maidhood
         n 1: the childhood of a girl [syn: {girlhood}, {maidenhood},
               {maidhood}]

English Dictionary: mete out	by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mated adj mated sexually Antonym(s): unmated used of gloves, socks, etc. Synonym(s): mated, paired of or relating to a marriage partner
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
matted adj tangled in a dense mass; "tried to push through the matted undergrowth" not reflecting light; not glossy; "flat wall paint"; "a photograph with a matte finish" Synonym(s): flat, mat, matt, matte, matted
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mediate adj acting through or dependent on an intervening agency; "the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact" Antonym(s): immediate being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" Synonym(s): in-between, mediate, middle v act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" Synonym(s): intercede, mediate, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between the old and the new"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mediety n one of two (approximately) equal parts [syn: moiety, mediety]
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mete out v administer or bestow, as in small portions; "administer critical remarks to everyone present"; "dole out some money"; "shell out pocket money for the children"; "deal a blow to someone"; "the machine dispenses soft drinks" Synonym(s): distribute, administer, mete out, deal, parcel out, lot, dispense, shell out, deal out, dish out, allot, dole out
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
method n a way of doing something, especially a systematic way; implies an orderly logical arrangement (usually in steps) an acting technique introduced by Stanislavsky in which the actor recalls emotions or reactions from his or her own life and uses them to identify with the character being portrayed Synonym(s): method acting, method
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
moated adj protected by a deep wide ditch usually filled with water
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
motet n an unaccompanied choral composition with sacred lyrics; intended to be sung as part of a church service; originated in the 13th century
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muddied adj (of color) discolored by impurities; not bright and clear; "dirty" is often used in combination; "a dirty (or dingy) white"; "the muddied grey of the sea"; "muddy colors"; "dirty-green walls"; "dirty-blonde hair" Synonym(s): dirty, dingy, muddied, muddy
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mutate v undergo mutation; "cells mutate"
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muted adj in a softened tone; "hushed voices"; "muted trumpets"; "a subdued whisper"; "a quiet reprimand" Synonym(s): hushed, muted, subdued, quiet being or made softer or less loud or clear; "the dull boom of distant breaking waves"; "muffled drums"; "the muffled noises of the street"; "muted trumpets" Synonym(s): dull, muffled, muted, softened
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mad \Mad\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Madded}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Madding}.]       To make mad or furious; to madden.                   Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would                have madded me.                                       --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Madid \Mad"id\, a. [L. madidus, fr. madere to be wet.]       Wet; moist; as, a madid eye. [R.] --Beaconsfield.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Maidhood \Maid"hood\, n. [AS. m[91]g[?]h[be]d. See {Maid}, and       {-hood}.]       Maidenhood. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mate \Mate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mated}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Mating}.]       1. To match; to marry.                         If she be mated with an equal husband. --Shak.          2. To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to             compete with.                         There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but                      it mates and masters the fear of death. --Bacon.                         I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare                      mate a sounder man than Surrey can be. --Shak.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Matted \Mat"ted\, a. [See {Matte}.]       Having a dull surface; unburnished; as, matted gold leaf or       gilding.          {Matted glass}, glass ornamented with figures on a dull             ground.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Matted \Mat"ted\, a. [See 3d {Mat}.]       1. Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.          2. Tangled closely together; having its parts adhering             closely together; as, matted hair.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mat \Mat\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Matted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Matting}.]       1. To cover or lay with mats. --Evelyn.          2. To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or             like, a mat; to entangle.                         And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.                                                                               --Dryden.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mattoid \Mat"toid\, n. [It. matto mad (cf. L. mattus, matus,       drunk) + -oid.]       A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity       or degeneracy.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Matweed \Mat"weed`\, n. (Bot.)       A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed       ({Ammophila arundinacea}) which is used in Holland to bind       the sand of the seacoast dikes (see {Beach grass}, under       {Beach}); also, the {Lygeum Spartum}, a Mediterranean grass       of similar habit.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Meated \Meat"ed\, a.       1. Fed; fattened. [Obs.] --Tusser.          2. Having (such) meat; -- used chiefly in composition; as,             thick-meated.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, v. t.       1. To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as             a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.          2. To divide into two equal parts. [R.] --Holder.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, a. [L. mediatus, p. p. of mediare, v. t.,       to halve, v. i., to be in the middle. See {Mid}, and cf.       {Moiety}.]       1. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed;             intervening; intermediate. --Prior.          2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument;             not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an             intervening agent or condition.          3. Gained or effected by a medium or condition. --Bacon.                         An act of mediate knowledge is complex. --Sir W.                                                                               Hamilton.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mediate \Me"di*ate\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mediated}; p. pr. &       vb. n. {Mediating}.] [LL. mediatus, p. p. of mediare to       mediate. See {Mediate}, a.]       1. To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene. [R.]          2. To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each,             esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or             agreement; as, to mediate between nations.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mediety \Me*di"e*ty\, n. [L. medietas.]       The middle part; half; moiety. [Obs.] --Sir T. Browne.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mete \Mete\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Meted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Meting}.] [AS. metan; akin to D. meten, G. messen, OHG.       mezzan, Icel. meta, Sw. m[84]ta, Goth. mitan, L. modus       measure, moderation, modius a corn measure, Gr. [?] to rule,       [?] a corn measure, and ultimately from the same root as E.       measure, L. metiri to measure; cf. Skr. m[be] to measure.       [root]99. Cf. {Measure}, {Meet}, a., {Mode}.]       To find the quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by any rule       or standard; to measure.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Methide \Meth"ide\ (? [or] ?), n. [See {Methyl}.] (Chem.)       A binary compound of methyl with some element; as, aluminium       methide, {Al2(CH3)6}.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Method \Meth"od\, n. [F. m[82]thode, L. methodus, fr. Gr.       meqodos method, investigation following after; meta` after +       "odo`s way.]       1. An orderly procedure or process; regular manner of doing             anything; hence, manner; way; mode; as, a method of             teaching languages; a method of improving the mind.             --Addison.          2. Orderly arrangement, elucidation, development, or             classification; clear and lucid exhibition; systematic             arrangement peculiar to an individual.                         Though this be madness, yet there's method in it.                                                                               --Shak.                         All method is a rational progress, a progress toward                      an end.                                             --Sir W.                                                                               Hamilton.          3. (Nat. Hist.) Classification; a mode or system of             classifying natural objects according to certain common             characteristics; as, the method of Theophrastus; the             method of Ray; the Linn[91]an method.          Syn: Order; system; rule; regularity; way; manner; mode;                course; process; means.          Usage: {Method}, {Mode}, {Manner}. Method implies                   arrangement; mode, mere action or existence. Method is                   a way of reaching a given end by a series of acts                   which tend to sec[?]re it; mode relates to a single                   action, or to the form which a series of acts, viewed                   as a whole, exhibits. Manner is literally the handling                   of a thing, and has a wider sense, embracing both                   method and mode. An instructor may adopt a good method                   of teaching to write; the scholar may acquire a bad                   mode of holding his pen; the manner in which he is                   corrected will greatly affect his success or failure.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moot \Moot\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mooted}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Mooting}.] [OE. moten, motien, AS. m[d3]tan to meet or       assemble for conversation, to discuss, dispute, fr. m[d3]t,       gem[d3]t, a meeting, an assembly; akin to Icel. m[d3]t, MHG.       muoz. Cf. {Meet} to come together.]       1. To argue for and against; to debate; to discuss; to             propose for discussion.                         A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less                      mooted, in this country.                     --Sir W.                                                                               Hamilton.          2. Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for             practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court.                         First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain                      young men, containing some doubtful controversy.                                                                               --Sir T.                                                                               Elyot.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moted \Mot"ed\, a.       Filled with motes, or fine floating dust; as, the air.       [bd]Moted sunbeams.[b8] --Tennyson.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Motet \Mo*tet"\, n. [F., a dim. of mot word; cf. It. mottetto,       dim. of motto word, device. See {Mot}, {Motto}.] (Mus.)       A composition adapted to sacred words in the elaborate       polyphonic church style; an anthem.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Moth-eat \Moth"-eat`\, v. t.       To eat or prey upon, as a moth eats a garment. [Rarely used       except in the form moth-eaten, p. p. or a.]                   Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her. --Sir T.                                                                               Herbert.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mottoed \Mot"toed\, a.       Bearing or having a motto; as, a mottoed coat or device.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mouthed \Mouthed\, a.       1. Furnished with a mouth.          2. Having a mouth of a particular kind; using the mouth,             speech, or voice in a particular way; -- used only in             composition; as, wide-mouthed; hard-mouthed; foul-mouthed;             mealy-mouthed.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Mouth \Mouth\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mouthed}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Mouthing}.]       1. To take into the mouth; to seize or grind with the mouth             or teeth; to chew; to devour. --Dryden.          2. To utter with a voice affectedly big or swelling; to speak             in a strained or unnaturally sonorous manner. [bd]Mouthing             big phrases.[b8] --Hare.                         Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes.   --Tennyson.          3. To form or cleanse with the mouth; to lick, as a bear her             cub. --Sir T. Browne.          4. To make mouths at. [R.] --R. Blair.
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
Muddy \Mud"dy\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muddied}; p. pr. & vb. n.       {Muddying}.]       1. To soil with mud; to dirty; to render turbid.          2. Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy. --Grew.
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Meadow Wood, FL (CDP, FIPS 43800)       Location: 28.38530 N, 81.36661 W       Population (1990): 4876 (1654 housing units)       Area: 2.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
Meadowood, PA (CDP, FIPS 48336)       Location: 40.84198 N, 79.89403 W       Population (1990): 3011 (1073 housing units)       Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
math-out n.   [poss. from `white-out' (the blizzard variety)] A    paper or presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal    notation as to be incomprehensible.   This may be a device for    concealing the fact that it is actually {content-free}.   See also    {numbers}, {social science number}.
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]:
mudhead n.   Commonly used to refer to a {MUD} player who eats,    sleeps, and breathes MUD.   Mudheads have been known to fail their    degrees, drop out, etc., with the consolation, however, that they    made wizard level.   When encountered in person, on a MUD, or in a    chat system, all a mudhead will talk about is three topics: the    tactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly always unfairly    stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating a favorite MUD;    why the specific game he/she has experience with is so much better    than any other; and the MUD he or she is writing or going to write    because his/her design ideas are so much better than in any existing    MUD.   See also {wannabee}.          To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the    Zuni/Hopi legend of the mudheads or `koyemshi', mythical half-formed    children of an unnatural union.   Figures representing them act as    clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies.   Others may recall the `High    School Madness' sequence from the Firesign Theatre album "Don't    Crush That Dwarf, Hand Me the Pliers", in which there is a character    named "Mudhead".
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
math-out          (Possibly from "white-out", the blizzard variety) A paper or       presentation so encrusted with mathematical or other formal       notation as to be incomprehensible.   This may be a device for       concealing the fact that it is actually {content-free}.          See also {numbers}, {social science number}.          [{Jargon File}]          (1994-12-14)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
method          The name given in {Smalltalk} and other       {object-oriented languages} to a procedure or routine       associated with one or more {classes}.   An {object} of a       certain class knows how to perform actions, e.g. printing       itself or creating a new instance of itself, rather than the       function (e.g. printing) knowing how to handle different types       of object.          Different classes may define methods with the same name       (i.e. methods may be {polymorphic}).   The term "method" is used       both for a named operation, e.g. "PRINT" and also for the code       which a specific class provides to perform tha       t operation.          Most methods operate on objects that are instances of a       certain class.   Some object-oriented languages call these       "object methods" to distinguish then from "{class methods}".          In {Smalltalk}, a method is defined by giving its name,       documentation, temporary local variables and a sequence of       expressions separated by "."s.          (2000-03-22)
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
mudhead          A {MUD} player who eats, sleeps, and breathes MUD.       Mudheads have been known to fail their degrees, drop out,       etc. with the consolation, however, that they made wizard       level.   When encountered in person, on a MUD or in a chat       system, all a mudhead will talk about is three topics: the       tactic, character, or wizard that is supposedly always       unfairly stopping him/her from becoming a wizard or beating a       favourite MUD; why the specific game he/she has experience       with is so much better than any other; and the MUD he or she       is writing or going to write because his/her design ideas are       so much better than in any existing MUD.   See also {wannabee}.          To the anthropologically literate, this term may recall the       Zuni/Hopi legend of the mudheads or "koyemshi", mythical       half-formed children of an unnatural union.   Figures       representing them act as clowns in Zuni sacred ceremonies.          [{Jargon File}]          (1994-11-29)
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Matthat       gift of God. (1.) The son of Levi, and father of Heli (Luke       3:24).                (2.) Son of another Levi (Luke 3:29).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Mattithiah       gift of Jehovah. (1.) One of the sons of Jeduthun (1 Chr. 25:3,       21).                (2.) The eldest son of Shallum, of the family of Korah (1 Chr.       9:31).                (3.) One who stood by Ezra while reading the law (Neh. 8:4).                (4.) The son of Amos, and father of Joseph, in the genealogy       of our Lord (Luke 3:25).
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]:
Medad       love, one of the elders nominated to assist Moses in the       government of the people. He and Eldad "prophesied in the camp"       (Num. 11:24-29).
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Mattatha, his gift
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]:
Medad, he that measures; water of love