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Having a typically small size; of or pertaining to the microsthenes.

Being in the middle, or nearest the middle; midmost.

Middle; middlemost. Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past. Byron.

A post, or one of a series of posts, set up to indicate spaces of a mile each or the distance in miles from a given place.

A composition consisting of one verse only.

Arranged in a single row on one side of an axis, as the flowers in grasses of the tribe Chloridæ.

A metrical composition consisting of a single strophe.

Having one strophe only; not varied in measure; written in unvaried measure. Milton.

eatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all. "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness." Prov. xx. 6. The cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matt. xi. 20.

See Mustaiba.

of Mote. Chaucer.

A painter's maul-stick.

For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.

See Direct, n.

For the most part. [Obs.] "All the rest do mostwhat far amiss." Spenser.

Having numerous ribs, or costæ, as the leaf of a plant, or as certain shells and corals.

An order of curious parasitic worms found on crinoids. The body is short and disklike, with four pairs of suckers and five pairs of hook-bearing parapodia on the under side.

That portion of the axis which bears the nectocalyces in the Siphonophora.

Of necessity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The funnelshaped opening of a nephridium into the body cavity.