tar.Z)}. E-mail: (1992-07-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
M3 A {macro} processor, forerunner of {M4}, for the {AP-3} {minicomputer}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
m4 A {macro} processor for {Unix} and {GCOS} which is more flexible than {cpp}. m4 copies its input to the output, expanding macros which can be either built-in or user-defined. m4 has built-in functions for including files, running {Unix} commands, doing integer arithmetic, manipulating text in various ways and recursing. m4 can be used either as a {front-end} to a compiler or as a stand-alone tool. {sendmail}'s configuration file (/etc/sendmail.cf) is writen in m4 macros. There is a {GNU m4 v1.1 (ftp://gnu.org/pub/gnu/m4-1.0.tar.Z)} by Francois Pinard by Ozan Yigit {FreeBSD} archive). A {Macintosh} version is {here (ftp://nic.switch.ch/pub/software/mac/src/mpw-c/)}. See also {m3}, {m5}. ["The M4 Macro Processor", Kernighan & Ritchie, Jul 1977]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
M5 Macro processor, a generalisation of {M4} by A. Dain, U Cincinnati, 1992. For Unix and DOS. {(ftp://thor.exe.u.edu/pub/dain/m5)}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
ma (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MAO An early {symbolic mathematics} system. [A. Rom, Celest Mech 1:309-319 (1969)]. (1995-02-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MAU {Media Access Unit} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mei Release 4.1. Mei includes: Grapher Library for drawing diagrams; Meta Grapher Library (grapher to develop grapher); Drawing tools and painting tools (structured diagram editors and drawing editors); {GUI builder}; {Lisp} {interpreter}; {Prolog} interpreter; Pluggable gauges; Extended browser; (package, history, recover, etc.) Mei is available under {General Public License} and requires Objectworks Smalltalk Release 4.1. Current version: 0.50, as of 1993-01-20. {Home (http://www.sra.co.jp/people/aoki/htmls/FreeSoftwareForSmalltalk.html)}. E-mail: Watanabe Katsuhiro (1999-12-08) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mh (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MII 1. A consortium of {Microsoft}, {IBM}, and {Intel}. [When? What did it do?] 2. by Panasonic. (1998-11-15) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mm (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mma A fast {Mathematica}-like system, in {Allegro CL} by R. Fateman, 1991. {(ftp://peoplesparc.berkeley.edu/pub/mma.tar.Z)}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MMI 1. Man-Machine Interface. 2. {Programmable Array Logic} devices. MMI was bought by {AMD}. [Dates?] (1995-12-09) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MMU {Memory Management Unit} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mn (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mo (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MOO {MUD Object Oriented} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mu 1. (micrometre, a millionth part of a metre). Sometimes written as a 'u', the ASCII character nearest in appearance. 2. denotes the least value of x for which E = x, i.e. the {least fixed point} of the function \ x . E. The {recursive} function mu f . H f satisfies (and is defined by) the equation mu f . H f = H (mu f . H f) An alternative notation for the same function is fix H = H (fix H) See {fixed point combinator}. 3. [{Jargon File}] (1995-10-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mu 1. 2. question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions". Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word "mu" is actually from Chinese, meaning "nothing"; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense, but native speakers do not recognise the Discordian question-denying use. It almost certainly derives from overgeneralisation of the answer in the following well-known Rinzei Zen teaching riddle: A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?" Joshu retorted, "Mu!" See also {has the X nature}, {AI Koan}. [Douglas Hofstadter, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"]. [{Jargon File}] (2000-11-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mu 1. (micrometre, a millionth part of a metre). Sometimes written as a 'u', the ASCII character nearest in appearance. 2. denotes the least value of x for which E = x, i.e. the {least fixed point} of the function \ x . E. The {recursive} function mu f . H f satisfies (and is defined by) the equation mu f . H f = H (mu f . H f) An alternative notation for the same function is fix H = H (fix H) See {fixed point combinator}. 3. [{Jargon File}] (1995-10-30) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mu 1. 2. question "Have you stopped beating your wife yet?". Assuming that you have no wife or you have never beaten your wife, the answer "yes" is wrong because it implies that you used to beat your wife and then stopped, but "no" is worse because it suggests that you have one and are still beating her. According to various Discordians and Douglas Hofstadter the correct answer is usually "mu", a Japanese word alleged to mean "Your question cannot be answered because it depends on incorrect assumptions". Hackers tend to be sensitive to logical inadequacies in language, and many have adopted this suggestion with enthusiasm. The word "mu" is actually from Chinese, meaning "nothing"; it is used in mainstream Japanese in that sense, but native speakers do not recognise the Discordian question-denying use. It almost certainly derives from overgeneralisation of the answer in the following well-known Rinzei Zen teaching riddle: A monk asked Joshu, "Does a dog have the Buddha nature?" Joshu retorted, "Mu!" See also {has the X nature}, {AI Koan}. [Douglas Hofstadter, "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"]. [{Jargon File}] (2000-11-22) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MUA {Mail User Agent} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mw (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
my (1999-01-27) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Meah an hundred, a tower in Jersalem on the east wall (Neh. 3:1) in the time of Nehemiah. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Maai, belly; heaping up | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Meah, a hundred cubits |