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MICRONESIAN a.
Of or pertaining to Micronesia, a collective designation of the islands in the western part of the Pacific Ocean, embracing the Marshall and Gilbert groups, the Ladrones, the Carolines, etc.
MICRONESIANS n.
A dark race inhabiting the Micronesian Islands. They are supposed to be a mixed race, derived from Polynesians and Papuans.
MONESIA n.
The bark, or a vegetable extract brought in solid cakes from South America and believed to be derived from the bark, of the tree Chrysophyllum glycyphloeum. It is used as an alterative and astringent.
MONESIN n.
The acrid principle of Monesia, sometimes used as a medicine.
MONEST v.
To warn; to admonish; to advise. [Obs.] Wyclif (2 Cor. v. 20).
NAPIER'S BONES; NAPIER'S RODS n.
A set of rods, made of bone or other material, each divided into nine spaces, and containing the numbers of a column of the multiplication table; -- a contrivance of Baron Napier, the inventor of logarithms, for facilitating the operations of multiplication and division.
NONES n. 3 definitions
ember, November, and December, and the seventh day of March, May, July, and October. The nones were nine days before the ides, reckoning inclusively, according to the Roman method.
NONESSENTIAL a. 2 definitions
Not essential.
NONESUCH n.
A person or thing of a sort that there is no other such; something extraordinary; a thing that has not its equal. It is given as a name to various objects, as to a choice variety of apple, a species of medic (Medicago lupulina), a variety of pottery clay, etc.
OONES adv.
Once. [Obs.] Chaucer.
PAPILIONES n.
The division of Lepidoptera which includes the butterflies.
PATRONESS n.
A female patron or helper. Spenser. Night, best patroness of grief. Milton.
PHITONESS n.
Pythoness; witch. [Obs.]
POLONESE a.
See Polonaise.
PSEUDOSCORPIONES n.
An order of Arachnoidea having the palpi terminated by large claws, as in the scorpions, but destitute of a caudal sting; the false scorpions. Called also Pseudoscorpii, and Pseudoscorpionina. See Illust. of Book scorpion, under Book.
PYTHONESS n. 2 definitions
The priestess who gave oracular answers at Delphi in Greece.
RACKABONES n.
A very lean animal, esp. a horse. [Colloq. U. S.]
SAWBONES n.
A nickname for a surgeon.
SCORPIONES n.
A division of arachnids comprising the scorpions.
SEXTONESS n.
A female sexton; a sexton's wife.
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