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The science which treats of the means of increasing the intensity of low or weak sounds, or of the microphone.

Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.

Without; weak. [Obs.]

A piece of bread sopped in milk; figuratively, an effeminate or weak-minded person. Shak. To wed a milksop or a coward ape. Chaucer.

To suppress or weaken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say -- "I love you." Shak. Siren, now mince the sin, And mollify damnation with a…

Softness; effeminacy; weakness. [R.]

Silly; weakly sentimental. [Colloq.] G. Eliot.

d vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.

Soft like mush; figuratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. G. Eliot.

Talk or writing which is weakly sentimental or affectedly pretty. Macaulay.

Affected by a tremor, or by a nervous disease; weakened; overcome by some violent influence or sensation; shoked.

Having nerves of a special character; as, weak-nerved.

Destitute of strength or of courage; wanting vigor; weak; powerless. A kingless people for a nerveless state. Byron. Awaking, all nerveless, from an ugly dream. Hawthorne.

Having the nerves weak, diseased, or easily excited; subject to, or suffering from, undue excitement of the nerves; easily agitated or annoyed. Poor, weak, nervous creatures. Cheyne.

Something strange or newly happened. It is no news for the weak and poor to be a prey to the strong and rich. L'Estrange.

Foolish; silly; simple; ignorant; also, weak; effeminate. [Obs.] Gower. But say that we ben wise and nothing nice. Chaucer.

merousness; multitude. Number itself importeth not much in armies where the people are of weak courage. Bacon.

To bring up; to raise, by care, from a weak or invalid condition; to foster; to cherish; -- applied to plants, animals, and to any object that needs, or thrives by, attention. "To nurse the saplings tall." Milton. By what hands [has vice] been nursed into so uncontrolled a dominion Locke.

and son; collateral. His natural affection in a direct line was strong, in an oblique but weak. Baker. Oblique angle, Oblique ascension, etc. See under Angle,Ascension, etc. -- Oblique arch (Arch.), an arch whose jambs are not at right angles with the face, and whose intrados is in consequence askew. -- Oblique bridg…

Evincing oblivion; forgetful. Through are both weak in body and oblivious. Latimer. -- Obliv"i*ous*ly, adv. -- Ob*liv"i*ous*ness, n. Foxe.