Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: ME-ZE'RE-ON – MI-CROG'RA-PHY
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ME-ZE'RE-ON, n.
A plant of the genus Daphne. Encyc.
MEZ'ZO, adv.
In music, denotes middle, mean.
MEZ-ZO-RE-LIEV-O, n. [L. mezzorelievo.]
Middle relief.
MEZ-ZO-TINT-O, n. [It. mezzo, middle, half, and tinto, L. tinctus, painted.]
A particular manner of engraving or representation of figures on copper, in imitation of painting in Indian ink. To perform this the plate is scratched and furrowed in different directions; the design is then drawn on the face, then the dents and furrows are erased from the parts where the lights of the piece are to be; the parts which are to represent shades being left. Encyc.
MEZZO-VOCE, adv. [Mezzo voce,]
in music, with a medium fullness of sound.
MI'ASM, or MI-AS'MA, n. [Gr. from μιαινω, to pollute.]
Infecting substances floating in the air; the effluvia or fine particles of any putrefying bodies, rising and floating in the atmosphere, and considered to be noxious to health.
MI-AS'MAL, a.
Containing miasma.
MI-AS-MAT'IC, a.
Pertaining to miasma; partaking of the qualities of noxious effluvia,
MI'CA, n. [L. mica, a grain or particle; mico, to shine.]
A mineral of a foliated structure, consisting of thin flexible lamels or scales, having a shining surface. The scales are sometimes parallel, sometimes interwoven, sometimes wavy or undulated, sometimes representing filaments. It is called also talck, glimmer, muscovy-glass, and glist. Nicholson. Encyc. Jameson subdivides mica into ten subspecies, viz. mica, pinite, lepidolite, chlorite, green earth, talck, nacrite, pot-stone, steatite and figure-stone. It its component part of granite. Ure.
MI-CA'CEOUS, a.
Pertaining to, or containing mica; resembling mica or partaking of its properties.
MIC'A-REL, n.
A species of argillaceous earth; a mineral of a brownish or blackish red color, commonly crystalized in rhomboidal prisms, or in prisms of six sides. Dict.
MICE, n. [plur. of mouse.]
MI'CHA-EL-ITE, n.
A subvariety of silicious sinter, found in the isle of St. Michael. J. W. Webster.
MICH'AEL-MAS, n.
- The feast of St. Michael, a festival of the Romish chnrch, celebrated September 29th; hence,
- In colloquial language, autumn.
MICHE, v.i. [allied perhaps to Sw. maka, to withdraw; Sax. smugan, to creep. Meeching or meaching, is still used by some of our common people in the sense of mean, cowardly, retiring.]
- To lie hid; to skulk; to retire or shrink from view.
- To pilfer. [Obs.] Shak.
MICH'ER, n.
One who skulks, or creeps out of sight; a thief. [Obs.] Chaucer. Sidney. Shak.
MICH'ER-Y, n.
Theft; cheating. [Obs.] Gower.
MICH'ING, ppr.
Retiring; skulking; creeping from sight; mean; cowardly. [Vulgar.]
MICK'LE, a. [Sax. micel, mucel; Scot. myche, mekyl, muckle; Sw. mycken; Sp. mucho; Gr. μεγαρ, μεγαλη. See Much.]
Much; great. [Obsolete, but retained in the Scottish language.]
MI'CO, n.
A beautiful species of monkey.
MI'CRO-COSM, n. [Gr. μικρος, small, and κοσμος, world.]
Literally, the little world; but used for man, supposed to be an epitome of the universe or great world. Swift. Encyc. Microcosmic salt, a triple salt of soda, ammonia and phosphoric acid, obtained from urine. Ure.
Pertaining to the microcosm.
MI-CRO-COS-MOG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. μικρος and γραφω.]
The description of man as a little world.
MI-CRO-COUS'TIC, n. [Gr. μικρος, small, and ακουω, to hear.]
An instrument to augment small sounds, and assist in hearing.
MI-CROG'RA-PHY, n. [Gr. μικρος, small, and γραφω, to describe.]
The description of objects too small to be discerned without the aid of a microscope. Encyc. Grew.