Mercaptide (n.) A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.
Mercat (n.) Market; trade.
Mercatante (n.) A foreign trader.
Mercator's chart () See under Chart, and see Mercator's projection, under Projection.
Mercature (n.) Commerce; traffic; trade.
Merce (v. t.) To subject to fine or amercement; to mulct; to amerce.
Mercenaria (n.) The quahog.
Mercenarian (n.) A mercenary.
Mercenarily (adv.) In a mercenary manner.
Mercenariness (n.) The quality or state of being mercenary; venality.
Mercenary (a.) Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
Mercenary (a.) Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.
Mercenaries (pl. ) of Mercenary
Mercenary (n.) One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.
Mercer (n.) Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.
Mercership (n.) The business of a mercer.
Mercery (n.) The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.
Merchand (v. i.) To traffic.
Merchandisable (a.) Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.
Merchandise (n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
Merchandise (n.) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
Merchandised (imp. & p. p.) of Merchandise
Merchandising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merchandise
Merchandise (v. i.) To trade; to carry on commerce.
Merchandise (v. t.) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.
Merchandiser (n.) A trader.
Merchandry (n.) Trade; commerce.
Merchant (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
Merchant (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.
Merchant (n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
Merchant (a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
Merchant (v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.
Merchantable (a.) Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.
Merchantly (a.) Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant.
Merchantmen (pl. ) of Merchantman
Merchantman (n.) A merchant.
Merchantman (n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.
Merchantry (n.) The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.
Merchantry (n.) The business of a merchant; merchandise.
Merciable (a.) Merciful.
Merciful (a.) Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.
Merciful (a.) Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.
Mercify (v. t.) To pity.
Merciless (a.) Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.
Mercurammonium (n.) A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.
Mercurial (a.) Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
Mercurial (a.) Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts.
Mercurial (a.) Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty.
Mercurial (a.) Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2.
Mercurial (a.) Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.
Mercurial (n.) A person having mercurial qualities.
Mercurial (n.) A preparation containing mercury.
Mercurialist (n.) One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.
Mercurialist (n.) A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice.
Mercurialized (imp. & p. p.) of Mercurialize
Mercurializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurialize
Mercurialize (v. t.) To affect with mercury.
Mercurialize (v. t.) To treat with mercury; to expose to the vapor of mercury.
Mercurialize (v. i.) To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious.
Mercurially (adv.) In a mercurial manner.
Mercuric (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion.
Mercurification (n.) The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
Mercurification (n.) The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury.
Mercurified (imp. & p. p.) of Mercurify
Mercurifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurify
Mercurify (v. t.) To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed.
Mercurify (v. t.) To combine or mingle mercury with; to impregnate with mercury; to mercurialize.
Mercurism (n.) A communication of news; an announcement.
Mercurous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.
Mercury (n.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
Mercury (n.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
Mercury (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
Mercury (n.) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
Mercury (n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
Mercury (v. t.) To wash with a preparation of mercury.
Mercies (pl. ) of Mercy
Mercy (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
Mercy (n.) Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.
Mercy (n.) Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
Mercy (n.) A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.
Merd (n.) Ordure; dung.
-mere () A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.
Mere (n.) A pool or lake.
Mere (n.) A boundary.
Mere (v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound.
Mere (n.) A mare.
Mere (Superl.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
Mere (Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
Merely (adv.) Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Merely (adv.) Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
Merenchyma (n.) Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.
Meresman (n.) An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries.
Merestead (n.) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm.
Merestone (n.) A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.
Meretricious (a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
Meretricious (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
Merganser (n.) Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill.
Merged (imp. & p. p.) of Merge
Merging (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merge