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Same as Emir.

A remarkable variable star in the constellation Cetus (o Ceti).

One who, or a work which, narrates wonderful things; one who writes of wonders. [Obs.] Bacon.

A genus of plants. See Four-o'clock.

Native sodium sulphate; Glauber's salt.

Wonderful; admirable. [Obs.] Shak.

A wonder or wonderful thing. That miracle and queen of genus. Shak.

To cause to seem to be a miracle. [R.] Shaftesbury.

Of the nature of a miracle; performed by supernatural power; effected by the direct agency of almighty power, and not by natural causes.

Same as Belvedere.

the image is seen projected against the sky. The fata Morgana and looming are species of mirage. By the mirage uplifted the land floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air. Longfellow.

See Nitrobenzene.

An ant. [Obs.] See Pismire.

Working wonders; wonderful.

Wonderful. [Obs.]

The quality of being miry.

Darkness; gloom; murk. "In mirk and mire." Longfellow.

Dark; gloomy; murky. [Archaic] Spenser. -- Mirk"some*ness, n. [Archaic]

Dark; gloomy. See Murky.

A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound.