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n of England, daughter of Henry VIII. Of all the Marian martyrs, Mr. Philpot was the best-born gentleman. Fuller. Maid Marian. See Maidmarian in the Vocabulary.

in having the corpus callosum very small, in being implacental, and in having their young born while very immature. The female generally carries the young for some time after birth in an external pouch, or marsupium. Called also Marsupiata.

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners. Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother. Fuller.

In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously. While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies. Milton. Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey Prior. We can not bear to have others think meanly of them [our kindred]. I. Watts.

king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ. And told them the Messiah now was born. Milton.

Want of faith; distrust. "[Anger] born of your misfaith." Tennyson.

sperity of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser.

c) An Australian rail (Tribonyx ventralis). -- Moor monkey (Zoöl.), the black macaque of Borneo (Macacus maurus). -- Moor titling (Zoöl.), the European stonechat (Pratinocola rubicola).

Mohammedan tribes of the southern Philippine Islands, said to have formerly migrated from Borneo. Some of them are warlike and addicted to piracy.

o have died, at the end of each year of life, out of a given number supposed to have been born at the same time.

A female parent; especially, one of the human race; a woman who has borne a child.

Naked as when born.

A very stubborn person.

Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.

Condition of being a mulier; position of one born in lawful wedlock.

Like a mule; sullen; stubborn. -- Mul"ish*ly, adv. -- Mul"ish*ness, n.

become numerous. When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. Gen. vi. 1.

A spot or mark on the skin of children when born; a birthmark; -- usually applied to vascular tumors, i. e., those consisting mainly of blood vessels, as dilated arteries, veins, or capillaries.

Arising by birth; having an origin; born. [Obs.] Anaximander's opinion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth.

in a rude cradle, and the heads of an ox and an ass to express the stable in which he was born.