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Webster’s Dictionary (1828)



441 words match “TUNE”

MISER n.
A wretched person; a person afflicted by any great misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser. The woeful words of a miser now despairing. Sir P. Sidney.
MISERY n.
Cause of misery; calamity; misfortune. When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes. Shak.
MISFARE v.
Misfortune. [Obs.] Spenser.
MISFORTUNATE a.
Producing misfortune. [Obs.]
MISHAP n.
Evil accident; ill luck; misfortune; mischance. Chaucer. Secure from worldly chances and mishaps. Shak.
MISLUCK n.
Ill luck; misfortune.
MISTIDE v.
To happen or come to pass unfortunately; also, to suffer evil fortune. [Obs.]
MOCKERY n.
ous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule. The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. Spenser.
MOOD n.
; 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.
MOURNER n.
One who mourns or is grieved at any misfortune, as the death of a friend. His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes. Byron.
MUFFLER n.
in muffling; esp., a scarf for protecting the head and neck in cold weather; a tippet. Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes. Shak.
MUSICAL a.
r Music, box, a box or case containing apparatus moved by clockwork so as to play certain tunes automatically. -- Musical fish (Zoöl.), any fish which utters sounds under water, as the drumfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc. -- Musical glasses, glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged that when struck, or rubbed, the…
NARROW a.
ace, time, or number, etc.; close; near; -- with special reference to some peril or misfortune; as, a narrow shot; a narrow escape; a narrow majority. Dryden.
NARROWLY adv.
closely; hardly; barely; only just; -- often with reference to an avoided danger or misfortune; as, he narrowly escaped.
NEPTUNICENTRIC a.
As seen from Neptune, or having Neptune as a center; as, Neptunicentric longitude or force.
NEREID n.
A sea nymph, one of the daughters of Nereus, who were attendants upon Neptune, and were represented as riding on sea horses, sometimes with the human form entire, and sometimes with the tail of a fish.
NOTE n. 2 definitions
A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.
O n.
AS. brecan to break; E. bore, AS. beran to bear; E. dove, AS. dufe; E. toft, tuft; tone, tune; number, F. nombre. The letter o has several vowel sounds, the principal of which are its long sound, as in bone, its short sound, as in nod, and the sounds heard in the words orb, son, do (feod), and wolf (book). In connecti…
OCCURRENCE n.
, an unusual occurrence, or the ordinary occurrences of life. All the occurrence of my fortune. Shak.
OVERPLUS n.
after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. Shak. "The overplus of a great fortune." Addison.
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