Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 60

Mixture (n.) An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.

Mizmaze (n.) A maze or labyrinth.

Mizzen (a.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.

Mizzen (n.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

Mizzenmast (n.) The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.

Mizzled (imp. & p. p.) of Mizzle

Mizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mizzle

Mizzle (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops.

Mizzle (v. i.) To take one's self off; to go.

Mizzle (n.) Mist; fine rain.

Mizzy (n.) A bog or quagmire.

Mnemonic (a.) Alt. of Mnemonical

Mnemonical (a.) Assisting in memory.

Mnemonician (n.) One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.

Mnemonics (n.) The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.

Mnemosyne (n.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.

Mnemotechny (n.) Mnemonics.

Mo (a., adv., & n.) More; -- usually, more in number.

-mo () A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16Á, 18Á, etc.

Moa (n.) Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.

Moabite (n.) One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

Moabitess (n.) A female Moabite.

Moabitish (a.) Moabite.

Moaned (imp. & p. p.) of Moan

Moaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moan

Moan (v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.

Moan (v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.

Moan (v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.

Moan (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.

Moan (v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.

Moan (v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.

Moanful (a.) Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.

Moat (n.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

Moat (v. t.) To surround with a moat.

Moate (v. i.) To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute.

Mob (n.) A mobcap.

Mob (v. t.) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.

Mob (n.) The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.

Mob (n.) A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.

Mobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Mob

Mobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mob

Mob (v. t.) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

Mobbish (a.) Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.

Mobcap (n.) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself.

Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.

Mobile (a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.

Mobile (a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle.

Mobile (a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.

Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Mobile (a.) The mob; the populace.

Mobility (n.) The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle.

Mobility (n.) The mob; the lower classes.

Mobilization (n.) The act of mobilizing.

Mobilized (imp. & p. p.) of Mobilize

Mobilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mobilize

Mobilize (v. t.) To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

Moble (v. t.) To wrap the head of in a hood.

Mobles (n. pl.) See Moebles.

Mobocracy (n.) A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.

Mobocrat (n.) One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint.

Mobocratic (a.) Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.

Moccasin (n.) A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.

Moccasin (n.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin (Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles.

Moccasined (a.) Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins.

Mocha (n.) A seaport town of Arabia, on the Red Sea.

Mocha (n.) A variety of coffee brought from Mocha.

Mocha (n.) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.

Moche (n.) A bale of raw silk.

Moche (a.) Much.

Mochel (a. & adv.) Much.

Mochila (n.) A large leather flap which covers the saddletree.

Mocked (imp. & p. p.) of Mock

Mocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mock

Mock (v. t.) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.

Mock (v. t.) To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.

Mock (v. t.) To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.

Mock (v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.

Mock (n.) An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.

Mock (n.) Imitation; mimicry.

Mock (a.) Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.

Mockable (a.) Such as can be mocked.

Mockado (n.) A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet.

Mockadour (n.) See Mokadour.

Mockage (n.) Mockery.

Mockbird (n.) The European sedge warbler (Acrocephalus phragmitis).

Mocker (n.) One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.

Mocker (n.) A deceiver; an impostor.

Mocker (n.) A mocking bird.

Mockeries (pl. ) of Mockery

Mockery (n.) The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.

Mockery (n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.

Mockery (n.) Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.

Mocking (a.) Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.

Mockingly (adv.) By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.

Mockingstock (n.) A butt of sport; an object of derision.

Mockish (a.) Mock; counterfeit; sham.

Mockle (a.) See Mickle.

Moco (n.) A South American rodent (Cavia rupestris), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.

Modal (a.) Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality.

Modal (a.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought.

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