English Dictionary: monarda | by the DICT Development Group |
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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Main yard \Main" yard`\ (Naut.) The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast. | |
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Mannered \Man"nered\, a. 1. Having a certain way, esp. a polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. --Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style is in some degree mannered and confined. --Hazlitt. | |
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Manred \Man"red\, Manrent \Man"rent`\, n. Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage. [Obs. or Scots Law] --Jamieson. | |
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Manure \Ma*nure"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Manured}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Manuring}.] [Contr, from OF. manuvrer, manovrer, to work with the hand, to cultivate by manual labor, F. man[?]uvker. See {Manual}, {Ure}, {Opera}, and cf. {Inure}.] 1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture. [Obs.] To whom we gave the strand for to manure. --Surrey. Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved. --Donne. 2. To apply manure to; to enrich, as land, by the application of a fertilizing substance. The blood of English shall manure the ground. --Shak. | |
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Memorate \Mem"o*rate\, v. t. [L. memoratus, p. p. of memorare. See {Memorable}.] To commemorate. [Obs.] | |
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Memorative \Mem"o*ra*tive\, a. [Cf. F. m[82]moratif.] Commemorative. [Obs.] --Hammond. | |
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d8Memoria \[d8]Me*mo"ri*a\, n. [L.] Memory. {Memoria technica}, technical memory; a contrivance for aiding the memory. | |
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Minaret \Min"a*ret\, n. [Sp. minarete, Ar. man[be]rat lamp, lantern, lighthouse, turret, fr. n[be]r to shine.] (Arch.) A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin. | |
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Miniard \Min"iard\, a. Migniard. [Obs.] | |
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Miniardize \Min"iard*ize\, v. t. To render delicate or dainty. [Obs.] --Howell. | |
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See {Major}. {Minor term of a syllogism} (Logic), the subject of the conclusion. | |
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Third \Third\, n. 1. The quotient of a unit divided by three; one of three equal parts into which anything is divided. 2. The sixtieth part of a second of time. 3. (Mus.) The third tone of the scale; the mediant. 4. pl. (Law) The third part of the estate of a deceased husband, which, by some local laws, the widow is entitled to enjoy during her life. {Major third} (Mus.), an interval of two tones. {Minor third} (Mus.), an interval of a tone and a half. | |
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Minorate \Mi"nor*ate\, v. t. [L. minoratus; p. p. of minorare to diminish, fr. minor, a. See 1st {Minor}.] To diminish. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Minoration \Mi`nor*a"tion\, n. [L. minoratio: cf. F. minoration.] A diminution. [R.] --Sir T. Browne. | |
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Minorite \Mi"nor*ite\, n. [L. minor less. Cf. 2d {Minor}, 3.] A Franciscan friar. | |
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Minority \Mi*nor"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Minorities}. [Cf. F. minorit[82]. See {Minor}, a. & n.] 1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to {majority}; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority. | |
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Minority \Mi*nor"i*ty\, n.; pl. {Minorities}. [Cf. F. minorit[82]. See {Minor}, a. & n.] 1. The state of being a minor, or under age. 2. State of being less or small. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne. 3. The smaller number; -- opposed to {majority}; as, the minority must be ruled by the majority. | |
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Balsam \Bal"sam\, n. [L. balsamum the balsam tree or its resin, Gr. [?]. See {Balm}, n.] 1. A resin containing more or less of an essential or volatile oil. Note: The balsams are aromatic resinous substances, flowing spontaneously or by incision from certain plants. A great variety of substances pass under this name, but the term is now usually restricted to resins which, in addition to a volatile oil, contain benzoic and cinnamic acid. Among the true balsams are the balm of Gilead, and the balsams of copaiba, Peru, and Tolu. There are also many pharmaceutical preparations and resinous substances, possessed of a balsamic smell, to which the name balsam has been given. 2. (Bot.) (a) A species of tree ({Abies balsamea}). (b) An annual garden plant ({Impatiens balsamina}) with beautiful flowers; balsamine. 3. Anything that heals, soothes, or restores. Was not the people's blessing a balsam to thy blood? --Tennyson. {Balsam apple} (Bot.), an East Indian plant ({Momordica balsamina}), of the gourd family, with red or orange-yellow cucumber-shaped fruit of the size of a walnut, used as a vulnerary, and in liniments and poultices. {Balsam fir} (Bot.), the American coniferous tree, {Abies balsamea}, from which the useful Canada balsam is derived. {Balsam of copaiba}. See {Copaiba}. {Balsam of Mecca}, balm of Gilead. {Balsam of Peru}, a reddish brown, syrupy balsam, obtained from a Central American tree ({Myroxylon Pereir[91]} and used as a stomachic and expectorant, and in the treatment of ulcers, etc. It was long supposed to be a product of Peru. {Balsam of Tolu}, a reddish or yellowish brown semisolid or solid balsam, obtained from a South American tree ({Myroxylon toluiferum}). It is highly fragrant, and is used as a stomachic and expectorant. {Balsam tree}, any tree from which balsam is obtained, esp. the {Abies balsamea}. {Canada balsam}, {Balsam of fir}, Canada turpentine, a yellowish, viscid liquid, which, by time and exposure, becomes a transparent solid mass. It is obtained from the balm of Gilead (or balsam) fir ({Abies balsamea}) by breaking the vesicles upon the trunk and branches. See {Balm}. | |
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Elaterium \El`a*te"ri*um\, n. [L., fr. Gr. [?], neut. of [?] driving. See 2d {Elater}.] A cathartic substance obtained, in the form of yellowish or greenish cakes, as the dried residue of the juice of the wild or squirting cucumber ({Ecballium agreste}, formerly called {Momordica Elaterium}). | |
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Oswego tea \Os*we"go tea"\ (Bot.) An American aromatic herb ({Monarda didyma}), with showy, bright red, labiate flowers. | |
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Bergamot \Ber"ga*mot\ (b[etil]r"g[adot]*m[ocr]t), n. [F. bergamote, fr. It. bergamotta; prob. a corruption of Turk. beg arm[umac]di a lord's pear.] 1. (Bot.) (a) A tree of the Orange family ({Citrus bergamia}), having a roundish or pear-shaped fruit, from the rind of which an essential oil of delicious odor is extracted, much prized as a perfume. Also, the fruit. (b) A variety of mint ({Mentha aquatica, var. glabrata}). 2. The essence or perfume made from the fruit. 3. A variety of pear. --Johnson. 4. A variety of snuff perfumed with bergamot. The better hand . . . gives the nose its bergamot. --Cowper. 5. A coarse tapestry, manufactured from flock of cotton or hemp, mixed with ox's or goat's hair; -- said to have been invented at Bergamo, Italy. Encyc. Brit. {Wild bergamot} (Bot.), an American herb of the Mint family ({Monarda fistulosa}). | |
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Note: {Corn mint} is {Mentha arvensis}. {Horsemint} is {M. sylvestris}, and in the United States {Monarda punctata}, which differs from the true mints in several respects. {Mountain mint} is any species of the related genus {Pycnanthemum}, common in North America. {Peppermint} is {M. piperita}. {Spearmint} is {M. viridis}. {Water mint} is {M. aquatica}. {Mint camphor}. (Chem.) See {Menthol}. {Mint julep}. See {Julep}. {Mint sauce}, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats. | |
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Horsemint \Horse"mint`\, n. (Bot.) (a) A coarse American plant of the Mint family ({Monarda punctata}). (b) In England, the wild mint ({Mentha sylvestris}). | |
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{Money bill} (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue. {Money broker}, a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called also {money changer}. {Money cowrie} (Zo[94]l.), any one of several species of {Cypr[91]a} (esp. {C. moneta}) formerly much used as money by savage tribes. See {Cowrie}. {Money of account}, a denomination of value used in keeping accounts, for which there may, or may not, be an equivalent coin; e. g., the mill is a money of account in the United States, but not a coin. {Money order}, an order for the payment of money; specifically, a government order for the payment of money, issued at one post office as payable at another; -- called also {postal money order}. | |
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9. A body of persons having some common honorary distinction or rule of obligation; esp., a body of religious persons or aggregate of convents living under a common rule; as, the Order of the Bath; the Franciscan order. Find a barefoot brother out, One of our order, to associate me. --Shak. The venerable order of the Knights Templars. --Sir W. Scott. 10. An ecclesiastical grade or rank, as of deacon, priest, or bishop; the office of the Christian ministry; -- often used in the plural; as, to take orders, or to take holy orders, that is, to enter some grade of the ministry. 11. (Arch.) The disposition of a column and its component parts, and of the entablature resting upon it, in classical architecture; hence (as the column and entablature are the characteristic features of classical architecture) a style or manner of architectural designing. Note: The Greeks used three different orders, easy to distinguish, Doric, Ionic, and Corinthian. The Romans added the Tuscan, and changed the Doric so that it is hardly recognizable, and also used a modified Corinthian called Composite. The Renaissance writers on architecture recognized five orders as orthodox or classical, -- Doric (the Roman sort), Ionic, Tuscan, Corinthian, and Composite. See Illust. of {Capital}. 12. (Nat. Hist.) An assemblage of genera having certain important characters in common; as, the Carnivora and Insectivora are orders of Mammalia. Note: The Linn[91]an artificial orders of plants rested mainly on identity in the numer of pistils, or agreement in some one character. Natural orders are groups of genera agreeing in the fundamental plan of their flowers and fruit. A natural order is usually (in botany) equivalent to a family, and may include several tribes. 13. (Rhet.) The placing of words and members in a sentence in such a manner as to contribute to force and beauty or clearness of expression. 14. (Math.) Rank; degree; thus, the order of a curve or surface is the same as the degree of its equation. {Artificial order} [or] {system}. See {Artificial classification}, under {Artificial}, and Note to def. 12 above. {Close order} (Mil.), the arrangement of the ranks with a distance of about half a pace between them; with a distance of about three yards the ranks are in {open order}. {The four Orders}, {The Orders four}, the four orders of mendicant friars. See {Friar}. --Chaucer. {General orders} (Mil.), orders issued which concern the whole command, or the troops generally, in distinction from special orders. {Holy orders}. (a) (Eccl.) The different grades of the Christian ministry; ordination to the ministry. See def. 10 above. (b) (R. C. Ch.) A sacrament for the purpose of conferring a special grace on those ordained. {In order to}, for the purpose of; to the end; as means to. The best knowledge is that which is of greatest use in order to our eternal happiness. --Tillotson. {Minor orders} (R. C. Ch.), orders beneath the diaconate in sacramental dignity, as acolyte, exorcist, reader, doorkeeper. {Money order}. See under {Money}. {Natural order}. (Bot.) See def. 12, Note. {Order book}. (a) A merchant's book in which orders are entered. (b) (Mil.) A book kept at headquarters, in which all orders are recorded for the information of officers and men. (c) A book in the House of Commons in which proposed orders must be entered. [Eng.] {Order in Council}, a royal order issued with and by the advice of the Privy Council. [Great Britain] {Order of battle} (Mil.), the particular disposition given to the troops of an army on the field of battle. {Order of the day}, in legislative bodies, the special business appointed for a specified day. {Order of a differential equation} (Math.), the greatest index of differentiation in the equation. {Sailing orders} (Naut.), the final instructions given to the commander of a ship of war before a cruise. {Sealed orders}, orders sealed, and not to be opened until a certain time, or arrival at a certain place, as after a ship is at sea. {Standing order}. (a) A continuing regulation for the conduct of parliamentary business. (b) (Mil.) An order not subject to change by an officer temporarily in command. {To give order}, to give command or directions. --Shak. {To take order for}, to take charge of; to make arrangements concerning. Whiles I take order for mine own affairs. --Shak. Syn: Arrangement; management. See {Direction}. | |
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Moneywort \Mon"ey*wort`\, n. (Bot.) A trailing plant ({Lysimachia Nummularia}), with rounded opposite leaves and solitary yellow flowers in their axils. | |
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Monroe doctrine \Mon*roe" doc"trine\ See under {Doctrine}. | |
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Monureid \Mon*u"re*id\, n. [Mon- + ureid.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also {monureide}.] | |
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Monureid \Mon*u"re*id\, n. [Mon- + ureid.] (Chem.) Any one of a series of complex nitrogenous substances regarded as derived from one molecule of urea; as, alloxan is a monureid. [Written also {monureide}.] | |
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Moonwort \Moon"wort`\, n. (Bot.) (a) The herb lunary or honesty. See {Honesty}. (b) Any fern of the genus {Botrychium}, esp. {B. Lunaria}; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond. | |
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Honesty \Hon"es*ty\, n. [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honest[82], onest[82] (cf. F. honn[88]tet[82]), L. honestas. See {Honest}, a.] 1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] --Chaucer. She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. --Shak. 2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. --1 Tim. ii. 2. 3. Chastity; modesty. --Chaucer. To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. --Shak. 4. (Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also {lunary} and {moonwort}. {Lunaria biennis} is common honesty; {L. rediva} is perennial honesty. Syn: Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity. | |
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Moonwort \Moon"wort`\, n. (Bot.) (a) The herb lunary or honesty. See {Honesty}. (b) Any fern of the genus {Botrychium}, esp. {B. Lunaria}; -- so named from the crescent-shaped segments of its frond. | |
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Honesty \Hon"es*ty\, n. [OE. honeste, oneste, honor, OF. honest[82], onest[82] (cf. F. honn[88]tet[82]), L. honestas. See {Honest}, a.] 1. Honor; honorableness; dignity; propriety; suitableness; decency. [Obs.] --Chaucer. She derives her honesty and achieves her goodness. --Shak. 2. The quality or state of being honest; probity; fairness and straightforwardness of conduct, speech, etc.; integrity; sincerity; truthfulness; freedom from fraud or guile. That we may lead a quiet and peaceable life in all godliness and honesty. --1 Tim. ii. 2. 3. Chastity; modesty. --Chaucer. To lay . . . siege to the honesty of this Ford's wife. --Shak. 4. (Bot.) Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also {lunary} and {moonwort}. {Lunaria biennis} is common honesty; {L. rediva} is perennial honesty. Syn: Integrity; probity; uprightness; trustiness; faithfulness; honor; justice; equity; fairness; candor; plain-dealing; veracity; sincerity. | |
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Muneration \Mu`ner*a"tion\, n. [L. muneratio.] Remuneration. [Obs.] | |
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Munnerate \Mun"ner*ate\, v. t. [L. muneratus, p. p. of munerare to give, bestow, fr. munus a gift.] To remunerate. | |
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Maynard, AR (town, FIPS 44780) Location: 36.42185 N, 90.90191 W Population (1990): 354 (165 housing units) Area: 2.8 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 72444 Maynard, IA (city, FIPS 50610) Location: 42.77420 N, 91.87691 W Population (1990): 513 (237 housing units) Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 50655 Maynard, MA (CDP, FIPS 39660) Location: 42.42565 N, 71.45695 W Population (1990): 10325 (4211 housing units) Area: 13.6 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 01754 Maynard, MN (city, FIPS 41210) Location: 44.90494 N, 95.46715 W Population (1990): 419 (182 housing units) Area: 1.7 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 56260 | |
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Maynardville, TN (city, FIPS 46700) Location: 36.24690 N, 83.80615 W Population (1990): 1298 (544 housing units) Area: 14.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 37807 | |
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Menard, TX (city, FIPS 47628) Location: 30.91935 N, 99.78410 W Population (1990): 1606 (817 housing units) Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76859 | |
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Menard County, IL (county, FIPS 129) Location: 40.03373 N, 89.79974 W Population (1990): 11164 (4650 housing units) Area: 814.0 sq km (land), 2.9 sq km (water) Menard County, TX (county, FIPS 327) Location: 30.89839 N, 99.82256 W Population (1990): 2252 (1562 housing units) Area: 2336.1 sq km (land), 0.9 sq km (water) | |
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From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
memory address space that is occupied by {memory}. 2. The range of addresses seen by a memory device relative to the base address at which it is mapped into the processor's address space. (1999-11-01) | |
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Memory Type Range Registers and {Pentium II} processors that can be used to specify a strategy for communication with the external memory and {caches} for a number of {physical address} ranges. Strategies include {write-through}, {write-back}, or uncached(?). Such control is useful where the memory is located on a device and is accessed via some kind of device bus, e.g. a {PCI} or {AGP} {graphics card}, where caching would be of no benefit. (1999-07-02) |