{ } n. [ Sp. místico. ] A kind of small sailing vessel used in the Mediterranean. It is rigged partly like a xebec, and partly like a felucca. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One given to mysticism; one who holds mystical views, interpretations, etc.; especially, in ecclesiastical history, one who professed mysticism. See Mysticism. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ L. mysticus, Gr. &unr_; belonging to secret rites, from &unr_; one initiated: cf. F. mystique. See 1st Mystery, Misty. ] 1. Remote from or beyond human comprehension; baffling human understanding; unknowable; obscure; mysterious. [ 1913 Webster ]

Heaven's numerous hierarchy span
The mystic gulf from God to man. Emerson. [ 1913 Webster ]

God hath revealed a way mystical and supernatural. Hooker. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Importing or implying mysticism; involving some secret meaning; allegorical; emblematical; as, a mystic dance; mystic Babylon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Thus, then, did the spirit of unity and meekness inspire every joint and sinew of the mystical body. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. employing mysticism; as, mystical intuition; mystical explanations; -- contrasted to logical, rational, analytical. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

-- Mys"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Mys"tic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. my`stax the upper lip, also, the mustache + kh^tos a whale. ] (Zool.) Any right whale, or whalebone whale. See Cetacea. [ 1913 Webster ]

prop. n. A suborder including baleen whales: right whales; rorquals; blue whales; and humpbacks.
Syn. -- suborder Mysticeti. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Cf. F. mysticisme. ] 1. Obscurity of doctrine. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl. Hist.) The doctrine of the Mystics, who professed a pure, sublime, and wholly disinterested devotion, and maintained that they had direct intercourse with the divine Spirit, and aquired a knowledge of God and of spiritual things unattainable by the natural intellect, and such as can not be analyzed or explained. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Philos.) The doctrine that the ultimate elements or principles of knowledge or belief are gained by an act or process akin to feeling or faith. [ 1913 Webster ]