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re molelike in appearance and habits, and their eyes are small or rudimentary. -- Mole shrew (Zoöl.), any one of several species of short-tailed American shrews of the genus Blarina, esp. B. brevicauda. -- Water mole, the duck mole.

A noun having only one case. Andrews.

marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

Affecting as if with power to kill; deathly. The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright. Dryden.

h or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.

Moving. [R.] Grew.

Fig.: To cloud; to make dull or heavy. Grew.

Half-rotten straw, or any like substance strewn on the ground, as over the roots of plants, to protect from heat, drought, etc., and to preserve moisture.

To increase in extent and influence; to spread. The word of God grew and multiplied. Acts xii. 24.

An extract of quassia licorice, fraudulently used by brewers in order to economize malt and hops. Craig. Hard multum, a preparation made from Cocculus Indicus, etc., used to impart an intoxicating quality to beer.

The state or quality of being muscular. Grew.

perfumery and in flavoring. See Abelmosk. -- Musk sheep (Zoöl.), the musk ox. -- Musk shrew (Zoöl.), a shrew (Sorex murinus), found in India. It has a powerful odor of musk. Called also sondeli, and mondjourou. -- Musk thistle (Bot.), a species of thistle (Carduus nutans), having fine large flowers, and leaves smell…

The musk shrew.

A taking by surprise; an unexpected onset or attack. Carew.

echanical and other appliences for building and equipping war vessels and training their crews.

e form of a vast, diffused, revolving nebula, which, gradually cooling and contracting, threw off, in obedience to mechanical and physical laws, succesive rings of matter, from which subsequently, by the same laws, were produced the several planets, satellites, and other bodies of the system. The phrase may indicate an…

The modern Hebrew language.

In ancient Sparta, one of those Helots who were freed by the state in reward for military service. Milford.

e of a vessel after a deduction from the gross tonnage has been made, to allow space for crew, machinery, etc.

er world her light Doth dim with horror and deformity. Spenser. All my nether shape thus grew transformed. Milton.