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mild medicine; a mild insanity. The rosy morn resigns her light And milder glory to the noon. Waller. Adore him as a mild and merciful Being. Rogers. Mild, or Low, steel, steel that has but little carbon in it and is not readily hardened.

One who imitates or mimics, especially one who does so for sport; a copyist; a buffoon. Burke.

The moon. [Obs.] Chaucer.

In the most general sense, any one of the Quadrumana, including apes, baboons, and lemurs.

A balloon which ascends by the buoyancy of air heated by a fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.

welfth part of a year, corresponding nearly to the length of a synodic revolution of the moon, -- whence the name. In popular use, a period of four weeks is often called a month.

Continued a month, or a performed in a month; as, the monthly revolution of the moon.

part of the day; the morning; -- used chiefly in poetry. From morn To noun he fell, from noon to dewy eve. Milton.

erstood as the earliest hours of light, the time near sunrise; the time from midnight to noon, from rising to noon, etc.

Maroon; the color of an unripe black mulberry.

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

berty. Hawthorne. See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings. Milton.

The basket suspended from a balloon; hence, the framework forming the body of a dirigible balloon, and containing the machinery, passengers, etc.

A bitter crystalline substance constituting the essential principle of Natal aloes. Cf. Aloon.

he lowest tides of the lunar month, which occur in the second and fourth quarters of the moon; -- opposed to spring tides.

The time of the new moon; the beginning of the month in the lunar calendar.

d ckeared and cultivated for the first time. -- New light. (Zoöl.) See Crappie. -- New moon. (a) The moon in its first quarter, or when it first appears after being invisible. (b) The day when the new moon is first seen; the first day of the lunar month, which was a holy day among the Jews. 2 Kings iv. 23. -- New Re…

nrise; esp., the time between dusk and dawn, when there is no light of the sun, but only moonlight, starlight, or artificial light. And God called the light Day, and the darkness he called Night. Gen. i. 5.

ing to the nodes; from a node to the same node again; as, the nodical revolutions of the moon. Nodical month. See Lunar month, under Month.

The canonical office, being a part of the Breviary, recited at noon (formerly at the ninth hour, 3 P. M.) in the Roman Catholic Church.