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Most. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies. [Written also mustee.]

See Mister, a trade.

See Mestizo.

ing of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. [Spanish America] Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.

A kind of brass. See Maslin. [Obs.]

Continuing two months. [R.]

A series of limestone strata found in Ohio and farther west, presenting bluffs along the rivers and valleys, formerly supposed to be of one formation, but now known to be partly Silurian and partly Devonian.

Suitable to be eaten; eatable; esculent. Some herbs are most comestible. Sir T. Elyot.

A genus of coleopterous insects, the larvæ of which feed animal substances. They are very destructive to dries meats, skins, woolens, and furs. The most common species is D. lardarius, known as the bacon beetle.

Pertaining to or resembling the genus Dermestes. The carpet beetle, called the buffalo moth, is a dermestoid beetle. Pop. Sci. Monthly.

aining to one's house or home, or one's household or family; relating to home life; as, domestic concerns, life, duties, cares, happiness, worship, servants. His fortitude is the more extraordinary, because his domestic feelings were unusually strong. Macaulay.

Domestic. [Obs.] Our private and domestical matter. Sir. P. Sidney.

In a domestic manner; privately; with reference to domestic affairs.

Forming part of the same family. [Obs.] Sir E. Dering.

To make domestic; to habituate to home life; as, to domesticate one's self.

The act of domesticating, or accustoming to home; the action of taming wild animals.

One who domesticates.

The state of being domestic; domestic character; household life.

gambler; one skilled in games. When lenity and cruelty play for a kingdom, the gentlest gamester is the soonest winner. Shak.