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The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.

Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiæ.

To cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.

of the metal, as distinquished from its ores, as magnetic iron. -- Metallic paper, paper covered with a thin solution of lime, whiting, and size. When written upon with a pewter or brass pencil, the lines can hardly be effaced. -- Metallic tinking (Med.), a sound heard in the chest, when a cavity communicating with t…

A moth or lepidopterous insect; -- so called because the wings appear as if covered with white dust or powder, like a miller's clothes. Called also moth miller.

to be inclined or strongly inclined in purpose; -- used with an infinitive. "Sir Roger de Coverly... told me that he had a great mind to see the new tragedy with me." Addison. -- To lose one's mind, to become insane, or imbecile. -- To make up one's mind, to come to an opinion or decision; to determine. -- To put in…

To cloud; to cover with mist; to dim. Shak.

A covering for the head, worn on solemn occasions by church dignitaries. It has been made in many forms, the present form being a lofty cap with two points or peaks. Fairholt.

A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers.

A covering for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or injury. It differs from a glove in not having a separate sheath for each finger. Chaucer.

Covered with a mitten or mittens. "Mittened hands." Whittier.

To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]

Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins. "Moccasined feet." Harper's Mag.

A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]

To cover with mold or soil. [R.]

Covered or filled with mold; consisting of, or resembling, mold.

which incloses either a branchial or a pulmonary cavity. They are generally more or less covered and protected by a calcareous shell, which may be univalve, bivalve, or multivalve.

An extensive waste covered with patches of heath, and having a poor, light soil, but sometimes marshy, and abounding in peat; a heath. In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor. Carew.

An edible fungus (Morchella esculenta), the upper part of which is covered with a reticulated and pitted hymenium. It is used as food, and for flavoring sauces. [Written also moril.]