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is eye shoots forth! Shak. Mental alienation, insanity. -- Mental arithmetic, the art or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures.

A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice.

One who practices, or believes in, mesmerism.

A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] Latimer.

One of an ancient school of physicians who rejected observation and founded their practice on reasoning and theory. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who is skilled in or practices microtomy.

The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.

The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.

by thoughtlessness, or in sport. Chaucer. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. Ps. lii. 2. The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many mischiefs. Fuller.

The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.

tion; as, to mistake one person for another. A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it. Johnson.

Wrong or false worship; mistaken practices in religion. Bp. Hall. Such hideous jungle of misworships. Carlyle.

od; as, modern days, ages, or time; modern authors; modern fashions; modern taste; modern practice. Bacon.

Modern practice; a thing of recent date; esp., a modern usage or mode of expression.

One who practices or upholds monogamy. Goldsmith.

A custom, formerly practiced by the scholars at Eton school, England, of giing every third year, on Whittuesday, to a hillock near the Bath road, and exacting money from all passers-by, to support at the university the senior scholar of the school.

Specifically: To discuss by way of exercise; to argue for practice; to propound and discuss in a mock court. First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy. Sir T. Elyot.

r to the rules by which such intentions and actions ought to be directed; relating to the practice, manners, or conduct of men as social beings in relation to each other, as respects right and wrong, so far as they are properly subject to rules. Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them…

One who practices moral duties; a person who lives in conformity with moral rules; one of correct deportment and dealings with his fellow-creatures; -- sometimes used in contradistinction to one whose life is controlled by religious motives. The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself. Ham…

The practice of the moral duties; rectitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.