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Menʹstruum means a monthly dissolvent (Latin, mensis)

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from the notion of the alchemists that it acted only at the full of the moon.

All liquors are called menstruums which are used as dissolvents, or to extract the virtues of ingredients by infusion or decoction.”—Quincy.

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Mendicants
Mendoza (Daniel)
Menechmians
Menecrates
Manevia
Meng-tse
Menie
Menippos
Mennonites
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Mental Hallucinations
Mentor
Menu
Meo Periculo (Latin)
Mephibosheth
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Mercador Amante
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Merchant of Venice
Mercia