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Show th women attendants perform only the mof Gulliver's Frawvels nenial offices One of the train of fer #. £ MEe'~niaL vants [penfye. #. J Men1'NGES Afrer giving the menfuration and argumentatio of Dr. Cumberland, it would not bave been fai to have fupprefied thofe of another prelate. Arbuth me Th ninges are the two membranes that envelope the brain, which are called th pia mater and dura mater; the latter beg the exterior involucrum, is, fro its thicknefs, fo denominated The brain being expofed to the air groweth fluid and is thruft forch by ‘the contraltion of the meWifeman 7inges MEexo'LoGgY French. 7. [;A.'/,;é?\o'ymv Intelletual ; exifting in the mind ‘What a mental powe This eye fhoots forth ? How big imaginatio Moves in this lip? 1o the dumbnefs of the geftur Shakefpeare's Timon of Ath One might interpret So deep the pow'r of thefe Ingredients pierc'd Ev'n to the inmoft feat of mental fight That Adam now enforc'd to clofe his eyes Sunk down, and all his fpirits became entranc'd menologe Milton A regifter of months In the Roman martyrology we find, at one time many thoufand martyrs deftroyed by Dieclefian the menols £ . /. [ phoxinus.} commonly min fith Beadj. [menfalis, Latin. to the table; tranfatted a A wor table Converfation either mental or menfal Me'ssTrRUAL Clariffa adj. [menftrual, Fr. men Sraus, Lat. ing to the mind fenfe in them 1. Monthly ; happening once a month lafting a month Me'NTaLLY. adv [from mental.] Intel letually; in th mind ; not pradical ly or externally ditation but in thought or me She turns all her globe to the fun, by movin in her menfirual orb, and enjoys night and day alternately, one day of her's being equal to fourtee If w Bentley days and nights of our's 2. Pertaining to a menftruum. [menffrueux Bacon mental Me'NsTrRUOUS. adj. [menfiruus, Lat. 1. Having the catamenia Me'~rionN Mz'nstruum. z /. [This name probab ly was derived from fome notion of th old chemifts about the influence of th moon in the preparation of diffolvents. All liquors are called menflrunms which are ufe as diffolvents, or to extrat the virtues of ingre Quincy Enquire what is the proper menfruum to diffolv metal, what will touch upon the one and not upo the other, and what feveral menffrua will diffolv Bacon any metal White metalline bodies muft be excepted, which by reafon of their exceflive denfity, feem to refle almoft ail the light incident on their firft fuperficies menfiruumps they be reduce unlefs by foluti into very fmall particles, and then they becom tran{parent Newton's Oprick: MEeNsURABILITY. 7. [ [menfurabilité Capacity of being meafured Fr. ME'~NsURABLE. adj. [menfura, Latin, Meafurable: that may be meafured We meafure cur time by Jaw and not by nature The folar month is no periodical motion, and no ble, and the months unequal amon eafil themfelves, and not to be megfured by even w Held or days M:'nsurAL. adj. [from menfyra Relating to meafure La [mention Fr mentio any thing Thin on m when it fhall be well with thee and make mention of me unto Pharaoh. Gen. xl. 14 The Almighty introduces the propofal of hi laws rather with the mention of fome particular aét of kindnefs, than by reminding mankind of his fe at certain times by infufion, decoétion n. [ 1. Oral or written expreflion, or recital o Many, from being women, have proved men a the firk point of their menffruous eruptions. Brown dicnt o Lat. O thou of late beloyed Now like a menftruous woman art remov'd. Sandys 2. Happening to wome confider the heart the firft principl life, and mentally divide it into its conftituent parts we find nothing but what is in any mufcle of th body Bentley French The diffents of the menflrual or frropg water hinder the incorporation, as well as thofe of th and carry nothing of fhape o Watts verity 2. Curfory or incidental nomination Rogers Haply mention may arif 7 Of fometliing not unfeafonable to afk Milton Me'nTION. @. a. [mentionner, Fr from the noun.] To write or exprefs i words or writing 1 will mention the loving kindnefles of the Lord an the praifes of the Lord Thefe mentione their families b Ifa. Ixiii. 7 8 -A mercantont, or elfe a pedant I\l/(now not what but ffirmal‘ in ppacel ME'RCANTILE cial trade S adf. Trading; commer relating to traders The expedition of the Argonauts wgs Arbuthastoy ¢, mercantile, partly military Let him travel and fulfl the duties ofgheni{';- tary or mercantile life5 let profperous of a(‘vel l[ fortun cal hi to the moft diftant parts o'f é, globe, fill let him carry on his knowledge, ang th improvement of his foul : Warss Mz'rRcaT #. [ [mercatus ket; trade Lat. Mar With irrefiftible majefty and authority our $ay our r¢gmoved the exchange, and drove the Wrra oyt of the temple Sprat MERCENARINESS love, and hatred, are pure and mental ideas, belong What is he the mental tafte and that fenfitive tafte that afieét Prior Of plaftick torms, and mental pow'rs Thofe inward reprefentations of fpirit, thought [mevcatang, lian. "Fhis word in Shakefpeare 'f'e to fignify a foreigner, or foreign ¢ Me'RcaTURE She kindly talk'd, at leaft three hours yet {carcely naturalized o The metaphor of tafte would not have been f general, had there not been a conformity betwee Addifon the palate If the ideas be not innate, there was a time the mind was without thofe principles; for wher the ideas are not, there can be no knowledge, n affent, no mental or verbal propofitions about them Locke faith they were twenty thoufand Stilling fleet Me'~ow now. Mz'~saL longin NTAL. adj. [mentale, ¥r. mentis, Lat. M MuRCANTANT 2. f [mercatura Lat. The prattice of buying and felling Venality T 7. /. [from mPrcenary, refpect to hire or reward foreg th pleafure of fenfe, and u_nde\ the hardfhips that attend a holy life, is fucha kin of mercenaringfs, as none but arefigned, belieyin foul js likely to be guilty of; if fear itfelf, an even the fear of hell, may be one juftifiable motiv of men's ations By MERCENARY aqdj mercenarius, Latin. 1. Venal hired [mercenaire, fold for money Many of our princes, woe the while Lie drown'd and foak'd in mercenary blood Shakgfpeare Divers Almains, who ferved in the gamifons being merely mercenary, did. eafily incline to th Hayaord firongeft z. Too ftudious of profit; acting only fo hire The appellation of fervant imports anercar temper rewar denotes fach an one as makes hi an bot th fol motiv and meafuse of hi South's Sermoms obedience *Twas not for nothing I the crowa refign'd < Dryden I ftill muft own a mercenary mind ME'RCENARY. #. /i [mercenaire, Fr.] hireling; one retained or ferving fo pay He a poor mercenary. ferves for bread For all his travel, only cloth'l and fed ME'RCER . / [mercier i Sandi French.] On who fells filks The draper and mercer may meafure religion they pleafe, and the weaver caft her upon wha loom he pleafe Hozit Me'RCERY. n. [, [mercerie, Fr. from mer cer. Trad of mercers traffick o fitks " "The mercery is gone from out of Lombard-freet their names were princes i 1 Chron. iv. 38 and Cheapfide into Paternofter-row and E leeEG-fi;:; All his tranfgreffions fhall not be mentioned Ezek. xviii oy To ME'RCHAND. v, n. [marchander, Fr. The fweet, now fad to mention, through dir chang Befall'n us, unf , unthought of Milton No more be red then of viclenc Again® ourfelves, and wilful barrennefs Milton Mepsai"ricar adj [mephitis Hl-favoure ; ftinking, Laiin. Mepkitical exhalations ave poifonous or noxiou freamns ifiuing out of the eacth, from what cauf foever Ruincy Mera'cious adj. [meracus, Latin. Strong; racy ME'RCABLE, adj, [mercor, Latin.] T be fold or bought Did raunl To tranfa&t by traflick reth fo c Fra wit nd ch me an di Fe t T N ftoring Roufliglion and Perpignan, OPPi Th [from meifura To meafure; to take the diLatin. menfion of any thing Mensura'TioN. 7. /. .[from menfura The a& or praétice of meaLatin. furing ; refalt of meafuring Thus clad, and guarded thus, he fecks his kingl Dryden's ZEneis gueft 2. Swift {feems not to have know meaning of this word @. a To ME'NSURATE Two menial dogs before their maftes prefs'ds ME R M- ME Batat to them M R CHANDISE, 7. /. [marchandifes Fr. 1. Trafick commerce trade Ifa fon, that is fent by his father a.boutz."'?" chandife, fall into fome lewd adtion, his wfi; # nefs, by your rule, thould be impofed upo ther Shakefpeare's H"'"fha 1f he pay thee to the utmoft-farthing, Fh": forgiven nothing: it is. merchandife; m‘lg-"as_y ‘Z mu a doe tha hi or ref t nef giv can require ld rf 2, Wares; any thing to be bought® trd |
