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.

The quality or state of being meek.

A boundary. See Mere.

A South African carnivore (Suricata suricata, formerly Cynictis penicillata), allied to the ichneumons, having a lemurlike face and only four toes; called also yellow mongoose and suricate.

A fine white claylike mineral, soft, and light enough when in dry masses to float in water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite.

Meetly.

To render fit.

One who meets.

Mead. See Meathe.

A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.

A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.

Fitly; suitably; properly.

Fitness; suitableness; propriety.

Large headed; -- applied to animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads.

The Irish elk.

A leaf-cutting bee of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf.

See Macrocosm.

A million coulombs.

Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.

One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.

One of the larger measures of electrical capacitance, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.

A large bone marrow cell not usually found in the circulating blood; it is regarded as the precursors of blood platelets; it is up to 100 /m in diameter, with a polyploid nucleus. Also referred to as megacaryocyte, megalokaryocyte, and thromboblast.

Of or pertaining to a megakaryocyte.

A million ergs; a megerg.

Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.

An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.

Of or pertaining to megaliths or the period during which they were erected; as, megalithic monuments like Stonehenge.

A genus of giant salamanders; in some classifications included in the genus Cryptobranchus.

The condition of having an abnormally large head; called also megacephaly.

A large, flattened red blood cell corpuscle having no nucleus, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anaemia.

A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.

Suffering from megalomania.

A natural family consisting of the two-toed sloths.

An extinct quaternary mammal, of great size, allied to the sloth.

Having a loud voice.

A chief city; a very large cuity; a metropolis.

A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.

Greatness of soul.

A gigantic carnivorous dinosaur, whose fossil remains have been found in England and elsewhere.

An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.

In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.

A million amp/res.

A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.

An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.

Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. Called also mound builder, scrub fowl, moundbird, and brush turkey. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.

A metropolis.

Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece.

A modification of the magic lantern (projector), used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.

Of or pertaining to the megascope or the projection upon a screen of images of opaque objects. Enlarged or magnified; -- said of images or of photographic pictures, etc.

Having the orbital index relatively large; having the orbits narrow transversely; -- opposed to microseme.

See Bagasse.

One of a group which includes the higher orders of mammals, having a large size as a typical characteristic.

Having a typically large size; belonging to the megasthenes.

One of a group of univalve shells, having a large aperture or mouth.

An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.

One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.

One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

A million webers.

One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.

A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.

A very dull article, speech, or book, which causes the reader or listener to rapidly lose interest; -- often used of involved discussions of a technical nature, especially in newspapers.

One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.

The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Meibomius.

See Menge.

A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.

See Miocene.

A member of the scapolite group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.

Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is; understatement; see also litotes.

Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.

Of or pertaining to meiosis; as, meiotic division.

See Mastersinger.

See Mechitarist.

An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.

A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.

A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.

The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.

See Melanotype.

A white or buff-colored granular powder, C6H9N11, obtained by heating ammonium sulphocyanate.

A nitrogenous strongly basic chemical substance (C3H6N6), structurally 2,4,6-triamino-1,3,5-triazine, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide. It is used as one of the starting components (together with formaldehyde) in the preparation of melamine resins, including the commercially marketed Formica (TM). It is solid at room temperature, and sublimes at temperatures approaching 250/ C, decomposing at 345/ C. Density 1.573.

A thermosetting plastic formed by the reaction of melamine and formaldehyde. It is used for molding and for preparing laminated sheets used to surface counter tops, walls, and furniture. The commercially marketed Formica (TM) is one type of melamine resin.

The black hellebore.

A natural family of rust fungi.

The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.

A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.