English Dictionary: Mesolithic Age | by the DICT Development Group |
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Turkey \Tur"key\, n.; pl. {Turkeys}. [So called because it was formerly erroneously believed that it came originally from Turkey: cf. F. Turquie Turkey. See {Turk}.] (Zo[94]l.) Any large American gallinaceous bird belonging to the genus {Meleagris}, especially the North American wild turkey ({Meleagris gallopavo}), and the domestic turkey, which was probably derived from the Mexican wild turkey, but had been domesticated by the Indians long before the discovery of America. Note: The Mexican wild turkey is now considered a variety of the northern species (var. Mexicana). Its tall feathers and coverts are tipped with white instead of brownish chestnut, and its flesh is white. The Central American, or ocellated, turkey ({M. ocellata}) is more elegantly colored than the common species. See under {Ocellated}. The Australian, or native, turkey is a bustard ({Choriotis australis}). See under {Native}. {Turkey beard} (Bot.), a name of certain American perennial liliaceous herbs of the genus {Xerophyllum}. They have a dense tuft of hard, narrowly linear radical leaves, and a long raceme of small whitish flowers. Also called {turkey's beard}. {Turkey berry} (Bot.), a West Indian name for the fruit of certain kinds of nightshade ({Solanum mammosum}, and {S. torvum}). {Turkey bird} (Zo[94]l.), the wryneck. So called because it erects and ruffles the feathers of its neck when disturbed. [Prov. Eng.] {Turkey buzzard} (Zo[94]l.), a black or nearly black buzzard ({Cathartes aura}), abundant in the Southern United States. It is so called because its naked and warty head and neck resemble those of a turkey. Its is noted for its high and graceful flight. Called also {turkey vulture}. {Turkey cock} (Zo[94]l.), a male turkey. {Turkey hen} (Zo[94]l.), a female turkey. {Turkey pout} (Zo[94]l.), a young turkey. [R.] {Turkey vulture} (Zo[94]l.), the turkey buzzard. | |
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Macled \Ma"cled\, a. 1. (Min.) (a) Marked like macle (chiastolite). (b) Having a twin structure. See {Twin}, a. 2. See {Mascled}. | |
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Maculate \Mac"u*late\, v. t. [L. maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot. See {Macula}, and cf. {Macule}, v.] To spot; to stain; to blur. Maculate the honor of their people. --Sir T. Elyot. | |
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Maculate \Mac"u*late\, a. [L. maculatus, p. p.] Marked with spots or macul[91]; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts. --Shak. | |
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Maculated \Mac"u*la`ted\, a. Having spots or blotches; maculate. | |
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Maculation \Mac"u*la"tion\, n. [L. maculatio.] The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. --Shak. | |
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Maculatory \Mac"u*la*to*ry\, a. Causing a spot or stain. --T. Adams. | |
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Maculature \Mac"u*la*ture\, n. Blotting paper. [Obs.] | |
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Mascled \Mas"cled\ (-k'ld), a. Composed of, or covered with, lozenge-shaped scales; having lozenge-shaped divisions. {Mascled armor}, armor composed of small lozenge-shaped scales of metal fastened on a foundation of leather or quilted cloth. | |
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Mascled \Mas"cled\ (-k'ld), a. Composed of, or covered with, lozenge-shaped scales; having lozenge-shaped divisions. {Mascled armor}, armor composed of small lozenge-shaped scales of metal fastened on a foundation of leather or quilted cloth. | |
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Masculate \Mas"cu*late\, v. t. [L. masculus male, masculine.] To make strong. [Obs.] --Cockeram. | |
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Maxilloturbinal \Max*il`lo*tur`bi*nal\, a. [Maxilla + turbinal.] (Anat.) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. -- n. The maxillo-turbinal, or inferior turbinate, bone. | |
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Measled \Mea"sled\, a. [See 2d {Measles}.] Infected or spotted with measles, as pork. -- {Mea"sled*ness}, n. | |
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Measled \Mea"sled\, a. [See 2d {Measles}.] Infected or spotted with measles, as pork. -- {Mea"sled*ness}, n. | |
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Megalethoscope \Meg`a*leth"o*scope\, n. [Mega- + alethoscope.] An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope. | |
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Megalith \Meg"a*lith\, n. [Mega- + -lith; cf. F. m[82]galithe.] A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building. -- {Meg`a*lith"ic}, a. | |
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Megalith \Meg"a*lith\, n. [Mega- + -lith; cf. F. m[82]galithe.] A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building. -- {Meg`a*lith"ic}, a. | |
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Mesolite \Mes"o*lite\ (?; 277), n. [Meso- + -lite.] (Min.) A zeolitic mineral, grayish white or yellowish, occuring in delicate groups of crystals, also fibrous massive. It is a hydrous silicate of alumina, lime, and soda. | |
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Miquelet \Miq"ue*let\, n. [Sp. miquelete.] (Mil.) An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit. | |
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Misallied \Mis`al*lied"\, a. Wrongly allied or associated. | |
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Misallotment \Mis`al*lot"ment\, n. A wrong allotment. | |
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Misalter \Mis*al"ter\, v. t. To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. --Bp. Hall. | |
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Mislay \Mis*lay"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mislaid}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mislaying}.] 1. To lay in a wrong place; to ascribe to a wrong source. The fault is generally mislaid upon nature. --Locke. 2. To lay in a place not recollected; to lose. The . . . charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead. --Hallam. | |
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Mislead \Mis*lead"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Misled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misleading}.] [AS. misl[?]dan. See {Mis-}, and {Lead} to conduct.] To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. --Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. --Milton. Syn: To delude; deceive. See {Deceive}. | |
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Misleader \Mis*lead"er\, n. One who leads into error. | |
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Misleading \Mis*lead"ing\, a. Leading astray; delusive. | |
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Mislead \Mis*lead"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Misled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misleading}.] [AS. misl[?]dan. See {Mis-}, and {Lead} to conduct.] To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. --Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. --Milton. Syn: To delude; deceive. See {Deceive}. | |
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Misled \Mis*led"\, imp. & p. p. of {Mislead}. | |
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Misle \Mi"sle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Misled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misling}.] [Prop. mistle, fr. mist. Cf. {Mistle}, {Mizzle}.] To rain in very fine drops, like a thick mist; to mizzle. | |
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Mislead \Mis*lead"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Misled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Misleading}.] [AS. misl[?]dan. See {Mis-}, and {Lead} to conduct.] To lead into a wrong way or path; to lead astray; to guide into error; to cause to mistake; to deceive. Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you. --Bacon. To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler. --Milton. Syn: To delude; deceive. See {Deceive}. | |
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Mistletoe \Mis"tle*toe\, n. [AS. mistelt[be]n; mistel mistletoe + t[be]n twig. AS. mistel is akin of D., G., Dan. & Sw. mistel, OHG. mistil, Icel. mistilteinn; and AS. t[be]n to D. teen, OHG. zein, Icel. teinn, Goth. tains. Cf. {Missel}.] (Bot.) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also {misletoe}, {misseltoe}, and {mistleto}.] --Lindley. Loudon. Note: The mistletoe of the United States is {Phoradendron flavescens}, having broader leaves than the European kind. In different regions various similar plants are called by this name. | |
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Misletoe \Mis"le*toe\, n. See {Mistletoe}. | |
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Mistletoe \Mis"tle*toe\, n. [AS. mistelt[be]n; mistel mistletoe + t[be]n twig. AS. mistel is akin of D., G., Dan. & Sw. mistel, OHG. mistil, Icel. mistilteinn; and AS. t[be]n to D. teen, OHG. zein, Icel. teinn, Goth. tains. Cf. {Missel}.] (Bot.) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also {misletoe}, {misseltoe}, and {mistleto}.] --Lindley. Loudon. Note: The mistletoe of the United States is {Phoradendron flavescens}, having broader leaves than the European kind. In different regions various similar plants are called by this name. | |
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Misletoe \Mis"le*toe\, n. See {Mistletoe}. | |
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Mislodge \Mis*lodge"\, v. t. To lodge amiss. [Obs.] | |
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Missel \Mis"sel\, n. Mistletoe. [Obs.] {Missel bird}, {Missel thrush} (Zo[94]l.), a large European thrush ({Turdus viscivorus}) which feeds on the berries of the mistletoe; -- called also {mistletoe thrush} and missel. | |
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Misseldine \Mis"sel*dine\, n. [See {Mistletoe}.] [Written also {misselden}.] The mistletoe. [Obs.] --Baret. | |
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Misseldine \Mis"sel*dine\, n. [See {Mistletoe}.] [Written also {misselden}.] The mistletoe. [Obs.] --Baret. | |
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Misseltoe \Mis"sel*toe\, n. See {Mistletoe}. | |
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Mistletoe \Mis"tle*toe\, n. [AS. mistelt[be]n; mistel mistletoe + t[be]n twig. AS. mistel is akin of D., G., Dan. & Sw. mistel, OHG. mistil, Icel. mistilteinn; and AS. t[be]n to D. teen, OHG. zein, Icel. teinn, Goth. tains. Cf. {Missel}.] (Bot.) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also {misletoe}, {misseltoe}, and {mistleto}.] --Lindley. Loudon. Note: The mistletoe of the United States is {Phoradendron flavescens}, having broader leaves than the European kind. In different regions various similar plants are called by this name. | |
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Misseltoe \Mis"sel*toe\, n. See {Mistletoe}. | |
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Mistletoe \Mis"tle*toe\, n. [AS. mistelt[be]n; mistel mistletoe + t[be]n twig. AS. mistel is akin of D., G., Dan. & Sw. mistel, OHG. mistil, Icel. mistilteinn; and AS. t[be]n to D. teen, OHG. zein, Icel. teinn, Goth. tains. Cf. {Missel}.] (Bot.) A parasitic evergreen plant of Europe (Viscum album), bearing a glutinous fruit. When found upon the oak, where it is rare, it was an object of superstitious regard among the Druids. A bird lime is prepared from its fruit. [Written also {misletoe}, {misseltoe}, and {mistleto}.] --Lindley. Loudon. Note: The mistletoe of the United States is {Phoradendron flavescens}, having broader leaves than the European kind. In different regions various similar plants are called by this name. | |
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Mixolydian mode \Mix`o*lyd"i*an mode`\ [Gr. [?] a mixing + E. Lydian.] (Mus.) The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G. | |
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Mizzle \Miz"zle\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mizzled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mizzling}.] [See {Misle}, and cf. {Mistle}.] 1. To rain in very fine drops. | |
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Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint. | |
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Mock \Mock\, a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator. {Mock bishop's weed} (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs ({Discopleura}) growing in wet places. {Mock heroic}, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. {Mock lead}. See {Blende} ( a ). {Mock nightingale} (Zo[94]l.), the European blackcap. {Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs ({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. {P. coronarius}, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. {Mock sun}. See {Parhelion}. {Mock turtle soup}, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. {Mock velvet}, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See {Mockado}. | |
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Blende \Blende\, n. [G., fr. blenden to blind, dazzle, deceive, fr. blind blind. So called either in allusion to its dazzling luster; or (Dana) because, though often resembling galena, it yields no lead. Cf. {Sphalerite}.] (Min.) (a) A mineral, called also {sphalerite}, and by miners {mock lead}, {false galena}, and {black-jack}. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous. (b) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster. | |
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Lead \Lead\ (l[ecr]d), n. [OE. led, leed, lead, AS. le[a0]d; akin to D. lood, MHG. l[omac]t, G. loth plummet, sounding lead, small weight, Sw. & Dan. lod. [root]123] 1. (Chem.) One of the elements, a heavy, pliable, inelastic metal, having a bright, bluish color, but easily tarnished. It is both malleable and ductile, though with little tenacity, and is used for tubes, sheets, bullets, etc. Its specific gravity is 11.37. It is easily fusible, forms alloys with other metals, and is an ingredient of solder and type metal. Atomic weight, 206.4. Symbol Pb (L. Plumbum). It is chiefly obtained from the mineral galena, lead sulphide. 2. An article made of lead or an alloy of lead; as: (a) A plummet or mass of lead, used in sounding at sea. (b) (Print.) A thin strip of type metal, used to separate lines of type in printing. (c) Sheets or plates of lead used as a covering for roofs; hence, pl., a roof covered with lead sheets or terne plates. I would have the tower two stories, and goodly leads upon the top. --Bacon 3. A small cylinder of black lead or plumbago, used in pencils. {Black lead}, graphite or plumbago; -- so called from its leadlike appearance and streak. [Colloq.] {Coasting lead}, a sounding lead intermediate in weight between a hand lead and deep-sea lead. {Deep-sea lead}, the heaviest of sounding leads, used in water exceeding a hundred fathoms in depth. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {Hand lead}, a small lead use for sounding in shallow water. {Krems lead}, {Kremnitz lead} [so called from Krems or Kremnitz, in Austria], a pure variety of white lead, formed into tablets, and called also {Krems, [or] Kremnitz, white}, and {Vienna white}. {Lead arming}, tallow put in the hollow of a sounding lead. See {To arm the lead} (below). {Lead colic}. See under {Colic}. {Lead color}, a deep bluish gray color, like tarnished lead. {Lead glance}. (Min.) Same as {Galena}. {Lead line} (a) (Med.) A dark line along the gums produced by a deposit of metallic lead, due to lead poisoning. (b) (Naut.) A sounding line. {Lead mill}, a leaden polishing wheel, used by lapidaries. {Lead ocher} (Min.), a massive sulphur-yellow oxide of lead. Same as {Massicot}. {Lead pencil}, a pencil of which the marking material is graphite (black lead). {Lead plant} (Bot.), a low leguminous plant, genus {Amorpha} ({A. canescens}), found in the Northwestern United States, where its presence is supposed to indicate lead ore. --Gray. {Lead tree}. (a) (Bot.) A West Indian name for the tropical, leguminous tree, {Leuc[91]na glauca}; -- probably so called from the glaucous color of the foliage. (b) (Chem.) Lead crystallized in arborescent forms from a solution of some lead salt, as by suspending a strip of zinc in lead acetate. {Mock lead}, a miner's term for blende. {Red lead}, a scarlet, crystalline, granular powder, consisting of minium when pure, but commonly containing several of the oxides of lead. It is used as a paint or cement and also as an ingredient of flint glass. {Red lead ore} (Min.), crocoite. {Sugar of lead}, acetate of lead. {To arm the lead}, to fill the hollow in the bottom of a sounding lead with tallow in order to discover the nature of the bottom by the substances adhering. --Ham. Nav. Encyc. {To} {cast, [or] heave}, {the lead}, to cast the sounding lead for ascertaining the depth of water. {White lead}, hydrated carbonate of lead, obtained as a white, amorphous powder, and much used as an ingredient of white paint. | |
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Mock \Mock\, a. Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham. That superior greatness and mock majesty. --Spectator. {Mock bishop's weed} (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs ({Discopleura}) growing in wet places. {Mock heroic}, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. {Mock lead}. See {Blende} ( a ). {Mock nightingale} (Zo[94]l.), the European blackcap. {Mock orange} (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs ({Philadelphus}), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. {P. coronarius}, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. {Mock sun}. See {Parhelion}. {Mock turtle soup}, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. {Mock velvet}, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See {Mockado}. | |
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Blende \Blende\, n. [G., fr. blenden to blind, dazzle, deceive, fr. blind blind. So called either in allusion to its dazzling luster; or (Dana) because, though often resembling galena, it yields no lead. Cf. {Sphalerite}.] (Min.) (a) A mineral, called also {sphalerite}, and by miners {mock lead}, {false galena}, and {black-jack}. It is a zinc sulphide, but often contains some iron. Its color is usually yellow, brown, or black, and its luster resinous. (b) A general term for some minerals, chiefly metallic sulphides which have a somewhat brilliant but nonmetallic luster. | |
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Muggletonian \Mug`gle*to"ni*an\, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an extinct sect, named after Ludovic Muggleton, an English journeyman tailor, who (about 1657) claimed to be inspired. --Eadie. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mugiloid \Mu"gi*loid\, a. (Zo[94]l.) Like or pertaining to the genus Mugil, or family {Mugilid[91]}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muscled \Mus"cled\, a. Furnished with muscles; having muscles; as, things well muscled. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Musculation \Mus`cu*la"tion\, n. (Anat.) The muscular system of an animal, or of any of its parts. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Musculature \Mus"cu*la*ture\, n. [Cf. F. musculature.] (Anat.) Musculation. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mussel \Mus"sel\, n. [See {Muscle}, 3.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of many species of marine bivalve shells of the genus {Mytilus}, and related genera, of the family {Mytid[91]}. The common mussel ({Mytilus edulis}; see Illust. under {Byssus}), and the larger, or horse, mussel ({Modiola modiolus}), inhabiting the shores both of Europe and America, are edible. The former is extensively used as food in Europe. 2. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of {Unio}, and related fresh-water genera; -- called also {river mussel}. See {Naiad}, and {Unio}. {Mussel digger} (Zo[94]l.), the grayback whale. See {Gray whale}, under {Gray}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muzzle \Muz"zle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muzzled}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Muzzling}.] [F. museler.] 1. To bind the mouth of; to fasten the mouth of, so as to prevent biting or eating; hence, figuratively, to bind; to sheathe; to restrain from speech or action. [bd]My dagger muzzled.[b8] --Shak. Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn. --Deut. xxv. 4. 2. To fondle with the closed mouth. [Obs.] --L'Estrange. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Myceloid \Myc"e*loid\, a. [Mycelium + -oid.] (Bot.) Resembling mycelium. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Myogalid \My*og"a*lid\, n. [Myo- + Gr. [?] a weasel.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the {Myogalod[91]}, a family of Insectivora, including the desman, and allied species. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Myogalid \My*og"a*lid\, n. [Myo- + Gr. [?] a weasel.] (Zo[94]l.) One of the {Myogalod[91]}, a family of Insectivora, including the desman, and allied species. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Maxwelton, WV Zip code(s): 24957 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mc Leod, MT Zip code(s): 59052 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mc Loud, OK Zip code(s): 74851 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mc Louth, KS Zip code(s): 66054 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
McCloud, CA (CDP, FIPS 44784) Location: 41.25480 N, 122.13521 W Population (1990): 1555 (704 housing units) Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mccloud, CA Zip code(s): 96057 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
McCloud, CA (CDP, FIPS 44784) Location: 41.25480 N, 122.13521 W Population (1990): 1555 (704 housing units) Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mccloud, CA Zip code(s): 96057 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mcleod, ND Zip code(s): 58057 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
McLeod County, MN (county, FIPS 85) Location: 44.82555 N, 94.27126 W Population (1990): 32030 (12391 housing units) Area: 1274.1 sq km (land), 35.6 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
McLoud, OK (town, FIPS 45350) Location: 35.41213 N, 97.09810 W Population (1990): 2493 (959 housing units) Area: 44.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
McLouth, KS (city, FIPS 43900) Location: 39.19530 N, 95.20846 W Population (1990): 719 (297 housing units) Area: 1.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mickleton, NJ Zip code(s): 08056 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mukilteo, WA (city, FIPS 47735) Location: 47.92683 N, 122.30869 W Population (1990): 7007 (2817 housing units) Area: 7.1 sq km (land), 8.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98275 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
missile address n. See {ICBM address}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
missile address {ICBM address} | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Makheloth assemblies, a station of the Israelites in the desert (Num. 33:25, 26). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mikloth staves. (1.) An officer under Dodai, in the time of David and Solomon (1 Chr. 27:4). (2.) A Benjamite (1 Chr. 8:32; 9:37, 38). | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Makheloth, assemblies; congregations | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mikloth, little wants; little voices; looking downward |