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A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. Bacon.

Of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or Wolffian, duct.

The middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the Wolffian body.

sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.

An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.

An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.

Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.

A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.

sounds. It produces its effects by the changes of intensity in an electric current, occasioned by the variations in the contact resistance of conducting bodies, especially of imperfect conductors, under the action of acoustic vibrations.

agrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.

A stone serving the same purpose as a milepost.

Multiplied by millions; innumerable. [Obs.] Shak.

One of two circular stones used for grinding grain or other substance. No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge. Deut. xxiv. 6.

Small; delicate. [Obs.] "His minionette face." Walpole.

A missionary; an envoy; one who conducts a mission. See Mission, n., 6. "Like mighty missioner you come." Dryden.

A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c., and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phonician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab, esp. those over…

The moon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

See Monoecian, and Monoecious.

The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo. -- Mon*em`bry*on"ic, a.

One of the Monera.