MPage 176
- English Word Mephitical Definition Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.
- English Word Mephitical Definition Offensive to the smell; as, mephitic odors.
- English Word Mephitis Definition Noxious, pestilential, or foul exhalations from decomposing substances, filth, or other source.
- English Word Mephitis Definition A genus of mammals, including the skunks.
- English Word Mephitism Definition Same as Mephitis, 1.
- English Word Meracious Definition Being without mixture or adulteration; hence, strong; racy.
- English Word Mercable Definition Capable of being bought or sold.
- English Word Mercantile Definition Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.
- English Word Mercaptal Definition Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.
- English Word Mercaptan Definition Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.
- English Word Mercaptide Definition A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.
- English Word Mercat Definition Market; trade.
- English Word Mercatante Definition A foreign trader.
- English Word Mercator's chart Definition See under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under Projection.
- English Word Mercature Definition Commerce; traffic; trade.
- English Word Merce Definition To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
- English Word Mercenaria Definition The quahog.
- English Word Mercenarian Definition A mercenary.
- English Word Mercenaries Definition of Mercenary
- English Word Mercenarily Definition In a mercenary manner.