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

A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.

Discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.

trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

t hollowed stone upon which grain or other food is ground, by means of a smaller stone or pestle. [Southwestern U. S. & Sp. Amer.]

a raised or intented edge upon coin, etc.; the process of dressing surfaces of various shapes with rotary cutters. See Mill. High milling, milling in which grain is reduced to flour by a succession of crackings, or of slight and partial crushings, alternately with sifting and sorting the product. -- Low milling, milli…

The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.

Very unhappy; wretched. What hopes delude thee, miserable man Dryden.

An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.

To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation. Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi. 13. He will not ... Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton.

A South American rodent (Cavia rupestris), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.

A species of ichneumon (Herpestes griseus), native of India. Applied also to other allied species, as the African banded mongoose (Crossarchus fasciatus). [Written also mungoose, mungoos, mungous.]

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

A kind of intercolumniation in an entablature, in which only one triglyph and two metopes are introduced.

l, commonly in form of an inverted bell, in which substances are pounded or rubbed with a pestle.

outh honor, honor given in words, but not felt. Shak. -- Mouth organ. (Mus.) (a) Pan's pipes. See Pandean. (b) An harmonicon. -- Mouth pipe, an organ pipe with a lip or plate to cut the escaping air and make a sound. -- To stop the mouth, to silence or be silent; to put to shame; to confound. The mouth of them that…

cause to fall in rows or masses, as in mowing grass; -- with down; as, a discharge of grapeshot mows down whole ranks of men.

gum, or of substances allied to it; as, medicinal mucilage; mucilage for fastening envelopes.

One who scrapes together money by mean labor and devices; a miser. "Misers are muckworms." Pope.

A stone or thick lump of glass, or kind of pestle, flat at the bottom, used for grinding pigments or drugs, etc., upon a slab of similar material.