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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Musk \Musk\, n. [F. musc, L. muscus, Per. musk, fr. Skr. mushka testicle, orig., a little mouse. See {Mouse}, and cd. {Abelmosk}, {Muscadel}, {Muscovy duck}, {Nutmeg}.] 1. A substance of a reddish brown color, and when fresh of the consistence of honey, obtained from a bag being behind the navel of the male musk deer. It has a slightly bitter taste, but is specially remarkable for its powerful and enduring odor. It is used in medicine as a stimulant antispasmodic. The term is also applied to secretions of various other animals, having a similar odor. 2. (Zo[94]l.) The musk deer. See {Musk deer} (below). 3. The perfume emitted by musk, or any perfume somewhat similar. 4. (Bot.) (a) The musk plant ({Mimulus moschatus}). (b) A plant of the genus {Erodium} ({E. moschatum}); -- called also {musky heron's-bill}. (c) A plant of the genus {Muscari}; grape hyacinth. {Musk beaver} (Zo[94]l.), muskrat (1). {Musk beetle} (Zo[94]l.), a European longicorn beetle ({Aromia moschata}), having an agreeable odor resembling that of attar of roses. {Musk cat}. See {Bondar}. {Musk cattle} (Zo[94]l.), musk oxen. See {Musk ox} (below). {Musk deer} (Zo[94]l.), a small hornless deer ({Moschus moschiferus}), which inhabits the elevated parts of Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer are chevrotains, as the kanchil and napu. {Musk duck}. (Zo[94]l.) (a) The Muscovy duck. (b) An Australian duck ({Biziura lobata}). {Musk lorikeet} (Zo[94]l.), the Pacific lorikeet ({Glossopsitta australis}) of Australia. {Musk mallow} (Bot.), a name of two malvaceous plants: (a) A species of mallow ({Malva moschata}), the foliage of which has a faint musky smell. (b) An Asiatic shrub. See {Abelmosk}. {Musk orchis} (Bot.), a European plant of the Orchis family ({Herminium Minorchis}); -- so called from its peculiar scent. {Musk ox} (Zo[94]l.), an Arctic hollow-horned ruminant ({Ovibos moschatus}), now existing only in America, but found fossil in Europe and Asia. It is covered with a thick coat of fine yellowish wool, and with long dark hair, which is abundant and shaggy on the neck and shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred pounds. {Musk parakeet}. (Zo[94]l.) Same as {Musk lorikeet} (above). {Musk pear} (Bot.), a fragrant kind of pear much resembling the Seckel pear. {Musk plant} (Bot.), the {Mimulus moschatus}, a plant found in Western North America, often cultivated, and having a strong musky odor. {Musk root} (Bot.), the name of several roots with a strong odor, as that of the nard ({Nardostachys Jatamansi}) and of a species of {Angelica}. {Musk rose} (Bot.), a species of rose ({Rosa moschata}), having peculiarly fragrant white blossoms. {Musk seed} (Bot.), the seed of a plant of the Mallow family ({Hibiscus moschatus}), used in perfumery and in flavoring. See {Abelmosk}. {Musk sheep} (Zo[94]l.), the musk ox. {Musk shrew} (Zo[94]l.), a shrew ({Sorex murinus}), found in India. It has a powerful odor of musk. Called also {sondeli}, and {mondjourou}. {Musk thistle} (Bot.), a species of thistle ({Carduus nutans}), having fine large flowers, and leaves smelling strongly of musk. {Musk tortoise}, {Musk turtle} (Zo[94]l.), a small American fresh-water tortoise ({Armochelys, [or] Ozotheca, odorata}), which has a distinct odor of musk; -- called also {stinkpot}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Melibean \Mel`i*be"an\, Meliban \Mel`i*b[?]"an\, a. [From L. Meliboeus, one of the interlocutors in Virgil's first Eclogue.] (Rhet.) Alternately responsive, as verses. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Melibean \Mel`i*be"an\, Meliban \Mel`i*b[?]"an\, a. [From L. Meliboeus, one of the interlocutors in Virgil's first Eclogue.] (Rhet.) Alternately responsive, as verses. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Melopiano \Mel`o*pi*a"no\, n. [Gr. [?] song + E. piano.] A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Melpomene \Mel*pom"e*ne\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], lit., the songstress, fr. [?], [?], to sing.] 1. (Class. Myth.) The Muse of tragedy. 2. (Astron.) The eighteenth asteroid. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mill \Mill\, n. [OE. mille, melle, mulle, milne, AS. myln, mylen; akin to D. molen, G. m[81]hle, OHG. mul[c6], mul[c6]n, Icel. mylna; all prob. from L. molina, fr. mola millstone; prop., that which grinds, akin to molere to grind, Goth. malan, G. mahlen, and to E. meal. [root]108. See Meal flour, and cf. {Moline}.] 1. A machine for grinding or comminuting any substance, as grain, by rubbing and crushing it between two hard, rough, or intented surfaces; as, a gristmill, a coffee mill; a bone mill. 2. A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill. 3. A machine for grinding and polishing; as, a lapidary mill. 4. A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc. 5. A building or collection of buildings with machinery by which the processes of manufacturing are carried on; as, a cotton mill; a powder mill; a rolling mill. 6. (Die Sinking) A hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a softer metal, as copper. 7. (Mining) (a) An excavation in rock, transverse to the workings, from which material for filling is obtained. (b) A passage underground through which ore is shot. 8. A milling cutter. See Illust. under {Milling}. 9. A pugilistic. [Cant] --R. D. Blackmore. {Edge mill}, {Flint mill}, etc. See under {Edge}, {Flint}, etc. {Mill bar} (Iron Works), a rough bar rolled or drawn directly from a bloom or puddle bar for conversion into merchant iron in the mill. {Mill cinder}, slag from a puddling furnace. {Mill head}, the head of water employed to turn the wheel of a mill. {Mill pick}, a pick for dressing millstones. {Mill pond}, a pond that supplies the water for a mill. {Mill race}, the canal in which water is conveyed to a mill wheel, or the current of water which drives the wheel. {Mill tail}, the water which flows from a mill wheel after turning it, or the channel in which the water flows. {Mill tooth}, a grinder or molar tooth. {Mill wheel}, the water wheel that drives the machinery of a mill. {Roller mill}, a mill in which flour or meal is made by crushing grain between rollers. {Stamp mill} (Mining), a mill in which ore is crushed by stamps. {To go through the mill}, to experience the suffering or discipline necessary to bring one to a certain degree of knowledge or skill, or to a certain mental state. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Milvine \Mil"vine\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A bird related to the kite. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Milvine \Mil"vine\, a. [L. milvus kite.] (Zo[94]l.) Of or resembling birds of the kite kind. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mollify \Mol"li*fy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mollified}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mollifying}.] [F. mollifier, L. mollificare; mollis soft + -ficare (in comp.) to make. See {Enmollient}, {Moil}, v. t., and {-fy}.] 1. To soften; to make tender; to reduce the hardness, harshness, or asperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. --Spenser. 2. To assuage, as pain or irritation, to appease, as excited feeling or passion; to pacify; to calm. | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Melvin, IA (city, FIPS 51060) Location: 43.28671 N, 95.60855 W Population (1990): 250 (131 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 51350 Melvin, IL (village, FIPS 48268) Location: 40.57137 N, 88.24736 W Population (1990): 466 (216 housing units) Area: 0.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 60952 Melvin, MI (village, FIPS 52920) Location: 43.18460 N, 82.86345 W Population (1990): 148 (65 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48454 Melvin, TX (town, FIPS 47568) Location: 31.19832 N, 99.58093 W Population (1990): 184 (114 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76858 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Melvina, WI (village, FIPS 50800) Location: 43.80429 N, 90.78026 W Population (1990): 115 (42 housing units) Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Melvindale, MI (city, FIPS 52940) Location: 42.28112 N, 83.17909 W Population (1990): 11216 (4902 housing units) Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 48122 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Milbank, SD (city, FIPS 42260) Location: 45.21958 N, 96.63484 W Population (1990): 3879 (1711 housing units) Area: 6.3 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 57252 | |
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]: | |
Mulvane, KS (city, FIPS 49100) Location: 37.48072 N, 97.24070 W Population (1990): 4674 (1695 housing units) Area: 4.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67110 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
mailbomb (also mail bomb) [Usenet] 1. v. To send, or urge others to send, massive amounts of {email} to a single system or person, esp. with intent to crash or {spam} the recipient's system. Sometimes done in retaliation for a perceived serious offense. Mailbombing is itself widely regarded as a serious offense -- it can disrupt email traffic or other facilities for innocent users on the victim's system, and in extreme cases, even at upstream sites. 2. n. An automatic procedure with a similar effect. 3. n. The mail sent. Compare {letterbomb}, {nastygram}, {BLOB} (sense 2), {list-bomb}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mail bomb of {electronic mail} to a single system or person, with intent to crash or {spam} the recipient's system. A successful mail bomb may cause the victim's {disk quota} to be exhausted, the disk holding his mailbox to fill up, or his computer to spend a large proportion of its time processing mail. Mail-bombing is sometimes done in retaliation against someone persistently abusing {Usenet} and violating {netiquette}. While it may inconvenience the intended victim (if they gave their real address), it will probably also inconvenience other users and administrators of the computers and networks involved. Mailbombing is thus a serious offense itself. See {netiquette} for the correct way to respond to perceived violations. Compare {letterbomb}, {nastygram}. [{Jargon File}] (1995-04-04) |