Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 60
Mixture (n.) (Mus.) An organ stop, comprising from two to five ranges of pipes, used only in combination with the foundation and compound stops; -- called also furniture stop. It consists of high harmonics, or overtones, of the ground tone.
Syn: Union; admixture; intermixture; medley.
Mixture (n.) (Chemistry) A substance consisting of two or more substances mixed together (not in fixed proportions and not with chemical bonding).
Mixture (n.) Any foodstuff made by combining different ingredients; "he volunteered to taste her latest concoction"; "he drank a mixture of beer and lemonade" [syn: concoction, mixture, intermixture].
Mixture (n.) A collection containing a variety of sorts of things; "a great assortment of cars was on display"; "he had a variety of disorders"; "a veritable smorgasbord of religions" [syn: assortment, mixture, mixed bag, miscellany, miscellanea, variety, salmagundi, smorgasbord, potpourri, motley].
Mixture (n.) An event that combines things in a mixture; "a gradual mixture of cultures" [syn: mix, mixture].
Mixture (n.) The act of mixing together; "paste made by a mix of flour and water"; "the mixing of sound channels in the recording studio" [syn: mix, commixture, admixture, mixture, intermixture, mixing].
Miyazaki (n.) （日本）宮崎港市 A city on SE Kyushu, in Japan.
Compare: Kyushu
Kyushu (n.) 九州島（日本第三大島） The southernmost of the four main islands of Japan; contains coal fields.
Mizmaze (n.) A maze or labyrinth. [Obs.]
Mizzen (a.) (Naut.) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.
Mizzen (n.) (Naut.) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
Mizzen (n.) Third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy [syn: mizzenmast, mizenmast, mizzen, mizen].
Mizzen (n.) Fore-and-aft sail set on the mizzenmast [syn: mizzen, mizen].
Mizzenmast (n.) (Naut.) the third mast from the bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a yawl, ketch, or dandy.
Note: The definition varies slightly with the dictionary; in
some dictionaries it is the last mast of a three-masted vessel; in others, it
is the mast after the mainmast of a vessel of three or more masts. PJC.
Mizzenmast (n.) Third mast from the
bow in a vessel having three or more masts; the after and shorter mast of a
yawl, ketch, or dandy [syn: mizzenmast, mizenmast, mizzen, mizen].
Mizzled (imp. & p. p.) of Mizzle.
Mizzling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mizzle.
Mizzle (n.) Mist; fine rain.
Mizzle (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops ; to drizzle. -- Spenser.
Mizzle (v. i.) To take one's self off; to go. [Slang]
As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled. -- Epigram, quoted by Wright.
Mizzle (n.) Very light rain; stronger than mist but less than a shower [syn: drizzle, mizzle].
Mizzle (v.) Rain lightly; "When it drizzles in summer, hiking can be pleasant" [syn: drizzle, mizzle].
Mizzy (n.) A bog or quagmire. [Obs.] -- Ainsworth.
Mnemonic (n.) Something used to assist the memory, as an easily remembered acronym or verse.
Mnemonic (n.) An abbreviated word that resembles the full word, used so as to be easily recognized; as, the CIDE uses ... tags as mnemnonics for an italicised word or field.
Note: In basic organic chemistry class, one may learn the mnenomic "Oh my, such good apple pie" to help remember the names of the dicarboxylic acids in increasing order of length, namely: oxalic, malonic, succinic, glutaric, adipic, and pimelic acids. (From L. Fieser's Organic Chemistry text).
Mnemonic (a.) Alt. of Mnemonical.
Mnemonical (a.) Assisting in memory ; helping to remember; as, a mnemonic device.
Mnemonic (a.) Of or relating to or involved the practice of aiding the memory; "mnemonic device" [syn: mnemonic, mnemotechnic, mnemotechnical].
Mnemonic (n.) A device (such as a rhyme or acronym) used to aid recall.
Mnemonic, () A word or string which is intended to be easier to remember than the thing it stands for. Most often used in "{instruction mnemonic" which are so called because they are easier to remember than the binary patterns they stand for. Non-printing ASCII characters also have mnemonics like NAK, ESC, DEL intended to evoke their meaning on certain systems. (1995-05-11)
Mnemonician (n.) One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.
Mnemonics (n.) The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.
Mnemonics (n.) A method or system for improving the memory.
Mnemosyne (n.) (Class Myth.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
Mnemosyne (n.) (Greek mythology) the Titaness who was goddess of memory; mother of the Muses.
Mnemotechny (n.) Mnemonics.
Compare: Modus operandi
Modus operandi, [L.], Manner of operating. Often abbreviated to MO
-mo () A suffix added to the names of certain numerals or to the numerals themselves, to indicate the number of leaves made by folding a sheet of paper; as, sixteenmo or 16mo; eighteenmo or 18mo. It is taken from the Latin forms similarly used; as, duodecimo, sextodecimo, etc. A small circle, placed after the number and near its top, is often used for -mo; as, 16Á, 18Á, etc.
Mo (a., adv., & n.) More; -- usually, more in number. [Obs.]
An hundred thousand mo. -- Chaucer.
Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it. -- Fuller.
Mo, (Chem.) Chemical symbol for the element molybdenum.
MO, () Abbreviation for modus operandi, manner of operating; -- often used to refer to the method an habitual criminal uses to perpetrate his crime.
Mo (n.) An indefinitely short time; "wait just a moment"; "in a mo"; "it only takes a minute"; "in just a bit" [syn: moment, mo, minute, second, bit].
Mo (n.) A polyvalent metallic element that resembles chromium and tungsten in its properties; used to strengthen and harden steel [syn: molybdenum, Mo, atomic number 42].
Mo (n.) A midwestern state in central United States; a border state during the American Civil War, Missouri was admitted to the Confederacy without actually seceding from the Union [syn: Missouri, Show Me State, MO].
MO, () Machine Object (PO)
MO, () Management Object (OSI)
Mo, () The country code for Macau. (1999-01-27)
Moa (n.) (Zool.) Any one of several very large extinct species of wingless birds belonging to Dinornis, and other related genera, of the suborder Dinornithes, found in New Zealand. They are allied to the apteryx and the ostrich. They were probably exterminated by the natives before New Zealand was discovered by Europeans. Some species were much larger than the ostrich.
Moa (n.) Extinct flightless bird of New Zealand.
Moabite (n.) One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (-- Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.
Moabite, () The designation of a tribe descended from Moab, the son of Lot (Gen. 19:37). From Zoar, the cradle of this tribe, on the south-eastern border of the Dead Sea, they gradually spread over the region on the east of Jordan. Rameses II., the Pharaoh of the Oppression, enumerates Moab (Muab) among his conquests. Shortly before the Exodus, the warlike Amorites crossed the Jordan under Sihon their king and drove the Moabites (Num. 21:26-30) out of the region between the Arnon and the Jabbok, and occupied it, making Heshbon their capital. They were then confined to the territory to the south of the Arnon.
On their journey the Israelites did not pass through Moab, but through the "wilderness" to the east (Deut. 2:8; Judg. 11:18), at length reaching the country to the north of the Arnon. Here they remained for some time till they had conquered Bashan (see SIHON; OG). The Moabites were alarmed, and their king, Balak, sought aid from the Midianites (Num. 22:2-4). It was while they were here that the visit of Balaam (q.v.) to Balak took place. (See MOSES.)
After the Conquest, the Moabites maintained hostile relations with the Israelites, and frequently harassed them in war (Judg. 3:12-30; 1 Sam. 14). The story of Ruth, however, shows the existence of friendly relations between Moab and Bethlehem. By his descent from Ruth, David may be said to have had Moabite blood in his veins. Yet there was war between David and the Moabites (2 Sam. 8:2; 23:20; 1 Chr. 18:2), from whom he took great spoil (2 Sam. 8:2, 11, 12; 1 Chr. 11:22; 18:11).
During the one hundred and fifty years which followed the defeat of the Moabites, after the death of Ahab (see MESHA �T0002505), they regained, apparently, much of their former prosperty. At this time Isaiah (15:1) delivered his "burden of Moab," predicting the coming of judgment on that land (comp. 2 Kings 17:3; 18:9; 1 Chr. 5:25, 26). Between the time of Isaiah and the commencement of the Babylonian captivity we have very seldom any reference to Moab (Jer. 25:21; 27:3; 40:11; Zeph. 2:8-10).
After the Return, it was Sanballat, a Moabite, who took chief part in seeking to prevent the rebuilding of Jerusalem (Neh. 2:19; 4:1; 6:1).
Moabitess (n.) A female Moabite. -- Ruth i. 22.
Moabitish (a.) Moabite. -- Ruth ii. 6.
Moan (v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.
Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan My dear Columbo, dead and gone. -- Prior.
Moan (v. t.) To afflict; to distress. [Obs.]
Which infinitely moans me. -- Beau. & Fl.
Moaned (imp. & p. p.) of Moan.
Moaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Moan.
Moan (v. i.) To make a low prolonged sound of grief or pain, whether articulate or not; to groan softly and continuously.
Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans. -- Thomson.
Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, To make him moan. -- Shak.
Moan (v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
Moan (n.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
Sullen moans, hollow groans. -- Pope.
Moan (n.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.
Rippling waters made a pleasant moan. -- Byron.
Moan (n.) An utterance expressing pain or disapproval [syn: groan, moan].
Moan (v.) Indicate pain, discomfort, or displeasure; "The students groaned when the professor got out the exam booklets"; "The ancient door soughed when opened" [syn: groan, moan].
Moanful (a.) Full of moaning; expressing sorrow. -- Moan"ful*ly, adv.
Moat (n.) (Fort.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.
Moat (v. t.) To surround with a moat. -- Dryden.
Compare: Ditch
Ditch (n.; pl. Ditches.) A trench made in the earth by digging, particularly a trench for draining wet land, for guarding or fencing inclosures, or for preventing an approach to a town or fortress. In the latter sense, it is called also a moat or a fosse.
Ditch (n.; pl. Ditches.) Any long, narrow receptacle for water on the surface of the earth.
Moat (n.) Ditch dug as a fortification and usually filled with water [syn: moat, fosse].
Moate (v. i.) To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [Obs.]
Mob (n.) The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. -- Addison.
Mob (n.) Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. -- Pope.
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. -- Madison.
Confused by brainless mobs. -- Tennyson.
Mob (n.) A criminal organization or organized criminal gangs, collectively; the Mafia; the syndicate; as, he was a lawyer for the mob.
Mob law, Law administered by the mob; lynch law.
Swell mob, Well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [Slang] -- Dickens.
Mobbed (imp. & p. p.) of Mob.
Mobbing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mob.
Mob (v. t.) To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.
Mob (n.) A mobcap. -- Goldsmith.
Mob (v. t.) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [R.]
Mob (n.) A disorderly crowd of people [syn: mob, rabble, rout].
Mob (n.) A loose affiliation of gangsters in charge of organized criminal activities [syn: syndicate, crime syndicate, mob, family].
Mob (n.) An association of criminals; "police tried to break up the gang"; "a pack of thieves" [syn: gang, pack, ring, mob].
Mob (v.) Press tightly together or cram; "The crowd packed the auditorium" [syn: throng, mob, pack, pile, jam].
MOB, () Memory Ordering Buffer (Intel, CPU)
Mobbish (a.) Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act. -- Bp. Kent.
Mobbish (a.) Characteristic of a mob; disorderly or lawless; "fanned mounting tension into mobbish terrorizing"; "moblike mentality" [syn: mobbish, moblike].
Mobcap (n.) A plain cap or headdress for women or girls; especially, one tying under the chin by a very broad band, generally of the same material as the cap itself. -- Thackeray.
Mobcap (n.) Large high frilly cap with a full crown; formerly worn indoors by women.
Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile." -- Skelton.
Mobile (a.) Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
Mobile (a.) Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. -- Testament of Love.
The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition. -- Hawthorne.
Mobile (a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
Mobile (a.) (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Mobile (a.) Capable of moving readily, or moving frequenty from place to place; as, a mobile work force.
Mobile (a.) Having motor vehicles to permit movement from place to place; as, a mobile library; a mobile hospital.
Mobile (n.) The mob; the populace. [Obs.] "The unthinking mobile." -- South.
Mobile (n.) A form of sculpture having several sheets or rods of a stiff material attached to each other by thin wire or twine in a balanced and artfully arranged tree configuration, with the topmost member suspended in air from a support so that the parts may move independently when set in motion by a current of air.
Mobile (a.) Migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes" [syn: mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering].
Mobile (a.) Moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator" [ant: immobile].
Mobile (a.) Having transportation available
Mobile (a.) Capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face."
Mobile (a.) Affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile" [syn: fluid, mobile].
Mobile (n.) A river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay [syn: Mobile, Mobile River].
Mobile (n.) A port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay.
Mobile (n.) Sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents [ant: stabile].
Mobile -- U.S. County in Alabama
Population (2000): 399843
Housing Units (2000): 165101
Land area (2000): 1233.090896 sq. miles (3193.690623 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 410.931906 sq. miles (1064.308706 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1644.022802 sq. miles (4257.999329 sq. km)
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.722256 N, 88.139667 W
Headwords:
Mobile
Mobile, AL
Mobile County
Mobile County, AL
Mobile, AL -- U.S. city in Alabama
Population (2000): 198915
Housing Units (2000): 86187
Land area (2000): 117.903061 sq. miles (305.367514 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 41.531877 sq. miles (107.567062 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 159.434938 sq. miles (412.934576 sq. km)
FIPS code: 50000
Located within: Alabama (AL), FIPS 01
Location: 30.679523 N, 88.103280 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 36602 36603 36604 36605 36606 36607
36608 36609 36612 36617 36618 36619
36693 36695
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mobile, AL
Mobile
Mobility (n.) The quality or state of being mobile; as, the mobility of a liquid, of an army, of the populace, of features, of a muscle. -- Sir T. Browne.
Mobility (n.) The mob; the lower classes. [Humorous] -- Dryden.
Mobility (n.) The quality of moving freely [ant: immobility].
Mobility (n.) [ U ] (Ability to move) 活動性，流動性 The ability to move freely or be easily moved.
// Some neck injuries cause total loss of mobility below the point of injury.
// I prefer the mobility of a hand-held camera.
Mobilization (n.) The act of mobilizing.
Mobilization (n.) Act of assembling and putting into readiness for war or other emergency: "mobilization of the troops" [syn: mobilization, mobilisation, militarization, militarisation] [ant: demobilisation, demobilization].
Mobilization (n.) Act of marshaling and organizing and making ready for use or action; "mobilization of the country's economic resources" [syn: mobilization, mobilisation].
Mobilized (imp. & p. p.) of Mobilize.
Mobilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mobilize.
Mobilize (v. t.) To assemble and organize and make ready for use or action; as, to mobilize volunteers for the election campaign.
Syn: mobilise, marshal.
Mobilize (v. t.) Specifically: To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps ; as, to mobilize the National Guard.
Syn: mobilise, militarize, militarise. Moebius strip
Mobilize (v.) Make ready for action or use; "marshal resources" [syn: mobilize, mobilise, marshal, summon].
Mobilize (v.) Call to arms; of military personnel [syn: call up, mobilize, mobilise, rally] [ant: demobilise, demobilize, inactivate].
Mobilize (v.) Get ready for war [syn: mobilize, mobilise] [ant: demob, demobilise, demobilize]
Mobilize (v.) Cause to move around; "circulate a rumor" [syn: mobilize, mobilise, circulate]
Moble (v. t.) To wrap the head of in a hood. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Mobles (n. pl.) See Moebles. [Obs.]
Mobocracy (n.) A condition in which the lower classes of a nation control public affairs without respect to law, precedents, or vested rights.
It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy. -- Walpole.
Mobocracy (n.) A political system in which a mob is the source of control; government by the masses [syn: mobocracy, ochlocracy].
Mobocrat (n.) One who favors a form of government in which the unintelligent populace rules without restraint. -- Bayne.
Mobocratic (a.) Of, or relating to, a mobocracy.
Moccasin (n.) A shoe made of deerskin, or other soft leather, the sole and upper part being one piece. It is the customary shoe worn by the American Indians.
Moccasin (n.) (Zool.) A poisonous snake of the Southern United States. The water moccasin ({Ancistrodon piscivorus) is usually found in or near water. Above, it is olive brown, barred with black; beneath, it is brownish yellow, mottled with darker. The upland moccasin is Ancistrodon atrofuscus. They resemble rattlesnakes, but are without rattles.
Moccasin flower (Bot.), A species of lady's slipper ({Cypripedium acaule) found in North America. The lower petal is two inches long, and forms a rose-colored moccasin-shaped pouch. It grows in rich woods under coniferous trees.
Moccasin (n.) Soft leather shoe; originally worn by Native Americans [syn: moccasin, mocassin].
Moccasined (a.) Covered with, or wearing, a moccasin or moccasins. "Moccasined feet." -- Harper's Mag.
Mocha (n.) A seaport town of Yemen, on the Red Sea, also spelled Mukha.
Mocha (n.) A variety of coffee brought from Mocha.
Mocha (n.) An Abyssinian weight, equivalent to a Troy grain.
Mocha (n.) A flavoring made from an infusion of coffee or of a combination of coffee with chocolate or cocoa.
Mocha (n.) A color of a deep chocolate brown.
Mocha stone (Min.), Moss agate.
Mocha (n.) Soft suede glove leather from goatskin.
Mocha (n.) A flavoring made from coffee mixed with chocolate.
Mocha (n.) A superior dark coffee made from beans from Arabia [syn: mocha, mocha coffee].
Mocha (n.) A dark brown color.
Moche (n.) [F.] A bale of raw silk.
Moche (a.) Much. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Mochel (a. & adv.) Much. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Mochila (n.) [Sp.] A large leather flap which covers the saddletree. [Western U.S.]
Mocked (imp. & p. p.) of Mock.
Mocking (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mock.
Mock (v. t.) To imitate; to mimic; esp., to mimic in sport, contempt, or derision; to deride by mimicry.
To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death. -- Shak.
Mocking marriage with a dame of France. -- Shak.
Mock (v. t.) To treat with scorn or contempt; to deride.
Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud. -- 1 Kings xviii. 27.
Let not ambition mock their useful toil. -- Gray.
Mock (v. t.) To disappoint the hopes of; to deceive; to tantalize; as, to mock expectation.
Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies. -- Judg. xvi. 13.
He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. -- Milton.
Syn: To deride; ridicule; taunt; jeer; tantalize; disappoint. See Deride.
Mock (v. i.) To make sport contempt or in jest; to speak in a scornful or jeering manner.
When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? -- Job xi. 3.
She had mocked at his proposal. -- Froude.
Mock (n.) An act of ridicule or derision; a scornful or contemptuous act or speech; a sneer; a jibe; a jeer.
Fools make a mock at sin. -- Prov. xiv. 9.
Mock (n.) Imitation; mimicry. [R.] -- Crashaw.
Mock (a.) Imitating reality, but not real; false; counterfeit; assumed; sham.
That superior greatness and mock majesty. -- Spectator.
Mock bishop's weed (Bot.), A genus of slender umbelliferous herbs ({Discopleura) growing in wet places.
Mock heroic, Burlesquing the heroic; as, a mock heroic poem.
Mock lead. See Blende ( a ).
Mock nightingale (Zool.), The European blackcap.
Mock orange (Bot.), A genus of American and Asiatic shrubs ({Philadelphus), with showy white flowers in panicled cymes. Philadelphus coronarius, from Asia, has fragrant flowers; the American kinds are nearly scentless.
Mock sun. See Parhelion.
Mock turtle soup, A soup made of calf's head, veal, or other meat, and condiments, in imitation of green turtle soup.
Mock velvet, A fabric made in imitation of velvet. See Mockado.
Mock (a.) Constituting a copy or imitation of something; "boys in mock battle."
Mock (n.) The act of mocking or ridiculing; "they made a mock of him."
Mock (v.) Treat with contempt; "The new constitution mocks all democratic principles" [syn: mock, bemock].
Mock (v.) Imitate with mockery and derision; "The children mocked their handicapped classmate."
Mock (v.) [ T ] (Formal) 嘲笑，嘲弄；（常指為取笑而）模仿 To laugh at someone, often by copying them in a funny but unkind way.
// They were mocking him because he kept falling off his bike.
// She made fun of him by mocking his limp.
Mock (v.) [ T ] 愚弄；使徒勞 To make something appear stupid or not effective.
// The wind mocked their attempts to reach the shore by pushing the boat further and further out to sea.
Phrasal verb: Mock sth up
Mock sth up (- Phrasal verb with mock) (v.) [ T ] 模擬；用模型展示 To make a model of something in order to show people what it will look like or how it will work.
Mock (a.) [ Before noun ] 假的；仿製的；假裝的 Not real but appearing or pretending to be exactly like something.
// Mock cream.
// Mock leather.
// Mock surprise.
Mock (n.) [ C ] 模擬考試 An exam taken at school for practice before a real exam.
// You will have your mocks during the first two weeks of March.
Mockable (a.) Such as can be mocked. -- Shak.
Mockado (n.) A stuff made in imitation of velvet; -- probably the same as mock velvet. [Obs.]
Mockadour (n.) See Mokadour. [Obs.]
Mockage (n.) Mockery. [Obs.] -- Fuller.
Mockbird (n.) (Zool.) The European sedge warbler ({Acrocephalus phragmitis).
Mocker (n.) One who, or that which, mocks; a scorner; a scoffer; a derider.
Mocker (n.) A deceiver; an impostor.
Mocker (n.) (Zool.) A mocking bird. mockernut.
Mocker (n.) Someone who jeers or mocks or treats something with contempt or calls out in derision [syn: scoffer, flouter, mocker, jeerer].
Mocker (n.) Long-tailed grey-and-white songbird of the southern United States able to mimic songs of other birds [syn: mockingbird, mocker, Mimus polyglotktos].
Mockeries (n. pl. ) of Mockery.
Mockery (n.) The act of mocking, deriding, and exposing to contempt, by mimicry, by insincere imitation, or by a false show of earnestness; a counterfeit appearance.
It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery. -- Shak.
Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God. -- Law.
And bear about the mockery of woe. -- Pope.
Mockery (n.) Insulting or contemptuous action or speech; contemptuous merriment; derision; ridicule.
The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries. -- Spenser.
Mockery (n.) Subject of laughter, derision, or sport.
The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. -- 2 Macc. viii. 17.
Mockery (n.) Showing your contempt by derision [syn: jeer, jeering, mockery, scoff, scoffing].
Mockery (n.) A composition that imitates or misrepresents somebody's style, usually in a humorous way [syn: parody, lampoon, spoof, sendup, mockery, takeoff, burlesque, travesty, charade, pasquinade, put-on].
Mockery (n.) Humorous or satirical mimicry [syn: parody, mockery, takeoff].
Mocking (a.) Imitating, esp. in derision, or so as to cause derision; mimicking; derisive.
Mocking thrush (Zool.), Any species of the genus Harporhynchus, as the brown thrush ({Harporhynchus rufus).
Mocking wren (Zool.), Any American wren of the genus Thryothorus, esp. Thryothorus Ludovicianus. mockingbird
Mocking (a.) Abusing vocally; expressing contempt or ridicule; "derisive laughter"; "a jeering crowd"; "her mocking smile"; "taunting shouts of `coward' and `sissy'" [syn: derisive, gibelike, jeering, mocking, taunting].
Mocking (a.) Playfully vexing (especially by ridicule); "his face wore a somewhat quizzical almost impertinent air" -- Lawrence Durrell [syn: mocking, teasing, quizzical].
Mockingly (adv.) By way of derision; in a contemptuous or mocking manner.
Mockingstock (n.) A butt of sport; an object of derision. [R.]
Mockish (a.) Mock; counterfeit; sham. [Obs.]
Compare: Mickle
Mickle (a.) Much; great. [Written also muckle and mockle.] [Old Eng. & Scot.] "A man of mickle might." -- Spenser.
Mockle (a.) See Mickle.
Moco (n.) (Zool.) A South American rodent ({Cavia rupestris), allied to the Guinea pig, but larger; -- called also rock cavy.
Modal (a.) Of or pertaining to a mode or mood; consisting in mode or form only; relating to form; having the form without the essence or reality. -- Glanvill.
Modal (a.) (Logic & Metaph.) Indicating, or pertaining to, some mode of conceiving existence, or of expressing thought, such as the modes of possibility or obligation.
Modal (a.) (Gram.) Pertaining to or denoting mood.
Modal (Gram.), (n.) A modal auxiliary.
Modal (a.) Relating to or constituting the most frequent value in a distribution; "the modal age at which American novelists reach their peak is 30" [syn: modal(a), average].
Modal (a.) Of or relating to a musical mode; especially written in an ecclesiastical mode.
Modal (a.) Relating to or expressing the mood of a verb; "modal auxiliary."
Modal (n.) An auxiliary verb (such as `can' or `will') that is used to express modality [syn: modal auxiliary verb, modal auxiliary, modal verb, modal].
Modal, () (Of an interface) Having modes. Modeless interfaces are generally considered to be superior because the user does not have to remember which mode he is in.
Modal, () See modal logic.
Modal, () In MS Windows programming, A window with the label "WS_MODAL" will stay on the screen and claim all the user-input. Other windows can only be accessed if the MODAL window is closed. Such a window would typically be used for an error dialog box to warn the user for something important, like "Critical error, shut down the system and restart". (1995-02-07)