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With a sense of loss. [Obs.] Shak.

ch dims or darkens, and obscures or intercepts vision. His passion cast a mist before his sense. Dryden. Mist flower (Bot.), a composite plant (Eupatorium coelestinum), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and Southern United States.

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.

To misconceive; to mistake; to miscomprehend; to take in a wrong sense.

Of, pertaining to, or like, a monad, in any of its senses. See Monad, n. Dr. H. More.

ayable in standard coined money and is lawfully current in lieu of it; in a comprehensive sense, any currency usually and lawfully employed in buying and selling.

ld. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent countries, including the Burats and the Kalmuks.

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

To be dull and spiritless. "Moping melancholy." Milton. A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope. Shak.

Capable of right and wrong action or of being governed by a sense of right; subject to the law of duty. A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense. J. Edwards.

Explanation in a moral sense. T. Warton.

To apply to a moral purpose; to explain in a moral sense; to draw a moral from. This fable is moralized in a common proverb. L'Estrange. Did he not moralize this spectacle Shak.

In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality. By good, good morally so called, "bonum honestum" ought chiefly to be understood. South.

Foolish talk; nonsense; folly. [Obs.]

Mosaic (in either sense). "A mosaical floor." Sir P. Sidney.

Power of, or capacity for, motion. Devoid of sense and motion. Milton.

porations. The phrase was taken up by the press, and the verb to muck"rake`, in the above sense, and the noun muck"rak`er, to designate one so engaged, were speedily coined and obtained wide currency. The original allusion was to a character in Bunyan's "Pilgrim's Progress" so intent on raking up muck that he could not…

Vile, in a moral sense; sordid. [Obs.] Spenser. Mucky money and false felicity. Latimer.

my wheat has been made to germinate in modern times. -- To beat to a mummy, to beat to a senseless mass; to beat soundly.

An old name for mosses in the widest sense, including the true mosses and also hepaticæ and sphagna.