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.

One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.

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.

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.

Medicinal; having the power of healing.

Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.

In a medicinal manner.

To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.

Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves.

a student in medical school.

Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.

Science of medicine.

The middle part; half; moiety.

A genus of tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers.

Same as Para.

Mediocre.

Of a middle quality; of but a moderate or low degree of excellence; indifferent; ordinary.

A mediocre person; a mediocrity.

A mediocre person.

Pertaining to that part of the columella of the ear which, in some animals, connects the stapes with the other parts of the columella. The mediostapedial part of the columella.

Intermediate.

Meditation.

To contemplate; to keep the mind fixed upon; to study.

The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.

One who is given to meditation.

Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood.

A small two-winged fly (Ceratitis capitata), a native of the Mediterranean countries but now widely distributed in warm regions, which can cause great damage to citrus and other succulent fruit crops when present in large numbers. It is black and white and irregularly banded. It lays eggs in ripening oranges, peaches, and other fruits; when the eggs hatch into larvae (maggots) inside the fruit, they cause the fruit to decay and fall, and make the fruit unsaleable. It is also popularly called the medfly.

Inland.

Having a middle position or degree; mean; intermediate; medial; as, a horse of medium size; a decoction of medium strength.

Having a medium size; as, a medium-sized man.

The third or middle finger; the third digit, or that which corresponds to it.

A silver coin of Turkey formerly rated at twenty, but since 1880 at nineteen, piasters (about 83 cents). A gold coin of Turkey equal (in 1913) to one hundred piastres ($4.396 or 18s. /d.); a lira, or Turkish pound.

A tree of the genus Mespilus (Mespilus Germanica); also, the fruit of the tree. The fruit is something like a small apple, but has a bony endocarp. When first gathered the flesh is hard and austere, and it is not eaten until it has begun to decay.

To mix; to mingle; to meddle.

Mixed; of mixed material or color.

See Medle.

A class of claret wines, including several varieties, from the district of M/doc in the department of Gironde.

See Bonito, 3.

A species of gull or tern.

Marrow; pith; hence, essence.

See Medullary.

Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, marrow or medulla. Pertaining to the medula oblongata.

Furnished with a medulla or marrow, or with a medullary sheath; as, a medullated nerve fiber.

A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.

The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.

A medusa.

Resembling a medusa in shape or structure.

Like a medusa; having the fundamental structure of a medusa, but without a locomotive disk; -- said of the sessile gonophores of hydroids. A sessile gonophore. See Illust. under Gonosome.

See Mich.

To reward; to repay.

Worthy of meed, reward, or recompense; meritorious.

According to merit; suitably.

Mild of temper; not easily provoked or orritated; patient under injuries; not vain, or haughty, or resentful; forbearing; submissive.

To make meek; to nurture in gentleness and humility.

In a meek manner.