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Tending to mitigate or alleviate; mitigative.

A little one; -- used as a term of endearment. [Obs.] Skelton.

malleable iron castings by melting wrought iron, to which from 0.05 to 0.1 per cent of aluminium is added to lower the melting point, usually in a petroleum furnace, keeping the molten metal at the bubbling point until it becomes quiet, and then pouring the molten metal into a mold lined with a special mixture consisti…

The malleable iron produced by mitis casting; -- called also simply mitis.

The denser part of the protoplasm of a cell.

See Karyokinesis.

Of or pertaining to mitosis; karyokinetic; as, mitotic cell division; -- opposed to amitotic. --Mi*tot"ic*al*ly (#), adv.

Shot or bits of iron used sometimes in loading cannon.

One who serves a mitrailleuse.

A breech-loading machine gun consisting of a number of barrels fitted together, so arranged that the barrels can be fired simultaneously, or successively, and rapidly.

Pertaining to a miter; resembling a miter; as, the mitral valve between the left auricle and left ventricle of the heart.

See Miter.

Having the form of a miter, or a peaked cap; as, a mitriform calyptra. Gray.

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

A cover for the wrist and forearm. To give the mitten to, to dismiss as a lover; to reject the suit of. [Colloq.] -- To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; to handle without gloves. [Colloq.]

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

Sending forth; emitting. [Obs.] Wiseman.

A precept or warrant granted by a justice for committing to prison a party charged with crime; a warrant of commitment to prison. Burrill.

A pigment of a green color, the chief constituent of which is oxide of chromium.

The stormy petrel. [Prov. Eng.]