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The idea of two is as distinct from the idea of
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three, as the magnitude of the earth from that of
Locke.

a mite.

2. The twentieth part of a grain.

The Seville piece of eight contains thirteen pennyweight twenty-one grains and fifteen mites, of which there are twenty in the grain, of sterling silver, and is in value forty-three English pence and eleven hundredths of a penny. Arbuthnot. 3. Any thing proverbially small; the third part of a farthing.

Though any man's corn they do bite,
They will not allow him a mite.

Tusser.
Are you defrauded, when he feeds the poor,
Our mite decreases nothing of your store. Dryd.
Did I e'er my mite with-hold
From the impotent and old.
4. A small particle.

Swift.

Put blue-bottles into an ant-hill, they will be stained with red, because the ants thrust in their stings, and instill into them a small mite of their stinging liquor, which hath the same effect as oil of vitriol. Ray on Creation.

Miller.

MITE LLA. n. s. A plant.
MITHRIDATE. n. s. [mithridate, Fr.]
Mithridate is one of the capital medicines of
the shops, consisting of a great number of ingre-
dients, and has its name from its inventor Mi-
thridates king of Pontus.
Quincy.

But you of learning and religion,
And virtue, and such ingredients, have made
A mithridate, whose operation

Keeps off, or cures, what can be done or said.

Denne.

MITHRIDATE mustard. n. s. [thlaspi, Lat]
A plant.
Miller.
MITIGANT. adj. [mitigans, Lat.] Le-
nient; lenitive.

To MITIGATE. v. a. [mitigo, Lat. miti-
ger, French.]

1. To temper; to make less rigorous.

We could greatly wish, that the rigour of their
opinion were allayed and mitigated.
2. To alleviate; to make mild; to as-
Hooker.
suage.

Mishaps are master'd by advice discreet,
And counsel mitigates the greatest smart.
Fairy Queen.

All it can do is, to devise how that which must be endured may be mitigated, and the inconveniencies thereof countervailed as near as may be, that, when the best things are not possible, the best may be made of those that are. Hooker. 3. To mollify; to make less severe; to soften.

I undertook

Before thee: and, not repenting, this obtain
Of right, that I may mitigate their doom,
On me deriv'd.
Milton's Paradise Lost.
4. To cool; to moderate.

A man has frequent opportunity of mitigating
the fierceness of a party, of softening the envi-
ous, quieting the angry, and rectifying the pre-
judiced.
MITIGATION. n. s. [mitigatie, Lat. mii-
Spectator.
gation, Fr. from mitigate.] Abatement
of any thing penal, harsh, or painful.

MIX

they committed them, and suffered them to lat guish long in prison, to extort from them great fines and ransoms, which they termed composi tions and mitigations. Bacon's Henry VII. MITRE. n. s. [mitre, Fr. mitra, Lat.] 1. An ornament for the head.

Nor Pantheus, thee, thy mitre nor the bands Of awful Phœbus, sav'd from impious hands. Dryden. 2. A kind of episcopal crown.

Bishopricks or burning, mitres or faggots, have been the rewards of different persons, according as they pronounced these consecrated syllables, Watts.

or not.

MITER. S
MITRE..s. [Among workmen.] A
mode of joining two boards
together.
MITRED. adj. [mitre, Fr. from mitre.]

Adorned with a mitre.

Miller.

Shall the loud herald our success relate, Or mitred priest appoint the solemn day? Prier. Mitred abbots, among us, were those that were exempt from the diocesan's jurisdiction, as having within their own precincts episcopal authority, and being lords in parliament were called abbots MITTENT. adj. [mittens, Lat.] Sending sovereign. Ayliffe's Parergen. forth; emitting.

The fluxion proceedeth from humours peccant in quantity or quality, thrust forth by the part mittent upon the inferior weak parts. Wiseman. MITTENS. n. s. [mitaine, Fr.] It is said that mit is the original word; whence mitten, the plural, and afterward mittens, as in chicken.

1. Coarse gloves for the winter.

December must be expressed with a horrid as pect, as also January clad in Irish rug, holding in furred mittens the sign of Capricorn. Peaebam. 2. Gioves that cover the arms without covering the fingers:

3. To handle one without miltens. To use
one roughly. A low phrase. Äinsen.
MITTIMUS. n. s. [Latin.] A warrant
by which a justice commits an offender
to prison.

To MIX. v.a. [misschen, Dutch; misceo,
Latin.]

1. To unite to something else.

Ephraim hath mixed himself among the people.

2. To unite various ingredients into one Hosea.

3.

The king would not have one penny abated of that granted to him by parliament, because it might encourage other countries to pray the like release or mitigation. They caused divers subjects to be indicted of Bacon. 4. sundry crimes; and when the bills were found

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To form of different substances of kinds.

I have chosen an argument, mixt of religious and civil considerations; and likewise mist between contemplative and active. To join; to mingle; to confuse. Bacon Brothers, you mix your sadness with some

fear

This is the English not the Turkish court. Shakspeare. She turns, on hospitable thoughts intent; What choice to choose for delicacy best, What order so contriv'd as not to mix Tastes, not well join'd, inelegant, but bring Taste after taste, upheld with kindest change. Milton. To MIX. v. n. To be united into one mass, not by junction of surfaces, but by mutual intromission of parts.

But is there yet no other way, besides These painful passages, how we may come To death, and mix with one connatural dust? Milton.

If spirits embrace,

Total they mix, union of pure with pure
Desiring; or restrain'd conveyance need
As flesh to mix with flesh, or soul with soul.
Milton.

MIXEN. 7. s. [mixen, Saxon.] A dung
hill; a laystal.
MIXTION. n. s. [mixtion, Fr. from mix.]
Mixture; confusion of one thing with
another.

Others perceiving this rule to fall short, have pieced it out by the mixtion of vacuity among bodies, believing it is that which makes one rarer than another. Digby on Bodies. They are not to be lightly past over as elementary or subterraneous mixtions. Bren. MIXTLY. adv. [from mix.] With coalition of different parts into one. MIXTURE. n. s. [mixtura, Latin.] 1. The act of mixing; the state of being

mixed.

O happy mixture wherein things contrary do so quality and correct the one the danger of the other's excess, that neither boldness can make us presume, as well as we are kept under with the sense of our own wretchedness; nor, while we trust in the mercy of God through Christ Jesus, fear be able to tyrannize over us! Hooker. Those liquors are expelled out of the body which, by their mixture, convert the aliment Arbuthnot. into an animal liquid.

I, by baleful furies led,

With monstrous mixture stain'd my mother's bed. Pope. 2. A mass formed by mingled ingredients. Come vial-What if this mixture do not work at all? Shakspeare. While we live in this world, where good and bad men are blended together, and where there is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God, to serve the ends of his providence. Atterbury.

3. That which is added and mixed.

Neither can God himself be otherwise understood, than as a mind free and disentangled from all corporeal mixtures, perceiving and moving all things. Stilling fleet. Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist, that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution. MIZMAZE. n. s. [A cant word, formed from maze by reduplication.] A maze; a labyrinth.

Addison.

Those who are accustomed to reason have got the true key of books, and the clue to lead them through the mizmaze of variety of opinions and authors to truth. Locke.

MIZZEN. n. s. [mezaen, Dutch.]

The 'mizzen is a mast in the stern or back part of a ship: in some large ships there are two such masts, that standing next the main mast is called

the main mizzen, and the other near the pobe the bonaventure mizzen: the length of a mizzen mast is half that of the main mast, or the same with that of the main topmast from the quarterdeck, and the length of the mizzen topmast is half that. Bailey.

A commander at sea had his leg fractured by the fall of his mizzen topmast. Wiseman. Mrzzy. n. s. A bog; a quagmire. Ains. MNEMONICKS. n. s. [pumpavien.] The art of memory.

Mo. adj. [ma, Sax. mae, Scottish.] Making greater number; more. Obsolete. Calliope and muses mo,

Soon as your oaken pipe begins to sound
Their ivory lutes lay by.

Spenser
With oxbows and oxyokes, with other things

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And cries of tortur'd ghosts. Pope's St. Cæcilia. MOAT. n. s. [motte, Fr. a mound; mota, low Lat.] A canal of water round a house or castle for defence.

it.

The castle I found of good strength, having a great moat round about it, the work of a noble gentleman, of whose unthrifty son he had bought Sidney. The fortress thrice himself in person storm'd; Your valour bravely did th' assault sustain, And fill'd the moats and ditches with the slain. Dryden. No walls were yet, nor fence, nor mote, nor mound, Nor drum was heard.

Dryden's Ovid. To MOAT. v. a. [motter, Fr. from the noun.] To surround with canals by way of defence.

I will presently to St. Luke's; there at the moated Grange résides this dejected Mariana. Shakspeare.

An arm of Lethe, with a gentle flow, The palace moats, and o'er the pebbles creeps, And with soft murmurs calls the coming sleeps. Dryden.

He sees he can hardly approach greatness, but, as a meatal castle, he must first pass the mud and filth with which it is encompasse Dryden,

MOB. n. s. [contracted from mobile, Lat.] The crowd; a tumultuous rout.

Parts of different species jumbled together, according to the mad imagination of the dawber; a very monster in a Bartholomew-fair, for the mob to gape at. Dryden. Dreams are but interludes, which fancy makes, When monarch reason sleeps, this mimick wakes; Compounds a medly of disjointed things, A court of coblers, and a meb of kings. Dryden.

A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters. Addison's Freeholder. MOB. n. s. [from moble.] A kind of fe male undress for the head.

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To Moв. v. a. [from the noun.] To harass, or overbear by tumult. Mo BBISH. adj. [from mob.] Mean; after the manner of the mob. MOBBY. . s. An American drink made of potatoes.

MOBILE. n. s. [mobile, Fr.] The populace; the rout; the mob.

Long experience has found it true of the unthinking mobile, that the closer they shut their South. eyes the wider they open their hands.

The mobile are uneasy without a ruler, they L'Estrange. are restless with one. MOBILITY. n. s. [mobilité, Fr. mobilitas, Latin.]

1. Mobility is the power of being moved.

Locke.

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The present age hath attempted perpetual motions, whose revolutions might out-last the exemplary mobility, and out-measure time itself.

You tell, it is ingenite, active force,
Mobility, or native power to move;
Words which mean nothing.
2. Nimbleness; activity.

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Brown.

Blackmore.

The Romans had the advantage by the bulk of their ships, and the fleet of Antiochus in the swiftness and mobility of theirs, which served Arbuthnot. them in great stead in the flight.

3. [In cant language.] The populace. She singled you out with her eye as commander in chief of the mobility. Dryden. Ainsworth.

4. Fickleness; inconstancy. To MOBIE. v. a. [sometimes written mable, perhaps by a ludicrous allusion to the French je m' habille.] To dress grossly or inelegantly.

But who, oh! hath seen the mobled queen, Run barefoot up and down. Shakspeare. MOCHO-STONE. n. s. [from Mocha, therefore more properly Mecha-stone.]

Mocho-stones are related to the agat, of a clear horny grey, with delincations representing mosses, shrubs, and branches, black, brown, and red, in the substance of the stone. Woodward.

To MOCK. v. a. [mocquer, Fr. moccio, Welsh.]

1. To deride; to laugh at; to ridicule.
All the regions

Do seemingly revolt; and who resist
Are mock'd for valiant ignorance,

And perish constant fools.

Many thousand widows

Shakspeare.

Shall this his mock, mock out of their dear husbands;

Mock mothers from their sons, mock castles down. Shakspeare.

We'll dishorn the spirit,

And mock him home to Windsor.

Shakspeare.

Job.

I am as one mocked of his neighbour; the just, upright man is mocked to scorn. 2. To deride by imitation; to mimick in contempt.

I long, till Edward fall by war's mischance, For mocking marriage with a dame of France. Shakspeare.

3. To defeat; to elude.

My father is gone into his grave,
And with his spirit sadly I survive,
To mock the expectations of the world;
To frustrate prophecies, and to raze out
Rotten opinion.

Shakspeare's Henry IV. 4. To fool; to tantalize; to play on contemptuously.

He will not

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Pluck down my officers, break my decrees; For now a time is come to mock at form. Shakip. A stallion horse is as a mocking friend: he neigheth under every one. Ecclesiasticus.

A reproach unto the heathen, and a mocking to all countries. Ezekiel. When thou mockest, shall no man make thee asham'd?

Job.

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What shall be the portion of those who have affronted God, derided his word, and made a mack of every thing that is sacred? Tillotson. Colin makes mock at all her piteous smart, A lass that Cic'ly hight, had won his heart. Gay. 2. Imitation; mimickry.

Now reach a strain, my lute,

Above her mock, or be for ever mute. Crashaw. Mock. adj. False; counterfeit ; not real. The mock astrologer, El astrologo fingido.

Dryden. That superior greatness and mock majesty, which is ascribed to the prince of fallen angels, is admirably preserved. Spectator. Mo'CKABLE. adj. [from mock.] Exposed to derision.

Those that are good manners at the court, are as ridiculous in the country, as the behaviour of the country is most mockable at court. Sbaksp. MOCK-PRIVET. n. s. Plants. Ainsw. Mo'cKEL. adj. [the same with mickle. See MICKLE. This word is variously written mickle, mickel, mochil, mochel, muckle.] Much; many.

The body bigg, and mightily pight, Thoroughly rooted, and wond'rous height, Whilom had been the king of the field, And mockell mast to the husband did yield.

Spenser.

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When we speak of faculties of the soul, we assert not with the schools their real distinction from it, but only a modal diversity. Glanville. MODALITY. n. s. [from modal.] Accidental difference; modal accident.

The motions of the mouth by which the voice is discriminated, are the natural elements of speech; and the application of them in their several compositions, or words made of them, to signify things, or the modalities of things, and so to serve for communication of notions, is artifical. Holder.

MODE. n. s. [mode, Fr. medus, Lat.] 1. External variety; accidental discrimi nation; accident.

A mode is that which cannot subsist in and of

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Falls upon thee in a much fairer sort,

For thou the garland wear'st successively.

Fashion; custom.

Shakspeare.

There are certain garbs and modes of speaking, which vary with the times; the fashion of our clothes being not more subject to alteration than that of our speech. Denbam.

We are to prefer the blessings of Providence before the splendid curiosities of mode and imagination. L'Estrange. They were invited from all parts; and the favour of learning was the humour and mode of the age. Temple.

As we see on coins the different faces of persons, we see too their different habits and dresses according to the mede that prevailed. Addison.

Tho' wrong the mode, comply; more sense is

shewn

In wearing others follies than your own. Young. If faith itself has different dresses worn, What wonder modes in wit should take their turn? Pope. MO'DEL. n. s. [modele, Fr. modulus, Lat.} 1. A representation in little of something made or done.

I'll draw the form and model of our battle; Limit each leader to his several charge, And part in just proportion our small strength. Shakspeare.

You have the models of several ancient temples, though the temples and the gods are perished. Addison.

2. A copy to be imitated.

3.

4.

A fault it would be if some king should build his mansion-house by the model of Solomon's palace. Hooker

They cannot see sin in those means they use, with intent to reform their models what they call religion. King Charles.

A mould; any thing which shows or gives the shape of that which it encloses

Nothing can we call our own but death; And that small model of the barren earth, Which serves as paste and cover to our bones. Shakspeare. Standard; that by which any thing is measured.

As he who presumes steps upon the throne of God, so he that despairs measures providence by his own little contracted model. South.

itself, but is always esteemed as belonging to, 5. In Shakspeare it seems to have two un

exampled senses. Something representative.

I have commended to his goodness The model of our chaste loves, his young daughter. Shakspeare. 6. Something small and diminutive; for module, a small measure: which, perhaps, is likewise the meaning of the example affixed to the third sense.

England! model to thy inward greatness, Like little body with a mighty heart. Shaksp. To MODEL. v. a. [modeler, Fr.] To plan; to shape; to mould; to form; to deli

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The government is modelled after the same manner with that of the cantons, as much as so small a community can imitate those of so large Addison on Italy. MODELLER.. s. [from model.] Planner; schemer; contriver.

an extent.

Our great modellers of gardens have their magazines of plants to dispose of. Spectator. MODERATE. adj. [moderatus, Latin moderé, French.]

1. Temperate; not excessive.

Sound sleep cometh of moderate eating, but pangs of the belly are with an insatiable man. Ecclesiasticus.

2. Not hot of temper.

A number of moderate members managed with so much art as to obtain a majority, in a thin house, for passing a vote, that the king's concessions were a ground for a future settlement.

Swift.

Fix'd to one part, but mod rate to the rest.

3. Not luxurious; not expensive.

Pope.

There's not so much left as to furnish out A moderate table. Shakspeare. 4. Not extreme in opinion; not sanguine in a tenet.

These are tenets which the moderatest of the Romanists will not venture to affirm. Smalridge. 5. Placed between extremes; holding the

mean.

Quietly consider the trial that hath been thus long had of both kinds of reformation; as well this moderate kind, which the church of England hath taken, as that other more extreme and rigorous, which certain churches elsewhere have better liked. Hooker.

6. Of the middle rate.

More moderate gifts might have prolong'd his date,

Too early fitted for a better state. Dryden. To MODERATE. v. a. [moderor, Lat. moderer, French.]

1. To regulate; to restrain; to still; to pacify; to quiet; to repress.

With equal measure she did moderate The strong extremities of their rage. Spenser. 2. To make temperate; to qualify.

Ye swarthy nations of the torrid zone,
How well to you is this great bounty known?
For frequent gales from the wide ocean rise
To fan your air, and moderate your skies.
Blackmore.

By its astringent quality it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water. Arbuthnot. MODERATELY, adv. [from moderate.] 1. Temperately; mildly.

2. In a middle degree.

Each nymph but moderately fair, Commands with no less rigor here.

Waller. Blood in a healthy state, when let out, its red part should congeal strongly and soon, in a mass moderately tough, and swim in the scrum. Arbuth. MODERATENESS. n. s. [from moderate.] State of being moderate; temperateness. Moderateness is commonly used of things, and moderation of persons.

1.

MODERATION. n. s. [moderatio, Latin.] Forbearance of extremity; the contrary temper to party violence; state of keeping a due mean betwixt extremes.

Was it the purpose of these churches, which abolished all popish ceremonies, to come back again to the middle point of evenness and moderation? Hooker.

A zeal in things pertaining to God, according to knowledge, and yet duly tempered with candour and prudence, is the true notion of that much talked of, much misunderstood virtue, moderation. Atterbury.

In moderation placing all my glory, While tories call me whig, and whigs a tory.

Pope.

2. Calmness of mind; equanimity. [moderation, French.]

Equally inur'd

Milten. Ainsworth.

By moderation either state to bear, Prosperous, or adverse. 3. Frugality in expence. MODERATOR. n. s. [moderator, Latin; moderateur, French.]

1. The person or thing that calms or re, strains.

Angling was, after tedious study, a calmer of unquiet thoughts, a moderator of passions, and a procurer of contentedness. Walion. 2. One who presides in a disputation, to restrain the contending parties from indecency, and confine them to the question.

Sometimes the moderator is more troublesome than the actor. Bacon's Essays. How does Philopolis seasonably commit the opponent with the respondent, like a long prac tised moderator? Mere.

The first person who speaks when the court is set, opens the case to the judge, chairman, or moderator of the assembly, and gives his own reasons for his opinion. Watts. MOʻDERN. n. s. [moderne, Fr. from modernus, low Latin; supposed a casual corruption of bodiernus. Vel potius ab adverbio modò, modernus, ut à die diurnus. Ainsworth.]

1. Late; recent; not ancient; not antique.

Some of the ancient, and likewise divers of the modern writers, that have laboured in natu ral magick, have noted a sympathy between the sun and certain herbs.

Bacon.

The glorious parallels then downward bring To modern wonders, and to Britain's king. Prier. 2. In Shakspeare, vulgar; mean; common. Trifles, such as we present modern friends withal. Shakspeart.

The justice With eyes severe and beard of formal cut, Full of wise saws and modern instances. Shaksp We have our philosophical persons to make modern and familiar things supernatural and causeless. Shakspeare

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