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The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals.

Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title. -- Mah"dist (#), n.

The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.

The process of making, or of becoming malt.

Having qualities becoming to a man; not childish or womanish; manlike, esp. brave, courageous, resolute, noble. Let's briefly put on manly readiness. Shak. Serene and manly, hardened to sustain The load of life. Dryden.

A sweetish exudation in the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.

Carriage; behavior; deportment; also, becoming behavior; well- bred carriage and address. Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices. Emerson.

One who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment; a harbinger; a pursuivant.

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

The act of interweaving or tangling together so as to make a mat; the process of becoming matted.

The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

Arrival of the time fixed for payment; a becoming due; termination of the period a note, etc., has to run.

A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted. Melting point (Chem.), the degree of temperature at which a solid substance melts or fuses; as, the melting point of ice is 0º Centigrade or 32º Fahr., that of urea is 132º Centigrade. -- Melting pot, a vessel in which anything is…

atter sense usually in the plural. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth.

doctrine of William Miller (d. 1849), who taught that the end of the world and the second coming of Christ were at hand.

To misbecome; to be misbecoming. [Obs.] Spenser.

Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.…

Connected with, or becoming an integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. Foster.