Miamis
Mi•a´mis, n. pl.; sing. Miami . (Ethnol.) A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

Miargyrite
Mi•ar´gy•rite, n. [Gr. less + silver. So called because it contains less silver than some kindred ore.] (Min.) A mineral of an iron-black color, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver.

Mias
Mi´as, n. [Malayan.] The orang-outang.

Miascite
Mi•asc´ite, n. [Named from Miask, in the Ural Mountains.] (Min.) A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elaeolite, and sodalite.

Miasm
Mi´asm, n. [Cf. F. miasme.] Miasma.

Miasma
Mi•as´ma, n. ; pl. Miasmata (#). [NL., fr. Gr. defilement, fr. to pollute.] Infectious particles or germs floating in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

Miasmal
Mi•as´mal, a. Containing miasma; miasmatic. { Mi•as•mat´ic, Mi•as•mat´ic•al } a. [Cf. F. miasmatique.] Containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as miasmatic diseases.

Miasmatist
Mi•as´ma•tist, n. One who has made a special study of miasma.

Miasmology
Mi•as•mol´o•gy, n. [ Miasma + -logy.] That department of medical science which treats of miasma.

Miaul
Mi•aul´, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Miauled p. pr. & vb. n. Miauling.] [Cf. F. miauler, of imitative origin, and E. mew. Cf. Mewl.] To cry as a cat; to mew; to caterwaul. Sir W. Scott.

Miaul
Mi•aul´, n. The crying of a cat.

Mica
Mi´ca, n. [L. mica crumb, grain, particle; cf. F. mica.] (Min.) The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer. The important species of the mica group are: muscovite, common or potash mica, pale brown or green, often silvery, including damourite (also called hydromica); biotite, iron-magnesia mica, dark brown, green, or black; lepidomelane, iron, mica, black; phlogopite, magnesia mica, colorless, yellow, brown; lepidolite, lithia mica, rose- red, lilac. Mica (usually muscovite, also biotite) is an essential constituent of granite, gneiss, and mica slate; biotite is common in many eruptive rocks; phlogopite in crystalline limestone and serpentine. Mica diorite (Min.), an eruptive rock allied to diorite but containing mica (biotite) instead of hornblende. — Mica powder, a kind of dynamite containing fine scales of mica. — Mica schist, Mica slate (Geol.), a schistose rock, consisting of mica and quartz with, usually, some feldspar.

Micaceo-calcareous
Mi•ca•ce•o-cal•ca´re•ous, a. (Geol.) Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; — applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.

Micaceous
Mi•ca´ceous, a. [Cf. F. micace.] Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica.

Mice, n. , pl of Mouse.

Miching
Mich´ing, a. Hiding; skulking; cowardly. [Colloq.] [Written also meaching and meeching.]

Mickle
Mic´kle (mik"k’l), a. [OE. mikel, muchel, mochel, mukel, AS. micel, mycel; akin to OS. mikil, OHG. mihil, mihhil, Icel. mikill, mykill, Goth. mikils, L. magnus, Gr. me•gas, gen. mega•loy; cf. Skr. mahat. rad.103. Cf. Much, Muckle, Magnitude.] Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng. & Scot.] "A man of mickle might." Spenser.

Mico
Mi´co, n. [Sp. or Pg. mico.] (Zoöl.) A small South American monkey ( Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

Micracoustic
Mi•cra•cous´tic, a. Same as Microustic.

Micrencephalous
Mi•cren•ceph´a•lous, [ Micr- + Gr. brain.] Having a small brain. { Mi´cro-, Mi´cr- }. [Gr. mikro•s small.] A combining form signifying: (a) Small, little, trivial, slight; as microcosm, microscope. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.) A millionth part of; as microfarad, microohm, micrometer.

Microampère
Mi•cro•am•père", n. [ Micr- + ampère.] (Elec.) One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one ampère.

Microanalysis
Mi•cro•a•nal´y•sis, n. [ Micro- + analysis.] Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.

Microbacteria
Mi•cro•bac•te´ri•a, n. pl. [NL. See Micro-, and Bacterium.] (Biol.) In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria. In this classification bacteria are divided into four tribes: 1. Spherobacteria, or spherical bacteria, as the genus Micrococcus. 2. Microbacteria, or bacteria in the form of short rods, including the genus Bacterium. 3. Desmobacteria, or bacteria in straight filaments, of which the genus Bacillus is a type. 4. Spirobacteria, or bacteria in spiral filaments, as the genus Vibrio. { Mi´crobe, Mi•cro´bi•on } n. [NL. microbion, fr. Gr. little + life.] (Biol.) A microscopic organism; — particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as the microbe of fowl cholera.

Microbian
Mi•cro´bi•an, a. (Biol.) Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

Microbic
Mi•crob´ic, a. (Biol.) Of or pertaining to a microbe.

Microbicide
Mi•crob´i•cide, n. [ Microbe + L. caedere to kill.] (Biol.) Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms. { Mi•cro•ce•phal´ic, Mi•cro•ceph´a•lous, } a. [ Micro- + cephalic, cephalous.] (Anat.) Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; — opposed to megacephalic.

Microbiology
Mi•cro•bi•ol´o•gy, n. [See Microbe; -logy.] The study of minute organisms, or microbes, as the bacteria. — Mi•cro•bi•o•log´ic•al (#), a. — Mi•cro•bi•ol´o•gist (#), n.

Micro-chemistry
Mi•cro-chem´is•try, n. [ Micro- + chemistry.] The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, magnified by the use of the microscopy; — distinguished from macro-chemistry.

Microchronometer
Mi•cro•chro•nom´e•ter, n. A chronoscope.

Microcline
Mi´cro•cline, n. [ Micro- + Gr. to incline.] (Min.) A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.

Micrococcal
Mi•cro•coc´cal, a. Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci. Nature.

Micrococcus
Mi•cro•coc´cus, n. ; pl. Micrococci (#). [NL. See Micro-, and Coccus.] (Biol.) A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells ( Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus. Physiologically, micrococci are divided into three groups; chromogenic, characterized by their power of forming pigment; zymogenic, including those associated with definite chemical processes; and pathogenic, those connected with disease.

Microcosmography
Mi•cro•cos•mog´ra•phy, n. [ Microcosm + -graphy.] Description of man as a microcosm.

Microcoulomb
Mi•cro•cou•lomb´, n. [ Micro- + coulomb.] (Elec.) A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.

Microcoustic
Mi•cro•cous´tic, a. [ Micro- + acoustic: cf. F. microcoustique, micracoustique.] Pertaining, or suited, to the audition of small sounds; fitted to assist hearing.

Microcoustic
Mi•cro•cous´tic, n. An instrument for making faint sounds audible, as to a partially deaf person.

Microcrith
Mi•cro•crith´, n. [ Micro- + crith.] (Chem.) The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. See Crith. J. P. Cooke.

Microcyte
Mi´cro•cyte, n. [ Micro- + Gr. a hollow vessel.] (Physiol.) One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anaemia.

Microdont
Mic´ro•dont, a. [ Micr- + Gr. ’odoy•s, ’odo•ntos, a tooth.] (Anat.) Having small teeth.

Microfarad
Mi•cro•far´ad, n. [ Micro- + farad.] (Elec.) The millionth part of a farad.

Microform
Mi´cro•form, n. [ Micro- + form, n.] (Biol.) A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism of microscopic size.

Micro-geological
Mi•cro-ge•o•log´ic•al, a. Of or pertaining to micro-geology.

Micro-geology
Mi•cro-ge•ol´o•gy, n. [ Micro- + geology.] The part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.

Micrograph
Mi´cro•graph, n. [See Micrography.] An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Micrography
Mi•crog´ra•phy, n. [ Micro- + -graphy: cf. F. micrographie.] The description of microscopic objects.

Micrography
Mi•crog´ra•phy, n. [ Micro- + -graphy.] Examination or study by means of the microscope, as of an etched surface of metal to determine its structure.

Microhm
Mi•crohm´, n. [ Micr- + ohm.] (Elec.) The millionth part of an ohm.

Microlepidoptera
Mi•cro•lep•i•dop´te•ra, n. pl. [NL. See Micro-, and Lepidoptera.] (Zoöl.) A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.

Microlite
Mi´cro•lite, n. [ Micro- + -lite.] (Min.)
1. A rare mineral of resinous luster and high specific gravity. It is a tantalate of calcium, and occurs in octahedral crystals usually very minute.
2. (Min.) A minute inclosed crystal, often observed when minerals or rocks are examined in thin sections under the microscope.

Microlith
Mi´cro•lith, n. [ Micro- + lith.] (Min.) Same as Microlite, 2.

Micrology
Mi•crol´o•gy, n. [ Micro- + -logy.]
1. That part of science which treats of microscopic objects, or depends on microscopic observation.
2. Attention to petty items or differences. W. Taylor.

Micromere
Mi´cro•mere, n. [ Micro- + -mere.] (Biol.) One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.

Micrometer
Mi•crom´e•ter, n. [ Micro- + -meter: cf. F. micromètre.] An instrument, used with a telescope or microscope, for measuring minute distances, or the apparent diameters of objects which subtend minute angles. The measurement given directly is that of the image of the object formed at the focus of the object glass. Circular, or Ring, micrometer, a metallic ring fixed in the focus of the object glass of a telescope, and used to determine differences of right ascension and declination between stars by observations of the times at which the stars cross the inner or outer periphery of the ring. — Double image micrometer, a micrometer in which two images of an object are formed in the field, usually by the two halves of a bisected lens which are movable along their line of section by a screw, and distances are determined by the number of screw revolutions necessary to bring the points to be measured into optical coincidence. When the two images are formed by a bisected object glass, it is called a divided-object-glass micrometer, and when the instrument is large and equatorially mounted, it is known as a heliometer. — Double refraction micrometer, a species of double image micrometer, in which the two images are formed by the double refraction of rock crystal. — Filar, or Bifilar, micrometer. See under Bifilar. — Micrometercaliper or gauge (Mech.), a caliper or gauge with a micrometer screw, for measuring dimensions with great accuracy. — Micrometer head, the head of a micrometer screw. — Micrometer microscope, a compound microscope combined with a filar micrometer, used chiefly for reading and subdividing the divisions of large astronomical and geodetical instruments. — Micrometer screw, a screw with a graduated head used in some forms of micrometers. — Position micrometer. See under Position. — Scale, or Linear, micrometer, a minute and very delicately graduated scale of equal parts used in the field of a telescope or microscope, for measuring distances by direct comparison. { Mi•cro•met´ric, Mi•cro•met´ric•al } a. [Cf. F. micrometrique.] Belonging to micrometry; made by the micrometer. — Mi•cro•met´ric•al•ly, adv.

Micromillimeter
Mi•cro•mil´li•me•ter, n. [ Micro- + millimeter.] The millionth part of a meter.

Micron
Mic´ron, n. [NL., fr. Gr. mikro•s small.] (Physics) A measure of length; the thousandth part of one millimeter; the millionth part of a meter.

Micronesian
Mi´cro•ne´sian, a. [From Micronesia, fr. Gr. mikro•s small + nh^sos an island.] Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.

Micronesians
Mi•cro•ne´sians, n. pl.; sing. Micronesian. (Ethnol.) A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.

Micronometer
Mi•cro•nom´e•ter, n. [ Micro- + chro nometer.] An instrument for noting minute portions of time.

Microörganism
Mi•cro•ör"gan•ism, n. [ Micro- + organism.] (Biol.) Any microscopic form of life; — particularly applied to bacteria and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.

Micropantograph
Mi•cro•pan´to•graph, n. [ Micro- + pantograph.] A kind of pantograph which produces copies microscopically minute.

Microparasite
Mi•cro•par´a•site, n. A parasitic microörganism. — Mi•cro•par•a•sit´ic (#), a.

Micropegmatite
Mi•cro•peg´ma•tite, n. [ Micro- + pegmatite.] (Min.) A rock showing under the microscope the structure of a graphic granite (pegmatite). — Mi•cro•peg•ma•tit´ic (#), a.

Microphone
Mi´cro•phone, n. [ Micro- + Gr. sound, voice: cf. F. microphone.] (Physics) An instrument for intensifying and making audible very feeble sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

Microphonic
Mi•cro•phon´ic, a. Of or pert. to a microphone; serving to intensify weak sounds.

Microphonics
Mi•cro•phon´ics, n. [See Microphone.] The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.

Microphotograph
Mi•cro•pho´to•graph, n. [ Micro- + photograph.]
1. A microscopically small photograph of a picture, writing, printed page, etc.
2. An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses. A picture of this kind is preferably called a photomicrograph.

Microphotography
Mi•cro•pho•tog´ra•phy, n. The art of making microphotographs. { Mi•croph•thal´mi•a, Mi•croph•thal´my, } n. [ Micro- + Gr. ’ofqalmo•s eye.] An unnatural smallness of the eyes, occurring as the result of disease or of imperfect development.

Microphyllous
Mi•croph´yl•lous, a. [ Micro- + Gr. fy•llon leaf.] (Bot.) Small- leaved.

Microphytal
Mi•croph´y•tal, a. (Bot.) Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.

Microphyte
Mi´cro•phyte, n. [ Micro- + Gr. a plant: cf. F. microphyte.] (Bot.) A very minute plant, one of certain unicellular algae, such as the germs of various infectious diseases are believed to be.

Micropyle
Mi´cro•pyle, n. [ Micro- + Gr. gate, orifice: cf. F. micropyle.] (Biol.) (a) An opening in the membranes surrounding the ovum, by which nutrition is assisted and the entrance of the spermatozoa permitted. (b) An opening in the outer coat of a seed, through which the fecundating pollen enters the ovule. — Mi•crop´y•lar (#), a.

Microscopal
Mi•cros´co•pal, a. Pertaining to microscopy, or to the use of the microscope. Huxley.

Microscope
Mi´cro•scope, n. [ Micro- + -scope.] An optical instrument, consisting of a lens, or combination of lenses, for making an enlarged image of an object which is too minute to be viewed by the naked eye. Compound microscope, an instrument consisting of a combination of lenses such that the image formed by the lens or set of lenses nearest the object (called the objective) is magnified by another lens called the ocular or eyepiece. — Oxyhydrogen microscope, and Solar microscope. See under Oxyhydrogen, and Solar. — Simple, or Single, microscope, a single convex lens used to magnify objects placed in its focus.

Microscopically
Mi•cro•scop´ic•al•ly, adv. By the microscope; with minute inspection; in a microscopic manner.

Microscopist
Mi•cros´co•pist ( 277), n. One skilled in, or given to, microscopy.

Microscopy
Mi•cros´co•py, n. The use of the microscope; investigation with the microscope.

Microseism
Mi´cro•seism, n. [ Micro- + Gr. an earthquake, fr. to shake.] A feeble earth tremor not directly perceptible, but detected only by means of specially constructed apparatus. — Mi•cro•seis´mic (#), •seis´mic•al (#), a.

Microseismograph
Mi•cro•seis´mo•graph, n. [ Microseiem + -graph.] A microseismometer; specif., a microseismometer producing a graphic record.

Microseismology
Mi•cro•seis•mol´o•gy, n. [ Microseiem + -logy.] Science or study of microseisms.

Microseismometer
Mi•cro•seis•mom´e•ter, n. [ Microseism + -meter.] A seismometer for measuring amplitudes or periods, or both, of microseisms. — Mi•cro•seis•mom´e•try (#), n. { Mi•cro•tom´ic, Mi•cro•tom´ic•al }, a. Of or pert. to the microtome or microtomy; cutting thin slices. { Mid´gard (mid"gärd), n. Also Mid´garth (-gärth), Mith´garthr ( Icel. meth"gärthr’) }. [Icel. miðgarðr.] (Teut. Myth.) The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

Microseme
Mi´cro•seme, a. [ Micro- + Gr. sign, mark: cf. F. microsème.] (Anat.) Having the orbital index relatively small; having the orbits broad transversely; — opposed to megaseme.

Microspectroscope
Mi•cro•spec´tro•scope (mi•kro•spek"tro•skop or mi•kro-), n. [ Micro- + spectroscope.] (Physics) A spectroscope arranged for attachment to a microscope, for observation of the spectrum of light from minute portions of any substance.

Microsporangium
Mi•cro•spo•ran´gi•um, n. [NL. See Micro-, and Sporangium.] (Bot.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only very minute spores. Cf. Macrosporangium.

Microsthene
Mi´cro•sthene, n. [ Micro- + Gr. sqe•nos might, strength.] (Zoöl.) One of a group of mammals having a small size as a typical characteristic. It includes the lower orders, as the Insectivora, Cheiroptera, Rodentia, and Edentata.

Microsthenic
Mi•cro•sthen´ic, a. (Zoöl.) Having a typically small size; of or pertaining to the microsthenes.

Microtasimeter
Mi•cro•ta•sim´e•ter, n. [ Micro- + tasimeter.] (Physics) A tasimeter, especially when arranged for measuring very small extensions. See Tasimeter.

Microtomist
Mi•crot´o•mist, n. One who is skilled in or practices microtomy.

Microtomy
Mi•crot´o•my, n. The art of using the microtome; investigation carried on with the microtome.

Microvolt
Mi•cro•volt´, n. [ Micro- + volt.] (Elec.) A measure of electro-motive force; the millionth part of one volt.

Microweber
Mi•cro•we´ber, n. [ Micro- + weber.] (Elec.) The millionth part of one weber.

Microzoa
Mi•cro•zo´a, n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. mikro•s small + zw^,on an animal.] (Zoöl.) The Infusoria.

Microzoöspore
Mi•cro•zo"ö•spore, n. [ Micro- + zoöspore.] (Bot.) A small motile spore furnished with two vibratile cilia, found in certain green algae.

Microzyme
Mi´cro•zyme, n. [ Micro- + Gr. zy•mh leaven.] (Biol.) A microörganism which is supposed to act like a ferment in causing or propagating certain infectious or contagious diseases; a pathogenic bacterial organism.

Micturition
Mic•tu•ri´tion, n. [L. micturire to desire to make water, v. desid. fr. mingere, mictum, to make water.] The act of voiding urine; also a morbidly frequent passing of the urine, in consequence of disease.

Mid (mid), a. [ Compar. wanting; superl. Midmost.] [AS. midd; akin to OS. middi, D. mid (in comp.), OHG. mitti, Icel. miðr, Goth. midjis, L. medius, Gr. me•sos, Skr. madhya. rad.271. Cf. Amid, Middle, Midst, Mean, Mediate, Meridian, Mizzen, Moiety.]
1. Denoting the middle part; as in mid ocean.
"No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall list’ning in mid air suspend their wings." Pope.
2. Occupying a middle position; middle; as the mid finger; the mid hour of night.
3. (Phon.) Made with a somewhat elevated position of some certain part of the tongue, in relation to the palate; midway between the high and the low; — said of certain vowel sounds; as a (ale), e (ell), o (old). See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 10, 11. Mid is much used as a prefix, or combining form, denoting the middle or middle part of a thing; as mid-air, mid-channel, mid-age, midday, midland, etc. also specifically, in geometry, to denote a circle inscribed in a triangle (a midcircle), or relation to such a circle; as mid-center, midradius.

Mid, n. Middle. [Obs.]
"About the mid of night come to my tent." Shak.

Mid, prep. See Amid.

Midas
Mi´das, n. [So called from L. Midas, a man fabled to have had ass’s ears.] (Zoöl.) A genus of longeared South American monkeys, including numerous species of marmosets. See Marmoset.

Midden
Mid´den, n. [Also midding.] [Cf. Dan. mögdynge, E. muck, and dung.]
1. A dunghill. [Prov. Eng.]
2. An accumulation of refuse about a dwelling place; especially, an accumulation of shells or of cinders, bones, and other refuse on the supposed site of the dwelling places of prehistoric tribes, — as on the shores of the Baltic Sea and in many other places. See Kitchen middens.

Middest
Mid´dest, a. ; superl. of Mid. [See Midst.] Situated most nearly in the middle; middlemost; midmost. [Obs.] " ’Mongst the middest crowd." Spenser.

Middest
Mid´dest, n. Midst; middle. [Obs.] Fuller.

Midding
Mid´ding, n. Same as Midden.

Middle-earth
Mid´dle-earth, n. The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.] Shak.

Middle-ground
Mid´dle-ground, n. (Paint.) That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.

Middleman
Mid´dle•man, n. ; pl. Middlemen .
1. An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.
2. A person of intermediate rank; a commoner.
3. (Mil.) The man who occupies a central position in a file of soldiers.

Middlemost
Mid´dle•most, a. [Cf. Midmost.] Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.

Middling
Mid´dling, a. Of middle rank, state, size, or quality; about equally distant from the extremes; medium; moderate; mediocre; ordinary. "A town of but middling size." Hallam.
"Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants." Hawthorne. — Mid´dling•ly, adv. — Mid´dling•ness, n.

Middlings
Mid´dlings, n. pl.
1. 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.
2. In the southern and western parts of the United States, the portion of the hog between the ham and the shoulder; bacon; — called also middles. Bartlett.

Middy
Mid´dy, n. ; pl. Middies . A colloquial abbreviation of midshipman.

Midfeather
Mid´feath•er, n.
1. (Steam Boilers) A vertical water space in a fire box or combustion chamber.
2. (Mining) A support for the center of a tunnel.

Midgard
Mid´gard, n. [Icel. miðgarðr.] (Scand. Myth.) The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

Midge, n. [OE. migge, AS. mycge; akin to OS. muggia, D. mug, G. mücke, OHG. mucca, Icel. m, Sw. mygga, mygg, Dan. myg; perh. named from its buzzing; cf. Gr. to low, bellow.] (Zoöl.)
1. Any one of many small, delicate, long- legged flies of the Chironomus, and allied genera, which do not bite. Their larvae are usually aquatic.
2. A very small fly, abundant in many parts of the United States and Canada, noted for the irritating quality of its bite. The name is also applied to various other small flies. See Wheat midge, under Wheat.

Midgut
Mid´gut, n. [ Mid, a. + gut.] (Anat.) The middle part of the alimentary canal from the stomach, or entrance of the bile duct, to, or including, the large intestine.

Midheaven
Mid´heav•en, n.
1. The midst or middle of heaven or the sky.
2. (Astron.) The meridian, or middle line of the heavens; the point of the ecliptic on the meridian.

Midland
Mid´land, a.
1. Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; as midland towns or inhabitants. Howell.
2. Surrounded by the land; mediterranean.
"And on the midland sea the French had awed." Dryden.

Midland
Mid´land, n. The interior or central region of a country; — usually in the plural. Drayton.

Midmain
Mid´main, n. The middle part of the main or sea. [Poetic] Chapman.

Midmost
Mid´most, a. [OE. middemiste. Cf. Foremost.] Middle; middlemost.
"Ere night’s midmost, stillest hour was past." Byron.

Midnight sun
Mid"night• sun. The sun shining at midnight in the arctic or antarctic summer.

Midrash
Mid•rash´, n. ; pl. Midrashim (#), Midrashoth (#). [Heb., explanation.] A talmudic exposition of the Hebrew law, or of some part of it.

Midrib
Mid´rib, n. (Bot.) A continuation of the petiole, extending from the base to the apex of the lamina of a leaf.

Midriff
Mid´riff (mid"rif), n. [AS. midhrif; midd mid, middle + hrif bowels, womb; akin to OFries. midref midriff, rif, ref, belly, OHG. href body, and to L. corpus body. See Corpse.] (Anat.) See Diaphragm, n. , 2.
"Smote him into the midriff with a stone." Milton. { Mid" sea", or Mid´-sea´ }. The middle part of the sea or ocean. Milton. The Mid-sea, the Mediterranean Sea. [Obs.]

Midshipman
Mid´ship•man, n. ; pl. Midshipmen .
1. (a) Formerly, a kind of naval cadet, in a ship of war, whose business was to carry orders, messages, reports, etc., between the officers of the quarter-deck and those of the forecastle, and render other services as required. (b) In the English naval service, the second rank attained by a combatant officer after a term of service as naval cadet. Having served three and a half years in this rank, and passed an examination, he is eligible to promotion to the rank of lieutenant. (c) In the United States navy, the lowest grade of officers in line of promotion, being graduates of the Naval Academy awaiting promotion to the rank of ensign.
2. (Zoöl.) An American marine fish of the genus Porichthys, allied to the toadfish. Cadet midshipman, formerly a title distinguishing a cadet line officer from a cadet engineer at the U. S. Naval Academy. See under Cadet. — Cadet midshipman, formerly, a naval cadet who had served his time, passed his examinations, and was awaiting promotion; — now called, in the United States, midshipman; in England, sublieutenant.

Midst, n. [From middest, in the middest, for older in middes, where -s is adverbial (orig. forming a genitive), or still older a midde, a midden, on midden. See Mid, and cf. Amidst.]
1. The interior or central part or place; the middle; — used chiefly in the objective case after in; as in the midst of the forest.
"And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him." Luke iv. 35.
"There is nothing … in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning." Dryden.
2. Hence, figuratively, the condition of being surrounded or beset; the press; the burden; as in the midst of official duties; in the midst of secular affairs. The expressions in our midst, in their midst, etc., are avoided by some good writers, the forms in the midst of us, in the midst of them, etc., being preferred.
Syn. — Midst, Middle. Midst in present usage commonly denotes a part or place surrounded on enveloped by or among other parts or objects (see Amidst); while middle is used of the center of length, or surface, or of a solid, etc. We say in the midst of a thicket; in the middle of a line, or the middle of a room; in the midst of darkness; in the middle of the night.

Midst, prep. In the midst of; amidst. Shak.

Midst, adv. In the middle. [R.] Milton.

Midsummer
Mid´sum•mer, n. [AS. midsumor.] The middle of summer. Shak. Midsummer daisy (Bot.), the oxeye daisy.

Midward
Mid´ward, a. Situated in the middle.

Midward
Mid´ward, adv. In or toward the midst.

Midway
Mid´way, n. The middle of the way or distance; a middle way or course. Shak.
"Paths indirect, or in the midway faint." Milton.

Midway
Mid´way, a. Being in the middle of the way or distance; as the midway air. Shak.

Midway
Mid´way, adv. In the middle of the way or distance; half way. "She met his glance midway." Dryden.

Midweek
Mid´week, n. The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.

Midwife
Mid´wife, n. ; pl. Midwives (#). [OE. midwif, fr. AS. mid with (akin to Gr. ) + woman, wife. Properly, the woman or wife who is attendant upon a woman in childbirth. See Meta-, and Wife.] A woman who assists other women in childbirth; a female practitioner of the obstetric art.

Midwife
Mid´wife, v. t. To assist in childbirth.

Midwife
Mid´wife, v. i. To perform the office of midwife.

Midwifery
Mid´wife•ry ( 277), n.
1. The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.
2. Assistance at childbirth; help or coöperation in production.

Midwinter
Mid´win•ter, n. [AS. midwinter.] The middle of winter. Dryden.

Midwive
Mid´wive (mid"w&ima;cv•), v. t. To midwife. [Obs.]

Mien (men), n. [F. mine; perh. from sane source as mener to lead; cf. E. demean, menace, mine, n.] Aspect; air; manner; demeanor; carriage; bearing.
"Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, as to be hated, needs but to be seen." Pope.

Miff, n. [Cf. Prov. G. muff sullenness, sulkiness, muffen to be silky, muffïg sullen, pouting.] A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense. Fielding.

Miff, v. t. To offend slightly. [Colloq.]

Might (mit), imp. of May. [AS. meahte, mihte.]

Might, n. [AS. meaht, miht, from the root of magan to be able, E. may; akin to D. magt, OS. maht, G. macht, Icel. mattr, Goth. mahts. rad.103. See May, v. ] 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.
"What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might?" Spenser.
"Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might." Deut. vi. 5.With might and main. See under 2d Main.

Mightily
Might´i•ly, adv. [From Mighty.]
1. In a mighty manner; with might; with great earnestness; vigorously; powerfully.
"Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily." Col. i. 29.
2. To a great degree; very much.
"Practical jokes amused us mightily." Hawthorne.

Mightless
Might´less, a. Without; weak. [Obs.]

Mighty
Might´y, a. [ Compar. Mightier superl. Mightiest.] [AS. meahtig, mihtig; akin to G. mächtig, Goth. mahteigs. See Might, n. ]
1. Possessing might; having great power or authority.
"Wise in heart, and mighty in strength." Job ix. 4.
2. Accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. "His mighty works." Matt. xi. 20.
3. Denoting an extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, etc. "A mighty famine." Luke xv. 14. "Giants of mighty bone." Milton.
"Mighty was their fuss about little matters." Hawthorne.

Mighty
Might´y, n. ; pl. Mighties (#). A warrior of great force and courage. [R. & Obs.] 1 Chron. xi. 12.

Mighty
Might´y, adv. In a great degree; very. [Colloq.] "He was mighty methodical." Jeffrey.
"We have a mighty pleasant garden." Doddridge.

Migniard
Mign´iard, a. [F. mignard, akin to mignon. See Minion.] Soft; dainty. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Mignon
Mi´gnon, a. [F.] See 3d Minion.

Mignon
Mi´gnon, v. t. To flatter. [R. & Obs.] Danie.

Mignonette
Mi•gnon•ette´, n. [F. mignonnette, dim. of mignon darling. See 2d Minion.] (Bot.) 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. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.

Migratory
Mi´gra•to•ry, a. [Cf. F. migratoire.]
1. Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as migratory birds.
2. Hence, roving; wandering; nomad; as migratory habits; a migratory life. Migratory locust (Zoöl.) See Locust. — Migratory thrush (Zoöl.), the American robin. See Robin.

Mikmaks
Mik´maks, n. Same as Micmacs.

Milage
Mil´age ( 48), n. Same as Mileage.

Milch, a. [OE. milche; akin to G. melk, Icel. milkr, mjolkr, and to E. milk. See Milk.]
1. Giving milk; — now applied only to beasts. "Milch camels." Gen. xxxii. "Milch kine." Shak.
2. Tender; pitiful; weeping. [Obs.] Shak.

Mildew
Mil´dew, n. [AS. meledeáw; akin to OHG. militou, G. mehlthau, mehltau; prob. orig. meaning, honeydew; cf. Goth. milip honey. See Mellifluous, and Dew.] (Bot.) A growth of minute powdery or webby fungi, whitish or of different colors, found on various diseased or decaying substances.

Mildew
Mil´dew, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mildewed p. pr. & vb. n. Mildewing.] To taint with mildew.
"He … mildews the white wheat." Shak.

Mildew
Mil´dew, v. i. To become tainted with mildew.

Mildly
Mild´ly, adv. In a mild manner.

Mildness
Mild´ness, n. The quality or state of being mild; as mildness of temper; the mildness of the winter.

Mile, n. [AS. mil, fr. L. millia, milia; pl. of mille a thousand, i. e., milia passuum a thousand paces. Cf. Mill the tenth of a cent, Million.] A certain measure of distance, being equivalent in England and the United States to 320 poles or rods, or 5,280 feet. The distance called a mile varies greatly in different countries. Its length in yards is, in Norway, 12,182; in Brunswick, 11,816; in Sweden, 11,660; in Hungary, 9,139; in Switzerland, 8,548; in Austria, 8,297; in Prussia, 8,238; in Poland, 8,100; in Italy, 2,025; in England and the United States, 1,760; in Spain, 1,552; in the Netherlands, 1,094. Geographical, or Nautical mile, one sixtieth of a degree of a great circle of the earth, or 6080.27 feet. — Mile run. Same as Train mile. See under Train. — Roman mile, a thousand paces, equal to 1,614 yards English measure. — Statute mile, a mile conforming to statute, that is, in England and the United States, a mile of 5,280 feet, as distinguished from any other mile.

Milepost
Mile´post, n. 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.

Milesian
Mi•le´sian, a. [L. Milesius, Gr. .]
1. (Anc. Geog.) Of or pertaining to Miletus, a city of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants.
2. (Irish Legendary Hist.) Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish.

Milesian
Mi•le´sian, n.
1. A native or inhabitant of Miletus.
2. A native or inhabitant of Ireland.

Milestone
Mile´stone, n. A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

Milfoil
Mil´foil, n. [F. mille- feuille, L. millefolium; mille thousand + folium leaf. See Foil a leaf.] (Bot.) A common composite herb ( Achillea Millefolium) with white flowers and finely dissected leaves; yarrow. Water milfoil (Bot.), an aquatic herb with dissected leaves ( Myriophyllum).

Milice
Mi•lice´, n. [F.] Militia. [Obs.]

Milieu
Mi•lieu´, n. [F., fr. m. middle (L. medius) + lieu place. See Demi-, Lieu.] Environment.
"The intellectual and moral milieu created by multitudes of self-centered, cultivated personalities." J. A. Symonds.
"It is one of the great outstanding facts of his progressive relation to the elements of his social milieu." J. M. Baldwin.

Miliolite
Mil´i•o•lite, n. (Paleon.) A fossil shell of, or similar to, the genus Miliola.

Miliolite
Mil´i•o•lite, a. The same Miliolitic. Miliolite limestone (Geol.), a building stone, one of the group of the Paris basin, almost entirely made up of many-chambered microscopic shells.

Militancy
Mil´i•tan•cy, n. [See Militant.]
1. The state of being militant; warfare.
2. A military spirit or system; militarism. H. Spencer.

Militarily
Mil´i•ta•ri•ly, adv. In a military manner.

Militarism
Mil´i•ta•rism, n. [Cf. F. militarisme.]
1. A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
2. The spirit and traditions of military life. H. Spencer.

Militarist
Mil´i•ta•rist, n. A military man. [Obs.] Shak.

Military
Mil´i•ta•ry, a. [L. militaris, militarius, from miles, militis, soldier: cf. F. militaire.]
1. Of or pertaining to soldiers, to arms, or to war; belonging to, engaged in, or appropriate to, the affairs of war; as a military parade; military discipline; military bravery; military conduct; military renown.
"Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men." Shak.
2. Performed or made by soldiers; as a military election; a military expedition. Bacon. Military law. See Martial law, under Martial. — Military order. (a) A command proceeding from a military superior. (b) An association of military persons under a bond of certain peculiar rules; especially, such an association of knights in the Middle Ages, or a body in modern times taking a similar form, membership of which confers some distinction. — Military tenure, tenure of land, on condition of performing military service.

Military
Mil´i•ta•ry, n. [Cf. F. militaire.] The whole body of soldiers; soldiery; militia; troops; the army.

Militate
Mil´i•tate, v. i. [ imp. & p. p. Militated p. pr. & vb. n. Militating ] [L. militare, militatum, to be a soldier, fr. miles, militis, soldier.] To make war; to fight; to contend; — usually followed by against and with.
"These are great questions, where great names militate against each other." Burke.
"The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor." Gibbon.

Militiaman
Mi•li´tia•man, n. ; pl. Militiamen . One who belongs to the militia.

Militiate
Mi•li´ti•ate, v. i. To carry on, or prepare for, war. [Obs.] Walpole.

Milk (milk), n. [AS. meoluc, meoloc, meolc, milc; akin to OFries. meloc, D. melk, G. milch, OHG. miluh, Icel. mjolk, Sw. mjölk, Dan. melk, Goth. miluks, G. melken to milk, OHG. melchan, Lith. milszti, L. mulgere, Gr. ’ame•lgein. rad.107. Cf. Milch, Emulsion, Milt soft roe of fishes.]
1. (Physiol.) A white fluid secreted by the mammary glands of female mammals for the nourishment of their young, consisting of minute globules of fat suspended in a solution of casein, albumin, milk sugar, and inorganic salts. "White as morne milk." Chaucer.
2. (Bot.) A kind of juice or sap, usually white in color, found in certain plants; latex. See Latex.
3. An emulsion made by bruising seeds; as the milk of almonds, produced by pounding almonds with sugar and water.
4. (Zoöl.) The ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. Condensed milk. See under Condense, v. t. — Milk crust (Med.), vesicular eczema occurring on the face and scalp of nursing infants. See Eczema. — Milk fever. (a) (Med.) A fever which accompanies or precedes the first lactation. It is usually transitory. (b) (Vet. Surg.) A form puerperal peritonitis in cattle; also a variety of meningitis occurring in cows after calving. — Milk glass, glass having a milky appearance. — Milk knot (Med.), a hard lump forming in the breast of a nursing woman, due to obstruction to the flow of milk and congestion of the mammary glands. — Milk leg (Med.), a swollen condition of the leg, usually in puerperal women, caused by an inflammation of veins, and characterized by a white appearance occasioned by an accumulation of serum and sometimes of pus in the cellular tissue. — Milk meats, food made from milk, as butter and cheese. [Obs.] Bailey. — Milk mirror. Same as Escutcheon, 2. — Milk molar (Anat.), one of the deciduous molar teeth which are shed and replaced by the premolars. — Milk of lime (Chem.), a watery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water. — Milk parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant ( Peucedanum palustre) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice. — Milk pea (Bot.), a genus ( Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants. — Milk sickness (Med.), a peculiar malignant disease, occurring in some parts of the Western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons who make use of the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted drinking water. — Milk snake (Zoöl.), a harmless American snake ( Ophibolus triangulus, or O. eximius). It is variously marked with white, gray, and red. Called also milk adder, chicken snake, house snake, etc. — Milk sugar. (Physiol. Chem.) See Lactose, and Sugar of milk (below). — Milk thistle (Bot.), an esculent European thistle ( Silybum marianum), having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness. — Milk thrush. (Med.) See Thrush. — Milk tooth (Anat.), one of the temporary first set of teeth in young mammals; in man there are twenty. — Milk tree (Bot.), a tree yielding a milky juice, as the cow tree of South America ( Brosimum Galactodendron), and the Euphorbia balsamifera of the Canaries, the milk of both of which is wholesome food. — Milk vessel (Bot.), a special cell in the inner bark of a plant, or a series of cells, in which the milky juice is contained. See Latex. — Rock milk. See Agaric mineral, under Agaric. — Sugar of milk. The sugar characteristic of milk; a hard white crystalline slightly sweet substance obtained by evaporation of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an article of diet. See Lactose.

Milk (milk), v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Milked (milkt); p. pr. & vb. n. Milking.]
1. To draw or press milk from the breasts or udder of, by the hand or mouth; to withdraw the milk of. "Milking the kine." Gay.
"I have given suck, and know How tender ’t is to love the babe that milks me." Shak.
2. To draw from the breasts or udder; to extract, as milk; as to milk wholesome milk from healthy cows.
3. To draw anything from, as if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale.
"They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock." London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; — said of the large dealers. [Cant] — To milk a telegram, to use for one’s own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]

Milk, v. i. To draw or to yield milk.

Milk, v. i.
1. To draw or to yield milk.
2. (Elec.) To give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation; — said of a storage battery.

Milk sickness. (Veter.) A peculiar malignant disease, occurring in parts of the western United States, and affecting certain kinds of farm stock (esp. cows), and persons using the meat or dairy products of infected cattle. Its chief symptoms in man are uncontrollable vomiting, obstinate constipation, pain, and muscular tremors. Its origin in cattle has been variously ascribed to the presence of certain plants in their food, and to polluted water.

Milk vetch
Milk" vetch (Bot.) A leguminous herb ( Astragalus glycyphyllos) of Europe and Asia, supposed to increase the secretion of milk in goats. The name is sometimes taken for the whole genus Astragalus, of which there are about two hundred species in North America, and even more elsewhere.

Milken
Milk´en, a. Consisting of milk. [Obs.]

Milker
Milk´er, n.
1. One who milks; also a mechanical apparatus for milking cows.
2. A cow or other animal that gives milk.

Milkful
Milk´ful, a. Full of milk; abounding with food. [R.] "Milkful vales." Sylvester.

Milkily
Milk´i•ly, adv. In a milky manner.

Milkiness
Milk´i•ness, n. State or quality of being milky.

Milk-livered
Milk´-liv•ered, a. White- livered; cowardly; timorous.

Milkmaid
Milk´maid, n. A woman who milks cows or is employed in the dairy.

Milkman
Milk´man, n. ; pl. Milkmen . A man who sells milk or delivers it to customers.

Milksop
Milk´sop, n. A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak.
"To wed a milksop or a coward ape." Chaucer.

Milkweed
Milk´weed, n. (Bot.) 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.

Milkwort
Milk´wort, n. (Bot.) A genus of plants ( Polygala) of many species. The common European P. vulgaris was supposed to have the power of producing a flow of milk in nurses. The species of Campanula, or bellflower, are sometimes called milkwort, from their juice.

Milky
Milk´y, a.
1. Consisting of, or containing, milk.
"Pails high foaming with a milky flood." Pope.
2. Like, or somewhat like, milk; whitish and turbid; as the water is milky. "Milky juice." Arbuthnot.
3. Yielding milk. "Milky mothers." Roscommon.
4. Mild; tame; spiritless.
"Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?" Shak. Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.

Millboard
Mill´board, n. A kind of stout pasteboard.

Mill-cake
Mill´-cake, n. The incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

Milldam
Mill´dam, n. A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

Milled, a. Having been subjected to some process of milling. Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. — Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.

Millefiore glass
Mil•le•fi•o"re glass [It. mille thousand + fiore flower.] Slender rods or tubes of colored glass fused together and embedded in clear glass; — used for paperweights and other small articles.

Millenarian
Mil•le•na´ri•an, a. [See Millenary.] Consisting of a thousand years; of or pertaining to the millennium, or to the Millenarians.

Millenarian
Mil•le•na´ri•an, n. One who believes that Christ will personally reign on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast. { Mil•le•na´ri•an•ism, Mil´le•na•rism } n. The doctrine of Millenarians.

Millenary
Mil´le•na•ry, a. [L. millenarius, fr. milleni a thousand each, fr. mille a thousand: cf. F. millenaire. See Mile.] Consisting of a thousand; millennial.

Millenary
Mil´le•na•ry, n. The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also a Millenarian."During that millenary." Hare.

Millennialist
Mil•len´ni•al•ist, n. One who believes that Christ will reign personally on earth a thousand years; a Chiliast; also a believer in the universal prevalence of Christianity for a long period. { Mil•len´ni•an•ism, Mil•len´ni•a•rism, } n. Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.

Millennist
Mil´len•nist (mil"len•nist), n. One who believes in the millennium. [Obs.] Johnson.

Millennium
Mil•len´ni•um (mil•len"ni•um), n. [LL., fr. L. mille a thousand + annus a year. See Mile, and Annual.] A thousand years; especially, the thousand years mentioned in the twentieth chapter of Revelation, during which holiness is to be triumphant throughout the world. Some believe that, during this period, Christ will reign on earth in person with his saints.

Millepora
Mil•le•po´ra (mil•le•po"ra), n. [NL.] (Zoöl.) A genus of Hydrocorallia, which includes the millipores.

Millepore
Mil´le•pore (mil"le•por), n. [L. mille thousand + porus pore: cf. F. millepore.] (Zoöl.) Any coral of the genus Millepora, having the surface nearly smooth, and perforated with very minute unequal pores, or cells. The animals are hydroids, not Anthozoa. See Hydrocorallia.

Miller
Mill´er (mil"er), n.
1. One who keeps or attends a flour mill or gristmill.
2. A milling machine.
3. (Zoöl.) (a) A moth or lepidopterous insect; — so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller’s clothes. Called also moth miller. (b) The eagle ray. (c) The hen harrier. [Prov. Eng.] Miller’s thumb. (Zoöl.) (a) A small fresh-water fish of the genus Uranidea (formerly Cottus), as the European species ( U. gobio), and the American ( U. gracilis); — called also bullhead. (b) A small bird, as the gold-crest, chiff-chaff, and long-tailed tit. [Prov. Eng.]

Millerite
Mil´ler•ite, n. A believer in the doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.

Millerite
Mil´ler•ite, n. [From W. H. Miller, of Cambridge, Eng.] (Min.) A sulphide of nickel, commonly occurring in delicate capillary crystals, also in incrustations of a bronze yellow; — sometimes called hair pyrites.

Millesimal
Mil•les´i•mal, a. [L. millesimus, fr. mille a thousand.] Thousandth; consisting of thousandth parts; as millesimal fractions.

Millet
Mil´let, n. [F., dim. of mil, L. milium; akin to Gr., AS. mil.] (Bot.) The name of several cereal and forage grasses which bear an abundance of small roundish grains. The common millets of Germany and Southern Europe are Panicum miliaceum, and Setaria Italica. Arabian millet is Sorghum Halepense. — Egyptian or East Indian, millet is Penicillaria spicata. — Indian millet is Sorghum vulgare. (See under Indian.) — Italian millet is Setaria Italica, a coarse, rank-growing annual grass, valuable for fodder when cut young, and bearing nutritive seeds; — called also Hungarian grass. — Texas millet is Panicum Texanum. — Wild millet, orMillet grass, is Milium effusum, a tail grass growing in woods.

Milliampère
Mil•li•am•père", n. [ Milli- + ampère.] (Elec.) The thousandth part of one ampère.

Milliard
Mil•liard´, n. [F., from mille, mil, thousand, L. mille.] A thousand millions; — called also billion. See Billion.

Millifold
Mil´li•fold, a. [L. mille thousand + E. fold times.] Thousandfold. [R.] Davies (Holy Roode). { Mil´li•gram, Mil´li•gramme }, n. [F. milligramme; milli- milli- + gramme. See 3d Gram.] A measure of weight, in the metric system, being the thousandth part of a gram, equal to the weight of a cubic millimeter of water, or .01543 of a grain avoirdupois. { Mil´li•li•ter, Mil´li•li•tre }, n. [F. millilitre; milli- milli- + litre. See Liter.] A measure of capacity in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a liter. It is a cubic centimeter, and is equal to .061 of an English cubic inch, or to .0338 of an American fluid ounce. { Mil´li•me•ter, Mil´li•me•tre }, n. [F. millimètre; milli- milli- + mètre. See 3d Meter.] A lineal measure in the metric system, containing the thousandth part of a meter; equal to .03937 of an inch. See 3d Meter.

Milliner
Mil´li•ner, n. [From Milaner an inhabitant of Milan, in Italy; hence, a man from Milan who imported women’s finery.]
1. Formerly, a man who imported and dealt in small articles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.]
"No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves." Shak.
2. A person, usually a woman, who makes, trims, or deals in hats, bonnets, headdresses, etc., for women. Man milliner, a man who makes or deals in millinery; hence, contemptuously, a man who is busied with trifling occupations or embellishments.

Millinery
Mil´li•ner•y, n.
1. The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.
2. The business of work of a milliner.

Millinet
Mil•li•net´, n. A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

Milling
Mill´ing, n. The act or employment of grinding or passing through a mill; the process of fulling; the process of making a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill. High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product. — Low milling, milling in which the reduction is effected in a single crushing or grinding. — Milling cutter, a fluted, sharp-edged rotary cutter for dressing surfaces, as of metal, of various shapes. — Milling machine, a machine tool for dressing surfaces by rotary cutters. — Milling tool, a roller with indented edge or surface, for producing like indentations in metal by rolling pressure, as in turning; a knurling tool; a milling cutter.

Millionairess
Mil•lion•air´ess, n. A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous] Holmes.

Millionary
Mil´lion•a•ry, a. Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; as the millionary chronology of the pundits. Pinkerton.

Millioned
Mil´lioned, a. Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] Shak.

Millionnaire
Mil•lion•naire´, n. [F.] Millionaire.

Millionth
Mil´lionth, a. Being the last one of a million of units or objects counted in regular order from the first of a series or succession; being one of a million.

Millionth
Mil´lionth, n. The quotient of a unit divided by one million; one of a million equal parts.

Milliped
Mil´li•ped, n. (Zoöl.) The same Milleped.

Milliweber
Mil•li•we´ber, n. [ Milli- + weber.] (Physics) The thousandth part of one weber. { Mill´rea• (mil"re•), Mill´ree•, Mill´reis• (-res•) }, n. See Milreis. { Mill´rind• (-rind•), Mill´rynd• (- rind•) }, n. [ Mill + rynd.] (Her.) A figure supposed to represent the iron which holds a millstone by being set into its center.

Millstone
Mill´stone, n. One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance.
"No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge." Deut. xxiv. 6. The cellular siliceous rock called buhrstone is usually employed for millstones; also some kinds of lava, as that Niedermendig, or other firm rock with rough texture. The surface of a millstone has usually a series of radial grooves in which the powdered material collects. Millstone girt (Geol.), a hard and coarse, gritty sandstone, dividing the Carboniferous from the Subcarboniferous strata. See Farewell rock, under Farewell, a. , and Chart of Geology. — To seeinto, or through,a millstone, to see into or through a difficult matter. (Colloq.)

Millwright
Mill´wright, n. A mechanic whose occupation is to build mills, or to set up their machinery.

Milord
Mi•lord´, n. [F. (also It., Sp., Russ.), fr. E. my lord.] Lit., my lord; hence (as used on the Continent), an English nobleman or gentleman.

Milreis
Mil´reis, n. [Pg. mil reis, i. e., one thousand reis; mil a thousand + reis, pl. of real a rei.] A Portuguese money of account rated in the treasury department of the United States at one dollar and eight cents; also a Brazilian money of account rated at fifty-four cents and six mills.

Milt, n. [AS. milte; akin to D. milt, G. milz, OHG. milzi, Icel. milti, Dan. milt, Sw. mjälte, and prob. to E. malt, melt. rad.108. See Malt the grain.] (Anat.) The spleen.

Milt, n. [Akin to Dan. melk, Sw. mjölke, G. milch, and E. milk. See Milk.] (Zoöl.) (a) The spermatic fluid of fishes. (b) The testes, or spermaries, of fishes when filled with spermatozoa.

Milt, v. t. To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.

Milter
Milt´er, n. [Cf. D. milter, G. milcher, milchner. See 2d Milt.] (Zoöl.) A male fish.

Miltonic
Mil•ton´ic, a. Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as Miltonic prose.

Miltwaste
Milt´waste, [1st milt + waste.] (Bot.) A small European fern ( Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.

Milvine
Mil´vine, a. [L. milvus kite.] (Zoöl.) Of or resembling birds of the kite kind.

Milvine
Mil´vine, n. (Zoöl.) A bird related to the kite.

Milvus
Mil´vus, n. [L., a kite.] (Zoöl.) A genus of raptorial birds, including the European kite.

Mime, n. [L. mimus, Gr., akin to to imitate, to mimic: cf. F. mime. Cf. Mimosa.]
1. A kind of drama in which real persons and events were generally represented in a ridiculous manner.
2. An actor in such representations.

Mime, v. i. To mimic. [Obs.] — Mim´er (#), n.

Mimeograph
Mim´e•o•graph, n. [Gr. to imitate + -graph.] An autographic stencil copying device invented by Edison.

Mimesis
Mi•me´sis, n. [NL., fr. Gr. imitation.] (Rhet. & Biol.) Imitation; mimicry.

Mimetene
Mim´e•tene, n. (Min.) See Mimetite. { Mi•met´ic ( 277), Mi•met´ic•al }[Gr., fr. to imitate.]
1. Apt to imitate; given to mimicry; imitative.
2. (Biol.) Characterized by mimicry; - - applied to animals and plants; as mimetic species; mimetic organisms. See Mimicry.

Mimicker
Mim´ick•er, n.
1. One who mimics; a mimic.
2. (Zoöl.) An animal which imitates something else, in form or habits.

Mimicry
Mim´ic•ry, n.
1. The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.
2. (Biol.) Protective resemblance; the resemblance which certain animals and plants exhibit to other animals and plants or to the natural objects among which they live, — a characteristic which serves as their chief means of protection against enemies; imitation; mimesis; mimetism.

Mimographer
Mi•mog´ra•pher, n. [L. mimographus, Gr. ; a mime + to write: cf. F. mimographe.] A writer of mimes. Sir T. Herbert.

Mimosa
Mi•mo´sa ( 277), n. [NL., fr. Gr. imitator. Cf. Mime.] (Bot.) A genus of leguminous plants, containing many species, and including the sensitive plants ( Mimosa sensitiva, and M. pudica). The term mimosa is also applied in commerce to several kinds bark imported from Australia, and used in tanning; — called also wattle bark. Tomlinson.

Mina
Mi´na, n. ; pl. L. Minae (#), E. Minas (#). [L., fr. Gr. .] An ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

Mina
Mi´na, n. (Zoöl.) See Myna.

Minaceous
Min••a´ceous, a. Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.

Minacious
Mi•na´cious, a. [L. minax, -acis. See Menace.] Threatening; menacing. [R.]

Minaret
Min´a•ret, n. [Sp. minarete, Ar. manarat lamp, lantern, lighthouse, turret, fr. nar to shine.] (Arch.) A slender, lofty tower attached to a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.

Minargent
Min•ar´gent, n. [Prob. contr. from alu minium + L. argentum silver.] An alloy consisting of copper, nickel, tungsten, and aluminium; — used by jewelers. { Min•a•to´ri•al•ly, Min´a•to•ri•ly }, adv. In a minatory manner; with threats.

Minatory
Min´a•to•ry, a. [L. minatorius, fr. minari to threaten. See Menace.] Threatening; menacing. Bacon.

Mince pie
Mince" pie A pie made of mince-meat.

Mince-meat
Mince´-meat, n. Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; — used in making mince pie.

Mincer
Min´cer, n. One who minces.

Mincing
Min´cing, a. That minces; characterized by primness or affected nicety.

Mincingly
Min´cing•ly, adv. In a mincing manner; not fully; with affected nicety.

Mind (mind), n. [AS. mynd, gemynd; akin to OHG. minna memory, love, G. minne love, Dan. minde mind, memory, remembrance, consent, vote, Sw. minne memory, Icel. minni, Goth. gamunds, L. mens, mentis, mind, Gr. me•nos, Skr. manas mind, man to think. rad.104, 278. Cf. Comment, Man, Mean, v. , 3d Mental, Mignonette, Minion, Mnemonic, Money.]
1. The intellectual or rational faculty in man; the understanding; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also the entire spiritual nature; the soul; — often in distinction from the body.
"By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills." Reid.
"What we mean by mind is simply that which perceives, thinks, feels, wills, and desires." Sir W. Hamilton.
"Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind." Rom. xiv. 5.
"The mind shall banquet, though the body pine." Shak.
2. The state, at any given time, of the faculties of thinking, willing, choosing, and the like; psychical activity or state; as: (a) Opinion; judgment; belief.
"A fool uttereth all his mind." Prov. xxix. 11.
"Being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she’ll prove as hard to you in telling her mind." Shak. (b) Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will.
"If it be your minds, then let none go forth." 2 Kings ix. 15. (c) Courage; spirit. Chapman.
3. Memory; remembrance; recollection; as to have or keep in mind, to call to mind, to put in mind, etc. To have a mind or great mind, to be inclined or strongly inclined in purpose; — used with an infinitive. "Sir Roger de Coverly … told me that he had a great mind to see the new tragedy with me." Addison. — To lose one’s mind, to become insane, or imbecile. — To make up one’s mind, to come to an opinion or decision; to determine. — To put in mind, to remind. "Regard us simply as putting you in mind of what you already know to be good policy." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Mind, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Minded; p. pr. & vb. n. Minding.] [AS. myndian, gemyndian to remember. See Mind, n. ]
1. To fix the mind or thoughts on; to regard with attention; to treat as of consequence; to consider; to heed; to mark; to note. "Mind not high things, but condescend to men of low estate." Rom. xii. 16.
"My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play." Shak.
2. To occupy one’s self with; to employ one’s self about; to attend to; as to mind one’s business.
"Bidding him be a good child, and mind his book." Addison.
3. To obey; as to mind parents; the dog minds his master.
4. To have in mind; to purpose. Beaconsfield.
"I mind to tell him plainly what I think." Shak.
5. To put in mind; to remind. [Archaic] M. Arnold.
"He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things." Fuller.
"I do thee wrong to mind thee of it." Shak. Never mind, do not regard it; it is of no consequence; no matter.
Syn. — To notice; mark; regard; obey. See Attend.

Mind, v. i. To give attention or heed; to obey; as the dog minds well.

Minded
Mind´ed, a. Disposed; inclined; having a mind.
"Joseph … was minded to put her away privily." Matt. i. 19.
"If men were minded to live virtuously." Tillotson. Minded is much used in composition; as high- minded, feeble- minded, sober- minded, double- minded.

Minder
Mind´er, n.
1. One who minds, tends, or watches something, as a child, a machine, or cattle; as a minder of a loom.
2. One to be attended; specif., a pauper child intrusted to the care of a private person. [Eng.] Dickens.

Mindful
Mind´ful, a. Bearing in mind; regardful; attentive; heedful; observant.
"What is man, that thou art mindful of him?" Ps. viii. 4.
"I promise you to be mindful of your admonitions." Hammond. — Mind´ful•ly, adv. — Mind´ful•ness, n.

Minding
Mind´ing, n. Regard; mindfulness.

Mindless
Mind´less, a.
1. Not indued with mind or intellectual powers; stupid; unthinking.
2. Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless.
"Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth." Shak.

Mine (men), n. [F.] See Mien. [Obs.]

Mine (min), pron. & a. [OE. min, fr. AS. min; akin to D. mijn, OS., OFries., & OHG. min, G. mein, Sw. & Dan. min, Icel. minn, Goth. meins my, mine, meina of me, and E. m. . rad.187. See Me, and cf. My.] Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. also in the old style, used attributively, instead of m. , before a noun beginning with a vowel.
"I kept myself from mine iniquity." Ps. xviii. 23. Mine is often used absolutely, the thing possessed being understood; as his son is in the army, mine in the navy.
"When a man deceives me once, says the Italian proverb, it is his fault; when twice, it is mine." Bp. Horne.
"This title honors me and mine." Shak.
"She shall have me and mine." Shak.

Mine, v. i. [F. miner, L. minare to drive animals, in LL. also to lead, conduct, dig a mine (cf. E. lode, and lead to conduct), akin to L. minari to threaten; cf. Sp. mina mine, conduit, subterraneous canal, a spring or source of water, It. mina. See Menace, and cf. Mien.]
1. To dig a mine or pit in the earth; to get ore, metals, coal, or precious stones, out of the earth; to dig in the earth for minerals; to dig a passage or cavity under anything in order to overthrow it by explosives or otherwise.
2. To form subterraneous tunnel or hole; to form a burrow or lodge in the earth; as the mining cony.

Mine, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mined p. pr. & vb. n. Mining.]
1. To dig away, or otherwise remove, the substratum or foundation of; to lay a mine under; to sap; to undermine; hence, to ruin or destroy by slow degrees or secret means.
"They mined the walls." Hayward.
"Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers … had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity." Sir W. Scott.
2. To dig into, for ore or metal.
"Lead veins have been traced … but they have not been mined." Ure.
3. To get, as metals, out of the earth by digging.
"The principal ore mined there is the bituminous cinnabar." Ure.

Mine, n. [F., fr. LL. mina. See Mine, v. i.]
1. A subterranean cavity or passage; especially: (a) A pit or excavation in the earth, from which metallic ores, precious stones, coal, or other mineral substances are taken by digging; — distinguished from the pits from which stones for architectural purposes are taken, and which are called quarries. (b) (Mil.) A cavity or tunnel made under a fortification or other work, for the purpose of blowing up the superstructure with some explosive agent.
2. Any place where ore, metals, or precious stones are got by digging or washing the soil; as a placer mine.
3. Fig.: A rich source of wealth or other good. Shak. Mine dial, a form of magnetic compass used by miners. — Mine pig, pig iron made wholly from ore; in distinction from cinder pig, which is made from ore mixed with forge or mill cinder. Raymond.

Mineral
Min´er•al, n. [F. mineral, LL. minerale, fr. minera mine. See Mine, v. i.]
1. An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.
2. A mine. [Obs.] Shak.
3. Anything which is neither animal nor vegetable, as in the most general classification of things into three kingdoms (animal, vegetable, and mineral).

Mineral
Min´er•al, a.
1. Of or pertaining to minerals; consisting of a mineral or of minerals; as a mineral substance.
2. Impregnated with minerals; as mineral waters. Mineral acids (Chem.), inorganic acids, as sulphuric, nitric, phosphoric, hydrochloric, acids, etc., as distinguished from the organic acids. — Mineral blue, the name usually given to azurite, when reduced to an impalpable powder for coloring purposes. — Mineral candle, a candle made of paraffine. — Mineral caoutchouc, an elastic mineral pitch, a variety of bitumen, resembling caoutchouc in elasticity and softness. See Caoutchouc, and Elaterite. — Mineral chameleon (Chem.) See Chameleon mineral, under Chameleon. — Mineral charcoal. See under Charcoal. — Mineral cotton. See Mineral wool (below). — Mineral green, a green carbonate of copper; malachite. — Mineral kingdom (Nat. Sci.), that one of the three grand divisions of nature which embraces all inorganic objects, as distinguished from plants or animals. — Mineral oil. See Naphtha, and Petroleum. — Mineral paint, a pigment made chiefly of some natural mineral substance, as red or yellow iron ocher. — Mineral patch. See Bitumen, and Asphalt. — Mineral right, the right of taking minerals from land. — Mineral salt (Chem.), a salt of a mineral acid. — Mineral tallow, a familiar name for hatchettite, from its fatty or spermaceti- like appearance. — Mineral water. See under Water. — Mineral wax. See Ozocerite. — Mineral wool, a fibrous wool-like material, made by blowing a powerful jet of air or steam through melted slag. It is a poor conductor of heat.

Mineralization
Min•er•al•i•za´tion, n. [Cf. F. mineralisation.]
1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
2. The act of impregnating with a mineral, as water.
3. (Bot.) The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.

Mineralize
Min´er•al•ize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mineralized p. pr. & vb. n. Mineralizing ] [Cf. F. mineraliser.]
1. To transform into a mineral.
"In these caverns the bones are not mineralized." Buckland.
2. To impregnate with a mineral; as mineralized water.

Mineralize
Min´er•al•ize, v. i. To go on an excursion for observing and collecting minerals; to mineralogize.

Mineralize
Min´er•al•ize, v. t. To charge or impregnate with ore.

Mineralizer
Min´er•al•i•zer, n. An element which is combined with a metal, thus forming an ore. Thus, in galena, or lead ore, sulphur is a mineralizer; in hematite, oxygen is a mineralizer.

Mineralogical
Min•er•al•og´ic•al, a. [Cf. F. mineralogique. See Mineralogy.] Of or pertaining to mineralogy; as a mineralogical table.

Mineralogist
Min•er•al´o•gist, n. [Cf. F. mineralogiste.]
1. One versed in mineralogy; one devoted to the study of minerals.
2. (Zoöl.) A carrier shell ( Phorus).

Mineralogize
Min•er•al´o•gize, v. i. To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.

Mineralogy
Min•er•al´o•gy, n. ; pl. Mineralogies (#). [ Mineral + -logy: cf. F. mineralogie.]
1. The science which treats of minerals, and teaches how to describe, distinguish, and classify them.
2. A treatise or book on this science.

Minerva
Mi•ner´va, n. [L.] (Rom. Myth.) The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; — identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.

Minette
Mi•nette´, n. The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.

Minever
Min´e•ver, n. Same as Miniver.

Mingle
Min´gle, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mingled p. pr. & vb. n. Mingling ] [From OE. mengen, AS. mengan; akin to D. & G. mengen, Icel. menga, also to E. among, and possibly to mix. Cf. Among, Mongrel.]
1. To mix; intermix; to combine or join, as an individual or part, with other parts, but commonly so as to be distinguishable in the product; to confuse; to confound.
"There was … fire mingled with the hail." Ex. ix. 24.
2. To associate or unite in society or by ties of relationship; to cause or allow to intermarry; to intermarry.
"The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands." Ezra ix. 2.
3. To deprive of purity by mixture; to contaminate.
"A mingled, imperfect virtue." Rogers.
4. To put together; to join. [Obs.] Shak.
5. To make or prepare by mixing the ingredients of.
"[He] proceeded to mingle another draught." Hawthorne.

Mingle
Min´gle, v. i. To become mixed or blended.

Mingle
Min´gle, n. A mixture. [Obs.] Dryden.

Mingleable
Min´gle•a•ble, a. That can be mingled. Boyle.

Mingledly
Min´gled•ly, adv. Confusedly.

Mingle-mangle
Min´gle-man•gle, v. t. [Reduplicated fr. mingle.] To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [Obs.] Udall.

Mingle-mangle
Min´gle-man•gle, n. A hotchpotch. [Obs.] Latimer.

Minglement
Min´gle•ment, n. The act of mingling, or the state of being mixed.

Mingler
Min´gler, n. One who mingles.

Minglingly
Min´gling•ly, adv. In a mingling manner.

Miniard
Min´iard, a. Migniard. [Obs.]

Miniardize
Min´iard•ize, v. t. To render delicate or dainty. [Obs.] Howell.

Miniate
Min´i•ate, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Miniated p. pr. & vb. n. Miniating ] [L. miniatus, p. p. of miniare. See Minium.] To paint or tinge with red lead or vermilion; also to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.

Miniate
Min´i•ate, a. Of or pertaining to the color of red lead or vermilion; painted with vermilion.

Miniature
Min´i•a•ture ( 277), n. [It. miniatura, fr. L. miniare. See Miniate, v. ,Minium.]
1. Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediaeval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.
2. Greatly diminished size or form; reduced scale.
3. Lettering in red; rubric distinction. [Obs.]
4. A particular feature or trait. [Obs.] Massinger.

Miniature
Min´i•a•ture, a. Being on a small scale; much reduced from the reality; as a miniature copy.

Miniature
Min´i•a•ture, v. t. To represent or depict in a small compass, or on a small scale.

Miniaturist
Min´i•a•tur•ist, n. A painter of miniatures.

Minibus
Min´i•bus, n. [L. minor less + -bus, as in omnibus.] A kind of light passenger vehicle, carrying four persons.

Minie ball
Min"ie ball [From the inventor, Captain Minie, of France.] A conical rifle bullet, with a cavity in its base plugged with a piece of iron, which, by the explosion of the charge, is driven farther in, expanding the sides to fit closely the grooves of the barrel.

Minie rifle
Min"ie ri"fle A rifle adapted to minie balls.

Minify
Min´i•fy, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Minified p. pr. & vb. n. Minifying ] [L. minor less + -fly.]
1. To make small, or smaller; to diminish the apparent dimensions of; to lessen.
2. To degrade by speech or action.

Minim
Min´im, n. [F. minime, L. minimus the least, smallest, a superl. of minor: cf. It. minima a note in music. See Minor, and cf. Minimum.]
1. Anything very minute; as the minims of existence; — applied to animalcula; and the like.
2. The smallest liquid measure, equal to about one drop; the sixtieth part of a fluid drachm.
3. (Zoöl.) A small fish; a minnow. [Prov. Eng.]
4. A little man or being; a dwarf. [Obs.] Milton.
5. (Eccl. Hist.) One of an austere order of mendicant hermits or friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.
6. (Mus.) A time note, formerly the shortest in use; a half note, equal to half a semibreve, or two quarter notes or crotchets.
7. A short poetical encomium. [Obs.] Spenser.

Minim
Min´im, a. Minute. "Minim forms." J. R. Drake.

Minimal
Min´i•mal, a. Of, pertaining to, or having a character of, a minim or minimum; least; smallest; as a minimal amount or value.

Miniment
Min´i•ment, n. [Prob. corrupt. of moniment.] A trifle; a trinket; a token. [Obs.] Spenser.

Minimization
Min•i•mi•za´tion, n. The act or process of minimizing. Bentham.

Minimize
Min´i•mize, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Minimized p. pr. & vb. n. Minimizing ] To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum. Bentham.

Minioning
Min´ion•ing, n. Kind treatment. [Obs.]

Minionize
Min´ion•ize, v. t. To flavor. [Obs.] { Min´ion•like•, Min´ion•ly } a. & adv. Like a minion; daintily. Camden.

Minionship
Min´ion•ship, n. State of being a minion. [R.]

Minious
Min´ious, a. [L. minium red lead.] Of the color of red or vermilion. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Minish
Min´ish, v. t. [OE. menusen, F. menuiser to make small, cut small, fr. (assumed) LL. minutiare, for minutare, fr. L. minutus small. See Minute, a. , and cf. Diminish, Minge.] To diminish; to lessen.
"The living of poor men thereby minished." Latimer.

Minister
Min´is•ter, n. [OE. ministre, F. ministre, fr. L. minister, orig. a double comparative from the root of minor less, and hence meaning, an inferior, a servant. See 1st Minor, and cf. Master, Minstrel.]
1. A servant; a subordinate; an officer or assistant of inferior rank; hence, an agent, an instrument.
"Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua." Ex. xxiv. 13.
"I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes." Shak.
2. An officer of justice. [Obs.]
"I cry out the on the ministres, quod he, That shoulde keep and rule this cite." Chaucer.
3. One to whom the sovereign or executive head of a government intrusts the management of affairs of state, or some department of such affairs.
"Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man." Bacon.
4. A representative of a government, sent to the court, or seat of government, of a foreign nation to transact diplomatic business. Ambassadors are classed (in the diplomatic sense) in the first rank of public ministers, ministers plenipotentiary in the second. "The United States diplomatic service employs two classes of ministers, — ministers plenipotentiary and ministers resident." Abbott.
5. One who serves at the altar; one who performs sacerdotal duties; the pastor of a church duly authorized or licensed to preach the gospel and administer the sacraments. Addison.
Syn. — Delegate; official; ambassador; clergyman; parson; priest.

Minister
Min´is•ter, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Ministered p. pr. & vb. n. Ministering.] [OE. ministren, OF. ministrer, fr. L. ministrare. See Minister, n. ] To furnish or apply; to afford; to supply; to administer.
"He that ministereth seed to the sower." 2 Cor. ix. 10.
"We minister to God reason to suspect us." Jer. Taylor.

Minister
Min´is•ter, v. i.
1. To act as a servant, attendant, or agent; to attend and serve; to perform service in any office, sacred or secular.
"The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister." Matt. xx. 28.
2. To supply or to things needful; esp., to supply consolation or remedies. Matt. xxv. 44.
"Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?" Shak.

Ministerial
Min•is•te´ri•al, a. [L. ministerialis: cf. F. ministeriel. See Minister, and cf. Minstrel.]
1. Of or pertaining to ministry or service; serving; attendant.
"Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames." Prior.
2. Of or pertaining to the office of a minister or to the ministry as a body, whether civil or sacerdotal. "Ministerial offices." Bacon. "A ministerial measure." Junius. "Ministerial garments." Hooker.
3. Tending to advance or promote; contributive. "Ministerial to intellectual culture." De Quincey. The ministerial benches, the benches in the House of Commons occupied by members of the cabinet and their supporters; — also the persons occupying them. "Very solid and very brilliant talents distinguish the ministerial benches." Burke.
Syn. — Official; priestly; sacerdotal; ecclesiastical.

Ministerially
Min•is•te´ri•al•ly, adv. In a ministerial manner; in the character or capacity of a minister.

Ministery
Min´is•ter•y, n. See Ministry. Milton.

Ministral
Min´is•tral, a. Ministerial. [Obs.] Johnson.

Ministrant
Min´is•trant (min"is•tr ant), a. [L. ministrans, -antis, of ministrare to minister.] Performing service as a minister; attendant on service; acting under command; subordinate. "Princedoms and dominations ministrant." Milton. — n. One who ministers.

Ministration
Min•is•tra´tion, n. [L. ministratio, fr. ministrare.] The act of ministering; service; ministry. "The days of his ministration." Luke i. 23.

Ministrative
Min´is•tra•tive, a. Serving to aid; ministering.

Ministress
Min´is•tress, n. [Cf. L. ministrix.] A woman who ministers. Akenside.

Ministry
Min´is•try, n. ; pl. Ministries (#). [L. ministerium. See Minister, n. , and cf. Mystery a trade.]
1. The act of ministering; ministration; service. "With tender ministry." Thomson.
2. Hence: Agency; instrumentality.
"The ordinary ministry of second causes." Atterbury.
"The wicked ministry of arms." Dryden.
3. The office, duties, or functions of a minister, servant, or agent; ecclesiastical, executive, or ambassadorial function or profession.
4. The body of ministers of state; also the clergy, as a body.
5. Administration; rule; term in power; as the ministry of Pitt.

Minium
Min´i•um ( 277), n. [L. minium, an Iberian word, the Romans getting all their cinnabar from Spain; cf. Basque armineá.] (Chem.) A heavy, brilliant red pigment, consisting of an oxide of lead, Pb₃O₄, obtained by exposing lead or massicot to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.

Miniver
Min´i•ver, n. [See Meniver.] A fur esteemed in the Middle Ages as a part of costume. It is uncertain whether it was the fur of one animal only or of different animals.

Mink, n. [Cf. 2d Minx.] (Zoöl.) A carnivorous mammal of the genus Putorius, allied to the weasel. The European mink is Putorius lutreola. The common American mink ( P. vison) varies from yellowish brown to black. Its fur is highly valued. Called also minx, nurik, and vison.

Minnow
Min´now, n. [OE. menow, cf. AS. myne; also OE. menuse, OF. menuise small fish; akin to E. minish, minute.] [Written also minow.]
1. (Zoöl.) A small European fresh-water cyprinoid fish ( Phoxinus laevis, formerly Leuciscus phoxinus); sometimes applied also to the young of larger kinds; — called also minim and minny. The name is also applied to several allied American species, of the genera Phoxinus, Notropis, or Minnilus, and Rhinichthys.
2. (Zoöl.) Any of numerous small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and related genera. They live both in fresh and in salt water. Called also killifish, minny, and mummichog.

Minny
Min´ny, n. (Zoöl.) A minnow.

Mino bird
Mi"no bird" (mi"no berd). [Hind. maina.] (Zoöl.) An Asiatic bird ( Gracula musica), allied to the starlings. It is black, with a white spot on the wings, and a pair of flat yellow wattles on the head. It is often tamed and taught to pronounce words.

Minor
Mi´nor (mi"ner), a. [L., a comparative with no positive; akin to AS. min small, G. minder less, OHG. minniro, a., min, adv., Icel. minni, a., minnr, adv., Goth. minniza, a., mins, adv., Ir. & Gael. min small, tender, L. minuere to lessen, Gr. miny•qein, Skr. m. to damage. Cf. Minish, Minister, Minus, Minute.]
1. Inferior in bulk, degree, importance, etc.; less; smaller; of little account; as minor divisions of a body.
2. (Mus.) Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as a minor third. Asia Minor (Geog.), the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. — Minor mode (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, — much used for mournful and solemn subjects. — Minor orders (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as doorkeepers, acolytes, etc. — Minor scale (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly correct form has the third and sixth minor, with a semitone between the seventh and eighth, which involves an augmented second interval, or three semitones, between the sixth and seventh, as 6/F, 7/G♯, 8/A. But, for melodic purposes, both the sixth and the seventh are sometimes made major in the ascending, and minor in the descending, scale, thus: — See Major. — Minor term of a syllogism (Logic), the subject of the conclusion.

Minor
Mi´nor, n.
1. A person of either sex who has not attained the age at which full civil rights are accorded; an infant; in England and the United States, one under twenty-one years of age. In hereditary monarchies, the minority of a sovereign ends at an earlier age than of a subject. The minority of a sovereign of Great Britain ends upon the completion of the eighteenth year of his age.
2. (Logic) The minor term, that is, the subject of the conclusion; also the minor premise, that is, that premise which contains the minor term; in hypothetical syllogisms, the categorical premise. It is the second proposition of a regular syllogism, as in the following: Every act of injustice partakes of meanness; to take money from another by gaming is an act of injustice; therefore, the taking of money from another by gaming partakes of meanness.
3. A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

Minorat
Mi•no•rat´, n. [G. Cf. Minor, a. ] (Law) A custom or right, analogous to borough-English in England, formerly existing in various parts of Europe, and surviving in parts of Germany and Austria, by which certain entailed estates, as a homestead and adjacent land, descend to the youngest male heir.

Minoress
Mi´nor•ess, n. See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.

Minotaur
Min´o•taur (min"&ocl;•tar), n. [L. Minotaurus, Gr. Minw•tayros; Mi•nos, the husband of Pasiphaë + tay^ros a bull, the Minotaur being the offspring of Pasiphaë and a bull: cf. F. minotaure.] (Class. Myth.) A fabled monster, half man and half bull, confined in the labyrinth constructed by Daedalus in Crete.

Minow
Min´ow, n. See Minnow.

Mint (mint), n. [AS. minte, fr. L. mentha, Gr. mi•nqa, mi•nqh.] (Bot.) The name of several aromatic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha. Corn mint is Mentha arvensis. — Horsemint is M. sylvestris, and in the United States Monarda punctata, which differs from the true mints in several respects. — Mountain mint is any species of the related genus Pycnanthemum, common in North America. — Peppermint is M. piperita. — Spearmint is M. viridis. — Water mint is M. aquatica. Mint camphor. (Chem.) See Menthol. — Mint julep. See Julep. — Mint sauce, a sauce flavored with spearmint, for meats.

Mint, n. [AS. mynet money, coin, fr. L. moneta the mint, coined money, fr. Moneta, a surname of Juno, in whose at Rome money was coined; akin to monere to warn, admonish, AS. manian, and to E. mind. See Mind, and cf. Money, Monition.]
1. A place where money is coined by public authority.
2. Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself.
"A mint of phrases in his brain." Shak.

Mint, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Minted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minting.] [AS. mynetian.]
1. To make by stamping, as money; to coin; to make and stamp into money.
2. To invent; to forge; to fabricate; to fashion.
"Titles … of such natures as may be easily minted." Bacon. Minting mill, a coining press.

Mintage
Mint´age, n.
1. The coin, or other production, made in a mint.
"Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage." Sterling.
2. The duty paid to the mint for coining.

Minter
Mint´er, n. One who mints.

Mintman
Mint´man, n. ; pl. Mintmen . One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.

Mint-master
Mint´-mas•ter, n. The master or superintendent of a mint. Also used figuratively.

Minuend
Min´u•end, n. [L. minuendus to be diminished, fr. minuere to lessen, diminish. See Minish.] (Arith.) The number from which another number is to be subtracted.

Minutary
Min´u•ta•ry, a. Pertaining to, or consisting of, minutes. [Obs.] Fuller.

Minute
Min´ute ( 277), n. [LL. minuta a small portion, small coin, fr. L. minutus small: cf. F. minute. See 4th Minute.]
1. The sixtieth part of an hour; sixty seconds. (Abbrev. m.; as 4 h. 30 m. )
"Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour." Chaucer.
2. The sixtieth part of a degree; sixty seconds (Marked thus (′); as 10° 20′).
3. A nautical or a geographic mile.
4. A coin; a half farthing. [Obs.] Wyclif (Mark xii. 42)
5. A very small part of anything, or anything very small; a jot; a tittle. [Obs.]
"Minutes and circumstances of his passion." Jer. Taylor.
6. A point of time; a moment.
"I go this minute to attend the king." Dryden.
7. The memorandum; a record; a note to preserve the memory of anything; as to take minutes of a contract; to take minutes of a conversation or debate.
8. (Arch.) A fixed part of a module. See Module. Different writers take as the minute one twelfth, one eighteenth, one thirtieth, or one sixtieth part of the module.

Minute
Min´ute, a. Of or pertaining to a minute or minutes; occurring at or marking successive minutes. Minute bell, a bell tolled at intervals of a minute, as to give notice of a death or a funeral. — Minute book, a book in which written minutes are entered. — Minute glass, a glass measuring a minute or minutes by the running of sand. — Minute gun, a discharge of a cannon repeated every minute as a sign of distress or mourning. — Minute hand, the long hand of a watch or clock, which makes the circuit of the dial in an hour, and marks the minutes.

Minute
Min´ute, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Minuted; p. pr. & vb. n. Minuting.] To set down a short sketch or note of; to jot down; to make a minute or a brief summary of.
"The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance." Bancroft.

Minute
Mi•nute´, a. [L. minutus, p. p. of minuere to lessen. See Minish, Minor, and cf. Menu, Minuet.]
1. Very small; little; tiny; fine; slight; slender; inconsiderable. "Minute drops." Milton.
2. Attentive to small things; paying attention to details; critical; particular; precise; as a minute observer; minute observation.
Syn. — Little; diminutive; fine; critical; exact; circumstantial; particular; detailed. — Minute, Circumstantial, Particular. A circumstantial account embraces all the leading events; a particular account includes each event and movement, though of but little importance; a minute account goes further still, and omits nothing as to person, time, place, adjuncts, etc.

Minutely
Mi•nute´ly, adv. [From 4th Minute.] In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.

Minutely
Min´ute•ly, a. [From 1st Minute.] Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing. [Obs.]
"Throwing themselves absolutely upon God’s minutely providence." Hammond.

Minutely
Min´ute•ly, adv. At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly. J. Philips.
"Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven." Hammond.

Minuteman
Min´ute•man, n. ; pl. Minutemen . A militiaman who was to be ready to march at a moment’s notice; — a term used in the American Revolution.

Minuteness
Mi•nute´ness, n. The quality of being minute.

Minutia
Mi•nu´ti•a, n. ; pl. Minutiae (-e). [L., fr. minutus small, minute. See 4th Minute.] A minute particular; a small or minor detail; — used chiefly in the plural.

Minyan
Min•yan´, n. (Jewish Relig.) A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.

Miocene
Mi´o•cene (mi"o•sen), a. [Gr. mei•wn less + kaino•s new, fresh, recent.] (Geol.) Of or pertaining to the middle division of the Tertiary. — n. The Miocene period. See Chart of Geology.

Miquelet
Miq´ue•let, n. [Sp. miquelete.] (Mil.) An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

Mir, n. A Russian village community. D. M. Wallace.

Mir, n. [Per. mir.] Same as Emir.

Mirabilary
Mi•rab´i•la•ry, n. ; pl. Mirabilaries . One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders. [Obs.] Bacon.

Mirabilis
Mi•rab´i•lis, n. [L., wonderful.] (Bot.) A genus of plants. See Four- o’clock.

Mirable
Mi´ra•ble, a. [L. mirabilis, fr. mirari to wonder: cf. OF. mirable. See Marvel.] Wonderful; admirable. [Obs.] Shak.

Miraculize
Mi•rac´u•lize, v. t. To cause to seem to be a miracle. [R.] Shaftesbury.

Miraculous
Mi•rac´u•lous, a. [F. miraculeux. See Miracle.]
1. Of the nature of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency of almighty power, and not by natural causes.
2. Supernatural; wonderful.
3. Wonder-working. "The miraculous harp." Shak. — Mi•rac´u•lous•ly, adv. — Mi•rac´u•lous•ness, n.

Miriness
Mir´i•ness, n. The quality of being miry.

Mirk, a. [See Murky.] Dark; gloomy; murky. Spenser. Mrs. Browning.

Mirk, n. Darkness; gloom; murk. "In mirk and mire." Longfellow.

Mirksome
Mirk´some, a. Dark; gloomy; murky. [Archaic] Spenser. — Mirk´some•ness, n. [Archaic]

Mirky
Mirk´y, a. Dark; gloomy. See Murky.

Mirror
Mir´ror, n. [OE. mirour, F. miroir, OF. also mireor, fr. (assumed) LL. miratorium, fr. mirare to look at, L. mirari to wonder. See Marvel, and cf. Miracle, Mirador.]
1. A looking-glass or a speculum; any glass or polished substance that forms images by the reflection of rays of light.
"And in her hand she held a mirror bright, Wherein her face she often viewèd fair." Spenser.
2. That which gives a true representation, or in which a true image may be seen; hence, a pattern; an exemplar.
"She is mirour of all courtesy." Chaucer.
"O goddess, heavenly bright, Mirror of grace and majesty divine." Spenser.
3. (Zoöl.) See Speculum. Mirror carp (Zoöl.), a domesticated variety of the carp, having only three or fur rows of very large scales side. — Mirror plate. (a) A flat glass mirror without a frame. (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors. — Mirror writing, a manner or form of backward writing, making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters the reflection of ordinary writing in a mirror. The substitution of this manner of writing for the common manner is a symptom of some kinds of nervous disease.

Mirror
Mir´ror, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Mirrored p. pr. & vb. n. Mirroring.] To reflect, as in a mirror.

Mirthless
Mirth´less, a. Without mirth. — Mirth´less•ness, n.

Miry
Mir´y, a. [From 2d Mire.] Abounding with deep mud; full of mire; muddy; as a miry road.

Mirza
Mir´za, n. [Per. mirza, abbrev. fr. mirzadeh son of the prince; mir prince (Ar. amir, emir) + zadeh son.] The common title of honor in Persia, prefixed to the surname of an individual. When appended to the surname, it signifies Prince.

Mis (mis), a. & adv. [See Amiss.] Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] "To correcten that [which] is mis." Chaucer.

Misaccompt
Mis•ac•compt´, v. t. To account or reckon wrongly. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Misadjust
Mis•ad•just´, v. t. To adjust wrongly of unsuitably; to throw of adjustment. I. Taylor.

Misadjustment
Mis•ad•just´ment, n. Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

Misadventure
Mis•ad•ven´ture ( 135), n. [OE. mesaventure, F. mesaventure.] Mischance; misfortune; ill luck; unlucky accident; ill adventure. Chaucer. Homicide by misadventure (Law), homicide which occurs when a man, doing a lawful act, without any intention of injury, unfortunately kills another; — called also excusable homicide. See Homicide. Blackstone.
Syn. — Mischance; mishap; misfortune; disaster; calamity.

Misadventurous
Mis•ad•ven´tur•ous, a. Unfortunate.

Misadvertence
Mis•ad•vert´ence, n. Inadvertence.

Misadvice
Mis•ad•vice´, n. Bad advice.

Misadvise
Mis•ad•vise´, v. t. To give bad counsel to.

Misadvised
Mis•ad•vised´, a. Ill advised. — Mis•ad•vis´ed•ly (#), adv.

Misaffect
Mis•af•fect´, v. t. To dislike. [Obs.]

Misaffected
Mis•af•fect´ed, a. Ill disposed. [Obs.]

Misaffection
Mis•af•fec´tion, n. An evil or wrong affection; the state of being ill affected. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

Misaffirm
Mis•af•firm´, v. t. To affirm incorrectly.

Misaimed
Mis•aimed´, a. Not rightly aimed. Spenser.

Misallegation
Mis•al•le•ga´tion, n. A erroneous statement or allegation. Bp. Hall.

Misallege
Mis•al•lege´, v. t. To state erroneously.

Misalliance
Mis•al•li´ance, n. [F. mesalliance.] A marriage with a person of inferior rank or social station; an improper alliance; a mesalliance.
"A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it." Mrs. Browning.

Misallied
Mis•al•lied´, a. Wrongly allied or associated.

Misallotment
Mis•al•lot´ment, n. A wrong allotment.

Misalter
Mis•al´ter, v. t. To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.

Misanthrope
Mis´an•thrope (mis"an•throp), n. [Gr. misa•nqrwpos; misei^n to hate + ’a•nqrwpos a man; cf. F. misanthrope. Cf. Miser.] A hater of mankind; a misanthropist. { Mis•an•throp´ic, Mis•an•throp´ic•al } a. [Cf. F. misanthropique.] Hating or disliking mankind.

Misanthropos
Mis•an´thro•pos, n. [NL. See Misanthrope.] A misanthrope. [Obs.] Shak.

Misapplication
Mis•ap•pli•ca´tion, n. A wrong application. Sir T. Browne.

Misapply
Mis•ap•ply´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Misapplied p. pr. & vb. n. Misapplying.] To apply wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose; as to misapply a name or title; to misapply public money.

Misapprehend
Mis•ap•pre•hend´, v. t. To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.

Misapprehension
Mis•ap•pre•hen´sion, n. A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one’s meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

Misapprehensively
Mis•ap•pre•hen´sive•ly, adv. By, or with, misapprehension.

Misappropriate
Mis•ap•pro´pri•ate, v. t. To appropriate wrongly; to use for a wrong purpose.

Misappropriation
Mis•ap•pro•pri•a´tion, n. Wrong appropriation; wrongful use.

Misarcribe
Mis•ar•cribe´, v. t. To ascribe wrongly.

Misarrange
Mis•ar•range´, v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Misarranged p. pr. & vb. n. Misarranging ] To place in a wrong order, or improper manner.

Misassay
Mis•as•say´, v. t. To assay, or attempt, improperly or unsuccessfully. [Obs.] W. Browne.

Misassign
Mis•as•sign´, v. t. To assign wrongly.

Misattend
Mis•at•tend´, v. t. To misunderstand; to disregard. [Obs.] Milton.

Misaventure
Mis•a•ven´ture, n. Misadventure. [Obs.]

Misavize
Mis•a•vize´, v. t. To misadvise. [Obs.]

Misbear
Mis•bear´, v. t. To carry improperly; to carry (one’s self) wrongly; to misbehave. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Misbecome
Mis•be•come´, v. t. Not to become; to suit ill; not to befit or be adapted to. Macaulay.
"Thy father will not act what misbecomes him." Addison.

Misbecoming
Mis•be•com´ing, a. Unbecoming. Milton. — Mis•be•com´ing•ly, adv. — Mis•be•com´ing•ness, n. Boyle.

Misbede
Mis•bede´, v. t. [ imp. Misbode p. p. Misboden ] [AS. mis-beôdan.] To wrong; to do injury to. [Obs.]
"Who hath you misboden or offended?" Chaucer.

Misbehave
Mis•be•have´, v. t. & i. [ imp. & p. p. Misbehaved p. pr. & vb. n. Misbehaving.] To behave ill; to conduct one’s self improperly; — often used with a reciprocal pronoun.

Misbehavior
Mis•be•hav´ior, n. Improper, rude, or uncivil behavior; ill conduct. Addison.

Misbelief
Mis•be•lief´, n. Erroneous or false belief.