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A woman well skilled in anything, or having the mastery over it. A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. Addison.

One who, or that which, molds or forms into shape; specifically (Founding), one skilled in the art of making molds for castings.

Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. Dryden.

One who mounts a bench or stage in the market or other public place, boasts of his skill in curing diseases, and vends medicines which he pretends are infalliable remedies; a quack doctor. Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank ... is preferred before an able physician. Whitlock.…

ies of small American cyprinodont fishes of the genus Fundulus, and of allied genera; the killifishes; -- called also minnow. [Written also mummychog, mummachog.]

The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide. "Mordre will out." Chaucer. The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry. Locke. Slaughter grows mur…

One guilty of murder; a person who, in possession of his reason, unlawfully kills a human being with premeditated malice.

Infected with or killed by murrain. [Obs.] Shak.

One skilled in the art or science of music; esp., a skilled singer, or performer on a musical instrument.

One skilled in myology.

Of or pertaining to seamen, to the art of navigation, or to ships; as, nautical skill.

Nautical skill or experience. [Obs.] ir W. Petty.

To steer, direct, or manage in sailing; to conduct (ships) upon the water by the art or skill of seamen; as, to navigate a ship.

One who navigates or sails; esp., one who direct the course of a ship, or one who is skillful in the art of navigation; also, a book which teaches the art of navigation; as, Bowditch's Navigator.

Excellent in character, skill, or performance, etc.; nice; finished; adroit; as, a neat design; a neat thief.

e circumstances, being convertible with the Roman culpa. A specialist is bound to higher skill and diligence in his specialty than one who is not a specialist, and liability for negligence varies acordingly. Contributory negligence. See under Contributory.

pertaining to Nemea, in Argolis, where the ancient Greeks celebrated games, and Hercules killed a lion.

One who is versed in neurology; also, one skilled in the treatment of nervous diseases.

One who skilled in or practices neurotomy.

ith careful labor; suited to excite admiration on account of exactness; evidencing great skill; exact; fine; finished; as, nice proportions, nice workmanship, a nice application; exactly or fastidiously discriminated; requiring close discrimination; as, a nice point of law, a nice distinction in philosophy. The differe…