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atery emulsion of calcium hydrate, produced by macerating quicklime in water. -- Milk parsley (Bot.), an umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum palustre) of Europe and Asia, having a milky juice. -- Milk pea (Bot.), a genus (Galactia) of leguminous and, usually, twining plants. -- Milk sickness (Med.), a peculiar malignant…

lor to; figuratively, to set forth erroneously or unfairly; as, to miscolor facts. C. Kingsley.

elocity again, if its motion be variable; -- called also the efficiency of the machine. Mosley. Rankine. -- Modulus of a system of logarithms (Math.), a number by which all the Napierian logarithms must be multiplied to obtain the logarithms in another system. -- Modulus of elasticity. (a) The measure of the elastic…

To act if moonstruck; to wander or gaze about in an abstracted manner. Elsley was mooning down the river by himself. C. Kingsley.

Morbid quality; disease; sickness. C. Kingsley.

e, robust, and cheerful Christian life, as opposed to a meditative and gloomy one. C. Kingsley. -- Muscular excitability (Physiol.), that property in virtue of which a muscle shortens, when it is stimulated; irritability. -- Muscular sense (Physiol.), muscular sensibility; the sense by which we obtain knowledge of th…

The system or the principles of the obscurants. C. Kingsley.

An old person. [Jocular] H. Kingsley.

That which ornaments; ornament. C. Kingsley.

cycle invented by Beau de Rochas in 1862 and applied by Dr. Otto in 1877 in the Otto-Crossley gas engine, the first commercially successful internal- combustion engine made.

v. Eng.] Shak. If you trouble me I will overlook you, and then your pigs will die. C. Kingsley.

To write or publish pamphlets. By pamphleteering we shall not win. C. Kingsley.

Of or pertaining to paradise; suitable to, or like, paradise. C. Kingsley. T. Burnet. "A paradisiacal scene." Pope. The valley . . . is of quite paradisiac beauty. G. Eliot.

The act or process of reducing to pauperism. C. Kingsley.

Parsley. [Obs.] Chaucer.

One who hangs about women; a male flirt. [R.] C. Kingsley.

Like plush; soft and shaggy. H. Kingsley.

Without horns; polled. [Prov. Eng.] "That poley heifer." H. Kingsley.

. . . was publicly prelected upon. De. Quincey. To prelect upon the military art. Bp. Horsley.

A madness, craze, or strong fancy, for ferns. [R.] C. Kingsley.