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.

Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea.

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 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.

See Nacre.

Having the peculiar iridescence of nacre, or mother-of-pearl, or an iridescence resembling it; as, nacr/ ware.

Consisting of, or resembling, nacre; pearly.

Nothing.

An adder.

That point of the heavens, or lower hemisphere, directly opposite the zenith; the inferior pole of the horizon; the point of the celestial sphere directly under the place where we stand.

See Nenia.

A naevus.

Resembling a naevus or naevi; as, naevoid elephantiasis.

Spotted; freckled.

A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- the term includes moles as wells a other types of birthmark, and is most commonly applied to reddish or brownish raised vascular areas of the skin, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

A person who nags, especially habitually; called also nagger.

A shrub (Fortunella margarita) bearing oval-fruited kumquats. See also kumquat.

A disease of horses and other domestic animals, transmitted by the tsetse fly; any trypanosomiasis, especially the variety caused by Trypanosoma brucei.

A small genus of Asian evergreen trees having columnar crowns and distinguished by leaves lacking a midrib; eastern Asia including India and Philippines and New Guinea.

Someone (especially a woman) who constantly finds fault.

Fault-finding; teasing; persistently annoying; as, a nagging toothache.

Irritable; touchy.

A West African gazelle (Gazella redunca).

A mineral of blackish lead-gray color and metallic luster, generally of a foliated massive structure; foliated tellurium. It is a telluride of lead and gold.

A water nymph; one of the lower female divinities, fabled to preside over some body of fresh water, as a lake, river, brook, or fountain.

A monotypic family of aquatic plants having narrow leaves and small flowers.

See Natant.

Any one of numerous species of small, fresh-water, chaetopod annelids of the tribe Naidina. They belong to the Oligochaeta.

Having a true natural luster without being cut; -- applied by jewelers to a precious stone.

A chief; a leader; a Sepoy corporal.