That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.

Of a mean spirit; petty; small-minded; base; groveling; -- of people.

To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.

Winding; having many turns.

A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.

Winding; flexuous.

That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.

Having a meaning or purpose; having significance; as, a meaningful explanation; a meaningful discussion; a meaningful pause; to live a meaningful life. Opposite of meaningless.

the quality of having great meaning or value.

having no meaning; of no value; as, a meaningless endeavor; a meaningless life; a meaningless explanation. Opposite of meaningful.

In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.

The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

imp. p. p. of Mean.

In the intervening time; during the interval.

A boundary. See Mere.

Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings.

Leprosy.

A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.

Infected or spotted with measles, as pork.

Leprosy; also, a leper.

Infected with measles.

the quality of being measurable.

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.

To make a measurement or measurements.

Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms.

Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.

The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.

One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.

Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure.

To supply with food.

Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus.

Fed; fattened.

A sweet liquor; mead.

Quality of being meaty.

Having no meat; without food.

A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.

An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.

A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.

Abounding in meat.

See Mew, to cry as a cat.

See Mewl, and Miaul.

See 1st Measle.

Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.

See Moebles.

A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.

Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia. A native or inhabitant of Mecca.

Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts.

A mechanic.

To cause to become mechanical.

In a mechanical manner.

The state or quality of being mechanical.

One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist.

Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.

That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.

Mechanization.

The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the arrangement or relation of the parts of anything as adapted to produce an effect; as, the mechanism of a watch; the mechanism of a sewing machine; the mechanism of a seed pod.

The mechanism{2} by which a pharmacologically active substance produces an effect on a living organism or in a biochemical system; as, the mechanism of action of actinomycin involves its binding to DNA. The mechanism of action is usually considered to include an identification of the specific molecular targets to which a pharmacologically active substance binds or whose biochemical action it influences; a general recognition of the broad biochemical pathways (such as DNA synthesis, protein synthesis, cholesterol synthesis) which are inhibited or affected by a substance is termed its mode of action.

A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.

The act or process of mechanizing.

To cause to be mechanical.

Treating of mechanics.

An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.

The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.

That branch of science which treats of moving machines.

One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.

A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.

A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (Convolvulus Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.

Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist.

A salt of meconic acid.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.

An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.

A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyraea. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel.

A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.

Opium. The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.

To honor or reward with a medal.

A small medal.

Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals.

The art of making and striking medals and coins.

To mix; to mingle.

One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.

Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive.

Meddlesome.

In a meddling manner.

See 1st 2d Mead, and Meed.

The latinic plural form of medium, sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media.

One of the sonant mutes /, /, / (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, /, /, / (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) /, /, / (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.

The state or quality of being mediate.

Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture.

The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages.

One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages.

In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance with mediaevalism.

The people who lived in the Middle Ages.

See 2d Media.

See Half-moon.

A median line or point.

The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.

Of or pertaining to a mediastinum.

A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.

To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.

In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately.

The state of being mediate.

The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.

Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts.

The act of mediatizing.

To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank.

One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor.

Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office.

The office or character of a mediator.

Mediatorial.

A female mediator.

Medical.

Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.

A program controlled by the United States government to provide health care for the needy. It is funded by contributions from the salaries of workers, and is therefore a form of health insurance.

In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.

Anything used for healing diseases or wounds, especially a medicine; a medication; a healing application.

Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments.

A quack.

Medicinal; acting like a medicine.

Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.