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Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings. [Prov. Eng.]

A gold coin of Turkey equal to one hundred piastres ($4.396 or 18s. ¾d.); a lira, or Turkish pound.

An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.

A species of divination by meteors, chiefly by thunder and lightning, which was held in high estimation by the Romans.

The number of ten hundred thousand, or a thousand thousand, -- written 1,000, 000. See the Note under Hundred

ancient weight or denomination of money, of varying value. The Attic mina was valued at a hundred drachmas.

At intervals of a minute; very often and regularly. J. Philips. Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven. Hammond.

More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. Fuller.

An ancient kind of cap worn by horsemen or huntsmen. Bacon.

s past; a memorial. Of ancient British art A pleasing monument. Philips. Our bruised arms hung up for monuments. Shak.

A little bite or bit of food. Chaucer. Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion. South.

The flourish sounded on a horn by a huntsman. See Mot, n., 3, and Mort. Chaucer.

oth gnat (Zoöl.), a dipterous insect of the genus Bychoda, having fringed wings. -- Moth hunter (Zoöl.), the goatsucker. -- Moth miller (Zoöl.), a clothes moth. See Miller, 3, (a). -- Moth mullein (Bot.), a common herb of the genus Verbascum (V. Blattaria), having large wheel-shaped yellow or whitish flowers.…

at is, without water, fuel, or accumulators necessary for propulsion) not more than three hundred weight (336 lbs.).

The act of hunting mice.

ch is abundant and shaggy on the neck and shoulders. The full-grown male weighs over four hundred pounds. -- Musk parakeet. (Zoöl.) Same as Musk lorikeet (above). -- Musk pear (Bot.), a fragrant kind of pear much resembling the Seckel pear. -- Musk plant (Bot.), the Mimulus moschatus, a plant found in Western North…

To sound with a low, rumbling noise. Thick lightings flash, the muttering thunder rolls. Pope.

which are traversed and connected together by a continuous and nearly central tube or siphuncle. See Tetrabranchiata.

Nine times twenty, or one hundred and eighty. -- n.

Pertaining to the upper portion of the Laurentian rocks. T. S. Hunt.