Mazourka (n.) Alt. of Mazurka
Mazurka (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat.
Mazy (a.) Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.
Me (pron.) One. See Men, pron.
Me (pers. pron.) The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me.
Meach (v. i.) To skulk; to cower. See Mich.
Meacock (n.) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.
Mead (n.) A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.
Mead (n.) A drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
Mead (n.) A meadow.
Meadow (n.) A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
Meadow (n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
Meadow (a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.
Meadowsweet (n.) Alt. of Meadowwort
Meadowwort (n.) The name of several plants of the genus Spiraea, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
Meadowy (a.) Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.
Meager (a.) Alt. of Meagre
Meagre (a.) Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
Meagre (a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery.
Meagre (a.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
Meager (v. t.) Alt. of Meagre
Meagre (v. t.) To make lean.
Meagerly (adv.) Alt. of Meagrely
Meagrely (adv.) Poorly; thinly.
Meagerness (n.) Alt. of Meagreness
Meagreness (n.) The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Meagre (n.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.
Meak (n.) A hook with a long handle.
Meaking (n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
Meal (n.) A part; a fragment; a portion.
Meal (n.) The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
Meal (n.) Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
Meal (n.) Any substance that is coarsely pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
Meal (v. t.) To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.
Meal (v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
Mealies (n. pl.) Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.
Mealiness (n.) The quality or state of being mealy.
Meal-mouthed (a.) See Mealy-mouthed.
Mealtime (n.) The usual time of eating a meal.
Mealy (superl.) Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.
Mealy (superl.) Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.
Mealy-mouthed (a.) Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
Meant (imp. & p. p.) of Mean
Meaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mean
Mean (v. t.) To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
Mean (v. t.) To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
Mean (v. i.) To have a purpose or intention.
Mean (superl.) Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble.
Mean (superl.) Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.
Mean (superl.) Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
Mean (superl.) Of poor quality; as, mean fare.
Mean (superl.) Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.
Mean (a.) Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.
Mean (a.) Intermediate in excellence of any kind.
Mean (a.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.
Mean (n.) That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.
Mean (n.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the square root of the product of the quantities.
Mean (n.) That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.
Mean (n.) Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.
Mean (n.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part.
Mean (n.) Meantime; meanwhile.
Mean (n.) A mediator; a go-between.
Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
Meander (n.) A tortuous or intricate movement.
Meander (n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
Meander (v. t.) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
Meandered (imp. & p. p.) of Meander
Meandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meander
Meander (v. i.) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
Meandrian (a.) Winding; having many turns.
Meandrina (n.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
Meandrous (a.) Alt. of Meandry
Meandry (a.) Winding; flexuous.
Meaning (n.) That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.
Meaning (n.) That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
Meaning (n.) Sense; power of thinking.
Meanly (adv.) Moderately.
Meanly (adv.) In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.
Meanness (n.) The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
Meanness (n.) A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
Mean-spirited (a.) Of a mean spirit; base; groveling.
Meant () imp. & p. p. of Mean.
Meantime (n.) Alt. of Meanwhile
Meanwhile (n.) The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).
Meantime (adv.) Alt. of Meanwhile
Meanwhile (adv.) In the intervening time; during the interval.
Mear (n.) A boundary. See Mere.
Mease (n.) Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings.
Measelry (n.) Leprosy.
Measle (n.) A leper.
Measle (n.) A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.
Measled (a.) Infected or spotted with measles, as pork.
Measles (n.) Leprosy; also, a leper.
Measles (n.) A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola.
Measles (n.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
Measles (n.) A disease of trees.
Measles (n.) The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
Measly (a.) Infected with measles.
Measly (a.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
Measurable (a.) Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.