Word Meanings - MERCURIALISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The morbid condition produced by the excessive use of mercury, or by exposure to its fumes, as in mining or smelting.

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• MORBIDEZZA
  Delicacy or softness in the representation of flesh.
• MINOR
  Less by a semitone in interval or difference of pitch; as, a minor third. Asia Minor , the Lesser Asia; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode , that mode,
• MINIONLIKE; MINIONLY
  Like a minion; daintily. Camden.
• MINTMAN
  One skilled in coining, or in coins; a coiner.
• MINETTE
  The smallest of regular sizes of portrait photographs.
• MINOS
  A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.
• PRODUCIBILITY
  The quality or state of being producible. Barrow.
• MINUS
  Less; requiring to be subtracted; negative; as, a minus quantity. Minus sign , the sign denoting minus, or less, prefixed to negative quantities, or quantities to be subtracted. See Negative sign, under Negative.
• MINNESINGER
  A love-singer; specifically, one of a class of German poets and musicians who flourished from about the middle of the twelfth to the middle of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their
• MINSTRELSY
  1. The arts and occupation of minstrels; the singing and playing of a minstrel. 2. Musical instruments. Chaucer. 3. A collective body of minstrels, or musicians; also, a collective body of minstrels' songs. Chaucer. "The minstrelsy of heaven."
• MINACIOUS
  Threatening; menacing.
• CONDITIONALITY
  The quality of being conditional, or limited; limitation by certain terms.
• MINYAN
  A quorum, or number necessary, for conducting public worship.
• MINIACEOUS; MINACEOUS
  Of the color of minium or red lead; miniate.
• MINIARD
  Migniard.
• PRODUCEMENT
  Production.
• MINERALIZATION
  The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature. (more info) 1. The process of mineralizing, or forming a mineral by combination of a metal with another element; also, the process of converting into a mineral, as a bone or a plant.
• MINERVA
  The goddess of wisdom, of war, of the arts and sciences, of poetry, and of spinning and weaving; -- identified with the Grecian Pallas Athene.
• SMELT
  of Smell.
• SMELTERY
  A house or place for smelting.
• AGMINATE; AGMINATED
  Grouped together; as, the agminated glands of Peyer in the small intestine.
• ALUMINATE
  A compound formed from the hydrate of aluminium by the substitution of a metal for the hydrogen.
• SEEMINGNESS
  Semblance; fair appearance; plausibility. Sir K. Digby.
• BABY FARMING
  The business of keeping a baby farm.
• ELIMINATIVE
  Relating to, or carrying on, elimination.
• NOMINATIVELY
  In the manner of a nominative; as a nominative.
• DOMINATIVE
  Governing; ruling; imperious. Sir E. Sandys.
• CARBAMINE
  An isocyanide of a hydrocarbon radical. The carbamines are liquids, usually colorless, and of unendurable odor.
• UNBECOMING
  Not becoming; unsuitable; unfit; indecorous; improper. My grief lets unbecoming speeches fall. Dryden. -- Un`be*com"ing*ly, adv. -- Un`be*com"ing*ness, n.
• DIMINISH
  To make smaller by a half step; to make less than minor; as, a diminished seventh. 4. To take away; to subtract. Neither shall ye diminish aught from it. Deut. iv. 2. Diminished column, one whose upper diameter is less than the lower.
• DISCRIMINOUS
  Hazardous; dangerous. Harvey.
• EARTHLY-MINDED
  Having a mind devoted to earthly things; worldly-minded; -- opposed to spiritual-minded. -- Earth"ly-mind`ed*ness, n.
• IGNOMINY
  a deprivation of one's good name); in- not + nomen name: cf. F. 1. Public disgrace or dishonor; reproach; infamy. Their generals have been received with honor after their defeat; yours with ignominy after conquest. Addison. Vice begins in mistake,