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eech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. Oak mast, and beech, . . . they eat. Chapman. Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast. South.

To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle. And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. Dryden.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.

By no means, or By no manner of means, not at all; certainly not; not in any degree. The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other. Addison.

A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.

To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] Chaucer. "Wine meddled with gall." Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34).

A class of claret wines, including several varieties, from the district of Médoc in the department of Gironde.

bad purpose; to misapply; as, to misuse one's talents. South. The sweet poison of misused wine. Milton.

compound, as by stirring together; to mingle; to blend; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines. Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words. Shak.

poly of a particular product. Raleigh held a monopoly of cards, Essex a monopoly of sweet wines. Macaulay.

Morning. [Obs.] "White as morrow's milk." Bp. Hall. We loved he by the morwe a sop in wine. Chaucer.

A light wine, usually white, produced in the vicinity of the river Moselle.

mbrane which is developed on the surface of fermented alcoholic liquids, such as vinegar, wine, etc., and acts as a means of conveying the oxygen of the air to the alcohol and other combustible principles of the liquid, thus leading to their oxidation.

delaine. See under Muslin. -- Mousseline glass, a kind of thin blown glassware, such as wineglasses, etc.

To heat, sweeten, and enrich with spices; as, to mull wine. New cider, mulled with ginger warm. Gay.

A vessel in which wine, etc., is mulled over a fire.

Wine boiled and mingled with honey.

ied to certain costly vases of great beauty and delicacy used by the luxurious in Rome as wine cups; as, murrhine vases, cups, vessels. Murrhine glass, glassware made in imitation of murrhine vases and cups.

ignating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.