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The sum of naval affairs; naval economy; the department of navigation and sea forces; the collective shipping of a country; as, the mercantile marine.

Any rodent of the genus Arctomys. The common European marmot (A. marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.

A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital. Jury of matrons (Law), a jury of experienced women called to determine the question of pregnancy when set up in bar of execution, and for other cognate purposes.…

One affected with a gloomy state of mind. J. Spenser.

To become gloomy or dejected in mind. Barrow.

Depression of spirits; a gloomy state continuing a considerable time; deep dejection; gloominess. Shak.

Fortune telling by physiognomy. [R.] Urquhart.

The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face.

Of or pert. to the microtome or microtomy; cutting thin slices.

One who is skilled in or practices microtomy.

Dark; gloomy; murky. Spenser. Mrs. Browning.

Dark; gloomy; murky. [Archaic] Spenser. -- Mirk"some*ness, n. [Archaic]

Dark; gloomy. See Murky.

A growth of minute fungi of various kinds, esp. those of the great groups Hyphomycetes, and Physomycetes, forming on damp or decaying organic matter.

Monomyal.

Hence: Out of humor; peevish; angry; fretful; also, abstracted and pensive; sad; gloomy; melancholy. "Every peevish, moody malcontent." Rowe. Arouse thee from thy moody dream! Sir W. Scott.

Of or pertaining to disease or diseased parts; as, morbid anatomy.

culus) is found in nearly all countries. The American white-footed, or deer, mouse (Hesperomys leucopus) sometimes lives in houses. See Dormouse, Meadow mouse, under Meadow, and Harvest mouse, under Harvest.

Dark; obscure; gloomy. "The murkiest den." Shak. A murky deep lowering o'er our heads. Addison.

es. (b) An active, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. C. Kingsley. -- Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability. -- Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain…