Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 36
Mercaptide (n.) (Chem.) A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.
Mercat (n.) Market; trade. [Obs.] -- Bp. Sprat.
Mercatante (n.) A foreign trader. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Mercator's chart () See under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under Projection.
Compare: Chart
Chart (n.) A sheet of paper, pasteboard, or the like, on which information is exhibited, esp. when the information is arranged in tabular form; as, an historical chart.
Chart (n.) A map; esp., a hydrographic or marine map; a map on which is projected a portion of water and the land which it surrounds, or by which it is surrounded, intended especially for the use of seamen; as, the United States Coast Survey charts; the English Admiralty charts.
Chart (n.) A written deed; a charter.
Globular chart, A chart constructed on a globular projection. See under Globular.
Heliographic chart, A map of the sun with its spots.
Mercator's chart, A chart constructed on the principle of Mercator's projection. See Projection.
Plane chart, A representation of some part of the superficies of the globe, in which its spherical form is disregarded, the meridians being drawn parallel to each other, and the parallels of latitude at equal distances.
Selenographic chart, A map representing the surface of the moon.
Topographic chart, A minute delineation of a limited place or region.
Mercature (n.) Commerce; traffic; trade. [Obs.]
Merce (v. t.) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce. [Obs.]
Mercenaria (n.) (Zool.) The quahog.
Mercenarian (n.) A mercenary. [Obs.]
Mercenarily (adv.) In a mercenary manner.
Mercenariness (n.) The quality or state of being mercenary; venality. -- Boyle.
Mercenary (a.) Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
Mercenary (a.) Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish. -- Shak.
For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen. -- Daniel.
Syn: See Venal.
Mercenaries (n. pl. ) of Mercenary.
Mercenary (n.) One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service. -- Milman.
Mercenary (a.) Marked by materialism [syn: materialistic, mercenary, worldly-minded].
Mercenary (a.) Serving for wages in a foreign army; "mercenary killers" [syn: mercenary(a), free-lance(a), freelance(a)].
Mercenary (a.) Profit oriented; "a commercial book"; "preached a mercantile and militant patriotism"- John Buchan; "a mercenary enterprise"; "a moneymaking business" [syn: mercantile, mercenary, moneymaking(a)].
Mercenary (n.) A person hired to fight for another country than their own [syn: mercenary, soldier of fortune].
Mercer (n.) Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.
Mercership (n.) The business of a mercer.
Mercery (n.) The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.
Merchand (v. i.) To traffic.
Merchandisable (a.) Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
Merchandise (n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
Merchandise (n.) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
Merchandised (imp. & p. p.) of Merchandise.
Merchandising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merchandise.
Merchandise (v. i.) To trade; to carry on commerce.
Merchandise (v. t.) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.
Merchandiser (n.) A trader.
Merchandry (n.) Trade; commerce.
Merchant (n.) 商人； 零售商 One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad. -- Shak.
Merchant (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Merchant (n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper. [U. S. & Scot.]
Merchant (a.) 商人的；商業的；商船的 Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
Merchant bar, Merchant iron or Merchant steel, Certain common sizes of wrought iron and steel bars.
Merchant service or Merchant marine, The mercantile marine of a country. -- Am. Cyc.
Merchant ship, A ship employed in commerce.
Merchant tailor, A tailor who keeps and sells materials for the garments which he makes.
Merchant (v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade. [Obs.]
Merchant (n.) A businessperson engaged in retail trade [syn: merchant, merchandiser].
Merchant, () The Hebrew word so rendered is from a root meaning "to travel about," "to migrate," and hence "a traveller." In the East, in ancient times, merchants travelled about with their merchandise from place to place (Gen. 37:25; Job 6:18), and carried on their trade mainly by bartering (Gen. 37:28; 39:1). After the Hebrews became settled in Palestine they began to engage in commercial pursuits, which gradually expanded (49:13; Deut. 33:18; Judg. 5:17), till in the time of Solomon they are found in the chief marts of the world (1 Kings 9:26; 10:11, 26, 28; 22:48; 2 Chr. 1:16; 9:10, 21). After Solomon's time their trade with foreign nations began to decline. After the Exile it again expanded into wider foreign relations, because now the Jews were scattered in many lands.
Merchant, () One whose business it is to buy and sell merchandise; this applies to all persons who habitually trade in merchandise. 1 Watts & S. 469; 2 Salk. 445.
Merchant, () In another sense, it signifies a person who owns ships, and trades, by means of them, with foreign nations, or with the different States of the United States; these are known by the name of shipping merchants. Com. Dig. Merchant, A; Dyer, R. 279 b; Bac. Ab. h.t.
Merchant, () According to an old authority, there are four species of merchants, namely, merchant adventurers, merchant dormant, merchant travellers, and merchant residents. 2 Brownl. 99. Vide, generally, 9 Salk. R. 445; Bac. Ab. h.t.; Com. Dig. h.t.; 1 Bl. Com. 75, 260; 1 Pard. Dr. Com. n. 78.
Merchant (n.) One engaged in a commercial pursuit. A commercial pursuit is one in which the thing pursued is a dollar.
Merchant (n.) [C] 商人；（尤指外貿）批發商 A person whose job is to buy and sell products in large amounts, especially by trading with other countries.
// A wine/ grain merchant.
Merchant (n.) [C] (UK) (Informal disapproving) 對（令人討厭之事）入迷的人，好…的人 Someone who is involved in or enjoys something that is unpleasant or annoying to others.
// A gossip merchant (= someone who enjoys talking about people's private lives).
// A speed merchant (= someone who drives too fast).
Merchant of doom/ gloom (UK) (D isapproving) 悲觀派，持悲觀態度的人 Someone who is always saying that bad things are going to happen.
// With exports rising and unemployment falling, the merchant of gloom are having or revise their opinions of the economy.
Merchantable (a.) Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
Merchantly (a.) Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant.
Merchantmen (n. pl. ) of Merchantman.
Merchantman (n.) A merchant.
Merchantman (n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.
Merchantry (n.) The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.
Merchantry (n.) The business of a merchant; merchandise.
Merciable (a.) Merciful.
Merciful (a.) 仁慈的；慈悲的；寬容的 [（+to）] Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. Opposite of {merciless}.
The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. -- Ex. xxxiv. 6.
Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. -- Shak.
Merciful (a.) Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.
A merciful man will be merciful to his beast. -- Old Proverb.
Syn: Compassionate; tender; humane; gracious; kind; mild; clement; benignant. -- {Mer"ci*ful*ly}, adv. -- {Mer"ci*ful*ness}, n.
Merciful (a.) Showing or giving mercy; "sought merciful treatment for the captives"; "a merciful god" [ant: {merciless}, {unmerciful}].
Merciful (a.) (used conventionally of royalty and high nobility) Gracious; "our merciful king".
Mercify (v. t.) To pity.
Merciless (a.) Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.
Mercurammonium (n.) A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.
Mercurial (a.) Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
Mercurial (a.) Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts.
Mercurial (a.) Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty.
Mercurial (a.) Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2.
Mercurial (a.) Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.
Mercurial (n.) A person having mercurial qualities.
Mercurial (n.) A preparation containing mercury.
Mercurial (a.) (Quick) 多變的，反覆無常的 (Literary) Changing suddenly and often.
// A mercurial temperament.
// She was entertaining but unpredictable, with mercurial mood swings.
Mercurial (a.) (Quick) (Literary) 機智而充滿熱忱的 Intelligent, enthusiastic, and quick.
// A mercurial mind/ wit.
Mercurialist (n.) One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.
Mercurialist (n.) (Med.) A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice.
Mercurialize (v. i.) To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious. [Obs.]
Mercurialized (imp. & p. p.) of Mercurialize.
Mercurializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurialize.
Mercurialize (v. t.) (Med.) To affect with mercury.
Mercurialize (v. t.) (Photography) To treat with mercury; to expose to the vapor of mercury.
Mercurially (adv.) In a mercurial manner.
Mercuric (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion.
Mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate. See mercury bichloride and Corrosive.
Mercuric (a.) Of or containing mercury [syn: mercuric, mercurous].
Mercurification (n.) (Metal.) The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
Mercurification (n.) (Chem.) The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury. [R.]
Mercurified (imp. & p. p.) of Mercurify.
Mercurifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurify.
Mercurify (v. t.) To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed. [R.]
Mercurify (v. t.) To combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury; to mercurialize. [R.]
Mercurism (n.) A communication of news; an announcement. [Obs.] -- Sir T. Browne.
Mercurous (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.
Mercurous chloride. (Chem.) See Calomel.
Mercurous (a.) Of or containing mercury [syn: mercuric, mercurous].
Mercury (n.) (Rom. Myth.)【化】水銀，汞 [U]；（溫度計等的）水銀柱 [the S] A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
Mercury (n.) (Chem.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, [mercury].
Note: Mercury forms alloys, called amalgams, with many metals, and is thus used in applying tin foil to the backs of mirrors, and in extracting gold and silver from their ores. It is poisonous, and is used in medicine in the free state as in blue pill, and in its compounds as calomel, corrosive sublimate, etc. It is the only metal which is liquid at ordinary temperatures, and it solidifies at about -39[deg] Centigrade to a soft, malleable, ductile metal.
Mercury (n.) (Astron.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
Mercury (n.) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper. -- Sir J. Stephen. "The monthly Mercuries." -- Macaulay.
Mercury (n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness. [Obs.]
He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design. -- Bp. Burnet.
Mercury (n.) (Bot.) A plant ({Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
Note: The name is also applied, in the United States, to certain climbing plants, some of which are poisonous to the skin, esp. to the Rhus Toxicodendron, or poison ivy.
Dog's mercury (Bot.), Mercurialis perennis, a perennial plant differing from Mercurialis annua by having the leaves sessile.
English mercury (Bot.), A kind of goosefoot formerly used as a pot herb; -- called Good King Henry.
Horn mercury (Min.), A mineral chloride of mercury, having a semitranslucent, hornlike appearance.
Mercury (v. t.) To wash with a preparation of mercury. [Obs.] -- B. Jonson.
Mercury (n.) A heavy silvery toxic univalent and bivalent metallic element; the only metal that is liquid at ordinary temperatures [syn: mercury, quicksilver, hydrargyrum, Hg, atomic number 80].
Mercury (n.) (Roman mythology) messenger of Jupiter and god of commerce; counterpart of Greek Hermes.
Mercury (n.) The smallest planet and the nearest to the sun.
Mercury (n.) Temperature measured by a mercury thermometer; "the mercury was falling rapidly".
Mercury, ()
Symbol: Hg
Atomic number: 80
Atomic weight: 200.59
Heavy silvery liquid metallic element, belongs to the zinc group. Used in thermometers, barometers and other scientific apparatus. Less reactive than zinc and cadmium, does not displace hydrogen from acids. Forms a number of complexes and organomercury compounds.
Mercies (n. pl. ) of Mercy.
Mercy (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
Mercy (n.) Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.
Mercy (n.) Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
Mercy (n.) A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.
Merd (n.) Ordure; dung.
-mere () A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.
Mere (n.) 【古】【書】淺湖；池 [C] A pool or lake. -- Drayton. -- Tennyson.
Mere (n.) A boundary. -- Bacon.
Mere (v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
Which meared her rule with Africa. -- Spenser.
Mere (n.) A mare. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Mere (a.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
Then entered they the mere, main sea. -- Chapman.
The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed. -- Jer. Taylor.
Mere (a.) 僅僅的，只不過的 Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation. -- Atterbury.
Mere (a.) Being nothing more than specified; "a mere child".
Mere (a.) Apart from anything else; without additions or modifications; "only the bare facts"; "shocked by the mere idea"; "the simple passage of time was enough"; "the simple truth" [syn: bare(a), mere(a), simple(a)].
Mere (n.) A small pond of standing water.
MERE. () This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
Merely (adv.) 只是，僅僅，不過 Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked. -- Chapman.
Merely (adv.) Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to oblige your friends. -- Swift.
Syn: Solely; simply; purely; barely; scarcely.
Merely (adv.) And nothing more; "I was merely asking"; "it is simply a matter of time"; "just a scratch"; "he was only a child"; "hopes that last but a moment" [syn: merely, simply, just, only, but].
Merenchyma (n.) (Bot.) Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.
Meresman (n.) An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries. [Eng.]
Merestead (n.) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm. [Archaic.] -- Longfellow.
Merestone (n.) A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. -- Bacon.
Merestone (n.) An old term for a landmark that consisted of a pile of stones surmounted by an upright slab [syn: merestone, meerestone, mearstone].
Meretricious (a.) （裝飾、文體）俗氣的；浮華的；欺騙性的 Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
Meretricious (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
Meretricious (a.) Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading; insincere; specious; as, meretricious arguments. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.
Meretricious (a.) Like or relating to a prostitute; "meretricious relationships".
Meretricious (a.) Tastelessly showy; "a flash car"; "a flashy ring"; "garish colors"; "a gaudy costume"; "loud sport shirts"; "a meretricious yet stylish book"; "tawdry ornaments" [syn: brassy, cheap, flash, flashy, garish, gaudy, gimcrack, loud, meretricious, tacky, tatty, tawdry, trashy].
Meretricious (a.) Based on pretense; deceptively pleasing; "the gilded and perfumed but inwardly rotten nobility"; "meretricious praise"; "a meretricious argument" [syn: gilded, meretricious, specious].
Compare: Goosander
Goosander (n.) (Zool.) A species of merganser ({M. merganser) of Northern Europe and America; -- called also merganser, dundiver, sawbill, sawneb, shelduck, and sheldrake. See Merganser.
Merganser (n.) (Zool.) Mergus ({Merganser"> Any bird of the genus Mergus ({Merganser), and allied genera of the subfamily Merginae. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill, eat fish, and dive for food. Also called fish duck.
Note: The red-breasted merganser ({Merganser serrator) inhabits both hemispheres. It is called also sawbill, harle, and sheldrake. The American merganser ({Merganser Americanus.) and the hooded merganser ({Lophodytes cucullatus) are well-known species.
White merganser, the smew or white nun.
Merganser (n.) Large crested fish-eating diving duck having a slender hooked bill with serrated edges [syn: merganser, fish duck, sawbill, sheldrake].
Merged (imp. & p. p.) of Merge.
Merging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merge.