The larva of the bean fly.
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some point in the air; above ground level; as, the planes collided in midair; also used attributively; as, a midair collision.
A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.
The middle segment of the brain; the mesencephalon. See Brain.
Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.
Midst; middle.
Same as Midden.
The point or part equally distant from the extremities or exterior limits, as of a line, a surface, or a solid; an intervening point or part in space, time, or order of series; the midst; central portion the waist.
Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; early in the century, it was considered between 30 and 50 years old, but by the end of the 19th centruy it was considered as 40 to 60.
The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell.
That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.
intermediate in rank or position; as, middle-level management.
supporting or pursuing a course of action that is neither liberal nor conservative.
Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.
One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries.
Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary.
A combination of the coarser parts of ground wheat the finest bran, separated from the fine flour and coarse bran in bolting; -- formerly regarded as valuable only for feed; but now, after separation of the bran, used for making the best quality of flour. Middlings contain a large proportion of gluten.
A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.
A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.
the middle part of a playing field (as in football or lacrosse); as, he ran the kickoff back to midfield.
A minute bloodsucking fly.
The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.
The midst or middle of heaven or the sky.
a long iron{5} with a nearly vertical face.
The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural.
The middle part of the main or sea.
Middle; middlemost.
Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight studies; midnight gloom.
A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.
A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.
See Diaphragm, n., 2.
Of or pertaining to, or being in, the middle of a ship.
The timbers at the broadest part of the vessel.
In the middle.
the middle of a stream; as, don't change horses in midstream.
The middle of summer.
A Eurasian mountain plant (Sedum rosea) with fleshy pink-tipped leaves and a cluster of yellow flowers.
the middle of the gestation period.
In or toward the midst.
In the middle of the way or distance; half way.
The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.
occurring during the middle of the week; as, a midweekly prayer meeting.
The north central region of the U. S.
Of or pertaining to the Midwest region of the U. S., generally including Ohio; Indiana; Illinois; Iowa; Missouri; Kansas; Nebraska; and sometimes Michigan; Wisconsin; Minnesota; as, a midwestern city; midwestern accent.
To perform the office of midwife.
The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
The middle of winter.
To midwife.
Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.
A South African mongooselike viverrine (Suricata suricata) having a lemurlike face and only four toes; called also suricate.
To offend slightly.
Force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability; capacity.
Mighty.
In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.
The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity.
Without; weak.
In a great degree; very.
Soft; dainty.
Delicate fondling.
To flatter.
A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange-colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb.
A kind of intense sick or nervous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head; called also migraine headache. Same as megrim.
A migratory bird, person, or other animal.
The act of migrating.
The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan; the emperor of Japan.
A microphone, the device for converting sound waves into electrical energy.
Same as Micmacs.
One million dollars; as, his new house cost over a mil.
Lit., my lady; hence (as used on the Continent), an English noblewoman or gentlewoman.
Same as Mileage.
Of or pertaining to Milan in Italy, or to its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Milan; people of Milan.
Gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity.
To make mild, or milder.
To become tainted with mildew.
In a mild manner.
The quality or state of being mild; as, mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.
A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet.
An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
a meter that shows mileage traversed.
A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.
A native or inhabitant of Miletus.
A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.
A common composite herb (Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow.
A fever accompanied by an eruption of small, isolated, red pimples, resembling a millet seed in form or size; miliary fever.
One of the small tubercles of Echini.
Militia.
Environment.
A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
The same Miliolitic.
Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.
Engaged in warfare; fighting; combating; serving as a soldier.
Military.
In a military manner.
militarization.
A military man.
imbued with militarism, in senses 3 or 4.
act of assembling and putting into readiness the military forces for war or other emergency.
to lend a military character to (a country), as by building up a military force.
Equipped with weapons; armed; -- used of persons, regions, or the military. Contrasted to unarmed and demilitarized; as, if that's a demilitarized zone, I wonder what a militarized zone would look like.
The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.
To make war; to fight; to contend; -- usually followed by against and with.
To argue against; to cast doubt on; -- used in reference to facts which tend to disprove a hypothesis; as, the absence of a correlation of budget deficits with inflation militates against any causal relation between the two. Opposite of support.
One who belongs to the militia.
To carry on, or prepare for, war.
To draw or to yield milk.
A frothy drink of milk and flavoring and sometimes fruit or ice cream, shaken together or blended in a blender.
White-livered; cowardly; timorous.
A type of edible mushroom (Lactarius delicioso).
Consisting of milk.
One who milks; also, a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
Full of milk; abounding with food.
In a milky manner.
State or quality of being milky.
A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.
A man who sells milk or delivers it to customers.
A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person.
a wagon for delivering milk.
Any plant of the genera Asclepias and Acerates, abounding in a milky juice, and having its seed attached to a long silky down; silkweed. The name is also applied to several other plants with a milky juice, as to several kinds of spurge. Its leaves are a favorite food source for the larvae of the monarch butterfly.
A genus of plants (Polygala) of many species. The common European Polygala vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses.
Consisting of, or containing, milk.
To fill (a winze or interior incline) with broken ore, to be drawn out at the bottom.
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