A widely dispersed genus of shrubs and trees, usually with aromatic foliage. It includes the bayberry or wax myrtle, the sweet gale, and the North American sweet fern, so called.

A silky, crystalline, waxy substance, forming the less soluble part of beeswax, and regarded as a palmitate of a higher alcohol of the paraffin series; -- called also myricyl alcohol.

A hypothetical radical regarded as the essential residue of myricin; -- called also melissyl.

Of or relating to a myriologue.

One who composes or sings a myriologue.

An extemporaneous funeral song, composed and sung by a woman on the death of a friend.

Having an indefinitely great or countless number of leaves.

See Myriapoda.

A picture made up of several smaller pictures, drawn upon separate pieces in such a manner as to admit of combination in many different ways, thus producing a great variety of scenes or landscapes.

A form of kaleidoscope.

A salt of myristic acid.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid (C14H28O2) found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance.

The myristate of glycerin, -- found as a vegetable fat in nutmeg butter, etc.

The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.

The type genus of the Myrmecophagidae; the South American ant bear.

A natural family of New World anteaters.

feeding on ants but usually not living with them.

An organism such as an insect that habitually shares the nest of a species of ant.

Associated with, or benefitted by ants through sharing their nest.

A plant that affords shelter and food to certain species of ants which live in symbiotic relations with it. Special adaptations for this purpose exist; thus, Acacia spadicigera has large hollows thorns, and species of Cecropia have stem cavities.

Of or pertaining to a myrmecophyte.

The type genus of the Myrmeleontidae, including the antlions.

A natural family of the order Neuroptera, including the antlions.

Of or pertaining to Myrmica, a genus of ants including the small house ant (Myrmica molesta), and many others.

One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompanied Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.

Consisting of, or like, myrmidons.

Feeding upon ants; -- said of certain birds.

A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, mustard; -- used specifically to designate a glucoside called myronic acid, found in mustard seed.

One who sells unguents or perfumery.

An enzyme, resembling diastase, found in mustard seeds.

A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to Myrospermum.

A gum resin, usually of a yellowish brown or amber color, of an aromatic odor, and a bitter, slightly pungent taste. It is valued for its odor and for its medicinal properties. It exudes from the bark of a shrub of Abyssinia and Arabia, the Commiphora Myrrha (syn. Balsamodendron Myrrha) of the family Burseraceae, or from the Commiphora abyssinica. The myrrh of the Bible is supposed to have been partly the gum above named, and partly the exudation of species of Cistus, or rockrose.

Of, pertaining to, or obtained from, myrrh.

Murrhine.

A natural family of trees and shrubs yielding fragrant oils, including the myrtles, eucalyptus, clove, allspice, and guava; the myrtle family.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large and important natural family of trees and shrubs (Myrtaceae of the order Myrtales), of which the myrtle (Myrtus) is the type. It includes the genera Eucalyptus, Pimenta, Lechythis, and about seventy more.

A natural order of trees and shrubs including the myrtle family, Myrtaceae; Combretaceae; Elaeagnaceae; Haloragidaceae; Melastomaceae; Lecythidaceae; Lythraceae; Rhizophoraceae; Onagraceae; Lecythidaceae; and Punicaceae.

Resembling myrtle or myrtle berries; having the form of a myrtle leaf.

A small genus of arborescent cacti of Mexico and Central America.

A species of the genus Myrtus, especially Myrtus communis. The common myrtle has a shrubby, upright stem, eight or ten feet high. Its branches form a close, full head, thickly covered with ovate or lanceolate evergreen leaves. It has solitary axillary white or rosy flowers, followed by black several-seeded berries. The ancients considered it sacred to Venus. The flowers, leaves, and berries are used variously in perfumery and as a condiment, and the beautifully mottled wood is used in turning.

The type genus of the Myrtaceae.

I or me in person; -- used for emphasis, my own self or person; as I myself will do it; I have done it myself; -- used also instead of me, as the object of the first person of a reflexive verb, without emphasis; as, I will defend myself.

Myself.

An order of crustaceans including the opossum shrimp.

A natural family of small shrimplike crustaceans.

A genus of small schizopod shrimps found both in fresh and salt water; the opossum shrimps. One species inhabits the Great Lakes of North America, and is largely eaten by the whitefish. The marine species form part of the food of right whales.

Of or pertaining to the upper lip, or mustache.

Of or pertaining to interpretation of mysteries or to mystagogue; of the nature of mystagogy.

One who interprets mysteries, especially of a religious kind.

The doctrines, principles, or practice of a mystagogue; interpretation of mysteries.

Mysterious.

One presiding over mysteries.

Of or pertaining to mystery; containing a mystery; difficult or impossible to understand; inexplicable; obscure; not revealed or explained; enigmatical; incomprehensible.

In a mysterious manner.

The state or quality of being mysterious.

To make mysterious; to make a mystery of.

A trade; a handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied.

One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism.

Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious.

A suborder including baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; and humpbacks.

Obscurity of doctrine.

The act of mystifying, or the state of being mystied; also, something designed to, or that does, mystify.

One who mystifies.

To involve in mystery; to make obscure or difficult to understand; as, to mystify a passage of Scripture.

An aura of reverence or mystery stemming from feelings of high value or interest or meaning surrounding a person or thing; as, the Kennedy mystique.

Too frequent use of the letter m, or of the sound represented by it.

A story of great but unknown age which originally embodied a belief regarding some fact or phenomenon of experience, and in which often the forces of nature and of the soul are personified; an ancient legend of a god, a hero, the origin of a race, etc.; a wonder story of prehistoric origin; a popular fable which is, or has been, received as historical.

See Myth.

Of or relating to myths; described in a myth; of the nature of a myth; fabulous; imaginary; fanciful; mythological.

A composer of fables.

A mythologist.

A mythologist.

Of or pertaining to mythology or to myths; as, mythological creatures.

mythologization.

One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.

The construction of a myth; the restatement of a message as a myth.

To relate, classify, and explain, or attempt to explain, myths; to write upon myths.

One who, or that which, mythologizes.

A fabulous narrative; a myth.

The science which treats of myths; a treatise on myths.

A narration of mere fable.

Making or producing myths; giving rise to mythical narratives.

Making or producing myths or mythical tales.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Mytilus, or family Mytilidae.

A poisonous base (leucomaine) found in the common mussel. It either causes paralysis of the muscles, or gives rise to convulsions, including death by an accumulation of carbonic acid in the blood.

A genus of marine bivalve shells, including the common mussel. See Illust. under Byssus.

The distal end of the mandibles of a bird.

A pathological condition due to severe hyperthyroidism, marked by dry skin and swellings around lips and nose as well as mental and physical deterioration.

A genus of marsipobranchs, including the hagfish. See Hag, 4.

Like, or pertaining to, the genus Myxine. A hagfish.

A suborder of hagfishes as distinguished from lampreys.

One genus of myxobacteria.

A family of bacteria living mostly in soils and on dung; called also Polyangiaceae.

A type of bacteria that form colonies in self-produced slime; they inhabit moist soils or decaying plant matter or animal waste.

A genus of fish including the grubb (Myxocephalus aenaeus), a type of sculpin.

A division of Infusoria including the Noctiluca. See Noctiluca.

A disease producing a peculiar cretinoid appearance of the face, slow speech, and dullness of intellect, and due to failure of the functions of the thyroid gland.

A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.

a viral disease (usually fatal) of rabbits.

an organism of the class Myxomycetes.

A class of peculiar organisms, the slime molds, formerly regarded as animals (Mycetozoa), but now generally thought to be plants and often separated as a distinct phylum (Myxophyta); essentially equivalent to the division Myxomycota. They are found on damp earth and decaying vegetable matter, and consist of naked masses of protoplasm, often of considerable size, which creep very slowly over the surface and ingest solid food.

The slime molds; organisms having a noncellular and multinucleate creeping vegetative phase and a propagative spore-producing stage: comprises Myxomycetes and Acrasiomycetes and Plasmodiophoromycetes; in some classifications placed in the kingdom Protoctista.

A former term for the natural family Cyanophyceae.

A phylum of the vegetable kingdom consisting of the class Myxomycetes. By some botanists it is not separated from the Thallophyta.

A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.

An order of sporozoans.

An organism of the order Myxosporidia, mostly parasitic in fishes and including various serious pathogens.

The Marsipobranchiata.

An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.

A measure of space equal to half an M (or em); an en.

No, not. See No.

A family of North American Indian languages including Tlingit, the Athabascan language family, and Haida.

To catch or seize suddenly or unexpectedly.

Pulverized sugar candy.

The edible berries of the Zizyphys Lotus, a tree of Northern Africa, and Southwestern Europe.

A deputy or viceroy in India; a governor of a province of the ancient Mogul empire.

A pale red color, with a cast of orange.

A small boat.

A tortilla chip topped with cheese and often chili-pepper or beans and then broiled; -- eaten as a snack or light meal.