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ng a bell-shaped body with eight groups of short tentacles around the margin. It attaches itself by a sucker at the base of the pedicel.

ive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.

al doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.

jib boom, fastened to, or reeved through, the dolphin striker. Also, the dolphin striker itself.

aster of arts, one who takes the second degree at a university; also, the degree or title itself, indicated by the abbreviation M. A., or A. M. -- Master of the horse, the third great officer in the British court, having the management of the royal stables, etc. In ceremonial cavalcades he rides next to the sovereign.…

ry in all languages. Tillotson. The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties. Locke.

An agreement, compact, etc. "Thy hand upon that match." Shak. Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making. Boyle.

essence; substantially. An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself materially good. South.

May apple (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant (Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. -- May beetle, May bug (Zoöl.), any one of numerou…

eferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.

hes have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself. Hooker.

Hence: Any place regarded as a source of unlimited supply; the supply itself. A mint of phrases in his brain. Shak.

one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. Thackeray.

A modal relation or quality; a mode or point of view under which an object presents itself to the mind. According to Kant, the quality of propositions, as assertory, problematical, or apodeictic.

fashion; custom; way; style; as, the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing. The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found. Jer. Taylor. A table richly spread in regal mode. Milton.

king model, a model of a machine which can do on a small scale the work which the machine itself does, or expected to do.

the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself. Brande & C.

ies the two long middle tail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note. [Written also momot.]

One of the several strains or pieces, each complete in itself, with its own time and rhythm, which make up a larger work; as, the several movements of a suite or a symphony.

The berry or fruit of any tree of the genus Morus; also, the tree itself. See Morus.