<B>miotic</B> (1), adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> having to do with, suffering from, or causing miosis. <DD><I>noun </I> a drug that causes miosis. Also, <B>myotic.</B> </DL>
<B>MIP</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Monthly Investment Plan (a plan for purchasing listed securities by investing a fixed amount on a regular or monthly basis). </DL>
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<B>miquelet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a Spanish guerrilla soldier who fought against the French in Spain from 1808 to 1814. <DD><B> 2. </B>a soldier belonging to any one of certain regiments of Spanish militia, used especially for local escort duty. </DL>
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<B>mir, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a self-governing farming community that existed in Russia in the middle 1800's. </DL>
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<B>Mira, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the brightest and first variable star discovered, one of the largest of all stars, in the constellation Cetus. </DL>
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<B>mirabelle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a kind of European plum. <DD><B> 2. </B>a colorless plum brandy made from it. </DL>
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<B>mirabile dictu,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Latin.) wonderful to relate; amazing as it may seem. <BR> <I>Ex. Mirabile dictu, the price hasn't gone up by so much as a penny (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
<B>miracidium, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ia.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the minute, ciliated aquatic larva which hatches from the egg of a fluke and infects the snail, the intermediate host, in the development of the fluke. </DL>
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<B>miracle, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a wonderful happening that is beyond the known laws of nature. <BR> <I>Ex. It would be a miracle if the sun stood still in the heavens for an hour. The greatest miracle in the New Testament is the resurrection of Jesus Christ (Bernard Ramm).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>something marvelous; a wonder. <BR> <I>Ex. It was a miracle you weren't hurt in that accident.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a remarkable example. <BR> <I>Ex. an engineering miracle. Mother is a miracle of patience to answer all the questions that the children ask. What hymns are sung, what praises said For homemade miracles of bread? (Louis Untermeyer).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B><B>=miracle play.</B> </DL>
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<B>miracle drug,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a drug, especially an antibiotic, considered to be a marvelous relief or cure for a disease; wonder drug. </DL>
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<B>miracle fruit,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an African fruit that is tasteless by itself but becomes sweet when mixed with a sour substance. <BR> <I>Ex. Miracle fruit comes from a wild shrub, in tropical West Africa (New Scientist).</I> <DL COMPACT><DD> Also, <B>miraculous fruit.</B> </DL>
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<B>miracle man,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Informal.) a man who accomplishes something unusually difficult or previously thought impossible. <DD><B> 2. </B>a man who performs miracles; wonder-worker. </DL>
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<B>miracle play,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a play based on Bible stories, especially on the life of Christ, or on the legends of the saints, produced during the Middle Ages. </DL>
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<B>miracle rice,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a hybrid rice seed whose yield is twice or three times traditional varieties. </DL>
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<B>miraculin, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the taste-modifying protein of the miracle fruit, isolated for use as a sweetener and for research into the mechanism of taste. <BR> <I>Ex. A glycoprotein of comparatively small molecular size, ... miraculin possesses no taste itself. If, however, a person ingests miraculin and then sometime later eats a sour, acid food, that food will taste sweet (Magnus Pyke).</I> </DL>
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<B>miraculous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>going against the known laws of nature. <BR> <I>Ex. In the story, the miraculous tree grew up again in an hour after it was cut down. Christ's raising of Lazarus from the dead was miraculous.</I> (SYN) supernatural. <DD><B> 2. </B>wonderful; marvelous. <BR> <I>Ex. miraculous good fortune.</I> (SYN) extraordinary. <DD><B> 3. </B>producing a miracle; having the power to work miracles; wonder-working. adv. <B>miraculously.</B> noun <B>miraculousness.</B> </DL>
<B>mirador, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a turret, bay window, or the like, on a Spanish house, from which a fine view may be had. </DL>
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<B>mirage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an optical illusion, usually in the desert, at sea, or over a hot paved road, in which some distant scene appears to be much closer than it actually is. It is caused by the refraction of light rays from the distant scene by air layers of different temperatures. Often what is reflected is seen upside down or as something other than it is. Travelers on the desert may see a mirage of palm trees and water. <BR> <I>Ex. The sweet mirage that lured me on its track (William W. Story).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) anything that does not exist; illusion. </DL>
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<B>Miranda card,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a card carried by police on which is printed the constitutional rights read to an accused person, usually upon arrest. <BR> <I>Ex. Police used a Miranda card to read a Mexican immigrant his rights before arresting him in connection with the barroom slaying (New York Post).</I> </DL>
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<B>mire, </B>noun, verb, <B>mired,</B> <B>miring.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>soft, deep mud; slush. <BR> <I>Ex. I sink in deep mire, where there is no standing (Psalms 69:2).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>wet, swampy ground; bog; swamp. <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to get stuck in mire. <BR> <I>Ex. He mired his horses and had to go for help.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to soil with mud or mire. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) smeared thus and mired with infamy (Shakespeare).</I> (SYN) defile. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) to involve in difficulties; entangle. (SYN) embroil. <DD><I>v.i. </I> to stick in mire; be bogged. <BR> <I>Ex. A path ... that is so muddy that one mires afore he sets out (James Fenimore Cooper).</I> </DL>
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<B>mirepoix, </B>noun, pl. <B>-poix.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a mixture of chopped vegetables, herbs, seasonings, and bits of fat meat placed under meat or fish for braising. </DL>
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<B>Miriam, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a Hebrew prophetess, the sister of Moses and Aaron (in the Bible, Exodus 15:20). </DL>
<B>mirror, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a glass in which you can see yourself; looking glass. <BR> <I>Ex. Mirrors showing stained and aging faces (Ford Madox Ford). The reflecting microscope ... was made largely for the sheer fun of making a microscope with mirrors instead of lenses (Science News).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>any surface that reflects light. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Figurative.) whatever reflects or gives a true description. <BR> <I>Ex. This book is a mirror of the life of the pioneers.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Figurative.) something to be imitated; a model; example; pattern. <BR> <I>Ex. That knight was a mirror of chivalry.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Archaic.) a glass or crystal used in magic art. <BR> <I>Ex. With a single drop of ink for a mirror, The Egyptian sorcerer undertakes to reveal ... visions of the past (George Eliot).</I> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to reflect as a mirror does. <BR> <I>Ex. The water was so still that it mirrored the trees along the bank.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to convert (glass) into a mirror by plating. <BR><I>expr. <B>with mirrors,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>by the use of mirrors to create an optical illusion. </I> <I>Ex. The magician pulled off that trick with mirrors.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>(Figurative.) by the use of magic or trickery. <BR> <I>Ex. It is Wizard of Oz economics--all done with mirrors (New Scientist).</I> adj. <B>mirrorlike.</B> </DL>
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<B>mirror carp,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of a variety of carp having shining scales of various sizes, the larger ones being below the dorsal fin and near the tail. </DL>
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<B>mirrored, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having a mirror or mirrors. <BR> <I>Ex. a mirrored hall.</I> </DL>
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<B>mirror image,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an image in reverse; reflection. <BR> <I>Ex. The two ridges are roughly mirror images of each other, showing that the motion was uniform on each side (Scientific American).</I> </DL>
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<B>mirrorphone, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a device in which language students watch their mouth movements and compare them with those of a speaker. </DL>
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<B>mirror sextant,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the common sextant having a horizon glass and an index glass. </DL>
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<B>mirror writing,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> writing reversed from the usual order, as if seen reflected in a mirror. Mirror writing is sometimes a symptom of aphasia or nervous disease. </DL>
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<B>mirth, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> merry fun; being joyous or gay; laughter. <BR> <I>Ex. a sudden outburst of mirth. His sides shook with mirth. Then I commended mirth, because a man hath no better thing under the sun, than to eat, and to drink, and to be merry (Ecclesiastes 8:15).</I> (SYN) merriment, merrymaking, jollity, gaiety, glee, hilarity. </DL>
<B>MIRV, </B>noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a long-range missile having multiple warheads that can be guided from beyond the atmosphere to different targets so as to penetrate an enemy's antiballistic missile shield. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of the warheads on this missile. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to equip with a MIRV. </DL>
