A collection of animals; a menagerie.

A relationship involving three people, especially one in which three people live together and have sexual relations, such as a married couple and a lover of one of the pair.

A place where animals are kept and trained.

Emmenagogue.

A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same.

Covered with spots; speckled; variegated.

To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved; to recover; to heal.

Capable of being mended.

Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.

Gregor Johann Mendel, founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884); Gregor Mendel.

an unstable radioactive element discovered in 1955 and produced artificially only in very small quantities; symbol Md (also Mv). It is a transuranic element with atomic number 101. Isotopes 255, 256, 257, and 258 have been prepared. Md258, the longest-lived, has a half-life of two months.

Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendel's law; as, Mendelian inheritance.

One who mends or repairs.

See Mendinant.

The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.

A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.

To beg.

The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy.

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

A mendicant or begging friar.

Amendment.

The cackerel.

Medregal.

See Amends.

To mix.

An American marine fish (Brevoortia tyrannus) of the Herring family (Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.

A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.

See Opal.

Of or pertaining to the meninges.

The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.

Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.

Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.

Concavo-convex, like a meniscus.

A crescent.

Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermaceae) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus.

An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.

Same as Miniver.

One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.

A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills.

A register of months.

The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.

The hellbender.

Profuse menstruation. Any profuse bleeding from the uterus; Metrorrhagia.

Stoppage of the menses.

Same as Menostasis.

A minnow.

Occurring once in a month; monthly.

To grace.

The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

Subject to monthly flowing or menses.

To discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.

discharging menstrual fluid; -- of women during their menstrual period.

The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

The menstrual flux; menses.

Having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

Capable of being measured; measurable.

The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.

Of or pertaining to measure.

To measure.

The act, process, or art, of measuring.

p. p. of Menge.

Sycosis.

Of or pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as, mental faculties; mental operations, conditions, or exercise.

a doctrine that mind is the only true reality and that objects exist only as aspects of the mind's awareness.

Of or pertainig to mentalism.

Quality or state of mind.

In the mind; in thought or meditation; intellectually; in idea.

the process of thinking (especially thinking carefully); mental activity.

A widely distributed genus of fragrant herbs, including the peppermint, spearmint, etc. The plants have small flowers, usually arranged in dense axillary clusters.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon resembling oil of turpentine, obtained by dehydrating menthol. It has an agreeable odor and a cooling taste.

A white, crystalline, aromatic substance (C10H20O) resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (Mentha); -- called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor. It has the peculiar effect on skin and membranes of making them feel cool, and is used in liqueurs, confections, cigarettes, cough drops and perfumes, among other things.

A compound radical forming the base of menthol.

A genus of kingfishes, including the whiting.

Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind.

To make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name.

Fit to be mentioned.

Of or pertaining to the chin and lower jaw. The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.

A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

Containing advice or admonition.

The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

A genus of bristly herbs or subshrubs of Western America lacking stinging hairs.

The details of a banquet; a list of the dishes served at a meal, whether or not one has a choice.

A natural family of birds including the lyrebirds.

See Amenuse.

The type genus of the Menyanthaceae, having only one species: the bogbeans.

A genus of deciduous shrubs of North America and eastern Asia.

See 6th and 7th Mew.

Quinacrine, a drug once used to treat malaria; Atabrine is a trademark.

A synthetic narcotic drug used as a sedative; Demerol is the trademark of a brand of meperidine.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, /a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;/ devilish in character or aspect; crafty; showing cunning or ingenuity or wickedness; as, a mephistophelean glint in his eye.

Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.

A subfamily of mammals including the skunks; it is a subdivision not used in some classifications.

Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.

Same as Mephitis, 1.

Being without mixture or adulteration; hence, strong; racy.

A mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; Mercurochrome is the trademark.

Capable of being bought or sold.

Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.

Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.

Any one of series of compounds having an -SH radical attached to a carbon atom, also considered as hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.

A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.

Market; trade.

A foreign trader.

Commerce; traffic; trade.

To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.

The quahog.

A mercenary.

In a mercenary manner.

The quality or state of being mercenary; venality.

One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.

Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.

To treat (cotton fiber or fabrics) with a solution of caustic alkali. Such treatment causes the fiber to shrink in length and become stronger and more receptive of dyes. If the yarn or cloth is kept under tension during the process, it assumes a silky luster.

The business of a mercer.

The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.

To traffic.