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asioned 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…

ited 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 plan…

To cut into very small pieces; to chop fine; to hash; as, to mince meat. Bacon.

A pie made of mince-meat.

Mock sun. See Parhelion. -- Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. -- Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.

A dish of meats and other ingredients, cooked together; an ollapodrida. Chaucer. Bacon.

To chew or bite gently, as one without teeth. Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain. Dryden.

Eager for novelties; desirous of changing. [Obs.] So newfangel be they of their meat. Chaucer.

Scent or savor of meat or food, cooked or cooking. [Obs.] Jer. Taylor.

Resembling the smell or taste of roast meat, or of corrupt animal matter. [R.]

A cake, sweetmeat, or confectión made with almonds or other nuts.

A dish of stewed meat of different kinds. [Obs.] Besides a good olio, the dishes were trifling. Evelyn.

A small slice of meat seasoned, rolled up, and cooked; as, olives of beef or veal.

A dish of stewed meat; an olio; an olla-podrida.

A favorite Spanish dish, consisting of a mixture of several kinds of meat chopped fine, and stewed with vegetables.

Eating raw flesh; using uncooked meat as food; as, omophagic feasts, rites.

To cook too much; as, to overdo the meat.

lmately lobed leaves. The milky juice of the plant is said to have the property of making meat tender. Also, its dull orange-colored, melon- shaped fruit, which is eaten both raw and cooked or pickled.

A pie consisting usually of meat wholly surrounded with a crust made of a sheet of paste, and often baked without a dish; a meat pie. "If ye pinch me like a pasty." Shak. "Apple pasties." Dickens. A large pasty baked in a pewter platter. Sir W. Scott.

oth, oblong nut, an inch or an inch and a half long, with a thin shell and well- flavored meat. [Written also pacane.]