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their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple…

tle of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. Goldsmith.

One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] Goldsmith.

ulent; as, malignant diphtheria. Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion an…

he maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

of calm, warm weather often experienced about the time of Martinmas; Indian summer. Percy Smith.

A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal. [Written also matt.]

A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness. Goldsmith.

A substance through which an effect is transmitted from one thing to another; as, air is the common medium of sound. Hence: The condition upon which any event or action occurs; necessary means of motion or action; that through or by which anything is accomplished, conveyed, or carried on; specifically, in animal magnet…

An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.…

An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric changes as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc.

One guilty of a misdemeanor. Sydney Smith.

some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er. Goldsmith.

favorable to the thing represented; as, a misrepresentation of a person's motives. Sydney Smith.

By mistake. Goldsmith.

Having no mistrust or suspicion. The swain mistrustless of his smutted face. Goldsmith.

A mobcap. Goldsmith.

ase goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints. A. Smith.

Government by a single person; undivided rule. Sydney Smith.

One who practices or upholds monogamy. Goldsmith.