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Belonging to me; my. Used as a pronominal to me; my. Used as a pronominal adjective in the predicate; as, "Vengeance is mine; I will repay." Rom. xii. 19. Also, in the old style, used attributively, instead of my, before a noun beginning with a vowel. I kept myself from mine iniquity. Ps. xviii. 23.…

A prefix used adjectively and adverbially in the sense of amiss, wrong, ill, wrongly, unsuitably; as, misdeed, mislead, mischief, miscreant.

One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.

that the human and divine in Jesus Christ constituted but one composite nature. Also used adjectively.

With an adjective or adverb (instead of the suffix -er) to form the comparative degree; as, more durable; more active; more sweetly. Happy here, and more happy hereafter. Bacon.

made with a mortise and tenon; joined or united by means of a mortise and tenon; -- used adjectively. -- Mortise joint, a joint made by a mortise and tenon. -- Mortise lock. See under Lock. -- Mortise wheel, a cast-iron wheel, with wooden clogs inserted in mortises on its face or edge; -- also called mortise gear,…

A rhizopod or moneran. Also used adjectively; as, a myxopod state.

and devotion, the obligation being for life, or for a certain time. The word is also used adjectively.

The state or quality of being near; -- used in the various senses of the adjective.

on atoms; -- contrasted with normal and iso-; as, neopentane; the neoparaffins. Also used adjectively.

A combining form or an adjective denoting the presence of niter.

(. (Chem.) A prefix (also used adjectively) designating the group or radical NO, called the nitroso group, or its compounds.

loosely used to designate certain nitro compounds; as, nitrosyl sulphuric acid. Used also adjectively.

of not being committed or pledged; forbearance or refusal to commit one's self. Also used adjectively.

No; not any; -- used adjectively before a vowel, in old style; as, thou shalt have none assurance of thy life. None of, not at all; not; nothing of; -- used emphatically. "They knew that I was none of the register that entered their admissions in the universities." Fuller. -- None-so-pretty (Bot.), the Saxifraga umbro…

The hydrocarbon radical, C9H19, derived from nonane and forming many compounds. Used also adjectively; as, nonyl alcohol.

To change (an adjective, verb, etc.) into a noun. Earle.

er, manner, or opinious of a former time; as, a gentleman of the old school; -- used also adjectively; as, Old-School Presbyterians. -- Old sledge, an old and well-known game of cards, called also all fours, and high, low, Jack, and the game. -- Old squaw (Zoöl.), a duck (Clangula hyemalis) inhabiting the northern pa…

particular thing or person different from some other specified; -- used as a correlative adjective, with or without the. From the one side of heaven unto the other. Deut. iv. 32.

itself, or to territory newly acquired by a conquering nation. In this sense, often used adjectively, as, open-door system, open-door policy, etc.