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the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. The only strict antithesis to prose is meter. Wordsworth.

. Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth.

wealth is counted by millions of francs, dollars, or pounds; a very rich person; a person worth a million or more. [Written also millionnaire.]

sisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures. "Mimic hootings." Wordsworth.

Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.

To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.

Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2.

To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.

ery small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. For in effect they be not worth a myte. Chaucer.

A bog or quagmire. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

ate of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.

The first month of the Mohammedan year. Whitworth.

icate that the person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money matters. -- Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid. -- A piece of money, a single coin. -- Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction; cash. -- To make money, to gain or…

That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. [R.] Wordsworth.

A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. Foxe.

chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road. Wordsworth.

Mortling. [Eng.] Ainsworth.

Dancing the morrice; dancing. In shoals and bands, a morrice train. Wordsworth.

Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great. The high, the mountain majesty of worth. Byron. Mountain anthelope (Zoöl.), the goral. -- Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant…

o clothe his enemies. Milton. To make much of, to treat as something of especial value or worth.