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That toward which a missile is directed; a thing aimed at; what one seeks to hit or reach. France was a fairer mark to shoot at than Ireland. Davies. Whate'er the motive, pleasure is the mark. Young.

One skillful to hit a mark with a missile; one who shoots well.

prisals. Letters of marque, Letters of marque and reprisal, a license or extraordinary commission granted by a government to a private person to fit out a privateer or armed ship to cruise at sea and make prize of the enemy's ships and merchandise. The ship so commissioned is sometimes called a letter of marque.…

ough-out, without music. -- Mass bell, the sanctus bell. See Sanctus. -- Mass book, the missal or Roman Catholic service book.

The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, or Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley.

A young gentleman; a lad, or small boy. Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants. Swift.

ity, by enrolling the name in a register. In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America. Sir W. Scott.

Liberty; permission; allowance. Thou mayst be no longer steward. Luke xvi. 2.

with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke. To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into anoth…

or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive. Not the man Moses was very meek. Num. xii. 3.

nfederate Memorial Day is: May 30 in Virginia; April 26 in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, and Mississippi; May 10 in North Carolina and South Carolina; the second Friday in May in Tennessee; June 3 in Louisiana. [U. S.]

A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.

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

The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to Ant: maximum.

Wrong; amiss. [Obs.] "To correcten that [which] is mis." Chaucer.

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

To conduct amiss; to mismanage. Johnson. To misconduct one's self, to behave improperly.

To consecrate amiss. "Misconsecrated flags." Bp. Hall.

To copy amiss.

To create badly or amiss.