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A relatively low-gravity beer, often with a dark colour; mild ale
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Gentle and not easily angered.
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a mild man
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(of a rule or punishment) Of only moderate severity; not strict.
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He received a mild sentence.
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Not overly felt or seriously intended.
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(of an illness or pain) Not serious or dangerous.
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(of weather) Moderately warm, especially less cold than expected.
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a mild day
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(of a medicine or cosmetic) Acting gently and without causing harm.
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a mild anaesthetic
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(of food, drink, or a drug) Not sharp or bitter; not strong in flavor.
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a mild curry
Examples of mild in a Sentence
The day was sunny and mild – a perfect day for riding.
Gerald eyed him with mild amusement.
She had a sudden, mild headache.
I will get a baby lion and a white monkey and a mild bear to bring home.
The climate is mild but damp. The annual rainfall over the greater part varies from.
Winters in Northwest Arkansas were usually mild, but this was the coldest in her memory.
The mornings while they rode were mild.
Epidemic diseases are rare and children's diseases mild; cholera has visited Florence several times, but the city has been free from it for many years.
The character of Charlemagne himself undergoes a change; in the Chanson de Roland he is a venerable figure, mild and dignified, while later he appears as a cruel and typical tyrant (as is also the case with Ermanaric).
Returning to England for the session of 1859, he found himself involved in the controversy which arose over a mild Reform Bill introduced by the government.
The efforts to subdue or restrain these marauders proved fruitless, till Augustus Cleveland won them by mild measures, and successfully made over the protection of the district to the very hill people who a few years before had been its scourge.
Thoroughly rubbed into the skin alcohol dilates the bloodvessels and produces a mild counter-irritant effect.
There is a wide variation of climate for so small a territory, the higher elevations of the Sierra de Ajusco being cold and humid (the Mexican Central crosses the range at an elevation of 9974 ft.); the lower spurs mild, temperate and healthy, the lower valleys subtropical, hot and unhealthy.
Under these remarkable men, whose government was apparently mild, the city rapidly developed.
A gentle, mild light poured from them.
Just as we have evidence of a former mild climate in the arctic regions, so a similar mild climate has been postulated for Antarctica.
At the general elections of March I9o9, over a score of Clerical deputies were returned, Clericals of a very mild tone who had no thought of the temporal power and were supporters of the monarchy and anti-socialists; where no Clerical candidate was in the field the Catholic voters plumped for the constitutional candidate against all representatives of the Extreme Left.
They were a tall race of copper hue; fairly intelligent, mild in temperament, who lived in poor huts and practised a limited and primitive agriculture.
The climate of Upper Austria, which varies according to the altitude, is on the whole moderate; it is somewhat severe in the north, but is mild in Salzkammergut.
It is enclosed by water-jackets, which are usually cast iron, sometimes mild steel.
The climate of Sydney is mild and equable; in summer sea breezes blow from the north-east, which, while they temper the heat, make the air exceedingly humid; in winter the winds blow from the west and the climate is dry and bracing.
Yet the nation patiently endured the mild yoke of the great queen, because it felt and knew that its welfare was safe in her motherly hands.
As a ruler he was mild and conciliatory.
The climate is extremely hot and dry in summer, but the winter temperature is mild and pleasant.
Some cases are very mild and hardly noticeable while in other cases cats have severe weakness and may even die.
Move the kitten's bladder and bowels by wiping the areas using a wet rag while applying mild pressure.
Even if your cat's symptoms are mild, you must engage in whatever ritual possible to free your cat from mites.
A once over with a damp sponge should do for touch-ups and a good cleaning should only involve a scrub down with mild detergent and water.
If a shower doesn't last long enough to really clean everything out of the air and off your cushions, give them a light scrubbing with a mild soap and water, or follow the manufacturer's instructions for periodic cleaning.
You generally only need to rinse it thoroughly with clean water to wash away dirt and grime, but can be cleaned gently with a soft sponge and mild soapy water.
In October 1904, after the September strikes, the Chamber was dissolved, and at the general elections in November a ministerial majority was returned, while the deputies of the Extreme Left (Socialists, Republicans and Radicals) were reduced from 107 to 94, and a few mild clericals elected.
The climate is mild and healthy, and for the greater part of the year very pleasant, the seasons of spring and autumn being more especially delightful.
The Phoenician population had continued Christian during the mild Arab rule.
The physical properties of the powder also give it a mild astringent action.
Adrian, between whom and the Lombards other causes of quarrel existed, refused to assent to this demand, and when Desiderius invaded the papal territories he appealed to the Frankish king for help. Charles, who was at the moment engaged in his first Saxon campaign, expostulated with Desiderius; but when such mild measures proved useless he led his forces across the Alps in 773.
The method of making these "mild" alkalis into "caustic" alkalis by treatment with lime was practised in the time of Pliny in connexion with the manufacture of soap, and it was also known that the ashes of shore-plants yielded a hard soap and those of land-plants a soft one.
The climate is generally mild and healthy, although, among the higher mountains, the snow lies for several months.
The climate in the low-lying districts near the coast is moist and foggy, in the plains mild, on the Harz mountains severe and variable.
He returned a mild answer; and, when a rejoinder came in.
Afterward, spritz some white vinegar, or try some hot water mixed with mild, low odor dish soap and spritz that to help remove the urine.
In Bosnia the weather resembles that of the south Austrian highlands, generally mild, though apt to be bitterly cold in winter.
He was a born leader of mercenaries, and, although he did not shrink from cruelty to gain his ends, he afterwards showed himself a mild and popular "tyrant."
The Vosges, and their continuation the Hardt, run through the land from south to north and divide it into the fertile and mild plain of the Rhine, together with the slope of the Hardt range, on the east, and the rather inclement district on the west, which, running between the Saarbriick carboniferous mountains and the northern spurs of the Hardt range, ends in a porphyrous cluster of hills, the highest point of which is the Donnersberg (2254 ft.).
On the whole they are mild and easy-going and even apathetic, but the facility with which they learn is remarkable.
In the Maritime Andes at and above the altitude of Caracas it may be described as semitropical, and in the still higher regions of western Venezuela it approaches the mild temperate.
He was fitted for an embassy or judgeship, but was too mild, supine and luxurious for the tasks thrust upon him by his brother.
Effervescent soda water is a mild gastric sedative.
The climate of the archipelago, though generally mild, healthy and favourable to plant life, is by no means uniform, owing to the differences of altitude and shelter from wind in different islands.
In the south the normal winter is mild, the normal summer rather hot; in the west the normal winter is cold, the normal summer cool.
Along the coast the weather is very mild, the thermometer rarely falling to freezing-point even in winter.