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In a minute manner; with minuteness; exactly; nicely.

Moderateness; smallness; meanness. [Obs.]

To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon.

The doctrines of the Molinists, somewhat resembling the tenets of the Arminians.

Dr. Maria Montessori while teaching in the "Houses of Childhood" (schools in the poorest tenement districts of Rome, Italy), and first fully described by her in 1909. Leading features are freedom for physical activity (no stationary desks and chairs), informal and individual instruction, the very early development of…

ors, or the like, made of a piece of cloth, or a collection of thrums, or coarse yarn, fastened to a handle.

ctitude of life; conformity to the standard of right; virtue; as, we often admire the politeness of men whose morality we question.

A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of form bion, a physiological individual. See Tectology. Haeckel.

Possession of lands or tenements in, or conveyance to, dead hands, or hands that cannot alienate.

nding on the fact that the friction between a metallic point and a moving cylinder of moistened chalk, or a moving slip of paper, on which it rests is diminished by the passage of a current between the point and the moving surface. -- Mo`to*graph"ic (#), a.

Applied to certain consonants having a "liquid" or softened sound; e.g., in French, l or ll and gn (like the lli in million and ni in minion); in Italian, gl and gn; in Spanish, ll and ñ; in Portuguese, lh and nh.

Bot.), a garden flower (Scabiosa atropurpurea) with dark purple or crimson flowers in flattened heads. -- Mourning dove (Zoöl.), a wild dove (Zenaidura macroura) found throughout the United States; -- so named from its plaintive note. Called also Carolina dove. See Illust. under Dove. -- Mourning warbler (Zoöl.), an…

A frozen dessert of a frothy texture, made of sweetened and flavored whipped cream, sometimes with the addition of egg yolks and gelatin. Mousse differs from ice cream in being beaten before -- not during -- the freezing process.

moved and were shaken, because he was wroth. Ps. xviii. 7. On the green bank I sat and listened long, ... Nor till her lay was ended could I move. Dryden.

A blown cylinder of glass which is afterward flattened out to make a sheet.

ted by set arias, duets, etc., the music being determined throughout by dramatic appropriateness; musical drama of this character, in general. It involves the use of a kind of melodious declamation, the development of leitmotif, great orchestral elaboration, and a fusion of poetry, music, action, and scene into an orga…

Limited as to means; straitened; pinching; as, narrow circumstances.

Quickness of scent; hence, nice discernment; acuteness. [Obs.] Dr. H. More.

silk, etc., passing around the neck or collar and tied in front; a bow of silk, etc., fastened in front of the neck.

Delicacy or exactness of perception; minuteness of observation or of discrimination; precision.