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A musical composition adapted to the 50th psalm. Where only the wind signs miserere. Lowell.

A single uncompounded vowel sound.

f a fabulous tribe or race of Ethiopians having but one leg and foot. Sir J. Mandeville. Lowell.

Illumined by the moon. "The moonlit sea." Moore. "Moonlit dells." Lowell.

Towards the morn. [Poetic] And mornward now the starry hands move on. Lowell.

to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child. Howell.

Like a mountebank or his quackery. Howell.

dy temperature; a fever. -- Movement cure. (Med.) See Kinesiatrics. -- Movement of the bowels, an evacuation or stool; a passage or discharge.

Many-minded; many-sided. The multanimous nature of the poet. J. R. Lowell.

To make muscular. Lowell.

To eject the contents of the bowels; -- said of birds. B. Jonson.

Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer. Lowell.

A little towel, or small cloth, esp. one for wiping the fingers and mouth at table.

ining to Napoleon I., or his family; resembling, or having the qualities of, Napoleon I. Lowell.

Giving an account of events; narrative; as, narratory letters. Howell.

Formed (as a vowel) by a close position of some part of the tongue in relation to the palate; or (according to Bell) by a tense condition of the pharynx; -- distinguished from wide; as e (eve) and oo (food), etc., from ì (ìll) and oo (foot), etc. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 13.

Pronunciation, §§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance. Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals. -- Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion, which latter distance is ta…

-- distinguished from revealed religion. See Quotation under Natural, a., 3. -- Natural vowel, the vowel sound heard in urn, furl, sir, her, etc.; -- so called as being uttered in the easiest open position of the mouth organs. See Neutral vowel, under Neutral and Guide to Pronunciation, § 17.

Closely resembling nature; realistic. "Naturalistic bit of pantomime." W. D. Howells.

To build and occupy a nest. The king of birds nested within his leaves. Howell.