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One who practices massage; a masseur or masseuse.

An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism. 'T is their maxim, Love is love's reward. Dryden.

A mechanician; an artisan; an artificer; one who practices any mechanic art; one skilled or employed in shaping and uniting materials, as wood, metal, etc., into any kind of structure, machine, or other object, requiring the use of tools, or instruments. An art quite lost with our mechanics. Sir T. Browne.…

The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalism.]

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy. Sir T. Browne.

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. Rom. of R.

is eye shoots forth! Shak. Mental alienation, insanity. -- Mental arithmetic, the art or practice of solving arithmetical problems by mental processes, unassisted by written figures.

A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice.

One who practices, or believes in, mesmerism.

A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] Latimer.

; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.

One of an ancient school of physicians who rejected observation and founded their practice on reasoning and theory. Sir W. Hamilton.

One who is skilled in or practices microtomy.

The art or practice of assisting women in childbirth; obstetrics.

To a great degree; very much. Practical jokes amused us mightily. Hawthorne.

The act or practice of one who mimics; ludicrous imitation for sport or ridicule.

by thoughtlessness, or in sport. Chaucer. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. Ps. lii. 2. The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many mischiefs. Fuller.

The act or practice of making mischief, inciting quarrels, etc.

tion; as, to mistake one person for another. A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it. Johnson.