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A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.

Serving to assist childbirth. Cudworth.

The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth. Payne.

The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

One who maneuvers. This charming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it. Miss Edgeworth.

See Maneuver.

One who performs massage.

A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

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

Lit., mine; that which is mine; -- used in the phrase meum et tuum, or meum and tuum; as, to confound meum and tuum, to fail to distinguish one's own property from that of others; to be dishonest.

A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1. Milman.

Environment.

One who serves a mitrailleuse.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

Having but one brood in a season.

A suborder of Dipnoi, including the Ceratodus. [Written also monopneumonia.]

My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of

The common title of civility in France in speaking to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir. [Represented by the abbreviation M. or Mons. in the singular, and by MM. or Messrs. in the plural.]