<B>mitral valve,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the valve of the heart between the left auricle and left ventricle, which prevents the blood from flowing back into the auricle; bicuspid valve. </DL>
<B>mitt, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a kind of long glove without fingers or with very short fingers. <DD><B> 2. </B>a baseball glove with a big pad over the palm and fingers. <BR> <I>Ex. a catcher's mitt.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=mitten.</B> <DD><B> 4. </B>(U.S. Slang.) a hand. </DL>
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<B>Mittelschule, </B>noun, pl. <B>-len.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a German or Austrian secondary school that emphasizes science and modern languages in preparation for the university or higher technical school. </DL>
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<B>mitten, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a kind of winter glove covering the four fingers together and the thumb separately. <BR> <I>Ex. So long as the thumb is in the right place mittens can fit on either hand.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a long glove; mitt. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Slang.) a boxing glove. <BR><I>expr. <B>get the mitten,</B> (Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>to be refused as a lover. </I> <I>Ex. Young gentlemen that have got the mitten ... always sigh (Joseph C. Neal).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to be dismissed from any office or position. <BR> <I>Ex. Lifeboat hands who are found shrinking get ... the mitten (Punch).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>give the mitten to,</B> (Slang.) <DD><B> a. </B>to refuse as a lover. </I> <I>Ex. Some said that Susan had given her young man the mitten (Oliver Wendell Holmes).</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to dismiss. <BR> <I>Ex. Here comes Dana, ... who'll be going to write what'll never be written till the Muse, ere he thinks of it, gives him the mitten (James Russell Lowell).</I> </DL>
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<B>mittimus, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Law.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a warrant committing someone to prison. <DD><B> 2. </B>(formerly) a writ for transferring a record from one court to another. </DL>
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<B>Mitty, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a timid person who in his fantasies is a fabulous hero; a daydreaming milquetoast. <BR> <I>Ex. The hero of "Stern," a flabby Jewish Mitty, has ... an imagination that flowers with persecution mania (Manchester Guardian Weekly).</I> </DL>
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<B>Mittyesque, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> characteristic of a Mitty; like an extravagant daydream. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a ticket-office attendant given to Mittyesque fantasies (London Times).</I> </DL>
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<B>mitzvah, </B>noun, pl. <B>-voth,</B> <B>-vahs.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Judaism.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a religious obligation or commandment; act enjoined by the Bible or the rabbis. <DD><B> 2. </B>an act fulfilling a religious or ethical duty; good deed; kind act. </DL>
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<B>mix, </B>verb, <B>mixed</B> or <B>mixt,</B> <B>mixing,</B> noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to put together; stir well together. <BR> <I>Ex. We mix butter, sugar, milk, and flour for a cake.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to prepare by putting different things together. <BR> <I>Ex. to mix a cake.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>to carry on at the same time; join. <BR> <I>Ex. to mix business and pleasure. You mix your sadness with some fear (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>to cross in breeding. <DD><I>v.i. </I> <B>1. </B>to be mixed. <BR> <I>Ex. Oil and water will not mix.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to associate together; get along together. <BR> <I>Ex. She likes people and mixes well in almost any group.</I> (SYN) fraternize. <DD><B> 3. </B>to be crossed in breeding. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a mixture. <BR> <I>Ex. Having no experience as a bartender, he was uncertain about the mix.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a preparation that is already mixed, such as the dry ingredients for a cake or pudding, packaged and sold together. <BR> <I>Ex. a cake mix.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>(Informal.) a mixed or muddled condition; mess. <BR><I>expr. <B>mix it</B> (<B>up</B>), </I>(Slang.) to fight, especially (of boxers) actively and without clinching. <BR> <I>Ex. If a hundred children are put to the fiddle and another hundred are made to mix it, ... the second group will turn out some unusual bruisers (New Yorker).</I> <BR><I>expr. <B>mix up,</B> <DD><B> a. </B>to confuse. </I> <I>Ex. She always manages to mix up instructions. I was so mixed up that I used the wrong method in that problem.</I> <DD><B> b. </B>to involve; concern. <BR> <I>Ex. He was mixed up in a plot to kill the king. Don't mix yourself up in other folks' affairs!</I> adj. <B>mixable.</B> </DL>
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<B>mixage, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> the editing of motion-picture film. </DL>
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<B>mixed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>put together or formed of different kinds. <BR> <I>Ex. mixed candies, a mixed drink, mixed emotions, a mixed response or blessing.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of different classes, kinds, status, character, etc.; not exclusive. <BR> <I>Ex. a mixed society.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>of or for both men and women. <BR> <I>Ex. a mixed chorus. What Shakespeare judged could safely be absorbed by mixed company in sixteenth-century London can evidently be taken in stride by succeeding generations also (Saturday Review).</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>of or for different races; racially integrated. <BR> <I>Ex. a mixed housing development, to attend mixed classes.</I> <DD><B> 5. </B>(Informal.) mentally confused, especially muddled with drink. <DD><B> 6. </B>(Botany.) (of an inflorescence) combining both determinate and indeterminate arrangements, as a thyrsus does. <DD><B> 7. </B>(Anatomy.) consisting of both sensory and motor fibers. <BR> <I>Ex. a mixed nerve.</I> <DD><B> 8. </B>(Law.) involving two or more kinds of legal characteristics, issues, rights, etc.. <BR> <I>Ex. Mixed property is property that is partly real and partly personal.</I> <DD><B> 9. </B>(Business, Commerce.) (of stock prices) some rising and some falling from previous levels. <BR> <I>Ex. Prices were mixed on the New York Stock Exchange.</I> <DD><B> 10. </B>(Phonetics.) central; neither front nor back. </DL>
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<B>mixed art,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an artistic medium combining several art forms. <BR> <I>Ex. The theater is sometimes a mixed art because it combines the script of the playwright, the scenic background of the architect and painter, and the speech and movement of the actors (Oscar G. and Lenyth Brockett).</I> </DL>
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<B>mixed bag,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Informal.) a mixture; medley; miscellany. <BR> <I>Ex. a mixed bag of projects, a mixed bag of ill-assorted characters, a mixed bag of emotions.</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mixedblood">
<B>mixed blood,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) <DD><B> 1. </B>descent from two or more races. <DD><B> 2. </B>a person of mixed blood. </DL>
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<B>mixed-blood, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(of a person or persons) descended from two or more races. <DD><B> 2. </B>consisting largely or entirely of such people. <BR> <I>Ex. a mixed-blood nation, a mixed-blood population.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B><B>=interracial.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="mixedblooded">
<B>mixed-blooded, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) descended from two or more races. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedbud">
<B>mixed bud,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a bud producing both foliage and flower. </DL>
<A NAME="mixeddoubles">
<B>mixed doubles,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> doubles played with a man and a woman on each team. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedeconomy">
<B>mixed economy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an economy that is partly capitalistic, partly socialistic. <BR> <I>Ex. [In] a mixed economy ... cooperative private business, commercial private business, and government business compete openly and honestly in meeting the needs of the people (Emory S. Bogardus).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mixedfarming">
<B>mixed farming,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the practice of using a farm for multiple purposes, such as cattle-raising, fruit-growing, and producing grain for sale and for livestock food. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedfeed">
<B>mixed feed,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a feed designed to provide a balanced diet for livestock, consisting typically of a mixture of grain, meal, and grasses with vitamins and other additives. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedgrill">
<B>mixed grill,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an assortment of grilled meats and vegetables served together. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedly">
<B>mixedly, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in a mixed manner; like a mixture. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedmanned">
<B>mixed-manned, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (of a supranational military force or unit) supplied with men representing member nations; multinational or multilateral. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedmarriage">
<B>mixed marriage,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a marriage in which the husband and wife are of different religions or races. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedmedia">
<B>mixed media,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the simultaneous use of motion pictures, tapes, phonograph records, and the like, to produce an artistic work or exhibition; multimedia. <BR> <I>Ex. Miss Caldwell used a "mixed media" technique, with photographs and movies projected on bits of backdrop while the action was going on (New Yorker).</I> </DL>
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<B>mixed-media, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> using mixed media. <BR> <I>Ex. More galleries experimented with mixed-media exhibitions making use of the wonders of modern technology (Sandra Millikin).</I> </DL>
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<B>mixed metaphor,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> an incongruous combination of metaphors. (Example:) "He set forth earlyon the stream of public life, where he climbed to the peak of success." </DL>
<A NAME="mixednumber">
<B>mixed number,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a number consisting of a whole number and a fraction, such as 16 2/3. </DL>
<A NAME="mixedtide">
<B>mixed tide,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tide that does not flow and ebb regularly twice a day. <BR> <I>Ex. Some Pacific islands have mixed tides, such as two high tides daily, with only a little ebb between, and then a very low tide (Robert O. Reid).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="mixedup">
<B>mixed-up, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) confused; unstable; emotionally immature. <BR> <I>Ex. Some people think we're a bunch of crazy mixed-up kids because we give our client a hard time (New York Times).</I> </DL>
