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One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.

One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.

One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.

One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.

Great and continued depression of spirits, amounting to mental unsoundness; melancholia.

se business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

thus, by metathesis an acid gives up all or part of its hydrogen, takes on an equivalent amount of a metal or base, and forms a salt.

An instrument, resembling a eudiometer, to detect the presence and amount of methane, as in coal mines.

lled a divided-object-glass micrometer, and when the instrument is large and equatorially mounted, it is known as a heliometer. -- Double refraction micrometer, a species of double image micrometer, in which the two images are formed by the double refraction of rock crystal. -- Filar, or Bifilar, micrometer. See unde…

Denoting the middle part; as, in mid ocean. No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings. Pope.

A dam or mound to obstruct a water course, and raise the water to a height sufficient to turn a mill wheel.

led because of frequent occurrence in miners. -- Miner's inch, in hydraulic mining, the amount of water flowing under a given pressure in a given time through a hole one inch in diameter. It is a unit for measuring the quantity of water supplied.

taining to, or having a character of, a minim or minimum; least; smallest; as, a minimal amount or value.

Having a bad or ugly form. "The mountains are misshapen." Bentley. -- Mis*shap"en*ly, adv. -- Mis*shap"en*ness, n.

t missing unto them. 1 Sam. xxv. 7. For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long. Milton.

by the presence of mist; obscured by, or overspread with, mist; as, misty weather; misty mountains; a misty atmosphere.

A mound or massive work formed of masonry or large stones, etc., laid in the sea, often extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself. Brande & C.

ce, a very small hill, or an insignificant obstacle or difficulty. Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill. South.

One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; -- used of a mountain range. Dana.