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To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused us mightily. Hawthorne.

"Giants of mighty bone." Milton. Mighty was their fuss about little matters. Hawthorne.

ke or prepare by mixing the ingredients of. [He] proceeded to mingle another draught. Hawthorne.

f sixteen. Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses. Cawthorn.

geable; fickle. Testament of Love. The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. Hawthorne.

A West African gazelle (Gazella mohr), having horns on which are eleven or twelve very prominent rings. It is one of the species which produce bezoar. [Written also mhorr.]

A spiny Australian lizard (Moloch horridus). The horns on the head and numerous spines on the body give it a most formidable appearance.

To shed or cast the hair, feathers, skin, horns, or the like, as an animal or a bird. Bacon.

A one-horned creature; a unicorn; a sea monster with one horn. Mighty monoceroses with immeasured tails. Spenser.

And in this mood will give us anything. Shak. The desperate recklessness of her mood. Hawthorne.

Of or resembling the moon; symbolized by the moon. "Sharpening in mooned horns." "Mooned Ashtaroth." Milton.

moral bands. Dryden. She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness. Hawthorne.

d constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.

A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. Sir W. Scott.

The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort. Chaucer.

A wild sheep (Ovis musimon), inhabiting the mountains of Sardinia, Corsica, etc. Its horns are very large, with a triangular base and rounded angles. It is supposed by some to be the original of the domestic sheep. Called also musimon or musmon. [Written also moufflon.]

A snuffbox made of the small end of a horn.

Destitute of horns, although belonging to a species of animals most of which have horns; hornless; polled; as, mulley cattle; a mulley (or moolley) cow. [U. S.] [Written also muley.]

. -- Musk cattle (Zoöl.), musk oxen. See Musk ox (below). -- Musk deer (Zoöl.), a small hornless deer (Moschus moschiferus), which inhabits the elevated parts of Central Asia. The upper canine teeth of the male are developed into sharp tusks, curved downward. The male has scent bags on the belly, from which the musk…

xercise, or introduction into service. The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty. Hawthorne. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.