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].
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 (v. i.) To rain in very fine drops.
Mizzle (v. i.) To take one's self off; to go.
Mizzle (n.) Mist; fine rain.
Mizzy (n.) A bog or quagmire.
Mnemonic (a.) Alt. of Mnemonical.
Mnemonical (a.) Assisting in memory.
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.
Mnemosyne (n.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.
Mnemotechny (n.) Mnemonics.
Mo (a., adv., & n.) More; -- usually, more in number.
-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.
Moa (n.) 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.
Moabite (n.) One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. (Gen. xix. 37.) Also used adjectively.
Moabitess (n.) A female Moabite.
Moabitish (a.) Moabite.
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.
Moan (v. i.) To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans.
Moan (v. t.) To bewail audibly; to lament.
Moan (v. t.) To afflict; to distress.
Moan (v. i.) A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.
Moan (v. i.) A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.
Moanful (a.) Full of moaning; expressing sorrow.
Moat (n.) 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.
Moate (v. i.) To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute.
Mob (n.) A mobcap.
Mob (v. t.) To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl.
Mob (n.) The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the lowest part of it.
Mob (n.) A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous assembly; a disorderly crowd.
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.
Mobbish (a.) Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act.
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.
Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable.
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.
Mobile (a.) Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.
Mobile (a.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.
Mobile (a.) The mob; the populace.
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.
Mobility (n.) The mob; the lower classes.
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.
Mobilized (imp. & p. p.) of Mobilize.
Mobilizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mobilize.
Mobilize (v. t.) To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.
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)