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METRIST n.
A maker of verses. Bale. Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Lowell.
MILITARISM n. 2 definitions
A military state or condition; reliance on military force in administering government; a military system.
MILITARIST n.
A military man. [Obs.] Shak.
MILLENARIANISM; MILLENARISM n.
The doctrine of Millenarians.
MILLENNIALISM; MILLENNIARISM n.
Belief in, or expectation of, the millennium; millenarianism.
MINIATURIST n.
A painter of miniatures.
MISCHRISTEN v.
To christen wrongly.
MISPRISE v. 2 definitions
See Misprize. [Obs.] Shak.
MISPRISION n. 3 definitions
The act of misprising; misapprehension; misconception; mistake. [Archaic] Fuller. The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion. Hare.
MISTIGRIS; MISTIGRI n.
A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.
MISTRIST v.
To mistrust. [Obs.] Chaucer.
MOONRISE n.
The rising of the moon above the horizon; also, the time of its rising.
MOORISH a. 2 definitions
Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens." Thomson.
MORISCO n. 2 definitions
A thing of Moorish origin; as: (a) The Moorish language. (b) A Moorish dance, now called morris dance. Marston. (c) One who dances the Moorish dance. Shak. (d) Moresque decoration or architecture.
MORISK n.
Same as Morisco.
MORRIS n. 4 definitions
A Moorish dance, usually performed by a single dancer, who accompanies the dance with castanets.
MORRIS-CHAIR n.
A kind of easy-chair with a back which may be lowered or raised.
MORRIS-PIKE n.
A Moorish pike. [Obs.]
MYRISTATE n.
A salt of myristic acid.
MYRISTIC a.
Pertaining to, or derived from, the nutmeg (Myristica). Specifically, designating an acid found in nutmeg oil and otoba fat, and extracted as a white crystalline waxy substance.
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