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Mistake; error; fault. Shak. He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar. Ascham.

the religion and institutions founded by Mohammed. [Written also Mahometan, Mahomedan, Muhammadan, etc.]

The group that includes all ordinary or placental mammals; the Placentalia. See Mammalia.

Mating with but one of the opposite sex; -- said of birds and mammals.

A subclass of Mammalia, having a cloaca in which the ducts of the urinary, genital, and alimentary systems terminate, as in birds. The female lays eggs like a bird. See Duck mole, under Duck, and Echidna.

A large cervine mammal (Alces machlis, or A. Americanus), native of the Northern United States and Canada. The adult male is about as large as a horse, and has very large, palmate antlers. It closely resembles the European elk, and by many zoölogists is considered the same species. See Elk. Moose bird (Zoöl.), the Cana…

e of the lachrymal passages, or dropsy of the lachrymal sac, dependent upon catarrhal inflammation of the latter. Dunglison.

A specific infectious febrile disorder characterized by a nonsuppurative inflammation of the parotid glands; epidemic or infectious parotitis.

brines. As a poison it is said to execute profuse diarrhoea, vomiting, and intestinal inflammation. Brieger.

Inflammation of the spinal marrow or its membranes.

Inflammation of the myocardium.

Inflammation of the muscles.

The complex mixture of volatile, liquid, inflammable hydrocarbons, occurring naturally, and usually called crude petroleum, mineral oil, or rock oil. Specifically: That portion of the distillate obtained in the refinement of petroleum which is intermediate between the lighter gasoline and the heavier benzine, and has a…

The two anterior of the four lobes on the dorsal side of the midbrain of most mammals; the anterior optic lobes.

Restoration of a part by granulation, adhesive inflammation, or autoplasty.

An inflammation of the kidneys.

Inflammation of a nerve.

The protuberance through which milk is drawn from the breast or mamma; the mammilla; a teat; a pap.

Niter. Nitrum flammans Etym: [L., flaming niter] (Old Chem.), ammonium nitrate; -- probably so called because it deflagerates when suddenly heated.

rocarcons (C8H18) of the methane series. The most important is a colorless, volatile, inflammable liquid, found in petroleum, and a constituent of benzene or ligroin.