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<p><b>3.</b> <def>The actual and distinct retention and recognition of past ideas in the mind; remembrance; <as>as, in <ex>memory</ex> of youth; <ex>memories</ex> of foreign lands.</as></def>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>The time within which past events can be or are remembered; <as>as, within the <ex>memory</ex> of man</as>.</def>

<blockquote>And what, before thy <b>memory</b>, was done From the begining. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <def>Something, or an aggregate of things, remembered; hence, character, conduct, etc., as preserved in remembrance, history, or tradition; posthumous fame; <as>as, the war became only a <ex>memory</ex></as>.</def>

<blockquote>The <b>memory</b> of the just is blessed. <i>Prov. x. 7.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>That ever-living man of <b>memory</b>, Henry the Fifth. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The Nonconformists . . . have, as a body, always venerated her [Elizabeth's] <b>memory</b>. <i>Macaulay.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>6.</b> <def>A memorial.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>These weeds are <b>memories</b> of those worser hours. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<syn>Syn. -- <er>Memory</er>, <er>Remembrance</er>, <er>Recollection</er>, <er>Reminiscence</er>.</syn> <usage> <i>Memory</i> is the generic term, denoting the power by which we reproduce past impressions. <i>Remembrance</i> is an exercise of that power when things occur <i>spontaneously</i> to our thoughts. In <i>recollection</i> we make a distinct effort to <i>collect again</i>, or call back, what we know has been formerly in the mind. <i>Reminiscence</i> is intermediate between <i>remembrance</i> and <i>recollection</i>, being a conscious process of recalling past occurrences, but without that full and varied reference to particular things which characterizes <i>recollection</i>. "When an idea again recurs without the operation of the like object on the external sensory, it is <i>remembrance</i>; if it be sought after by the mind, and with pain and endeavor found, and brought again into view, it is <i>recollection</i>."</usage>

<i>Locke.</i>

<cs><col>To draw to memory</col>, <cd>to put on record; to record. <mark>[Obs.]</mark></cd></cs>

<i>Chaucer. Gower.</i>

<h1>Memphian</h1> <Xpage=911>

<hw>Mem"phi*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to the ancient city of Memphis in Egypt; hence, Egyptian; <as>as, <ex>Memphian</ex> darkness</as>.</def>

<h1>Men</h1> <Xpage=911>

<hw>Men</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>, <def><tt>pl.</tt> of <er>Man</er>.</def>

<h1>Men</h1> <Xpage=911>

<hw>Men</hw>, <tt>pron.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>me</ets>, <ets>men</ets>. "Not the plural of <ets>man</ets>, but a weakened form of the word <ets>man</ets> itself." <ets>Skeat</ets>.]</ety> <def>A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite <i>one</i> or <i>they</i>.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Piers Plowman.</i>

<blockquote><b>Men</b> moot give silver to the poure triars. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>A privy thief, <b>men</b> clepeth death. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Menaccanite</h1> <Xpage=911>

<hw>Me*nac"can*ite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>Menaccan</ets>, in Cornwall, where it was first found.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also <altname>titanic iron ore</altname>, and <altname>ilmenite</altname>.</def>

<h1>Menace</h1> <Xpage=911>

<hw>Men"ace</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F., fr. L. <ets>minaciae</ets> threats, menaces, fr. <ets>minax</ets>, <ets>-acis</ets>, projecting, threatening, <ets>minae</ets> projecting points or pinnacles, threats. Cf. <er>Amenable</er>, <er>Demean</er>, <er>Imminent</er>, <er>Minatory</er>.]</ety> <def>The show of an intention to inflict evil; a threat or threatening; indication of a probable evil or catastrophe to come.</def>

<blockquote>His (the pope's) commands, his rebukes, his <b>menaces</b>. <i>Milman.</i></blockquote>

<blockquote>The dark <b>menace</b> of the distant war. <i>Dryden.</i></blockquote>