MEN
MEN, plural of man. Two or more males, individuals of the human race.1. Males of bravery. We will live in honor, or die like men2. Persons; people; mankind; in an indefinite sen...
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MENACE
MEN'ACE, verb transitive [Latin minor.]1. To threaten; to express or show a disposition or determination to inflict punishment or other evil. The combined powers menaced France ...
MENACED
MEN'ACED, participle passive Threatened.
MENACER
MEN'ACER, noun One that threatens.
MENACHANITE
MEN'ACHANITE, noun An oxyd of titanium, or mineral of a grayish or iron black color, occurring in very small rounded grains, imperfectly lamellar, and of a glistening luster; fo...
MENACHANITIC
MENACHANIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to menachanite.
MENACING
MEN'ACING, participle present tense Threatening; declaring a disposition or determination to inflict evil.1.adjective Exhibiting the danger or probability of an evil or catastro...
MENAGE
MEN'AGE, noun A collection of brute animals.
MENAGERY
MEN'AGERY, noun A yard or place in which wild animals are kept, or a collection of wild animals.
MENAGOGUE
MENAGOGUE, noun men'agog. [Gr. menstrua, and to drive.]A medicine that promotes the menstrual flux.
MENAIL
ME'NAIL, noun A domestic servant.
MEND
MEND, verb transitive [Latin emendo, menda, a fault, spot or blemish.]1. To repair, as a breach; to supply a part broken or defective; as, to mend a garment, a road, a mill-dam,...
MENDABLE
MEND'ABLE, adjective Capable of being mended.
MENDACIOUS
MENDA'CIOUS, adjective [Latin mendax.] Lying; false. [Little used.]
MENDACITY
MENDAC'ITY, noun [Latin mendax, false, lying.] Falsehood.[The proper signification of this word would be a disposition to lie, or habitual lying.]
MENDED
MEND'ED, participle passive Repaired; made better; improved.
MENDER
MEND'ER, noun One who mends or repairs.
MENDICANCY
MEND'ICANCY, adjective [Latin medicans.] Beggary; a state of begging.
MENDICANT
MEND'ICANT, adjective [Latin mendicans, from mendico, to beg; allied to Latin mando, to command, demand.]1. Begging; poor to a state of beggary; as reduced to a mendicant state....
MENDICATE
MEND'ICATE, verb transitive To beg, or practice begging. [Not used.]
MENDICITY
MENDIC'ITY, noun [Latin mendicitas.]The state of begging; the life of a beggar.
MENDMENT
MENDMENT, for amendment. [Not in use.]
MENDS
MENDS, for amends, not used.
MENHADEN
MENHA'DEN, noun A species of fish.
MENIAL
ME'NIAL, adjective1. Pertaining to servants or domestic servants; low; mean.The women attendants perform only the most menial offices.[Johnson observes on this passage, that Swi...
MENILITE
MEN'ILITE, noun A mineral substance found at Menil Montant near Paris, of the nature of silex, of a brown liver color on the interior, and ordinarily of a clear blue on the surf...
MENISCUS
MENIS'CUS, nounplural meniscuses. [Gr. a little moon.]A lens convex on one side, and concave on the other.