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Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak.

ces of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency. Examples of justice must be made for terror to some; examples of mercy for comfort to others. Bacon.

An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.

A petty falling out; a tiff; a quarrel; offense. Fielding.

To wrong; to do injury to. [Obs.] Who hath you misboden or offended Chaucer.

A wrong done; a fault or crime; an offense; as, it was my misdoing.

A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger. Chaucer.

extended either in a right line or an arc of a circle before a port which it serves to defend from the violence of the waves, thus protecting ships in a harbor; also, sometimes, the harbor itself. Brande & C.

are element of the chromium group, occurring in nature in the minerals molybdenite and wulfenite, and when reduced obtained as a hard, silver-white, difficulty fusible metal. Symbol Mo. Atomic weight 95.9.

bearing a crescent. But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly. Fenton.

Having the characteristics of a moor or heath. "Moorish fens." Thomson.

Of or pertaining to moors; marshy; fenny; boggy; moorish. Mortimer. As when thick mists arise from moory vales. Fairfax.

or plead in a supposed case. There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting. B. Jonson.

A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore. (Min.) See Bog ore, under Bog.

Marshy; fenny. [R.] Pennant.

An artificial hill or elevation of earth; a raised bank; an embarkment thrown up for defense; a bulwark; a rampart; also, a natural elevation appearing as if thrown up artificially; a regular and isolated hill, hillock, or knoll. To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds. Dryden. Mound bird. (Zoöl.) Same as Mound mak…

A bulwark for offense or defense; a mound. [Obs.] Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem. Jer. vi. 6.

event seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.

To punish for an offense or misdemeanor by imposing a fine or forfeiture, esp. a pecuniary fine; to fine.

Masking; frolic in disguise; buffoonery. The mummery of foreign strollers. Fenton.