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A place of meeting for discussion. Mote bell, the bell rung to summon to a mote. [Obs.]

t cell. -- Mother church, the original church; a church from which other churches have sprung; as, the mother church of a diocese. -- Mother country, the country of one's parents or ancestors; the country from which the people of a colony derive their origin. -- Mother liquor (Chem.), the impure or complex residual…

An automobile, locomobile, or locomotive designed to run and be steered on a street or roadway; esp., an automobile specially designed for passengers.

A knob made on a rope with spun yarn or parceling to prevent a running eye from slipping.

, abbreviation of Amuck. To run a muck. See Amuck.

fresh-water fish (Acantharchum pomotis) of the Eastern United States. It produces a deep grunting note. -- Mud bath, an immersion of the body, or some part of it, in mud charged with medicinal agents, as a remedy for disease. -- Mud boat, a large flatboat used in deredging. -- Mud cat. See Catfish. -- Mud crab (Zoö…

ins so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way. Bentley. Often drunk, always muddled. Arbuthnot.

A sort of strong beer, originally made in Brunswick, Germany. Addison. The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum. Pope.

To chew with a grinding, crunching sound, as a beast chews provender; to chew deliberately or in large mouthfuls. [Formerly written also maunch and mounch.] I could munch your good dry oats. Shak.

A low, confused, and indistinct sound, like that of running water.

ristan und Isolde," "Die Meistersinger," "Rheingold," "Walküre," "Siegfried," "Götterdämmerung," and "Parsifal."

ly. -- Musical fish (Zoöl.), any fish which utters sounds under water, as the drumfish, grunt, gizzard shad, etc. -- Musical glasses, glass goblets or bowls so tuned and arranged that when struck, or rubbed, they produce musical notes. CF. Harmonica, 1.

A muscular segment; one of the zones into which the muscles of the trunk, especially in fishes, are divided; a myocomma.

A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.

The part of an animal which connects the head and the trunk, and which, in man and many other animals, is more slender than the trunk.

ctory term or conception. This is a known rule in divinity, that there is no command that runs in negatives but couches under it a positive duty. South.

A dropping or bending forward of the upper oart or top of anything. Like a drunken sailor on a mast, Ready with every nod to tumble down. Shak.

A running knot, or loop, which binds the closer the more it is drawn.

Not attracting notice; not conspicuous. Noteless as the race from which he sprung. Sir W. Scott.

mble nulls. Nulled work (Cabinetwork), ornamental turned work resembling nulls or beads strung on a rod.