Murinæ (murine)

pl. [NL., II. n. A mouse or a rat. muringert, n. See murenger . muriont, n. An obsolete form of morion1 . murk1, mirk (mėrk), a . [Also dial. mark ; merke , mirce , dark, gloomy, evil, = OS. mirk i = Icel. myrkr = Sw. Dan. mörk , dark. Cf. OBulg. mraku = Serv. mrak = Pol. mrok = Ru . mraků , darkne ; Gr. ἀμολγός, in the phrase νυκτός ἀμολγός, 'the darkne of night.'] Dark; obscure; gloomy. Such myster saying me seemeth to mirke. Spenser, Shep. Cal., September. It fell about the Martin mas, When nights are lang and mirk . The Wife of Usher's Well (Child's Ballads, I. 215). The chimes peal muffled with sea-mists mirk . Lowell, The Black Preacher. IMG:content-1109.jpg:[graphic] murk1, mirk (mėrk), n. [ The neght drow negh anon vppon this, And the mone in the merke mightely shone. Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.), 1. 3195. Ere twice in murk and occidental damp Moist Hesperus hath quench'd his sleepy lamp. Shak., All's Well, ii. 1. 166. murrelet IMG:content-1110.png:[blocks in formation] murklinst (mėrkʻlinz), adv. [ For in myrknes of unknawyng thai gang, Withouten lyght of understandyng. Hampole , Prick of Conscience, 1. 193. In hell sall neuer myrknes be my ande, The myrknes thus name I for nighte. York Plays , p. 7. murksomet, mirksomet (mėrk's um), a. [ -some .] Darksome. Through mirkesome aire her ready way she makes. Spenser, F. Q., L. v. 28. murksomene t, mirksomene t (mėrk's umnes), n. The state of being murksome; darkne . Bp . Mountagu , Appeal ppeal to to Cæsar, Cæsar, viii. mirky (mer'ki), a . [ murk1 + -y1. mur The older gloomy. burk1.] The murkiest den, ure; The most opportune place, the strong'st suggestion Our worser genius can, shall never melt Mine honour into lust. Shak ., Tempest, iv. 1. 25.