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- mummy brown noun A brown pigment originally prepared from the ground-up remains of Egyptian animal or human mummies mixed with bitumen, etc.
- Muncerian noun A follower of Thomas Müntzer (c. 1489–1525), German preacher and theologian of the early Reformation whose opposition to both Martin Luther…
- Munichism noun Support for the Munich Agreement of 1938, which provided for the annexation of the Sudetenland by Nazi Germany.
- munsubdar noun A quasifeudal dependent of the Moghul government who was assigned territory on condition of supplying a certain number of horses.
- murder hole noun A slit or hole above the entrance to a fortification, thought to provide access for defenders to kill invaders.
- murdrum noun A secret killing, distinguished from simple homicide in that the victim and the killer are unknown.
- muriated adj Prepared with silver chloride with the help of common salt.
- murra noun An ornamental stone for vases, etc. described by Pliny, most probably fluorspar; it was first brought to Rome by Pompey, 61 B.C.
- murrain noun Any of several highly infectious diseases of cattle or other livestock, such as anthrax, babesiosis, or rinderpest; or a particular…
- murri noun A medieval Arab condiment made from fermented barley.
- murza noun One of the hereditary nobility among the Tatars, up to the 19th century, especially one of the second class.
- muscular Judaism noun A form of Judaism involving the cultivation of mental and physical strength, thought by Max Nordau to be necessary for the national revival…
- muser noun A user of the social media service Musical.ly.
- musette noun Any of various small bagpipes having a soft sound, especially with a bellows, which were popular in France in the 17th and early 18th…
- music house noun A place for public musical entertainments.
- musketeer noun A foot soldier armed with a musket.
- musketoon noun A firearm, similar to a musket but with a shorter barrel and a large bore.
- Muslim noun A member of a predominantly Muslim South Slavic ethnic group (usually a Bosniak), irrespective of actual religious beliefs (used…
- mussuck noun an inflated skin-bag for water, variously said to be made from goats, from cows or from dogs, often by bheesties.
- mustardize verb To affect with mustard gas, (as in World War I). To gas.
- mute cornett noun A variant of the treble cornett, made from a single piece of wood that has been turned on a lathe, bored out and given finger holes.
- mutton noun An old Anglo-French gold coin impressed with the image of a lamb.
- muwallad noun A Muslim of non-Arab descent in medieval Islamic Spain (al-Andalus), being a local convert or a descendant of one.
- muzzle noun An openwork covering for the nose, used for the defense of the horse, and forming part of the bards in the 15th and 16th centuries.
- myal noun A practitioner of myalism.
- myalism noun A syncretic set of religious practices among Jamaican slaves, having African and Christian elements.
- myriad noun Ten thousand; 10,000
- myriarch noun The commander of a Mongolian tomen.
- myriarchy noun An area controlled by a Mongolian myriarch and theoretically comprising 10,000 households.
- MySQLer noun An employee of the Swedish software company MySQL AB.
- mysterium noun Any of various unknown elements thought to make up existing forms of matter, or a substance seen as an elemental or pure form of something…
- Naassene noun A member of an ancient Christian Gnostic sect who claimed to have been taught their doctrines by Mariamne, a disciple of James the Just
- Nabataean noun Any of a group of people who once lived around modern Jordan.
- nabob noun An Indian ruler within the Mogul empire.
- nabobship noun The rank or condition of a nabob.
- Nadruvian noun A member of a Prussian tribe inhabiting Nadruvia in northernmost Prussia, extinct by the 17th-18th century.
- nakharar noun A hereditary title of the highest order given to houses of the ancient and medieval Armenian nobility.
- nalki noun A princely open litter, borne by many men using multiple poles.
- nao noun A Spanish or Portuguese carrack.
- naos noun The inner part of an ancient Greek temple, containing a statue of the temple's deity and surrounded by a colonnaded portico; (by extension)…
- napoleon noun The franc germinal: a 20-franc gold coin issued under Napoleon I of France.
- Napoleon gun noun A type of bronze smoothbore muzzle-loading artillery piece widely used during the American Civil War.
- napoo adj Finished, dead, no more, gone; non-existent.
- Narodnik noun A member of a socially conscious movement of the Russian middle class in the 1860s and 1870s, some of whom became involved in revolutionary…
- nasal noun The part of a helmet projecting to protect the nose; a nose guard.
- nasri noun A coin formerly used as a currency unit in Tunisia from medieval to Ottoman times, set at one point as one eightieth of a sultani.
- Nasrid noun a member of the last Arab Muslim dynasty in Spain, founded by Mohammed I ibn Nasr and ruling the Emirate of Granada from 1232 until 1492.
- natick noun A member of the Praying Indians of Natick, a community of indigenous Christian converts in the town of Natick, Massachusetts, United States.
- nation noun An association of students based on the birthplace or ethnicity of its members.
- National Republican noun A member of the National Republican Party, a short-lived political party in the United States that evolved from a conservative-leaning…
- natural astrology noun The divination by astrology of events in the natural world (such as plant growth and tides), as opposed to judicial astrology.
- natural philosophy noun The objective study of nature in the widest sense; science or the protoscience that led to it; (later especially) physics.
- naturian noun One who studies nature; one who ascribes natural rather than supernatural or divine explanations to phenomena.
- Nauheim treatment noun A therapeutic treatment administered, especially for chronic diseases of the circulatory system, at the city of Bad Nauheim in Germany…
- naumachia noun The location where such recreated sea battles took place; a building featuring an artificial body of water.
- naumannite noun A supporter of Werner Naumann (1909–1982), State Secretary in Joseph Goebbels' Ministry of Public Enlightenment and Propaganda during the…
- naumkeag noun A machine for smoothing the surface of a shoe's sole and heel with a fine abrasive.
- nautical mile noun Synonym of sea mile, a historical Scandinavian unit of distance equal to about 4 nmi.
- naval crown noun A gold crown surmounted with small replicas of the prows of ships, given as a military award in Ancient Rome to the first man who boarded…
- navel noun An eye on the underside of a carronade for securing it to a carriage.
- Navesink noun A member of a group of Lenape people who inhabited the Raritan Bayshore near Sandy Hook and Mount Mitchill in northern North Jersey in the…
- navvy noun A laborer on a civil engineering project such as a canal or railroad.
- nawab noun A Muslim official in South Asia acting as a provincial deputy ruler under the Mughal empire; a local governor.
- Nazarene noun A member of the Jewish sect of the Nazarenes.
- Nazi noun A member of the Nazi Party (the National Socialist German Workers' Party or NSDAP).
- Nazianzen adj of or pertaining to the town of Nazianzus
- nazir noun The custodian of a waqf, or Islamic endowment.
- nearside noun A streetcar designed to discharge passengers on the near side of an intersection, rather than the far side.
- neck noun A bundle of wheat used in certain English harvest ceremonies.
- necropants noun A pair of pants made from the skin of the lower half (below the waist) of a dead man, used by medieval Icelandic sorcerers to obtain money.
- necropolis noun A cemetery; especially a large one in or near a city.
- needle gun noun A firearm with a needlelike firing pin.
- négligée noun A necklace of beads, pearls etc.
- negotiant noun Someone who conducts negotiations; a negotiator, an agent.
- Negritid noun A member and subtype of the Australoid race, similar to Veddoid, which is characterized by very small stature and dark skin, and includes…
- negus noun A ruler of Abyssinia (Ethiopia), or of a province of Ethiopia; specifically, the king of Ethiopia before 1974.
- Neo-Assyrian adj Of or relating to the Neo-Assyrian Empire, founded in 911 BC and growing to dominate the ancient Near East throughout much of the 8th and…
- Neo-Babylonian adj Of or relating to the Neo-Babylonian Empire or Second Babylonian Empire, the last polity ruled by monarchs native to Mesopotamia. It was…
- Neo-Lamarckism noun Lamarckism as revived, modified, and expounded by later biologists, especially as maintaining that the offspring inherits traits acquired…
- Neo-Sumerian adj Of or relating to the Third Dynasty of Ur, or Neo-Sumerian Empire, a 22nd- to 21st-century-BCE Sumerian ruling dynasty based in the city of…
- Neogrammarian noun A member or follower of a 19th-century school of German linguists who first advanced the theory of regular sound change.
- neologism noun Synonym of neology.
- neologist noun An adherent of neology.
- neology noun A reformist school of 18th- and 19th-century Christian theology influenced by doctrinal rationalism and the methods of historical criticism.
- neostoicism noun A Lipsian philosophical movement, originating in the late 16th century, that sought to combine the beliefs of stoicism and Christianity.
- neoteric noun any poet who belonged to the neoterics, a series of avant-garde Latin poets who wrote in the 1st century BC such as Catullus, Helvius…
- nepist noun A supporter the New Economic Policy.
- Nepman noun Someone engaged in private enterprise under Lenin's New Economic Policy in the Soviet Union.
- Neptunian noun A proponent of Neptunism.
- Nervii noun One of the most powerful Belgic tribes, living in northern Gaul at the time of its conquest by Ancient Rome.
- nester noun A person who intends to settle in an area without permanent residents; a settler, as distinct from an explorer or pioneer.
- Nestorian Acephali noun A group of individuals who didn't adhear to the condemnation of Nestorius by John I of Antioch and Cyril of Alexandria at the Council of…
- netherstock noun A 16th-century stocking reaching above the knee and worn with upperstocks.
- nettlecloth noun A kind of cloth made from nettles.
- neuropath noun A physician with specialization in neuropathy, corresponding to today's specialties of neuropathologist or neurologist: one who focuses on…
- Neutrodyne noun A kind of tuned-radio-frequency (TRF) receiver in which the instability-causing interelectrode capacitance of the triode RF tubes is…
- new Australian noun A member of the New Australia settlement in Paraguay.
- new candle noun A unit of luminous intensity, such that the brightness of the full radiator at the temperature of solidification of platinum is 60 new…
- New Christian noun One of the Iberian Muslims and Jews who converted to Roman Catholicism, or their known baptized descendants.
- New English adj Of or pertaining to New England.