MENISPERMATE
MENISPERM'ATE, noun A compound of menispermic acid and a salifiable base.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MENISPERMIC
MENISPERM'IC, adjective The menispermic acid is obtained from the seeds of the menispermum cocculus.
MENIVER
MEN'IVER, noun A small white animal in Russia, or its fur which is very fine.
MENOLOGY
MENOL'OGY, noun [Gr. month, and discourse.]1. A register of months.2. In the Greek church, martyrology, or a brief calendar of the lives of the saints, for each day in the year,...
MENOW
MEN'OW, noun A small fresh water fish, the minnow.
MENPLEASER
MEN'PLEASER, noun One who is solicitous to please men, rather than to please God, by obedience to him commands.
MENSAL
MEN'SAL, adjective [Latin mensalis, from mensa, a table.]Belonging to the table; transacted at table. [Little used.]
MENSTRUAL
MEN'STRUAL, adjective [Latin menstrualis, from mensis, month.]1. Monthly; happening once a month; as the menstrual flux.2. Lasting a month; as the menstrual orbit of the moon.3....
MENSTRUANT
MEN'STRUANT, adjective Subject to monthly flowings.
MENSTRUOUS
MEN'STRUOUS, adjective [Latin menstruus, from mensis, a month.]1. Having the monthly flow or discharge; as a female.2. Pertaining to the monthly flow of females.
MENSTRUUM
MEN'STRUUM, nounplural menstruums. [from Latin mensis, month. The use of this word is supposed to have originated in some notion of the old chimists, about the influence of the ...
MENSURABILITY
MENSURABIL'ITY, noun [from mensurable.] Capacity of being measured.
MENSURABLE
MEN'SURABLE, adjective [Latin mensura, measure. The n is probably casual, and the word is the same as measurable.]Measurable; capable of being measured.
MENSURAL
MEN'SURAL, adjective Pertaining to measure.
MENSURATE
MEN'SURATE, verb transitive [Latin mensura, measure.]To measure. [Little used.]
MENSURATION
MENSURA'TION, noun The act, process or art of measuring, or taking the dimensions of any thing.1. Measure; the result of measuring.
MENTAL
MEN'TAL, adjective Pertaining to the mind; intellectual; as mental faculties; mental operations; mental sight; mental taste.
MENTALLY
MEN'TALLY, adverb Intellectually; in the mind; in thought or meditation; in idea.
MENTION
MEN'TION, noun [Latin mentio, from Gr. to put in mind; Latin moneo and mind.] A hint; a suggestion; a brief notice or remark expressed in words or writing; used chiefly after ma...
MENTIONED
MEN'TIONED, participle passive Named; stated.
MENTIONING
MEN'TIONING, participle present tense Naming; uttering.
MENTORIAL
MENTO'RIAL, adjective [from Mentor, the friend and adviser of Ulysses.]Containing advice or admonition.
MENY
ME'NY, noun [See Menial.] A retinue or family of servants; domestics.
MEPHITIC
MEPHIT'IC, adjective [Latin mephitis, an ill smell.] Offensive to the smell; foul; poisonous; noxious; pestilential; destructive to life.Mephitic acid is carbonic acid.
MEPHITIS
MEPH'ITISMEPH'ITISM, noun Foul, offensive or noxious exhalations from dissolving substances, filth or other source; also, carbonic acid gas.
MERCANTANTE
MERCANTAN'TE, noun A foreign trader. [Not in use.]
MERCANTILE
MER'CANTILE, adjective [Latin mercans, mercor, to buy.]1. Trading; commercial; carrying on commerce; as mercantile nations; the mercantile class of men.2. Pertaining or relating...