The menstrual flux; menses.

Having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.

The quality of being mensurable.

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.

The business of a mercer.

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

To traffic.

Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.

To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

A trader.

The activities associated with selling products, such as identification of the market{7}, advertising at the right time in the right media{7}, and creating attractive packaging and displays; also, the study of the best methods to accomplish such goals.

Trade; commerce.

To be a merchant; to trade.

The ships owned by nationals of a particular country that are engaged in civilian commerce; also, the personnel operating those vessels. Distinguished from the navy, which contains the vessels of war.

Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant.

The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.

In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

Merciful.

Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. Opposite of merciless.

To pity.

Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.

A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.

A person having mercurial qualities.

The syndrome produced by poisoning due to exposure to mercury, it fumes, or its compounds; mercury poisoning. Such exposure may occur in mining or smelting, or in using mercurial compounds.

One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.

To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious.

In a mercurial manner.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion.

The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.

To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed.

A communication of news; an announcement.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.

To wash with a preparation of mercury.

the compound (HgCl2) consisting of two atoms of chlorine united with one atom of mercury. Also called bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate, and mercury perchloride. It is used as /a topical antiseptic and disinfectant for inanimate objects/.

The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also fulminate of mercury. It is an explosive compound prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. It is sensitive to shock and may be detonated by a blow.

Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.

Ordure; dung.

Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.

Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.

Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.

An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries.

The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm.

A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.

an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility.

Any bird of the genus Mergus (Merganser), and allied genera of the subfamily Merginae. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill, eat fish, and dive for food. Also called fish duck.

To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.

formed or united into a whole; -- of formerly separate objects, groups, etc.

One who, or that which, merges.

The act or process of joining together into one entity.

A genus of ducks consisting of mergansers.

One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.

A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides.

Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

The state of being in the meridian.

In the direction of the meridian.

A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.

A delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, -- with jam or cream added.

A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool.

Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.

A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.

To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.