<B>mew</B> (2), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a gull, especially the common European gull; sea mew. </DL>
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<B>mew</B> (3), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a cage or building in which hawks are kept, especially while molting. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Dialect.) a breeding cage for any of various small, tame birds. <DD><B> 3. </B>a place of retirement or concealment; secret place; den. <DD><B> 4. </B>See <B>mews.</B> <DD><I>v.t. </I> <B>1. </B>to shut up in a cage; confine; conceal. <BR> <I>Ex. (Figurative.) to mew us up here until our lives' end (Scott).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>to cage (a hawk), especially at molting time. <DD><B> 3. </B>(Archaic.) to change (feathers); molt. <DD><I>v.i. </I> (Archaic.) to molt. </DL>
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<B>mewl, </B>verb, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>v.i., v.t. </I> to cry like a baby; make a feeble, whining noise; whimper. <BR> <I>Ex. The infant, Mewling and puking in the nurse's arms (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><I>noun </I> the cry of a baby. </DL>
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<B>mews, </B>noun pl.<DL COMPACT><DD> (often sing. in use). <DD><B> 1a. </B>a group of stables or garages built around a court or alley. <DD><B> b. </B>a street or alley that was formerly part of a mews. <BR> <I>Ex. a mews house in Mayfair--one of those London surprises where a plain front conceals an almost Mediterranean courtyard (Manchester Guardian).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(in English history) the royal stables at London (so called because they were built on the site of the royal mews for hawks). </DL>
<B>Mexican, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> of Mexico or its people. <DD><I>noun </I> a person born or living in Mexico. </DL>
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<B>Mexican bean beetle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large, brownish-yellow ladybug of North America with eight black dots on each wing cover, that is very destructive to bean plants. </DL>
<B>Mexican fruit fly,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a fly native to Mexico and found as far south as Panama and north to southern Texas, which infests the crops of citrus and other fruits. </DL>
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<B>Mexican hairless,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any dog of a very old Mexican breed, approximately as large as a small fox terrier, having no hair except for a tuft on the head and sometimes a little fuzz on the lower part of the tail. </DL>
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<B>Mexicanize, </B>transitive verb, intransitive verb, <B>-ized,</B> <B>-izing.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> to make or become Mexican in habits, customs, character, or ownership. noun <B>Mexicanization.</B> </DL>
<B>Mexican poppy,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a prickly poppy bearing orange, yellow, or white flowers. </DL>
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<B>Mexican Spanish,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the dialect of Spanish spoken in Mexico. </DL>
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<B>Mexican standoff,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S. Slang.) a deadlock; stalemate. <BR> <I>Ex. ... the Mexican standoff between Menachem Begin and Anwar el-Sadat (New Yorker). Portnoy ... never defeats his mother. The book ends in a Mexican standoff; if anything, the victory is hers (Village Voice).</I> </DL>
<B>Mezentian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with or suggestive of Mezentius, a legendary Etruscan king who is said to have had living men bound face to face with corpses and then left to die. <BR> <I>Ex. That fatal and Mezentian oath which binds the Irish to the English Church (Sydney Smith).</I> </DL>
<B>mezereum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a European and Asiatic shrub, having fragrant, purplish or white flowers which appear in early spring before the leaves. <DD><B> 2. </B>the dried bark of this plant and related species, formerly used in pharmacy. </DL>
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<B>mezereum family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a family of dicotyledonous plants, mostly trees and shrubs, including the leatherwood and daphne. </DL>
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<B>mezuzah</B> or <B>mezuza, </B>noun, pl. <B>-zoth,</B> <B>-zahs,</B> <B>-za.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Judaism.) a parchment scroll inserted in a small tube or box, usually of wood or metal, and attached by Orthodox Jews to the right-hand doorposts of their homes, in obedience to the Biblical injunction in Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21, both passages being inscribed on one side of the parchment. </DL>
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<B>Mezz.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> mezzanine (of a theater). </DL>
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<B>mezza, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> the feminine form of <B>mezzo.</B> </DL>
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<B>mezzanine, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a low story, usually extending above a part of the main floor to form a balcony; entresol. In a theater the lowest balcony is often called a mezzanine. In a hotel the upper part of the lobby is often surrounded by a mezzanine. </DL>
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<B>mezza-voce, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) a medium voice; voice with a medium fullness. </DL>
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<B>mezzo, </B>adjective, noun, pl. <B>-zos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) <DD><I>adj. </I> middle; medium; half, as to the dynamics or range. <DD><I>noun </I> <B>=mezzo-soprano.</B> <BR> <I>Ex. Mezzo or not, her voice ascends to a good, strong high B (Harper's).</I> </DL>
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<B>mezzo-forte, </B>adjective, adverb, or <B>mezzo forte,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) half as loud as forte; moderately loud (used as a direction). (Abbr:) mf. </DL>
<A NAME="mezzopiano">
<B>mezzo piano,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Music.) moderately soft or low (used as a direction). </DL>
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<B>mezzo-relievo, </B>noun, pl. <B>-vos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> relief in which the figures project half their true proportions from the surface on which they are carved; half relief; demirelief. </DL>
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<B>mezzo-rilievo, </B>noun, pl. <B>mezzirilievi,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (Italian.) mezzo-relievo. </DL>
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<B>mezzo-soprano, </B>noun, pl. <B>-pranos,</B> adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a voice or part between soprano and contralto. <DD><B> 2. </B>a singer having such a voice. <DD><I>adj. </I> of, for, or having to do with a mezzo-soprano. </DL>
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<B>mezzotint, </B>noun, verb, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>an engraving on copper or steel made by polishing and scraping away parts of a roughened surface, so as to produce the effect of light and shade. <DD><B> 2. </B>a print made from such an engraving. <BR> <I>Ex. All that I own is a print, An etching, a mezzotint (Robert Browning).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>this method of etching or engraving pictures. <DD><I>v.t. </I> to engrave in mezzotint. <DD><I>adj. </I> of, having to do with, or produced by mezzotint. <BR> <I>Ex. mezzotint engravings.</I> noun <B>mezzotinter.</B> </DL>
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<B>mezzotinto, </B>noun, pl. <B>-tos,</B> transitive verb, <B>-toed,</B> <B>-toing.</B> <B>=mezzotint.</B></DL>
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<B>mf.</B> or <B>mf</B> (no period),<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>(Music.) mezzoforte. <DD><B> 2. </B>microfarad. <DD><B> 3. </B>millifarad. </DL>
<B>MGB</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> the Ministry of State Security of the former Soviet Union. The MGB reportedly conducted espionage and counterespionage. </DL>
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<B>m.g.d.</B> or <B>mgd</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> million gallons per day. </DL>
<B>mh.</B> or <B>mh</B> (no period),<DL COMPACT><DD> millihenry. </DL>
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<B>MH</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Medal of Honor. </DL>
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<B>M.H.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>Master of Humanities. <DD><B> 2. </B>Master of Hygiene. <DD><B> 3. </B>Medal of Honor. </DL>
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<B>M.H.A.</B> or <B>MHA</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> Member of the House of Assembly. </DL>
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<B>MHD</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>magnetohydrodynamic. <DD><B> 2. </B>magnetohydrodynamics. </DL>
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<B>MHG</B> (no periods), <B>MHG.,</B> or <B>M.H.G.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Middle High German. </DL>
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<B>M.H.L.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Master of Hebrew Literature. </DL>
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<B>mho, </B>noun, pl. <B>mhos.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of electrical conductance, equivalent to the conductance of a body through which one ampere of current flows when the difference of potential is one volt. It is the reciprocal of the ohm. </DL>
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<B>M.Hort.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Master of Horticulture. </DL>
<A NAME="mhr">
<B>M.H.R.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> Member of the House of Representatives. </DL>
<A NAME="mhw">
<B>m.h.w.,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> mean high water. </DL>
<A NAME="mhz">
<B>MHz</B> (no periods),<DL COMPACT><DD> megahertz. </DL>