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Mumpsimus
- noun - a traditional notion that is obstinately held although it is unreasonable; "he still holds to the old mumpsimus that a woman's place is in the kitchen"
Mutoscope
- - A simple form of moving-picture machine in which the series of views, exhibiting the successive phases of a scene, are printed on paper and mounted around the periphery of a wheel. The rotation of the wheel brings them rapidly into sight, one after another, and the blended effect gives a semblance of motion.
Myristate
- - A salt of myristic acid.
Myristica
- noun - type genus of Myristicaceae; tropical Asian evergreen trees with small white or yellow flowers followed by fleshy fruits
Myristone
- - The ketone of myristic acid, obtained as a white crystalline substance.
Nainsooks
- noun - a soft lightweight muslin used especially for babies
Naissance
- unknown - a birth, an origination, or a growth, as that of a person, an organization, an idea, or a movement.
Namesakes
- noun - a person with the same name as another
Nearsides
- noun - the side of a vehicle nearest the kerb
Necessary
- adjective - absolutely essential
- anything indispensable; "food and shelter are necessities of life"; "the essentials of the good life"; "allow farmers to buy their requirements under favorable conditions"; "a place where the requisites of water fuel and fodder can be obtained"
- unavoidably determined by prior circumstances; "the necessary consequences of one's actions"