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A writer of miscellanies.

A writer of miscellanies; miscellanarian.

A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate. G. Eliot.

A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca.

A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

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

See Miter.

Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra. Gray.

trasted with a compound; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.

One who coins or prints money; also, a counterfeiter of money. [R.]

nk seal (Zoöl.), a species of seal (Monachus albiventer) inhabiting the Black Sea, the Mediterranean Sea, and the adjacent parts of the Atlantic. -- Monk's rhubarb (Bot.), a kind of dock; -- also called patience (Rumex Patientia).

ks; monastic life; monastic usage or customs; -- now usually applied by way of reproach. Miters, and wretched dead mediæval monkeries. Carlyle.

A writer of a monody.

A writer of a monograph.

planet, or satellite, revolving about any member of the solar system; as, the moons of Jupiter or Saturn.

One who moralizes; one who teaches or animadverts upon the duties of life; a writer of essays intended to correct vice and inculcate moral duties. Addison.

g; -- a common sign of pregnancy. -- Morning star. (a) Any one of the planets (Venus, Jupiter, Mars, or Saturn) when it precedes the sun in rising, esp. Venus. Cf. Evening star, Evening. (b) Satan. See Lucifer. Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far. Byron.

Hence: To pledge, either literally or figuratively; to make subject to a claim or obligation. Mortgaging their lives to covetise. Spenser. I myself an mortgaged to thy will. Shak.

ail feathers are racket-shaped at the tip, when mature. The bird itself is said by some writers to trim them into this shape. They feed on insects, reptiles, and fruit, and are found from Mexico to Brazil. The name is derived from its note. [Written also momot.]

g it on the skin; hence, any substance used in a like manner, as cotton impregnated with niter, amadou.