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ear the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.] Bacon.

To make wet or moist. [R.]

Wet; moist; as, a madid eye. [R.] Beaconsfield.

le of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

Low, wet ground; a marsh; a fen; a bog; a moor. [Archaic] Milton. Tennyson.

A tract of soft wet land, commonly covered partially or wholly with water; a fen; a swamp; a morass. [Written also marish.] Marsh asphodel (Bot.), a plant (Nartheeium ossifragum) with linear equitant leaves, and a raceme of small white flowers; -- called also bog asphodel. -- Marsh cinquefoil (Bot.), a plant (Potentil…

. (Bot.) A perennial plant of the genus Caltha (C. palustris), growing in wet places and bearing bright yellow flowers. In the United States it is used as a pot herb under the name of cowslip. See Cowslip.

Resembling a marsh; wet; boggy; fenny.

dy. Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape. Jowett (Thucyd.).

s time. Shak. Master of a hundred thousand drachms. Addison. We are masters of the sea. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble. "Of mean parentage." Sir P. Sidney. The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself. Is. ii. 9.

of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

. "Regard us simply as putting you in mind of what you already know to be good policy." Jowett (Thucyd. ).

Deep mud; wet, spongy earth. Chaucer. He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire. Spenser. Mire crow (Zoöl.), the pewit, or laughing gull. [Prov. Eng.] -- Mire drum, the European bittern. [Prov. Eng.]

ock bishop's weed (Bot.), a genus of slender umbelliferous herbs (Discopleura) growing in wet places. -- Mock heroic, burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem. -- Mock lead. See Blende (a). -- Mock nightingale (Zoöl.), the European blackcap. -- Mock orange (Bot.), a genus of American and Asiatic shrubs (Phila…

Moderately wet; damp; humid; not dry; as, a moist atmosphere or air. "Moist eyes." Shak.

To make damp; to wet in a small degree. A pipe a little moistened on the inside. Bacon.

A moderate degree of wetness. Bacon.

A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen. Morass ore. (Min.) See Bog ore, under Bog.