MPage 83
- English Word Mare Definition Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.
- English Word Mare's-nest Definition A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grosaly absurd.
- English Word Mare's-tail Definition A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud.
- English Word Mare's-tail Definition An aquatic plant of the genus Hippuris (H. vulgaris), having narrow leaves in whorls.
- English Word Marechal Niel Definition A kind of large yellow rose.
- English Word Mareis Definition A Marsh.
- English Word Marena Definition A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.
- English Word Mareschal Definition A military officer of high rank; a marshal.
- English Word Margarate Definition A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.
- English Word Margaric Definition Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.
- English Word Margarin Definition A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and teipalmitin.
- English Word Margarite Definition A pearl.
- English Word Margarite Definition A mineral related to the micas, but low in silica and yielding brittle folia with pearly luster.
- English Word Margaritic Definition Margaric.
- English Word Margaritiferous Definition Producing pearls.
- English Word Margarodite Definition A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite.
- English Word Margarone Definition The ketone of margaric acid.
- English Word Margarous Definition Margaric; -- formerly designating a supposed acid.
- English Word Margate fish Definition A sparoid fish (Diabasis aurolineatus) of the Gulf of Mexico, esteemed as a food fish; -- called also red-mouth grunt.
- English Word Margay Definition An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black. Called also long-tailed cat.