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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Mix, v. t. p. 848To cause a promiscuous interpenetration of the parts of, as of two or more substances with each other, or of one substance with others; to unite; to blend; — applied both to solids and liquids; as…Mix, v. i. p. 848To become united or blended promiscuously in a mass or compound. 2. To be joined; to associate. He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind. Byron.Mĭx'a-ble, a. p. 848Capable of being mixed.Mix'ed-ly or Mixed'ly, adv. p. 848In a mixed or mingled manner.Mix'en, n. p. 848A compost heap. To pick the faded creature from the pool, And cast it on the mixen, that it die. Tennyson.Mix'er, n. p. 848One who mixes or mingles.Mix'ti-līn'e-al or Mix'ti-līn'e-ar, a. p. 848Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve.Mixt'ion, n. p. 848Mixture; promiscuous assemblage; mistion. [Obs.] “Elementary and subterraneous mixtions.” Browne.Mixt'ly, adv. p. 848With mixture. [Obs.] Bacon.Mĭxt'ūre, n. p. 848The art of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, compounds are made by the mixture of different substances. 2. That which is mixed or mingled; a mass or compound, consisting of different…Mĭz'māze, n. p. 848A maze or labyrinth. [Obs.] Locke.Mĭz'zen, a. p. 848(Naut.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen mast of a vessel. Mizzen rigging, the shrouds connected with the mizzen mast, with their ratlines. Dana.—Mizzen shrouds, the shrouds connected with…Mĭz'zen, n. p. 848(Naut.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a vessel; the spanker sail. Dana.Miz'zle, v. i. p. 848To rain in very fine drops. 2. To take one's self off; to go. [Colloq.] As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled. Epigram, quoted by Wright.Miz'le, n. p. 848Mist; fine rain.Miz'zy, n. p. 848A bog or quagmire. [Obs.] Ainsworth.Mne-mōn'ic, a. p. 848[Gr. μνημονικός,Mne-mŏn'ie-al p. 848belonging to remembrance or memory, from μνήμων, mindful, remembering, from μνήμη, memory, from μνημονεύω, to think on, remember.] Assisting the memory.Mnē'm'o-nī'cian, n. p. 848One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.Mne-mōn'ics, n. sing. p. 848A system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory. [See Note under MATHEMATICS.]Mnē-mōs'y-nē, n. p. 848(Myth.) The goddess of memory.Mnē'mo-tēch'ny, n. p. 848The same as MNEMONICS.Mō, a. or adv. p. 848More. [Obs.] “A case which is likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it.” Fuller.Mō'ā, n. p. 848(Palæon. A bird recently extinct (the Dinornis elephantopus, D. giganteus, and other species), allied to the ostrich, but much larger. Its remains are found in Australia and the adjacent islands.Mō'a-chī'bo, n. p. 848The cotton plant;—so called in some of the Pacific islands. Simmonds.Mōan, v. t. p. 848To bewail with an audible voice; to lament; to deplore. Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan My dear Columbo, dead and gone. Prior. 2. To afflict; to distress. [Obs. and rare.] “Which infinitely…Mōan, v. i. p. 848To make a low, dull sound of grief or pain; to groan softly and continuously; to lament audibly. “Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans.” Thomson.Mōan, n. p. 848Audible expression of sorrow or suffering; grief expressed in words or cries; lamentation. Sullen moans, Hollow groans. Pope. 2. A low, dull sound, like that of a person lamenting. Rippling waters…Mōan'ful, a. p. 848Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.Mōan'ful-ly, adv. p. 848With lamentation.Mōat, n. p. 848(Fort.) A deep trench round the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.Mōat, v. t. p. 848To surround with a ditch for defense; as, a moated castle. Dryden.Mōate, v. i. p. 848To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]Mŏb, n. p. 848A riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd; a collection of people for some riotous and unlawful purpose. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.…Mōb, v. t. p. 848To attack in a disorderly crowd; to harass tumultuously.Mōb, n. p. 848A mob-cap. See MOB-CAP.Mōb, v. t. p. 848To wrap up in a cowl or vail.Mōb'bish, a. p. 848Like a mob; tumultuous; mean; vulgar.Mōb'by, n. p. 848A drink made from potatoes. [Obs.]Mŏb'-cāp, n. p. 848A plain cap or head-dress for females; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Halliwell.Mō'bile, a. p. 848Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited.Mō'bile, n. p. 848The mob; the populace. [Obs.] South.Mo-bil'i-ty, n. p. 848The quality of being mobile, or removable; susceptibility of being moved, aroused, excited, &c.; as, the mobility of cork in water; the mobility of a crowd. 2. Aptitude to motion; activity; readiness…Mōb'i-li-zā'tion, n. p. 848The calling into active service troops not previously on the war establishment.Mōb'i-līze, v. t. p. 848To call into active service;—applied to troops which, though enrolled, were not previously on the war establishment.Mōb'le, v. t. p. 848To wrap the head of in a hood. [Obs.] Shak.Mob-ōc'ra-cy, n. p. 848The rule, government, or ascendency of the mob or disorderly classes.Mŏb'o-crāt'ic, a. p. 848Of, or relating to, mobocracy.Mōc'ca-sin, n. p. 848A shoe or cover for the foot, made of deer-skin or other soft leather, without a sole, and ornamented on the upper side; the customary shoe worn by the American Indians. 2. (Zoöl.) A poisonous water…Mō'ehā, n. p. 848An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain. Simmonds.Mō'cha-stōne, n. p. 848(Min.) Dendritic agate; a silicious mineral, in the interior of which appear brown, reddish-brown, blackish or green delineations of shrubs destitute of leaves; moss-agate. Dana.Mōche, n. p. 848— A bale of raw silk.Mōck, v. t. p. 848To imitate in contempt or derision; to mimic for the sake of derision; to deride by mimicry; to mimic. I long, till Edward fall by war’s mischance. For mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.…Mŏck, v. i. p. 848To make sport in contempt or in jest, or to speak jestingly. When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job xi 3Mŏck, n. p. 849Ridicule; derision; sneer; an act manifesting contempt. Fools make a mock at sin. Prov. xiv. 9. What shall be the portion of those who make a mock at every thing sacred? Tillotson. 2. Imitation…Mŏck, a. p. 849Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed. “That superior greatness and mock majesty.” Spectator. ☞ Mock is often used in the formation of self-explaining compounds; as, mock-epic…Mŏck'a-ble, a. p. 849Exposed to, or worthy of, derision. [Rare.] Shak.Mŏck'a-do, n. p. 849A stuff made in imitation of velvet; —called also mock-velvet. [Obs.] “Our rich mock-ado doublet.” Ford.Mōck'a-dour, n. p. 849The same as MOKADOUR. [Obs.]Mōck'a·ge, n. p. 849Mockery. [Obs.] “A mockage of marriage.” Fuller.