English Dictionary: Mt. Vesuvius | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Madefaction \Mad`e*fac"tion\, Madefication \Mad`e*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. madefacere to make wet; madere to be wet + facere to make: cf. F. mad[82]faction.] The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] --Bacon. | |
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Madefaction \Mad`e*fac"tion\, Madefication \Mad`e*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. madefacere to make wet; madere to be wet + facere to make: cf. F. mad[82]faction.] The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] --Bacon. | |
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Fescue \Fes"cue\ (f[ecr]s"k[usl]), n. [OE. festu, OF. festu, F. f[82]tu, fr. L. festuca stalk, straw.] 1. A straw, wire, stick, etc., used chiefly to point out letters to children when learning to read. [bd]Pedantic fescue.[b8] --Sterne. To come under the fescue of an imprimatur. --Milton. 2. An instrument for playing on the harp; a plectrum. [Obs.] --Chapman. 3. The style of a dial. [Obs.] 4. (Bot.) A grass of the genus {Festuca}. {Fescue grass} (Bot.), a genus of grasses ({Festuca}) containing several species of importance in agriculture. {Festuca ovina} is {sheep's fescue}; {F. elatior} is {meadow fescue}. | |
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Meadow \Mead"ow\, a. Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. [bd]Fat meadow ground.[b8] --Milton. Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary. {Meadow beauty}. (Bot.) Same as {Deergrass}. {Meadow foxtail} (Bot.), a valuable pasture grass ({Alopecurus pratensis}) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes. {Meadow grass} (Bot.), a name given to several grasses of the genus {Poa}, common in meadows, and of great value for nay and for pasture. See {Grass}. {Meadow hay}, a coarse grass, or true sedge, growing in uncultivated swamp or river meadow; -- used as fodder or bedding for cattle, packing for ice, etc. [Local, U. S.] {Meadow hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The American bittern. See {Stake-driver}. (b) The American coot ({Fulica}). (c) The clapper rail. {Meadow lark} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Sturnella}, a genus of American birds allied to the starlings. The common species ({S. magna}) has a yellow breast with a black crescent. {Meadow mouse} (Zo[94]l.), any mouse of the genus {Arvicola}, as the common American species {A. riparia}; -- called also {field mouse}, and {field vole}. {Meadow mussel} (Zo[94]l.), an American ribbed mussel ({Modiola plicatula}), very abundant in salt marshes. {Meadow ore} (Min.), bog-iron ore, a kind of limonite. {Meadow parsnip}. (Bot.) See under {Parsnip}. {Meadow pink}. (Bot.) See under {Pink}. {Meadow pipit} (Zo[94]l.), a small singing bird of the genus {Anthus}, as {A. pratensis}, of Europe. {Meadow rue} (Bot.), a delicate early plant, of the genus {Thalictrum}, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species. {Meadow saffron}. (Bot.) See under {Saffron}. {Meadow sage}. (Bot.) See under {Sage}. {Meadow saxifrage} (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant of Europe ({Silaus pratensis}), somewhat resembling fennel. {Meadow snipe} (Zo[94]l.), the common or jack snipe. | |
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Biscuit \Bis"cuit\, n. [F. biscuit (cf. It. biscotto, Sp. bizcocho, Pg. biscouto), fr. L. bis twice + coctus, p. p. of coquere to cook, bake. See {Cook}, and cf. {Bisque} a kind of porcelain.] 1. A kind of unraised bread, of many varieties, plain, sweet, or fancy, formed into flat cakes, and bakes hard; as, ship biscuit. According to military practice, the bread or biscuit of the Romans was twice prepared in the oven. --Gibbon. 2. A small loaf or cake of bread, raised and shortened, or made light with soda or baking powder. Usually a number are baked in the same pan, forming a sheet or card. 3. Earthen ware or porcelain which has undergone the first baking, before it is subjected to the glazing. 4. (Sculp.) A species of white, unglazed porcelain, in which vases, figures, and groups are formed in miniature. {Meat biscuit}, an alimentary preparation consisting of matters extracted from meat by boiling, or of meat ground fine and combined with flour, so as to form biscuits. | |
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Meat \Meat\, n. [OE. mete, AS. mete; akin to OS. mat, meti, D. met hashed meat, G. mettwurst sausage, OHG. maz food, Icel. matr, Sw. mat, Dan. mad, Goth. mats. Cf. {Mast} fruit, {Mush}.] 1. Food, in general; anything eaten for nourishment, either by man or beast. Hence, the edible part of anything; as, the meat of a lobster, a nut, or an egg. --Chaucer. And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat. --Gen. i. 29. Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you. --Gen. ix. 3. 2. The flesh of animals used as food; esp., animal muscle; as, a breakfast of bread and fruit without meat. 3. Specifically, dinner; the chief meal. [Obs.] --Chaucer. {Meat biscuit}. See under {Biscuit}. {Meat earth} (Mining), vegetable mold. --Raymond. {Meat fly}. (Zo[94]l.) See {Flesh fly}, under {Flesh}. {Meat offering} (Script.), an offering of food, esp. of a cake made of flour with salt and oil. {To go to meat}, to go to a meal. [Obs.] {To sit at meat}, to sit at the table in taking food. | |
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Metabasis \Me*tab"a*sis\, n.; pl. {Metabases}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to pass over; [?] beyond, over + [?] to go.] 1. (Rhet.) A transition from one subject to another. 2. (Med.) Same as {Metabola}. | |
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Metabasis \Me*tab"a*sis\, n.; pl. {Metabases}. [NL., fr. Gr. [?], fr. [?] to pass over; [?] beyond, over + [?] to go.] 1. (Rhet.) A transition from one subject to another. 2. (Med.) Same as {Metabola}. | |
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Metapectic \Met`a*pec"tic\, a. [Pref. meta- + pectic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a supposed acid obtained from pectin. | |
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Metapectin \Met`a*pec"tin\, n. (Chem.) A substance obtained from, and resembling, pectin, and occurring in overripe fruits. | |
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Metaphosphate \Met`a*phos"phate\, n. (Chem.) A salt of metaphosphoric acid. | |
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Metaphosphoric \Met`a*phos*phor"ic\, a. [Pref. meta- + phosphoric.] (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, {HPO3}, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid. | |
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Metaphysic \Met`a*phys"ic\, n. [Cf. F. m[82]taphysique.] See {Metaphysics}. | |
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Metaphysic \Met`a*phys"ic\, a. Metaphysical. | |
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Metaphysical \Met`a*phys"ic*al\, a. [Cf. F. m[82]taphysique. See {Metaphysics}.] 1. Of or pertaining to metaphysics. 2. According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as, metaphysical reasoning. 3. Preternatural or supernatural. [Obs.] The golden round *Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal. --Shak. | |
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Metaphysically \Met`a*phys"ic*al*ly\, adv. In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician. --South. | |
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Metaphysician \Met`a*phy*si"cian\, n. [Cf. F. m[82]taphysicien.] One who is versed in metaphysics. | |
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Metaphysics \Met`a*phys"ics\, n. [Gr. [?] [?] [?] after those things which relate to external nature, after physics, fr. [?] beyond, after + [?] relating to external nature, natural, physical, fr. [?] nature: cf. F. m[82]taphysique. See {Physics}. The term was first used by the followers of Aristotle as a name for that part of his writings which came after, or followed, the part which treated of physics.] 1. The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; phylosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles. Note: Metaphysics is distinguished as general and special. {General metaphysics} is the science of all being as being. {Special metaphysics} is the science of one kind of being; as, the metaphysics of chemistry, of morals, or of politics. According to Kant, a systematic exposition of those notions and truths, the knowledge of which is altogether independent of experience, would constitute the science of metaphysics. Commonly, in the schools, called metaphysics, as being part of the philosophy of Aristotle, which hath that for title; but it is in another sense: for there it signifieth as much as [bd]books written or placed after his natural philosophy.[b8] But the schools take them for [bd]books of supernatural philosophy;[b8] for the word metaphysic will bear both these senses. --Hobbes. Now the science conversant about all such inferences of unknown being from its known manifestations, is called ontology, or metaphysics proper. --Sir W. Hamilton. Metaphysics are [is] the science which determines what can and what can not be known of being, and the laws of being, a priori. --Coleridge. 2. Hence: The scientific knowledge of mental phenomena; mental philosophy; psychology. Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind. --Sir W. Hamilton. Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics. --Mrs. Browning. | |
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Metopic \Me*top"ic\, a. [Gr. [?] the forehead.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture. | |
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Metoposcopic \Met`o*po*scop"ic\, Metoposcopical \Met`o*po*scop"ic*al\, a. Of or relating to metoposcopy. | |
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Metoposcopic \Met`o*po*scop"ic\, Metoposcopical \Met`o*po*scop"ic*al\, a. Of or relating to metoposcopy. | |
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Metoposcopist \Met`o*pos"co*pist\, n. One versed in metoposcopy. | |
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Metoposcopy \Met`o*pos"co*py\, n. [Gr. [?] observing the forehead; [?] the forehead + [?] to view: cf. F. m[82]toposcopie.] The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face. | |
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Midwife \Mid"wife`\, n.; pl. {Midwives}. [OE. midwif, fr. AS. mid with (akin to Gr. [?]) + [?] woman, wife. Properly, the woman or wife who is attendant upon a woman in childbirth. See {Meta-}, and {Wife}.] A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art. | |
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Modificable \Mo*dif"i*ca*ble\, a. Modifiable. [Obs.] | |
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Modificate \Mod"i*fi*cate\, v. t. [See {Modify}.] To qualify. [Obs.] --Bp. Pearson. | |
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Modification \Mod`i*fi*ca"tion\, n. [L. modificatio a measuring: cf. F. modification. See {Modify}.] The act of modifying, or the state of being modified; a modified form or condition; state as modified; a change; as, the modification of an opinion, or of a machine; the various modifications of light. --Bentley. | |
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Modificative \Mod"i*fi*ca*tive\, n. That which modifies or qualifies, as a word or clause. | |
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Modificatory \Mod"i*fi*ca`to*ry\, a. Tending or serving to modify; modifying. --Max M[81]ller. | |
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Motific \Mo*tif"ic\, a. [L. motus motion (fr. movere to move) + facere to make.] Producing motion. [R.] | |
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Mouthpiece \Mouth"piece`\, n. 1. The part of a musical or other instrument to which the mouth is applied in using it; as, the mouthpiece of a bugle, or of a tobacco pipe. 2. An appendage to an inlet or outlet opening of a pipe or vessel, to direct or facilitate the inflow or outflow of a fluid. 3. One who delivers the opinion of others or of another; a spokesman; as, the mouthpiece of his party. | |
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Mud \Mud\, n. [Akin to LG. mudde, D. modder, G. moder mold, OSw. modd mud, Sw. modder mother, Dan. mudder mud. Cf. {Mother} a scum on liquors.] Earth and water mixed so as to be soft and adhesive. {Mud bass} (Zo[94]l.), a fresh-water fish ({Acantharchum pomotis}) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note. {Mud bath}, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease. {Mud boat}, a large flatboat used in deredging. {Mud cat}. See {Catfish}. {Mud crab} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several American marine crabs of the genus {Panopeus}. {Mud dab} (Zo[94]l.), the winter flounder. See {Flounder}, and {Dab}. {Mud dauber} (Zo[94]l.), a mud wasp. {Mud devil} (Zo[94]l.), the fellbender. {Mud drum} (Steam Boilers), a drum beneath a boiler, into which sediment and mud in the water can settle for removal. {Mud eel} (Zo[94]l.), a long, slender, aquatic amphibian ({Siren lacertina}), found in the Southern United States. It has persistent external gills and only the anterior pair of legs. See {Siren}. {Mud frog} (Zo[94]l.), a European frog ({Pelobates fuscus}). {Mud hen}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The American coot ({Fulica Americana}). (b) The clapper rail. {Mud lark}, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. [Slang] {Mud minnow} (Zo[94]l.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus {Umbra}, as {U. limi}. The genus is allied to the pickerels. {Mud plug}, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. {Mud puppy} (Zo[94]l.), the menobranchus. {Mud scow}, a heavy scow, used in dredging; a mud boat. [U.S.] {Mud turtle}, {Mud tortoise} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of fresh-water tortoises of the United States. {Mud wasp} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous species of hymenopterous insects belonging to {Pep[91]us}, and allied genera, which construct groups of mud cells, attached, side by side, to stones or to the woodwork of buildings, etc. The female places an egg in each cell, together with spiders or other insects, paralyzed by a sting, to serve as food for the larva. Called also {mud dauber}. | |
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Mudfish \Mud"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European loach. (b) The bowfin. (c) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species ({Protopterus annectens}). See {Lipedosiren}. (d) The mud minnow. | |
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d8Amia \[d8]Am"i*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?] a kind of tunny.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called {bowfin} in Lake Champlain, {dogfish} in Lake Erie, and {mudfish} in South Carolina, etc. See {Bowfin}. | |
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Mudfish \Mud"fish`\, n. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The European loach. (b) The bowfin. (c) The South American lipedosiren, and the allied African species ({Protopterus annectens}). See {Lipedosiren}. (d) The mud minnow. | |
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d8Amia \[d8]Am"i*a\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?] a kind of tunny.] (Zo[94]l.) A genus of fresh-water ganoid fishes, exclusively confined to North America; called {bowfin} in Lake Champlain, {dogfish} in Lake Erie, and {mudfish} in South Carolina, etc. See {Bowfin}. | |
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Mattapoisett, MA Zip code(s): 02739 | |
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Mattapoisett Center, MA (CDP, FIPS 39485) Location: 41.66257 N, 70.80859 W Population (1990): 2949 (1506 housing units) Area: 11.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Meadow Vista, CA (CDP, FIPS 46632) Location: 39.00397 N, 121.03072 W Population (1990): 3067 (1187 housing units) Area: 14.2 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 95722 | |
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Meadowview Estates, KY (city, FIPS 51294) Location: 38.22310 N, 85.63616 W Population (1990): 259 (157 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MUD Object Oriented {MUSE}, and {MUX}) created to diversify the realm of interactive text-based gaming. A MOO is similar to a MUSH in that the users themselves can create objects, rooms, and code to add to the environment. The most frequently used {server} {software} for running a MOO is {LambdaMOO} but alternatives include {WinMOO (http://www-personal.umich.edu/~cunkel/WinMOO/)} and {MacGoesMOO (http://neon.ci.lexington.ma.us/SpamCentral/scaron/mgm.html)}. (1999-05-25) |