Quotes: M

Mace

Death with his mace petrific . . . smote.

Machination

Devilish machinations come to naught.

His ingenious machinations had failed.

Machine

The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people with a weight so heavy and oppressive.

Machinery

The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem.

An indispensable part of the machinery of state.

The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages.

Mackerel

Mackerel sky and mare's-tails Make tall ships carry low sails.

Maculate

Maculate the honor of their people.

Mad

I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would make men mad.

It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.

And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto strange cities.

Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.

The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled.

Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would have madded me.

Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest.

Madagascar

Formerly an independent kingdom, Madagascar became a French colony in 1886, but regained its independence in 1960. During 1992-93, free presidential and National Assembly elections were held, ending 17 years of single-party rule. In 1997 in the second presidential race, Didier RATSIRAKA, the leader during the 1970s and 1980s, was returned to the presidency. The Population: is 15,982,563 (July 2001 est.) The highest point is Maromokotro, at 2,876 m. Natural resources are: graphite, chromite, coal, bauxite, salt, quartz, tar sands, semiprecious stones, mica, fish, and hydropower.

Madden

They rave, recite, and madden round the land.

Madding

Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.

The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged.

Made

Now I am a made man forever.

Madeira

A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg.

Madman

When a man mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad. A madman is properly so defined.

Madonna

The Italian painters are noted for drawing the Madonnas by their own wives or mistresses.

madras

A black woman in blue cotton gown, red-and-yellow madras turban . . . crouched against the wall.

Madrigal

Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear his madrigal.

Magi

The inspired Magi from the Orient came.

Magic

An appearance made by some magic.

The painter's magic skill.

Magisterial

When magisterial duties from his home Her father called.

We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our notions on any man.

Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and magisterial looks for current payment.

Magistrate

Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate.

Magnanimous

Be magnanimous in the enterprise.

To give a kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to lay down Far more magnanimous than to assume.

Both strived for death; magnanimous debate.

There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.

Magnet

Dinocrates began to make the arched roof of the temple of Arsinoë all of magnet, or this loadstone.

Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to bliss, The larger loadstone that, the nearer this.

Magnetic

She that had all magnetic force alone.

As the magnetic hardest iron draws.

Magnetize

Fascinated, magnetized, as it were, by his character.

Magnificence

And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high magnificence, who built so spacious.

The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence.

Magnificent

A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a few With the injuries of many.

When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin lie.

Magnify

The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified.

On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel.

O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.

Magnitude

Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed amongst themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be equal in magnitude to them all.

The magnitude of his designs.

Magnum

They passed the magnum to one another freely.

magnum opus

Inspired by this milieu, [Max Stirner] wrote his magnum opus The Ego and Its Own, which was published in November 1844.

Mahdism

Mahdism has proved the most shameful and terrible instrument of bloodshed and oppression which the modern world has ever witnessed.

Mahound

Who's this, my mahound cousin ?

Maid

Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never borne thee son.

Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me.

Christ was a maid and shapen as a man.

Spinning amongst her maids.

Maidan

A gallop on the green maidan.

Maiden

She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges, and endowing of maidens.

A maiden of our century, yet most meek.

Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ?

Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword.

For had I maiden'd it, as many use. Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse.

Maidenhead

The maidenhead of their credit.

Maidenhood

The maidenhood Of thy fight.

Maidenly

Must you be blushing ? . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you become !

Mail

We . . . strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.

There is a mail come in to-day, with letters dated Hague.

Maim

By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part.

My late maimed limbs lack wonted might.

You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.

Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish.

A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited.

Main

There were in this battle of most might and main.

He 'gan advance, With huge force, and with importable main.

Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to use the other two . . . but as supporters.

With might and main they chased the murderous fox.

That current with main fury ran.

Our main interest is to be happy as we can.

That which thou aright Believest so main to our success, I bring.

That Maine which by main force Warwick did win.

Mainland

After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland.

Mainsail

[They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind.

Mainstay

The great mainstay of the Church.

Maintain

God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.

Maintain talk with the duke.

Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained by it.

Maintenance

Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the maintenance of his service, is granted to God.

Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance.

Majestic

The least portions must be of the epic kind; all must be grave, majestic, and sublime.

Majestical

An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical.

Majesty

The Lord reigneth; he is clothed with majesty.

No sovereign has ever represented the majesty of a great state with more dignity and grace.

In all the public writs which he [Emperor Charles V.] now issued as King of Spain, he assumed the title of Majesty, and required it from his subjects as a mark of respect. Before that time all the monarchs of Europe were satisfied with the appellation of Highness or Grace.

make

For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make.

He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf.

And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with made delights.

Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.

Wealth maketh many friends.

I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I have made.

He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time.

Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.

Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?

See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh.

He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him.

I will make them hear my words.

They should be made to rise at their early hour.

And old cloak makes a new jerkin.

The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one temple for the Deity.

Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs?

They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.

If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him away.

Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement.

He was all made up of love and charms!

A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.

Follow after the things which make for peace.

Considerations infinite Do make against it.

To solace him some time, as I do when I make.

Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled.

My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me.

It our perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine and shake?

make-believe

To forswear self-delusion and make-believe.

Maker

The universal Maker we may praise.

makeshift

I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift.

makeup

The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up.

malady

The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind.

Love's a malady without a cure.

malapert

Are you growing malapert! Will you force me to make use of my authority ?

malcontent

The famous malcontent earl of Leicester.

Malediction

No malediction falls from his tongue.

malice

Envy, hatred, and malice are three distinct passions of the mind.

Proud tyrants who maliciously destroy And ride o'er ruins with malignant joy.

in some connections, malignity seems rather more pertinently applied to a radical depravity of nature, and malignancy to indications of this depravity, in temper and conduct in particular instances.

Malicious

I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name.

malign

Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.

The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them.

To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling.

Malignance

The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours.

malignant

A malignant and a turbaned Turk.

Some malignant power upon my life.

Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.

Malignity

His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease.

Malison

God's malison on his head who this gainsays.

Mall

Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall.

Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased.

Mamma

Tell tales papa and mamma.

Mammon

Ye can not serve God and Mammon.

mammothrept

O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment.

Man

These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one.

The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me.

'Tain't a fit night out for man nor beast!

When I became a man, I put away childish things.

Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man.

And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and let them have dominion.

The proper study of mankind is man.

Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties.

This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world “This was a man!”

Like master, like man.

The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.

I pronounce that they are man and wife.

every wife ought to answer for her man.

A man can not make him laugh.

A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship.

See how the surly Warwick mans the wall !

They man their boats, and all their young men arm.

Manacle

Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on the right hand.

Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle and shackle him hand and foot ?

Manage

Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than they can hold.

Down, down I come; like glistering Phaethon Wanting the manage of unruly jades.

The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.

Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed.

What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain.

It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.

It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an ascendant.

Leave them to manage for thee.

Management

He had great managements with ecclesiastics.

Mark with what management their tribes divide Some stick to you, and some to t'other side.

Manager

A skillful manager of the rabble.

A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure.

Mandate

This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear.

mandrake

And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad.

Manducable

Any manducable creature.

Manes

Hail, O ye holy manes!

Maneuverer

This charming widow Beaumont is a nanoeuvrer. We can't well make an English word of it.

manger

And she brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.

Mangle

Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.

To mangle a play or a novel.

Manhood

I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus.

Manichaean

The Manichaeans stand as representatives of dualism pushed to its utmost development.

manicure

[Men] who had taken good care of their hands by wearing gloves and availing themselves of the services of a manicure.

Manifest

Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight.

That which may be known of God is manifest in them.

Thus manifest to sight the god appeared.

Calistho there stood manifest of shame.

So clear, so shining, and so evident, That it will glimmer through a blind man's eye.

Entertained with solitude, Where obvious duty erewhile appeared unsought.

I saw, I saw him manifest in view, His voice, his figure, and his gesture knew.

There is nothing hid which shall not be manifested.

Thy life did manifest thou lovedst me not.

Manifestation

The secret manner in which acts of mercy ought to be performed, requires this public manifestation of them at the great day.

Manifesto

it was proposed to draw up a manifesto, setting forth the grounds and motives of our taking arms.

Frederick, in a public manifesto, appealed to the Empire against the insolent pretensions of the pope.

Manifold

O Lord, how manifold are thy works!

I know your manifold transgressions.

Manipulation

Manipulation is to the chemist like the external senses to the mind.

Manito

Gitche Manito the mighty, The Great Spirit, the creator, Smiled upon his helpless children!

Mitche Manito the mighty, He the dreadful Spirit of Evil, As a serpent was depicted.

mankind

The proper study of mankind is man.

Are women grown so mankind? Must they be wooing?

Be not too mankind against your wife.

Manlike

In glaring Chloe's manlike taste and mien.

Manly

Let's briefly put on manly readiness.

Serene and manly, hardened to sustain The load of life.

Manner

The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the God of the land.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful, manner.

Paul, as his manner was, went in unto them.

Air and manner are more expressive than words.

Good manners are made up of petty sacrifices.

The bread is in a manner common.

And they being afraid wondered, saying to one another, What manner of man is this! for he commandeth even the winds and the water, and they obey him.

Ye tithe mint, and rue, and all manner of herbs.

I bid thee say, What manner of man art thou?

Mannered

Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born.

His style is in some degree mannered and confined.

Mannerism

Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural . . . . But a mannerism which does not sit easy on the mannerist, which has been adopted on principle, and which can be sustained only by constant effort, is always offensive.

Mannerly

What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly.

Mannish

But yet it was a figure Most like to mannish creature.

A woman impudent and mannish grown.

Manor

My manors, rents, revenues, l forego.

Mansion

In my Father's house are many mansions.

These poets near our princes sleep, And in one grave their mansions keep.

The eight and twenty mansions That longen to the moon.

Mantelet

A mantelet upon his shoulders hanging.

mantle

[The] children are clothed with mantles of satin.

The green mantle of the standing pool.

Now Nature hangs her mantle green On every blooming tree.

Ne is there hawk which mantleth on her perch.

Or tend his sparhawk mantling in her mew.

My frail fancy fed with full delight. Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

The swan, with arched neck Between her white wings mantling proudly, rows.

Though mantled in her cheek the blood.

There is a sort of men whose visages Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.

Nor bowl of wassail mantle warm.

Manual

This manual of laws, styled the Confessor's Laws.

Manure

To whom we gave the strand for to manure.

Manure thyself then; to thyself be improved; And with vain, outward things be no more moved.

The blood of English shall manure the ground.

Many

Thou shalt be a father of many nations.

Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called.

After him the rascal many ran.

A many of our bodies shall no doubt Find native graves.

Seeing a great many in rich gowns.

It will be concluded by many that he lived like an honest man.

He is liable to a great many inconveniences.

Map

Thus is his cheek the map of days outworn.

I am near to the place where they should meet, if Pisanio have mapped it truly.

Mar

I pray you mar no more trees with wiring love songs in their barks.

But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.

Ire, envy, and despair Which marred all his borrowed visage.

marasmus

Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence.

March

The stormy March is come at last, With wind, and cloud, and changing skies.

Geneva is situated in the marches of several dominions -- France, Savoy, and Switzerland.

Lords of waste marches, kings of desolate isles.

That was in a strange land Which marcheth upon Chimerie.

March them again in fair array.

These troops came to the army harassed with a long and wearisome march.

With solemn march Goes slow and stately by them.

This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs.

The drums presently striking up a march.

Mare

I will ride thee o' nights like the mare.

Mare's-tail

Mackerel sky and mare's-tails Make tall ships carry low sails.

Margarine

The word margarine shall mean all substances, whether compounds or otherwise, prepared in imitation of butter, and whether mixed with butter or not.

Marge

Along the river's stony marge.

Margent

The beached margent of the sea.

Margosa

The margosa oil . . . is a most valuable balsam for wounds, having a peculiar smell which prevents the attacks of flies.

Marian

Of all the Marian martyrs, Mr. Philpot was the best-born gentleman.

Mark

The Lord set a mark upon Cain, lest any finding him should kill him.

The mark of the artisan is found upon the most ancient fabrics that have come to light.

I have some marks of yours upon my pate.

The confusion of tongues was a mark of separation.

France was a fairer mark to shoot at than Ireland.

Whate'er the motive, pleasure is the mark.

As much in mock as mark.

In the official marks invested, you Anon do meet the Senate.

Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief.

Market

He is wit's peddler; and retails his wares At wakes, and wassails, meetings, markets, fairs.

Three women and a goose make a market.

There is at Jerusalem by the sheep market a pool.

There is a third thing to be considered: how a market can be created for produce, or how production can be limited to the capacities of the market.

What is a man If his chief good and market of his time Be but to sleep and feed?

Industrious merchants meet, and market there The world's collected wealth.

Marriage

Marriage is honorable in all.

The kingdom of heaven is like unto a certain king which made a marriage for his son.

Marrow

It takes from our achievements . . . The pith and marrow of our attribute.

Chopping and changing I can not commend, With thief or his marrow, for fear of ill end.

Marry

Tell him that he shall marry the couple himself.

A woman who had been married to her twenty-fifth husband, and being now a widow, was prohibited to marry.

Maecenas took the liberty to tell him [Augustus] that he must either marry his daughter [Julia] to Agrippa, or take away his life.

They got him [the Duke of Monmouth] . . . to declare in writing, that the last king [Charles II.] told him he was never married to his mother.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith the Lord; for I am married unto you.

I will, therefore, that the younger women marry.

Marshal

And marshaling the heroes of his name As, in their order, next to light they came.

Thou marshalest me the way that I was going.

Mart

Where has commerce such a mart . . . as London?

To sell and mart your officer for gold To undeservers.

Martial

But peaceful kings, o'er martial people set, Each other's poise and counterbalance are.

Martyr

To be a martyr, signifies only to witness the truth of Christ; but the witnessing of the truth was then so generally attended with persecution, that martyrdom now signifies not only to witness, but to witness by death.

Then if thou fall'st, O Cromwell, Thou fall'st a blessed martyr !

The lovely Amoret, whose gentle heart Thou martyrest with sorrow and with smart.

Racked with sciatics, martyred with the stone.

Martyrdom

I came from martyrdom unto this peace.

Marvel

I will do marvels such as have not been done.

Nature's sweet marvel undefiled.

Marvel not, my brethren, if the world hate you.

But much now me marveleth.

Marvelous

This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes.

The marvelous fable includes whatever is supernatural, and especially the machines of the gods.

masculine

Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons.

That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy.

Mask

This thought might lead me through the world's vain mask.

The mask that has the arm of the Indian queen.

They must all be masked and vizarded.

Masking the business from the common eye.

Maslin

Mead eke in a maselyn.

Masquerade

In courtly balls and midnight masquerades.

That masquerade of misrepresentation which invariably accompanied the political eloquence of Rome.

A freak took an ass in the head, and he goes into the woods, masquerading up and down in a lion's skin.

Mass

If it were not for these principles, the bodies of the earth, planets, comets, sun, and all things in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive masses.

A deep mass of continual sea is slower stirred To rage.

All the mass of gold that comes into Spain.

He had spent a huge mass of treasure.

This army of such mass and charge.

Night closed upon the pursuit, and aided the mass of the fugitives in their escape.

But mass them together and they are terrible indeed.

Massacre

I'll find a day to massacre them all, And raze their faction and their family.

If thou delight to view thy heinous deeds, Brhold this pattern of thy butcheries.

Such a scent I draw Of carnage, prey innumerable!

If James should be pleased to massacre them all, as Maximian had massacred the Theban legion.

Massy

Your swords are now too massy for your strengths, And will not be uplifted.

Yawning rocks in massy fragments fly.

Mast

Oak mast, and beech, . . . they eat.

Swine under an oak filling themselves with the mast.

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Master

Master of a hundred thousand drachms.

We are masters of the sea.

Great masters of ridicule.

No care is taken to improve young men in their own language, that they may thoroughly understand and be masters of it.

Where there are little masters and misses in a house, they are impediments to the diversions of the servants.

Throughout the city by the master gate.

Obstinacy and willful neglects must be mastered, even though it cost blows.

The wealth That the world masters.

Masterful

His masterful, pale face.

Masterfully

A lawless and rebellious man who held lands masterfully and in high contempt of the royal authority.

Masterly

Thou dost speak masterly.

Masterpiece

The top and masterpiece of art.

Dissimulation was his masterpiece.

Mastership

Where noble youths for mastership should strive.

How now, seignior Launce! what news with your mastership?

Mastery

If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops.

The voice of them that shout for mastery.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things.

O, but to have gulled him Had been a mastery.

I will do a maistrie ere I go.

He could attain to a mastery in all languages.

The learning and mastery of a tongue, being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.

Mastication

Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion.

Mat

When he saw them so piteous and so maat.

And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.

Matador

When Lady Tricksey played a four, You took it with a matadore.

Match

Government . . . makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.

A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.

It were no match, your nail against his horn.

No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness.

No history or antiquity can matchis policies and his conduct.

Eternal might To match with their inventions they presumed So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.

Let poets match their subject to their strength.

A senator of Rome survived, Would not have matched his daughter with a king.

I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep.

Matchable

Sir Walter Raleigh . . . is matchable with the best of the ancients.

Mate

Ye knew me once no mate For you; there sitting where you durst not soar.

If she be mated with an equal husband.

There is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the fear of death.

I, . . . in the way of loyalty and truth, . . . Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.

Material

The material elements of the universe.

Discourse, which was always material, never trifling.

I shall, in the account of simple ideas, set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.

Materialism

The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.

Materialistic

But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics.

Materialize

Having with wonderful art and beauty materialized, if I may so call it, a scheme of abstracted notions, and clothed the most nice, refined conceptions of philosophy in sensible images.

A female spirit form temporarily materialized, and not distinguishable from a human being.

Materially

I do not mean that anything is separable from a body by fire that was not materially preexistent in it.

An ill intention is certainly sufficient to spoil . . . an act in itself materially good.

Math

The first mowing thereof, for the king's use, is wont to be sooner than the common math.

Matin

The winged choristers began To chirp their matins.

Matriculate

In discovering and matriculating the arms of commissaries from North America.

Matrimonial

If he relied upon that title, he could be but a king at courtesy, and have rather a matrimonial than a regal power.

Matrimony

If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confess it.

matrix

All that openeth the matrix is mine.

Matron

Your wives, your daughters, Your matrons, and your maids.

Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother.

Matronage

Can a politician slight the feelings and convictions of the whole matronage of his country?

Matronize

Childbed matronizes the giddiest spirits.

Matter

He is the matter of virtue.

Son of God, Savior of men! Thy name Shall be the copious matter of my song.

Every great matter they shall bring unto thee, but every small matter they shall judge.

To help the matter, the alchemists call in many vanities out of astrology.

Some young female seems to have carried matters so far, that she is ripe for asking advice.

A prophet some, and some a poet, cry; No matter which, so neither of them lie.

And this is the matter why interpreters upon that passage in Hosea will not consent it to be a true story, that the prophet took a harlot to wife.

Away he goes, . . . a matter of seven miles.

I have thoughts to tarry a small matter.

No small matter of British forces were commanded over sea the year before.

Waller, with Sir William Balfour, exceeded in horse, but were, upon the whole matter, equal in foot.

It matters not how they were called.

He did not matter cold nor hunger.

Mattock

'T is you must dig with mattock and with spade.

Maturate

A tree may be maturated artificially.

Mature

Now is love mature in ear.

How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age?

This lies glowing, . . . and is almost mature for the violent breaking out.

Maudlin

Maudlin Clarence in his malmsey butt.

Mauger

A man must needs love maugre his heed.

This mauger all the world will I keep safe.

Maul

Meek modern faith to murder, hack, and maul.

It mauls not only the person misrepreseted, but him also to whom he is misrepresented.

Maund

He was ever maundering by the how that he met a party of scarlet devils.

Maw

Bellies and maws of living creatures.

Unless you had more maw to do me good.

Mawkish

So sweetly mawkish', and so smoothly dull.

Maxim

'T is their maxim, Love is love's reward.

Maximum

Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery.

May

How may a man, said he, with idle speech, Be won to spoil the castle of his health!

For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: “It might have been.”

Thou mayst be no longer steward.

Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims, or be right by chance.

How old may Phillis be, you ask.

His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood.

The palm and may make country houses gay.

Plumes that mocked the may.

Maybe

Maybe the amorous count solicits her.

In a liberal and, maybe, somewhat reckless way.

Then add those maybe years thou hast to live.

What they offer is mere maybe and shift.

Maze

Or down the tempting maze of Shawford brook.

The ways of Heaven are dark and intricate, Puzzled with mazes, and perplexed with error.

Mazer

Their brimful mazers to the feasting bring.

Mazy

To range amid the mazy thicket.

To run the ring, and trace the mazy round.

Me

Me rather had my heart might frrl your love Than my unpleased eye see your courtesy.

Mead

A mede All full of freshe flowers, white and reede.

To fertile vales and dewy meads My weary, wandering steps he leads.

Meager

Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones.

Of secular habits and meager religious belief.

His education had been but meager.

Meal

What strange fish Hath made his meal on thee?

Mealy-mouthed

She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain.

Mean

What mean ye by this service ?

Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good.

I am not a Spaniard To say that it is yours and not to mean it.

What mean these seven ewe lambs ?

Go ye, and learn what that meaneth.

The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself.

Can you imagine I so mean could prove, To save my life by changing of my love ?

The Roman legions and great Caesar found Our fathers no mean foes.

Being of middle age and a mean stature.

According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly.

But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude.

There is a mean in all things.

The extremes we have mentioned, between which the wellinstracted Christian holds the mean, are correlatives.

Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ.

You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements.

Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean.

By this means he had them more at vantage.

What other means is left unto us.

Your means are very slender, and your waste is great.

The mean is drowned with your unruly base.

He wooeth her by means and by brokage.

If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead.

The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other.

Meander

While lingering rivers in meanders glide.

Five miles meandering with a mazy motion Through wood and dale the sacred river ran.

Meaning

If there be any good meaning towards you.

Meanly

A man meanly learned himself, but not meanly affectioned to set forward learning in others.

While the heaven-born child All meanly wrapt in the rude manger lies.

Would you meanly thus rely On power you know I must obey ?

We can not bear to have others think meanly of them [our kindred].

Meanness

This figure is of a later date, by the meanness of the workmanship.

Measles

Measles commences with the ordinary symptoms of fever.

Measurable

Of his diet measurable was he.

Yet do it measurably, as it becometh Christians.

measure

False ells and measures be brought all clean adown.

The measure thereof is longer than the earth, and broader than the sea.

It is like leaven which a woman took and hid in three measures of meal.

Hell hath enlarged herself, and opened her mouth without measure.

Lord, make me to know mine end, and the measure of my days.

There is a great measure of discretion to be used in the performance of confession.

His majesty found what wrong measures he had taken in the conferring that trust, and lamented his error.

Say to her, we have measured many miles To tread a measure with her on this grass.

Great are thy works, Jehovah, infinite Thy power! what thought can measure thee?

A true devoted pilgrim is not weary To measure kingdoms with his feeble steps.

To secure a contented spirit, measure your desires by your fortunes, not your fortunes by your desires.

With what measure ye mete, it shall be measured to you again.

That portion of eternity which is called time, measured out by the sun.

Measureless

Where Alf, the sacred river ran, Through canyons measureless to man, Down to a hidden sea.

Meat

And God said, Behold, I have given you every herb bearing seed, . . . to you it shall be for meat.

Every moving thing that liveth shall be meat for you.

His shield well lined, his horses meated well.

Meatless

“Leave these beggars meatless.”

Mechanic

An art quite lost with our mechanics.

Mechanic slaves, With greasy aprons, rules, and hammers.

To make a god, a hero, or a king Descend to a mechanic dialect.

Sometimes he ply'd the strong, mechanic tool.

Mechanical

We have also divers mechanical arts.

Mechanism

He acknowledges nothing besides matter and motion; so that all must be performed either by mechanism or accident.

Meddle

More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts.

Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business.

Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt?

The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them.

“Wine meddled with gall.”

Mediate

An act of mediate knowledge is complex.

Mediately

God worketh all things amongst us mediately.

The king grants a manor to A, and A grants a portion of it to B. In this case. B holds his lands immediately of A, but mediately of the king.

Mediation

The soul [acts] by the mediation of these passions.

Mediatize

The misfortune of being a mediatized prince.

Mediator

For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus.

Mediatorial

My measures were . . . healing and mediatorial.

Medicinal

Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum.

Medicine

By medicine, life may be prolonged.

The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty.

Meditate

In his law doth he meditate day and night.

I meditate to pass the remainder of life in a state of undisturbed repose.

Meditation

Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight.

With wings as swift As meditation or the thoughts of love.

Mediterranean

Cities, as well mediterranean as maritime.

Medium

The just medium . . . lies between pride and abjection.

Whether any other liquors, being made mediums, cause a diversity of sound from water, it may be tried.

I must bring together All these extremes; and must remove all mediums.

A medium of six years of war, and six years of peace.

Medley

This medley of philosophy and war.

Love is a medley of endearments, jars, Suspicions, reconcilements, wars.

Meed

A rosy garland was the victor's meed.

My meed hath got me fame.

Meek

Now the man Moses was very meek.

Meerkat

While his compatrioits scuffle about in the sand for delicious scorpions or fat, tasty mice, one meerkat stands alone, bolt upright on an exposed perch, scanning for hawks with dark eyes wide, ready to call out at the first sign of danger. Like other such guards in the animal kingdom, these endearingly vulnerable meerkat sentinels have long impressed biologists as true altruists -- creatures willing to forgo food and brave danger to protect others. Now a study in the current Science suggests that these beasts may not be such adorable heroes after all. Researchers have discovered that meerkats abandon their hunting to act as guards only when their bellies are good and full. And they appear to do so, not as an act of noble daring, but because by being the first to see a predator, they can be sure of being the first down a hole and out of harm's way. Standing guard, researchers concluded, may be the safest thing to do once a meerkat has had enough to eat. . . . Even the adorable meerkat may yet redeem itself as a bit of an altruist. Although being a sentinel may itself not entail great risk, it is hard to imagine a selfish reason for their giving a shout of warning before dashing for cover. . . .

Meet

His daughter came out to meet him.

Of vice or virtue, whether blest or curst, Which meets contempt, or which compassion first.

O, when meet now Such pairs in love and mutual honor joined !

Weapons more violent, when next we meet, May serve to better us and worse our foes.

They . . . appointed a day to meet together.

We met with many things worthy of observation.

Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury From the fierce prince.

It was meet that we should make merry.

Megrim

These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies.

Melancholic

Just as the melancholic eye Sees fleets and armies in the sky.

Melancholy

A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered.

melatonin

A role for melatonin in sleep facilitation has been inferred from its effect on electroencephalogram patterns, but it has not been possible to demonstrate that wakefulness sleep cycles are driven by periodic accumulation, depletion, or regeneration of melatonin.

Meliorate

Nature by art we nobly meliorate.

The pure and benign light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind.

Mellow

The tender flush whose mellow stain imbues Heaven with all freaks of light.

May health return to mellow age.

As merry and mellow an old bachelor as ever followed a hound.

If the Weather prove frosty to mellow it [the ground], they do not plow it again till April.

The fervor of early feeling is tempered and mellowed by the ripeness of age.

Melody

Lulled with sound of sweetest melody.

Melt

Thou would'st have . . . melted down thy youth.

For pity melts the mind to love.

My soul melteth for heaviness.

Melting with tenderness and kind compassion.

The soft, green, rounded hills, with their flowing outlines, overlapping and melting into each other.

Member

We have many members in one body, and all members have not the same office.

Memento

Seasonable mementos may be useful.

Memorable

Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds.

Memorandum

I . . . entered a memorandum in my pocketbook.

I wish you would, as opportunity offers, make memorandums of the regulations of the academies.

Memorial

There high in air, memorial of my name, Fix the smooth oar, and bid me live to fame.

This succession of Aspirate, Soft, and Hard, may be expressed by the memorial word ASH.

Churches have names; some as memorials of peace, some of wisdom, some in memory of the Trinity itself.

Precious is the memorial of the just.

Memorize

They neglect to memorize their conquest.

They meant to . . . memorize another Golgotha.

Memory

Memory is the purveyor of reason.

And what, before thy memory, was done From the begining.

The memory of the just is blessed.

That ever-living man of memory, Henry the Fifth.

The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] memory.

These weeds are memories of those worser hours.

Men

Men moot give silver to the poure friars.

A privy thief, men clepeth death.

Menace

His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his menaces.

The dark menace of the distant war.

My master . . . did menace me with death.

By oath he menaced Revenge upon the cardinal.

Who ever knew the heavens menace so?

Mend

The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it.

Though in some lands the grass is but short, yet it mends garden herbs and fruit.

You mend the jewel by the wearing it.

Menial

Two menial dogs before their master pressed.

Menstruum

The proper menstruum to dissolve metal.

All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction.

Mental

What a mental power This eye shoots forth!

Mention

I will make mention of thy righteousness.

And sleep in dull, cold marble, where no mention Of me more must be heard of.

I will mention the loving-kindnesses of the Lord.

Mephistopheles

He is frequently referred to as “the Devil,” but it was well understood that he was only a devil. Goethe took only the name and a few circumstances connected with the first appearance of Mephistopheles from the legend: the character, from first to last, is his own creation; and, in his own words, “on account of the irony and knowledge of the world it displays, is not easily comprehended.” Although he sometimes slyly used it (though less frequently than Faust) as a mask through which to speak with his own voice, he evidently drew the germ of some characteristics from his early associate, Merck. . . . The original form of this name was Mephostophiles. There has been much discussion in regard to its meaning, but Düntzen's conjecture is probably correct, -- that it was imperfectly formed by some one who knew little Greek, and was intended to signify “not loving the light.”

Mercantile

The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military.

Mercenary

For God forbid I should my papers blot With mercenary lines, with servile pen.

Merchant

Others, like merchants, venture trade abroad.

Merciful

The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious.

Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold.

A merciful man will be merciful to his beast.

Merciless

The foe is merciless, and will not pity.

Mercurial

A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan.

The mercurial wand of commerce.

Mercury

He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design.

Mercy

Examples of justice must be made for terror to some; examples of mercy for comfort to others.

In whom mercy lacketh and is not founden.

The Father of mercies and the God of all comfort.

Mere

Which meared her rule with Africa.

Then entered they the mere, main sea.

The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.

From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor of any nation.

Merely

Ulysses was to force forth his access, Though merely naked.

Prize not your life for other ends Than merely to oblige your friends.

merge

To merge all natural . . . sentiment in inordinate vanity.

Whig and Tory were merged and swallowed up in the transcendent duties of patriots.

Native irresolution had merged in stronger motives.

Meridian

Tables . . . to find the altitude meridian.

I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting.

All other knowledge merely serves the concerns of this life, and is fitted to the meridian thereof.

Meridional

Offices that require heat . . . should be meridional.

Merit

Here may men see how sin hath his merit.

Be it known, that we, the greatest, are misthought For things that others do; and when we fall, We answer other's merits in our name.

Reputation is . . . oft got without merit, and lost without deserving.

To him the wit of Greece and Rome was known, And every author's merit, but his own.

Those laurel groves, the merits of thy youth.

Meritorious

And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint.

Merrily

Merrily sing, and sport, and play.

Merriment

Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment.

Merry

They drank, and were merry with him.

I am never merry when I hear sweet music.

Is any merry? let him sing psalms.

His merie men commanded he To make him bothe game and glee.

Mesh

A golden mesh to entrap the hearts of men.

Mess

At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes.

It was n't right either to be messing another man's sleep.

Message

Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee.

Messenger

Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day.

Messiah

And told them the Messiah now was born.

Messias

I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ.

Messuage

They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York.

Metal

Slaves . . . and persons condemned to metals.

Not till God make men of some other metal than earth.

Metamorphose

And earth was metamorphosed into man.

Metaphysical

The golden round Which fate and metaphysical aid doth seem To have thee crowned withal.

Metaphysics

Commonly, in the schools, called metaphysics, as being part of the philosophy of Aristotle, which hath that for title; but it is in another sense: for there it signifieth as much as “books written or placed after his natural philosophy.” But the schools take them for “books of supernatural philosophy;” for the word metaphysic will bear both these senses.

Now the science conversant about all such inferences of unknown being from its known manifestations, is called ontology, or metaphysics proper.

Metaphysics are [is] the science which determines what can and what can not be known of being, and the laws of being, a priori.

Metaphysics, in whatever latitude the term be taken, is a science or complement of sciences exclusively occupied with mind.

Whether, after all, A larger metaphysics might not help Our physics.

Metempiric

If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical.

Meteor

Hail, an ordinary meteor.

The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors.

Meteoroid

These bodies [small, solid bodies] before they come into the air, I call meteoroids.

Meter

The only strict antithesis to prose is meter.

Methinks

In all ages poets have been had in special reputation, and, methinks, not without great cause.

Method

Though this be madness, yet there's method in it.

All method is a rational progress, a progress toward an end.

Metic

The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city.

Metrist

Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.

Metropolis

[Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North.

The great metropolis and see of Rome.

Mettle

A certain critical hour which shall . . . try what mettle his heart is made of.

Gentlemen of brave mettle.

The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course.

Meum

Ancestors . . . generally esteemed more renowned for ancient family and high courage than for accurately regarding the trifling distinction of meum and tuum.

Mew

Nine times the moon had mewed her horns.

Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe.

Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe.

Forthcoming from her darksome mew.

Violets in their secret mews.

More pity that the eagle should be mewed.

Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air.

Mews

Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a mews at the back.

Microscopic

Why has not man a microscopic eye?

Mid

No more the mounting larks, while Daphne sings, Shall list'ning in mid air suspend their wings.

About the mid of night come to my tent.

Middle

Will, seeking good, finds many middle ends.

The middle-class electorate of Great Britain.

In this, as in most questions of state, there is a middle.

Middling

Plainly furnished, as beseemed the middling circumstances of its inhabitants.

Midland

And on the midland sea the French had awed.

Midmost

Ere night's midmost, stillest hour was past.

Midnight

The iron tongue of midnight hath told twelve.

Midriff

Smote him into the midriff with a stone.

Midst

And when the devil had thrown him in the midst, he came out of him.

There is nothing . . . in the midst [of the play] which might not have been placed in the beginning.

Midway

Paths indirect, or in the midway faint.

Mien

Vice is a monster of so frightful mien, As, to be hated, needs but to be seen.

Might

What so strong, But wanting rest, will also want of might?

Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thine heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy might.

Mightily

Whereunto I also labor, striving according to his working, which worketh in me mightily.

Practical jokes amused us mightily.

Mightiness

How soon this mightiness meets misery.

Mighty

Wise in heart, and mighty in strength.

Mighty was their fuss about little matters.

We have a mighty pleasant garden.

Mild

The rosy morn resigns her light And milder glory to the noon.

Adore him as a mild and merciful Being.

Mildew

He . . . mildews the white wheat.

Milieu

The intellectual and moral milieu created by multitudes of self-centered, cultivated personalities.

It is one of the great outstanding facts of his progressive relation to the elements of his social milieu.

Militant

At which command the powers militant . . . Moved on in silence.

Military

Nor do I, as an enemy to peace, Troop in the throngs of military men.

Militate

These are great questions, where great names militate against each other.

The invisible powers of heaven seemed to militate on the side of the pious emperor.

Militia

The king's captains and soldiers fight his battles, and yet . . . the power of the militia is he.

Milk

I have given suck, and know How tender 't is to love the babe that milks me.

They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock.

Milksop

To wed a milksop or a coward ape.

Milky

Pails high foaming with a milky flood.

Has friendship such a faint and milky heart?

Mill

The deer and the pig and the nilghar were milling round and round in a circle of eight or ten miles radius.

Milliary

A milliary column, from which they used to compute the distance of all the cities and places of note.

Milliner

No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves.

Million

Millions of truths that a man is not concerned to know.

For the play, I remember, pleased not the million.

Millstone

No man shall take the nether or the upper millstone to pledge.

Mimic

Oft, in her absence, mimic fancy wakes To imitate her.

Man is, of all creatures, the most mimical.

The walk, the words, the gesture, could supply, The habit mimic, and the mien belie.

Mince

I know no ways to mince it in love, but directly to say -- “I love you.”

Siren, now mince the sin, And mollify damnation with a phrase.

If, to mince his meaning, I had either omitted some part of what he said, or taken from the strength of his expression, I certainly had wronged him.

The daughters of Zion are haughty, and walk with stretched forth necks and wanton eyes, . . . mincing as they go.

I 'll . . . turn two mincing steps Into a manly stride.

Mind

By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills.

What we mean by mind is simply that which perceives, thinks, feels, wills, and desires.

Let every man be fully persuaded in his own mind.

The mind shall banquet, though the body pine.

A fool uttereth all his mind.

Being so hard to me that brought your mind, I fear she'll prove as hard to you in telling her mind.

If it be your minds, then let none go forth.

My lord, you nod: you do not mind the play.

Bidding him be a good child, and mind his book.

I mind to tell him plainly what I think.

He minded them of the mutability of all earthly things.

I do thee wrong to mind thee of it.

Minded

Joseph . . . was minded to put her away privily.

If men were minded to live virtuously.

Mindful

What is man, that thou art mindful of him?

I promise you to be mindful of your admonitions.

Mindless

Cursed Athens, mindless of thy worth.

Mine

I kept myself from mine iniquity.

When a man deceives me once, says the Italian proverb, it is his fault; when twice, it is mine.

This title honors me and mine.

She shall have me and mine.

They mined the walls.

Too lazy to cut down these immense trees, the spoilers . . . had mined them, and placed a quantity of gunpowder in the cavity.

Lead veins have been traced . . . but they have not been mined.

The principal ore mined there is the bituminous cinnabar.

Mineralize

In these caverns the bones are not mineralized.

Mingle

There was . . . fire mingled with the hail.

The holy seed have mingled themselves with the people of those lands.

A mingled, imperfect virtue.

[He] proceeded to mingle another draught.

Minion

God's disciple and his dearest minion.

Is this the Athenian minion whom the world Voiced so regardfully?

Go, rate thy minions, proud, insulting boy!

Minish

The living of poor men thereby minished.

Minister

Moses rose up, and his minister Joshua.

I chose Camillo for the minister, to poison My friend Polixenes.

I cry out the on the ministres, quod he, That shoulde keep and rule this cité.

Ministers to kings, whose eyes, ears, and hands they are, must be answerable to God and man.

He that ministereth seed to the sower.

We minister to God reason to suspect us.

The Son of man came not to be ministered unto, but to minister.

Canst thou not minister to a mind diseased?

Ministerial

Enlightening spirits and ministerial flames.

Ministry

The ordinary ministry of second causes.

The wicked ministry of arms.

Mint

A mint of phrases in his brain.

Titles . . . of such natures as may be easily minted.

Mintage

Stamped in clay, a heavenly mintage.

minuscule

These minuscule letters are cursive forms of the earlier uncials.

Minute

Four minutes, that is to say, minutes of an hour.

Minutes and circumstances of his passion.

I go this minute to attend the king.

The Empress of Russia, with her own hand, minuted an edict for universal tolerance.

Minutely

Throwing themselves absolutely upon God's minutely providence.

Minutely proclaimed in thunder from heaven.

Miracle

That miracle and queen of genus.

They considered not the miracle of the loaves.

When said was all this miracle.

Mirage

By the mirage uplifted the land floats vague in the ether, Ships and the shadows of ships hang in the motionless air.

Mire

He his rider from the lofty steed Would have cast down and trod in dirty mire.

Smirched thus and mired with infamy.

Mirliton

Trilby singing “Ben Bolt” into a mirliton was a thing to be remembered, whether one would or no!

Mirror

And in her hand she held a mirror bright, Wherein her face she often viewèd fair.

She is mirour of all courtesy.

O goddess, heavenly bright, Mirror of grace and majesty divine.

Mirth

Then will I cause to cease . . . from the streets of Jerusalem, the voice of mirth.

Mirthful

Mirthful, comic shows.

Misalliance

A Leigh had made a misalliance, and blushed A Howard should know it.

Misbecome

Thy father will not act what misbecomes him.

Misbede

Who hath you misboden or offended?

Miscarriage

When a counselor, to save himself, Would lay miscarriages upon his prince.

Miscarry

My ships have all miscarried.

The cardinal's letters to the pope miscarried.

Miscellany

'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual.

Mischance

Never come mischance between us twain.

Mischaracterize

They totally mischaracterize the action.

Mischief

Thy tongue deviseth mischiefs.

The practice whereof shall, I hope, secure me from many mischiefs.

The mischief was, these allies would never allow that the common enemy was subdued.

Mischievous

This false, wily, doubling disposition is intolerably mischievous to society.

Misconceive

Those things which, for want of due consideration heretofore, they have misconceived.

Misconstrue

Do not, great sir, misconstrue his intent.

Much afflicted to find his actions misconstrued.

Miscreant

Thou oughtest not to be slothful to the destruction of the miscreants, but to constrain them to obey our Lord God.

Misdeed

Evils which our own misdeeds have wrought.

Misdepart

He misdeparteth riches temporal.

Misdo

Afford me place to show what recompense Towards thee I intend for what I have misdone.

I have misdone, and I endure the smart.

Misdoubt

I do not misdoubt my wife.

Misemploy

Their frugal father's gains they misemploy.

Miser

The woeful words of a miser now despairing.

As some lone miser, visiting his store, Bends at his treasure, counts, recounts it o'er.

Miserable

What hopes delude thee, miserable man?

What 's more miserable than discontent?

Miserable comforters are ye all.

Miserably

They were miserably entertained.

The fifth was miserably stabbed to death.

Miserere

Where only the wind signs miserere.

Misery

Destruction and misery are in their ways.

When we our betters see bearing our woes, We scarcely think our miseries our foes.

Misfit

I saw an uneasy change in Mr. Micawber, which sat tightly on him, as if his new duties were a misfit.

Misfortune

Consider why the change was wrought, You 'll find his misfortune, not his fault.

Misgive

So doth my heart misgive me in these conflicts What may befall him, to his harm and ours.

Such whose consciences misgave them, how ill they had deserved.

Mishap

Secure from worldly chances and mishaps.

Mislay

The fault is generally mislaid upon nature.

The . . . charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead.

Mislead

Trust not servants who mislead or misinform you.

To give due light To the mislead and lonely traveler.

Mislike

Who may like or mislike what he says.

Misnomer

Many of the changes, by a great misnomer, called parliamentary “reforms”.

The word “synonym” is fact a misnomer.

Misprision

The misprision of this passage has aided in fostering the delusive notion.

Misprize

O, for those vanished hours, so much misprized!

I do not blame them, madam, nor misprize.

Misrule

Enormous riot and misrule surveyed.

Miss

Gay vanity, with smiles and kisses, Was busy 'mongst the maids and misses.

When a man misses his great end, happiness, he will acknowledge he judged not right.

She would never miss, one day, A walk so fine, a sight so gay.

We cannot miss him; he does make our fire, Fetch in our wood.

Neither missed we anything . . . Nothing was missed of all that pertained unto him.

What by me thou hast lost, thou least shalt miss.

Men observe when things hit, and not when they miss.

Flying bullets now, To execute his rage, appear too slow; They miss, or sweep but common souls away.

Upon the least reflection, we can not miss of them.

Amongst the angels, a whole legion Of wicked sprites did fall from happy bliss; What wonder then if one, of women all, did miss?

What here shall miss, our toil shall strive to mend.

There will be no great miss of those which are lost.

He did without any great miss in the hardest points of grammar.

Missile

We bend the bow, or wing the missile dart.

Missing

Neither was there aught missing unto them.

For a time caught up to God, as once Moses was in the mount, and missing long.

Mission

Whose glorious deeds, but in these fields of late, Made emulous missions 'mongst the gods themselves.

How to begin, how to accomplish best His end of being on earth, and mission high.

In these ships there should be a mission of three of the fellows or brethren of Solomon's house.

mist

His passion cast a mist before his sense.

Mistake

My father's purposes have been mistook.

A man may mistake the love of virtue for the practice of it.

Mistake me not so much, To think my poverty is treacherous.

Servants mistake, and sometimes occasion misunderstanding among friends.

Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake.

Mistaker

Well meaning ignorance of some mistakers.

Mistemper

This inundation of mistempered humor.

Mister

To call your name, inquire your where, Or what you think of Mister Some-one's book, Or Mister Other's marriage or decease.

In youth he learned had a good mester.

But telleth me what mester men ye be.

As for my name, it mistereth not to tell.

Mistress

The late queen's gentlewoman! a knight's daughter! To be her mistress' mistress!

A letter desires all young wives to make themselves mistresses of Wingate's Arithmetic.

Now Mistress Gilpin (careful soul).

Several of the neighboring mistresses had assembled to witness the event of this memorable evening.

Mistrust

I will never mistrust my wife again.

By a divine instinct, men's minds mistrust Ensuing dangers.

Mistrustful

Their light blown out in some mistrustful wood.

Mistrustless

The swain mistrustless of his smutted face.

Misty

The more I muse therein [theology], The mistier it seemeth.

Misuse

The sweet poison of misused wine.

O, she misused me past the endurance of a block.

Words little suspected for any such misuse.

Misvalue

But for I am so young, I dread my work Wot be misvalued both of old and young.

Misworship

Such hideous jungle of misworships.

Mite

Two mites, which make a farthing.

For in effect they be not worth a myte.

Mithridate

[Love is] a drop of the true elixir; no mithridate so effectual against the infection of vice.

Mitigate

This opinion . . . mitigated kings into companions.

Mix

Fair persuasions mixed with sugared words.

Ephraim, he hath mixed himself among the people.

Hast thou no poison mixed?

I have chosen an argument mixed of religious and civil considerations.

He had mixed Again in fancied safety with his kind.

Mixture

There is also a mixture of good and evil wisely distributed by God, to serve the ends of his providence.

Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution.

Mizzle

As long as George the Fourth could reign, he reigned, And then he mizzled.

ménage à trois

For the first time in World Championships history, two racers shared the first-place gold medal. Maier and Kjus arm-in-arm on the podium, with Austrian Hans Knauss just .01 seconds back from making it a menage-a-trois.

Mo

An hundred thousand mo.

Likely to find mo to commend than to imitate it.

Moan

Unpitied and unheard, where misery moans.

Let there bechance him pitiful mischances, To make him moan.

Ye floods, ye woods, ye echoes, moan My dear Columbo, dead and gone.

Which infinitely moans me.

Sullen moans, hollow groans.

Rippling waters made a pleasant moan.

Mob

A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with their betters.

The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease.

Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.

Confused by brainless mobs.

Mobile

The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.

Mobocracy

It is good name that Dr. Stevens has given to our present situation (for one can not call it a government), a mobocracy.

Mock

To see the life as lively mocked as ever Still sleep mocked death.

Mocking marriage with a dame of France.

Elijah mocked them, and said, Cry aloud.

Let not ambition mock their useful toil.

Thou hast mocked me, and told me lies.

He will not . . . Mock us with his blest sight, then snatch him hence.

When thou mockest, shall no man make thee ashamed?

She had mocked at his proposal.

Fools make a mock at sin.

That superior greatness and mock majesty.

Mockado

Our rich mockado doublet.

Mockery

It is, as the air, invulnerable, And our vain blows malicious mockery.

Grace at meals is now generally so performed as to look more like a mockery upon devotion than any solemn application of the mind to God.

And bear about the mockery of woe.

The laughingstock of fortune's mockeries.

The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery.

Modally

A compound proposition, the parts of which are united modally . . . by the particles “as” and “so.”

Mode

The duty of itself being resolved on, the mode of doing it may easily be found.

A table richly spread in regal mode.

The easy, apathetic graces of a man of the mode.

Modes I call such complex ideas, which, however compounded, contain not in them the supposition of subsisting by themselves, but are considered as dependencies on, or affections of, substances.

Model

In charts, in maps, and eke in models made.

I had my father's signet in my purse, Which was the model of that Danish seal.

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

[The application for a patent] must be accompanied by a full description of the invention, with drawings and a model where the case admits of it.

When we mean to build We first survey the plot, then draw the model.

He that despairs measures Providence by his own little, contracted model.

Thou seest thy wretched brother die, Who was the model of thy father's life.

A professional model.

Moderate

A number of moderate members managed . . . to obtain a majority in a thin house.

By its astringent quality, it moderates the relaxing quality of warm water.

To moderate stiff minds disposed to strive.

Dr. Barlow [was] engaged . . . to moderate for him in the divinity disputation.

Moderately

Each nymph but moderately fair.

Moderation

In moderation placing all my glory, While Tories call me Whig, and Whigs a Tory.

The calm and judicious moderation of Orange.

Moderator

Angling was . . . a moderator of passions.

Modern

We have our philosophical persons, to make modern and familiar, things supernatural and causeless.

Modest

Mrs. Ford, the honest woman, the modest wife.

The blushing beauties of a modest maid.

Modesty

Her blush is guiltiness, not modesty.

Modicum

Her usual modicum of beer and punch.

Modify

Of his grace He modifies his first severe decree.

Modulate

Could any person so modulate her voice as to deceive so many?

Modus

They, from time immemorial, had paid a modus, or composition.

Moiety

The more beautiful moiety of his majesty's subject.

Moil

Thou . . . doest thy mind in dirty pleasures moil.

Moil not too much under ground.

Now he must moil and drudge for one he loathes.

The moil of death upon them.

Moisten

A pipe a little moistened on the inside.

It moistened not his executioner's heart with any pity.

Moisture

All my body's moisture Scarce serves to quench my furnace-burning heat.

Mold

The etherial mold, Incapable of stain.

Nature formed me of her softest mold.

The glass of fashion and the mold of form.

Crowned with an architrave of antique mold.

He forgeth and moldeth metals.

Did I request thee, Maker, from my clay To mold me man?

Molder

The moldering of earth in frosts and sun.

When statues molder, and when arches fall.

If he had sat still, the enemy's army would have moldered to nothing.

[Time's] gradual touch Has moldered into beauty many a tower.

Molehill

Having leapt over such mountains, lie down before a molehill.

Molest

They have molested the church with needless opposition.

Mollify

With sweet science mollified their stubborn hearts.

Moment

In a moment, in the twinkling of an eye.

The moments or quantities of motion in bodies.

Touch, with lightest moment of impulse, His free will.

Matters of great moment.

It is an abstruse speculation, but also of far less moment and consequence of us than the others.

Momental

Not one momental minute doth she swerve.

Momentary

This momentary joy breeds months of pain.

Momentum

I shall state the several momenta of the distinction in separate propositions.

Monarch

He who reigns Monarch in heaven, . . . upheld by old repute.

Come, thou, monarch of the vine, Plumpy Bacchus.

Monarchal

Satan, whom now transcendent glory raised Above his fellows, with monarchal pride.

Monarchy

In those days he had affected zeal for monarchy.

What scourage for perjury Can this dark monarchy afford false Clarence.

Money

To prevent such abuses, . . . it has been found necessary . . . to affix a public stamp upon certain quantities of such particular metals, as were in those countries commonly made use of to purchase goods. Hence the origin of coined money, and of those public offices called mints.

The love of money is a root of all kinds of evil.

Money-making

Obstinacy in money-making.

Moneyed

If exportation will not balance importation, away must your silver go again, whether moneyed or not moneyed.

Monism

Monism means that the whole of reality, i.e., everything that is, constitutes one inseparable and indivisible entirety. Monism accordingly is a unitary conception of the world. It always bears in mind that our words are abstracts representing parts or features of the One and All, and not separate existences. Not only are matter and mind, soul and body, abstracts, but also such scientific terms as atoms and molecules, and also religious terms such as God and world.

Monition

Sage monitions from his friends.

We have no visible monition of . . . other periods, such as we have of the day by successive light and darkness.

Monitor

You need not be a monitor to the king.

Monitory

Losses, miscarriages, and disappointments, are monitory and instructive.

Monk

Monks in some respects agree with regulars, as in the substantial vows of religion; but in other respects monks and regulars differ; for that regulars, vows excepted, are not tied up to so strict a rule of life as monks are.

Monkery

Miters, and wretched dead mediaeval monkeries.

Though he have a whole monkery to sing for him.

Monkey

This is the monkey's own giving out; she is persuaded I will marry her.

Monoceros

Mighty monoceroses with immeasured tails.

Monology

It was not by an insolent usurpation that Coleridge persisted in monology through his whole life.

Monopoly

Raleigh held a monopoly of cards, Essex a monopoly of sweet wines.

If I had a monopoly out, they would have part on 't.

Monotony

At sea, everything that breaks the monotony of the surrounding expanse attracts attention.

Monster

A monster or marvel.

Monstration

A certain monstration.

Monstrosity

A monstrosity never changes the name or affects the immutability of a species.

Monstrous

He, therefore, that refuses to do good to them whom he is bound to love . . . is unnatural and monstrous in his affections.

So bad a death argues a monstrous life.

Where thou, perhaps, under the whelming tide Visitest the bottom of the monstrous world.

And will be monstrous witty on the poor.

Monteth

New things produce new words, and thus Monteth Has by one vessel saved his name from death.

Monument

Of ancient British art A pleasing monument.

Our bruised arms hung up for monuments.

On your family's old monument Hang mournful epitaphs, and do all rites That appertain unto a burial.

Acts and Monuments of these latter and perilous days.

Monumental

A work outlasting monumental brass.

Mood

Till at the last aslaked was his mood.

Fortune is merry, And in this mood will give us anything.

The desperate recklessness of her mood.

Moody

Arouse thee from thy moody dream!

Moon

The crescent moon, the diadem of night.

If they have it to be exceeding white indeed, they seethe it yet once more, after it hath been thus sunned and mooned.

Elsley was mooning down the river by himself.

Moonish

Being but a moonish youth.

Moonshiny

I went to see them in a moonshiny night.

Moony

Soft and pale as the moony beam.

But soon the miscreant moony host Before the victor cross shall fly.

Moor

In her girlish age she kept sheep on the moor.

On oozy ground his galleys moor.

Mooring

And the tossed bark in moorings swings.

Moory

As when thick mists arise from moory vales.

Moot

A problem which hardly has been mentioned, much less mooted, in this country.

First a case is appointed to be mooted by certain young men, containing some doubtful controversy.

There is a difference between mooting and pleading; between fencing and fighting.

The pleading used in courts and chancery called moots.

Mope

A sickly part of one true sense Could not so mope.

Moral

Keep at the least within the compass of moral actions, which have in them vice or virtue.

Mankind is broken loose from moral bands.

She had wandered without rule or guidance in a moral wilderness.

The wiser and more moral part of mankind.

A moral agent is a being capable of those actions that have a moral quality, and which can properly be denominated good or evil in a moral sense.

Corrupt in their morals as vice could make them.

Thus may we gather honey from the weed, And make a moral of the devil himself.

To point a moral, or adorn a tale.

We protest against the principle that the world of pure comedy is one into which no moral enters.

Moralist

The love (in the moralist of virtue, but in the Christian) of God himself.

Morality

The morality of an action is founded in the freedom of that principle, by virtue of which it is in the agent's power, having all things ready and requisite to the performance of an action, either to perform or not perform it.

Of moralitee he was the flower.

I am bold to think that morality is capable of demonstration.

The end of morality is to procure the affections to obey reason, and not to invade it.

The system of morality to be gathered out of . . . ancient sages falls very short of that delivered in the gospel.

Taketh the morality thereof, good men.

Moralize

This fable is moralized in a common proverb.

Did he not moralize this spectacle?

While chastening thoughts of sweetest use, bestowed By Wisdom, moralize his pensive road.

It had a large share in moralizing the poor white people of the country.

Good and bad stars moralize not our actions.

Morally

By good, good morally so called, “bonum honestum” ought chiefly to be understood.

It is morally impossible for an hypocrite to keep himself long upon his guard.

Morbose

Morbose tumors and excrescences of plants.

More

He gat more money.

If we procure not to ourselves more woe.

Whilst sisters nine, which dwell on Parnasse height, Do make them music for their more delight.

The more part knew not wherefore they were come together.

Wrong not that wrong with a more contempt.

The people of the children of Israel are more and mightier than we.

With open arms received one poet more.

And the children of Israel did so, and gathered, some more, some less.

They that would have more and more can never have enough.

O! That pang where more than madness lies.

Admiring more The riches of Heaven's pavement.

Happy here, and more happy hereafter.

The duke of Milan And his more braver daughter.

Yet once more, O ye laurels, and once more, Ye myrtles brown, with ivy never sere, I come to pluck your berries harsh and crude.

Those oracles which set the world in flames, Nor ceased to burn till kingdoms were no more.

Moreover

Moreover, he hath left you all his walks.

Morian

In vain the Turks and Morians armed be.

Moribund

The patient was comatose and moribund.

Morion

A battered morion on his brow.

Morn

From morn To noon he fell, from noon to dewy eve.

Morning

She looks as clear As morning roses newly washed with dew.

Since he miscalled the morning star, Nor man nor fiend hath fallen so far.

Mornward

And mornward now the starry hands move on.

Moroseness

Learn good humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degrees of pride and moroseness.

Morrice

In shoals and bands, a morrice train.

Morris

The nine-men's morris is filled up with mud.

Morrow

We loved he by the morwe a sop in wine.

Till this stormy night is gone, And the eternal morrow dawn.

Morsel

Every morsel to a satisfied hunger is only a new labor to a tired digestion.

Mort

There was a mort of merrymaking.

Male gypsies all, not a mort among them.

The sportsman then sounded a treble mort.

Mortal

Last of all, against himself he turns his sword, but missing the mortal place, with his poniard finishes the work.

Safe in the hand of one disposing Power, Or in the natal or the mortal hour.

The nymph grew pale, and in a mortal fright.

The voice of God To mortal ear is dreadful.

Mortality

When I saw her die, I then did think on your mortality.

From this instant There 's nothing serious in mortality.

Take these tears, mortality's relief.

Mortally

I was mortally brought forth.

Adrian mortally envied poets, painters, and artificers, in works wherein he had a vein to excel.

Mortgage

Mortgaging their lives to covetise.

I myself an mortgaged to thy will.

Mortification

The mortification of our lusts has something in it that is troublesome, yet nothing that is unreasonable.

It is one of the vexatious mortifications of a studious man to have his thoughts discovered by a tedious visit.

Mortify

Quicksilver is mortified with turpentine.

He mortified pearls in vinegar.

With fasting mortified, worn out with tears.

Mortify thy learned lust.

Mortify, therefore, your members which are upon the earth.

The news of the fatal battle of Worcester, which exceedingly mortified our expectations.

How often is the ambitious man mortified with the very praises he receives, if they do not rise so high as he thinks they ought!

This makes him . . . give alms of all that he hath, watch, fast, and mortify.

Mosaic

A very beautiful mosaic pavement.

Moslem

They piled the ground with Moslem slain.

Moss

An oak whose boughs were mossed with age.

Mossy

Old trees are more mossy far than young.

Most

The cities wherein most of his mighty works were done.

A quarter of a year or some months at the most.

A covetous man makes the most of what he has.

Those nearest to this king, and most his favorites, were courtiers and prelates.

The most unkindest cut of all.

The most straitest sect of our religion.

Most-favored-nation clause

There was a “most-favored-nation” clause with provisions for the good treatment of strangers entering the Republic.

Steam navigation was secured by the Japanese as far as Chungking, and under the most-favored-nation clause the right accrued to us.

Mot

He moot as well say one word as another

The wordes mote be cousin to the deed.

Men moot [i.e., one only] give silver to the poore freres.

Tarquin's eye may read the mot afar.

Here and there turns up a . . . savage mot.

Mote

The little motes in the sun do ever stir, though there be no wind.

We are motes in the midst of generations.

Moth-eat

Ruin and neglect have so moth-eaten her.

Mother

Alas! poor country! . . . it can not Be called our mother, but our grave.

I behold . . . the solitary majesty of Crete, mother of a religion, it is said, that lived two thousand years.

It is the mother falsehood from which all idolatry is derived.

The queen, to have put lady Elizabeth besides the crown, would have mothered another body's child.

Mothered

They oint their naked limbs with mothered oil.

Motif

This motif, of old things lost, is a favorite one for the serious ballade.

The design . . . is . . . based on the peacock -- a motif favored by decorative artists of all ages.

Motion

Speaking or mute, all comeliness and grace attends thee, and each word, each motion, forms.

Devoid of sense and motion.

In our proper motion we ascend.

This is the great wheel to which the clock owes its motion.

Let a good man obey every good motion rising in his heart, knowing that every such motion proceeds from God.

Yes, I agree, and thank you for your motion.

The independent motions of different parts sounding together constitute counterpoint.

What motion's this? the model of Nineveh?

I want friends to motion such a matter.

motivating

It may well be that ethical language has primarily a motivative function

Motive

By motive, I mean the whole of that which moves, excites, or invites the mind to volition, whether that be one thing singly, or many things conjunctively.

Motto

It was the motto of a bishop eminent for his piety and good works, . . . “Serve God, and be cheerful.”

Motty

The motty dust reek raised by the workmen.

Moule

Let us not moulen thus in idleness.

Mound

To thrid the thickets or to leap the mounds.

Mount

Hew ye down trees, and cast a mount against Jerusalem.

Though Babylon should mount up to heaven.

The fire of trees and houses mounts on high.

Bring then these blessings to a strict account, Make fair deductions, see to what they mount.

Shall we mount again the rural throne?

What power is it which mounts my love so high?

She had so good a seat and hand, she might be trusted with any mount.

Mountain

I should have been a mountain of mummy.

The high, the mountain majesty of worth.

Mountaineer

No savage fierce, bandit, or mountaineer.

You can't go mountaineering in a flat country.

Mountebank

Such is the weakness and easy credulity of men, that a mountebank . . . is preferred before an able physician.

Nothing so impossible in nature but mountebanks will undertake.

Mourn

Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her.

We mourn in black; why mourn we not in blood?

Grieve for an hour, perhaps, then mourn a year.

As if he mourned his rival's ill success.

And looking over the hills, I mourn The darling who shall not return.

The lovelorn nightingale Nightly to thee her sad song mourneth well.

Mourner

His mourners were two hosts, his friends and foes.

Mourners were provided to attend the funeral.

Mourning

The houses to their tops with black were spread, And ev'n the pavements were with mourning hid.

Mouth

Every coffeehouse has some particular statesman belonging to it, who is the mouth of the street where he lives.

That in the mouth of two or three witnesses every word may be established.

Counterfeit sad looks, Make mouths upon me when I turn my back.

The mouth of them that speak lies shall be stopped.

Whose mouths must be stopped.

Mouthing out his hollow oes and aes.

I'll bellow out for Rome, and for my country, And mouth at Caesar, till I shake the senate.

Well I know, when I am gone, How she mouths behind my back.

Mouthpiece

Egmont was imprudent enough to make himself the mouthpiece of their remonstrance.

Movable

Furnished with the most rich and princely movables.

Move

Minds desirous of revenge were not moved with gold.

No female arts his mind could move.

When he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them.

[The use of images] in orations and poetry is to move pity or terror.

Let me but move one question to your daughter.

They are to be blamed alike who move and who decline war upon particular respects.

The foundations also of the hills moved and were shaken, because he was wroth.

On the green bank I sat and listened long, . . . Nor till her lay was ended could I move.

Mover

These most poisonous compounds, Which are the movers of a languishing death.

Moving

I sang an old moving story.

Mow

Nodding, becking, and mowing.

Our walles mowe not make hem resistence.

Métier

Not only is it the business of no one to preach the truth but it is the métier of many to conceal it.

Much

Thou shalt carry much seed out into the field, and shalt gather but little in.

Edom came out against him with much people.

He that gathered much had nothing over.

And [he] thought not much to clothe his enemies.

Thou art much mightier than we.

Excellent speech becometh not a fool, much less do lying lips a prince.

Henceforth I fly not death, nor would prolong Life much.

All left the world much as they found it.

Muchness

The quantity and muchness of time which it filcheth.

Mucigenous

The mucigenous basis is manufactured at the expense of the ordinary protoplasm of the cell.

Muck

The fatal muck we quarreled for.

. . . Inco is still much more advanced than other mining companies. He says that the LKAB mine in Sweden is the closest rival. He predicts that, by 2008, Inco can reach a new productivity plateau, doubling the current mining productivity from 3,350 tonnes to 6,350 tonnes per person per year. Another aim is to triple the mine cycle rate (the time to drill, blast and muck a round) from one cycle to three complete cycles per 24 hours.

Mucky

Mucky money and false felicity.

Muddle

He did ill to muddle the water.

Epicurus seems to have had brains so muddled and confounded, that he scarce ever kept in the right way.

Often drunk, always muddled.

They muddle it [money] away without method or object, and without having anything to show for it.

We both grub on in a muddle.

Muddy

This muddy vesture of decay.

Cold hearts and muddy understandings.

Dost think I am so muddy, so unsettled.

Muffle

The face lies muffled up within the garment.

He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes.

Muffled up in darkness and superstition.

Muffler

Fortune is painted blind, with a muffler above her eyes.

Mulctary

Fines, or some known mulctuary punishments.

Mull

New cider, mulled with ginger warm.

Mulley

Leave milking and dry up old mulley, thy cow.

Mulligrubs

Whose dog lies sick of the mulligrubs?

Mullock

All this mullok [was] in a sieve ythrowe.

Multanimous

The multanimous nature of the poet.

Multifarious

There is a multifarious artifice in the structure of the meanest animal.

Multiform

A plastic and multiform unit.

Multiplication

The increase and multiplication of the world.

Multiply

Impunity will multiply motives to disobedience.

When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them.

The word of God grew and multiplied.

Multipresence

The multipresence of Christ's body.

Multitude

But when he saw the multitudes, he was moved with compassion on them.

It is a fault in a multitude of preachers, that they utterly neglect method in their harangues.

A multitude of flowers As countless as the stars on high.

They came as grasshoppers for multitude.

Multitudinous

A renewed jingling of multitudinous chains.

Mum

The citizens are mum, and speak not a word.

Mum, then, and no more.

The clamorous crowd is hushed with mugs of mum.

Mum-chance

Boys can't sit mum-chance always.

Mumble

Peace, you mumbling fool.

A wrinkled hag, with age grown double, Picking dry sticks, and mumbling to herself.

Gums unarmed, to mumble meat in vain.

Mumbo Jumbo

The miserable Mumbo Jumbo they paraded.

Mumm

With mumming and with masking all around.

Mummer

Jugglers and dancers, antics, mummers.

Mummery

The mummery of foreign strollers.

Mump

He mumps, and lovers, and hangs the lip.

And then when mumping with a sore leg, . . . canting and whining.

Old men who mump their passion.

Mumper

Deceived by the tales of a Lincoln's Inn mumper.

Mun

One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns, Butter them and sugar them and put them in your muns.

Munch

I could munch your good dry oats.

Mundane

The defilement of mundane passions.

Municipal

Municipal law is properly defined to be a rule of civil conduct prescribed by the supreme power in a state.

Municipalize

London people are now determined to centralize and to municipalize such services.

Munificence

The virtues of liberality and munificence.

Munition

His place of defense shall be the munitions of rocks.

The bodies of men, munition, and money, may justly be called the sinews of war.

Murder

The killing of their children had, in the account of God, the guilt of murder, as the offering them to idols had the guilt of idolatry.

Slaughter grows murder when it goes too far.

[Canst thou] murder thy breath in middle of a word?

Mure

The five kings are mured in a cave.

Murk

He can not see through the mantle murk.

Murky

A murky deep lowering o'er our heads.

Murmur

Some discontents there are, some idle murmurs.

They murmured as doth a swarm of bees.

And all the children of Israel murmured against Moses and against Aaron.

Neither murmur ye, as some of them also murmured.

The people murmured such things concerning him.

Murmurous

The lime, a summer home of murmurous wings.

Muscadel

Quaffed off the muscadel.

Muscling

A good piece, the painters say, must have good muscling, as well as coloring and drapery.

Muscular

Great muscular strength, accompanied by much awkwardness.

Muse

Find a hare without a muse.

Granville commands; your aid, O Muses, bring: What Muse for Granville can refuse to sing?

He mused upon some dangerous plot.

Come, then, expressive Silence, muse his praise.

Mushy

She 's not mushy, but her heart is tender.

Music

The man that hath no music in himself Nor is not moved with concord of sweet sounds, Is fit for treasons, stratagems, and spoils.

Musical

To fetch home May with their musical.

Must

Likewise must the deacons be grave.

Morover, he [a bishop] must have a good report of them which are without.

No fermenting must fills . . . the deep vats.

Muster

The hurried muster of the soldiers of liberty.

See how in warlike muster they appear, In rhombs, and wedges, and half-moons, and wings.

And the muster was thirty thousands of men.

Ye publish the musters of your own bands, and proclaim them to amount of thousands.

Of the temporal grandees of the realm, mentof their wives and daughters, the muster was great and splendid.

Such excuses will not pass muster with God.

All the gay feathers he could muster.

One of those who can muster up sufficient sprightliness to engage in a game of forfeits.

Musty

The proverb is somewhat musty.

Mutability

Plato confessed that the heavens and the frame of the world are corporeal, and therefore subject to mutability.

Mutable

Things of the most accidental and mutable nature.

mutation

The vicissitude or mutations in the superior globe are no fit matter for this present argument.

Mute

Have I muted all my feathers?

All the heavenly choir stood mute, And silence was in heaven.

They spake not a word; But, like dumb statues, or breathing stones, Gazed each on other.

All sat mute, Pondering the danger with deep thoughts.

Mutilate

Among the mutilated poets of antiquity, there is none whose fragments are so beautiful as those of Sappho.

Mutinous

The city was becoming mutinous.

Mutiny

In every mutiny against the discipline of the college, he was the ringleader.

To raise a mutiny betwixt yourselves.

Mutter

Wizards that peep, and that mutter.

Meantime your filthy foreigner will stare, And mutter to himself.

Thick lightnings flash, the muttering thunder rolls.

Mutton

Not so much ground as will feed a mutton.

Muttons, beeves, and porkers are good old words for the living quadrupeds.

The fat of roasted mutton or beef.

I willingly return to my muttons.

Mutual

Conspiracy and mutual promise.

Happy in our mutual help, And mutual love.

A certain shyness on such subjects, which was mutual between the sisters.

A vast accession of misery and woe from the mutual weeping, and wailing, and gnashing of teeth.

Mutual, as Johnson will tell us, means something reciprocal, a giving and taking. How could people have mutual ancestors?

Muzzle

With golden muzzles all their mouths were bound

Thou shalt not muzzle the ox when he treadeth out the corn.

The bear muzzles and smells to him.

Muzzy

The whole company stared at me with a whimsical, muzzy look, like men whose senses were a little obfuscated by beer rather than wine.

Myrmidon

With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward.

Mysterious

God at last To Satan, first in sin, his doom applied, Thought in mysterious terms.

Mystery

We speak the wisdom of God in a mystery.

If God should please to reveal unto us this great mystery of the Trinity, or some other mysteries in our holy religion, we should not be able to understand them, unless he would bestow on us some new faculties of the mind.

Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery.

And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy.

“Mystery plays,” so called because acted by craftsmen.

Mystic

Heaven's numerous hierarchy span The mystic gulf from God to man.

God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural.

Thus, then, did the spirit of unity and meekness inspire every joint and sinew of the mystical body.

Mystification

The reply of Pope seems very much as though he had been playing off a mystification on his Grace.

Mystify

He took undue advantage of his credulity and mystified him exceedingly.

Myth

As for Mrs. Primmins's bones, they had been myths these twenty years.

Mythic

The mythic turf where danced the nymphs.

Hengist and Horsa, Vortigern and Rowena, Arthur and Mordred, are mythical persons, whose very existence may be questioned.

Mythologizer

Imagination has always been, and still is, in a narrower sense, the great mythologizer.

Mythologue

May we not . . . consider his history of the fall as an excellent mythologue, to account for the origin of human evil?

Mythopoeic

The mythopoeic fertility of the Greeks.