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Belonging to the table; transacted at table; as, mensa conversation.

Manliness; dignity; comeliness; civility. [Prov. Eng. & Scot.] -- Mense"ful, a. -- Mense"less, a.

The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.

Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

Subject to monthly flowing or menses.

Menstruous. [Obs.]

The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

The menstrual flux; menses. [Obs.]

Having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent. The proper menstruum to dissolve metal. Bacon. All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.

The quality of being mensurable.

Capable of being measured; measurable.

The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.

Of or pertaining to measure.

To measure. [Obs.]

The act, process, or art, of measuring.

The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

By, or with, misapprehension.

To misjudge. [Obs.] Daniel. -- n.