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at in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] -- To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial. -- To make much of, to treat with much consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. -- To make no bones. See under Bone, n. -- To make no difference, to have no weight or influence; to be a matter of indiffere…

An aviator. [Colloq.]

onounced mìster, except when given to boys; -- sometimes written Mister, but usually abbreviated to Mr.

, used for plastering walls, etc. Barbary mastic (Bot.), the Pistachia Atlantica. -- Peruvian mastic tree (Bot.), a small tree (Schinus Molle) with peppery red berries; -- called also pepper tree. -- West Indian mastic (Bot.), a lofty tree (Bursera gummifera) full of gum resin in every part.

A Peruvian plant (Piper, or Artanthe, elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.

Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak.

The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.

To obviate. [Obs.] Bacon.

Well matured; softened by years; genial; jovial. May health return to mellow age. Wordsworth. As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound. W. Irving.

An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. Converging meniscus, Diverging meniscus. See Lens.

In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry. Merrily sing, and sport, and play. Granville.

Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive. They drank, and were merry with him. Gen. xliii. 34. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Shak.

One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.

Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.

The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

Sirs; gentlemen; -- abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of Mr.

sition, but resembling a soft, dark-colored metal, used in the bearings of machines for obviating friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.

The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.

ing in the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

Small, little, trivial, slight; as, microcosm, microscope.