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.

A large stone; especially, a large stone used in constructing ancient monuments.

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.

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.

A kind of mental unsoundness characterized by extreme depression of spirits, ill-grounded fears, delusions, and brooding over one particular subject or train of ideas.

A person affected with melancholy; a melancholic.

One affected with a gloomy state of mind.

In a melancholy manner.

The state or quality of being melancholy.

Melancholy.

One affected with melancholy or dejection.

To make melancholy.

Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.

A family of fungi constituting the order Melanconiales.

The smallest of the three orders of Fungi Imperfecti, including those with no asci nor pycnidia, but as a rule having the spores in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose.

Of or pertaining to Melanesia.

A mixture; a medley.

One of a family of fresh-water pectinibranchiate mollusks, having a turret-shaped shell.

Melanotic.

A complex nitrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin.

A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.

The character of having a high degree of pigmentation, as shown in dark skin, eyes, and hair.

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

A black variety of garnet.

A group of the human race, including the dark whites.

Having a dark complexion; of or pertaining to the Melanochroi.

A mineral of a red, or brownish or yellowish red color. It is a chromate of lead; -- called also phoenicocroite.

Having very dark or black hair; black-haired.

A tumor containing dark pigment. Such tumors are usually malignant and often fatal. Development of dark-pigmented tumors.

An East Indian genus of large trees. Melanorrh/a usitatissima is the lignum-vitae of Pegu (in Burma), and yields a valuable black varnish.

An instrument containing a combination of colored glasses such that they transmit only red light, so that objects of other colors, as green leaves, appear black when seen through it. It is used for viewing colored flames, to detect the presence of potassium, lithium, etc., by the red light which they emit.

An alga of any kind that produces blackish spores, or seed dust. The melanosperms include the rockweeds and all kinds of kelp.

Melanistic.

A positive picture produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture.

A hydrous sulphate of iron of a green color and vitreous luster; iron vitriol.

A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).

Pertaining to, or designating, a complex nitrogenous acid obtained by decomposition of melam, or of urea, as a white crystalline powder; -- called also melanurenic acid.