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aken the force of; to extenuate; to palliate; to tell by degrees, instead of directly and frankly; to clip, as words or expressions; to utter half and keep back half of. I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say -- "I love you." Shak. Siren, now mince the sin, And mollify damnation with a phrase. Dryden.…

One of an austere order of mendicant hermits of friars founded in the 15th century by St. Francis of Paola.

A Minorite; a Franciscan friar.

See Franciscan Nuns, under Franciscan, a.

A Franciscan friar.

r fur rows of very large scales side. -- Mirror plate. (a) A flat glass mirror without a frame. (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors. -- Mirror writing, a manner or form of backward writing, making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters the reflection of ordinary writing in a mirror. The substitution o…

To frame wrongly.

A violent and cold northwest wind experienced in the Mediterranean provinces of France, etc.

ly, one between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant. -- Mixed number, a whole number and a fraction taken together. -- Mixed train, a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars. -- Mixed voices (Mus.), voices of both males and females united in the same performance.

as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. Shak. Mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shak.

A frame with a wire cloth bottom, on which the pump is drained to form a sheet, in making paper by hand.

A name given in contempt to strict Calvinists in Switzerland, France, and some parts of Germany, in the early part of the 19th century.

ard of a national currency, as the dollar in the United States, the pound in England, the franc in France, the mark in Germany.

odity or other material thing to which the monopoly relates; as, tobacco is a monopoly in France. [Colloq.]

A single narrative framed from the statements of the four evangelists; a gospel harmony. [R.]

My lord; -- a title in France of a person of high birth or rank; as, Monseigneur the Prince, or Monseigneur the Archibishop. It was given, specifically, to the dauphin, before the Revolution of

The common title of civility in France in speaking to, or of, a man; Mr. or Sir. [Represented by the abbreviation M. or Mons. in the singular, and by MM. or Messrs. in the plural.]

An upright piece in any framework; a mullion or muntin; a stile. [R.] See Stile.

also mount of piety. The institution has been adopted in other countries, as in Spain and France. See Lombard-house.

fire; a fire balloon; -- so called from two brothers, Stephen and Joseph Montgolfier, of France, who first constructed and sent up a fire balloon.