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line form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.

One who makes mischief; one who excites or instigates quarrels or enmity.

Mischievous. [R.] Lydgate.

The act of sending, or the state of being sent; a being sent or delegated by authority, with certain powers for transacting business; comission. Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions' mongst the gods themselves. Shak.

One who is sent on a mission; especially, one sent to propagate religion. Swift. Missionary apostolic, a Roman Catholic missionary sent by commission from the pope.

the mastery over it. A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic. Addison.

Admitting of mitigation; that may be mitigated.

Tending to mitigate; mitigating; lentitive. Johnson.

The act of mitigating, or the state of being mitigated; abatement or diminution of anything painful, harsh, severe, afflictive, or calamitous; as, the mitigation of pain, grief, rigor, severity, punishment, or penalty.

Tending to mitigate; alleviating.

One who, or that which, mitigates.

Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain. Mocha stone (Min.), moss agate.

in feet or weight in pounds of a column of the same body) which would be necessary to elongate a prismatic body of a transverse section equal to a given unit, as a square inch or foot, to double, or to compress it to half, its original length, were that degree of elongation or compression possible, or within the limits…

purea) having handsome, funnel- shaped flowers, usually red, pink, purple, white, or variegated, sometimes pale blue. See Dextrorsal.

ng to the style of work called mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. -- Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. -- (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained…

A genus of extinct marine reptiles allied to the lizards, but having the body much elongated, and the limbs in the form of paddles. The first known species, nearly fifty feet in length, was discovered in Cretaceous beds near Maestricht, in the Netherlands. [Written also Mososaurus.]

Variegated in color; consisting of different colors; dappled; party-colored; as, a motley coat.

Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; as, mottled wood. "The mottled meadows." Drayton.

One who, or that which, excites, instigates, or causes movement, change, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These most poisonous compounds, Which are the movers of a languishing death. Shak.