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The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.

Merciful. [Obs.]

Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak.

To pity. [Obs.] Spenser.

Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves. The foe is merciless, and will not pity. Shak.

A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.

Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan. Byron.

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.

One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.

To affect with mercury.

In a mercurial manner.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion. Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate. See Corrosive.

The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.

To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed. [R.]

A communication of news; an announcement. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion. Mercurous chloride. (Chem.) See Calomel.

A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.

er circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency. Examples of justice must be made for terror to some; examples of mercy for comfort to others. Bacon.

A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.

To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.] Which meared her rule with Africa. Spenser.