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inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden.

One who menaces.

In a threatening manner.

A collection of animals; a menagerie. [Obs.] Addison.

A piace where animals are kept and trained.

Emmenagogue.

A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. Shipley.

Covered with spots; speckled; variegated. [Obs.]

n, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

Capable of being mended.

Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. Macaulay.

verning the inheritance of many characters in animals and plants, discovered by Gregor J. Mendel (Austrian Augustinian abbot, 1822-84) in breeding experiments with peas. He showed that the height, color, and other characters depend on the presence of determinating factors behaving as units. In any given germ cell each…

Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendel's law. -- Men*de"li*an*ism (#), Men*del"ism (#), n.

A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.

One who mends or repairs.

See Mendinant. [Obs.]

The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. Burke.

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

To beg. [R.] Johnson.