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Mac \Mac\ [Gael., son.] A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son. | |
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Macao \Ma*ca"o\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A macaw. | |
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Macaw \Ma*caw"\, n. [From the native name in the Antilles.] (Zo[94]l.) Any parrot of the genus {Sittace}, or {Macrocercus}. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted. | |
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Macco \Mac"co\, n. A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century. --Thackeray. | |
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Mace \Mace\, n. [Jav. & Malay. m[be]s, fr. Skr. m[be]sha a bean.] A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains. --S. W. Williams. | |
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Mace \Mace\, n. [F. macis, L. macis, macir, Gr. [?]; cf. Skr. makaranda the nectar or honey of a flower, a fragrant mango.] (Bot.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See {Nutmeg}. Note: Red mace is the aril of {Myristica tingens}, and white mace that of {M. Otoba}, -- East Indian trees of the same genus with the nutmeg tree. | |
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Mace \Mace\, n. [OF. mace, F. masse, from (assumed) L. matea, of which the dim. mateola a kind of mallet or beetle, is found.] 1. A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor. --Chaucer. Death with his mace petrific . . . smote. --Milton. 2. Hence: A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority. [bd]Swayed the royal mace.[b8] --Wordsworth. 3. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority. --Macaulay. 4. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple. 5. (Billiards) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand. {Mace bearer}, an officer who carries a mace before person in authority. | |
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Macho \Ma"cho\, n. [Sp.] (Zo[94]l.) The striped mullet of California ({Mugil cephalus, [or] Mexicanus}). | |
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Mage \Mage\, n. [F. mage. See {Magi}.] A magician. [Archaic] --Spenser. Tennyson. | |
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Maguey \Mag"uey\, n. [Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.] (Bot.) The century plant, a species of {Agave} ({A. Americana}). See {Agave}. | |
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Maize \Maize\, n. [Sp. maiz. fr. mahiz or mahis, is the language of the Island of Hayti.] (Bot.) A large species of American grass of the genus {Zea} ({Z. Mays}), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals. {Maize eater} (Zo[94]l.), a South American bird of the genus {Pseudoleistes}, allied to the troupials. {Maize yellow}, a delicate pale yellow. | |
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Make \Make\, n. [AS. maca, gemaca. See {Match}.] A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. [Obs.] For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make. --Chaucer. | |
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Make \Make\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Made}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Making}.] [OE. maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak[?]n, OFries. makia, D. maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh[?]n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage. Cf. {Match} an equal.] 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. --Ex. xxxii. 4. (b) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights. --Spenser. (c) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. Call for Samson, that he may make us sport. --Judg. xvi. 25. Wealth maketh many friends. --Prov. xix. 4. I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made. --Dryden. (d) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. (e) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time. --Bacon. (f) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. (h) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown. --Dryden. 2. To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? --Ex. ii. 14. See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. --Ex. vii. 1. Note: When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc. 3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him. --Baker. 4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. Note: In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted. I will make them hear my words. --Deut. iv. 10. They should be made to rise at their early hour. --Locke. 5. To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. And old cloak makes a new jerkin. --Shak. 6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity. --Waller. 7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.] Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? --Dryden. 8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. [bd]And make the Libyan shores.[b8] --Dryden. They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side. --Sir T. Browne. {To make a bed}, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in order. {To make a card} (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. {To make account}. See under {Account}, n. {To make account of}, to esteem; to regard. {To make away}. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to destroy. [Obs.] If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away. --Burton. (b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] --Waller. {To make believe}, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. {To make bold}, to take the liberty; to venture. {To make the cards} (Card Playing), to shuffle the pack. {To make choice of}, to take by way of preference; to choose. {To make danger}, to make experiment. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. {To make default} (Law), to fail to appear or answer. {To make the doors}, to shut the door. [Obs.] Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement. --Shak. {To make free with}. See under {Free}, a. {To make good}. See under {Good}. {To make head}, to make headway. {To make light of}. See under {Light}, a. {To make little of}. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish easily. {To make love to}. See under {Love}, n. {To make meat}, to cure meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] {To make merry}, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. {To make much of}, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. {To make no bones}. See under {Bone}, n. {To make no difference}, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indifference. {To make no doubt}, to have no doubt. {To make no matter}, to have no weight or importance; to make no difference. {To make oath} (Law), to swear, as to the truth of something, in a prescribed form of law. {To make of}. (a) To understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account. [bd]Makes she no more of me than of a slave.[b8] --Dryden. {To make one's law} (Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. {To make out}. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was unable to make out his case. (c) To make complete or exact; as, he was not able to make out the money. {To make over}, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in fee. {To make sail}. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail already extended. (b) To set sail. {To make shift}, to manage by expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. {To make sternway}, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. {To make strange}, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. {To make suit to}, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. {To make sure}. See under {Sure}. {To make up}. (a) To collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b) To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c) To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into pills; to make up a story. He was all made up of love and charms! --Addison. (e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. {To make up a face}, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. {To make up one's mind}, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. {To make water}. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. {To make way}, or {To make one's way}. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a passage; to clear the way. {To make words}, to multiply words. | |
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Make \Make\, v. i. 1. To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make. [Obs.] A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make. --Shak. 2. To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen. Note: Formerly, authors used to make on, to make forth, to make about; but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make away, to make for, to make off, to make toward, etc. 3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage. --M. Arnold. Follow after the things which make for peace. --Rom. xiv. 19. Considerations infinite Do make against it. --Shak. 4. To increase; to augment; to accrue. 5. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] --Chaucer. Tennyson. To solace him some time, as I do when I make. --P. Plowman. {To make as if}, [or] {To make as though}, to pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under {Make}, v. t.). Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. --Josh. viii. 15. My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me. --Latimer. {To make at}, to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack. {To make away with}. (a) To carry off. (b) To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate. (c) To kill; to destroy. {To make off}, to go away suddenly. {To make out}, to succeed; to be able at last; to make shift; as, he made out to reconcile the contending parties. {To make up}, to become reconciled or friendly. {To make up for}, to compensate for; to supply an equivalent for. {To make up to}. (a) To approach; as, a suspicious boat made up to us. (b) To pay addresses to; to make love to. {To make up with}, to become reconciled to. [Colloq.] {To make with}, to concur or agree with. --Hooker. | |
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Make \Make\, n. Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form. It our perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine and shake? --Dryden. {On the make},bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. [Low, U. S.] | |
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Maqui \Ma"qui\, n. (Bot.) A Chilian shrub ({Aristotelia Maqui}). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries. | |
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Mase \Mase\, n. & v. See {Maze}. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mash \Mash\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mashed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mashing}.] [Akin to G. meischen, maischen, to mash, mix, and prob. to mischen, E. mix. See 2d {Mash}.] To convert into a mash; to reduce to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; to bruise; to crush; as, to mash apples in a mill, or potatoes with a pestle. Specifically (Brewing), to convert, as malt, or malt and meal, into the mash which makes wort. {Mashing tub}, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also {mash tun}, and {mash vat}. | |
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Mash \Mash\, n. A mesh. [Obs.] | |
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Mash \Mash\, n. [Akin to G. meisch, maisch, meische, maische, mash, wash, and prob. to AS. miscian to mix. See {Mix}.] 1. A mass of mixed ingredients reduced to a soft pulpy state by beating or pressure; a mass of anything in a soft pulpy state. Specifically (Brewing), ground or bruised malt, or meal of rye, wheat, corn, or other grain (or a mixture of malt and meal) steeped and stirred in hot water for making the wort. 2. A mixture of meal or bran and water fed to animals. 3. A mess; trouble. [Obs.] --Beau. & Fl. {Mash tun}, a large tub used in making mash and wort. | |
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Mashie \Mash"ie\, Mashy \Mash"y\, n.; pl. {Mashies}. [Etym. uncert.] A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches. | |
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Mashie \Mash"ie\, Mashy \Mash"y\, n.; pl. {Mashies}. [Etym. uncert.] A golf club like the iron, but with a shorter head, slightly more lofted, used chiefly for short approaches. | |
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Mashy \Mash"y\, a. Produced by crushing or bruising; resembling, or consisting of, a mash. | |
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Mask \Mask\, n. 1. A person wearing a mask; a masker. The mask that has the arm of the Indian queen. --G. W. Cable. 2. (Sporting) The head or face of a fox. {Death mask}, a cast of the face of a dead person. | |
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Mask \Mask\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Masked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Masking}.] 1. To cover, as the face, by way of concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor. They must all be masked and vizarded. --Shak. 2. To disguise; to cover; to hide. Masking the business from the common eye. --Shak. 3. (Mil.) (a) To conceal; also, to intervene in the line of. (b) To cover or keep in check; as, to mask a body of troops or a fortess by a superior force, while some hostile evolution is being carried out. | |
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Mask \Mask\, n. [F. masque, LL. masca, mascha, mascus; cf. Sp. & Pg. m[a0]scara, It. maschera; all fr. Ar. maskharat buffoon, fool, pleasantry, anything ridiculous or mirthful, fr. sakhira to ridicule, to laugh at. Cf. {Masque}, {Masquerade}.] 1. A cover, or partial cover, for the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask. 2. That which disguises; a pretext or subterfuge. 3. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, where all wear masks; a masquerade; hence, a revel; a frolic; a delusive show. --Bacon. This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask. --Milton. 4. A dramatic performance, formerly in vogue, in which the actors wore masks and represented mythical or allegorical characters. 5. (Arch.) A grotesque head or face, used to adorn keystones and other prominent parts, to spout water in fountains, and the like; -- called also {mascaron}. 6. (Fort.) (a) In a permanent fortification, a redoubt which protects the caponiere. (b) A screen for a battery. 7. (Zo[94]l.) The lower lip of the larva of a dragon fly, modified so as to form a prehensile organ. {Mask house}, a house for masquerades. [Obs.] | |
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Mask \Mask\, v. i. 1. To take part as a masker in a masquerade. --Cavendish. 2. To wear a mask; to be disguised in any way. --Shak. | |
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Masque \Masque\, n. A mask; a masquerade. | |
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Mass \Mass\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Massed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Massing}.] To celebrate Mass. [Obs.] --Hooker. | |
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Mass \Mass\, n. [OE. masse, F. masse, L. massa; akin to Gr. [?] a barley cake, fr. [?] to knead. Cf. {Macerate}.] 1. A quantity of matter cohering together so as to make one body, or an aggregation of particles or things which collectively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water. If it were not for these principles, the bodies of the earth, planets, comets, sun, and all things in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive masses. --Sir I. Newton. A deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred To rage. --Savile. 2. (Phar.) A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass. 3. A large quantity; a sum. All the mass of gold that comes into Spain. --Sir W. Raleigh. He had spent a huge mass of treasure. --Sir J. Davies. 4. Bulk; magnitude; body; size. This army of such mass and charge. --Shak. 5. The principal part; the main body. Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape. --Jowett (Thucyd.). 6. (Physics) The quantity of matter which a body contains, irrespective of its bulk or volume. Note: Mass and weight are often used, in a general way, as interchangeable terms, since the weight of a body is proportional to its mass (under the same or equal gravitative forces), and the mass is usually ascertained from the weight. Yet the two ideas, mass and weight, are quite distinct. Mass is the quantity of matter in a body; weight is the comparative force with which it tends towards the center of the earth. A mass of sugar and a mass of lead are assumed to be equal when they show an equal weight by balancing each other in the scales. {Blue mass}. See under {Blue}. {Mass center} (Geom.), the center of gravity of a triangle. {Mass copper}, native copper in a large mass. {Mass meeting}, a large or general assembly of people, usually a meeting having some relation to politics. {The masses}, the great body of the people, as contrasted with the higher classes; the populace. | |
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Mass \Mass\, n. [OE. masse, messe, AS. m[91]sse. LL. missa, from L. mittere, missum, to send, dismiss: cf. F. messe. In the ancient churches, the public services at which the catechumens were permitted to be present were called missa catechumenorum, ending with the reading of the Gospel. Then they were dismissed with these words : [bd]Ite, missa est[b8] [sc. ecclesia], the congregation is dismissed. After that the sacrifice proper began. At its close the same words were said to those who remained. So the word gave the name of Mass to the sacrifice in the Catholic Church. See {Missile}, and cf. {Christmas}, {Lammas}, {Mess} a dish, {Missal}.] 1. (R. C. Ch.) The sacrifice in the sacrament of the Eucharist, or the consecration and oblation of the host. 2. (Mus.) The portions of the Mass usually set to music, considered as a musical composition; -- namely, the Kyrie, the Gloria, the Credo, the Sanctus, and the Agnus Dei, besides sometimes an Offertory and the Benedictus. {Canon of the Mass}. See {Canon}. {High Mass}, Mass with incense, music, the assistance of a deacon, subdeacon, etc. {Low Mass}, Mass which is said by the priest through-out, without music. {Mass bell}, the sanctus bell. See {Sanctus}. {Mass book}, the missal or Roman Catholic service book. | |
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Mass \Mass\, v. t. To form or collect into a mass; to form into a collective body; to bring together into masses; to assemble. But mass them together and they are terrible indeed. --Coleridge. | |
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Mass82 \Mass[82]\, [or] Mass82 shot \Mass[82] shot\, n. (Billiards) A stroke made with the cue held vertically. | |
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Massy \Mass"y\, a. [Compar. {Massier}; superl. {Massiest}.] Compacted into, or consisting of, a mass; having bulk and weight ot substance; ponderous; bulky and heavy; weight; heavy; as, a massy shield; a massy rock. Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted. --Shak. Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly. --Pope. | |
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Mawk \Mawk\, n. [OE. mauk, ma[?]ek, Icel. ma[?]kr; akin to Dan. maddik, and E. mad an earthworm. See {Mad}, n.] 1. A maggot. [Scot.] 2. A slattern; a mawks. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Mawks \Mawks\, n. A slattern; a mawk. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Mawky \Mawk"y\, a. Maggoty. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Maze \Maze\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mazed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mazing}.] To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze. --South. | |
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Maze \Maze\, v. i. To be bewildered. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Maze \Maze\, n. [OE. mase; cf. OE. masen to confuse, puzzle, Norweg. masast to fall into a slumber, masa to be continually busy, prate, chatter, Icel. masa to chatter, dial. Sw. masa to bask, be slow, work slowly and lazily, mas slow, lazy.] 1. A wild fancy; a confused notion. [Obs.] --Chaucer. 2. Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment. 3. A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth. [bd]Quaint mazes on the wanton green.[b8] --Shak. Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook. --Wordaworth. The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error. --Addison. Syn: Labyrinth; intricacy. See {Labyrinth}. | |
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Mazy \Ma"zy\, a. [From {Maze}.] Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error. --Milton. To range amid the mazy thicket. --Spenser. To run the ring, and trace the mazy round. --Dryden. | |
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Mich \Mich\, Miche \Miche\, v. i. [OE. michen; cf. OE. muchier, mucier, to conceal, F. musser, and OHG. m[umac]hhen to waylay. Cf. {Micher}, {Curmudgeon}, {Muset}.] To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. [Obs. or Colloq.] [Written also {meach} and {meech}.] --Spenser. | |
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Meach \Meach\, v. i. To skulk; to cower. See {Mich}. | |
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Mich \Mich\, Miche \Miche\, v. i. [OE. michen; cf. OE. muchier, mucier, to conceal, F. musser, and OHG. m[umac]hhen to waylay. Cf. {Micher}, {Curmudgeon}, {Muset}.] To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. [Obs. or Colloq.] [Written also {meach} and {meech}.] --Spenser. | |
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Meach \Meach\, v. i. To skulk; to cower. See {Mich}. | |
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Meak \Meak\, n. [Cf. AS. m[emac]ce sword, OS. m[be]ki, Icel. m[91]kir.] A hook with a long handle. [Obs.] --Tusser. | |
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Mease \Mease\, n. [Cf. G. mass measure.] Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings. [Prov. Eng.] | |
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Meccawee \Mec`ca*wee"\, a. Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Mecca. | |
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Meech \Meech\, v. i. See {Mich}. [Obs. or Colloq.] | |
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Mich \Mich\, Miche \Miche\, v. i. [OE. michen; cf. OE. muchier, mucier, to conceal, F. musser, and OHG. m[umac]hhen to waylay. Cf. {Micher}, {Curmudgeon}, {Muset}.] To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. [Obs. or Colloq.] [Written also {meach} and {meech}.] --Spenser. | |
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Meech \Meech\, v. i. See {Mich}. [Obs. or Colloq.] | |
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Mich \Mich\, Miche \Miche\, v. i. [OE. michen; cf. OE. muchier, mucier, to conceal, F. musser, and OHG. m[umac]hhen to waylay. Cf. {Micher}, {Curmudgeon}, {Muset}.] To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. [Obs. or Colloq.] [Written also {meach} and {meech}.] --Spenser. | |
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Meek \Meek\, a. [Compar. {Meeker}; superl. {Meekest}.] [OE. mek, meoc; akin to Icel. mj[?]kr mild, soft, Sw. mjuk, Dan. myg, D. muik, Goth. mukam[?]dei gentleness.] 1. Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive. Not the man Moses was very meek. --Num. xii. 3. 2. Evincing mildness of temper, or patience; characterized by mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face. [bd]Her meek prayer.[b8] --Chaucer. Syn: Gentle; mild; soft; yielding; pacific; unassuming; humble. See {Gentle}. | |
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Meek \Meek\, Meeken \Meek"en\ (-'n), v. t. To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Meg- \Meg-\, Mega \Meg"a\, Megalo- \Meg"a*lo-\ [Gr. me`gas, gen. mega`loy, great.] Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms. | |
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Meg- \Meg-\, Mega \Meg"a\, Megalo- \Meg"a*lo-\ [Gr. me`gas, gen. mega`loy, great.] Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms. | |
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Mes- \Mes-\ See {Meso-}. | |
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Meso- \Mes"o-\, Mes- \Mes-\ [Gr. me`sos in the middle.] A combining form denoting in the middle, intermediate; specif. (Chem.), denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. Also used adjectively. | |
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Mesh \Mesh\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Meshed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Meshing}.] To catch in a mesh. --Surrey. | |
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Mesh \Mesh\, v. i. (Gearing) To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels. | |
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Mesh \Mesh\, n. [AS. masc, max, m[?]scre; akin to D. maas, masche, OHG. masca, Icel. m[94]skvi; cf. Lith. mazgas a knot, megsti to weave nets, to knot.] 1. The opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net. A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men. --Shak. 2. (Gearing) The engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack. {Mesh stick}, a stick on which the mesh is formed in netting. | |
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Meshy \Mesh"y\, a. Formed with meshes; netted. | |
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Meso- \Mes"o-\, Mes- \Mes-\ [Gr. me`sos in the middle.] A combining form denoting in the middle, intermediate; specif. (Chem.), denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. Also used adjectively. | |
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Mess \Mess\, n. Mass; church service. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mess \Mess\, n. [OE. mes, OF. mets, LL. missum, p. p. of mittere to put, place (e. g., on the table), L. mittere to send. See {Mission}, and cf. {Mass} religious service.] 1. A quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time. At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. --Milton. 2. A number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess. --Shak. 3. A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] --Latimer. 4. The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.] 5. [Perh. corrupt. fr. OE. mesh for mash: cf. muss.] A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.] | |
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Mess \Mess\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Messed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Messing}.] To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers. --Marryat. | |
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Mess \Mess\, v. t. To supply with a mess. | |
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Mess \Mess\, v. t. To make a mess of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb. It was n't right either to be messing another man's sleep. --Scribner's Mag. | |
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Messiah \Mes*si"ah\, n. [Heb. m[be]sh[c6]akh anointed, fr. m[be]shakh to anoint. Cf. {Messias}.] The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ. And told them the Messiah now was born. --Milton. | |
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Ghost dance \Ghost dance\ A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the {Ghost-dance}, or {Messiah}, {religion}, which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak. | |
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Mews \Mews\, n. sing. & pl. [Prop. pl. of mew. See {Mew} a cage.] An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [Eng.] Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a mews at the back. --Dickens. | |
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Unisilicate \U`ni*sil"i*cate\, n. [Uni- + silicate.] (Min.) A salt of orthosilicic acid, {H4SiO4}; -- so called because the ratio of the oxygen atoms united to the basic metals and silicon respectively is 1:1; for example, {Mg2SiO4} or 2{MgO.SiO2}. | |
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Mias \Mi"as\, n. [Malayan.] The orang-outang. | |
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Mica \Mi"ca\, n. [L. mica crumb, grain, particle; cf. F. mica.] (Min.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called {isinglass}. Formerly called also {cat-silver}, and {glimmer}. Note: The important species of the mica group are: {muscovite}, common or potash mica, pale brown or green, often silvery, including {damourite} (also called {hydromica}); {biotite}, iron-magnesia mica, dark brown, green, or black; {lepidomelane}, iron, mica, black; {phlogopite}, magnesia mica, colorless, yellow, brown; {lepidolite}, lithia mica, rose-red, lilac. Mica (usually muscovite, also biotite) is an essential constituent of granite, gneiss, and mica slate; {biotite} is common in many eruptive rocks; {phlogopite} in crystalline limestone and serpentine. {Mica diorite} (Min.), an eruptive rock allied to diorite but containing mica (biotite) instead of hornblende. {Mica powder}, a kind of dynamite containing fine scales of mica. {Mica schist}, {Mica slate} (Geol.), a schistose rock, consisting of mica and quartz with, usually, some feldspar. | |
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Mice \Mice\, n., pl of {Mouse}. | |
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Mouse \Mouse\ (mous), n.; pl. {Mice} (m[imac]s). [OE. mous, mus, AS. m[umac]s, pl. m[ymac]s; akin to D. muis, G. maus, OHG. & Icel. m[umac]s, Dan. muus, Sw. mus, Russ. muishe, L. mus, Gr. my^s, Skr. m[umac]sh mouse, mush to steal. [fb]277. Cf. {Muscle}, {Musk}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus {Mus} and various related genera of the family {Murid[91]}. The common house mouse ({Mus musculus}) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse ({Hesperomys leucopus}) sometimes lives in houses. See {Dormouse}, {Meadow mouse}, under {Meadow}, and {Harvest mouse}, under {Harvest}. | |
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Mich \Mich\, Miche \Miche\, v. i. [OE. michen; cf. OE. muchier, mucier, to conceal, F. musser, and OHG. m[umac]hhen to waylay. Cf. {Micher}, {Curmudgeon}, {Muset}.] To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. [Obs. or Colloq.] [Written also {meach} and {meech}.] --Spenser. | |
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Mich \Mich\, Miche \Miche\, v. i. [OE. michen; cf. OE. muchier, mucier, to conceal, F. musser, and OHG. m[umac]hhen to waylay. Cf. {Micher}, {Curmudgeon}, {Muset}.] To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly. [Obs. or Colloq.] [Written also {meach} and {meech}.] --Spenser. | |
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Mico \Mi"co\, n. [Sp. or Pg. mico.] (Zo[94]l.) A small South American monkey ({Mico melanurus}), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety. | |
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Migo \Mi*go"\, v. i. To go astray. --Spenser. | |
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Mis- \Mis-\ [In words of Teutonic origin, fr. AS. mis-; akin to D. mis-, G. miss-, OHG. missa-, missi-, Icel. & Dan. mis-, Sw. miss-, Goth. missa-; orig., a p. p. from the root of G. meiden to shun, OHG. m[c6]dan, AS. m[c6][?]an ([?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Miss} to fail of). In words from the French, fr. OF. mes-, F. m[82]-, mes-, fr. L. minus less (see {Minus}). In present usage these two prefixes are commonly confounded.] A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant. | |
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Mis \Mis\, a. & adv. [See {Amiss}.] Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] [bd]To correcten that [which] is mis.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Mis- \Mis-\ [In words of Teutonic origin, fr. AS. mis-; akin to D. mis-, G. miss-, OHG. missa-, missi-, Icel. & Dan. mis-, Sw. miss-, Goth. missa-; orig., a p. p. from the root of G. meiden to shun, OHG. m[c6]dan, AS. m[c6][?]an ([?][?][?][?]. Cf. {Miss} to fail of). In words from the French, fr. OF. mes-, F. m[82]-, mes-, fr. L. minus less (see {Minus}). In present usage these two prefixes are commonly confounded.] A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant. | |
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Mis \Mis\, a. & adv. [See {Amiss}.] Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] [bd]To correcten that [which] is mis.[b8] --Chaucer. | |
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Miscue \Mis*cue"\, n. (Billiards) A false stroke with a billiard cue, the cue slipping from the ball struck without impelling it as desired. | |
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Mise \Mise\, n. [F. mise a putting, setting, expense, fr. mis, mise, p. p. of mettre to put, lay, fr. LL. mittere to send.] 1. (Law) The issue in a writ of right. 2. Expense; cost; disbursement. [Obs.] 3. A tax or tallage; in Wales, an honorary gift of the people to a new king or prince of Wales; also, a tribute paid, in the country palatine of Chester, England, at the change of the owner of the earldom. [Obs.] | |
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Misgie \Mis*gie"\, v. t. See {Misgye}. [Obs.] | |
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Misgye \Mis*gye"\, v. t. To misguide. [Obs.] | |
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Miss \Miss\, n. 1. The act of missing; failure to hit, reach, find, obtain, etc. 2. Loss; want; felt absence. [Obs.] There will be no great miss of those which are lost. --Locke. 3. Mistake; error; fault. --Shak. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. --Ascham. 4. Harm from mistake. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Miss \Miss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Missed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Missing}.] [AS. missan; akin to D. & G. missen, OHG. missan, Icel. missa, Sw. mista, Dan. miste. [fb]100. See {Mis-}, pref.] 1. To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said. When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. --Locke. 2. To omit; to fail to have or to do; to get without; to dispense with; -- now seldom applied to persons. She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay. --Prior. We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood. --Shak. 3. To discover the absence or omission of; to feel the want of; to mourn the loss of; to want. --Shak. Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him. --1 Sam. xxv. 15, 21. What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss. --Milton. {To miss stays}. (Naut.) See under {Stay}. | |
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Miss \Miss\, n.; pl. {Misses}. [Contr. fr. mistress.] 1. A title of courtesy prefixed to the name of a girl or a woman who has not been married. See {Mistress}, 5. Note: There is diversity of usage in the application of this title to two or more persons of the same name. We may write either the Miss Browns or the Misses Brown. 2. A young unmarried woman or a girl; as, she is a miss of sixteen. Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses. --Cawthorn. 3. A kept mistress. See {Mistress}, 4. [Obs.] --Evelyn. 4. (Card Playing) In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player. | |
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Miss \Miss\, v. i. 1. To fail to hit; to fly wide; to deviate from the true direction. Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss. --Bacon. Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away. --Waller. 2. To fail to obtain, learn, or find; -- with of. Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them. --Atterbury. 3. To go wrong; to err. [Obs.] Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss? --Spenser. 4. To be absent, deficient, or wanting. [Obs.] See {Missing}, a. What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend. --Shak. | |
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d8Missa \[d8]Mis"sa\, n.; pl. {Miss[91]}. [LL. See 1st {Mass}.] (R.C.Ch.) The service or sacrifice of the Mass. | |
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Missay \Mis*say"\, v. t. 1. To say wrongly. 2. To speak evil of; to slander. [Obs.] | |
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Missay \Mis*say"\, v. i. To speak ill. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Missy \Mis"sy\, n. (Min.) See {Misy}. | |
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Missy \Mis"sy\, n. An affectionate, or contemptuous, form of miss; a young girl; a miss. -- a. Like a miss, or girl. | |
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Misway \Mis*way"\, n. A wrong way. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Misy \Mi"sy\, n. [Cf. L. misy a mineral, perh. copperas, Gr. [?].] (Min.) An impure yellow sulphate of iron; yellow copperas or copiapite. | |
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Mix \Mix\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mixed}(less properly {Mixt}); p. pr. & vb. n. {Mixing}.] [AS. miscan; akin to OHG. misken, G. mischen, Russ. mieshate, W. mysgu, Gael. measg, L. miscere, mixtum, Gr. [?], [?], Skr. mi[87]ra mixed. The English word has been influenced by L. miscere, mixtum (cf. {Mixture}), and even the AS. miscan may have been borrowed fr. L. miscere. Cf. {Admix}, {Mash} to bruise, {Meddle}.] 1. To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite or blend into one mass or compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines. Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words. --Shak. 2. To unite with in company; to join; to associate. Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. --Hos. vii. 8. 3. To form by mingling; to produce by the stirring together of ingredients; to compound of different parts. Hast thou no poison mixed? --Shak. I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations. --Bacon. | |
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Mix \Mix\, v. i. 1. To become united into a compound; to be blended promiscuously together. 2. To associate; to mingle. He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind. --Byron. | |
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Mizzy \Miz"zy\, n. [Cf. F. moisi moldy, musty, p. p. of moisir to mold, fr. L. mucere to be moldy.] A bog or quagmire. [Obs.] --Ainsworth. | |
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Mocha \Mo"cha\, n. 1. A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea. 2. A variety of coffee brought from Mocha. 3. An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain. {Mocha stone} (Min.), moss agate. | |
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Moche \Moche\, a. Much. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Mock \Mock\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mocked}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mocking}.] [F. moquer, of uncertain origin; cf. OD. mocken to mumble, G. mucken, OSw. mucka.] 1. To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. --Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. --Shak. 2. To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride. Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. --1 Kings xviii. 27. Let not ambition mock their useful toil. --Gray. 3. To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. --Judg. xvi. 13. He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. --Milton. Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See {Deride}. | |
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Mock \Mock\, v. i. To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner. When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? --Job xi. 3. She had mocked at his proposal. --Froude. | |
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Mock \Mock\, n. 1. An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer. Fools make a mock at sin. --Prov. xiv. 9. 2. Imitation; mimicry. [R.] --Crashaw. | |
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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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Moco \Mo"co\, n. (Zo[94]l.) A South American rodent ({Cavia rupestris}), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also {rock cavy}. | |
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Mog \Mog\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mogged}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mogging}.] [Etym. unknown.] To move away; to go off. [Prov. Eng. or Local, U. S.] | |
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Mohawk \Mo"hawk\, n. 1. (Ethnol.) One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River. 2. One of certain ruffians who infested the streets of London in the time of Addison, and took the name from the Mohawk Indians. [Slang] --Spectator. Macaulay. | |
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Mohock \Mo"hock\, n. See {Mohawk}. | |
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Moke \Moke\, n. A donkey. [Cant] --Thackeray. | |
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Moke \Moke\, n. A mesh of a net, or of anything resembling a net. --Halliwell. | |
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Moke \Moke\, n. 1. A stupid person; a dolt; a donkey. 2. A negro. [U. S.] 3. (Theat. Slang) [More fully musical moke.] A performer, as a minstrel, who plays on several instruments. | |
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Moky \Mo"ky\, a. [Cf. Icel. m[94]kkvi cloud, mist, m[94]kkr a dense cloud, W. mwg smoke, and E. muggy, muck.] Misty; dark; murky; muggy. [Obs.] | |
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Moose \Moose\, n. [A native name; Knisteneaux mouswah; Algonquin monse. Mackenzie.] (Zo[94]l.) A large cervine mammal ({Alces machlis}, or {A. Americanus}), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zo[94]logists is considered the same species. See {Elk}. {Moose bird} (Zo[94]l.), the Canada jayor whisky jack. See {Whisky jack}. {Moose deer}. Same as {Moose}. {Moose yard} (Zo[94]l.), a locality where moose, in winter, herd together in a forest to feed and for mutual protection. | |
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Moose \Moose\, n. A member of the Progressive Party; a Bull Moose. [Cant] | |
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d8Mores \[d8]Mo"res\ (m[omac]"r[emac]z), n. pl.; sing. {Mos} (m[omac]s). [L.] Customs; habits; esp., customs conformity to which is more or less obligatory; customary law. | |
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Mos \Mos\, n., sing. of {Mores}. | |
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Mosey \Mo"sey\, v. i. [Perh. fr. {Vamose}.] To go, or move (in a certain manner); -- usually with out, off, along, etc. [Colloq.] --E. N. Wescott. | |
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Mosk \Mosk\, n. See {Mosque}. | |
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Mosque \Mosque\, n. [F. mosqu[82]e, Sp. mezquita, Ar. masjid, from sajada to bend, adore.] A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also {mosk}.] | |
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Mosk \Mosk\, n. See {Mosque}. | |
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Mosque \Mosque\, n. [F. mosqu[82]e, Sp. mezquita, Ar. masjid, from sajada to bend, adore.] A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also {mosk}.] | |
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Mosque \Mosque\, n. [F. mosqu[82]e, Sp. mezquita, Ar. masjid, from sajada to bend, adore.] A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also {mosk}.] | |
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Moss \Moss\, n. [OE. mos; akin to AS. me[a2]s, D. mos, G. moos, OHG. mos, mios, Icel. mosi, Dan. mos, Sw. mossa, Russ. mokh', L. muscus. Cf. {Muscoid}.] 1. (Bot.) A cryptogamous plant of a cellular structure, with distinct stem and simple leaves. The fruit is a small capsule usually opening by an apical lid, and so discharging the spores. There are many species, collectively termed Musci, growing on the earth, on rocks, and trunks of trees, etc., and a few in running water. Note: The term moss is also popularly applied to many other small cryptogamic plants, particularly lichens, species of which are called tree moss, rock moss, coral moss, etc. Fir moss and club moss are of the genus {Lycopodium}. See {Club moss}, under {Club}, and {Lycopodium}. 2. A bog; a morass; a place containing peat; as, the mosses of the Scottish border. Note: Moss is used with participles in the composition of words which need no special explanation; as, moss-capped, moss-clad, moss-covered, moss-grown, etc. {Black moss}. See under {Black}, and {Tillandsia}. {Bog moss}. See {Sphagnum}. {Feather moss}, any moss branched in a feathery manner, esp. several species of the genus {Hypnum}. {Florida moss}, {Long moss}, [or] {Spanish moss}. See {Tillandsia}. {Iceland moss}, a lichen. See {Iceland Moss}. {Irish moss}, a seaweed. See {Carrageen}. {Moss agate} (Min.), a variety of agate, containing brown, black, or green mosslike or dendritic markings, due in part to oxide of manganese. Called also {Mocha stone}. {Moss animal} (Zo[94]l.), a bryozoan. {Moss berry} (Bot.), the small cranberry ({Vaccinium Oxycoccus}). {Moss campion} (Bot.), a kind of mosslike catchfly ({Silene acaulis}), with mostly purplish flowers, found on the highest mountains of Europe and America, and within the Arctic circle. {Moss land}, land produced accumulation of aquatic plants, forming peat bogs of more or less consistency, as the water is grained off or retained in its pores. {Moss pink} (Bot.), a plant of the genus {Phlox} ({P. subulata}), growing in patches on dry rocky hills in the Middle United States, and often cultivated for its handsome flowers. --Gray. {Moss rose} (Bot.), a variety of rose having a mosslike growth on the stalk and calyx. It is said to be derived from the Provence rose. {Moss rush} (Bot.), a rush of the genus {Juncus} ({J. squarrosus}). {Scale moss}. See {Hepatica}. | |
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Moss \Moss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mossed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mossing}.] To cover or overgrow with moss. An oak whose boughs were mossed with age. --Shak. | |
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Mossy \Moss"y\, a. [Compar. {Mossier}; superl. {Mossiest}.] 1. Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss; as, mossy trees; mossy streams. Old trees are more mossy far than young. --Bacon. 2. Resembling moss; as, mossy green. | |
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Mouse \Mouse\ (mous), n.; pl. {Mice} (m[imac]s). [OE. mous, mus, AS. m[umac]s, pl. m[ymac]s; akin to D. muis, G. maus, OHG. & Icel. m[umac]s, Dan. muus, Sw. mus, Russ. muishe, L. mus, Gr. my^s, Skr. m[umac]sh mouse, mush to steal. [fb]277. Cf. {Muscle}, {Musk}.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) Any one of numerous species of small rodents belonging to the genus {Mus} and various related genera of the family {Murid[91]}. The common house mouse ({Mus musculus}) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse ({Hesperomys leucopus}) sometimes lives in houses. See {Dormouse}, {Meadow mouse}, under {Meadow}, and {Harvest mouse}, under {Harvest}. | |
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Mouse \Mouse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Moused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mousing}.] 1. To watch for and catch mice. 2. To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something. | |
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Mouse \Mouse\, v. t. 1. To tear, as a cat devours a mouse. [Obs.] [bd][Death] mousing the flesh of men.[b8] --Shak. 2. (Naut.) To furnish with a mouse; to secure by means of a mousing. See {Mouse}, n., 2. | |
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Mousie \Mous"ie\, n. Diminutive for {Mouse}. --Burns. | |
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Mousse \Mousse\ (m[oomac]s), n. [F.] (Cookery) A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process. | |
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Mousy \Mous"y\, a. Infested with mice; smelling of mice. | |
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Moxa \Mox"a\, n. [A corruption of Japan. mogusa (pronounced mongsa), an escharotic made from the plant yomigi: cf. F. moxa.] 1. (Med.) A soft woolly mass prepared from the young leaves of {Artemisia Chinensis}, and used as a cautery by burning it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou. 2. (Bot.) A plant from which this substance is obtained, esp. {Artemisia Chinensis}, and {A. moxa}. | |
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Moxie \Mox"ie\, n. [fr. Moxie, a trade name for a beverage.] 1. energy; pep. 2. courage, determination. 3. Know-how, expertise. --MW10. | |
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Muce \Muce\, n. See {Muse}, and {Muset}. | |
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Much \Much\, a. [Compar. & superl. wanting, but supplied by {More}, and {Most}, from another root.] [OE. moche, muche, miche, prob. the same as mochel, muchel, michel, mikel, fr. AS. micel, mycel; cf. Gr. [?], fem. [?], great, and Icel. mj[94]k, adv., much. [fb]103. See {Mickle}.] 1. Great in quantity; long in duration; as, much rain has fallen; much time. Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in. --Deut. xxviii. 38. 2. Many in number. [Archaic] Edom came out against him with much people. --Num. xx. 20. 3. High in rank or position. [Obs.] --Chaucer. | |
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Much \Much\, n. 1. A great quantity; a great deal; also, an indefinite quantity; as, you have as much as I. He that gathered much had nothing over. --Ex. xvi. 18. Note: Muchin this sense can be regarded as an adjective qualifying a word unexpressed, and may, therefore, be modified by as, so, too, very. 2. A thing uncommon, wonderful, or noticeable; something considerable. And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies. --Milton. {To make much of}, to treat as something of especial value or worth. | |
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Much \Much\, adv. [Cf. Icel. mj[94]k. See {Much}, a.] To a great degree or extent; greatly; abundantly; far; nearly. [bd]Much suffering heroes.[b8] --Pope. Thou art much mightier than we. --Gen. xxvi. 16. Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much less do lying lips a prince. --Prov. xvii. 7. Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong Life much. --Milton. All left the world much as they found it. --Sir W. Temple. | |
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Muck \Muck\ (m[ucr]k), abbreviation of Amuck. {To run a muck}. See {Amuck}. | |
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Muck \Muck\, n. [Icel. myki; akin to D. m[94]g. Cf. {Midden}.] 1. Dung in a moist state; manure. --Bacon. 2. Vegetable mold mixed with earth, as found in low, damp places and swamps. 3. Anything filthy or vile. --Spenser. 4. Money; -- in contempt. The fatal muck we quarreled for. --Beau. & Fl. {Muck bar}, bar iron which has been through the rolls only once. {Muck iron}, crude puddled iron ready for the squeezer or rollers. --Knight. | |
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Muck \Muck\, a. Like muck; mucky; also, used in collecting or distributing muck; as, a muck fork. | |
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Muck \Muck\, v. t. To manure with muck. | |
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Mucksy \Muck"sy\, a. Somewhat mucky; soft, sticky, and dirty; muxy. [Prov. Eng.] --R. D. Blackmore. | |
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Mucky \Muck"y\, a. 1. Filthy with muck; miry; as, a mucky road. [bd]Mucky filth.[b8] --Spenser. 2. Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] --Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. --Latimer. | |
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Mug \Mug\, n. [Cf. Ir. mugam a mug, mucog a cup.] 1. A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip. 2. The face or mouth. [Slang] --Thackeray. | |
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Muggy \Mug"gy\, a. [Compar. {Muggier}; superl. {Muggiest}.] [Cf. Icel. mugga mist, mugginess. Cf. 4th {Mold}.] 1. Moist; damp; moldy; as, muggy straw. 2. Warm, damp, and close; as, muggy air, weather. | |
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d8Musa \[d8]Mu"sa\, n.; pl. {Mus[91]}. [NL., fr. Ar. mauz, mauza, banana.] (Bot.) A genus of perennial, herbaceous, endogenous plants of great size, including the banana ({Musa sapientum}), the plantain ({M. paradisiaca} of Linn[91]us, but probably not a distinct species), the Abyssinian ({M. Ensete}), the Philippine Island ({M. textilis}, which yields Manila hemp), and about eighteen other species. See Illust. of {Banana} and {Plantain}. | |
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d8Musca \[d8]Mus"ca\, n.; pl. {Musc[91]}. [L., a fly.] 1. (Zo[94]l.) A genus of dipterous insects, including the common house fly, and numerous allied species. Note: Formerly, a large part of the Diptera were included under the genus {Musca}. 2. (Astron.) A small constellation situated between the Southern Cross and the Pole. {[d8]Musc[91] volitantes}. [L., flying flies.] (Med.) Specks or filaments apparently seen moving or glinding about in the field of vision. Their appearance is often a symptom of disease of the eye, or of disorder of the nervous system. | |
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Muse \Muse\, n. 1. Contemplation which abstracts the mind from passing scenes; absorbing thought; hence, absence of mind; a brown study. --Milton. 2. Wonder, or admiration. [Obs.] --Spenser. | |
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Muse \Muse\, n. [F. Muse, L. Musa, Gr. [?]. Cf. {Mosaic}, n., {Music}.] 1. (Class. Myth.) One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural. Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing? --Pope. Note: The names of the Muses were Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe, Melpomene, Polymnia or Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania. 2. A particular power and practice of poetry. --Shak. 3. A poet; a bard. [R.] --Milton. | |
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Muse \Muse\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mused}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Musing}.] [F. muser to loiter or trifle, orig., to stand with open mouth, fr. LL. musus, morsus, muzzle, snout, fr. L. morsus a biting, bite, fr. mordere to bite. See {Morsel}, and cf. Amuse, Muzzle, n.] 1. To think closely; to study in silence; to meditate. [bd]Thereon mused he.[b8] --Chaucer. He mused upon some dangerous plot. --Sir P. Sidney. 2. To be absent in mind; to be so occupied in study or contemplation as not to observe passing scenes or things present; to be in a brown study. --Daniel. 3. To wonder. [Obs.] --Spenser. B. Jonson. Syn: To consider; meditate; ruminate. See {Ponder}. | |
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Muse \Muse\, v. t. 1. To think on; to meditate on. Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise. --Thomson. 2. To wonder at. [Obs.] --Shak. | |
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Muse \Muse\, n. [From F. musse. See {Muset}.] A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset. Find a hare without a muse. --Old Prov. | |
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Mush \Mush\, n. [Cf. Gael. mus, muss, pap, porridge, any thick preparation of fruit, OHG. muos; akin to AS. & OS. m[d3]s food, and prob, to E. meat. See {Meat}.] Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn. [U.S.] | |
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Mush \Mush\, v. t. [Cf. F. moucheter to cut with small cuts.] To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp. | |
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Mush \Mush\, n. [Perh. short for mush on, a corrupt of E. marchons, the cry of the voyageurs and coureurs de bois to their dogs.] A march on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs; as, he had a long mush before him; -- also used attributively. [Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S.] | |
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Mush \Mush\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. {Mushed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mushing}.] To travel on foot, esp. across the snow with dogs. -- v. t. To cause to travel or journey. [Rare] [Colloq., Alaska & Northwestern U. S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mush \Mush\, v. t. To notch, cut, or indent, as cloth, with a stamp. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mushy \Mush"y\, a. Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. --G. Eliot. | |
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]: | |
Musk \Musk\, v. t. To perfume with musk. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Musky \Musk"y\, a. Having an odor of musk, or somewhat the like. --Milton. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muss \Muss\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Mussed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Mussing}.] To disarrange, as clothing; to rumple. [Colloq. U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muss \Muss\, n. [Cf. OE. mus a mouse. See {Mouse}.] A term of endearment. [Obs.] See {Mouse}. --B. Jonson. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muss \Muss\, n. [Cf. OF. mousche a fly, also, the play called muss, fr. L. musca a fly.] A scramble, as when small objects are thrown down, to be taken by those who can seize them; a confused struggle. --Shak. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muss \Muss\, n. A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of mess, but influenced by muss, a scramble. [Colloq. U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mussy \Muss"y\, a. [From 2d {Muss}.] Disarranged; rumpled. [Colloq. U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mux \Mux\, n. [Cf. {Mixen}.] Dirt; filth; muck. [Prov. Eng.] --ose. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Mux \Mux\, v. t. To mix in an unitidy and offensive way; to make a mess of. [Prov. Eng.; Colloq. U.S.] | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muxy \Mux"y\, a. Soft; sticky, and dirty. [Prov. Eng.] See {Mucky}. | |
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
Muzzy \Muz"zy\, a. [Cf. F. muse.] Absent-minded; dazed; muddled; stupid. The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather then wine. --W. Irving. | |
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Maceo, KY Zip code(s): 42355 | |
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Mack, CO Zip code(s): 81525 | |
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Mackay, ID (city, FIPS 49240) Location: 43.91197 N, 113.61085 W Population (1990): 574 (342 housing units) Area: 2.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83251 | |
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Mackey, IN (town, FIPS 45774) Location: 38.24993 N, 87.39070 W Population (1990): 89 (36 housing units) Area: 0.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Macy, IN (town, FIPS 45864) Location: 40.95773 N, 86.12891 W Population (1990): 218 (88 housing units) Area: 0.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 46951 Macy, NE (CDP, FIPS 30170) Location: 42.11265 N, 96.36303 W Population (1990): 836 (222 housing units) Area: 3.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 68039 | |
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Magee, MS (city, FIPS 44600) Location: 31.87122 N, 89.73123 W Population (1990): 3607 (1433 housing units) Area: 11.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39111 | |
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Mahaska, KS (city, FIPS 44150) Location: 39.98824 N, 97.35273 W Population (1990): 98 (53 housing units) Area: 0.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 66955 | |
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Maize, KS (city, FIPS 44200) Location: 37.77310 N, 97.46415 W Population (1990): 1520 (536 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67101 | |
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Makaha, HI (CDP, FIPS 47450) Location: 21.46827 N, 158.21506 W Population (1990): 7990 (3178 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 7.5 sq km (water) | |
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Makawao, HI (CDP, FIPS 48050) Location: 20.85754 N, 156.32501 W Population (1990): 5405 (1801 housing units) Area: 12.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 96768 | |
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Massey, MD Zip code(s): 21650 | |
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Mauk, GA Zip code(s): 31058 | |
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Max, MN Zip code(s): 56659 Max, ND (city, FIPS 51380) Location: 47.81974 N, 101.29091 W Population (1990): 301 (155 housing units) Area: 2.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58759 Max, NE Zip code(s): 69037 | |
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Maza, ND (city, FIPS 51580) Location: 48.39490 N, 99.19953 W Population (1990): 12 (6 housing units) Area: 23.2 sq km (land), 0.3 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 58324 | |
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Mc Coy, CO Zip code(s): 80463 Mc Coy, TX Zip code(s): 78053 | |
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Mc Gehee, AR Zip code(s): 71654 | |
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McGehee, AR (city, FIPS 42770) Location: 33.62535 N, 91.39253 W Population (1990): 4997 (2048 housing units) Area: 15.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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McKee, KY (city, FIPS 49116) Location: 37.43032 N, 83.98709 W Population (1990): 870 (410 housing units) Area: 5.9 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Mecca, CA (CDP, FIPS 46660) Location: 33.57589 N, 116.07171 W Population (1990): 1966 (416 housing units) Area: 3.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Mecca, IN (town, FIPS 48132) Location: 39.72713 N, 87.33149 W Population (1990): 331 (159 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Meigs, GA (city, FIPS 50680) Location: 31.07210 N, 84.09192 W Population (1990): 1120 (407 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 31765 | |
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Mesa, AZ (city, FIPS 46000) Location: 33.41774 N, 111.74034 W Population (1990): 288091 (140468 housing units) Area: 281.3 sq km (land), 0.5 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 85201, 85202, 85203, 85204, 85205, 85206, 85207, 85208, 85210, 85213 Mesa, CO Zip code(s): 81643 Mesa, ID Zip code(s): 83643 Mesa, WA (town, FIPS 45180) Location: 46.57319 N, 118.99956 W Population (1990): 252 (97 housing units) Area: 4.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 99343 | |
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Mexia, TX (city, FIPS 47916) Location: 31.67972 N, 96.48073 W Population (1990): 6933 (3088 housing units) Area: 13.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 76667 | |
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Mica, WA Zip code(s): 99023 | |
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Micco, FL (CDP, FIPS 45275) Location: 27.87107 N, 80.51554 W Population (1990): 8757 (5693 housing units) Area: 24.1 sq km (land), 0.6 sq km (water) | |
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Michie, TN (town, FIPS 48180) Location: 35.06287 N, 88.42749 W Population (1990): 677 (294 housing units) Area: 14.3 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38357 | |
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Mico, TX Zip code(s): 78056 | |
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Mize, MS (town, FIPS 48240) Location: 31.86717 N, 89.55426 W Population (1990): 312 (133 housing units) Area: 6.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 39116 | |
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Mohawk, NY (village, FIPS 47823) Location: 43.00944 N, 75.00722 W Population (1990): 2986 (1245 housing units) Area: 2.3 sq km (land), 0.1 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 13407 Mohawk, TN Zip code(s): 37810 Mohawk, WV Zip code(s): 24862 | |
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Moose, WY Zip code(s): 83012 | |
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Moquah, WI Zip code(s): 54806 | |
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Mosca, CO Zip code(s): 81146 | |
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Moscow, IA Zip code(s): 52760 Moscow, ID (city, FIPS 54550) Location: 46.72977 N, 116.99684 W Population (1990): 18519 (6748 housing units) Area: 12.4 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 83843 Moscow, KS (city, FIPS 48600) Location: 37.32547 N, 101.20634 W Population (1990): 252 (105 housing units) Area: 0.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 67952 Moscow, OH (village, FIPS 52416) Location: 38.86035 N, 84.22849 W Population (1990): 279 (109 housing units) Area: 1.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 45153 Moscow, PA (borough, FIPS 51208) Location: 41.34032 N, 75.52911 W Population (1990): 1527 (578 housing units) Area: 7.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 18444 Moscow, TN (town, FIPS 50300) Location: 35.06135 N, 89.39685 W Population (1990): 384 (184 housing units) Area: 1.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 38057 Moscow, TX Zip code(s): 75960 | |
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Mousie, KY Zip code(s): 41839 | |
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Moweaqua, IL (village, FIPS 51232) Location: 39.62536 N, 89.01766 W Population (1990): 1785 (777 housing units) Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) | |
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Moxee, WA (city, FIPS 47665) Location: 46.56340 N, 120.39877 W Population (1990): 814 (305 housing units) Area: 2.5 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 98936 | |
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Moyock, NC Zip code(s): 27958 | |
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Muscoy, CA (CDP, FIPS 50132) Location: 34.15235 N, 117.34567 W Population (1990): 7541 (2233 housing units) Area: 7.5 sq km (land), 0.2 sq km (water) Zip code(s): 92405 | |
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Muse, OK Zip code(s): 74949 | |
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Mussey, MI Zip code(s): 48014 | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
meg /meg/ n. See {{quantifiers}}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
mega- /me'g*/ pref. [SI] See {{quantifiers}}. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
MEGO /me'goh/ or /mee'goh/ [`My Eyes Glaze Over', often `Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over', attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also `MEGO factor'. 1. n. A {handwave} intended to confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because the listener does not want to admit to not understanding what is going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a high proportion of {TLA}s. 2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics. 3. Among non-hackers, often refers not to behavior that causes the eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat of technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
mickey n. The resolution unit of mouse movement. It has been suggested that the `disney' will become a benchmark unit for animation graphics performance. | |
From Jargon File (4.2.0, 31 JAN 2000) [jargon]: | |
mouso /mow'soh/ n. [by analogy with `typo'] An error in mouse usage resulting in an inappropriate selection or graphic garbage on the screen. Compare {thinko}, {braino}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MAC 1. {Media Access Control}. 2. Early system on {Ferranti} {Mercury}. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mac {Macintosh} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MAC 1. {Media Access Control}. 2. Early system on {Ferranti} {Mercury}. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959). | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mac {Macintosh} | |
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Mac II {Macintosh II} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mac-1 below. See {Mic-1}. ["Structured Computer Organization", A.S. Tanenbaum, 3rd Edition, P-H 1989, Sect. 4.3]. (1996-04-07) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MAC-360 A system for solving numerical problems using equation-like input. Developed around 1967. ["User's Guide to MAC-360", Charles Stark Draper Lab, Cambridge MA (Aug 1973)]. [Sammet 1969, p. 264]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MACE A concurrent {object-oriented} language. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mach An operating system kernel under development at Carnegie-Mellon University to support distributed and parallel computation. Mach is designed to support computing environments consisting of networks of uniprocessors and multiprocessors. Mach is the kernel of the {OSF}/1. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MacX A package allowing the {Macintosh} to be used as an {X} server. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Maisie A {C}-based parallel programming language by Wen-Toh Liao {asynchronous} typed {message passing} and {lightweight process}es. Programs can define, create and destroy processes, send and receive messages and manipulate the system clock. Maisie has been ported to {PVM}/3.1, {Cosmic} Environment and {SUN} {socket}s. {Version 2.1.1.3 (ftp://cs.ucla.edu/pub/maisie.2.1.1.3.tar.Z)}. (1993-06-14) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Make recompilation, linking etc. of programs, taking account of the interdependencies of {modules} and their modification times. Make reads instructions from a "makefile" which specifies a set of targets to be built, the files they depend on and the commands to execute in order to produce them. Most {C} systems come with a make. There is also one produce by {GNU}. ["Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs", A.I. Feldman, TR No 57, Bell Labs Apr 1977]. (1995-01-05) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MAS Modula-2 Algebra System. Runs on {IBM PC}, {Atari}, {Amiga}. {(ftp://alice.fmi.uni-passau.de)}. ["Modula-2 Algebra System", H. Kredel, Proc DISCO 90 Capri, LNCS 429, Springer 1990, pp270-271]. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mawk Mike Brennan at Boeing in 1991 and distributed under {GPL} but distinct from {GNU}'s {gawk}. Interpreter version 1.1.3 has been ported to {Sun-3}, {Sun-4}/{SunOS} 4.0.3; {Vax}/{BSD} 4.3, {ULTRIX} 4.1; {Stardent} 3000/{SYSV}R3; {DECStation}/{ULTRIX} 4.1, {MS-DOS}/{Turbo C++}. {(ftp://oxy.edu/public/mawk)}. (2000-05-04) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mc (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MC other modules can be referenced using a dot notation. ["Design and Implementation of a C-Based Language for Distributed Real-Time Systems", A. Rizk et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(6):83-96 (June 1987)]. (1995-10-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mc (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MC other modules can be referenced using a dot notation. ["Design and Implementation of a C-Based Language for Distributed Real-Time Systems", A. Rizk et al, SIGPLAN Notices 22(6):83-96 (June 1987)]. (1995-10-06) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MC68000 {Motorola 68000} | |
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MC68010 {Motorola 68010} | |
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MC68020 {Motorola 68020} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MC68030 {Motorola 68030} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MC68040 {Motorola 68040} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MC6809 {Motorola 6809} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MCA {Micro Channel Architecture} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MCC 1. {Mosaic Communications Corporation}. 2. The {Microelectronics and Computer Technology Corporation}. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
McG360 Interactive, similar to PAL[5], for IBM 360. "McG360 Programmer's Guide", RC 2693, IBM TJWRC, Nov 1969. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MCI company. Recently bought from {British Telecom} [by ?]. (1998-05-18) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MCS Meta Class System. A portable {object-oriented} extension of {Common Lisp} from {GMD}. It integrates the functionality of {CLOS} and {TELOS}. {(ftp://gmdzi.gmd.de/pub/lisp/mcs)}. (1994-10-21) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MCSE {Microsoft Certified System Engineer} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
meg {megabyte} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
mega- {prefix} | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MEGO /me"goh/ or /mee'goh/ ["My Eyes Glaze Over", often "Mine Eyes Glazeth (sic) Over", attributed to the futurologist Herman Kahn] Also "MEGO factor". 1. A {handwave} intended to confuse the listener and hopefully induce agreement because the listener does not want to admit to not understanding what is going on. MEGO is usually directed at senior management by engineers and contains a high proportion of {TLA}s. 2. excl. An appropriate response to MEGO tactics. 3. Among non-hackers, often refers not to behaviour that causes the eyes to glaze, but to the eye-glazing reaction itself, which may be triggered by the mere threat of technical detail as effectively as by an actual excess of it. | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
Mesa Xerox PARC, 1977. System and application programming for proprietary hardware: Alto, Dolphin, Dorado and Dandelion. Pascal-like syntax, ALGOL68-like semantics. An early version was weakly typed. Mesa's modules with separately compilable definition and implementation parts directly led to Wirth's design for Modula. Threads, coroutines (fork/join), exceptions, and monitors. Type checking may be disabled. Mesa was used internally by Xerox to develop ViewPoint, the Xerox Star, MDE, and the controller of a high-end copier. It was released to a few universitites in 1985. Succeeded by Cedar. ["Mesa Language Manual", J.G. Mitchell et al, Xerox PARC, CSL-79-3 (Apr 1979)]. ["Early Experience with Mesa", Geschke et al, CACM 20(8):540-552 (Aug 1977)]. | |
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mesh | |
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mg (1999-01-27) | |
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MHEG {Multimedia and Hypermedia information coding Expert Group} | |
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MHS {message handling system} | |
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MHz {MegaHertz} | |
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Mic-1 Microprogramming language, used in {Andrew Tanenbaum}'s book. See {Mac-1}. [Structured Computer Organization, A.S. Tanenbaum, 3rd ed, P-H 1989, Sect 4.4, 4.5]. | |
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Mic-2 Microprogramming language, used in {Tanenbaum}'s book. See {Mac-1}. [Structured Computer Organization, A.S. Tanenbaum, 3rd ed, P-H 1989, Sect 4.4, 4.5]. | |
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MICE {Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers} | |
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mice {mouse} | |
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MICE {Multimedia Integrated Conferencing for European Researchers} | |
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mice {mouse} | |
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mickey It has been suggested that the "disney" will become a benchmark unit for animation graphics performance. [{Jargon File}] (1999-06-30) | |
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MIG {Mach Interface Generator} | |
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MIIS {keywords}. [Details? Similar to {MUMPS}?] (1995-01-10) | |
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MIKE {Micro Interpreter for Knowledge Engineering} | |
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MIS {Management Information System} | |
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MIX Knuth's hypothetical machine, used in The Art of Computer Programming v.1, Donald Knuth, A-W 1969. | |
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MJS [Listed in CACM 2(5):1959-05-16]. (1996-12-15) | |
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mk Republic of Macedonia. (1999-01-27) | |
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MMX {Matrix Math eXtensions} | |
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MooZ {Z}. ["Object Orientation in Z", S. Stepney et al eds, Springer 1992]. (1997-07-09) | |
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MOS {Metal Oxide Semiconductor} | |
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Mouse A mighty small {macro} language developed by Peter Grogono in 1975. ["Mouse, A Language for Microcomputers", P. Grogono (1994-10-31) | |
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mouse device}, first introduced by {Douglas Engelbart} in 1968. The mouse is a device used to manipulate an on-screen {pointer} that's normally shaped like an arrow. With the mouse in hand, the computer user can select, move, and change items on the screen. A conventional {roller-ball mouse} is slid across the surface of the desk, often on a {mouse mat}. As the mouse moves, a ball set in a depression on the underside of the mouse rolls accordingly. The ball is also in contact with two small shafts set at right angles to each other inside the mouse. The rotating ball turns the shafts, and sensors inside the mouse measure the shafts' rotation. The distance and direction information from the sensors is then transmitted to the computer, usually through a connecting wire - the mouse's "tail". The computer then moves the mouse pointer on the screen to follow the movements of the mouse. This may be done directly by the {graphics adaptor}, but where it involves the processor the task should be assigned a high {priority} to avoid any perceptible delay. Some mice are contoured to fit the shape of a person's right hand, and some come in left-handed versions. Other mice are symmetrical. Included on the mouse are usually two or three buttons that the user may press, or click, to initiate various actions such as running {programs} or opening {files}. The left-most button (the {primary mouse button}) is operated with the index finger to select and activate objects represented on the screen. Different {operating systems} and {graphical user interfaces} have different conventions for using the other button(s). Typical operations include calling up a {context-sensitive menu}, modifying the selection, or pasting text. With fewer mouse buttons these require combinations of mouse and keyboard actions. Between its left and right buttons, a mouse may also have a wheel that can be used for scrolling or other special operations defined by the software. Some systems allow the mouse button assignments to be swapped round for left-handed users. Just moving the pointer across the screen with the mouse typically does nothing (though some CAD systems respond to patterns of mouse movement with no buttons pressed). Normally, the pointer is positioned over something on the screen (an {icon} or a {menu} item), and the user then clicks a mouse button to actually affect the screen display. The five most common "gestures" performed with the mouse are: {point} (to place the pointer over an on-screen item), {click} (to press and release a mouse button), {double-click} {to press and release a mouse button twice in rapid succession}, {right-click} (to press and release the right mouse button}, and {drag} (to hold down the mouse button while moving the mouse). Most modern computers include a mouse as standard equipment. However, some systems, especially portable {laptop} and {notebook} models, may have a {trackball}, {touchpad} or {Trackpoint} on or next to the {keyboard}. These input devices work like the mouse, but take less space and don't need a desk. Many other alternatives to the conventional roller-ball mouse exist. A {tailless mouse}, or {hamster}, transmits its information with {infrared} impulses. A {foot-controlled mouse (http://www.footmouse.com/)} is one used on the floor underneath the desk. An {optical mouse} uses a {light-emitting diode} and {photocells} instead of a rolling ball to track its position. Some optical designs may require a special mouse mat marked with a grid, others, like the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, work on nearly any surface. {Yahoo! (http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Computers/Hardware/Peripherals/Input_Devices/Mice/)}. {(http://peripherals.about.com/library/weekly/aa041498.htm)}. {PC Guide's "Troubleshooting Mice" (http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/mice.htm)}. (1999-07-21) | |
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Mouse A mighty small {macro} language developed by Peter Grogono in 1975. ["Mouse, A Language for Microcomputers", P. Grogono (1994-10-31) | |
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mouse device}, first introduced by {Douglas Engelbart} in 1968. The mouse is a device used to manipulate an on-screen {pointer} that's normally shaped like an arrow. With the mouse in hand, the computer user can select, move, and change items on the screen. A conventional {roller-ball mouse} is slid across the surface of the desk, often on a {mouse mat}. As the mouse moves, a ball set in a depression on the underside of the mouse rolls accordingly. The ball is also in contact with two small shafts set at right angles to each other inside the mouse. The rotating ball turns the shafts, and sensors inside the mouse measure the shafts' rotation. The distance and direction information from the sensors is then transmitted to the computer, usually through a connecting wire - the mouse's "tail". The computer then moves the mouse pointer on the screen to follow the movements of the mouse. This may be done directly by the {graphics adaptor}, but where it involves the processor the task should be assigned a high {priority} to avoid any perceptible delay. Some mice are contoured to fit the shape of a person's right hand, and some come in left-handed versions. Other mice are symmetrical. Included on the mouse are usually two or three buttons that the user may press, or click, to initiate various actions such as running {programs} or opening {files}. The left-most button (the {primary mouse button}) is operated with the index finger to select and activate objects represented on the screen. Different {operating systems} and {graphical user interfaces} have different conventions for using the other button(s). Typical operations include calling up a {context-sensitive menu}, modifying the selection, or pasting text. With fewer mouse buttons these require combinations of mouse and keyboard actions. Between its left and right buttons, a mouse may also have a wheel that can be used for scrolling or other special operations defined by the software. Some systems allow the mouse button assignments to be swapped round for left-handed users. Just moving the pointer across the screen with the mouse typically does nothing (though some CAD systems respond to patterns of mouse movement with no buttons pressed). Normally, the pointer is positioned over something on the screen (an {icon} or a {menu} item), and the user then clicks a mouse button to actually affect the screen display. The five most common "gestures" performed with the mouse are: {point} (to place the pointer over an on-screen item), {click} (to press and release a mouse button), {double-click} {to press and release a mouse button twice in rapid succession}, {right-click} (to press and release the right mouse button}, and {drag} (to hold down the mouse button while moving the mouse). Most modern computers include a mouse as standard equipment. However, some systems, especially portable {laptop} and {notebook} models, may have a {trackball}, {touchpad} or {Trackpoint} on or next to the {keyboard}. These input devices work like the mouse, but take less space and don't need a desk. Many other alternatives to the conventional roller-ball mouse exist. A {tailless mouse}, or {hamster}, transmits its information with {infrared} impulses. A {foot-controlled mouse (http://www.footmouse.com/)} is one used on the floor underneath the desk. An {optical mouse} uses a {light-emitting diode} and {photocells} instead of a rolling ball to track its position. Some optical designs may require a special mouse mat marked with a grid, others, like the Microsoft IntelliMouse Explorer, work on nearly any surface. {Yahoo! (http://dir.yahoo.com/Business_and_Economy/Companies/Computers/Hardware/Peripherals/Input_Devices/Mice/)}. {(http://peripherals.about.com/library/weekly/aa041498.htm)}. {PC Guide's "Troubleshooting Mice" (http://www.pcguide.com/ts/x/comp/mice.htm)}. (1999-07-21) | |
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mouso {mouse} usage resulting in an inappropriate selection or graphic garbage on the screen. Compare {thinko}. [{Jargon File}] (1996-04-21) | |
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Moxie synthesis, written in {XPL}. ["Moxie: A Language for Computer Music Performance", D. Collinge, Proc Intl Computer Music Conf, Computer Music Assoc 1984, pp.217-220]. (1994-12-05) | |
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mq (1999-01-27) | |
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MQG {Multi-threaded Query Gate} | |
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ms (1999-01-27) | |
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MSAU {Media Access Unit} | |
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MSG.84 module design phases of the {software life cycle}, first presented in Berzins and Gray's 1985 paper. Not unlike {PDL}. ["Analysis and design in MSG.84: formalizing functional specifications", Valdis Berzins, Michael Gray, Volume 11 Issue 8, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, Aug 1985]. (2003-05-15) | |
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msgGUI The msgGUI package contains the basics for creating window {applications} in the manner available in other graphical {Smalltalk} implementations. Version 1.0 of the library was by Mark Bush, ECS, Oxford University, UK. {(ftp://ftp.comlab.ox.ac.uk/pub/Packages/mst/mstGUI-1.0.tar.Z)}. (2000-06-14) | |
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MSIE {Internet Explorer} | |
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MSS {maximum segment size} | |
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MSX {Microsoft Extended} | |
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Muse [Details?] (1995-03-16) | |
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MUSH 1. 2. | |
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mux {multiplexing} | |
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MX {Mail Exchange Record} | |
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mx (1999-01-27) | |
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MX {Mail Exchange Record} | |
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mx (1999-01-27) | |
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MXI {Multisystem eXtention Interface Bus} | |
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MZ executable (.{EXE}) file (0x4d 5a), always the first two {bytes} of the file. It was reportedly invented by, and named after, a {Microsoft} programmer, Mark Zbikowski. In {Unix} systems, the string MZ is the {magic number} that identifies an MS-DOS EXE file. (2003-06-10) | |
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mz (1999-01-27) | |
From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]: | |
MZ executable (.{EXE}) file (0x4d 5a), always the first two {bytes} of the file. It was reportedly invented by, and named after, a {Microsoft} programmer, Mark Zbikowski. In {Unix} systems, the string MZ is the {magic number} that identifies an MS-DOS EXE file. (2003-06-10) | |
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mz (1999-01-27) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Maachah oppression, a small Syrian kingdom near Geshur, east of the Hauran, the district of Batanea (Josh. 13:13; 2 Sam. 10:6,8; 1 Chr. 19:7). (2.) A daughter of Talmai, king of the old native population of Geshur. She became one of David's wives, and was the mother of Absalom (2 Sam. 3:3). (3.) The father of Hanan, who was one of David's body-guard (1 Chr. 11:43). (4.) The daughter of Abishalom (called Absalom, 2 Chr. 11:20-22), the third wife of Rehoboam, and mother of Abijam (1 Kings 15:2). She is called "Michaiah the daughter of Uriel," who was the husband of Absalom's daughter Tamar (2 Chr. 13:2). Her son Abijah or Abijam was heir to the throne. (5.) The father of Achish, the king of Gath (1 Kings 2:39), called also Maoch (1 Sam. 27:2). | |
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Maaseiah the work of Jehovah. (1.) One of the Levites whom David appointed as porter for the ark (1 Chr. 15:18, 20). (2.) One of the "captains of hundreds" associated with Jehoiada in restoring king Jehoash to the throne (2 Chr. 23:1). (3.) The "king's son," probably one of the sons of king Ahaz, killed by Zichri in the invasion of Judah by Pekah, king of Israel (2 Chr. 28:7). (4.) One who was sent by king Josiah to repair the temple (2 Chr. 34:8). He was governor (Heb. sar, rendered elsewhere in the Authorized Version "prince," "chief captain," chief ruler") of Jerusalem. (5.) The father of the priest Zephaniah (Jer. 21:1; 37:3). (6.) The father of the false prophet Zedekiah (Jer. 29:21). Maase'iah, refuge is Jehovah, a priest, the father of Neriah (Jer. 32:12; 51:59). | |
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Maasiai work of Jehovah, one of the priests resident at Jerusalem at the Captivity (1 Chr. 9:12). | |
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Maaziah strength or consolation of Jehovah. (1.) The head of the twenty-fourth priestly course (1 Chr. 24:18) in David's reign. (2.) A priest (Neh. 10:8). | |
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Maoch compressed, the father of Achish, king of Gath (1 Sam. 27:2). Called also Maachah (1 Kings 2:39). | |
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Mash (= Meshech 1 Chr. 1:17), one of the four sons of Aram, and the name of a tribe descended from him (Gen. 10:23) inhabiting some part probably of Mesopotamia. Some have supposed that they were the inhabitants of Mount Masius, the present Karja Baghlar, which forms part of the chain of Taurus. | |
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Massa a lifting up, gift, one of the sons of Ishmael, the founder of an Arabian tribe (Gen. 25:14); a nomad tribe inhabiting the Arabian desert toward Babylonia. | |
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Massah trial, temptation, a name given to the place where the Israelites, by their murmuring for want of water, provoked Jehovah to anger against them. It is also called Meribah (Ex. 17:7; Deut. 6:16; Ps. 95:8, 9; Heb. 3:8). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mesha middle district, Vulgate, Messa. (1.) A plain in that part of the boundaries of Arabia inhabited by the descendants of Joktan (Gen. 10:30). (2.) Heb. meysh'a, "deliverance," the eldest son of Caleb (1 Chr. 2:42), and brother of Jerahmeel. (3.) Heb. id, a king of Moab, the son of Chemosh-Gad, a man of great wealth in flocks and herds (2 Kings 3:4). After the death of Ahab at Ramoth-Gilead, Mesha shook off the yoke of Israel; but on the ascension of Jehoram to the throne of Israel, that king sought the help of Jehoshaphat in an attempt to reduce the Moabites again to their former condition. The united armies of the two kings came unexpectedly on the army of the Moabites, and gained over them an easy victory. The whole land was devastated by the conquering armies, and Mesha sought refuge in his last stronghold, Kir-harasheth (q.v.). Reduced to despair, he ascended the wall of the city, and there, in the sight of the allied armies, offered his first-born son a sacrifice to Chemosh, the fire-god of the Moabites. This fearful spectacle filled the beholders with horror, and they retired from before the besieged city, and recrossed the Jordan laden with spoil (2 Kings 3:25-27). The exploits of Mesha are recorded in the Phoenician inscription on a block of black basalt found at Dibon, in Moab, usually called the "Moabite stone" (q.v.). | |
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Mess a portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Messiah (Heb. mashiah), in all the thirty-nine instances of its occurring in the Old Testament, is rendered by the LXX. "Christos." It means anointed. Thus priests (Ex. 28:41; 40:15; Num. 3:3), prophets (1 Kings 19:16), and kings (1 Sam. 9:16; 16:3; 2 Sam. 12:7) were anointed with oil, and so consecrated to their respective offices. The great Messiah is anointed "above his fellows" (Ps. 45:7); i.e., he embraces in himself all the three offices. The Greek form "Messias" is only twice used in the New Testament, in John 1:41 and 4:25 (R.V., "Messiah"), and in the Old Testament the word Messiah, as the rendering of the Hebrew, occurs only twice (Dan 9:25, 26; R.V., "the anointed one"). The first great promise (Gen. 3:15) contains in it the germ of all the prophecies recorded in the Old Testament regarding the coming of the Messiah and the great work he was to accomplish on earth. The prophecies became more definite and fuller as the ages rolled on; the light shone more and more unto the perfect day. Different periods of prophetic revelation have been pointed out, (1) the patriarchal; (2) the Mosaic; (3) the period of David; (4) the period of prophetism, i.e., of those prophets whose works form a part of the Old Testament canon. The expectations of the Jews were thus kept alive from generation to generation, till the "fulness of the times," when Messiah came, "made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law." In him all these ancient prophecies have their fulfilment. Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the great Deliverer who was to come. (Comp. Matt. 26:54; Mark 9:12; Luke 18:31; 22:37; John 5:39; Acts 2; 16:31; 26:22, 23.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Micah a shortened form of Micaiah, who is like Jehovah? (1.) A man of Mount Ephraim, whose history so far is introduced in Judg. 17, apparently for the purpose of leading to an account of the settlement of the tribe of Dan in Northern Palestine, and for the purpose also of illustrating the lawlessness of the times in which he lived (Judg. 18; 19:1-29; 21:25). (2.) The son of Merib-baal (Mephibosheth), 1 Chr. 8:34, 35. (3.) The first in rank of the priests of the family of Kohathites (1 Chr. 23:20). (4.) A descendant of Joel the Reubenite (1 Chr. 5:5). (5.) "The Morasthite," so called to distinguish him from Micaiah, the son of Imlah (1 Kings 22:8). He was a prophet of Judah, a contemporary of Isaiah (Micah 1:1), a native of Moresheth of Gath (1:14, 15). Very little is known of the circumstances of his life (comp. Jer. 26:18, 19). | |
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Micaiah who is like Jehovah?, the son of Imlah, a faithful prophet of Samaria (1 Kings 22:8-28). Three years after the great battle with Ben-hadad (20:29-34), Ahab proposed to Jehoshaphat, king of Judah, that they should go up against Ramoth-Gilead to do battle again with Ben-hadad. Jehoshaphat agreed, but suggested that inquiry should be first made "at the word of Jehovah." Ahab's prophets approved of the expedition; but Jehoshaphat, still dissatisfied, asked if there was no other prophet besides the four hundred that had appeared, and was informed of this Micaiah. He was sent for from prison, where he had been confined, probably on account of some prediction disagreeable to Ahab; and he condemned the expedition, and prophesied that it would end, as it did, in disaster. We hear nothing further of this prophet. Some have supposed that he was the unnamed prophet referred to in 1 Kings 20:35-42. | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Micha (1.) 2 Sam. 9:12 =MICAH (2). (2.) The son of Zabdi, a Levite of the family of Asaph (Neh. 11:17, 22). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Michaiah (1.) The queen-mother of King Abijah (2 Chr. 13:2). (See MAACAH ¯T0002343 [4]). (2.) One of those sent out by Jehoshaphat to instruct the people in the law (2 Chr. 17:7). (3.) 2 Kings 22:12. (4.) The son of Gemariah. He reported to the king's officers Jeremiah's prediction, which he had heard Baruch read (Jer. 36:11, 13) from his father Gemariah's chamber in the temple. (5.) A Levite (Neh. 12:35). (6.) A priest (Neh. 12:41). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mizzah despair, one of the four sons of Reuel, the son of Esau (Gen. 36:13, 17). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mouse Heb. 'akhbar, "swift digger"), properly the dormouse, the field-mouse (1 Sam. 6:4). In Lev. 11:29, Isa. 66:17 this word is used generically, and includes the jerboa (Mus jaculus), rat, hamster (Cricetus), which, though declared to be unclean animals, were eaten by the Arabs, and are still eaten by the Bedouins. It is said that no fewer than twenty-three species of this group ('akhbar=Arab. ferah) of animals inhabit Palestine. God "laid waste" the people of Ashdod by the terrible visitation of field-mice, which are like locusts in their destructive effects (1 Sam. 6:4, 11, 18). Herodotus, the Greek historian, accounts for the destruction of the army of Sennacherib (2 Kings 19:35) by saying that in the night thousands of mice invaded the camp and gnawed through the bow-strings, quivers, and shields, and thus left the Assyrians helpless. (See {SENNACHERIB}.) | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Moza a going forth. (1.) One of the sons of Caleb (1 Chr. 2:46). (2.) The son of Zimri, of the posterity of Saul (1 Chr. 8:36, 37; 9:42, 43). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mozah an issuing of water, a city of Benjamin (Josh. 18:26). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mushi receding, the second of the two sons of Merari (Ex. 6:19; Num. 3:20). His sons were called Mushites (Num. 3:33; 26:58). | |
From Easton's 1897 Bible Dictionary [easton]: | |
Mysia a province in the north-west of Asia Minor. On his first voyage to Europe (Acts 16:7, 8) Paul passed through this province and embarked at its chief port Troas. | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Maachah, pressed down; worn; fastened | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Maaseiah, the work of the Lord | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Maasiai, the defense, or strength, or trust of the Lord | |
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Maaz, wood; wooden | |
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Machi, poor; a smiter | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mahaz, an end; ending; growing hope | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mash, same as Meshech | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Massa, a burden; prophecy | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Massah, temptation | |
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Mesha, burden; salvation | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Messiah, anointed | |
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Micah, poor; humble | |
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Micaiah, who is like to God? | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Micha, same as Micaiah | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Michaiah, Michael, same as Micah | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mizzah, defluxion from the head | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mozah, unleavened | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mushi, he that touches, that withdraws or takes away | |
From Hitchcock's Bible Names Dictionary (late 1800's) [hitchcock]: | |
Mysia, criminal; abominable | |
From The CIA World Factbook (1995) [world95]: | |
Macau (overseas territory of Portugal) Macau:Geography Location: Eastern Asia, bordering the South China Sea and China Map references: Southeast Asia Area: total area: 16 sq km land area: 16 sq km comparative area: about 0.1 times the size of Washington, DC Land boundaries: total 0.34 km, China 0.34 km Coastline: 40 km Maritime claims: not specified International disputes: none Climate: subtropical; marine with cool winters, warm summers Terrain: generally flat Natural resources: negligible Land use: arable land: 0% permanent crops: 0% meadows and pastures: 0% forest and woodland: 0% other: 100% Irrigated land: NA sq km Environment: current issues: NA natural hazards: NA international agreements: party to - Ozone Layer Protection (extended from Portugal) Note: essentially urban; one causeway and one bridge connect the two islands to the peninsula on mainland Macau:People Population: 490,901 (July 1995 est.) Age structure: 0-14 years: 24% (female 56,991; male 60,944) 15-64 years: 68% (female 167,366; male 165,168) 65 years and over: 8% (female 23,537; male 16,895) (July 1995 est.) Population growth rate: 1.25% (1995 est.) Birth rate: 14.5 births/1,000 population (1995 est.) Death rate: 4.21 deaths/1,000 population (1995 est.) Net migration rate: 2.24 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1995 est.) Infant mortality rate: 5.4 deaths/1,000 live births (1995 est.) Life expectancy at birth: total population: 79.86 years male: 77.41 years female: 82.43 years (1995 est.) Total fertility rate: 1.49 children born/woman (1995 est.) Nationality: noun: Macanese (singular and plural) adjective: Macau Ethnic divisions: Chinese 95%, Portuguese 3%, other 2% Religions: Buddhist 45%, Roman Catholic 7%, Protestant 1%, none 45.8%, other 1.2% (1981) Languages: Portuguese (official), Cantonese is the language of commerce Literacy: age 15 and over can read and write (1981) total population: 90% male: 93% female: 86% Labor force: 180,000 (1986) by occupation: NA Macau:Government Names: conventional long form: none conventional short form: Macau local long form: none local short form: Ilha de Macau Digraph: MC Type: overseas territory of Portugal scheduled to revert to China in 1999 Capital: Macau Administrative divisions: 2 districts (concelhos, singular - concelho); Ilhas, Macau Independence: none (territory of Portugal; Portugal signed an agreement with China on 13 April 1987 to return Macau to China on 20 December 1999; in the joint declaration, China promises to respect Macau's existing social and economic systems and lifestyle for 50 year after transition) National holiday: Day of Portugal, 10 June (1580) Constitution: 17 February 1976, Organic Law of Macau; basic law drafted primarily by Beijing awaiting final approval Legal system: Portuguese civil law system Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal Executive branch: chief of state: President (of Portugal) Mario Alberto SOARES (since 9 March 1986) head of government: Governor Gen. Vasco Joachim Rocha VIEIRA (since 20 March 1991) cabinet: Consultative Council; consists of five members appointed by the governor, two nominated by the governor, five members elected for a four-year term (2 represent administrative bodies, 1 represents moral, cultural, and welfare interests, and 2 economic interests), and three statuatory members Legislative branch: unicameral Legislative Assembly: elections last held on 10 March 1991 (next to be held NA); results - percent of vote by party NA; seats - (23 total, 8 elected by universal suffrage, 8 by indirect suffrage, and 7 appointed by the governor) number of seats by party NA Judicial branch: Supreme Court Political parties and leaders: Association to Defend the Interests of Macau; Macau Democratic Center; Group to Study the Development of Macau; Macau Independent Group Other political or pressure groups: wealthy Macanese and Chinese representing local interests, wealthy pro-Communist merchants representing China's interests; in January 1967 the Macau Government acceded to Chinese demands that gave China veto power over administration Member of: CCC, ESCAP (associate), GATT, IMO (associate), INTERPOL (subbureau), WTO (associate) Diplomatic representation in US: none (Chinese territory under Portuguese administration) US diplomatic representation: the US has no offices in Macau, and US interests are monitored by the US Consulate General in Hong Kong Flag: the flag of Portugal is used Economy Overview: The economy is based largely on tourism (including gambling) and textile and fireworks manufacturing. Efforts to diversify have spawned other small industries - toys, artificial flowers, and electronics. The tourist sector has accounted for roughly 25% of GDP, and the clothing industry has provided about two-thirds of export earnings; the gambling industry represented well over 40% of GDP in 1992. Macau depends on China for most of its food, fresh water, and energy imports. Japan and Hong Kong are the main suppliers of raw materials and capital goods. National product: GDP - purchasing power parity - $4.8 billion (1993 est.) National product real growth rate: NA% National product per capita: $10,000 (1993 est.) Inflation rate (consumer prices): 7.7% (1992 est.) Unemployment rate: 2% (1992 est.) Budget: revenues: $305 million expenditures: $298 million, including capital expenditures of $NA (1989 est.) Exports: $1.8 billion (1992 est.) commodities: textiles, clothing, toys partners: US 35%, Hong Kong 12.5%, Germany 12%, China 9.9%, France 8% (1992 est.) Imports: $2 billion (1992 est.) commodities: raw materials, foodstuffs, capital goods partners: Hong Kong 33%, China 20%, Japan 18% (1992 est.) External debt: $91 million (1985) Industrial production: growth rate NA% Electricity: capacity: 258,000 kW production: 950 million kWh consumption per capita: 2,093 kWh (1993) Industries: clothing, textiles, toys, plastic products, furniture, tourism Agriculture: rice, vegetables; food shortages - rice, vegetables, meat; depends mostly on imports for food requirements Economic aid: none Currency: 1 pataca (P) = 100 avos Exchange rates: patacas (P) per US$1 - 8.034 (1991-94), 8.024 (1990), 8.030 (1989); note - linked to the Hong Kong dollar at the rate of 1.03 patacas per Hong Kong dollar Fiscal year: calendar year Macau:Transportation Railroads: 0 km Highways: total: 42 km paved: 42 km Ports: Macau Merchant marine: none Airports: none usable, 1 under construction; 1 seaplane station Macau:Communications Telephone system: 52,000 telephones; fairly modern communication facilities maintained for domestic and international services local: NA intercity: NA international: high-frequency radio communication facility; access to international communications carriers provided via Hong Kong and China; 1 INTELSAT (Indian Ocean) earth station Radio: broadcast stations: AM 4, FM 3, shortwave 0 radios: 115,000 Television: broadcast stations: 0; note - TV programs received from Hong Kong televisions: NA Macau:Defense Forces Branches: NA Manpower availability: males age 15-49 141,160; males fit for military service 78,578 (1995 est.) Note: defense is responsibility of Portugal |