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A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents).

To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.

Any one of the teeth back of the incisors and canines. The molar which replace the deciduous or milk teeth are designated as premolars, and those which are not preceded by deciduous teeth are sometimes called true molars. See Tooth.

n on a board or on the ground; also, the board or ground on which the game is played. The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud. Shak.

A puppet show or puppet. [Obs.] What motion's this the model of Nineveh Beau. & Fl.

One of the nine goddesses who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural. Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing Pope.

eer (Moschus moschiferus), which inhabits the elevated parts of Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk of commerce is derived. The deer is yellow or red-brown above, whitish below. The pygmy musk deer ar…

A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.

on monocerous), about twenty feet long. The male usually has one long, twisted, pointed canine tooth, or tusk projecting forward from the upper jaw like a horn, whence it is called also sea unicorn, unicorn fish, and unicorn whale. Sometimes two horns are developed, side by side.

To innovate; to coin or introduce new words. Freely as we of the nineteenth century neoterize. fized. Hall.

Prayers offered up for nine successive days.

Constituting or being one of nine equal parts into which anything is divided.

One of the portions into which the Psalter was divided, each consisting of nine psalms, designed to be used at a night service. Hook.

A person ninety years old.

Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.

A figure or polygon having nine sides and nine angles.

group of metameric hydrocarbons C9H20 of the paraffin series; -- so called because of the nine carbon atoms in the molecule. Normal nonane is a colorless volatile liquid, an ingredient of ordinary kerosene.

ember, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.

A composition for nine instruments, rarely for nine voices.

lowing. See Following, a., 2. -- North pole, that point in the heavens, or on the earth, ninety degrees from the equator toward the north. -- North preceding. See Following, a., 2. -- North star, the star toward which the north pole of the earth very nearly points, and which accordingly seems fixed and immovable in…