=Mithridate= (3 _syl._), a medicinal confection, invented by Damoc´ratês, physician to Mithrida´tês, king of Pontus, and supposed to be an antidote to all poisons and contagion. It contained seventy-two ingredients. Any panacea is called a “mithridate.” Their kinsman garlic bring, the poor man’s mithridate. Drayton, _Polyolbion_, xx. (1622). _Mithridate_ (3 _syl._), a tragedy by Racine, (1673). “Monime” (2 _syl._), in this drama, was one of Mdlle. Rachel’s great characters. =Mithrida´tes= (4 _syl._), surnamed “the Great.” Being conquered by the Romans, he tried to poison himself, but poison had no effect on him, and he was slain by a Gaul. Mithridatês was active, intrepid, indefatigable, and fruitful in resources; but he had to oppose such generals as Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey. His ferocity was unbounded, his perfidy was even grand. ⁂ Racine has written a French tragedy on the subject, called _Mithridate_ (1673); and N. Lee brought out his _Mithridatês_ in English about the same time. =Mixit= (_Dr._), the apothecary at the Black Bear inn at Darlington.--Sir W. Scott, _Rob Roy_ (time, George I.). =M’liss=, brave, arch, and loving girl of the Wild West; the heroine of one of Bret Harte’s most popular sketches. =M. M. Sketch= (_An_), a memorandum sketch. =Mne´me= (2 _syl._), a well-spring of Bœo´tia, which quickens the memory. The other well-spring in the same vicinity, called _Lê´thê_, has the opposite effect, causing blank forgetfulness.--Pliny. Dantê calls this river Eu´noê. It had the power of calling to the memory all the good acts done, all the graces bestowed, all the mercies received, but no evil.--Dantê, _Purgatory_, xxxiii. (1308). =Mo´ath=, a well-to-do Bedouin, father of Onei´za (3 _syl._), the beloved of Thalaba. Oneiza, having married Thalaba, died on the bridal night, and Moath arrived just in time to witness the mad grief of his son-in-law.--Southey, _Thalaba, the Destroyer_, ii., viii. (1798). =Mocca´sins=, an Indian buskin. He laced his moccasins [_sic_] in act to go. Campbell, _Gertrude of Wyoming_, i. 24 (1809). =Mochingo=, an ignorant servant of the Princess Ero´ta.--Beaumont and Fletcher, _The Laws of Candy_ (1647).