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The bone or cartilage forming the anterior extremity of the lower jaw in some adult animals and the young of others.

A wise and faithful counselor or monitor.

Containing advice or admonition.

The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

The details of a banquet; a bill of fare.

See Amenuse. [Obs.]

See 6th and 7th Mew.

Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.

Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.

Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.

Same as Mephitis, 1.

Being without mixture or adulteration; hence, strong; racy. [Obs.]

Capable of being bought or sold. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in…

Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.

ls. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.

A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.

Market; trade. [Obs.] Bp. Sprat.

A foreign trader. [Obs.] Shak.

See under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under Projection.