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Bad treatment; abuse. Spenser.

Mockery. [Obs.] Fuller.

Mintage; coinage. [Obs.]

A place for mooring.

State of being pledged; as, lands given in mortgage. Chattel mortgage. See under Chattel. -- To foreclose a mortgage. See under Foreclose. -- Mortgage deed (Law), a deed given by way of mortgage.

The person to whom property is mortgaged, or to whom a mortgage is made or given.

One who gives a mortgage.

gives a mortgage.

An aqueous solution of gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.

A tax or toll paid for building or repairing the walls of a fortified town.

A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.

Shipwreck; ruin. [Obs.] acon.

Time of life before a person becomes of age; legal immaturity; minority. The human mind . . . was still in its nonage. Coleridge.

Having the quality of nonage; being a minor; immature. W. Browne.

A person ninety years old.

Of or pertaining to the ninetieth degree or to a nonagesimal.

Same as Esophagus, Esophageal, etc.

A military engine acting like a sling, which threw stones from a bag or wooden bucket, and was operated by machinery. Fairholt.

The state of being an orphan; orphanhood; orphans, collectively.

o the mulberry (Morus); also, its fruit. The tree was first found in the country of the Osage Indians, and bears a hard and inedible fruit of an orangelike appearance. See Bois d'arc.