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A machine used for expelling the juice, sap, etc., from vegetable tissues by pressure, or by pressure in combination with a grinding, or cutting process; as, a cider mill; a cane mill.

Minced meat; meat chopped very fine; a mixture of boiled meat, suet, apples, etc., chopped very fine, to which spices and raisins are added; -- used in making mince pie.

Unfortunate event or issue of an undertaking; failure to attain a desired result or reach a destination. When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince. Dryden.

The issue in a writ of right.

protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.

A piece of metal, as gold, silver, copper, etc., coined, or stamped, and issued by the sovereign authority as a medium of exchange in financial transactions between citizens and with government; also, any number of such pieces; coin. To prevent such abuses, ... it has been found necessary ... to affix a public stamp up…

n integral part of, a living unit or of the morphological framework; as, morphotic, or tissue, proteids. Foster.

To watch for or pursue anything in a sly manner; to pry about, on the lookout for something.

nd in all the secretions from mucous glands, and also between the fibers of connective tissue, as in tendons. See Illust. of Demilune.

Resembling mucus. Dunglison. Mucoid degeneration, a form of degeneration in which the tissues are transformed into a semisolid substance resembling mucus. Quain.

und in the mucous membranes of the mouth and anus, usually due to syphilis. -- Mucous tissue (Anat.), a form of connective tissue in an early stage of development, found in the umbilical cord and in the embryo, and also in certain tumors called myxomata.

The condition or quality of being muddy; turbidness; foulness casued by mud, dirt, or sediment; as, the muddiness of a stream.

Lawful issue born in wedlock, in distinction from an elder brother born of the same parents before their marriage; a lawful son.

t disappear in the male. -- Müllerian fibers (Anat.), the sustentacular or connective-tissue fibers which form the framework of the retina.

ks or stones in squareness and regular arrangement; as, a muriform variety of cellular tissue.

The contractile tissue of which muscles are largely made up.

One of a group of phosphorized principles occurring in nerve tissue, both in the brain and nerve fibers.

A red-colored respiratory pigment found associated with hemoglobin in the muscle tissue of a large number of animals, both vertebrate and invertebrate.

A tumor consisting of muscular tissue.

A tumor made up of a gelatinous tissue resembling that found in the umbilical cord.