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8,778 words match “END”

MENDOLE n.
The cackerel.
MENDREGAL n.
Medregal.
MENDS n.
See Amends. [Obs.] Shak.
MINUEND n.
The number from which another number is to be subtracted.
MISAPPREHEND v.
To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.
MISATTEND v.
To misunderstand; to disregard. [Obs.] Milton.
MISCOMPREHEND v.
To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.
MISINTEND v.
To aim amiss. [Obs.]
MISPELL; MISPEND v.
See Misspell, Misspend, etc.
MISRENDER v.
To render wrongly; to translate or recite wrongly. Boyle.
MISSEND v.
To send amiss or incorrectly.
MISSPEND v.
To spend amiss or for wrong purposes; to aquander; to waste; as, to misspend time or money. J. Philips.
MISSPENDER n.
One who misspends.
MISWEND v.
To go wrong; to go astray. [Obs.] "The world is miswent." Gower.
MODUS VIVENDI n.
Mode, or manner, of living; hence, a temporary arrangement of affairs until disputed matters can be settled.
MOHAMMEDAN CALENDAR n.
A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having 354 days. By the following tables any Mohammedan date may be changed into…
MOLENDINACEOUS; MOLENDINARIOUS a.
Resembling the sails of a windmill.
MORENDO a.
Dying; a gradual decrescendo at the end of a strain or cadence.
MUCKENDER n.
A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour.]
NOLO CONTENDERE n. 2 definitions
A plea, by the defendant, in a criminal prosecution, which, without admitting guilt, subjects him to all the consequences of a plea of quilty.
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