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Pertaining to lycanthropy.

One affected by the disease lycanthropy.

Lycanthropic.

The supposed act of turning one's self or another person into a wolf. Lowell.

Of or pertaining to Majorca. -- n.

One of the Malacostraca.

A macaw.

A merchant. [Obs.] Shak.

eeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.

An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.

The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. Burke.

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

ing and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers who sell to them. -- Mercantile marine,…

A native or inhabitant of Mexico. Mexican poppy (Bot.), a tropical American herb of the Poppy family (Argemone Mexicana) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms. -- Mexican tea (Bot.), an aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America (Chenopodium ambrosioides).

To cause to be like the Mexicans, or their country, esp. in respect of frequent revolutions of government.

A tribe of Lenni-Lenape Indians who formerly inhabited Western Connecticut and Eastern New York. [Written also Mohegans.]

Of or pertaining to mollusks. -- n.

A biting quality; corrosiveness. [R.] Evelyn.

Biting; acrid; as, the mordicant quality of a body. [R.] Boyle.

Of or pertaining to Morocco, or its inhabitants.