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rquatus), and the squirrel teetee (Chrysothrix sciurea). Called also pinche, titi, and saimiri. See Squirrel monkey, under Squirrel.

mitting and receiving handwritten messages, as photographically by a beam of light from a mirror.

moderation; as, temperance in eating and drinking; temperance in the indulgence of joy or mirth; specifically, moderation, and sometimes abstinence, in respect to using intoxicating liquors.

Fatigued; worn with labor or hardship. [Obs. or Local] Mir. for Mag.

Worship or undue admiration of wonderful or miraculous things. [R.] The thaumatolatry by which our theology has been debased for more than a century. Hare.

A miracle worker; -- a title given by the Roman Catholics to some saints.

A divine work; a miracle; hence, magic; sorcery.

aten. [Obs. or Poetic] Shak. Of all his threating reck not a mite. Chaucer. Our dreaded admiral from far they threat. Dryden.

An effort; a violent sally. [Obs.] Your youth admires The throws and swellings of a Roman soul. Addison.

A kind of drum, tabor, or tabret, in use from the highest antiquity. Miriam . . . took a timbrel in her hand, and all the women went out after her with timbrels and with dances. Ex. xv. 20.

t it from rusting, in the form of tin foil with mercury to form the reflective surface of mirrors, and in solder, bronze, speculum metal, and other alloys. Its compounds are designated as stannous, or stannic. Symbol Sn (Stannum). Atomic weight 117.4.

Noiseless; stealthy. "With tiptoe step." Cowper. Tiptoe mirth, the highest degree of mirth. Sir W. Scott.

Examination of the interior of the trachea by means of a mirror.

ld by some branches of the Christian church on the 6th of August, in commemoration of the miraculous change above mentioned.

wheels, so that it can be pushed under a higher bed; a truckle-bed; also, sometimes, a simiral bed without wheels. Chapman.

To relax in exertion, attention, severity, or the like; hence, to indulge in mirth or amusement.

A subordinate part. It should be lightened with underparts of mirth. Dryden.

ies of the United States, under every suffering and discouragement, was little short of a miracle. Washington.

A small box, usually jeweled or of precious metal and worn on a chain, containing a mirror, powder puff, and other small toilet articles for a woman.

The metal copper; -- probably so designated from the ancient use of the metal in making mirrors, a mirror being still the astronomical symbol of the planet Venus. [Archaic]