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ation until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.

A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

A history or account of martyrs; a register of martyrs. Bp. Stillingfleet.

into the mash which makes wort. Mashing tub, a tub for making the mash in breweries and distilleries; -- called also mash tun, and mash vat.

A register of months. Bp. Stillingfleet.

A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave.

orless, fragrant liquid, C6H3(CH3)3, of the benzene series of hydrocarbons, obtained by distilling acetone with sulphuric acid. -- Me*sit`y*len"ic, a.

A colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, C6H10O, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.

Methyl alcohol (Chem.), a light, volatile, inflammable liquid, CH3.OH, obtained by the distillation of wood, and hence called wood spirit; -- called also methol, carbinol, etc. -- Methyl amine (Chem.), a colorless, inflammable, alkaline gas, CH3.NH2, having an ammoniacal, fishy odor. It is produced artificially, and…

Middle; middlemost. Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past. Byron.

atic labiate plants, mostly of the genus Mentha, yielding odoriferous essential oils by distillation. See Mentha.

Erroneous construction; wrong interpretation. Bp. Stillingfleet.

ith ease. Pope. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] Dickens.

rt, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry. To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.

in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon.

A person engaged in illicit distilling; -- so called because the work is largely done at night. [Cant, U.S.]

Illicit distilling. [Slang or Colloq., U. S.]

es used in medicine. -- Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous] -- Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Bauhinia variegata) of the East and West Indies; -- so called because of its dark wood. The bark is used medicinally and in tanning. -- Mo…

he heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability. Stillingfleet.

A nunnery; -- a term still applied to the ruins of certain nunneries in England.