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The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.

One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.

Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only. Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to obige your friends. Swift.

rve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment. "This kindness merits thanks." Shak.

An extinct mammal of the Horse family, but not larger than a sheep, and having three toes on each foot.

ntary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. No sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, et…

in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids.

A word having more than one form of the root.

One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anæmia.

plants, as Selaginella and Isoetes, which bear two kinds of spores, one very much smaller than the other. Cf. Macrospore.

A crime less than a felony. Wharton.

Causing unhappiness or misery. What 's more miserable than discontent Shak.

lly, more in number. [Obs.] An hundred thousand mo. Chaucer. Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. Fuller.

the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.

Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. Law. And bear about the mockery of woe. Pope.

With a moderate degree of quickness; moderately. Allegro moderato, a little slower than allegro. -- Andante moderato, a little faster than andante.

in due limits of propriety; not forward, bold, boastful, or presumptious; rather retiring than pushing one's self forward; not obstructive; as, a modest youth; a modest man.

t. Shak. It is an abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment and consequence of us than the others. Bentley.

ain, and noted for its agility in running and leaping. It is smaller and has stouter legs than the common cassowary. Its crest is biloted; the neck and breast are black; the back, rufous mixed with black; and the naked skin of the neck, blue.

; just; as, a moral man. Used sometimes in distinction from religious; as, a moral rather than a religious life. The wiser and more moral part of mankind. Sir M. Hale.