Trade; commerce.

To be a merchant; to trade.

The ships owned by nationals of a particular country that are engaged in civilian commerce; also, the personnel operating those vessels. Distinguished from the navy, which contains the vessels of war.

Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant.

The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.

In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

Merciful.

Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. Opposite of merciless.

To pity.

Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.

A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.

A person having mercurial qualities.

The syndrome produced by poisoning due to exposure to mercury, it fumes, or its compounds; mercury poisoning. Such exposure may occur in mining or smelting, or in using mercurial compounds.

One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.

To be sprightly, fantastic, or capricious.

In a mercurial manner.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion.

The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.

To obtain mercury from, as mercuric minerals, which may be done by any application of intense heat that expels the mercury in fumes, which are afterward condensed.

A communication of news; an announcement.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.

To wash with a preparation of mercury.

the compound (HgCl2) consisting of two atoms of chlorine united with one atom of mercury. Also called bichloride of mercury, mercuric chloride, corrosive sublimate, and mercury perchloride. It is used as /a topical antiseptic and disinfectant for inanimate objects/.

The mercury salt of fulminic acid (Hg(CNO)2), called also fulminate of mercury. It is an explosive compound prepared as gray crystals, and is used primarily in detonators for detonating high explosives, such as dynamite or TNT. It is sensitive to shock and may be detonated by a blow.

Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.

Ordure; dung.

Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.

Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.

Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.

An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries.

The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm.

A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.

Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.

an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming plausibility.

Any bird of the genus Mergus (Merganser), and allied genera of the subfamily Merginae. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill, eat fish, and dive for food. Also called fish duck.

To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.

To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.

formed or united into a whole; -- of formerly separate objects, groups, etc.

One who, or that which, merges.

The act or process of joining together into one entity.

A genus of ducks consisting of mergansers.

One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.

A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides.

Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

The state of being in the meridian.

In the direction of the meridian.

A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.

A delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, -- with jam or cream added.

A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool.

Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.

A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.

To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.

Deserving of reward.

By merit; deservedly.

Same as Internode.

One who depends on merit for salvation.

A form of social system in which power goes to those with superior intellects.

Of or pertaining to meritocracy; as, meritocratic society.

Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.

A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.

A mark; a sign.

Murky.

Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon.

The European blackbird. See Blackbird.

A small European falcon (Falco columbarius, syn. Falco lithofalco, or Falco aesalon). In North America called also pigeon hawk.

The European whiting.

One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.

The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.

A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.

The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.

Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (Epinephelus morio), the black grouper (Epinephelus nigritas), distinguished as Me"ro de lo al"to (/), and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as Me"ro ca*brol"la (/).

An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.

Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .

Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.

One of a family of birds (Meropidae), including the bee-eaters.

The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.

Organization in part.

The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.

One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.

A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs (Limulus) of the last group. See Limulus.

See Jack, 8 (c).

Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. One of the kings of this dynasty.

A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoeboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.

In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.

See Merrymake, v.

Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.

The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.

A kind of wild red cherry.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a group of seats in the shape of hobbyhorses or other fanciful animals, arranged in a circle on a platform that is rotated by a mechanical drive, often to the accompaniment of music; the seats often move up and down in synchrony with the rotation; -- called also carousel. It is employed primarily for the amusement of children, and is typically found at an amusement park.

To make merry; to be jolly; to feast.

One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.

The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity.

A meeting for mirth.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.

Immersion.

A bird of the Thrush family.

See Meros.

Marvel.

A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.

A salt of mesaconic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid.

Same as mesiad.

Same as Mesial.

A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.

Same as Mesially.

One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.

Mesenteric.

Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.

Mesaticephalic.

A distilled liquor prepared in Mexico from a species of agave. See Agave.

pl. of Madame and Madam.

It seems to me.

A leper.

Leprosy.

A genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of South Africa. The leaves are opposite, thick, and fleshy. The flowers usually open about midday, whence the name.

Of or pertaining to the mesencephalon or midbrain.

The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.