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A dark-colored swelling caused by a blow. [Slang]

Speech; language; testimony. That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established. Matt. xviii. 16.

, etc.; as, movers of sedition. These most poisonous compounds, Which are the movers of a languishing death. Shak.

A moving picture or a moving picture show; -- commonly used in pl. [Slang or Colloq.]

A term of reproach for a low or vulgar labor person. [Slang]

ana). (b) The clapper rail. -- Mud lark, a person who cleans sewers, or delves in mud. [Slang] - - Mud minnow (Zoöl.), any small American fresh-water fish of the genus Umbra, as U. limi. The genus is allied to the pickerels. -- Mud plug, a plug for stopping the mudhole of a boiler. -- Mud puppy (Zoöl.), the menobran…

The face or mouth. [Slang] Thackeray.

A griping of the intestines; colic. [Slang] Whose dog lies sick of the mulligrubs Beau. & Fl.

-- To face the music, to meet any disagreeable necessity without flinching. [Colloq. or Slang]

One who, from deafness, either congenital or from early life, is unable to use articulate language; a deaf-mute.

, or division, of the people of the earth, distinguished from the rest by common descent, language, or institutions; a race; a stock. All nations, and kindreds, and people, and tongues. Rev. vii. 9.

o a nation; common to a whole people or race; public; general; as, a national government, language, dress, custom, calamity, etc.

A race or people, as determined by common language and character, and not by political bias or divisions; a nation. the fulfillment of his mission is to be looked for in the condition of nationalities and the character of peoples. H. W. Beecher.

place or the circumstances in which one is born; -- opposed to foreign; as, native land, language, color, etc.

The modern Hebrew language.

n his general theory of knowledge, esp. of a group of German philosophers including F. A. Lange, H. Cohen, Paul Natorp, and others.

Applied to the Romance languages, as being mostly of Latin origin.

One who introduces new word or new senses of old words into a language.

The introduction of a new word, or of words or significations, into a language; as, the present nomenclature of chemistry is a remarkable instance of neology.

Audacity; assurance. [Slang]