Mixable Mix"a·ble adjective Capable of being mixed.

Mixed Mixed adjective Formed by mixing; united; mingled; blended. See Mix , transitive verb & i.

Mixed action (Law) , a suit combining the properties of a real and a personal action. -- Mixed angle , a mixtilineal angle. -- Mixed fabric , a textile fabric composed of two or more kinds of fiber, as a poplin. -- Mixed marriage , a marriage between persons of different races or religions; specifically, one between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant. -- Mixed number , a whole number and a fraction taken together. -- Mixed train , a railway train containing both passenger and freight cars. -- Mixed voices (Mus.) , voices of both males and females united in the same performance.

Mixedly Mix"ed·ly adverb In a mixed or mingled manner.

Mixen Mix"en noun [ Anglo-Saxon mixen , myxen , from meohx , meox , dung, filth; akin to English mist . See Mist .] A compost heap; a dunghill. Chaucer. Tennyson.

Mixer Mix"er noun One who, or that which, mixes.

Mixer Mix"er noun A person who has social intercourse with others of many sorts; a person viewed as to his casual sociability; -- commonly used with some characterizing adjective; as, a good mixer ; a bad mixer . [ Colloq. or Slang, U. S.]

Mixogamous Mix·og"a·mous adjective [ Greek ... a mixing + ... marriage.] (Zoology) Pairing with several males; -- said of certain fishes of which several males accompany each female during spawning.

Mixolydian mode Mix`o·lyd"i·an mode` [ Greek ... a mixing + English Lydian .] (Mus.) The seventh ecclesiastical mode, whose scale commences on G.

Mixtilineal, Mixtilinear Mix`ti·lin"e·al, Mix`ti·lin"e·ar adjective [ Latin mixtus mixed (past participle of miscere to mix) + English lineal , linear .] Containing, or consisting of, lines of different kinds, as straight, curved, and the like; as, a mixtilinear angle, that is, an angle contained by a straight line and a curve. [ R.]

Mixtion Mix"tion noun [ Latin mixtio , mistio : confer French mixtion . See Mistion , Mix .] 1. Mixture. [ Obsolete]

2. A kind of cement made of mastic, amber, etc., used as a mordant for gold leaf.

Mixtly Mixt"ly adverb With mixture; in a mixed manner; mixedly. Bacon.

Mixture Mix"ture noun [ Latin mixtura , from miscere , mixtum , to mix: confer French mixture . See Mix .] 1. The act of mixing, or the state of being mixed; as, made by a mixture of ingredients. Hooker.

2. That which results from mixing different ingredients together; a compound; as, to drink a mixture of molasses and water; -- also, a medley.

There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God, to serve the ends of his providence.

Atterbury.

3. An ingredient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient.

Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution.

Addison.

4. (Medicine) A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution , a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.

5. (Physics & Chem.) A mass of two or more ingredients, the particles of which are separable, independent, and uncompounded with each other, no matter how thoroughly and finely commingled; -- contrasted with a compound ; thus, gunpowder is a mechanical mixture of carbon, sulphur, and niter.

6. (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.

Mizmaze Miz"maze` noun A maze or labyrinth. [ Obsolete]

Mizzen Miz"zen adjective [ Italian mezzana , from mezzano middle, from mezzo middle, half: confer French misaine foresail. See Mezzo .] (Nautical) Hindmost; nearest the stern; as, the mizzen shrouds, sails, etc.

Mizzen Miz"zen noun (Nautical) The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.

Mizzenmast Miz"zen·mast noun (Nautical) The hindmost mast of a three-masted vessel, or of a yawl-rigged vessel.

Mizzle Miz"zle intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mizzled ; present participle & verbal noun Mizzling .] [ See Misle , and confer Mistle .] 1. To rain in very fine drops. Spenser.

2. 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 Miz"zle noun Mist; fine rain.

Mizzy Miz"zy noun [ Confer French moisi moldy, musty, past participle of moisir to mold, from Latin mucere to be moldy.] A bog or quagmire. [ Obsolete] Ainsworth.

Mnemonic Mne·mon"ic (ne*mŏn"ĭk), Mne*mon"ic*al (-ĭ*k a l) adjective [ Greek mnhmoniko`s , from mnh`mwn mindful, remembering, mnh`mh memory, mna^sqai to think on, remember; akin to English mind .] Assisting in memory.

Mnemonician Mne`mo·ni"cian noun One who instructs in the art of improving or using the memory.

Mnemonics Mne·mon"ics noun [ Greek ta~ mnhmonika` : confer French mnémonique .] The art of memory; a system of precepts and rules intended to assist the memory; artificial memory.

Mnemosyne Mne·mos"y·ne noun [ Latin , from Greek mnhmosy`nh remembrance, memory, and the goddess of memory. See Mnemonic .] (Class Myth.) The goddess of memory and the mother of the Muses.

Mnemotechny Mne"mo·tech`ny noun [ Greek ... memory + ... art: confer French mnémotechnie .] Mnemonics.

Mo Mo adjective , adverb , & noun [ Written also moe .] [ Anglo-Saxon mā . See More .] More; -- usually, more in number. [ Obsolete]

An hundred thousand mo .

Chaucer.

Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it.

Fuller.

Moa Mo"a (mō"ȧ) noun [ Native name.] (Zoology) 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 Mo"ab·ite noun One of the posterity of Moab, the son of Lot. ( Gen. xix. 37. ) Also used adjectively.

Moabite stone Mo"ab·ite stone (Archæol.) A block of black basalt, found at Dibon in Moab by Rev. F. A. Klein, Aug. 19, 1868, which bears an inscription of thirty-four lines, dating from the 9th century b. c. , and written in the Moabite alphabet, the oldest Phœnician type of the Semitic alphabet. It records the victories of Mesha, king of Moab , esp. those over Israel ( 2 Kings iii. 4, 5, 27 ).

Moabitess Mo"ab·i`tess noun A female Moabite. Ruth i. 22.

Moabitish Mo"ab·i`tish adjective Moabite. Ruth ii. 6.

Moan Moan (mōn) intransitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Moaned (mōnd); present participle & verbal noun Moaning .] [ Anglo-Saxon mǣnan to moan, also, to mean; but in the latter sense perhaps a different word. Confer Mean to intend.] 1. 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.

2. To emit a sound like moan; -- said of things inanimate; as, the wind moans .

Moan Moan transitive verb 1. To bewail audibly; to lament.

Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan
My dear Columbo, dead and gone.

Prior.

2. To afflict; to distress. [ Obsolete]

Which infinitely moans me.

Beau. & Fl.

Moan Moan noun [ Middle English mone . See Moan , intransitive verb ] 1. A low prolonged sound, articulate or not, indicative of pain or of grief; a low groan.

Sullen moans , hollow groans.

Pope.

2. A low mournful or murmuring sound; -- of things.

Rippling waters made a pleasant moan .

Byron.

Moanful Moan"ful adjective Full of moaning; expressing sorrow. -- Moan"ful*ly , adverb

Moat Moat noun [ Old French mote hill, dike, bank, French motte clod, turf: confer Spanish & Portuguese mota bank or mound of earth, Italian motta clod, Late Latin mota , motta , a hill on which a fort is built, an eminence, a dike, Prov. German mott bog earth heaped up; or perhaps French motte , and Old French mote , are from a Late Latin past participle of Latin movere to move (see Move ). The name of moat , properly meaning, bank or mound, was transferred to the ditch adjoining: confer French dike and ditch .] (Fort.) A deep trench around the rampart of a castle or other fortified place, sometimes filled with water; a ditch.

Moat Moat transitive verb To surround with a moat. Dryden.

Moate Moate intransitive verb [ See Mute to molt.] To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute. [ Obsolete]

Mob Mob noun [ See Mobcap .] A mobcap. Goldsmith.

Mob Mob transitive verb To wrap up in, or cover with, a cowl. [ R.]

Mob Mob noun [ Latin mobile vulgus , the movable common people. See Mobile , noun ] 1. 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.

2. 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 law , law administered by the mob; lynch law. -- Swell mob , well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded collectively. [ Slang] Dickens.

Mob Mob transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mobbed ; present participle & verbal noun Mobbing .] To crowd about, as a mob, and attack or annoy; as, to mob a house or a person.

Mobbish Mob"bish adjective Like a mob; tumultuous; lawless; as, a mobbish act. Bp. Kent.

Mobcap Mob"cap` noun [ Dutch mop-muts ; OD. mop a woman's coif + Dutch muts cap.] 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.

Mobile Mo"bile adjective [ Latin mobilis , for movibilis , from movere to move: confer French mobile . See Move .] 1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition; movable. "Fixed or else mobile ." Skelton.

2. 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 .

3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable; changeable; fickle. Testament of Love.

The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.

Hawthorne.

4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence of the mind; as, mobile features.

5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited; capable of spontaneous movement.

Mobile Mo"bile (mō"bĭl; Latin mŏb"ĭ*lē) noun [ Latin mobile vulgus . See Mobile , adjective , and confer 3d Mob .] The mob; the populace. [ Obsolete] "The unthinking mobile ." South.

Mobility Mo·bil"i·ty (mo*bĭl"ĭ*tȳ) noun [ Latin mobilitas : confer French mobilité .] 1. 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.

2. The mob; the lower classes. [ Humorous] Dryden.

Mobilization Mob`i·li·za"tion noun [ French mobilization .] The act of mobilizing.

Mobilize Mob"i·lize transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Mobilized ; present participle & verbal noun Mobilizing .] [ French mobiliser .] To put in a state of readiness for active service in war, as an army corps.

Moble Mo"ble transitive verb [ From Mob to wrap up.] To wrap the head of in a hood. [ Obsolete] Shak.

Mobles Mo"bles noun plural See Moebles . [ Obsolete]

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