Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 34

Mementos (pl. ) of Memento

Memento (n.) A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.

Meminna (n.) A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.

Memnon (n.) A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.

Memoir (n.) Alt. of Memoirs

Memoirs (n.) A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

Memoirs (n.) A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness.

Memoirs (n.) An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society.

Memoirist (n.) A writer of memoirs.

Memorabilia (n. pl.) Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.

Memorability (n.) The quality or state of being memorable.

Memorable (a.) Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.

Memorandums (pl. ) of Memorandum

Memoranda (pl. ) of Memorandum

Memorandum (n.) A record of something which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory.

Memorandum (n.) A brief or informal note in writing of some transaction, or an outline of an intended instrument; an instrument drawn up in a brief and compendious form.

Memorate (v. t.) To commemorate.

Memorative (a.) Commemorative.

Memoria (n.) Memory.

Memorial (a.) Serving to preserve remembrance; commemorative; as, a memorial building.

Memorial (a.) Mnemonic; assisting the memory.

Memorial (n.) Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.

Memorial (n.) A memorandum; a record.

Memorial (n.) A written representation of facts, addressed to the government, or to some branch of it, or to a society, etc., -- often accompanied with a petition.

Memorial (n.) Memory; remembrance.

Memorial (n.) A species of informal state paper, much used in negotiation.

Memorialist (n.) One who writes or signs a memorial.

Memorialized (imp. & p. p.) of Memorialize

Memorializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Memorialize

Memorialize (v. t.) To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.

Memorializer (n.) One who petitions by a memorial.

Memorist (n.) One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.

Memoriter (adv.) By, or from, memory.

Memorized (imp. & p. p.) of Memorize

Memorizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Memorize

Memorize (v. t.) To cause to be remembered ; hence, to record.

Memorize (v. t.) To commit to memory; to learn by heart.

Memories (pl. ) of Memory

Memory (n.) The faculty of the mind by which it retains the knowledge of previous thoughts, impressions, or events.

Memory (n.) The reach and positiveness with which a person can remember; the strength and trustworthiness of one's power to reach and represent or to recall the past; as, his memory was never wrong.

Memory (n.) The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; as, in memory of youth; memories of foreign lands.

Memory (n.) The time within which past events can be or are remembered; as, within the memory of man.

Memory (n.) Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; as, the war became only a memory.

Memory (n.) A memorial.

Memphian (a.) Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt; hence, Egyptian; as, Memphian darkness.

Men (n.) pl. of Man.

Men (pron.) A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.

Menaccanite (n.) An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.

Menace (n.) The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.

Menaced (imp. & p. p.) of Menace

Menacing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Menace

Menace (n.) To express or show an intention to inflict, or to hold out a prospect of inflicting, evil or injury upon; to threaten; -- usually followed by with before the harm threatened; as, to menace a country with war.

Menace (n.) To threaten, as an evil to be inflicted.

Menace (v. i.) To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.

Menacer (n.) One who menaces.

Menacingly (adv.) In a threatening manner.

Menage (n.) See Manage.

Menage (n.) A collection of animals; a menagerie.

Menagerie (n.) A piace where animals are kept and trained.

Menagerie (n.) A collection of wild or exotic animals, kept for exhibition.

Menagogue (n.) Emmenagogue.

Menaia (pl. ) of Menaion

Menaion (n.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same.

Menald (a.) Alt. of Menild

Menild (a.) Covered with spots; speckled; variegated.

Mended (imp. & p. p.) of Mend

Mending (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mend

Mend (v. t.) To repair, as anything that is torn, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

Mend (v. t.) To alter for the better; to set right; to reform; hence, to quicken; as, to mend one's manners or pace.

Mend (v. t.) To help, to advance, to further; to add to.

Mend (v. i.) To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved.

Mendable (a.) Capable of being mended.

Mendacious (a.) Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

Mendacious (a.) False; counterfeit; containing falsehood; as, a mendacious statement.

Mendacities (pl. ) of Mendacity

Mendacity (n.) The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.

Mendacity (n.) A falsehood; a lie.

Mender (n.) One who mends or repairs.

Mendiant (n.) See Mendinant.

Mendicancy (n.) The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.

Mendicant (a.) Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars.

Mendicant (n.) A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.

Mendicate (v. t.& i.) To beg.

Mendication (n.) The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy.

Mendicity (n.) The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.

Mendinant (n.) A mendicant or begging friar.

Mendment (n.) Amendment.

Mendole (n.) The cackerel.

Mendregal (n.) Medregal.

Mends (n.) See Amends.

Mente (imp.) of Menge

Meinte () of Menge

Ment (p. p.) of Menge

Meint () of Menge

Menge (v. i.) To mix.

Menhaden (n.) An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

Menhir (n.) A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.

Menial (n.) Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving.

Menial (n.) Pertaining to servants, esp. domestic servants; servile; low; mean.

Menial (n.) A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.

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