Search the Dictionary

singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they. [Obs.] Piers Plowman. Men moot give silver to the poure triars. Chaucer. A privy thief, men clepeth death. Chaucer.

One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God. Eph. vi. 6.

ly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.

on of a probable evil or catastrophe to come. His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces. Milman. The dark menace of the distant war. Dryden.

One who menaces.

In a threatening manner.

A collection of animals; a menagerie. [Obs.] Addison.

A piace where animals are kept and trained.

Emmenagogue.

A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. Shipley.

Covered with spots; speckled; variegated. [Obs.]

n, broken, defaced, decayed, or the like; to restore from partial decay, injury, or defacement; to patch up; to put in shape or order again; to re-create; as, to mend a garment or a machine.

Capable of being mended.

Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.

The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying. Macaulay.

verning the inheritance of many characters in animals and plants, discovered by Gregor J. Mendel (Austrian Augustinian abbot, 1822-84) in breeding experiments with peas. He showed that the height, color, and other characters depend on the presence of determinating factors behaving as units. In any given germ cell each…

Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendel's law. -- Men*de"li*an*ism (#), Men*del"ism (#), n.

A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.

One who mends or repairs.

See Mendinant. [Obs.]