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destruction by a blast, or by some pernicious cause. I have smitten you with blasting and mildew. Amos iv. 9.

Mildew; decay; anything nipping or blasting; -- applied as a general name to various injuries or diseases of plants, causing the whole or a part to wither, whether occasioned by insects, fungi, or atmospheric influences.

To turn slightly sour, as beer, mild, etc.

A plant of the Mint family and genus Lycopus; esp. L. Virginicus, which has mild narcotic and astringent properties, and is sometimes used as a remedy for hemorrhage.

Mild chloride of mercury, Hg

Holy bark; the bark of the California buckthorn (Rhamnus Purshianus), used as a mild cathartic or laxative.

That which is formed in a mild; esp. a reproduction or copy, as of a work of art, in bronze or plaster, etc.; a casting.

A mild cathartic oil, expressed or extracted from the seeds of the Ricinus communis, or Palma Christi. When fresh the oil is inodorus and insipid. Castor-oil plant. Same as Palma Christi.

A mild kind caustic used to reduce warts and other excrescences. Dunglison.

A mild, eruptive disease, generally attacking children only; varicella.

A mild form of cholera.

Disposition to forgive and spare, as offenders; mildness of temper; gentleness; tenderness; mercy. Great clemency and tender zeal toward their subjects. Stowe. They had applied for the royal clemency. Macaulay.

Mild in temper and disposition; merciful; compassionate. Shak. -- Clem"ent*ly, adv.

Mildness and suavity of manners; courtesy between equals; friendly equals; friendly civility; as, comity of manners; the comity of States. Comity of nations (International Law), the courtesy by which nations recognize within their own territory, or in their courts, the peculiar institutions of another nation or the rig…

c; called also mercuric bichloride. It is to be carefully distinguished from calomel, the mild chloride of mercury.

Slightly increasing an insensible perspiration; mildly diaphoretic. -- n.

Mild as a dove; gentle; pure and lovable. Longfellow.

A mild vesicatory; a sinapism; as, to apply draughts to the feet.

A mild vesicatory. See Draught, n., 3 (c).

Moving easily; hence, mild-tempered; ease-loving; inactive.