1. Dim; obscure; clouded; as misty sight. NWAD MISTY.2
1. Disagreement; difference; dissension; sometimes a softer name for quarrel. NWAD MISUNDERSTANDING.3
1. To treat or use improperly; to use to a bad purpose. NWAD MISUSE.2
2. To abuse; to treat ill. NWAD MISUSE.3
1. Abuse; ill treatment. NWAD MISUSE.5
2. Wrong application; misapplication; erroneous use; as the misuse of words. NWAD MISUSE.6
1. A very small insect of the genus Acarus. NWAD MITE.2
2. In Scripture, a small piece of money, the quarter of a denarius, or about seven English farthings. NWAD MITE.3
3. Any thing proverbially very small; a very little particle or quantity. NWAD MITE.4
4. The twentieth part of a grain. NWAD MITE.5
1. A sacerdotal ornament worn on the head by bishops and certain abbots, on solemn occasions. NWAD MITER.2
2. In architecture, an angle of 45 degrees. NWAD MITER.3
3. In Irish history, a sort of base money or coin. NWAD MITER.4
4. Figuratively, the dignity of bishops or abbots. NWAD MITER.5
1. To unite at an angle of 45 degrees. NWAD MITER.7
1. Honored with the privilege of wearing a miter. NWAD MITERED.2
2. Cut or joined at an angle of 45 degrees. NWAD MITERED.3
1. Softening; lenient; lenitive. NWAD MITIGANT.2
2. Diminishing; easing; as pain. NWAD MITIGANT.3
1. To alleviate, as suffering; to assuage; to lessen; as, to mitigate pain or grief. NWAD MITIGATE.2
And counsel mitigates the greatest smart. NWAD MITIGATE.3
2. To make less severe; as, to mitigate doom. NWAD MITIGATE.4
3. To abate; to make less rigorous; to moderate; as, to mitigate cold; to mitigate the severity of the season. NWAD MITIGATE.5
4. To temper; to moderate; to soften in harshness or severity. NWAD MITIGATE.6
We could wish that the rigor of their opinions were allayed and mitigated. NWAD MITIGATE.7
5. To calm; to appease; to moderate; as, to mitigate the fierceness of party. NWAD MITIGATE.8
6. To diminish; to render more tolerable; as, to mitigate the evils or calamities of life; to mitigate punishment. NWAD MITIGATE.9
7. To reduce in amount or severity; as, to mitigate a penalty. NWAD MITIGATE.10
8. To soften, or make mild and accessible; in a literal sense. NWAD MITIGATE.11
It was this opinion which mitigated kings into companions. [Unusual.] NWAD MITIGATE.12
1. A cover for the hand, worn to defend it from cold or other injury. It differs from a glove, in not having a separate cover for each finger. NWAD MITTEN.2
2. A cover for the arm only. NWAD MITTEN.3
To handle without mittens, to treat roughly; a popular colloquial phrase. NWAD MITTEN.4
Sending forth; emitting. [Not used.] NWAD MITTENT.2
1. A writ for removing records from one court to another. NWAD MITTIMUS.2
1. To unite or blend promiscuously two or more ingredients into a mass or compound; applied both to solids and liquids; as, to mix flour and salt; to mix wines. NWAD MIX.2
2. To join; to associate; to unite with in company. NWAD MIX.3
Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people. Hosea 7:8. NWAD MIX.4
3. To join; to mingle. NWAD MIX.5
You mix your sadness with some fear. NWAD MIX.6
4. To unite with a crowd or multitude. NWAD MIX.7
1. To be joined or associated; as, to mix with the multitude, or to mix in society. NWAD MIX.9
1. a. Promiscuous; consisting of various kinds or different things; as a mixed multitude. NWAD MIXED.2
Containing a mixture of lines, right, curved, etc. NWAD MIXTILINEAL.2
1. A mass or compound, consisting of different ingredients blended without order. In this life there is a mixture of good and evil. Most wines in market are base mixtures. NWAD MIXTURE.2
2. The ingredient added and mixed. Cicero doubted whether it is possible for a community to exist without a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution. NWAD MIXTURE.3
3. In pharmacy, a liquid medicine which receives into its composition not only extracts, salts and other substances dissolvable in water, but earths, powders and other substances not dissolvable. NWAD MIXTURE.4
4. In chimistry, mixture differs from combination. In mixture, the several ingredients are blended without an alteration of the substances, each of which still retains its own nature and properties. In combination, the substances unite by chimical attraction, and losing their distinct properties, they form a compound differing in its properties from either of the ingredients. NWAD MIXTURE.5
Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan NWAD MOAN.2
My dear Columbo dead and gone. NWAD MOAN.3
Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans. NWAD MOAN.5
Sullen moans, NWAD MOAN.7
Hollow groans. NWAD MOAN.8
1. A crowd or promiscuous multitude of people, rude, tumultuous and disorderly. NWAD MOB.2
2. A disorderly assembly. NWAD MOB.3
Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob. NWAD MOB.4
3. A huddled dress. NWAD MOB.5
1. To wrap up in a cowl or vail. NWAD MOB.7
Primum mobile, in the ancient astronomy, a ninth heaven or sphere, supposed to be beyond the fixed stars, and to be the first mover of all the lower spheres. NWAD MOBILE.3
1. Susceptibility of motion; capacity of being moved. NWAD MOBILITY.2
2. Aptitude to motion; activity; readiness to move. NWAD MOBILITY.3
3. In cant language, the populace. NWAD MOBILITY.4
4. Fickleness; inconstancy. NWAD MOBILITY.5
1. Properly, to imitate; to mimick; hence, to imitate in contempt or derision; to mimick for the sake of derision; to deride by mimicry. NWAD MOCK.2
2. To deride; to laugh at; to ridicule; to treat with scorn or contempt. NWAD MOCK.3
As he was going up by the way, there came forth little children out of the city, and mocked him, saying, go up, thou bald head. 2 Kings 2:23; Mark 10:34. NWAD MOCK.4
3. To defeat; to illude; to disappoint; to deceive; as, to mock expectation. NWAD MOCK.5
Thou hast mocked me and told me lies. Judges 16:10. NWAD MOCK.6
4. To fool; to tantalize; to play on in contempt. NWAD MOCK.7
He will not NWAD MOCK.8
Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence. NWAD MOCK.9
When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed? Job 11:3. NWAD MOCK.11
Fools make a mock at sin. Proverbs 14:9. NWAD MOCK.13
What shall be the portion of those who make a mock at every thing sacred? NWAD MOCK.14
1. Imitation; mimicry. [Little used.] NWAD MOCK.15
That superior greatness and mock majesty-- NWAD MOCK.17
1. Derision; ridicule; sportive insult or contempt; contemptuous merriment at persons or things. NWAD MOCKERY.2
Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like mockery upon devotion, than any solemn application of the mind to God. NWAD MOCKERY.3
2. Sport; subject of laughter. NWAD MOCKERY.4
Of the holy place they made a mockery. NWAD MOCKERY.5
3. Vain imitation or effort; that which deceives, disappoints or frustrates. NWAD MOCKERY.6
It is as the air, invulnerable, NWAD MOCKERY.7
And our vain blows malicious mockery. NWAD MOCKERY.8
4. Imitation; counterfeit appearance; false show. NWAD MOCKERY.9
And bear about the mockery of woe NWAD MOCKERY.10
To midnight dances. NWAD MOCKERY.11
1. Manner of existing or being; manner; method; form; fashion; custom; way; as the mode of speaking; the mode of dressing; modes of receiving or entertaining company. NWAD MODE.2
The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may be easily found. NWAD MODE.3
It is applicable to particular acts, or to a series of acts, or to the common usage of a city of nation. One man has a particular mode of walking; another has a singular mode of dressing his hair. We find it necessary to conform in some measure to the usual modes of dress. NWAD MODE.4
2. Gradation; degree. NWAD MODE.5
What modes of sight between each wide extreme! NWAD MODE.6
3. State; quality. NWAD MODE.7
4. In metaphysics, the dependence or affection of a substance. Such complex ideas as contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies or affections of substances, Locke calls modes. Of these he makes two kinds; simple modes, which are only variations or different combinations of the same idea, as a dozen, which consists of so many units added together; and mixed modes, which are compounded of simple ideas of several kinds, as beauty, which is compounded of color and figure. NWAD MODE.8
A mode is that which cannot subsist in and of itself, but is esteemed as belonging to and subsisting by the help of some substance, which for that reason is called its subject. NWAD MODE.9
5. In music, a regular disposition of the air and accompaniments relative to certain principal sounds, on which a piece of music is formed, and which are called the essential sounds of the mode. NWAD MODE.10
6. In grammar, a particular manner of conjugating verbs to express manner of action or being, as affirmation, command, condition and the like; usually and not very properly written mood. Mood is a word of different signification. [See Mood.] NWAD MODE.11
7. A kind of silk. NWAD MODE.12
1. A pattern of something to be made; any thing of a particular form, shape or construction, intended for imitation; primarily, a small pattern; a form in miniature of something to be made on a larger scale; as the model of a building; the model of a fort. NWAD MODEL.2
2. A mold; something intended to give shape to castings. NWAD MODEL.3
3. Pattern; example; as, to form a government on the model of the British or American constitution. NWAD MODEL.4
4. Standard; that by which a thing is to be measured. NWAD MODEL.5
He that despairs, measures Providence by his own contracted model. NWAD MODEL.6
5. In painting and sculpture, that which is to be copied or imitated; as the naked human form. NWAD MODEL.7
6. A pattern; any thing to be imitated. Take Cicero, lord Chatham or Burke, as a model of eloquence; take Washington as a model of prudence, integrity and patriotism; above all, let Christ be the model of our benevolence, humility, obedience and patience. NWAD MODEL.8
7. A copy; representation; something made in imitation of real life; as anatomical models, representing the parts of the body. General Pfiffer constructed a model of the mountainous parts of Switzerland. NWAD MODEL.9
1. Literally, limited; restrained; hence, temperate; observing reasonable bounds in indulgence; as moderate in eating or drinking, or in other gratifications. NWAD MODERATE.2
2. Limited in quantity; not excessive or expensive. He keeps a moderate table. NWAD MODERATE.3
3. Restrained in passion, ardor or temper; not violent; as moderate men of both parties. NWAD MODERATE.4
4. Not extreme in opinion; as a moderate Calvinist or Lutheran. NWAD MODERATE.5
5. Placed between extremes; holding the mean or middle place; as reformation of a moderate kind. NWAD MODERATE.6
6. Temperate; not extreme, violent or rigorous; as moderate weather; a moderate winter; moderate heat; a moderate breeze of wind. NWAD MODERATE.7
7. Of a middle rate; as men of moderate abilities. NWAD MODERATE.8
8. Not swift; as a moderate walk. NWAD MODERATE.9
1. To temper; to make temperate; to qualify. NWAD MODERATE.11
By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water. NWAD MODERATE.12
1. In a middle degree;; not excessively; as water moderately warm. NWAD MODERATELY.2
Each nymph but moderately fair. NWAD MODERATELY.3
In moderation placing all my glory, NWAD MODERATION.2
While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory. NWAD MODERATION.3
1. Restraint of violent passions or indulgence of appetite. Eat and drink with moderation; indulge with moderation in pleasures and exercise. NWAD MODERATION.4
2. Calmness of mind; equanimity; as, to bear prosperity or adversity with moderation. NWAD MODERATION.5
3. Frugality in expenses. NWAD MODERATION.6
1. The person who presides over a meeting or assembly of people to preserve order, propose questions, regulate the proceedings and declare the vote; as the moderator of a town meeting or of a society. NWAD MODERATOR.2