<B>mignonette, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a common garden plant having long, pointed clusters of small, fragrant, greenish-white flowers with prominent, golden-brown anthers. <DD><B> 2. </B>a yellowish-green or grayish-green color; reseda. </DL>
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<B>migraine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a severe headache, usually recurrent, on one side of the head only, and accompanied by nausea; sick headache; megrim. </DL>
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<B>migrainous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or suffering from migraines. <BR> <I>Ex. Migrainous subjects have been found to have a disordered function in the arteries that supply the head and brain (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>migrancy, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the state or condition of being migrant. <BR> <I>Ex. Until we see the connection between migrancy ... the despairing, destitute families groping for a way to live, and the bountiful supply of fruits and vegetables on every corner fruit stand or in every supermarket, no change will come (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>migrant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> migrating; roving; migratory. <BR> <I>Ex. a migrant worker.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a person, animal, bird, or plant that migrates. <BR> <I>Ex. The western United States was settled by migrants from all over the world.</I> </DL>
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<B>migrate, </B>intransitive verb, <B>-grated,</B> <B>-grating.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to move from one place to settle in another. <BR> <I>Ex. Pioneers from New England migrated to all parts of the United States.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to go from one region to another with the change in the seasons. Most birds migrate to warmer climates to spend the winter. <DD><B> 3. </B>to spread from one localized area to another or larger area. <BR> <I>Ex. The wind helps trees migrate by carrying their seeds beyond the forest ... Forests can migrate over fairly level land but not across oceans or mountain ranges (Martin H. Zimmermann).</I> </DL>
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<B>migration, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the action of moving from one place or region to another; migrating. <BR> <I>Ex. Those almighty instincts that propel the migrations of the swallow and the lemming (Thomas De Quincey). If migration offers little by way of a solution of the world's demographic problems, why is it so often mentioned? (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a number of people or animals migrating together. <DD><B> 3a. </B>a movement of one or more atoms from one place to another within the molecule. <DD><B> b. </B>the movement of ions between the two electrodes during electrolysis. </DL>
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<B>migrational, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with migration or movement to another place. <BR> <I>Ex. migrational ability of birds.</I> </DL>
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<B>migrator, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a person or thing that migrates. <DD><B> 2. </B>a migratory bird. </DL>
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<B>migratory, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>moving from one place to another; that migrates; migrating. <BR> <I>Ex. migratory laborers, migratory birds.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with migration. <BR> <I>Ex. the migratory pattern of elephants.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>wandering. <BR> <I>Ex. a migratory pain.</I> </DL>
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<B>migratory locust,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the grasshoppers which have short antennae and migrate in great swarms, destroying crops and other vegetation in their path. </DL>
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<B>mihrab, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a niche in a Moslem mosque, which points to Mecca. </DL>
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<B>mikado</B> or <B>Mikado, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a former title of the emperor of Japan. The Japanese seldom use this title except in poetry, and it is now decreasingly used by foreigners. </DL>
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<B>mike, </B>noun, verb, <B>miked,</B> <B>miking.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) <DD><I>noun </I> a microphone. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to transmit on a microphone. <BR> <I>Ex. The most important things at the convention ... happen on the podium and in the miked statements from the delegations (Harper's).</I> <DD><I>v.i. </I> to use a microphone. <BR> <I>Ex. Jolas specificially asks the viola to stand up in concertante passages, ... though miking may well have justified it to radio listeners (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>Mike, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a code name for the letter <I>m,</I> used in transmitting radio messages. </DL>
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<B>mikron, </B>noun, pl. <B>-krons,</B> <B>-kra.</B> =micron.</DL>
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<B>mikvah, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Jewish ritual bath used in ceremonies of purification, such as the bathing of women following menstruation, and the dipping of new dishes before use. <BR> <I>Ex. Rabbis want to know why the mikvah attendance has fallen off (Maclean's).</I> </DL>
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<B>mil, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a measure of length equal to 0.001 of an inch. It is used in measuring the diameter of wires. <DD><B> 2. </B>a unit of angular measure used in adjusting the aim of a piece of artillery, equal to 1/6400 of a complete circle or about 1/18 of a degree. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Pharmacy.) a milliliter. <DD><B> 4. </B>an Israeli bronze coin, worth 1/1000 of a pound. </DL>
<B>milady</B> or <B>miladi, </B>noun, pl. <B>-dies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>my lady. <BR> <I>Ex. The spittoon, once a fixture even in banks, ought to be replaced by a wall mirror so milady can look her best (Wall Street Journal).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>an English lady or noblewoman. </DL>
<B>Milan</B> or <B>milan, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a fine, closely woven straw used in the manufacture of women's hats. <BR> <I>Ex. a hat of red Milan (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>Milanese, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-nese.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of or having to do with Milan, a city in northern Italy, or its people. <BR> <I>Ex. a Milanese painter.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> a native or inhabitant of Milan. </DL>
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<B>milch, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> giving milk; kept for the milk it gives. <BR> <I>Ex. a milch cow.</I> </DL>
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<B>milcher, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a milch animal, such as a cow. </DL>
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<B>milchig, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (in Jewish dietary law) restricted to dairy foods or products. <BR> <I>Ex. a milchig meal, milchig dishes.</I> </DL>
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<B>mild, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>gentle or kind. <BR> <I>Ex. a mild old gentleman, a mild tone of voice.</I> (SYN) tender, lenient, merciful. <DD><B> 2. </B>calm; warm; temperate; moderate; not harsh or severe. <BR> <I>Ex. a mild climate, a mild winter.</I> (SYN) clement, pleasant, bland. <DD><B> 3. </B>soft or sweet to the senses; not sharp, sour, bitter, or strong in taste. <BR> <I>Ex. a mild cheese, a mild cigar.</I> <DD><I>noun </I> (British Informal.) mild ale or beer. <BR> <I>Ex. Bill Flanagan, with whom I took a glass of mild at the Canonbury Working Men's Institute yesterday ... (Punch).</I> adv. <B>mildly.</B> noun <B>mildness.</B> </DL>
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<B>Mild, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> coffee grown outside of Brazil. </DL>
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<B>milden, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to make or become mild or milder. </DL>
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<B>mildew, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a kind of fungus that appears on plants or on paper, clothes, or leather during damp weather. Mildew is a minute, parasitic fungus that produces a whitish coating or a discoloration. <BR> <I>Ex. Mildew killed the rosebuds in our garden.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>the coating or discoloration, or the diseased condition, produced by such a fungus. <BR> <I>Ex. Damp clothes left in a pile will show mildew in a few days.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>any similar discoloration caused by a fungus, such as on cotton and linen fabrics, paper, or leather. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to cover or become covered with mildew. <BR> <I>Ex. A pile of damp clothes in his closet mildewed.</I> </DL>
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<B>mildewcide, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a substance for preventing or destroying mildew. <BR> <I>Ex. The improved "mildewcides," products which contain mercury derivatives, are now on the market (New York Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>mildewed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>tainted with mildew. <BR> <I>Ex. mildewed books.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) affected from lack of use; outmoded. <BR> <I>Ex. "Too True To Be Good," by George Bernard Shaw, is substandard ... full of mildewed seventyish garrulities on religion, militarism, and the idle rich (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>mildewy, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, like, or affected with mildew. <BR> <I>Ex. There is a mildewy odor from that old trunk.</I> </DL>
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<B>mild steel,</B> =soft steel.</DL>
<A NAME="mile">
<B>mile, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a measure of distance equal to 5,280 feet; statute mile. <BR> <I>Ex. After running out of gas we walked two miles to the filling station.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a measure of length equal to about 6,080 feet, used especially at sea. It is theoretically equal to the distance traversed along one minute of a degree of a great circle of the earth. <BR> <I>Ex. The fishing boats were several miles out at sea.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>an international unit of linear measure for sea and air navigation, equal to 1.852 kilometers or 6,076.1154 feet (international nautical mile). <DD><B> 4. </B>the ancient Roman mile, equal to 4,860 feet. <DD><B> 5. </B>the modern Swedish mile, equal to 10 kilometers. (Abbr:) mi. </DL>
