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Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidæ. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey.

esembling a hammer, often having one side of the head pointed; -- used by horsemen in the Middle Ages to break armor. Fairholt.

amusing themselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.

A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed. [Obs.] Wyclif. Beau. & Fl.

inding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error. Milton. To range amid the mazy thicket. Spenser. To run the ring, and trace the mazy round. Dryden.

Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes. Being of middle age and a mean stature. Sir. P. Sidney.

, p, t, k (p, t, k), and the aspiratæ (aspirates) f, th, x (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.

Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediæval architecture. [Written also medieval.]

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.]

One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalist.]

In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance with mediævalism.

The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.

Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.

Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior.

A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. B. G. Wildex.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

The middle part; half; moiety. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary. " A very mediocre poet." Pope.

The quality of being mediocre; a middle state or degree; a moderate degree or rate. "A mediocrity of success." Bacon.