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d from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

A minute particular; a small or minor detail; -- used chiefly in the plural.

erbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

Causing mischief; harmful; hurtful; -- now often applied where the evil is done carelessly or in sport; as, a mischievous child. "Most mischievous foul sin." Shak. This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society. South.

A woman having power, authority, or ownership; a woman who exercises authority, is chief, etc.; the female head of a family, a school, etc. The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress! Shak.

A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

A handkerchief. [Obs.]

ole or supreme ruler; a sovereign; the highest ruler; an emperor, king, queen, prince, or chief. He who reigns Monarch in heaven, ... upheld by old repute. Milton.

A system of government in which the chief ruler is a monarch. In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy. Macaulay.

A trader; a dealer; -- now used chiefly in composition; as, fishmonger, ironmonger, newsmonger.

ed system of "didactic apparatus," which is declared to be "auto-regulative." Most of the chief features of the method are borrowed from current methods used in many institutions for training feeble-minded children, and dating back especially to the work of the French-American physician Edouard O. Seguin (1812- 80).…

One of a mixed race inhabiting Morocco, Algeria, Tunis, and Tripoli, chiefly along the coast and in towns.

or wipe with a mop, or as with a mop; as, to mop a floor; to mop one's face with a handkerchief.

cording to the rules of morality. By good, good morally so called, "bonum honestum" ought chiefly to be understood. South.

A kind of nearly black cherry with dark red flesh and juice, -- used chiefly for preserving.

The first part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. From morn To noun he fell, from noon to dewy eve. Milton.

For the greatest part; for the most part; chiefly; in the main.

A handkerchief.

ways instead of mountain, when put before a proper name; as, Mount Washington; otherwise, chiefly in poetry.

A handkerchief. [Obs.] [Written also muckinder, muckiter, mockadour.]