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To ascend in vapors; to take the form of a meteor. Evelyn.

inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.

mn, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note. Evelyn.

A kept mistress. See Mistress, 4. [Obs.] Evelyn.

mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

A biting quality; corrosiveness. [R.] Evelyn.

Obsequiousness; obedience. [Obs.] Evelyn.

e news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations. Evelyn. How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought! Addison.

e plural, goods; wares; furniture. Furnished with the most rich and princely movables. Evelyn.

Paper mulberry, a tree (Broussonetia papyrifera), related to the true mulberry, used in Polynesia for making tapa cloth by macerating and pounding the inner bark, and in China and Japan for the manufacture of paper. It is seen as a shade tree in America.

Same as Polynomial.

g on, or against, a wall; as, a mural quadrant. "Mural breach." Milton. "Mural fruit." Evelyn.

Put in brine. Evelyn.

Having a nice sense of smell. [Obs.] Evelyn.

pertaining to one's birth or birthday, or one's nativity. [Obs.] "Natalitial poplar." Evelyn. "Natalitious fire." W. Cartwright.

ese prizes, forty thousand pounds, after twenty years' negotiation in the East Indies. Evelyn.

Woody. [R.] Paradise itself was but a kind of nemorous temple. Evelyn.

ater or aqueous solution; as, Neptunian rocks. Neptunian races (Ethnol.), the Malay and Polynesian races. -- Neptunian theory (Geol.), the theory of Werner, which referred the formation of all rocks and strata to the agency of water; -- opposed to the Plutonic theory.

A collection of nests. [R.] velyn.

ing in idea only; visionary; whimsical. Discourses of speculative and notional things. Evelyn.