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ake conformable to the principles, or customs and rites, of Mohammedanism. [Written also Mahometanize.]

See Maholi.

A festival of the Shiah sect of the Mohammedans held during the first ten days of the month Mohurrum.

(Zoöl.) (a) The yaffle, or green woodpecker. (b) The European gray shrike. -- Mountain mahogany (Bot.) See under Mahogany. -- Mountain meal (Min.), a light powdery variety of calcite, occurring as an efflorescence. -- Mountain milk (Min.), a soft spongy variety of carbonate of lime. -- Mountain mint. (Bot.) See Mi…

r sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. xxiii. 2.

Same as Mollah.

The wood of a West Indian tree of the Mahogany family (Moschoxylum Swartzii).

il, and used in turning, for making the handles of tools, and the like. [Written also mostahiba.] MaElrath.

often caged and taught to talk. See Hill myna, under Hill, and Mino bird. [Spelt also mynah.]

One who, or that which, narrows or contracts. Hannah More.

The mahogany-like wood of the South African tree Pteroxylon utile, the sawdust of which causes violent sneezing (whence the name). Also called sneezewood.

1820-98) and E. (1835-1908) Caird; in the United States, W. T. Harris (1835-1909) and Josiah Royce (1855- -).

erka), ascending in spring most rivers and lakes from Alaska to Oregon, Washington, and Idaho; --called also red salmon, redfish, blueback, and sawqui.

A tribe of Indians, mostly inhabiting Idaho.

Of or pertaining to the patriarch Noah, or to his time.

African origin, practiced among the negroes of the West Indies. [Written also obe and obeah.] De Quincey. B. Edwards.

Dryden. The funeral obsequies were decently and privately performed by his family J. P. Mahaffy.

See Octahedral.

See Octahedral. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

A female slave or concubine in the harem of the Turkish sultan. [Written also odahlic, odalisk, and odalik.] Not of those that men desire, sleek Odalisques, or oracles of mode. Tennyson.