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Show MI Now plungd in mire, now by fharp brambles torn Seme torches bore, fome links Hudibras Before the proud virago minx She, when but yet a tender minx, bega To hold the door, but now fets up for man. Dryd MI'RACLE. #. /. [miracle, Fr. miracuJum, Lat. 1. A wonder; fomething above huma power Nothing almoft fees miracle Shake[peare's King Lear But mifery Virtuous and holy, chofen from above Shake[p To work exceeding miracles on earth Be not offended, nature's miracle Shakefp Thou art allotted to be ta'en by me An effe® above hu2. [In theology. man or natural power, performed i atteftation of fome truth The miracles of our Lord are peculiarly eminen above the lying wonders of demons, in that the were not made out of vain oftentation of power and to raife unprofitable amazement; but for th real benefit and advantage of men, by feeding th hungry, healing all forts of difeafes, ejecting o Bentley devils, and reviving the dead Mira"cuLous. adj. [miraculenx, French from miracle.] Done by miracle; produced by miracle; effeted by powe more than natural Arithmetica progreflio migh demon eafil firate how faft mankind would increafe, overpafling as miraculous, though indeed natural, tha example of the Ifraelites, who were multiplied i two hundred and fifteen years. from feventy unt Raleigh's Efjays fix hundred thoufand able men Reftore this day, for thy great name Herbert Unto his ancient and miraculous right ‘Why this ftrengt Miraculous yet remaining in thofe locks His might continues in thee not for naught. Milt At the firft planting of the Chriftian religion God was pleafed to accompany it with a miraculou Tillotfon power Mira'curousry Jous. B [fro adv miracle b miracu abov powe that of nature It was a fingular providence of God, to dra thofe northern heathen nations down into thof Chriftian parts, where they might receive Chriftianity, and to mingle nations fo remote miraculoufly to make one blood and kindred of all people, an each to have knowledge of him. Spenfer on Ireland Turnus was to be flain that very day; an ZEneas, wounded as he was, could not have epgagzed him in fingle combat, unlefs his hurt ha Dryden been miraculoufly healed Mira'cuLousnEss. #z /. [from miraThe ftate of being effeted b culous. miracle ; fuperiority to natural power MIRADO'R. #. /. [Spanith, from mirar to look.] A balcony; a gallery whenc ladies fee thews Mean tim Gain'd fame Beneath eac And bowing MirE MI MI your valiant fon, who had befor rode round, ta ev'ry mirador lady's ftand a ftop he made took th' applaufes which they paid . /. [moer, Dutch. at the bottom of water Dryden Mud dir He his rider from her lofty ftee 'Would have caft down, and trod in dirty mire Spenfer Here's that, which is too weak to be a finner honeft water, which ne'er left man 1° th' mire Shakefps Timon of Athens I''m Ralph himfelf, your trafty fquire ‘Wh' has dragg'd your donfhip out o' th' mire Hudibras I appeal to any man's reafon, whether it be no better that there thould be a diftin&ion of lan and fea, than that all thould be mire and water More againft Atheifm Rofcommont T v. a. [from the noun. To MiRE whelm in the mud to foil with mud Why had I not, with charitable hand Took up a beggar's iflue at my gates Who {meered thus, and wir'd with infamy I might have faid no part of it is mine. ~ Shakefp Mi1RE. #./. [myr, Welfh ; myna, Saxon mier, Dutch.] An ant; a pifmire M1'rRiNEss. #. /. [from miry.] Dirtinefs; fullnefs of mire M1'RKSOME. adj. [morck, dark, Danifh In the derivatives of this fet, no regula orthography is obferved : it is commo to write murky to conform. the reft ough to whic Dark; obfcure Through mirkfome air her ready way fhe makes Fairy Queen Mi1'RROR. 7. f. [miroir, French; mirar Spanifh, to look. 1. A looking-glafs; any thing whic exhibits reprefentations of objelts b refleétion And in his waters which your mirror make Spenfer Behold your faces as the cryftal bright That pow'r which gave me eyes the world t view To view myfelf infus'd an inward light Whereby my foul, as by a mirror true Of her own form may take a perfeét fight. Dawies Lefs bright the moon But oppofite in levell'd Weft was fe His mirror, with full face borrowing her ligh Milton's Paradife Loft From him Mirroir of poets, mirroir of our age Which her whole face beholding on thy ftage Pleas'd and difpleas'd with her own faults, endure A remedy like thofe whom mufick cures. Waller By chance he {py'd a mirroir while he fpoke And gazing there beheld his alter'd look Wond'ring, he faw his features and his hu So much were chang'd, that fcarce himfelf h Dryden knéw Late as I rang'd the cryftal wilds of air In the clear mirroir of thy ruling ftar I faw, alas! fome dread event impend Pope 2. It is ufed for pattern; for that o which the eye ought to be fixed ; as men look in a glafs to adjuft their mie or drefs; an exemplar; an archetype The works of natur are no lefs exaét than i fhe did both behold and ftudy how to exprefs fom abfolute fhape or mirror always prefent before her Hocker O goddefs, heavenly bright Mirrour of grace and majefty divine. Fairy Queen How far'{t thou, mirror of all martial men Shake[peare Mirroir of ancient faith in early youth. Dryden Mi1'RROR-STONE. #z. /. [ felenites, Lat. A kind of tranfparent ftone. dinfaworth MirTH. 2./. [mynhoe, Saxon. ment jollity gaiety Merri laughter To give a kingdom for a mirth, to fit And keep the turn of tippling with a flave. Sbhakefpeare His eye begets occafion for his wit For every object that the one dot The other turns to a mirtb-movin Moft of the appearing mirth i mirth but art: the wounded f{piri walks under a difguife catch jeft Shakefp the world is no is not feen, bu South With genial joy to warm the foul Bright Helen mix'd a mirth infpiring bowl MURTHFUL Merry gay adj [mirt an Pope jfull. cheerful No fimple word That fhall be utter'd at our mirthful board Shall make us fad next morning Bex Fonfon The feaft was ferv'd ; the bowl was crown'd, To the king's pleafure went the mirthful young Ij:)";' mirt/;, [fi!o adj Mi1'RTHLESS lefs; cheerlefs Mi1'rRY. adj. [from mire. 1. Dee i mu muddy Tho fhould't have heard how her horf fy and fhe under her horfe : thou fhould' have e bemoiled I'he‘Twa ho p?;c' in how mir hake[peare' All me deaths Tami who livedfplazy lives,m er{d?fdfeb; ifi by ficknefs or by age, went into yap cave under-ground, all dark and miry, full of n0ifom creatuies, and there grovelled in endlefs frenc and mifery Ten Deep, through a miry lane the pick'd her way Above her ancle rofe the chalky clay. Gay's Tri'r/; So have I feen ill-coupled hound Drag dift'rent ways in miry grounds Swif 2. Confifting of mire Shall thou and T fit round about fome fountsi Looking all downwards to behold our checks Ho they are ftain'd like meadows, yet not dry With smiry flime left on them by a flood? Shakefs Mis, an infeparable particle ufed in cop pofitio to mar an ill fenfe, or ( pravation of the meaning: as, chan luck; mifchance, ill luck; computatin reckoning ; mi/computation, falfe reckon ing; 1o lite, to be pleafed; #o mifih to be offended; from mes in Teutonic and French, ufed in the fame fenfe Of this it is difficul to give all th examples; but thofe that follow wi fufficiently explain it MisaccepTA TION. 7. /. [mis and acgp The a& of taking in zwron tation. fenfe M1saDVE 'NTURE. 7. /. [mefaventure, F mis and adwventyre.] Milchance; m fortune; ill luck; ba fortune Your looks are pale and wild, and do impor Shake[p. Romeo and Julid Some mifadwenture When a commander, either upon necgffity mifadventure, falleth into danger, it much avancet bot reputatio hi an enterprlzc,l Haywar.zl_bravely he behaveth himfelf The body confifted, after all the Joffes and #iadwventures, of no lefs than fix thoufand foo Clarend Diftinguifh betwixt mifadventurs and defign L Efprang then an no mifadwentur o troubl Th or reputatio that reaches not his innocenc t i no o L wventure. mijaé [fro adj MIsSADVE'NTURED Unfortunate foe tw fe th‘ o n lo a fa th t fo o F A pair of ftarcroft lovers take their life Whofe mifadventur'd piteous overthrow Do with their death bury their parents {;‘g:;f/'fm Misapvi'SED Il direéted adj [mis and @i Misa'iMED. adj aimed rightly [mis and advifit ]) The idle ftroke enforcing furious Ways i Miffing the mark of his mifaimed fight F f‘!‘? QF Did fall to ground Mi'SANTHROPE } ». /. [mifantbflfi"» pioardpur Misa'NTHROPOS hater of mankind 1 am mifantbropos, and hate mankind, Shatdp Alas, poor dean ! his only fcop "his into gen'ral odiu Misa'NTHRORX dre . fo M }IN}:S to be held alm;fizntbtzpe; hiffi W')fi‘ |