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Having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.

Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent. The proper menstruum to dissolve metal. Bacon. All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction. Quincy.

The quality of being mensurable.

Capable of being measured; measurable.

The quality or state of being mensurable; measurableness.

Of or pertaining to measure.

To measure. [Obs.]

The act, process, or art, of measuring.

of Menge.

Sycosis.

Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

Quality or state of mind. "The same hard mentality." Emerson.

In the mind; in thought or meditation; intellectually; in idea.

A widely distributed genus of fragrant herbs, including the peppermint, spearmint, etc. The plants have small flowers, usually arranged in dense axillary clusters.

A colorless liquid hydrocarbon resembling oil of turpentine, obtained by dehydrating menthol. It has an agreeable odor and a cooling taste.

te, crystalline, aromatic substance resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (Mentha); -- called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor.

A compound radical forming the base of menthol.

Of or pertaining to mental culture; serving to improve or strengthen the mind. [R.]

anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of. I will make mention of thy righteousness. Ps. lxxi. 16. And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of. Shak.

Fit to be mentioned.