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ing aimed at; what one seeks to hit or reach. France was a fairer mark to shoot at than Ireland. Davies. Whate'er the motive, pleasure is the mark. Young.

service; morning prayers or songs. The winged choristers began To chirp their matins. Cleveland.

eak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.

See Melanotype.

A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.

A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

o parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

Descended from King Milesius of Spain, whose two sons are said to have conquered Ireland about 1300 b. c.; or pertaining to the descendants of King Milesius; hence, Irish.

A genus of Foraminifera, having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.

ly Maguires (-gwirz). (a) A member of a secret association formed among the tenantry in Ireland about 1843, principally for the purpose of intimidating law officers and preventing the service of legal writs. Its members disguised themselves in the dress of women. (b) A member of a similar association of Irishmen organi…

Formed into, or consisting of, monosyllables. Cleveland.

emper of mind; temporary state of the mind in regard to passion or feeling; humor; as, a melancholy mood; a suppliant mood. Till at the last aslaked was mood. Chaucer. Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything. Shak. The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.

Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.

In Ireland, one of a band that engaged in agrarian outrages by night.

To be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.

A genus of parrots with gray heads. of New Zeland and papua, allied to the cockatoos. See Kaka.

ning to, or having the characteristics of, negroes, or of the Negritos, Papuans, and the Melanesian races; negritic.

Homesickness; esp., a severe and sometimes fatal form of melancholia, due to homesickness.

To support; to maintain. Whiles I in Ireland nourish a mighty band. Shak.

In no manner or degree; not at all; nowise. But Ireland will noways allow that name unto it. Fuller.