Mite

(mit.) (Zool.) The common name of A car in a, a fam. of insects, comprising very small trachea ry arachnid a, some of which are found almost everywhere, and which have the forward region joined in a ma with the abdomen, and not divided apparently into rings. The majority are parasitic on other animals. A species of the gen. Acarus causes the loathsome disease known as the itch. The Ticks, gen. Ixotes, live in the woods, and attach themselves to animals. Mithridates the Great, king of Pontus, from 120 to 63 B. C., a sovereign of great ability, and as great cruelty, one who provoked the wrath of Rome by making himself master of all Asia Minor, and ma acring all the Romans whom he had made prisoners. Three wars arose out of this attack on the empire, in the last of which he was utterly overthrown by Pompey. and, after the vainest attempts to regain the means of resistance, poisoned himself. He is said to have been master of above 20 languages. [s. 607]