Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix, v. t. i.
In a mixed or mingled manner.
A compost heap; a dunghill.
One who, or that which, mixes.
Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.
Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.
Mixture.
With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly.
The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients.
mizzenmast.
A maze or labyrinth.
The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
the third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy.
Mist; fine rain.
A bog or quagmire.
milliliter; -- the IS standard abbreviation.
millimeter; -- the IS standard abbreviation.
millimolar; -- the IS standard abbreviation.
The chemical symbol for manganese.
Something used to assist the memory, as an easily remembered acronym or verse.
Assisting in memory; helping to remember; as, a mnemonic device.
One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.
The art of memory; a method for improving the memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
same as mnemonic.
Mnemonics.
A natural family of erect mosses with club-shaped paraphyses andgonal cells of the upper leaf surface; sometimes treated as a subfamily of Bryaceae.
A genus of mosses similar to those of genus Bryum but larger.
More; -- usually, more in number.
Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.
One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.
A female Moabite.
Moabite.
A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.
To surround with a moat.
To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute.
To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.
A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself.
a form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.
Mobilization.
Mobilize.
The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.
The act of mobilizing.
To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.
A mathematical object, or a physical representation of it, which is a two-dimensional sheet with only one surface. It is constructed or visualized as a rectangle, one end of which is held fixed while the opposite end is twisted through a 180 degree angle and joined to the fixed end. It is a two-dimensional object that can only exist in a three-dimensional space.
To wrap the head of in a hood.
See Moebles.
A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.
One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.
Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.
Variant spelling of moccasin.
A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.
Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins.
A seaport town of Yemen, on the Red Sea, also spelled Mukha.
Much.
Much.
A large leather flap which covers the saddletree.
Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
Such as can be mocked.
A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet.
See Mokadour.
Mockery.
The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).
One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
A smooth-barked North American hickory (Carya tomentosa) with 7 to 9 leaflets bearing a hard-shelled edible nut, which is far inferior to the true shagbark hickory nut.
The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.
A long-tailed gray-and-white songbird of North America (Mimus polyglottos), remarkable for its exact imitations of the notes of other birds. Its back is gray; the tail and wings are blackish, with a white patch on each wing; the outer tail feathers are partly white. Originally its range was confined mostly to the southern states, but by late 19th century it had migrated as far north as New York. The name is also applied to other members of thee same and related genera, found in Mexico, Central America, and the West Indies, such as the blue mockingbird of Mexico, Melanotis caerulescens.
By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.
A butt of sport; an object of derision.
Mock; counterfeit; sham.
See Mickle.
A South American rodent (Cavia rupestris), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.
A modal auxiliary.
Any one of the auxiliary verbs of English, such as can, may, will, shall, must, might, could, would, or should, which are used together with the infinitive form of another verb to express distinctions of mood{2}, such as uncertainty, possibility, command, emphasis, and obligation.
A system of logic which studies how to combine propositions which include the concepts of necessity, possibility, and obligation.
One who regards Father, Son, and Spirit as modes of being, and not as persons, thus denying personal distinction in the Trinity.
The quality or state of being modal.
In a modal manner.
Manner of doing or being; method; form; fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing.
To make a copy or a pattern; to design or imitate forms; as, to model in wax.
resembling sculpture; as, her finely modeled features.
One who models; hence, a worker in plastic art.
The act or art of making a model from which a work of art is to be executed; the formation of a work of art from some plastic material. Also, in painting, drawing, etc., the expression or indication of solid form.
To model.
An electronic device that converts electronic signals into sound waves, and sound waves into electronic signals, used to transmit information between computers by the use of ordinary telephone lines; also called modulator-demodulator; as, the latest modems can transmit data at 56,000 baud over a clear telephone line. The speed of transmission of information by a modem is usually measured in units of baud, equivalent to bits per second.
A certain crimsonlike color.
Of or pertaining to Modena or its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Modena; the people of Modena.
To moderate.
Moderate; temperate.
Moderation.
To become less violent, severe, rigorous, or intense; as, the wind has moderated.
having elements or qualities mixed in proper or suitable proportions; especially, made less severe. Contrasted with harsh.
In a moderate manner or degree; to a moderate extent.
The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
lessening in intensity or strength. Opposite of intensifying.
The act of moderating, or of imposing due restraint.
Moderation in doctrines or opinion, especially in politics or religion.
With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately.
One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
The office of a moderator.
A female moderator.
A female moderator.
A person of modern times; -- opposed to ancient.
Modernization.
Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.
One who admires the moderns, or their ways and fashions.
Conspicuously (sometimes outrageously) modern in style or appearance; as, shiny tables in modernistic design.
Modernness; something modern.
The act of rendering modern in style; the act or process of causing to conform to modern of thinking or acting.
To render modern; to adapt to modern person or things; to cause to conform to recent or present usage or taste.
One who modernizes.
In modern times.
The quality or state of being modern; recentness; novelty.
Restraining within due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.
In a modest manner.
The quality or state of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.
Moderateness; smallness; meanness.
A little; a small quantity; a measured supply.