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A chestnut color; maroon.

dened mud and sand. -- Mason moth (Zoöl.), any moth whose larva constructs an earthen cocoon under the soil. -- Mason shell (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it cements other shells and pebbles upon its own shell; a carrier shell. -- Mason wasp (Zoöl.), any wasp that construc…

Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as, a three-masted schooner.

on; as, an aftermath. [Obs.] The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math. Bp. Hall.

Early; soon. [A Latinism, little used] Bentley.

y European writers, mean error. -- Mean line. (Crystallog.) Same as Bisectrix. -- Mean noon, noon as determined by mean time. -- Mean proportional (between two numbers) (Math.), the square root of their product. -- Mean sun, a fictitious sun supposed to move uniformly in the equator so as to be on the meridian each…

See Half-moon.

To become mellow; as, ripe fruit soon mellows. "Prosperity begins to mellow." Shak.

Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermaceæ) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus.

ring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

Midday; noon.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies. [Written also mustee.]

The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.

The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.

To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers. Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. Dryden.

The middle part of the day; noon.

The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak.