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anner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced.

and the consumer; in Ireland, one who takes land of the proprietors in large tracts, and then rents it out in small portions to the peasantry.

Choice; inclination; liking; intent; will. If it be your minds, then let none go forth. 2 Kings ix. 15.

Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.

sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.

-- in a good sense. [Obs.] God's disciple and his dearest minion. Sylvester. Is this the Athenian minion whom the world Voiced so regardfully Shak.

Merriment; gayety accompanied with laughter; jollity. Then will I cause to cease ... from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth. Jer. vii. 34.

ongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss Spenser.

oleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisting essentially of molasses and ground burnt fire clay; also, a casting made by this process; -- called also wrought-iron casting.

one's self off; to go. [Slang] As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled. Epigram, quoted by Wright.

assembly; a disorderly crowd. The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. Pope. Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. Madison. Confused by brainless mobs. Tennyson. Mob law, law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob, well dressed thieves and swindler…

mocked me, and told me lies. Judg. xvi. 13. He will not ... Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. Milton.

del where the case admits of it. Am. Cyc. When we mean to build We first survey the plot, then draw the model. Shak.

hose intellectual development proceeds normally up to about the eighth year of age and is then arrested so that there is little or no further development.

A note or series of notes sounded on a horn at the death of game. The sportsman then sounded a treble mort. Sir W. Scott.

of being mortal; subjection to death or to the necessity of dying. When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality. Carew.

To attain in value; to amount. Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount. Pope.

mourner. We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood Shak. Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year. Pope.

An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects heated from the direct action of the fire, as in scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.

A kind of earthen or metal drinking cup, with a handle, -- usually cylindrical and without a lip.