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Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan. Byron.

mply; barely; only. Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. Swift.

The office of a minister. Swift.

lton. The mischief was, these allies would never allow that the common enemy was subdued. Swift. To be in mischief, to be doing harm or causing annoyance. -- To make mischief, to do mischief, especially by exciting quarrels. -- To play the mischief, to cause great harm; to throw into confusion. [Colloq.]…

To reckon wrongly; to miscalculate. Swift.

give a false erroneous representation of, either maliciously, ignirantly, or carelessly. Swift.

One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion. Swift. Missionary apostolic, a Roman Catholic missionary sent by commission from the pope.

tentional error. Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends. Swift.

agreement; difference of opinion; dissension; quarrel. "Misunderstandings among friends." Swift.

Calvinist. A number of moderate members managed ... to obtain a majority in a thin house. Swift.

Destitute of money; penniless; impecunious. Swift.

by way of caution; an admonition; a warning; a caution. Sage monitions from his friends. Swift.

A mope; a drone. [Obs.] Swift.

to be gathered out of ... ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel. Swift.

The act of biting. Swift.

To dabble in mud. [Obs.] Swift.

Not clear or bright. Swift.

The flesh of a sheep. The fat of roasted mutton or beef. Swift.

be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind. Swift.

showing lack of attention; as, disposed in negligent order. "Be thou negligent of fame." Swift. He that thinks he can afford to be negligent is not far from being poor. Rambler.