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sisting of, or formed by, imitation; imitated; as, mimic gestures. "Mimic hootings." Wordsworth.

Unmindful; inattentive; heedless; careless. Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth. Shak.

To study mineralogy by collecting and examining minerals. Miss Edgeworth.

Worthless; mean; despicable; as, a miserable fellow; a miserable dinner. Miserable comforters are ye all. Job xvi. 2.

To put in a wrong place; to set or place on an improper or unworthy object; as, he misplaced his confidence.

ery small; a minute object; a very little quantity or particle. For in effect they be not worth a myte. Chaucer.

A bog or quagmire. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

ate of being modest; that lowly temper which accompanies a moderate estimate of one's own worth and importance; absence of self-assertion, arrogance, and presumption; humility respecting one's own merit.

The first month of the Mohammedan year. Whitworth.

icate that the person upon whom it crawls will be fortunate in money matters. -- Money's worth, a fair or full equivalent for the money which is paid. -- A piece of money, a single coin. -- Ready money, money held ready for payment, or actually paid, at the time of a transaction; cash. -- To make money, to gain or…

That which is a month old, or which lives for a month. [R.] Wordsworth.

A saying, deed, or example, worthy of record. Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days. Foxe.

chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road. Wordsworth.

Mortling. [Eng.] Ainsworth.

Dancing the morrice; dancing. In shoals and bands, a morrice train. Wordsworth.

Like a mountain; mountainous; vast; very great. The high, the mountain majesty of worth. Byron. Mountain anthelope (Zoöl.), the goral. -- Mountain ash (Bot.), an ornamental tree, the Pyrus (Sorbus) Americana, producing beautiful bunches of red berries. Its leaves are pinnate, and its flowers white, growing in fragrant…

o clothe his enemies. Milton. To make much of, to treat as something of especial value or worth.

ith unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. W. H. Ainsworth.

ion is, that the gods are native, rising and vanishing again in long periods of times. Cudworth.

Of no value or account; worthless; bad; useless. It is naught, it is naught, saith the buyer. Prov. xx. 14. Go, get you to your house; begone, away! All will be naught else. Shak. Things naught and things indifferent. Hooker.