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Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4.

Mild; tame; spiritless. Has friendship such a faint and milky heart Shak. Milky Way. (Astron.) See Galaxy, 1.

idence and courage; to impart fear to; to make irresolute; -- usually said of the mind or heart, and followed by the objective personal pronoun. So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours. Shak. Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved. Milton.…

To hear incorrectly.

To fail of hitting, reaching, getting, finding, seeing, hearing, etc.; as, to miss the mark one shoots at; to miss the train by being late; to miss opportunites of getting knowledge; to miss the point or meaning of something said. When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right. Lock…

his sense. Dryden. Mist flower (Bot.), a composite plant (Eupatorium coelestinum), having heart-shaped leaves, and corymbs of lavender-blue flowers. It is found in the Western and Southern United States.

A woman regarded with love and devotion; she who has command over one's heart; a beloved object; a sweetheart. [Poetic] Clarendon.

sembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.

To soften by making moist; to make tender. It moistened not his executioner's heart with any pity. Fuller.

ty of; to qualify; as, to mollify the ground. With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts. Spenser.

Having a single heart, as fishes and amphibians. -- n.

ors; a morbid constitution; a morbid state of the juices of a plant. "Her sick and morbid heart." Hawthorne.

lse to any action; internal activity. Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God. South.

Spoken without sincerity; not heartfelt. "Mouth-made vows." Shak.

urbid with mud; cloudy in mind; dull; stupid; also, immethodical; incoherent; vague. Cold hearts and muddy understandings. Burke. Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled. Shak.

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

ratively, good-naturedly weak and effusive; weakly sentimental. She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender. G. Eliot.

The main substance of the muscular wall of the heart inclosed between the epicardium and endocardium.

formation, is called the dentinasal or linguanasal consonent. Its commoner sound is that heard in ran, done; but when immediately followed in the same word by the sound of g hard or k (as in single, sink, conquer), it usually represents the same sound as the digraph ng in sing, bring, etc. This is a simple but related…

ee (Colibrina reclinata) of Southern Florida and the West Indies, having a hard and heavy heartwood, which takes a fine polish. C. S. Sargent.