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Jack \Jack\, n. [F. Jacques James, L. Jacobus, Gr. [?], Heb. Ya 'aq[omac]b Jacob; prop., seizing by the heel; hence, a supplanter. Cf. {Jacobite}, {Jockey}.] 1. A familiar nickname of, or substitute for, John. You are John Rugby, and you are Jack Rugby. --Shak. 2. An impertinent or silly fellow; a simpleton; a boor; a clown; also, a servant; a rustic. [bd]Jack fool.[b8] --Chaucer. Since every Jack became a gentleman, There 's many a gentle person made a Jack. --Shak. 3. A popular colloquial name for a sailor; -- called also {Jack tar}, and {Jack afloat}. 4. A mechanical contrivance, an auxiliary machine, or a subordinate part of a machine, rendering convenient service, and often supplying the place of a boy or attendant who was commonly called Jack; as: (a) A device to pull off boots. (b) A sawhorse or sawbuck. (c) A machine or contrivance for turning a spit; a smoke jack, or kitchen jack. (b) (Mining) A wooden wedge for separating rocks rent by blasting. (e) (Knitting Machine) A lever for depressing the sinkers which push the loops down on the needles. (f) (Warping Machine) A grating to separate and guide the threads; a heck box. (g) (Spinning) A machine for twisting the sliver as it leaves the carding machine. (h) A compact, portable machine for planing metal. (i) A machine for slicking or pebbling leather. (k) A system of gearing driven by a horse power, for multiplying speed. (l) A hood or other device placed over a chimney or vent pipe, to prevent a back draught. (m) In the harpsichord, an intermediate piece communicating the action of the key to the quill; -- called also {hopper}. (n) In hunting, the pan or frame holding the fuel of the torch used to attract game at night; also, the light itself. --C. Hallock. 5. A portable machine variously constructed, for exerting great pressure, or lifting or moving a heavy body through a small distance. It consists of a lever, screw, rack and pinion, hydraulic press, or any simple combination of mechanical powers, working in a compact pedestal or support and operated by a lever, crank, capstan bar, etc. The name is often given to a jackscrew, which is a kind of jack. 6. The small bowl used as a mark in the game of bowls. --Shak. Like an uninstructed bowler who thinks to attain the jack by delivering his bowl straight forward upon it. --Sir W. Scott. 7. The male of certain animals, as of the ass. 8. (Zo[94]l.) (a) A young pike; a pickerel. (b) The jurel. (c) A large, California rock fish ({Sebastodes paucispinus}); -- called also {boccaccio}, and {m[82]rou}. (d) The wall-eyed pike. 9. A drinking measure holding half a pint; also, one holding a quarter of a pint. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. 10. (Naut.) (a) A flag, containing only the union, without the fly, usually hoisted on a jack staff at the bowsprit cap; -- called also {union jack}. The American jack is a small blue flag, with a star for each State. (b) A bar of iron athwart ships at a topgallant masthead, to support a royal mast, and give spread to the royal shrouds; -- called also {jack crosstree}. --R. H. Dana, Jr. | |
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Mahori \Ma"ho*ri\, n. [Native name. Cf. {Maori}.] (Ethnol.) One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively. | |
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Maori \Ma"o*ri\, n.; pl. {Maoris}. (Ethnol.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand. -- a. Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language. | |
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Mar \Mar\, n. A small lake. See {Mere}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Mar \Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marred} (m[84]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Marring}.] [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian, OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship, Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend. Cf. {Moor}, v.] 1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. --Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. --Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. --Milton. 2. To spoil; to ruin. [bd]It makes us, or it mars us.[b8] [bd]Striving to mend, to mar the subject.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Mar \Mar\, n. A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement. | |
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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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Mar \Mar\, n. A small lake. See {Mere}. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Mar \Mar\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marred} (m[84]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. {Marring}.] [OE. marren, merren, AS. merran, myrran (in comp.), to obstruct, impede, dissipate; akin to OS. merrian, OHG. marrjan, merran; cf. D. marren, meeren, to moor a ship, Icel. merja to bruise, crush, and Goth. marzjan to offend. Cf. {Moor}, v.] 1. To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface. I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks. --Shak. But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost. --Dryden. Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage. --Milton. 2. To spoil; to ruin. [bd]It makes us, or it mars us.[b8] [bd]Striving to mend, to mar the subject.[b8] --Shak. | |
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Mar \Mar\, n. A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement. | |
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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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Mare \Mare\ (m[acir]r), n. [OE. mere, AS. mere, myre, fem of AS. mearh horse, akin to D. merrie mare, G. m[84]hre, OHG. marah horse, meriha mare, Icel. marr horse, OCelt. marka (Pausan. 19, 19,4), Ir. marc, W. march. Cf. {Marshal}.] The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds. | |
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Mare \Mare\, n. [AS. mara incubus; akin to OHG. & Icel. mara; cf. Pol. mora, Bohem. m[uring]ra.] (Med.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. --Shak. | |
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Marie \Mar"ie\, interj. Marry. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Marrow \Mar"row\, n. [OE. marou, mary, maruh, AS. mearg, mearh; akin to OS. marg, D. merg, G. Mark, OHG. marg, marag, Icel. mergr, Sw. merg, Dan. marv, Skr. majjan; cf. Skr. majj to sink, L. mergere. [root]274 Cf. {Merge}.] 1. (Anat.) The tissue which fills the cavities of most bones; the medulla. In the larger cavities it is commonly very fatty, but in the smaller cavities it is much less fatty, and red or reddish in color. 2. The essence; the best part. It takes from our achievements . . . The pith and marrow of our attribute. --Shak. 3. [OE. maru, maro; -- perh. a different word; cf. Gael. maraon together.] One of a pair; a match; a companion; an intimate associate. [Scot.] Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end. --Tusser. {Marrow squash} (Bot.), a name given to several varieties of squash, esp. to the {Boston marrow}, an ovoid fruit, pointed at both ends, and with reddish yellow flesh, and to the {vegetable marrow}, a variety of an ovoid form, and having a soft texture and fine grain resembling marrow. {Spinal marrow}. (Anat.) See {Spinal cord}, under {Spinal}. | |
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Marrow \Mar"row\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Marrowed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Marrowing}.] To fill with, or as with, marrow of fat; to glut. | |
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Marrowy \Mar"row*y\, a. Full of marrow; pithy. | |
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Marry \Mar"ry\, v. i. To enter into the conjugal or connubial state; to take a husband or a wife. I will, therefore, that the younger women marry. --1 Tim. v. 14. {Marrying man}, a man disposed to marry. [Colloq.] | |
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Marry \Mar"ry\, interj. Indeed ! in truth ! -- a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Marry \Mar"ry\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Married}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Marrying}.] [OE. marien, F. marier, L. maritare, fr. maritus husband, fr. mas, maris, a male. See {Male}, and cf. {Maritral}.] 1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to perform the ceremony of joining, as a man and a woman, for life; to constitute (a man and a woman) husband and wife according to the laws or customs of the place. Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself. --Gay. 2. To join according to law, (a man) to a woman as his wife, or (a woman) to a man as her husband. See the Note to def. 4. A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry. --Evelyn. 3. To dispose of in wedlock; to give away as wife. M[91]cenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life. --Bacon. 4. To take for husband or wife. See the Note below. Note: We say, a man is married to or marries a woman; or, a woman is married to or marries a man. Both of these uses are equally well authorized; but given in marriage is said only of the woman. They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother. --Bp. Lloyd. 5. Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation. Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you. --Jer. iii. 14. {To marry ropes}. (Naut.) (a) To place two ropes along side of each other so that they may be grasped and hauled on at the same time. (b) To join two ropes end to end so that both will pass through a block. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. | |
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Mary \Mar"y\, n. Marrow. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mary \Ma"ry\, interj. See {Marry}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mayor \May"or\, n. [OE. maire, F. maire, fr. L. major greater, higher, nobler, compar. of magnus great; cf. Sp. mayor. See {Major}, and cf. {Merino}.] The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge. | |
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Mear \Mear\, n. A boundary. See {Mere}. [Obs.] | |
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Meer \Meer\, a. Simple; unmixed. See {Mere}, a. [Obs.] | |
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Meer \Meer\, n. A boundary. See {Mere}. | |
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Meer \Meer\, n. See {Mere}, a lake. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[aemac]re. [root]269.] A boundary. --Bacon. | |
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Mere \Mere\, v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mere \Mere\, a. [Superl. {Merest}. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.] 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. --Atterbury. | |
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-mere \-mere\ [Gr. [?] part.] A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri, mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor, Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf. {Mortal}, {Marine}, {Marsh}, {Mermaid}, {Moor}.] A pool or lake. --Drayton. Tennyson. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[aemac]re. [root]269.] A boundary. --Bacon. | |
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Mere \Mere\, v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mere \Mere\, a. [Superl. {Merest}. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.] 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. --Atterbury. | |
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-mere \-mere\ [Gr. [?] part.] A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri, mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor, Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf. {Mortal}, {Marine}, {Marsh}, {Mermaid}, {Moor}.] A pool or lake. --Drayton. Tennyson. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[aemac]re. [root]269.] A boundary. --Bacon. | |
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Mere \Mere\, v. t. To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mere \Mere\, a. [Superl. {Merest}. The comparative is rarely or never used.] [L. merus.] 1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified. Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman. The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. --Jer. Taylor. 2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form. From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. --Atterbury. | |
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-mere \-mere\ [Gr. [?] part.] A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere. | |
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Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri, mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor, Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf. {Mortal}, {Marine}, {Marsh}, {Mermaid}, {Moor}.] A pool or lake. --Drayton. Tennyson. | |
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Merry \Mer"ry\, a. [Compar. {Merrier}; superl. {Merriest}.] [OE. merie, mirie, murie, merry, pleasant, AS. merge, myrige, pleasant; cf. murge, adv.; prob. akin to OHG. murg, short, Goth. gama[a3]rgjan to shorten; cf. L. murcus a coward, who cuts off his thumb to escape military service; the Anglo-Saxon and English meanings coming from the idea of making the time seem short. Cf. {Mirth}.] 1. Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play; sportive. They drank, and were merry with him. --Gen. xliii. 34. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. --Shak. | |
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Merry \Mer"ry\, n. (Bot.) A kind of wild red cherry. | |
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Mhorr \Mhorr\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mohr}. | |
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Mohr \Mohr\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A West African gazelle ({Gazella mohr}), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar. [Written also {mhorr}.] | |
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Mhorr \Mhorr\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mohr}. | |
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Mohr \Mohr\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A West African gazelle ({Gazella mohr}), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar. [Written also {mhorr}.] | |
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Mir \Mir\, n. A Russian village community. --D. M. Wallace. | |
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Mir \Mir\, n. [Per. m[c6]r.] Same as {Emir}. | |
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Mire \Mire\, n. [AS. m[c6]re, m[?]re; akin to D. mier, Icel. maurr, Dan. myre, Sw. myra; cf. also Ir. moirbh, Gr. [?].] An ant. [Obs.] See {Pismire}. | |
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Mire \Mire\, n. [OE. mire, myre; akin to Icel. m[?]rr swamp, Sw. myra marshy ground, and perh. to E. moss.] Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. --Chaucer. He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. --Spenser. {Mire crow} (Zo[94]l.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] {Mire drum}, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Mire \Mire\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mired}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Miring}.] 1. To cause or permit to stick fast in mire; to plunge or fix in mud; as, to mire a horse or wagon. 2. To soil with mud or foul matter. Smirched thus and mired with infamy. --Shak. | |
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Mire \Mire\, v. i. To stick in mire. --Shak. | |
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Miry \Mir"y\, a. [From 2d {Mire}.] Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as, a miry road. | |
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Mohair \Mo"hair`\, n. [F. moire, perh. from Ar. mukhayyar a kind of coarse camelot or haircloth; but prob. fr. L. marmoreus of marble, resembling marble. Cf. {Moire}, {Marble}.] The long silky hair or wool of the Angora goat of Asia Minor; also, a fabric made from this material, or an imitation of such fabric. | |
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Mohr \Mohr\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A West African gazelle ({Gazella mohr}), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar. [Written also {mhorr}.] | |
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Mohur \Mo"hur\, n. [Hind., fr. Per. muhur, muhr, a gold coin, a seal, seal ring.] A British Indian gold coin, of the value of fifteen silver rupees, or $7.21. --Malcom. | |
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Moir82 \Moi*r[82]"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moir[82]ed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Moir[82]eing}.] Also Moire \Moire\ [F. moir[82].] To give a watered or clouded appearance to (a surface). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moir82 \Moi*r[82]"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moir[82]ed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Moir[82]eing}.] Also Moire \Moire\ [F. moir[82].] To give a watered or clouded appearance to (a surface). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moor \Moor\, n. [F. More, Maure, L. Maurus a Moor, a Mauritanian, an inhabitant of Mauritania, Gr. [?]; cf. [?] black, dark. Cf. {Morris} a dance, {Morocco}.] 1. One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns. 2. (Hist.) Any individual of the swarthy races of Africa or Asia which have adopted the Mohammedan religion. [bd]In Spanish history the terms Moors, Saracens, and Arabs are synonymous.[b8] --Internat. Cyc. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moor \Moor\, n. [OE. mor, AS. m[d3]r moor, morass; akin to D. moer moor, G. moor, and prob. to Goth. marei sea, E. mere. See {Mere} a lake.] 1. An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. --Carew. 2. A game preserve consisting of moorland. {Moor buzzard} (Zo[94]l.), the marsh harrier. [Prov. Eng.] {Moor coal} (Geol.), a friable variety of lignite. {Moor cock} (Zo[94]l.), the male of the moor fowl or red grouse of Europe. {Moor coot}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Gallinule}. {Moor fowl}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European ptarmigan, or red grouse ({Lagopus Scoticus}). (b) The European heath grouse. See under {Heath}. {Moor game}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Moor fowl} (above). {Moor grass} (Bot.), a tufted perennial grass ({Sesleria c[91]rulea}), found in mountain pastures of Europe. {Moor hawk} (Zo[94]l.), the marsh harrier. {Moor hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The female of the moor fowl. (b) A gallinule, esp. the European species. See {Gallinule}. (c) An Australian rail ({Tribonyx ventralis}). {Moor monkey} (Zo[94]l.), the black macaque of Borneo ({Macacus maurus}). {Moor titling} (Zo[94]l.), the European stonechat ({Pratinocola rubicola}). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moor \Moor\, v. i. To cast anchor; to become fast. On oozy ground his galleys moor. --Dryden. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moor \Moor\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Moored}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mooring}.] [Prob. fr. D. marren to tie, fasten, or moor a ship. See {Mar}.] 1. (Naut.) To fix or secure, as a vessel, in a particular place by casting anchor, or by fastening with cables or chains; as, the vessel was moored in the stream; they moored the boat to the wharf. 2. Fig.: To secure, or fix firmly. --Brougham. | |
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Moory \Moor"y\, a. Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. --Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. --Fairfax. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moory \Moor"y\, n. A kind of blue cloth made in India. --Balfour (Cyc of India). | |
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Mora \Mo"ra\, n. (Bot.) A leguminous tree of Guiana and Trinidad ({Dimorphandra excelsa}); also, its timber, used in shipbuilding and making furniture. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moray \Mor"ay\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A mur[91]na. | |
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More \More\, n. [AS. m[d3]r. See {Moor} a waste.] A hill. [Prov. Eng.] --Halliwell. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
More \More\, n. [AS. more, moru; akin to G. m[94]hre carrot, OHG. moraha, morha.] A root. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
More \More\, a., compar. [Positive wanting; superl. {Most}.] [OE. more, mare, and (orig. neut. and adv.) mo, ma, AS. m[be]ra, and (as neut. and adv.) m[be]; akin to D. meer, OS. m[c7]r, G. mehr, OHG. m[c7]ro, m[c7]r, Icel. meiri, meirr, Dan. meere, meer, Sw. mera, mer, Goth. maiza, a., mais, adv., and perh. to L. major greater, compar. of magnus great, and magis, adv., more. [root]103. Cf. {Most}, {uch}, {Major}.] 1. Greater; superior; increased; as: (a) Greater in quality, amount, degree, quality, and the like; with the singular. He gat more money. --Chaucer. If we procure not to ourselves more woe. --Milton. Note: More, in this sense, was formerly used in connection with some other qualifying word, -- a, the, this, their, etc., -- which now requires the substitution of greater, further, or the like, for more. Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight. --Spenser. The more part knew not wherefore they were come together. --Acts xix. 32. Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt. --Shak. (b) Greater in number; exceeding in numbers; -- with the plural. The people of the children of Israel are more and mighter than we. --Ex. i. 9. 2. Additional; other; as, he wept because there were no more words to conquer. With open arms received one poet more. --Pope. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
More \More\, n. 1. A greater quantity, amount, or number; that which exceeds or surpasses in any way what it is compared with. And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less. --Ex. xvi. 17. 2. That which is in addition; something other and further; an additional or greater amount. They that would have more and more can never have enough. --L'Estrange. O! That pang where more than madness lies. --Byron. {Any more}. (a) Anything or something additional or further; as, I do not need any more. (b) Adverbially: Further; beyond a certain time; as, do not think any more about it. {No more}, not anything more; nothing in addition. {The more and less}, the high and low. [Obs.] --Shak. [bd]All cried, both less and more.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
More \More\, v. t. To make more; to increase. [Obs.] --Gower. | |
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More \More\, adv. 1. In a greater quantity; in or to a greater extent or degree. (a) With a verb or participle. Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement. --Milton. (b) With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. --Bacon. Note: Double comparatives were common among writers of the Elizabeth period, and for some time later; as, more brighter; more dearer. The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter. --Shak. 2. In addition; further; besides; again. Yet once more, Oye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude. --Milton. {More and more}, with continual increase. [bd]Amon trespassed more and more.[b8] --2 Chron. xxxiii. 23. {The more}, to a greater degree; by an added quantity; for a reason already specified. {The more -- the more}, by how much more -- by so much more. [bd]The more he praised in himself, the more he seems to suspect that in very deed it was not in him.[b8] --Milton. {To be no more}, to have ceased to be; as, Cassius is no more; Troy is no more. Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more. --Byron. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Much \Much\, a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by {More}, and {Most}, from another root.] [OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. [?], fem. [?], great, and Icel. mj[94]k, adv., much. [fb]103. See {Mickle}.] 1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. --Deut. xxviii. 38. 2. Many in number. [Archaic] Edom came out against him with much people. --Num. xx. 20. 3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Moro \Mo"ro\, n. [Cf. It. mora mulberry, L. morum.] (Med.) A small abscess or tumor having a resemblance to a mulberry. --Dunglison. | |
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Moros \Mo"ros\, n. pl.; sing. {Moro}. [Sp., pl. of Moro Moor.] (Ethnol.) The Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Morrow \Mor"row\, n. [OE. morwe, morwen, AS. morgen. See {Morn}.] 1. Morning. [Obs.] [bd]White as morrow's milk.[b8] --Bp. Hall. We loved he by the morwe a sop in wine. --Chaucer. 2. The next following day; the day subsequent to any day specified or understood. --Lev. vii. 16. Till this stormy night is gone, And the eternal morrow dawn. --Crashaw. 3. The day following the present; to-morrow. {Good morrow}, good morning; -- a form of salutation. {To morrow}. See {To-morrow} in the Vocabulary. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Morwe \Mor"we\, n. See {Morrow}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mower \Mow"er\, n. One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; as, a lawn mower. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mowyer \Mow"yer\, n. A mower. [Obs.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mr \Mr.\ . The customary abbreviation of Mister in writing and printing. See {Master}, 4. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mure \Mure\, n. [L. murus; or F. mur, fr. L. murus. Cf. {Munition}.] A wall. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mure \Mure\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mured}.] [F. murer, L. murare. See {Mure}, n.] To inclose in walls; to wall; to immure; to shut up. --Spenser. The five kings are mured in a cave. --John. x. (Heading). | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Murr \Murr\, n. [Prob. abbrev. from murrain.] A catarrh. [Obs.] --Gascoigne. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Murre \Murre\, n. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of several species of sea birds of the genus {Uria}, or {Catarractes}; a guillemot. Note: The murres are allied to the auks, and are abundant on the northern coasts of Europe and America. They often breed in large communities on the projecting ledges of precipituous cliffs, laying one or two large eggs on the bare rocks. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Murrey \Mur"rey\, n. [OF. mor[82]e a dark red color, mor blackish brown, fr. L. morum mulberry, blackberry, or fr. Maurus a Moor. Cf. {Mulberry}, {Moor}, {Morelle}.] A dark red color. -- a. Of a dark red color. --Bacon. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Murry \Mur"ry\, n. (Zo[94]l.) See {Mur[91]na}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Myria- \Myr"i*a-\ [Gr. [?] a myriad. See {Myriad}.] A prefix, esp. in the metric system, indicating ten thousand, ten thousand times; as, myriameter. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Myrrh \Myrrh\, n. [OE. mirre, OF. mirre, F. myrrhe, L. myrrha, murra, Gr. [?]; cf. Ar. murr bitter, also myrrh, Heb. mar bitter.] A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the {Balsamodendron Myrrha}. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of {Cistus}, or rockrose. {False myrrh}. See the Note under {Bdellium}. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Marie, AR (town, FIPS 44150) Location: 35.61328 N, 90.08169 W Population (1990): 129 (40 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Maroa, IL (city, FIPS 47072) Location: 40.03823 N, 88.95494 W Population (1990): 1602 (680 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 61756 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mayer, AZ Zip code(s): 86333 Mayer, MN (city, FIPS 41138) Location: 44.88417 N, 93.88835 W Population (1990): 471 (169 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55360 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mira, LA Zip code(s): 71059 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Moira, NY Zip code(s): 12957 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Moore, ID (city, FIPS 54100) Location: 43.73412 N, 113.36606 W Population (1990): 190 (83 housing units) Area: 0.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83255 Moore, MT (town, FIPS 51550) Location: 46.97493 N, 109.69488 W Population (1990): 211 (100 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 59464 Moore, OK (city, FIPS 49200) Location: 35.32950 N, 97.47470 W Population (1990): 40318 (14824 housing units) Area: 55.7 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 73160, 73165, 73170 Moore, SC Zip code(s): 29369 Moore, TX Zip code(s): 78057 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mora, MN (city, FIPS 44044) Location: 45.87739 N, 93.29326 W Population (1990): 2905 (1367 housing units) Area: 9.5 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 55051 Mora, MO Zip code(s): 65345 Mora, NM Zip code(s): 87732 Mora, PR (comunidad, FIPS 54882) Location: 18.46502 N, 67.03297 W Population (1990): 1706 (551 housing units) Area: 0.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Moriah, NY Zip code(s): 12960 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Moro, AR (town, FIPS 46910) Location: 34.79253 N, 90.98927 W Population (1990): 287 (117 housing units) Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72368 Moro, IL Zip code(s): 62067 Moro, OR (city, FIPS 50000) Location: 45.48568 N, 120.73173 W Population (1990): 292 (141 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 97039 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Morrow, AR Zip code(s): 72749 Morrow, GA (city, FIPS 53004) Location: 33.57837 N, 84.34021 W Population (1990): 5168 (2425 housing units) Area: 7.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 30260 Morrow, OH (village, FIPS 52374) Location: 39.34914 N, 84.12662 W Population (1990): 1206 (416 housing units) Area: 4.4 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45152 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Muir, MI (village, FIPS 56080) Location: 42.99739 N, 84.93548 W Population (1990): 667 (258 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48860 Muir, PA Zip code(s): 17957 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Murray, IA (city, FIPS 55065) Location: 41.04127 N, 93.94843 W Population (1990): 731 (308 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50174 Murray, KY (city, FIPS 54642) Location: 36.61148 N, 88.31567 W Population (1990): 14439 (5546 housing units) Area: 19.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 42071 Murray, NE (village, FIPS 33425) Location: 40.91663 N, 95.92788 W Population (1990): 418 (166 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68409 Murray, UT (city, FIPS 53230) Location: 40.65245 N, 111.89246 W Population (1990): 31282 (12347 housing units) Area: 24.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 84107, 84123 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Myra, WV Zip code(s): 25544 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
moria /mor'ee-*/ n. Like {nethack} and {rogue}, one of the large PD Dungeons-and-Dragons-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems. The name is from Tolkien's Mines of Moria; compare {elder days}, {elvish}. The game is extremely addictive and a major consumer of time better used for hacking. See also {nethack}, {rogue}, {Angband}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mary {ALGOL68} developed by Mark Rain. Mary is maintained (and used) by {Kvatro Telecom AS}. Although dated, it still offers a nice strongly typed {3GL} with {macros} but without most of {C}'s flaws. It runs on {SPARC} and {x86} computers. Hidden on the back cover of the manual: MARY HAD A LITTLE LAMB - COERCION IMPOSSIBLE. ["Mary Programmer's Reference Manual", M. Rain et al, R Unit, Trondheim Norway, 1974]. ["Operator Expressions in Mary", M. Rain, SIGPLAN Notices 8(1), Jan 1973]. (1998-11-10) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
moria large {PD} {Dungeons and Dragons}-like simulation games, available for a wide range of machines and operating systems. The name is from Tolkien's Mines of Moria; compare {elder days}, {elvish}. The game is extremely addictive and a major consumer of time better used for hacking. [{Jargon File}] | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mr (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MRI 1. 2. {Measurement Requirements and Interface}. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mara bitter; sad, a symbolical name which Naomi gave to herself because of her misfortunes (Ruth 1:20). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Marah bitterness, a fountain at the sixth station of the Israelites (Ex. 15:23, 24; Num. 33:8) whose waters were so bitter that they could not drink them. On this account they murmured against Moses, who, under divine direction, cast into the fountain "a certain tree" which took away its bitterness, so that the people drank of it. This was probably the 'Ain Hawarah, where there are still several springs of water that are very "bitter," distant some 47 miles from 'Ayun Mousa. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mary Hebrew Miriam. (1.) The wife of Joseph, the mother of Jesus, called the "Virgin Mary," though never so designated in Scripture (Matt. 2:11; Acts 1:14). Little is known of her personal history. Her genealogy is given in Luke 3. She was of the tribe of Judah and the lineage of David (Ps. 132:11; Luke 1:32). She was connected by marriage with Elisabeth, who was of the lineage of Aaron (Luke 1:36). While she resided at Nazareth with her parents, before she became the wife of Joseph, the angel Gabriel announced to her that she was to be the mother of the promised Messiah (Luke 1:35). After this she went to visit her cousin Elisabeth, who was living with her husband Zacharias (probably at Juttah, Josh. 15:55; 21:16, in the neighbourhood of Maon), at a considerable distance, about 100 miles, from Nazareth. Immediately on entering the house she was saluted by Elisabeth as the mother of her Lord, and then forthwith gave utterance to her hymn of thanksgiving (Luke 1:46-56; comp. 1 Sam. 2:1-10). After three months Mary returned to Nazareth to her own home. Joseph was supernaturally made aware (Matt. 1:18-25) of her condition, and took her to his own home. Soon after this the decree of Augustus (Luke 2:1) required that they should proceed to Bethlehem (Micah 5:2), some 80 or 90 miles from Nazareth; and while they were there they found shelter in the inn or khan provided for strangers (Luke 2:6, 7). But as the inn was crowded, Mary had to retire to a place among the cattle, and there she brought forth her son, who was called Jesus (Matt. 1:21), because he was to save his people from their sins. This was followed by the presentation in the temple, the flight into Egypt, and their return in the following year and residence at Nazareth (Matt. 2). There for thirty years Mary, the wife of Joseph the carpenter, resides, filling her own humble sphere, and pondering over the strange things that had happened to her. During these years only one event in the history of Jesus is recorded, viz., his going up to Jerusalem when twelve years of age, and his being found among the doctors in the temple (Luke 2:41-52). Probably also during this period Joseph died, for he is not again mentioned. After the commencement of our Lord's public ministry little notice is taken of Mary. She was present at the marriage in Cana. A year and a half after this we find her at Capernaum (Matt. 12:46, 48, 49), where Christ uttered the memorable words, "Who is my mother? and who are my brethren? And he stretched forth his hand toward his disciples, and said, Behold my mother and my brethren!" The next time we find her is at the cross along with her sister Mary, and Mary Magdalene, and Salome, and other women (John 19:26). From that hour John took her to his own abode. She was with the little company in the upper room after the Ascension (Acts 1:14). From this time she wholly disappears from public notice. The time and manner of her death are unknown. (2.) Mary Magdalene, i.e., Mary of Magdala, a town on the western shore of the Lake of Tiberias. She is for the first time noticed in Luke 8:3 as one of the women who "ministered to Christ of their substance." Their motive was that of gratitude for deliverances he had wrought for them. Out of Mary were cast seven demons. Gratitude to her great Deliverer prompted her to become his follower. These women accompanied him also on his last journey to Jerusalem (Matt. 27:55; Mark 15:41; Luke 23:55). They stood near the cross. There Mary remained till all was over, and the body was taken down and laid in Joseph's tomb. Again, in the earliest dawn of the first day of the week she, with Salome and Mary the mother of James (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:2), came to the sepulchre, bringing with them sweet spices, that they might anoint the body of Jesus. They found the sepulchre empty, but saw the "vision of angels" (Matt. 28:5). She hastens to tell Peter and John, who were probably living together at this time (John 20:1, 2), and again immediately returns to the sepulchre. There she lingers thoughtfully, weeping at the door of the tomb. The risen Lord appears to her, but at first she knows him not. His utterance of her name "Mary" recalls her to consciousness, and she utters the joyful, reverent cry, "Rabboni." She would fain cling to him, but he forbids her, saying, "Touch me not; for I am not yet ascended to my Father." This is the last record regarding Mary of Magdala, who now returned to Jerusalem. The idea that this Mary was "the woman who was a sinner," or that she was unchaste, is altogether groundless. (3.) Mary the sister of Lazarus is brought to our notice in connection with the visits of our Lord to Bethany. She is contrasted with her sister Martha, who was "cumbered about many things" while Jesus was their guest, while Mary had chosen "the good part." Her character also appears in connection with the death of her brother (John 11:20,31,33). On the occasion of our Lord's last visit to Bethany, Mary brought "a pound of ointment of spikenard, very costly, and anointed the feet of Jesus" as he reclined at table in the house of one Simon, who had been a leper (Matt. 26:6; Mark 14:3; John 12:2,3). This was an evidence of her overflowing love to the Lord. Nothing is known of her subsequent history. It would appear from this act of Mary's, and from the circumstance that they possessed a family vault (11:38), and that a large number of Jews from Jerusalem came to condole with them on the death of Lazarus (11:19), that this family at Bethany belonged to the wealthier class of the people. (See {MARTHA}.) (4.) Mary the wife of Cleopas is mentioned (John 19:25) as standing at the cross in company with Mary of Magdala and Mary the mother of Jesus. By comparing Matt. 27:56 and Mark 15:40, we find that this Mary and "Mary the mother of James the little" are on and the same person, and that she was the sister of our Lord's mother. She was that "other Mary" who was present with Mary of Magdala at the burial of our Lord (Matt. 27:61; Mark 15:47); and she was one of those who went early in the morning of the first day of the week to anoint the body, and thus became one of the first witnesses of the resurrection (Matt. 28:1; Mark 16:1; Luke 24:1). (5.) Mary the mother of John Mark was one of the earliest of our Lord's disciples. She was the sister of Barnabas (Col. 4:10), and joined with him in disposing of their land and giving the proceeds of the sale into the treasury of the Church (Acts 4:37; 12:12). Her house in Jerusalem was the common meeting-place for the disciples there. (6.) A Christian at Rome who treated Paul with special kindness (Rom. 16:6). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mearah a cave, a place in the northern boundary of Palestine (Josh. 13:4). This may be the cave of Jezzin in Lebanon, 10 miles east of Sidon, on the Damascus road; or probably, as others think, Mogheirizeh, north-east of Sidon. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Meraiah resistance, a chief priest, a contemporary of the high priest Joiakim (Neh. 12:12). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Moreh an archer, teacher; fruitful. (1.) A Canaanite probably who inhabited the district south of Shechem, between Mounts Ebal and Gerizim, and gave his name to the "plain" there (Gen. 12:6). Here at this "plain," or rather (R.V.) "oak," of Moreh, Abraham built his first altar in the land of Palestine; and here the Lord appeared unto him. He afterwards left this plain and moved southward, and pitched his tent between Bethel on the west and Hai on the east (Gen. 12:7, 8). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Moriah the chosen of Jehovah. Some contend that Mount Gerizim is meant, but most probably we are to regard this as one of the hills of Jerusalem. Here Solomon's temple was built, on the spot that had been the threshing-floor of Ornan the Jebusite (2 Sam. 24:24, 25; 2 Chr. 3:1). It is usually included in Zion, to the north-east of which it lay, and from which it was separated by the Tyropoean valley. This was "the land of Moriah" to which Abraham went to offer up his son Isaac (Gen. 22:2). It has been supposed that the highest point of the temple hill, which is now covered by the Mohammedan Kubbetes-Sakhrah, or "Dome of the Rock," is the actual site of Araunah's threshing-floor. Here also, one thousand years after Abraham, David built an altar and offered sacrifices to God. (See {JERUSALEM}; NUMBERING THE {PEOPLE}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Myra one of the chief towns of Lycia, in Asia Minor, about 2 1/2 miles from the coast (Acts 27:5). Here Paul removed from the Adramyttian ship in which he had sailed from Caesarea, and entered into the Alexandrian ship, which was afterwards wrecked at Melita (27:39-44). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Myrrh Heb. mor. (1.) First mentioned as a principal ingredient in the holy anointing oil (Ex. 30:23). It formed part of the gifts brought by the wise men from the east, who came to worship the infant Jesus (Matt. 2:11). It was used in embalming (John 19:39), also as a perfume (Esther 2:12; Ps. 45:8; Prov. 7:17). It was a custom of the Jews to give those who were condemned to death by crucifixion "wine mingled with myrrh" to produce insensibility. This drugged wine was probably partaken of by the two malefactors, but when the Roman soldiers pressed it upon Jesus "he received it not" (Mark 15:23). (See {GALL}.) This was the gum or viscid white liquid which flows from a tree resembling the acacia, found in Africa and Arabia, the Balsamodendron myrrha of botanists. The "bundle of myrrh" in Cant. 1:13 is rather a "bag" of myrrh or a scent-bag. (2.) Another word _lot_ is also translated "myrrh" (Gen. 37:25; 43:11; R.V., marg., "or ladanum"). What was meant by this word is uncertain. It has been thought to be the chestnut, mastich, stacte, balsam, turpentine, pistachio nut, or the lotus. It is probably correctly rendered by the Latin word ladanum, the Arabic ladan, an aromatic juice of a shrub called the Cistus or rock rose, which has the same qualities, though in a slight degree, of opium, whence a decoction of opium is called laudanum. This plant was indigenous to Syria and Arabia. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Maharai, hasting; a hill; from a hill | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mara, Marah, bitter; bitterness | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mary, same as Miriam | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mearah, den; cave; making empty | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mehir, a reward | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Moreh, stretching | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Moriah, bitterness of the Lord | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Myra, I flow; pour out; weep |