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pe reagent in testing for the metallic oxides. Originally obtained by the alchemists from human urine, and called sal microcosmicum.

pulmonate mollusk (Auricula, or Ellobium, aurismidæ); -- so called from resemblance to a human ear.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

A woman who is a millionaire, or the wife of a millionaire. [Humorous] Holmes.

A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound.

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…

To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. "Limping possibilities of mismade human nature." Mrs. Browning.

per ill; to disorder; as, to mistemper one's head. Warner. This inundation of mistempered humor. Shak.

The mob; the lower classes. [Humorous] Dryden.

of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.

One who, or that which, modifies. Hume.

Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak.

A spot, mark, or small permanent protuberance on the human body; esp., a spot which is dark-colored, from which commonly issue one or more hairs.

The fire god of the Ammonites, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Moloch. Lev. xviii. 21.

The fire god of the Ammonites in Canaan, to whom human sacrifices were offered; Molech. Also applied figuratively.

ax paid to the first two Norman kings of England to prevent them from debashing the coin. Hume.

The theory or doctrine that the human races have a common origin, or constitute a single species.

One who maintains that the human races are all of one species; -- opposed to polygenist.

The doctrine that the members of the human race have all a common origin.