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Containing, 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. [R.]

An unguent for the hair.

sed iron that supports the upper millstone by resting on the spindle; a millrind. Cross moline (Her.), a cross each arm of which is divided at the end into two rounded branches or divisions.

A little mill.

A monoclinal fold.

The state or quality of being motherly.

The drum upon which the rope is wound in a capstan, crane, or the like.

Muslin. Mousseline de laine (. Etym: [F., muslin of wool.] Muslin delaine. See under Muslin. -- Mousseline glass, a kind of thin blown glassware, such as wineglasses, etc.

A soft thin silk fabric with a weave like that of muslin.

Having many lines. Steevens.

A sort of coarse or light cotton cloth.

Like or pertaining to the family Mustelidæ, or the weasels and martens.

See Naphthalene.

The quality or state of being neighborly.

Having the form of threads; fibrous.

A mineral occuring at Vesuvius, in glassy agonal crystals; also elsewhere, in grayish or greenish masses having a greasy luster, as the variety elæolite. It is a silicate of aluminia, soda, and potash.

An alloy of nickel, a variety of German silver.

or state of being niggard; meanness in giving or spending; parsimony; stinginess. Niggardliness is not good husbandry. Addison.

The complex, nitrogenous, organic base and dyestuff called also aniline black.

Any one of a series of nitro derivatives of aniline. In general they are yellow crystalline substances.