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|Mind ||n||The faculty of the memory. 2. the state of being remembered, remembrance, recollection, bear in mind. 3. opinion, way of mind. 4. desire inclination, to have a mind. 5. mental disposition, character or temper. 6. intellectual power or capacity. 7. the faculty of cognition and intellect, as opposed to will and emotion. 8. sanity, sound mentality. 9 the spirit of intelligence pervading the universe, as opposed to matter. |
|Mind ||n||The faculty of the memory. 2. the state of being remembered, remembrance, recollection, bear in mind. 3. opinion, way of mind. 4. desire inclination, to have a mind. 5. mental disposition, character or temper. 6. intellectual power or capacity. 7. the faculty of cognition and intellect, as opposed to will and emotion. 8. sanity, sound mentality. 9 the spirit of intelligence pervading the universe, as opposed to matter. |
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+ | |Mind ||vb||To pay attention to, occupy oneself with. 2. to be careful or wary. 3. to give heed to, obey. 4. to care for, tend to. 5. to be concerned about, regard with annoyance, dislike. 6. to remember, remind, (I mind you wearing one of them last summer;) make aware. 7. to be aware, notice, perceive. 8. to intend, purpose. 9. to be concerned, care, careful. |
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|Mind ||adj||Present to one's mind. 2. of a person: mindful, taking thought. |
|Mind ||adj||Present to one's mind. 2. of a person: mindful, taking thought. |
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Old English | sp | English |
Mice-eyed | adj | Having the keen eyes and sight of a mouse. |
Mickle | adj | Of size, stature: great, huge, big. 2. epithet for building, place, such as " Mickle Britaigne" -- "Mickle University Hall". 3. of something numerical: aggregate, proportional, great. 4. great in amount or of degree. 5. great of power or importance. 6. great quantity or amount, much, qn abundance. 7. a great number of people or folk. 8. the greatest part of something, so much. |
Mickle | n | "The Mickle." - those great and powerful. 2. the multitude; a great amount or large sum. |
Mickle | vb | To increase, magnify, enlarge. |
Mickle | adv | To great extent, greatly, relative, as, how, so. |
Mickle | phr | "For as Mickle" - as forasmuch as. |
Mickle | phr | "In As Mickle As" - in so far; in as much as. |
Mickle | phr | "Make Mickle of" - make much of, cherish. 2. a great amount. |
Mickle | phr | "Many a Little, Makes a Mickle" - a lot of small or little amounts, put together becomes a large amount. |
Mickle | phr | "Mickled with Cold" - stiffened and benumbed with too much or severe cold. |
Mickle | phr | "Seek Mickle and Get Something, Seek Little and Get Nothing" - be ambitious, strive to achieve. |
Mickle | phr | "Unto So Mickle" - so much that |
Mickledom | n | Size, magnitude, greatness. |
Micklehood | n | Greatness, fullness, abundance. |
Micklemote | n | "The Micklegemote." - 'The Great Meeting' The great council or parliamentary assembly under the Angle-Saxon kings. |
Mickle-mouthed | adj | A mouth disproportionate to the other parts of the face or it's size. |
Mickleness | n | Greatness, bigness, in any sense, largeness, size; large mass; muchness. |
Mickle-wamb | n | The stomach, esp. that of the ox used for culinary purposes. |
Mickle-what | n | A great deal, something of many kinds; antonym -- little what. |
Micklewise | adj | Greatly wise; profound in wisdom. |
Mid | adj | Middle, midst. 2. prefixed to month or season, or designation of a period of time, such as collocations: mid-eld, mid year, midwinter, mid-life, etc. 3. of colour, occupying a middle position in a range of shades. |
Mid | prep | Denoting association, connection, conjunction, communication, intercourse. 2. in the same direction as a stream, wind. 3. in agreement with, following the action of, analogously to, like. 4. indicating an accompanying, action, disposition of mind. 5. having an attribute or quality indicating means or instrument. 6. in regard to, in respect of, in spite of,, touching. 7. in the sight of, estimation or opinion of, in the possession or power of. |
Mid | phr | "In Mid flight" - in the middle stages of a journey by airplane. |
Mid | phr | "Mid the Best" - as good or great as possible; mid the most. |
Mid | phr | "Mid the First" - as soon as possible. |
Mid | phr | "Of Mid Child" -with child; pregnant. |
Mid-afternoon | n | In the middle of the afternoon. |
Mid-all | adv | Altogether, entirely, and all, at the same time, withal |
Mid-arm | adj | The middle (lengthwise) of the upper (proximal) part of the arm. |
Mid-bite | adv | While taking a bite; while eating. |
Midbowman | n | a member of a crew of a vessel who works with the mast and often packs the sails below deck. |
Mid-brain | n | The limbic system, the mesencephalon, the midbrain. |
Mid brother | n | The second in age of three brothers. |
Mid-calf | n | The middle of the calf, halfway between the knee and the ankle. |
Mid-chest | n | The middle of the chest. |
Midday | n | Noon, the middle of a day. midoverundern. |
Midday meal | n | A meal served and eaten around midday. 2. midmeal |
Mid-deep | adv | As deep as the middle of the body. |
Middest | adj | The most central. |
Middle | n | A centre, midpoint, midst. 2 the part between the beginning and the end. 3. central part of the human body. |
Middle | adj | Located in the middle; in between, central. |
Middle | phr | "In the Middle" - in a dangerous or vulnerable position. |
Middle | phr | "In the Middle Of (Something)" - in the midst of, among. 2. in thick of something going on. 3. in the act of doing something. |
Middle | phr | "In the Middle of Nowhere" - far away from any town or city, and anywhere few people live. |
Middle | phr | "Knock Somebody Into the Middle of Next Week" - hit somebody very hard. |
Middle | phr | "Middle of the Road" - avoiding extremes, average, moderate. 2. of music, tuneful but somewhat bland and unadventurous. |
Middle-body | n | Part of a vessel adjacent to the midship but having a uniform or nearly uniform cross-section. |
Middle-brow | n | A person of average or moderate cultural interest; nb: high-brow, low-brow. |
Middle-ear | n | The part of the ear internal to the eardrum, and external to the oval window of the inner ear. |
Middle earth | n | Middle-erd: place between heaven and earth, supposed to occupy the centre of the universe. Now only applied to the real world in contradistinction to fantasy-world. |
Middle East | n | The region comprising south west Africa and northeast Asia |
Middle-English | n | The English language from about 1150 to 1500AD. |
Middle-erd | n | The world, taken as situated between heaven and hell; also the people dwelling on earth. |
Middle-finger | n | The finger between the forefinger and the ring finger; this is the longest finger. 2. an obscene gesture directed towards another as an insult; a literal or sometimes fig. raising of the middle finger at someone. |
Middle-ground | n | Idiomatic, a compromise position between two extremes. |
Middle-growth | n | The age between infancy and adulthood; youth. |
Middle-heaven | n | The middle of heaven |
Middlehood | n | The age between forty and sixty-five years of age. |
Middle income | adj | Of average income. |
Middle Kingdom | n | The former Chinese Empire, regarded as occupying the centre of the world; later considered as the eighteen provinces of China proper. 2. kingdom of ancient Eygpt, 2400-1580. |
Middle-life | n | The middle age of a person. |
Middlely | adv | in a medium manner. |
Middleman | n | An intermediary agent between two (or more) parties. 2. an intermediary dealer between the manufacturer and retailer or customer. 3. a middlewoman/middleman. |
Middle-middle | n | The middle of the Earth. |
Middlemost | adv | The very middle or nearest to the middle, previously with reference to size, age, quality. 2. nearest the middle. |
Middle name | n | The name9s) between one's first name and one's surname |
Middleness | n | The fact or quality of being middle, average, or middle-class. |
Middle-of-the-road | adj | Having a centrist attitude or philosophy; not extreme, esp. politically. |
Middle-of-the-roader | n | One who endorses a moderate course, especially in politics. |
Middle-of-the-roadness | n | Having a quality centrist attitude or philosophy; not extreme, esp. politically. |
Middler | n | One of a middle or intermediate class in some schools and seminaries. |
Middlesex | n | The original territory of the Middle Saxons, which seemingly included the area of the later counties of Middlesex and Hertford, between Wessex and Essex. |
Middle town | n | The centre of the town. 2. typical of a middle-class person. |
Middleward | adv | The middle part of anything. 2. towards the middle part of anything. 3. the middle body of an army. 4. half-way, on the way. |
Middleware | n | Software that acts as a bridge between an operating system or database aand applications, esp. on a network. |
Middle-watch | n | The watch from midnight till 4am. |
Middleway | n | The course between two extremes. 2. half-way, the middle of the way, one's middle course. |
Middleweight | n | A boxer intermediate between a welterweight and a light heavyweight, weighing from 71-75 kg. |
Middle West | n | In the United States, properly the states of Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, and Wisconin. |
Middle-witted | adj | Of or prone to fallacious or specious reasoning. |
Middle-years | n | The years in the middle of one's life; middle age. |
Middle-youth | n | The time of life between early adulthood and middle age. |
Middling | phr | "Among the Middling" - of a mediocre class: "the ordinary person or people." |
Middling | n | A go-between; intermediary. |
Middling | adj | Intermediate, medium, middle term. 2. mediocre of a person, middle- class, of performance; moderately good.. 2. second-rate, second or third-rate goods. 3. of health: off-colour, sickly. 4. a medium size, medium. 5. between two things; between two extremes. 6. of medium or moderate size, middle-sizing. 7. mean, average, moderate. 8. middle-aged. occupying a middle position. 9. moderately, fairly, tolerable. |
Middlingish | adv | As in moderately good; somewhat mediocre. |
Middlingly | adv | In a manner moderate, fairly, indifferently, tolerably, not very well in health. |
Middlingness | n | The state of being middling, mediocre. |
Mid-earth | n | The earth's middle. 2. the Mediteranean Sea. |
Mid-earth Sea | n | The Mediterranean |
Mid-evening | adv | During the middle of the evening. |
Midge | n | Name for various gnat-like insects. |
Mid-fall | n | The middle of autumn. |
Mid-field | n | The middle of a field of play. |
Mid-flight | adv | Occurring in the middle part of a flight. |
Mid-floor | adv | In the middle of a floor. |
Midge | n | Any small gnat-like dipterous fly of the family Chironomidae, often seen in dancing swarms near water. 2. any similar fly, esp. a tiny biting flies. 3. a tiny person. |
Midge-like | adj | Very small, nanoid, tiny. |
Midgern | n | The fat about the entrails of an animal; suet; in more general use the fat about the kidneys, esp that of a pig. |
Mid-gut | n | The portion of an embryo from which most of the intestines grow. 2. the middle part of the alimentary canal, ( including in vertebrates) the small intestine. |
Midhood | n | The centre, middle. |
Mid-husband | n | Male equivalent of a midwife, from OE. literally meaning 'with a woman.' |
Midland(s) | n | The middle part of a country. 2. the inland counties of central England. |
Midlander | n | One who lives in the midlands of a country. |
Mid-leap | n | During a leap. |
Midless | adj | Having no middle or centre, |
Mid-life | n | Middle age of a person's life. 2. the part of life between youth-hood and old age. |
Midlike | adv | Moderately. |
Midline | n | A medial line or plane of bilateral symmetry, especially of a body. |
Mid-lying | n | Adultery, infidelity, unfaithfulness, cheating, extra-maritally involved. |
Mid-main | n | Mid ocean. |
Midman | n | Umpire, moderator, intermediary. |
Midmeal | adv | Meal eaten at noon. 2. food provided at midday for students in schools in many countries of the world, notably India. |
Mid-month | adv | In or during the month. |
Mid-monthly | adv | In or during the middle patt of the month. |
Mid-morning | n | THe time between early morning and noon. |
Midmost | adv | That is in the very middle, with regard to position, age. 2. the mid-most part, the middle. 3. in the middle or midst. 4. most intimate. |
Midnight | n | Twelve o'clock at night; the middle of the night. |
Midnight | adj | Being in, or characteristic of, the middle of the night; as, midnight gloom. 2. atramentous, black, black as coal, coal-black, coaly, coomy, dark, dark as night, dark, deep black, night-black, night-dark, night-fallen, nightlong, nightly, night-time, raven, raven-black. |
Midnight black | n | Of a deep shade of black; jet-black. |
Midnight blue | adj | Deep or very dark shade of blue. |
Midnightly | adv | Every midnight or taking place at midnight. |
Midnight shroud | n | The covering of darkness that envelopes the world at midnight. |
Midnight sun | n | The sun when seen during the summer in either Arctic or Antarctic circle. 2. the sun visible at midnight in the summer as result of the fact that the latitude of the place from which it is viewed is greater than the polar distance or the sun, or above 66 degrees. |
Midoverunden | n | Midday, noon. |
Midred | n | Diaphragm, midriff. |
Midrib | n | A large strengthened vein along the mid-line of a leaf. |
Midriff | n | Belly, stomach, diaphragm, parietum. 2. the region of the front of the body between the thorax and the abdomen. 3. a garment or part of a garment covering the abdomen. |
Mid-rise | n | A low-rise is a building that is only a few stories tall or any building that is shorter than a high-rise, though others include the classification of mid-rise. |
Mid-road | adv | In the middle of the road. |
Mids | n | Middle, middle part or point, the midst. 2. a means. 3. a means between two extremes, a middle course, a compromise. |
Mids | vb | To take in a middle view. |
Mids | phr | In the Mids Of" - in the middle part of. |
Mid-Sea | n | The open sea. |
Midship | n | Pertaining to the middle of a ship. |
Midshipman | n | An officer of the lowest rank in several navies; especially a trainee officer. |
Midshipmanship | n | Position of a midshipman |
Midsman | n | Mediator |
Midsman | n | Mediator, one in the middle of something. |
Midspan | n | In structural engineering , the point on a flexural member (as a girder, beam) that is equidistant from the two end supports. |
Midspeech | n | A point in time during a speech, or while one is speaking. |
Midspread | adv | In statistics, the interquartile range. |
Midspring | n | The middle of spring. |
Midst | n | A place in the midst; may be used of a literal or metaphorical location. |
Midst | prn | Among, in the middle of; amid; in the midst; in one's midst. |
Midst | phr | "In the Midst of." - among, us you or them; in the presence of. |
Midst | phr | "Leave in One's Midst" - to leave undecided. 2. abstain from giving an opinion on. |
Midstep | n | During or while taking a tep. |
Midstorm | adv | Pero during a storm. |
Midstream | n | The middle of the stream. 2. a mid stage of an action, incident, situation. |
Midstream | phr | "Halt Midstream" - (temporarily) stop while doing something. |
Midstrength | adj | Of beer, containing |
Mid-stride | n | In the middle of a stride. |
Midsummer | n | In the middle of summer near the period of the summer solstice.. |
Midsummer-day | n | Midsummer, also known as St John's Day, is the period of time centred upon the summer solstice, and more specifically the Northern European celebrations that accompany the actual solstice or take place on a day between June 19 and June 25 and the preceding evening. The exact dates vary between different cultures. The Christian Church designated June 24 as the feast day of the early Christian martyr St John the Baptist, and the observance of St John's Day begins the evening before, known as St John's Eve. |
Midsummer eve | n | St John's eve |
Midsummerish | adj | Of, resembling or characteristic of mid-summer. |
Midsummer-madness | n | Foolishness, extreme folly or reckless behavior considered to be at its height during midsummer. |
Midsummer moon | n | The Moon at the time of the summer heat. |
Midsummer moon | phr | T'is Midsummer Moon with You" - you are stark mad. |
Midtholing | n | Compassion, commiseration, sympathy. |
Midtale | n | The middle part of a story. |
Mid-thigh | adv | The middle part of the thigh. |
Midthought | n | Some time during a thought. |
Midthought | adv | During a thought; in mid thought. |
Midtime | n | Time in the middle of the day. |
Mid-town | n | The middle or central part of a town between the downtown and uptown areas. 2. the centre area or 'the agora' of a town or city. |
Mid twenthieth | adj | Usually used before century to indicate the middle part of the 20th Century, which could refer to events in the 1940s, the 1950s or the 1960s. However, in architecture, preservation, and real estate, it is commonly being used to refer to the period after World War II to the mid-1970s |
Midward | adj | In the middle of, occupying the middle of, towards the middle, at the middle part, in the middle part. 2. in or towards the middle. |
Midward | adv | In or towards the middle; in the middle part. |
Mid-water(s) | adv | in the middle of the waters. |
Midway | adj | The middle of the way or distance. 2. a medium or medium course. 3. situated in the middle of the way. 4. occupying the middle. |
Midway | adv | Half-way. |
Midweek | n | In the middle of the week, around Wednesday. |
Mid-West | n | A geographical location of a country: "The Mid-West" of the US. |
Mid-wife | n | A woman or nurse who assists women in childbirth. 2. a person or thing that brings about change. |
Midwife | vb | To be or act as a midwife. |
Midwife | phr | "The Midwife of Men's Thoughts" - Grote observed of Socrates "No man ever struck out of others so many original thought." |
Midewifely | adv | In the manner of a midwife. |
Mid-wife toad | n | A european toad in which the male carries the developing eggs on his hind legs. |
Mid-wifish | adj | Resembling of characteristic of a midwife. |
Midwinter | n | The middle of winter. 2. the winter solstice; 21st or 22nd of December. |
Midwinter | phr | "Cold as Midwinter" - very cold. |
Midwinter-eve | n | Christmas eve. |
Midwinterly | adv | In midwinter; of or pertaining to midwinter. |
Midwinter-tide | n | Christmas time. |
Midwise | adv | In a medium or moderate way. |
Mid-witted | adj | Of average intellect or intelligent. |
Mid-year | n | In the middle of the year, around June 30th. |
Mig | n | Urine, or the draining of urine from manure. |
Might | n | From Old English; AS. meaht, miht, from the root of magan to be able. 2. force or power of any kind, whether of body or mind; energy or intensity of purpose, feeling, or action; means or resources to effect an object; strength; force; power; ability (to do so); capacity, might, bodily or physical strength authority, virtue, mighty work, miracle, angel”). 3. power, strength, force or influence held by a person or group. |
Might | vb | From Old English; AS. meaht, miht, from the root of magan to be able. 2. (auxiliary) used to indicate conditional or possible actions. 3. (auxiliary) simple past tense of may. 4 used to indicate permission in the past tense. 5. I am able, (an auxiliary verb qualifying the meaning of another verb, by expressing: ability, competency, or possibility, liberty; permission; allowance; (contingency or liability; possibility or probability. 6.(modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark; desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. 7. "may be, & it may be", are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, maybe, by chance, peradventure. |
Might | adj | (Obsolete, chiefly before 1900) Mighty; powerful; possible. |
Might | vb | (auxiliary) Used to indicate conditional or possible actions. 2. (auxiliary) simple past tense of may. 3 used to indicate permission in past tense. |
Might | phr | "By Might" - by wrongful force or violence. |
Might | phr | "Five-fold Mights" - the active powers (of the brain, heart, soul, mind etc.) |
Might | phr | "High and Mighty" - arrogant, self-opinionated. |
Might | phr | "Lay Might" - to do one's utmost. |
Might | phr | "Might as Well" - expressing that it is probably at least as desirable to do a thing as it is not. |
Might | phr | "Might could" - might be able to. |
Might | phr | "Might Makes Right" - having the power to something gives one the right to do it. 2. the plea of justice or fairness is ineffective against a superior force. |
Might | phr | "Might Not" - may not happen. |
Might | phr | "Over Might" - beyond one's own power. |
Might | phr | "With All One's Might" - with all one's powers. 2. to the utmost of one's ability. |
Might | phr | "With Might and Main." - with utmost strength and endeavour. |
Mightand | n | Mightend; a mighty man. |
Might-be | . | What might be, an unlikely possibility, that might be, remotely possible. |
Mighted | adj | Having power, strength, effect |
Mightend | n | A mighty man. See: bodiend friend, ferend, fiend, healend, waldend, shapend, mightend, almightend, milciend, slinkend, stygand, way-ferend. |
Mightful | adj | Mighty, powerful, effacious. 2. of actions proceeding from arbitrary powers. |
Mightfully | adv | In a powerful or forceful manner. |
Mightfulness | n | The state or quality of being powerful, strong, mighty. |
Might-have-been | n | An event which could have happened, but never did. 2. a person who might have been greater or more eminent. |
Mighthood | n | Mightiness. |
Mightily | adv | In a mighty manner. 2. with great power or strength. 3. with powerful effect. 4. with great effort, vigorously, vehemently. 5. so as to be strong or powerful; powerfully, strongly. 6. with great degree or extent. 7. greatly, very much. |
Mightiness | n | State or condition of beong mighty, powerful, strong. |
Mighting | n | Power, strength, might. |
Mightless | adj | Without might, powerless, impotent. |
Mightly | adj | Might; competent, capable; strong, powerful. 3. substantial; weighty, of import. 4. able, able to occur, possible. |
Mightly | adv | Mightily. |
Mightsome | adj | Mightful. |
Mighty | adv | (Southern regional intensive) very; to a great degree; mighty, mightily, powerful, right. |
Mighty | adj | Having or showing great strength or force or intensity. 2. possessing might; having great power or authority. 3. accomplished by might; hence, extraordinary; wonderful. 4. denoting an extraordinary degree or quality in respect of size, character, importance, consequences, |
Mighty | phr | "Mighty Oaks from Little Acorns Grow" - something or somebody great can come from modest beginnings. |
Mighty | n | A warrior of great force and courage. |
Mighty-brained | adj | Highly intelligent and intellectual. |
Mighty-handed | adj | Highly skilled in arts, crafts and works carried out by use of the hands. |
Mighty-minded | adj | Highly intelligent and of great intellectual powers. |
Mighty-mouthed | adj | Loud, vociferous, authoritarian of speech. |
Mighty works | n | Of the person, their actions and attributes, with references to mental ability or executive skill. |
Milady | n | From 'my lady' : an English noblewoman. 2. a woman regarded as having fashionable or expensive taste |
Milce | n | Mercy, clemency, forbearance, favor. |
Milceful | adj | Merciful, gracious, kind. |
Milcefulness | n | State or condition of being kind, merciful, gracious. |
Milce-hearted | adj | Kind, considerate, compassionate, merciful, gracious. |
Milcer | n | One who shows mercy, kindness, compassion. |
Milce-witted | adj | Knowing mercy, kindness, compassion. |
Milch | n | Milk of domestic animals giving milk, or kept for milking; milching. 2. applied to a woman, esp. a wet nurse. 3. of the breast or teats: giving milk. 4. transfig: of the eyes that are weeping. 5. of plants: milky, full of milk. 6. of dew exuding milk. 6. a person who is easily fleeced. |
Milch | vb | To milk; to milk a cow three times a day; from OE. thrimilce. |
Milch-cow | n | A milking cow. 2. a cow giving milk. 3. a source of regularly accruing gain or profit. 4. (fig.) a person from whom money is easily drawn; one who is easily fleeced. 5. a tanker used to refuel long-range ships and submarines. |
Milchy | adj | Milk-giving. |
Milciend | n | One who is merciful. |
Mild | vb | To make mild or gentle |
Mild | adj | Mild, moderate in type or degree or effect or force; far from extreme. 2. humble in spirit or manner suggesting retiring mildness or even cowed submissiveness; meek, mild, modest. 3: mild and pleasant; as "balmy days and nights"; balmy, mild, soft. 4. gentle; pleasant; kind; soft; bland; clement; hence, moderate in degree or quality; -- the opposite of harsh, severe, irritating, violent, disagreeable, etc.; -- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; mild or mildly-hearted; mildly spoken. 5. soft; gentle; bland; calm; tranquil; soothing; pleasant; placid; meek; kind; tender; indulgent; clement; mollifying; lenitive. |
Mild | phr | "Draw it Mild" - to state things without exaggeration and not lay it on thick; being moderate. 2. of liquor: not highly flavored. |
Mild | phr | "Mild and Bitter' - ale or beer consisting of mild and bitter draft beer. |
Mild | phr | "Mild as a Milk" - pleasant, mild, soft. |
Milden | vb | To make mild or milder. |
Mildew | n | A destructive growth of minute powdery or web-like fungi, whitish or of other colours, and characterized by powdery film on the surface of the affected plants or organic matter. 2, the process of being mildewed |
Mildew | vb | To be tainted with mildew. 2. to taint with mildew, often in a damp place. 3. to become moldy, spoil due to humidity |
Mildewy | adj | Affected by mildew, mouldy. |
Mildful | adj | Merciful, gentle, kindly. |
Mildfulness | n | State or condition of being gentle, kind, merciful |
Mildhearted | adj | Merciful, kindhearted, gentle. |
Mildheartedful | n | Full of kindness, tenderness, mercy. |
Mildhearted-like | n | Characteristic of being mild-hearted. |
Mildheartedness | n | State or condition of mild, gentle, kind, merciful; mildhood, mildship. |
Mildhood | n | Mildness, mercifulness, meekness, mildship. |
Mildish | adj | Somewhat or rather kind, gentle, merciful. |
Mildly | adv | Gently, softly, with consideration and thought for others. |
Mildly | phr | "Put it Mildly" - to express an idea without exaggeration; frequently ironical with an implication of understatement. |
Mild-mother | n | Pia mater (the thin or tender mother). |
Mildness | n | Sate or quality of being mild; mercifulness, meekness. |
Mildred | n | Moderate in power or strength. |
Milds | n | A name for various species of Atriplex and Chenopodium. |
Mildship | n | Mildness. |
Mild-spoken | adj | Having a quiet voice. |
Mild-steel | n | Steel containing a small percentage of carbon, strong and tough but not readily tempered. |
Mild-worded | adj | Gentle and considerate in speech and manner. |
Mildy | adj | Somewhat mild. |
Mile | n | A measure of distance, remotely derived from the ancient Roman mile, which was about 1620 yards or 4680 feet. |
Mile | phr | "A Miss Is as Good as a Mile" - something that nearly succeeds is no better than something that is a total failure. |
Mile | phr | "A Mile Off" - across a considerable; clearly and unmistakably. |
Mile | phr | "Be Miles Away" - be inattentive, daydream. |
Mile | phr | "Give Somebody an Inch and They Will Take a Mile" - give somebody a concession and he or she will take advantage and seek even more. |
Mile | phr | "It is Miles Away" - a great distance away. |
Mile | phr | "It Sticks Out a Mile" - be obvious. |
Mile | phr | "Miss By a Mile" - to be nowhere near one's target. |
Mile | phr | "Not a Hundred Mile Away" - very close. |
Mile | phr | "Run a Mile" - run quickly a way (in a panic). |
Mile | phr | "Someone Would Run a Mile" - a person would do anythingto escape his responsibilities. |
Mile | phr | "Stand Out a Mile Away" - be obvious or very apparent. |
Mile-eater | n | A very fast driver. |
Mile-long | adj | Extending for a mile. |
Miler | n | A runner in a race, or a horse, that is a mile long. |
Milestone | n | A post, pillar or stone set up to indicate instance in miles from a given point. 2. an important event or turning point in a person's life or organization's existence. |
Milestone monger | n | A professional tramp, swagman |
Mileway | n | The space of time in which a mile may be traveled on foot; a period of 20 minutes. |
Mile-wide | adj | Measuring a mile in width |
Miling | n | The action of running a mile. |
Milk | n | A white liquid produced by the mammary glands of female mammals to nourish their young, from certain animals, especially cows, it is a common food for humans as a beverage or used to produce various dairy products such as butter, cheese, and yogurt. 2. an individual serving of milk. 3. a white (or whitish) liquid obtained from a vegetable source such as soy beans, coconuts, almonds, rice, oats. 4. the ripe, undischarged spat of an oyster. 5. milch |
Milk | vb | To draw (milk) from the breasts or udder. 2. to express any liquid (from any creature). 3. to make excessive use of (a particular point in speech or writing, etc.) 4. to take advantage of (a situation). 5. to give off small gas bubbles during the final part of the charging operation. |
Milk | phr | "As White as Milk" - of a palish white colour. |
Milk | phr | "Bring to His Milk" - to bring someone to his senses. 2. to compel an others acquiescence or submission. |
Milk | phr | "Full of the Milk of Human Kindness" - full of, characterized by) kindness, affection and goodwill towards others. |
Milk | phr | "Give Down Its Milk" - to yield the expected assistance with profit. |
Milk | phr | "In the Milk" - in infancy or immaturity. 2. in a condition to yield milk. |
Milk | phr | "Land of Milk and Honey" - an imaginary place where there is an over abundance and prosperity of every thing. |
Milk | phr | "Like Milk to Milk" - compatible, same or similar by comparison. |
Milk | phr | "Milk and Water" - something that is inoffensive, but feeble, insipid or colorless. |
Milk | phr | "Milk dry" - obtain from somebody all the money, help, informatio( emotional) support etc another has to give. |
Milk | phr | "Milk of the Moon" - a white, porous, friable , insipid earth; frequently found in a form of a white wheaty powder. |
Milk | phr | "Milk One's Liver" - to purge or detoxify one's body. |
Milk | phr | "Mother's Milk" - something that one enjoys (naturally). |
Milk | phr | "Out of the Milk" - beginning to mature; to longer breast fed. |
Milk | phr | "Why Buy a Cow when you can Get Milk for Free" - (idiom)- referring to men who don't want to get married, when they can get all the benefits without being married. 2. why buy a book when you can borrow books from a library. |
Milk adder | n | A non-venomous tan and brown king snake with an arrow-shaped spot on its head. |
Milk-and-honey | adj | Abundance, prosperity. |
Milk-and-water | adj | Feeble and insipid. |
Milk cow | n | Cattle that are reared for their milk; dairy cattle. |
Milken | adj | Consisting of milk; milk-like. 2. of the colour of milk; milk-white. 3. fig. soft, gentle, mild. |
Milker | n | A cow that produces milk, rather than beef. 2. a person who is emplyed to milk cows. |
Milkfat | n | The fatty portion of milk; butterfat. |
Milk-fed | n | Fed predominantly on a diet of milk or milk products. |
Milk-fish | n | A large silvery toothless fish, allied to the herring, especially of South Pacific waters. |
Milk-float | n | An open-sided van, typically powered by electricity, that was used to deliver milk to houses. |
Milkful | adj | Abounding or plentiful of milk. |
Milkhouse | n | A dairy. |
Milk-hued | adj | of complexion: a very pale white skinned. |
Milkily | adv | In a milky manner; in the manner of milk. |
Milkiness | n | The state of being milky. 2. condition of resembling milk in appearance, color or quality. 3. cloudy whiteness. 4. mildness, softness, gentleness, weakness. |
Milking | n | The act by which a cow, etc. is milked. 2. the act of removing milk from the mammary glands of an animal. 3. the amount of milk drawn at one time. |
Milking | n | To exploit or scam by stealing small amounts of money or goods over a period of time. |
Milking | adj | Pertaining to or related to milking, as 'a milking cow'. |
Milkish | adj | Somewhat resembling milk in appearance, color, quality. 2. cloudy-white in color. |
Milk-kinship | n | The kinship arising from adoption of fostering. |
Milkless | adj | Having no milk, lactose-free; without or unable to produce milk. |
Milk-livered | adj | Cowardly, weak, lily-livered. |
Milk-loaf | n | A loaf of bread made from milk |
Milkmaid | n | A girl or woman who milks cows or does other work in a dairy. |
Milkman | n | A person who processes, sells and delivers milk. 2. a worker in a dairy; a dairy-worker. |
Milkman | phr | "Come Home with the Milkman" - come home early in the morning after celebration. |
Milk-meat | n | Food made from milk, dairy products as butter, cheese, yogurt. |
Milk-mild | adj | Of disposition: tender, soft, meek; kindhearted. |
Milkness | n | Resembling milk in colour or consistency. 2. filled with, consisting of, or yielding milk. 3. property of being milky. 4. timidity, meekness. |
Milkpan | n | A small kind of saucepan, with a lip, used for heating milk. |
Milk run | n | A routine, uneventful journey, esp. by plane. |
Milkshake | n | A cold drink made in a blender consisting of milk, malt, a sweet flavoring, and typically ice-cream. |
Milk-snake | n | The common house snake; also called the milk adder. |
Milksop | n | Bread, etc. dipped in milk. 2. a weak, foolish sentimental person. |
Milk-sopishness | n | The trait or quality of being milksopish. |
Milksoppy | adj | Full of sops; emotionally soppy or sentimental. |
Milkstone | n | A name for various white-colored stone, as 'Galalith'. |
Milk thistle | n | The European thistle (Silybum marianum) having the veins of its leaves of a milky whiteness. |
Milk tooth | n | One of the temporary first set of teeth with young mammals. |
Milk-white | adj | A palish white-color; milky white; opaque. 2. a whit color like that of milk. |
Milkwood | n | A hard, heavy, tough wood with a coarse grain and native to South Africa |
Milkwort | n | Any plant of the genus 'Polygala' formerly supposed to increase the milk of nurses. 2. any plant of the genus 'euphorbia.' 3. a primulaceous plant, 'Glaux maritima' common on the sea coasts and salt in marshes. 2. 'Our Ladies milkwort: pulmonaria officinalis. |
Milky | adj | Resembling milk in colour or consistency; not clear. 2. of the black in an image, appearing as dark grey, rather than black. 3. cowardly. 4. mild, tame, spiritless. 5. yielding milk. 6. like or somewhat like milk, whitish and turbid. |
Milky Way | n | A luminous band encircling the heavens, composed of distant stars and nebulae not separately distinguishable to the naked eye; the Galaxy. 2. fig. and allusively: a way brilliant in appearance, or leading to heaven. 3. the region of a woman's breast: "behold her heavenly face and heaving milky way." 4. the Milk-white Girdle" |
Milky white | adj | White as milk, pure white. |
Milky-white Girdle | n | The Milky Way. |
Mill | n | A grinding apparatus for substances such as grains, seeds, etc. 2. the building housing such a grinding apparatus. 3. manufacturing plant for paper, steel, textiles, etc; as a steel mill. 4. a building housing such a plant. 5. an establishment that handles a certain type of situation routinely, such as a divorce mill, etc |
Mill | vb | Grind with a mill "mill grain." 2. roll out (metal) with a rolling machine. 3. produce a ridge around the edge of "mill a coin." 4. mill move about in a confused manner. |
Mill | phr | "All grist to the Mill" - everything has some value. |
Mill | phr | "Draw Water to (One's) Mill" - to take or seize every advantage. |
Mill | phr | "God's Mill Grinds Slowly but Truly" - refers to the notion of slow, but certain divine revelation. |
Mill | phr | "Go Through the Mill" - to gain experience through severe testing or ordeal of ones endurance. |
Mill | phr | "Put Through the Mill" - to cause to pass through a course of labour or experience, esp. an arduous or painful one. 2. to give a person practical experience. |
Mill | phr | "Run Of the Mill" - average, normal. |
Mill | phr | "The Mill Cannot Grind with Water Flown By" - one must not miss an opportunity, nor cry over spilt milk. |
Millboard | n | A stiff, stout paperboard or pasteboard used in bookbinding and for book covers. |
Milldust | n | A fine, flour-like dust produced when corn (wheat) is milled. |
Milled | adj | Of grain: grounded by a mill. 2. having the edges raised and grooved, as coins. 3. fulled as cloth; rolled in sheets as metal. |
Miller | n | A proprietor or tenant of a gristmill, as corn or flour mill. 2. one who works a mill of any kind. 3. a milling machine applied to certain white or white-powdered insects, as the cockchafer, and to certain caterpillars. 4. a common name for of a flour-smelling mushroom, Clitopilus prunulus. 5. (slang) - a pugilist. |
Miller | phr | "Drown the Miller" - water down beer and liquors (for greater profit) |
Miller | phr | "Every Miller Has a Thumb of Gold" - even an honest miller grows rich with what he filches; for he simply cannot help some of the flour that ought to go into the loaf sticking to his thumb. |
Miller | phr | "Put the Miller's Eye Out" - to become bankrupt. |
Miller | phr | "Too Much Water Drown the Mill" - one can have too much of a good thing. |
Millering | n | The work and trade f a miller. |
Miller's thumb | n | "Cottus gobio" a small European freshwater fish |
Millful | adj | Enough to fill a mill. |
Mill-hand | n | A worker in a mill; a mill-worker. |
Milling | n | The act of grinding anything in a mill. 2. the act of fulling cloth. 3. the act of grooving or raising the edges of coins. 4. a crowd, gathering, angry, confused and seemingly without direction. |
Milling | adj | Of a crowd, gathering, angry, confused and seemingly without direction |
Mill-leet | n | An artificial channel for the conveyance of water to a mill. |
Millpond | n | A body of water damned up or enclosed to run a mill. 2. a small body of water dammed or impounded (to form a pond.) |
Millstone | n | One of a pair of heavy, thick stone disks for grinding something. as grain. 2. that which pulverizes or bears down. 3. a heavy or burdensome weight. |
Millstone | phr | "Between the Upper and Nether Millstone" - adamant, callous. |
Millstone | phr | "Look (through, see far) Into the Millstone" - used chiefly in ironical commendation of pretend extraordinary acuteness. |
Millstone | phr | "Hard as Nether Millstone" - adamant, callous; unfeeling, obdurate,. |
Millstone | phr | "Have a Millstone about One's Neck" - to be burdened with overwhelming difficulties. |
Millstone | phr | "His Eyes Drop like Millstones" - said of a hardhearted person. |
Millstone | phr | "Look through a Millstone" - to be wonderfully sharp-sighted. |
Millstone | phr | "Millstone About Someone Neck" - a great burden |
Millstone | phr | "Weep Millstones" - not weep at all. |
Millstream | n | Water that runs through a millrace. |
Milltooth | n | A molar or grinder-tooth. |
Milltown | n | A town whose center of activity is a mill or gropu pf mills . and whose population is largely employed in the mill or mills. |
Millward | n | Originally a keeper of a manorial mill; in later use; a miller. |
Mill-wheel | n | A wheel (esp. a water wheel)used to drive a mill. |
Mill-wheel Life | n | "There is no connection between the bustling "mill-wheel-life" of a large school and that for which they are supposed to be preparing ... to educate girls in crowds is to educate them wrongly." |
Millwork | n | Carpentry work delivered from mill ready for installation or use. |
Millworker | n | One who works in a mill. |
Millworks | n | Machinery and mechanisms of a mill. |
Millwright | n | An engineer or mechanic whose occupation it is to design or set up mills or mill machinery. |
Mill-wrighting | n | The labour or trade of a millwright. |
Mill-yemer | n | One who has custody of a mill. |
Milord | n | A form of address for a rich or aristocratic englishman. |
Milse | n | Milse |
Milt | n | The spleen in mammals. 2. the roe or spawn of the male fish. 3. the sperm of male fish. |
Milth | n | Mercy, compassion, kindness. |
Milth | adj | (A form of mild) = mercy. |
Milth | vb | To have mercy, be kind, compassionate. |
Milthlike | adj | Having the qualites and characteristics of milth: kind, compassionate, merciful. |
Milthly | adv | Kindly, with mercy, compassionately, mildly. |
Milthness | n | Quality or state of being kind, merciful, compassionate. 2. mildness. |
Miltsickness | n | Anthrax |
Miltwort | n | The finger-fern; one of the spleen worts, Asplenium ceterach |
Milty | adj | Resembling or the nature of the milt or spleen. |
Min | n | OE only: mind. 2. mind, purpose. 3. intention. 4. remembrance, memory, mention. |
Min | vb | OE. to intend, to have purpose, or direct one's own course. 2. to remind, recollect, remember, think. 3. to remember, to have or bear in mind. 4. to think of something or someone. 5. to commemorate. |
Minchen | n | A nun. |
Mind | n | The faculty of the memory. 2. the state of being remembered, remembrance, recollection, bear in mind. 3. opinion, way of mind. 4. desire inclination, to have a mind. 5. mental disposition, character or temper. 6. intellectual power or capacity. 7. the faculty of cognition and intellect, as opposed to will and emotion. 8. sanity, sound mentality. 9 the spirit of intelligence pervading the universe, as opposed to matter. |
Mind | vb | To pay attention to, occupy oneself with. 2. to be careful or wary. 3. to give heed to, obey. 4. to care for, tend to. 5. to be concerned about, regard with annoyance, dislike. 6. to remember, remind, (I mind you wearing one of them last summer;) make aware. 7. to be aware, notice, perceive. 8. to intend, purpose. 9. to be concerned, care, careful. |
Mind | adj | Present to one's mind. 2. of a person: mindful, taking thought. |
Mind | phr | "Against the Mind of" - in opposition to another's judgement, wish or opinion. 2. wish or opinion, without consent. |
Mind | phr | "Are you Out of Your Mind?" - are you mad; not thinking straight or logical? |
Mind | phr | "As One's Mind" - one attends to, is interested in. |
Mind | phr | "A Thought in the back of One's Mind" - an undeveloped idea. |
Mind | phr | "At the Back of One's Mind" - (always) in one thoughts. |
Mind | phr | "Bear in Mind" - remember, keep or retain in thought. 2. keep in mind. |
Mind | phr | "Bear Good Mind" - to be disposed towards. |
Mind | phr | "Be of Good Mind" - in a positive mind or attitude. |
Mind | phr | "Be in Two Minds" - to waver between two intentions. |
Mind | phr | "Be of Many Minds" - waver in purpose; chop and change. |
Mind | phr | "Be of One Mind" - to agree in judgement, purpose or opinion; to be unanimous. 2. with one mind. 3. be of another mind; or agree with one's way of thinking. |
Mind | phr | "Be of the Same Mind" - agree, think alike. |
Mind | phr | "Be in Two Minds" - be undecided. |
Mind | phr | "Be in the Right Mind" - to think clearly, logical and positively. |
Mind | phr | "Be so Minded" - to be inclined to do what has been mentioned. |
Mind | phr | "Blow One's Mind" - cause or have hallicinations. |
Mind | phr | "Bring One in Mind" - to persuade. |
Mind | phr | "Bring to Mind" - recall, remember, anget. |
Mind | phr | "Broaden One's Mind" - provide one with new experiences and knowledge. |
Mind | phr | "By One's Mind Sake" - by desire, or after the direction of. |
Mind | phr | "Cast One's Mind Back to" - remember a past event, incident. |
Mind | phr | "Cloud One's Mind" - to allow irrelevant or extraneous factors to effect one's impartiality or judgement. |
Mind | phr | "Come to Mind" - remember, recollect, recalled. 2. spring to mind. |
Mind | phr | "Do you Mind" - please don't do that. |
Mind | phr | "Drive Out Of One's Mind" - cause great worry to a person. |
Mind | phr | "For One's Mind Sake" - to gratify one's whim. |
Mind | phr | "From Time Out of Mind" - time immemorial; for an inconceivably, long future time. |
Mind | phr | "Fulfill One's Mind" - to accomplish one's purpose. 2. satisfy one's desires. |
Mind | phr | "Give One's Mind to" - to set or addict one's self to a (study or practice) etc. 2. to put one's energy towards accomplishments or attaining (an object.) 3. give attention, consideration. |
Mind | phr | "Go Out of Mind" - to be forgotten or no longer thought of or remembered. |
Mind | phr | "Go Out of One's Mind" - to become greatly agitated, distressed or distraught. 2. lose one's mind. |
Mind | phr | "Great Minds Think Alike" - similar ideas, views are shared by clever people (joculaly said). |
Mind | phr | "Have a Mind for it" - to desire to possess it; to wish fot it. |
Mind | phr | "Have a Mind of One's Own" - to think and act independently. 2. not to be easily influenced. |
Mind | phr | "Have a Mind to do Something" - feel strongly inclined to do it. |
Mind | phr | "Have Half/Good/Great a Mind" - to be strongly disposed or inclined (to do something)which one can do if one wishes. |
Mind | phr | "Have It In Mind" - to think of, give heed to. |
Mind | phr | "Have No Mind" - be without purpose or direction. |
Mind | phr | "Have One's Mind" - to get what one wants. |
Mind | phr | "Have Something in Mind" - have an idea about something. |
Mind | phr | "Have Something on One's Mind" - be preoccupied with. 2. be troubled by something. |
Mind | phr | "Having the Mind to" - to aim or be determined to pursue someone or something. |
Mind | phr | "I Don't Mind if I Do." - words of acceptance or agreement, used esp. in accepting an offer of food or drink. |
Mind | phr | "If You Don't Mind." - address to someone who you believe has not taken care to avoid doing something wrong or thoughtless. 2. I will do that, if you have no objection. |
Mind | phr | "In My Mind." - in my judgement or opinion, as I think, to my mind. |
Mind | phr | "In One's Mind Eye" - a mental view, imagination, or vision. |
Mind | phr | "I Should Not Mind" - i will not object, be concerned about or affected by something proposed. |
Mind | phr | "It Is All In the Mind" - it is imaginary. |
Mind | phr | "I Wouldn't Mind" - I would like. |
Mind | phr | "Keep/Have an Open Mind" - be open to suggestions. |
Mind | phr | "Keep One's Mind On" - concentrate on. |
Mind | phr | "Keep in Mind." - to have, bear in mind, hold in mind, to remember, retain in memory. 2. keep before one, keep one's attention fixed upon. |
Mind | phr | "Know One's Own Mind." - to form and adhere to a decision without prevarication or waver. 2. to have a line of action and stick to it. 3. be confident in one's own opinions. |
Mind | phr | "Let Another Know One's Mind" - to speak candidly or plainly; speak freely. |
Mind | phr | "Lose One's Mind" - go mad, become insane. |
Mind | phr | "Mind One's P's and Q's" - be very careful and correct in one's procedure, speech or behavior. |
Mind | phr | "Make Up One's Mind." - decide, choose a way oir direction. |
Mind | phr | "Mind How You Go" - be careful. |
Mind | phr | "Mind Out" - take care to avoid danger. 2. look out!; be careful! |
Mind | phr | "Mind the Shop" - have charge of affairs temporarily. |
Mind | phr | "Mind You." - all the same, even so. 2. let me remind you (and myself). 3. nevertheless; all / just the same. 4. at the same time. |
Mind | phr | "Mind You Do!" - don't fail to do it! |
Mind | phr | "Mind Your Back" - please move out of the way. |
Mind | phr | "Mind Your Eye" - look out!; keep alert! |
Mind | phr | "Mind Your Own Business" - concern oneself with one's affairs, one's own life and work without being unduly curious about or interfering with, what others do. 2. jocularly or slang: 'mind your own beeswax' |
Mind | phr | "Mind Your Step" - watch where you walk. |
Mind | phr | "Never Mind" - don't let it trouble you . 2. it doesn't matter; don't wrry . 3. (offensively) it's none of your business. |
Mind | phr | "Never You Mind" - it is no concern to you. |
Mind | phr | "Of One and the Same Mind." - agree, think alike. |
Mind | phr | "Of Sound or Unsound mind." - the healthy or normal condition of mental faculties. 2. the loss or impairment of which constitutes insanity. 3. one's reasons or wits. |
Mind | phr | "On One's Mind." - occupying one's thoughts; said, esp. of something which causes anxiety. |
Mind | phr | Open One's Mind to" - be receptive to change, new ides etc. |
Mind | phr | "Out of Mind." - forgotten, failed to recall. 2. disregard as unimportant. 3. "out of sight, out of mind." 4. more than one can calculate. |
Mind | phr | "Out of One's Right Mind" - mad, insane. |
Mind | phr | "Put in Mind Of (Someone)" - to remind someone of, to inspire, a mental image of awareness of, to cause thoughts concerning. |
Mind | phr | "Put One In Mind Of" - remind one of. |
Mind | phr | "Put One's Mind to" - make a conscious effort. |
Mind | phr | "Put One's Mind at Rest" - reassure oneself or another. |
Mind | phr | "Put Out of Mind" - deliberately forget. |
Mind | phr | "Put Somebody's Mind to Rest" - reassure somebody. |
Mind | phr | "Read Somebody's Mind" - guess what somebody is thinking or talking about. |
Mind | phr | "Rest Easy in One's Mind" - be calm, unworried. |
Mind | phr | "Run In One's Mind" - to be of purpose of resolution. |
Mind | phr | "Speak One's Mind." -to give one's judgement or opinion, esp. to express one's sentiments candidly or plainly; to speak freely. 2. to know one's mind. |
Mind | phr | "Spring to Mind" - become immediately obvious. 2. to suddenly occur to a person. |
Mind | phr | "Stoned Out Of One's Mind" - very drugged or drunk. |
Mind | phr | "Take Somebody's Mind off Something" - distract somebody. |
Mind | phr | "That Has Taken a Load Off My Mind" - I am relieved. |
Mind | phr | "Time Out of Mind" - time immemorial; from a time out of mind. |
Mind | phr | "Time Within Mind" - within the memory of man. |
Mind | phr | "To (One's/My) Mind." - according to one's wish, or one's taste, liking; opinion. 2. as one would have it, after one's mind. |
Mind | phr | "Weight off One's Mind" - to be of a great relief. |
Mind | phr | "Whole of Mind" - sound or healthy of mind and meantal state. |
Mind | phr | "Winning Hearts and Minds" - a concept occasionally expressed in the resolution of war, insurgency, and other conflicts, in which one side seeks to prevail not by the use of superior force, but by making emotional or intellectual appeals to sway supporters of the other side. |
Mind | phr | "With One Mind." - unanimously, within one accord. |
Mind | phr | "Within time of Mind." - time within the mind of men; within the memory of man. |
Mind | phr | "Without the Mind of" - in opposition to the judgement of another, wish or opinion. 2. wish or opinion, without consent. |
Mind-bend | vb | To influence or alter the mind of oneself or others. |
Mind-bender | n | A person or thing which, influences or alters the mind. |
Mind-bending | adj | Hallucinogenic. 2. mentally taxing; cf. 'brain-bending'; confusing, baffling, shattering. |
Mindblindness | n | A cognitive disorder where an individual is unable to relate to the mental state of others |
Mind-blowing | adj | Hallucigenic. 2. having an overwhelming effect on the imagination; mind-boggling. |
Mind-blown | adj | A slang term used to express one’s excitement after learning or discovering new knowledge, oftentimes regardless of its degree of significance. It can be seen as a contraction of the idiomatic phrase “blow someone’s mind,”[1] as in to astonish or impress someone in a moving way |
Mind-blownness | n | The state of one whose mims is 'blown.' |
Mind-body | n | A term used in relation to the question of whether a distinction can be made between mental and physiological events. |
Mind-day | n | A remembrance day, day of commemoration, esp. an anniversary. 2. red-letter day. |
Mind-dust | n | A postulate of materialism that the human mind results for a combination of particles of mind that has always existed in association with material atoms. |
Minded | adj | Inclined to think, in a particular way. 2. interested in or enthusiastic about a particular thing. |
Mindedly | adv | In a specified minded manner. |
Mindedness | n | The state of being minded in a particular way (narrow-mindedness). |
Minder | n | One who remembers. 2. one who sets his mine upon something. 3. a child-minder, baby-sitter. 4. a child who is minded or taken care of at a minding-centre. |
Mindful | adj | Having thought for or taking care of. 2. heedful of, keeping remembrance of, having remembrance of. 3. minded, intention to do something. |
Mindfully | adv | In a mindful manner; attentively, heedfully, thoughtfully, earnestly, intently. |
Mindfulness | n | Mindfulness is the psychological process of bringing one's attention to experiences occurring in the present moment, which can be developed through the practice of meditation and other training. The term "mindfulness" is a translation of the Pali term sati, which is a significant element of Buddhist traditions. In Buddhist teachings, mindfulness is utilized to develop self-knowledge and wisdom that gradually lead to what is described as enlightenment or the complete freedom from suffering. The recent popularity of mindfulness in the West is generally considered to have been initiated by Jon Kabat-Zinn. 2. state or condition of being mindful. 3. intention, regard, purpose, memory. |
Mind-games | n | In psychology used to define three forms of competitive human behaviors: a largely conscious struggle for psychological one-upmanship, often employing passive–aggressive behavior to specifically demoralize or dis-empower the thinking subject, making the aggressor look superior; also referred to as "power games". 2. the unconscious games played by people engaged in ulterior transactions of which they are not fully aware, and which transactional analysis considers to form a central element of social life all over the world. 3. mental exercises designed to improve the functioning of mind and/or personality; see also brain teasers or puzzles. |
Mind-healer | n | A healer of the mind; pyschiatrist. 2. a pyschologist; a quack, charlatan. |
Mind-healing | n | Something that heals or soothes the mind. |
Mind-hill | n | Memorial, mound or cairn. |
Mind-hunger | n | A hunger or yearning for learning and knowledge. 2. curious, inquisitiveness. |
Minding | n | The action of remembering, regarding, paying attention to, caring. 2. remembrance, recollection, that which reminds, a reminder, minging. 3. the marks on a stone about to be sawn, for the guidance of sawyer. |
Minding-school | n | A school whose chief purpose is to keep children out of trouble. |
Mindless | adj | Destitute of mind, unintelligent, senseless, stupified, insane, stultified. 2. unmindful, thoughtless, careless, negligent, disregardful. |
Mindlessly | adv | In a somewhat senseless manner, without the use or involvement of the mind or intellect. |
Mindlessness | n | State or condition of being mindless; heedlessness. 2 total privation of mental power. |
Mind-like | adj | Characteristic of, or resembling the mind in some aspect. |
Mindliness | n | An individual organization and control over his or her mind and emotions. 2. one's sense of genuity and mind that inculcates your knowing. 3. the quality associated with the mind; mental, mindly. 4. 'don't let oneself go into some psychological state of doom-ridden mindliness'. 5. remembrance. |
Mindly | adv | Mindful. 2. pertaining to the mind; mental. |
Mind-made | adj | The general principle that every object of experience is mind-made.; conceived. |
Mind-making | n | Learning, educating, rearing, nurturing (esp, of children). |
Mind-read | n | To discern, or appear to discern, another's thoughts. |
Mind-reader | n | One who discerns, or appear to discern, some one's thoughts. 2. someone telepathic with powers to sense what another or others are thinking. |
Mind-reading | n | The ability to sense what others are thinking; telepathy. |
Mind's-ear | n | An imaginative capability to create or recall sound within one's mind; the part of the mind that experiences imagined or recalled sounds (an allusion to 'mind's eye' which is likewise responsible for mental imagery). |
Mind-set | n | A fixed opinion or state of mind formed by earlier events. |
Mind's-eye | n | A human ability to visualize, i.e. to experience visual mental imagery; in other words , one's ability to see 'things' with their mind. |
Mindshare | n | A consumers awareness of a particular brand or product compared to that of its rival. |
Mindsharing | n | A purposeful and pointed attempt to access collective knowledge from a group (such as a social network group) where one is free of one's emotions, and without giving up our independence, in making the decision(s). |
Mindshift | n | A change of focus and perception. 2. a shift in one's mindset caused by creating something out of a fine balance between insights and innovation. |
Mind-sick | adj | Mentally ill or insane. |
Mindsight | n | Mental vision; a non-sleeping dream. 2. a term coined by to describe our human capacity to perceive the mind of the self and others. It is a powerful lens through which we can understand our inner lives with more clarity, integrate the brain, and enhance our relationships with others. Mindsight is a kind of focused attention that allows us to see the internal workings of our own minds. |
Mindsman | n | A man of mind. |
Mindstream | n | In Buddhist philosophy the moment-to-moment continium of sense, impression and mental phenomena, which is described as a continuing from one life to another. |
Mind-stretching | n | The stretching or bending a mind towards an object. 2. the closeness of application with a fixed of intention. 3. mental activity in which mental and intellectual efforts are used long and hard. 4. the learning of new things expanding one's mind, intellect. |
Mind-stricken | adj | Moved or affected in the mind. |
Mind struck | adj | Something coming into the mind; as, an idea coming into the mind suddenly. |
Mindsy | adj | Mindful, hence mindiness, mindfulness. |
Mind-token | n | A memorial. |
Mind-tool | n | A tool, as a computer, that can be used to extend cognitve function. |
Mind-wandering | n | 'His best results come through mind-wandering' - |
Mind-weary | adj | Mentally and emotionally tired. |
Mind-whispering | n | A map of the emotional mind showing us that we have a choice of our moods, emotions, actions, and reactions. Mind Whispering attempts to teach how to manage our brains, and incorporate the timeless wisdom of mindfulness into everyday situations. |
Mind-wipe | n | To erase the memories and personality, while still leaving an intact, living brain and body. this is frequently prtrayed as as a form of a capital punishment which leaves a viable body into which a different personality can be uploaded. 2. the act of mind-wiping; clean-slating. |
Mind-world | n | The world of thought that exists within our mind. 2. the world of our mind. 3. the world in our head. 4. our inner world; our inner mind, our inner talk, one's selfness. |
Mindy | adj | Mindful |
Mind-your-own-businees | n | A creeping Mediterranean plant with masses of tiny pale green leaves, widely cultivated as a greenhouse or indoor plant (Soleirolia soleirolii). 2. Also known by common names, including bread and cheese; angel's tears. |
Mine | prn | Belonging to me; that which belongs to me. |
Minehood | n | The fact of being mine; as,"He inclined himself to my minehood and my I-hood inclined itself up to him." |
Ming | n | A mixture. |
Ming | vb | To put in the mind; remind a person. 2. to bring to remembrance, to commerate, mention. 3. remember; also, reflexive use, as in " to bethink oneself." 3. to give an account, to relate. 6. to commemorate. 7. admonish, rebuke, reprove. |
Minging | n | The action of putting something in the mind; reminding a person. 2. the action of bringing to remembrance, to commemorating, mentioning. 3. remembering; also, bethinking oneself." 3. accounting for, relating to. 6.commemorating. 7. admonishing, admonition, rebuking, reproving, warning. 8. premonitory symptoms. |
Minging | n | The state of being mixed or mingled. |
Mingle | vb | Blend. |
Mingle | phr | "Mingle their Tears" - weep or grieve together. |
Mingle | phr | "Mingle with" - go about among. |
Mingly | adv | In a mixed or mingled manner |
Mingwort | n | Wormwood. |
Minning | n | Remembrance, memory, memorial. 2. commemoration for a dark soul. 3. peel of a bell, rang at the death of someone.. 4. premonitory symptom. 5. minging. |
Minning-day | n | Day of remembrance. |
Minnow | n | A small freshwater fish; any small fish. 2. a novice. 3. a low-level performing team (or, individual) in comparison with their opponents or peers.????? |
Minster | n | A monastery; a church belonging or situated beside a monastery; a cathedral, a temple; a Christian religious house. |
Mint | vb | To make coin by stamping metal. 2. to make paper money. 3. to fabricate, counterfeit, mostly used contemptuously. 4. to invent a word. |
Mint | n | A piece of money, money, coin(s). 2. a plce where money is lawfully coined. 3. a set of machinery for coining. 4. a place in which the fabrication of a thing is carried out, a source of invention or fabrication. 5. coinage; quantity of money coined. 6. a vast sum of money; a vast amount of something, often costly. |
Mint | n | Any one of the labiate of the genus Mentha, such as Mentha viridis or garden mint or spearmint. |
Mint | n | Purpose, intention, thought, mind. 2. an attempt, effort, endeavour. 3. a blow aimed at. 4. a threatening gesture or movement. |
Mint | vb | To think, intend, put mind to, endeavour, venture. 2. to direct or address a speech to. 4. to aim a blow, take aim in shooting. 5. to make a threatening movement towards. 6. to move to seize something. 7. to point. 8. to aim or aspire to. 9. to mention, or speak of. |
Mint | adj | Colloquial: excellent, great. |
Mint | phr | "Make a Mint" - earn a lot of money. |
Mint | phr | "Worth a Mint" - very wealthy. |
Minter | n | A money-charger. 2. one who coins or stamps money. 3. a moneyer, inventor, deliberate maker of |
Mintiness | n | The state or condition of being minty. |
Minting | n | The stamping of metal to make coins. 2. the printing of paper money. |
Minting | adj | Newly or freshly made or minted. |
Minting-house | n | A place wheremoney is coined, a mint. |
Minting-mill | n | A coining or coin-making machine. |
Mintman | n | A male or female worker, in a mint, producing coins. |
Mintlike | adj | Resembling mint, minty. |
Mintmark | n | An inscription stamped on a coin indicatiing the mint of origin. |
Minty | adj | Abounding in mint. 2. resembling the flavour of mint. |
Mirth | n | Pleasurable feeling or enjoyment, joy, gratification, happiness. 2. delights, joy. 3. cause of joy. 4. rejoicing, merry-making, jollity, gaiety. 5. something which gives pleasure or amusement, a diversion, sporting entertainment. 6. something which affords pleasure or musement, a diversion, sport, entertainment. 7.musical entertainment, melody. 8 gaiety of mind, as manifest in jest and laughter, merriness, hilarity, jocularity, fun, ridicule. 9. all the above-mentioned things personified. |
Mirth | vb | To be glad, rejoice. 2. to gladden, delight, to provide sport or entertainment. 3. to give pleasure or amusement. 4. to musically entertain. |
Mirth-day | n | A holiday, festival, ferial celebration. |
Mirthful | adj | Of persons, their dispostion, moods: full of mirth, joyous, gladsome, hilarious, happy. 2. of places, seasons: mirth or rejoicing in characteristic. 3. of sounds and utterances: expressive mirth, joyous, pleasing. 4. of things, affording mirthy amusement. |
Mirthfully | adv | In a manner mirthful, joyously. 2. amusing, humorous in manner. |
Mirthfulness | n | Quality or state of being mirthful, joyfulness, jocularity, jocosity, facetiousness. |
Mirthing | n | Rejoicing. |
Mirthless | adj | Wanting in mirth, joyless, sad, dismal. |
Mirthlessness | n | Quality or state of being mirthless, sad, dismal, lacking in joy, fun, without merriness, unhappy, etc. |
Mirth-lit | adj | Lit up or filled with mirth. |
Mirth-loving | adj | Fun-loving, happiness-seeking, merry-making. |
Mirthly | adv | In a funloving, merry, happy, jolly manner. |
Mirth-maker | n | One who creates mirth, enjoyment, fun, merriment etc. 2. a mirth-monger. |
Mirth-making | n | The action of making or creating mirth or enjoyment. |
Mirth-marrer | n | One who puts a check or stop on mirth, happiness, joy and merrymaking. 2. a kill-joy. |
Mirth-marring | n | The stopping or limiting mirth or joy. |
Mirth-monger | n | A mirth-maker, one peddles fun, hilarity, enjoyment, entertainment. |
Mirthsome | adj | Full of mirth. |
Mirth-song | n | A song of religious joy. |
Miry | adj | Of the nature of a mire or marshy ground; swampy, abounding in mire, muddy. 2. covered or bespattered in mud or mire. 3. dirty, defiled, despicable. OE?????????? |
Mis | adj | Predominant meaning in the Teutonic languages: amiss, wrongfully, perversely, |
Misanswer | n | A wrong answer. 2. failure to correspond to the requirements. |
Misanswer | vb | To give a perverse or wrong answer to someone. |
Misbear | vb | To misbehave or misconduct oneself. |
Misbearing | n | Misconduct, wrongful bearing. |
Misbecome | vb | To fail to become; to suit ill. 2. to become unsuitable or unbecoming to. |
Misbecoming | n | Not becoming; unbecoming, unsuitable, unfitting; unseemly, indecorous.. |
Misbecomingly | adv | Unfittingly, unsuitably. |
Misbecomingness | n | The quality or condition of being unbecoming or misbecoming; also in particularised use: an unbecoming characteristic. |
Misbede | vb | To ill-use, ill-treat, to injure, to abuse. |
Misbefall | vb | To happen unfortunately, to turn out badly. |
Misbefallen | adj | Of persons: coming to harm; unfortunately. |
Misbeget | vb | To beget unlawfully. |
Misbegin | vb | To begin or start badly. |
Misbegotten | adj | Unlawfully begotten or conce1ved, illegimate, bastard. |
Misbehave | vb | To behave wrongly or ill-behave. 2. to conduct oneself improperly. 3. to conduct or manage improperly or with improperness. |
Misbehaving | n | The action of misbehaving in an appropriate improper, incorrect or unexpected manner. |
Misbeholden | vb | To be offensive, ill-natured, out of place in civilized company. |
Misbeholding | n | Unbecomingness, indiscreetness, disobligingness |
Misbelead | vb | To lead astray. |
Misbelief | n | An erroneous or unorthodox religious belief; wrong belief, faith, heresy, apostasy. 2. erroneous belief; false opinion or notion. 3. want of belief, disbelief, incredulity. |
Misbeliefness | n | Unbelief, atheism, incredulity. |
Misbelieve | vb | To be amiss in belief; to hold erroneous beliefs. 2. not to believe, deny the truth, to distrust, to disbelieve. |
Misbeliever | adj | one holding a false belief or false religion. 2. heretic, fidelity |
Misbelieving | n | State of holding a false belief, heretical and unorthodox. |
Misbelove | vb | To "love" falsely, or love with impropriety. |
Misbestow | vb | To bestow wrongly or impropriety. |
Misbethink | vb | To think amiss. 2. to become mistaken. 3. to have wrong thoughts |
Misbetide | vb | Misbefall. 2. to happen unfortunately; to turn out badly of events. 3. to unhappen unfortunately; to come to harm. |
Misbeheede | vb | To be or become misguided. |
Misbid | vb | To make an incorrect offer or bid. at a auction; card game etc. |
Misbidding | n | The act or action of making an incorrect offer or bid. at a auction; card game etc. |
Misbind | vb | To bind incorrectly, as a book or document. |
Misbirth | n | Abortion. |
Misbode | n | A wrong, an offence, misdeed. |
Misbode | vb | To forebode something evil; misbodings. |
Misborn | adj | Prematurely born, abortive, hence deformed or misshapen from birth; born of an unlawful union, hence bastard-born. 2. born to evil. |
Misbrand | vb | To brand or label incorrectly, esp. in order to mislead or defraud. |
Misbranded | adj | Branded or labelled incorrectly, esp. in order to mislead or defraud. |
Miscast | vb | To cast or reckon incorrectly or wrongly; faulty reckoning. 2. to cast or direct erroneously or improperly, as a look or a glance. 3. make an error when casting a vote. 4. to allot unsuitably, as a parts of a play. |
Misclad | adj | Wrongly or innapropriately dressed. |
Miscleping | n | Misnaming |
Miscome | vb | To come at the the wrong or inappropriate time. 2. an illegitimate child, a love-child. |
Miscome | adj | Illegimitate; born out of wedlock. |
Misdeal | vb | To distribute unfairly. 2. make a mistake when dealing cards. |
Misdealer | n | One who distributes unfairly. 2. one who makes a mistake when dealing cards. |
Misdealing | n | Wrong or improper dealing, wrong doing, evil or bad conduct. |
Misdeed | n | A wrong action, an offence, mea culpa, crime, an evil, evil deed, misdoings, misdeeds (collectively). |
Misdeedy | adj | doing wrong, bad, nefarious, malicious. |
Misdeem | n | Misjudgement. |
Misdeem | vb | To form an unfavourable judgement. 2. to have a wrong opinion. 3. to be mistaken in one's view of. 4. to suppose (a person or thing). 5. erroneously become something else. 6. to hold a mistaken opinion. 7. to have a suspicion or inkling of evil; to suspect. |
Misdeemer | n | One who misjudges, has a wrong opinion, mistaken view; a suspicion. |
Misdeemful | adj | Having or making a false judgement. 2. being suspicious, suspectful. |
Misdeeming | n | Misjudging, mistaking, suspecting. |
Misdight | vb | To be ill-clothed, badly furnished or presented. 2. to be mistaken, |
Misdo | vb | To do evil or wrong. 2. to do harm or injury to or unto. 3. to do amiss. 4. to do evil or wrong to a person. 5. to harm, injure, wrong. 6. to destroy, put out out of existence, to do away with oneself. |
Misdoer | n | Wrong-doer, malefactor, offender. |
Misdoing | n | Evil-doing, improper performance, an instance of wong-doing, misdeed. |
Misdoom | n | Misjudgement. |
Misdraught | n | Misbehaviour. 2, draft of air in the wrong direction. |
Misdraw | vb | To draw amiss. |
Misdrawing | vb | To draw wrongly or incorrectly. 2. to go astray. |
Misdrawing | n | A faulty drawing or delineation. |
Misdread | vb | To have fear, be in dread, to dread. |
Miseat | vb | To overeat and eat an inappropriate diet. |
Misfall | vb | To suffer misfortune, come to grief, to happen unfortunately. 2. to fall out, to be amiss. Nb: " It misfell me." -- misfortune befell me. |
Misfall | n | Mishap, misfortune. |
Misfare | n | A mishap, misfortune, a going wrong or astray. |
Misfaring | n | Wrong-doing, transgression, misbehaving. |
Misfather | vb | To fail as a parent in the care and nurturing of his children |
Misfeed | vb | An instance of faulty feeding of something, (mostly paper) through a machine. |
Misfeel | vb | To have sinful feelings |
Misfeelings | n | Doubts, wrongful feelings, sinful feelings. |
Misfere | vb | To do wrong, transgress, misbehave. 2. to fare ill, to come to grief. 3. to be unfortunate or unsuccessful. |
Misfire | vb | Of a gun: to fail to discharge or explode. 2. of an engine: to charge correctly or efficiently. |
Misfiring | n | an incident of a gun: to fail to discharge or explode; or of an engine: to charge correctly or efficiently. |
Misfold | vb | To fold a document incorrectly. 2. to fold clothing in an untidy manner. |
Misfolded | adj | Folded incorrectly or in an untidy manner etc. |
Misfong | vb | To make a mistake. 2. treat wrongly. |
Misfooting | n | A going astray. |
Misframe | vb | To frame wrongly. |
Misgang | n | Going astray, misbehaviour. |
Misget | vb | To get wrongly or unlawfully, to provide by unlawful means. |
Misgive | vb | Of one's heart or mind: to suggest misapprehension; to cause to be apprehensive. 2. to incline to suspicion or foreboding. 3. of the mind: to have misgivings; suggest fear of. 4. to cite wrongly. |
Misgiver | n | One who misgives or has doubts and misapprehensions. |
Misgiving | n | A feeling of mistrust, apprehension or loss of confidence. |
Misgo | vb | To go astray, to go down the wrong path or way, (often fig. in context.) |
Misgoing | n | A going astay, trepass, transgressions. |
Misgotten | adj | Wrongly acquired or obtained; ill-gotten. |
Misgrounded | adj | Falsely grounded or ill-fpunded. |
Misgrown | adj | Grown or formed out of shape. 2. mis-shappen. |
Misgrowth | n | A distorted or abortive growth. 2. an unnatural growth. |
Misguilt | n | Offence, misdeed, crime. |
Mishale | adj | Unhealthy, sick, lacking robustness, defective. |
Mishallowed | adj | Of feigned holiness or religious belief. |
Mishandle | vb | To beat badly or inmproperly. 2. to handle roughly or rudely. 3. to maltreat, ill-treat. |
Mishandler | n | One who beat another badly or improperly. 2. to handle roughly or rudely. 3. to maltreat, ill-treat. |
Mishandling | n | Maltreatment, improper treatment, rough handling. |
Mishear | vb | OE: to disobey. 2. to hear amiss, hear imperfectedly or incorrectly. |
Mishearing | n | Sinful hearing or listening; eavesdropping. |
Mishearken | vb | To mishear; to listen sinfully. |
Misheed | vb | Wrongly observe or take notice of inappropriate advice. |
Mishit | n | An incorrect or bad hit. |
Mishit | vb | To incorrectly or badly hit. |
Mishope | n | Despair, despondency, blues. |
Mishope | vb | To fail to hope in. 2. to despair, be despondent. |
Miskeep | vb | To kee or maintain improperly. 2. to fail to observe an anniversary, duty. |
Miskeeping | n | The improper or faulty keeping of. 2. the miskeeping or non-observance of an anniversary, religious duties, etc. |
Misken | vb | To not to know; fail to recognise or notice. 2. to be ignorant of. 3. to have many ideas about, misunderstand. 4. to have false ideas about oneself or one's position. 3. to refuse to recognise or notice. 4. to affect ignorance of. 5. to overlook, disregard, disown. |
Miskenning | n | Misunderstanding, ignorance, neglect, forgetfulness. 2. a mistake or variation |
Miskey | vb | To key a word or a piece of data into a computer or other machine correctly. |
Miskeying | n | An instance of keying erroneously; a typing error. |
Miskissing | n | Kissing that is wrong, improperly done or inappropriate. |
Misknow | vb | To have an evil conscience. 2. not to know or be aware of; to be ignorant of. 3. to be misknown. 4. to not recognise (a person). 5. to refuse to recognise or notice someone or something. 6. to know imperfectly. |
Misknowning | n | The state or condition of ignorance, misunderstanding, neglect, forgetfulness. |
Mislay | vb | Of an item or object: unable to be found through being wrongly placed. 2. to lay down something in a place which later can not be recollect. |
Mislayer | n | One who wrongly places, files etc an item or object making it unable to be found. |
Mislead | vb | To lead astray in action or conduct. 2. to lead into error; delude; to cause to err. 3. to misbehave, misconduct oneself. 4. to mismanage. 5. to lead or guide in the wrong direction. |
Misleader | n | One who misleads or causes people to err. 2. one who misrules or misgoverns. |
Misleading | adj | That leads astray or causes to err. 2. deliberately desingned to lead in the wrong direction or to the wrong conclusion. |
Misleadingly | adv | In a misleading manner. |
Misleadingness | n | State or act of being misleading. |
Mislear | vb | To misteach or wrongly instruct. 2. misguide, lead astray or into error. |
Misleared | adj | Unmannerly, ill-treat. 2. not knowing what is due to oneself or one's position in society. |
Mislearn | vb | To learn badly or incorrectly. |
Mislearned | adj | Perversely learned. |
Mislearning | n | Want of learning. 2. bad or incorrect learning. |
Misled | vb | To lead astray, misguide, ill-conduct. |
Misleeful | adj | Unbelieving. |
Misleve | n | Misbelief. |
Misleve | vb | To believe wrongly, to misbelieve, disbelieve. |
Mislich | adj | Diverse, unlike, various, different. |
Misliche | adv | In various ways, diversely, variously. 2. in various directions, astray, wrongly, erringly. |
Mislie | vb | To lie in a wrong position. 2. to set oneself down in a wrong or inappropriate position or situation. |
Mislife | n | Wrong or inappropriate living. 2. misliveness; mislivedness. |
Mislight | vb | To lead astray or into harm's way by light or the use of light. |
Mislike | n | Want of affection, dilike of, distaste for, objection to 2. to becxcome unpopular with; disapprove of. 3. disafection, disagreement, dissension. 4. wasting or consumption in animals and plants. 5. disease, sickliness, illness, unhealthiness. |
Mislike | vb | To be displeasing to, to displease, offend. 2. to be out of harmony with, to be displeased with, or offended at. 3. to disapprove of, dislike. 4. to take sinful pleasure in something. 5. to grow sickly or unhealthy. 6. to waste away or be consumed. |
Mislikeness | n | A distorted shape. 2. a bad portraiture. |
Misliker | n | One who become or feels displeased with, or offended at the actions, look etc of others. |
Misliking | n | The opposite of pleasure, discomfort, uneasiness, unhappiness, trouble. 2.displeasure, indignation. 3. dislike of, aversion. 4. mutual disaffection, dissension. |
Misliking | adj | Unpleasant, disaffected, indignation. 2. sickly, diseased, consumptive, unhealthy. |
Misline | vb | to arrange in wrong order. |
Mislive | vb | To live badly, wasteful, wrongly or in an immoral or evil way. |
Mislived | adj | Wasted, badly lived,; evilly or wrongly lived. |
Misliver | n | A person who lives an bad, evil or wasteful life. |
Misliving | n | Evil-living; wasteful living; wrong-doing. |
Mislook | vb | To sin in looking; to look unfavourably on. |
Mislore | n | Evil or malicious teaching or advice. |
Mislove | vb | To love in a wrong way: misloving. 2. to dispraise, to depreciate. 3. to love in a sinful way. 4. to hate. NB: this word manages the trick of having two meanings that are most opposite to each other, as does the words 'left' and 'cleave' |
Misly | adv | Amiss, wrongfully, perversely, |
Mismake | vb | To unmake, depose, discard. 2. to disturb oneself; to put oneself out or inconvenience oneself. |
Mismaking | n | Something badly made, mismade or constructed. 2. something badly composed or written. |
Mismark | vb | To mark, note, or designate wrongly. |
Mismark | adj | Having wrongly marked. |
Mismatch | n | A bad match; a discrepancy. 2. an unequal or unfair position in a sporting match or on various competitive situations in life (and love). 3. ill-matedness or an unsuitable match of married or to be marriage couples. |
Mismatch | vb | To match badly, wrongly or unsuitably; esp. in marriage. 2. to be badly or ill-matched or ill-mated. |
Mismatched | adj | Matched badly, wrongly or unsuitably; esp. in marriage. 2. badly or ill-matched or ill-mated. 3. not suited or compatible in various ways. |
Mismatchedness | n | The state or condition of being mismatched. |
Mismay | vb | To trouble, disturb, upset. (in the sense of mismake)- dismay, essmay. |
Mismean | vb | To misinterpret, to wrongly take, wrongly thought. |
Mismeaning | n | Wrong intention; misinterpretation. |
Misminded | adj | Perverted or wrong interpreted in the mind. |
Misname | vb | To call by a wrong name; miscall; misnamed. 2. to call by an abusive name. |
Misnim | vb | To mistake, to make mistake, to err, do wrong. |
Misniming | n | An error, erroring, misappropriating. |
Misplay | vb | In games, a wrong play; hence, any wrong move. |
Mispride | n | Improper pride; foolish pride. |
Misproud | adj | Foolish, arrogant, wrongly proud; proud for the wrong reasons. |
Misqueme | vb | To displease, offend. |
Misread | vb | To read a piece of text incorrectly. 2. judge or interpret a situation or person's manner or behavior. |
Misreading | n | The act or instance something incorrectly. |
Misreckon | vb | To reckon, compute an amount incorrectly. 2. to make a wrong calculation in respect to a certain amount. |
Misreckoning | n | Incorrect reckoning, casting, miscalculation of accounts. |
Misrede | vb | To misadvise or wrongly advise. 2. to give bad counsel. |
Miss | n | A failure to hit. 2. a failure to obtain or accomplishment. 3. an act of avoidance. |
Miss | vb | To fail to hit. 2. to feel the absence of someone or something, sometimes with regret. 3. to fail to understand or have a shortcoming of perception. 4. to fail to attend. 5. to be late for something (a means of transportation, a deadline etc).in sports - to fail to score (a goal). |
Miss | phr | "A Miss Is as Good as a Mile" - something that nearly succeeds is no better than something that is a total failure. |
Miss | phr | "Give It/Somebody a Miss" - not to do something. |
Miss | phr | "I Miss You Now You Are Gone" - to lack, feel the want of. |
Miss | phr | "Miss By a Mile" - to be nowhere near one's target. |
Miss | phr | "Miss is as Good as a Mile" - narrowly missing success in doing or obtaining something has the same practical result as failing completely. 2. (coversely) a narrow escape from failure, danger, death, is as successful as an easy escape. |
Miss | phr | "Miss Out" - forget, omit, fail to include. |
Miss | phr | "Miss Out On" - not be present at; not experience, fail to notice and thus enjoy or profit from. |
Miss | phr | "Miss the Boat" - to be too slow to take advantage of an opportunity. |
Miss | phr | "Miss the Mark" - to fail to achieve the result that was intended. |
Miss | phr | "Not Miss the Beat" - to carry on without the slightest interruption. |
Mis-saw | n | Evil speaking, calumny, slander, abuse. 2. wrong expression, perverted language. |
Mis-say | vb | To speak evil against a person; to abuse, slander, revile, vilify. 2. to say something something with evil, abuse, to slander with intent. 3. to speak evil, abusively, slanderously, arrogantly. 4. to speak evil of. 5. to say amiss, wrongly or incorrectly. 6. to say what or something that is not right or correct. |
Mis-sayer | n | Slanderer, evil speaker, calumniator. |
Mis-saying | n | The action of evil-speaking, slander or abuse. 2. mis-statement. |
Missed | adj | Of cattle or animals: barren, unproductive. 2. straying, erring. |
Mis-see | vb | To see imperfectedly. 2. to take a wrong view. |
Mis-seek | vb | To seek wrongly or in the wrong places. |
Mis-seeking | n | The action of seeking wrongly or in the wrong place. |
Missel | n | Mistletoe. |
Mis-sell | vb | To be or become a customer of a misleading advice. |
Mis-selling | n | The deliberate, reckless, or negligent sale of products or services in circumstances where the contract is either misrepresented, or the product or service is unsuitable for the customer's needs. For example, selling life insurance to someone who has no dependents is regarded as misselling. |
Mis-send | vb | To send wrongly or amissly. 2. to send to the wrong place or person. |
Mis-set | vb | TO set or put in the wrong place; to misplace. 2. to put out of humour, upset. |
Mis-shape | n | In shape or figure having a deformity. 2. deformity, mis-shapedness, a misshapen body or person. |
Mis-shape | vb | To shape ill; to give a bad form to; to deform; misshapen. |
Mis-shaped | adj | Deformed in shape or figure; misshaped. 2. having a bad or ugly shape; ill-shaped, deformed. 3. badly deformed; shaped or formed; distorted. 4. morally monstrous or ugly. |
Mis-shapen | adj | Not having the normal or natural shape shape or form; misshapen. |
Mis-shapedness | n | The state or condition of being misshapen. |
Mis-sheath | vb | To sheath or encase wrongly, erroneously. |
Misshood | n | The condition of being an unmarried woman. (master late OE) |
Missing | adj | Not able to be located; gone, absent, lost. 2. running roughly due to an occasional lack of spark or some other irregular fault. 3. a value that is missing (statistics). |
Missingness | adv | The quality or condition of being absence. |
Missing-mark | n | A person who misses the mark; or fails in a purpose. |
Mis-sit | vb | To sit badly or imperfectly; to misbecome. |
Miss-out | vb | To miss an experience or lose an opportunity etc., that should not be missed. 2. to leave out, to omit. |
Mis-speak | vb | To speak wrongly or improperly. 2. to speak out. 3. calumninate, to rumour-spread. 4. to utter or pronounce incorrectly. 5. to fail to convey the meaning one intends by one's words. |
Mis-speaking | n | The act of speaking incorrectly or improperly; mis-speech. 2. the failure to convey the meaning one intends by ones words. |
Mis-speech | n | Wrongly or incorrect speech. |
Mis-speed | n | Unsuccess, failure, luckless. |
Misspell | vb | To spell incorrectly; to orthographise wrongly. |
Misspeller | n | One who spells incorrectly. |
Misspelling | n | An incorrect spelling of a word. |
Mis-spend | vb | To waste, make bad use of expenditure, to be prodigal. |
Mis-spender | n | One who is wasteful or prodigality |
Mis-spending | n | Bad or wasteful expenditure; prodigality. |
Mis-spent | adj | Wasted, dissipated, squandered, thrown away, frittered away, misused. |
Mis-start | vb | To start forth amiss. |
Mis-step | n | A wrong step: a faux pas. 2. a step in the wrong direction or less than wise decision or action. |
Mis-step | vb | To make a wrong step. 2. to go astray. |
Mis-sway | vb | To sway in the wrong direction. |
Mis-swaying | n | Misgoverning, misgovernment, misrule |
Missy | n | Pertaining to, resembling or characteristic of a miss or young lady. |
Mist | n | Water or other liquid finely suspended in a layer of fine droplets or particles. 2. fig, a thing that dims or darkens, observes or intercepts vision. |
Mist | vb | To form mist. 2. to spray fine droplets on, particularly of water. 3. to cover with a mist. 4. (of the eyes) to be covered by tears. |
Mist | phr | "In Mist" -- things spiritual, esoteric or mystical. |
Mist | phr | "Loss In Mist of Time" - used to show that something happened a very lone time ago, and is very difficult to remember. |
Mist | phr | "Mist Over" - become covered with mist, tears or a thin line of water. 2. become darken or obscured. |
Mist | phr | "Mist Up" - become obscured by a film of water (as a result of condensation). |
Mist | phr | "Throw a Mist before One's Eyes" - to obscure vision (lit & fig.) |
Mistake | n | An apprehending wrongly; a misconception; a misunderstanding; a fault in opinion or judgment; an unintentional error of conduct. 2. a misconception, error, which when non-negligent may be ground for rescinding a contract, or for refusing to perform it. |
Mistake | vb | To err in knowledge, perception, opinion, or judgment; to commit an unintentional error. 2. to have a wrong idea of in respect of character, qualities, etc.; to misjudge. 3. to substitute in thought or perception; as, to mistake one person for another. 4. to take in a wrong sense; to misunderstand misapprehend, or misconceive; as, to mistake a remark; to mistake one's meaning. 5. to take or choose wrongly. |
Mistake | phr | "Make No Mistake" - you can be sure, undoubtedly. |
Mistake | phr | "There's No Mistaking it" - you cannot confuse it with or mistake it for something else. |
Mistakeless | adj | Without any mistakes; flawless. |
Mistaken | adj | Wrong in one's opinion or judgement. |
Mistakeness | n | The quality or condition of being mistaken. 2. mistakening. |
Mistaker | n | One who is mistaken in error or at fault resulting from defective judgement, knowledge or carelessness.. |
Mistakeningly | ad | On a mistakening way; wrongly, erroneously. |
Mist bow | n | A fog bow, sometimes called a white rainbow, is a similar phenomenon to a rainbow; however, as its name suggests, it appears as a bow in fog rather than rain. Because of the very small size of water droplets that cause fog—smaller than 0.05 millimeters (0.0020 in)—the fog bow has only very weak colors, with a red outer edge and bluish inner edge. |
Mist-cloud | n | A cloud of mist. |
Mist-cold | adj | Cold with mist. |
Mist-drop | n | Misty drops. |
Mistful | adj | Full of mist, obscured, with or as if with mist. |
Misteach | vb | To teach or instruct badly. 2. to misdirect. |
Misteaching | n | The act of teaching or instructing badly; misdirection. |
Misted | adj | Obscured by or hidden in mist; fig., dulled, blurred. |
Mistell | vb | To number or reckon incorrectly. 2. to miscount or count inaccurately. 3. to relate wrongly; teach, instruct wrongly or erroneously. |
Misthank | vb | To show resentment of. |
Misthew | n | A bad habit. |
Misthink | vb | To have sinful thoughts. 2. to have mistaken thoughts, to think wrong or eroneously. 3. to think mistakenly, wrongly or incorrectly. 4. to think ill or badly of, have an unfavourable opinion of. 5. to think bad thoughts. |
Misthinking | n | Sinful in thought. 2. of thoughts mistaken. |
Misthought | n | Erroneous thoughts or notions. 2. mistaken opinion. |
Misthrow | vb | To throw wrongly or inaccurately. |
Misthunche | vb | To seem wrong; undo. |
Mistide | n | A mishap, accident, misfortune. |
Mistide | vb | In OE. to be a failure. 2. to happen amiss or unfortunately. 3. to have misfortune. 4. to mishap or mistime. |
Mistihede | n | Mistiness, mistihood, obscurity. 2. mystical significance. |
Mistihood | n | Obscurity, mystical meaning. |
Mistily | adv | In a misty manner or way. |
Mistime | vb | Of an event: to happen amiss, mishap. 2. of a person: to come to grief or harm. 3. to suffer; to suffer a mishap. 4. not to time something properly, to do or perform at the wrong time. 5. to miscalculate or misstate the time of. |
Mistimed | adj | Unfortunately ill-timed, unfortunate, unreasonable, out of time or place. 2. disturbed in one's habits, esp., in respect to sleeping and eating. |
Mistimely | adv | Unreasonably, ill-timely, untimely. |
Mistiming | n | Doing a thing of the wrong time. 2. miscalculation of the time of an event. 3. disturbance of a regular habits. |
Mistiness | n | The state or quality of being misty. |
Misting | n | The action of covering or becoming misty. |
Misting-up | n | The act of obscuring as with mist; the act of thus becoming obscured. |
Misthithe | vb | To be dishonest in the paying of tithes. 2. to pay a thithe wrongly. |
Mist-laden | adj | Heavily misted. |
Mistless | adj | Free of mist. 2. clear, not obscured. |
Mistle-thrush | n | Missel-thrush: a large thrush with a spotted breast , that feeds on mistletoe berries. |
Mistletoe | n | Viscum album: a parasitic plant growing on apple and other trees and bearing white glutinous berries. |
Mistle-toe | phr | "Kissing Under the Mistletoe" - an English Christmas time custom from about the C17th, where a man plucked a berry when he kisses a girl under the mistletoe tree, and when the last berry is gone there should be no more kissing. |
Mist-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of mist in some aspect. 2. misty, obscure. |
Mistread | n | A mis-step, misdeed, faux pas. |
Mistread | vb | To make a false step. 2. to misdeed, make a faux pas. |
Mistreading | n | A mis-step, a misdeed; a false step or move. |
Mistrow | n | Mistrust, have suspicion of, to suspect of , to have a lack of faith in someone, not to believe in. |
Mistrum | n | Weak, untrim, not strong. |
Mistruth | n | Disbelief, untruth, unfaithfulness. |
Mistruthful | adj | Disbeliefful, untruthful, unfaithful, dishonestly. |
Mist-thread | n | A thin line or thread of mist. |
Miswander | vb | To stray, go the wrong, go the wrong, down a wrong course, or course. |
Mist-wet | adj | Wet with mist. |
Mist-wrought | adj | Formed by mist. |
Misty | adj | With mist; foggy. 2. fig. with tears in the eyes. |
Misty-brained | adj | Illogical, unclear, confused of thinking. |
Misty-bright | adj | The affect produced when sunbeams break through a mist |
Misty-dark | adj | The affect produced when mist descends or is falling at dusk |
Misty-eyed | adj | Tearful, lugubrious, larmoyant. |
Misunderstand | vb | To incorrectly understand, whilst believing one has understood correctly. |
Misunderstander | n | One who misunderstands or incorrectly understand. |
Misunderstanding | n | A mistake in the meaning of something. 2. an erroneous interpretation, a misconception. 3. a disagreement or difference of opinion; a quarrel. |
Misunderstandindly | adv | In a mistaken or erroneous manner. |
Misunderstood | adj | Improperly understood or intepreted. 2. not appreciated by others. |
Misunderstoodness | n | The state of being improperly understood or interpreted. 2. an instance or common occurrence of having something you say taken wrongly. |
Miswander | vb | To go astray; go the wrong way. |
Miswandered | adj | Going astray, deviating from the norm; aberrant. |
Miswandering | adj | Going astray or awry. |
Miswant | vb | To want something that you mistakenly believe will make you happy. |
Misway | n | The wrong path, an unfortunate decision or choice. |
Misway | phr | "Go Misway" - to go astray. |
Miswear | vb | To wear badly. |
Miswearing | n | An act or instance of miswear. |
Miswed | vb | To marry unsuitably; to marry the wrong partner. |
Miswedded | adj | Of a marriage: wrongly or unsuitably contracted or made. |
Misween | vb | To have a wrong opinion of. 2. to think wrongly of. 3. to misjudge. |
Misweening | n | Misthinking, misjudgement, mistrust. |
Miswend | vb | To turn in a wrong direction. 2. to misapply. 3. to lead astray, to pervert; twist. 4. to go astray (lit. & fig.) 5. to come to grief. |
Miswending | n | Perversion, disarray, dilapidate. |
Miswent | adj | dilapidated, ruined, destroyed. 2. astray, out of gear. |
Miswill | n | Wrong desire. |
Miswin | vb | To obtain willfully. |
Miswire | vb | To wire incorrectly. |
Miswired | adj | Wired incorrectly. |
Mis-wishing | n | The act of wishing for the wrong thing. |
Mis-wite | vb | To neglect, not to care for. |
Miswive | vb | To marry unlawfully. 2. to commit bigamy. |
Miswoman | n | A strumpet, hooker, sex-worker, harlot, skank. |
Miswont | vb | To misuse, disuse, abuse in use of. 2. to do wrongly or amiss. |
Miswonted | adj | Having bad habits, that is being wont to do amiss. |
Misword | n | A harsh, angry or cross word. |
Misword | vb | To word a message, a piece of writing, composition etc. incorrectly. 2. miswrite, make a mistake in writing. |
Misworded | adj | Miswritten, mistaken in writing, composed incorrectly. |
Miswording | n | The action of incorrectly wording a writing. |
Miswork | vb | To do amiss, to act amiss, to commit an offence, to work or do ill. 2. to manufacture something badly, miswrought. |
Misworship | vb | To wrongly or falsely worship. |
Miswrench | vb | To twist out of shape, to distort or change the shape of something. |
Miswrite | vb | To write incorrectly, to make a mistake in writing (composition) or spelling. |
Miswrought | vb | Badly worked, fashioned or prepared. |
Miswune | n | An evil habit, a wone. |
Misyearn | vb | To desire wrongly |
Misyeme | vb | To neglect. |
Misyenge | vb | To go astray, amiss. |
Misyield | n | A bad, inferior, incorrect, wrong yield. |
Misyield | vb | To give a bad, inferior or inncorrect yield. |
Misyielding | adj | Producing a bad, wrong, incorrect inferior yield. |
Misyoke | vb | To join in an unsuitable marriage. 2. marry the wrong partner. |
Mit | n | A measure of capacity in OE. of approx. two ambers; mentioned as used for corn, meal, honey, ale, wire. 2. used as measure for salt in the C15th. 3. a shallow tub or like vessel used for household purposes. |
Mite | n | OE. an insect; esp a minute one. 2. a minute particle. |
Mite | phr | "Not a Mite" - not at all. |
Mite-borne | adj | Carried and spread by mites or small insects. |
Mithe | vb | To conceal, dissemble feelings and emotions. 2. to remain concealed. 3. to hide one'a thoughts and feelings. 4. to escape the notice of. |
Miting | n | A term for a diminutive creature often used in contempt. |
Mix | n | Dung, filth, ordure. 2. a vile wretch. |
Mix | adj | Filthly, foul, vile. |
Mixen | n | A place where dung and refuse is laid. 2. a dunghill or laystall. 3. a heap of dung, compost etc. used for manure. 4. dung and refuse from cow-stalls and sheds. 5. a term of a abuse or reproach to a woman or child. 7. a cock on his own. |
Mixen | phr | "Better Wed Over the Mixen than Over the Moor" -- better to marry a neighbour than a stranger from distant parts. |
Mixen-hole | n | A slum, ghetto, boondocks. 2. a man (used as a term of abuse). |