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A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. Hooker.

Collateral security deposited with a broker to secure him from loss on contracts entered into by him on behalf of his principial, as in the speculative buying and selling of stocks, wheat, etc. N. Biddle. Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margi…

. The sweet marjoram (O. Majorana) is pecularly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The wild marjoram of Europe and America is O. vulgare, far less fragrant than the other.

To celebrate Mass. [Obs.] Hooker.

Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. Hooker. You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. Coleridge. Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. Sir W. Hamilton.

Moderation; temperance. [Obs.] Hooker.

ames; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself. Hooker.

An agent between two parties; a broker; a go-between; any dealer between the producer and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

"Ministerial offices." Bacon. "A ministerial measure." Junius. "Ministerial garments." Hooker.

. Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived. Hooker.

To make wrong distinctions in or concerning. Hooker.

Avaricious; niggardly; miserly. [Obs.] Hooker.

A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.

The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. Hooker.

Limited in scope or effects; as, a reformation of a moderate kind. Hooker.

asy; to interfere with; to vex. They have molested the church with needless opposition. Hooker.

Momentary. [Obs.] Hooker. "Momentany as a sound." Shak.

im vi. 10 (Rev. Ver. ). Money bill (Legislation), a bill for raising revenue. -- Money broker, a broker who deals in different kinds of money; one who buys and sells bills of exchange; -- called also money changer. -- Money cowrie (Zoöl.), any one of several species of Cypræa (esp. C. moneta) formerly much used as mo…

A person who deals in money; banker or broker. [Obs. or R.]

ep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue. Hooker. Mankind is broken loose from moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.