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Having the spirit of a male; vigorous; courageous. [R.] B. Jonson.

Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.

Of or pertaining to the Middle Ages; mediæval.

Being about the middle of the ordinary age of man; between 30 and 50 years old.

The world, considered as lying between heaven and hell. [Obs.] Shak.

That part of a picture between the foreground and the background.

Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.

To mix in a disorderly way; to make a mess of. [Obs.] Udall.

A figure which strikes the hour on the bell of some fanciful clocks; -- called also jack of the clock house.

Having eyes like those of the mole; having imperfect sight.

An acid elevator, as a tube through which acid is forced to some height in a sulphuric acid manufactory.

An apparatus for raising a liquid by pressure of air or steam in a reservoir containing the liquid.

Shortsighted; purblind.

The forget-me-not (Myosotis palustris) and other species of the same genus.

See Mule, 4.

See Moot-hill. [Scot.]

A firearm which receives its charge through the muzzle, as distinguished from one which is loaded at the breech.

Receiving its charge through the muzzle; as, a muzzle-loading rifle.

An African bird of the genus Schizorhis, related to the plantain eaters.

Pointed as needles.