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ertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course. "Meridian hour." Milton. Tables ... to find the altitude meridian. Chaucer.

le mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]

A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor. These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids. H. A. Newton.

Of or pertaining to noon; meridional; as, the midday sun.

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand. Locke.

A mistaking or mistake; wrong apprehension of one's meaning of a fact; misconception; misunderstanding.

To misunderstand; to disregard. [Obs.] Milton.

To fail to apprehend; to misunderstand. [Obs.] Holland.

To get a wrong idea of or about; to misunderstand.

Disagreement; misunderstanding. [Obs.]

Capable of being misinterpreted; liable to be misunderstood.

To read amiss; to misunderstand in reading.

To take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. Locke. My father's purposes have been mistook. Shak.

The sun god of the Persians.

arius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. -- Mock sun. See Parhelion. -- Mock turtle soup, a soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup. -- Mock velvet, a fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.

See Sunfish, 1.

les, without the presence of water; to crumble away. The moldering of earth in frosts and sun. Bacon. When statues molder, and when arches fall. Prior. If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing. Clarendon.

A plane, or curved, narrow surface, either sunk or projecting, used for decoration by means of the lights and shades upon its surface. Moldings vary greatly in pattern, and are generally used in groups, the different members of each group projecting or retreating, one beyond another. See Cable, n., 3, and Crenelated mo…

The sunfish (Orthagoriscus, or Mola). [Written also molebat.]

The second day of the week; the day following Sunday.