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A plant (Reseda odorata) having greenish flowers with orange- colored stamens, and exhaling a delicious fragrance. In Africa it is a low shrub, but further north it is usually an annual herb. Mignonette pepper, coarse pepper.

d extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing prices within a short range; -- said of the large dealers. [Cant] -- To milk a telegram, to use for one's own advantage the contents of a telegram belonging to another person. [Cant]

Wrong adjustment; unsuitable arrangement.

Harm; damage; esp., disarrangement of order; trouble or vexation caused by human agency or by some living being, intentionally or not; often, calamity, mishap; trivial evil caused by thoughtlessness, or in sport. Chaucer. Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs. Ps. lii. 2. The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many…

Wrongly taught; as, a mistaught youth. L'Estrange.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.

Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. P. coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless. -- Mock sun. See Parhelion.…

nd treated as entities; more generally, condition, or state of being; manner or form of arrangement or manifestation; form, as opposed to matter. Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affecti…

equanimity; as, to bear adversity with moderation. The calm and judicious moderation of Orange. Motley.

A mechamical arrangement for regulating motion in a machine, or producing equality of effect.

sometimes, less ornamented, in the Ionic and other orders; -- so called because of its arrangement at regulated distances.

Of or pertaining to mode, modulation, module, or modius; as, modular arrangement; modular accent; modular measure.

The arrangement of, or mode of expressing, the terms of a contract or conveyance.

Mode, or manner, of living; hence, a temporary arrangement of affairs until disputed matters can be settled.

n; warning. Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive. L'Estrange.

One in genesis; resulting from one process of formation; -- used of a mountain range. Dana.

a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.

Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.

Affected with monomania, or partial derangement of intellect; caused by, or resulting from, monomania; as, a monomaniacal delusion.