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.

Meritorious.

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.

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.

The part of the mesoblast which gives rise to the connective tissues and blood.

Pertaining to a mesentery; mesaraic.

All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomodaeum, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctodaeum, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast.

Mesaraic.

Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone. The median vertical plate, or median element, of the ethmoid bone.

To engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.

Mashed; brewed.

Formed with meshes; netted.

Toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral.

In, near, or toward, the mesial plane; mesiad.

A hypothetical radical formerly supposed to exist in mesityl oxide.

A salt of mesitylenic acid.

A colorless, fragrant liquid, C6H3(CH3)3, of the benzene series of hydrocarbons, obtained by distilling acetone with sulphuric acid.

A crystalline substance obtained from mesitylene.

See Maslin.

A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is mesmerized.

Of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.

An earlier name for hypnosis or hypnotism, the art of inducing an extraordinary or abnormal state of the nervous system, in which the actor claims to control the actions, and communicate directly with the mind, of the recipient. It is believed to be a state between sleep and wakefulness, in which a person is more susceptible to suggestion than when awake. See Animal magnetism, under Magnetism.

One who practices, or believes in, mesmerism.

The act of mesmerizing; the state of being mesmerized.

To bring into a state of mesmeric sleep; to hypnotize.

One who mesmerizes.

Middle; intervening; as, a mesne lord, that is, a lord who holds land of a superior, but grants a part of it to another person, in which case he is a tenant to the superior, but lord or superior to the second grantee, and hence is called the mesne lord.

The fold of peritoneum which suspends the ovary from the dorsal wall of the body cavity; the mesovarium.

The mesoderm. The cell nucleus; mesoplast.

Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.

Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.

The main bronchus of each lung.

The fold of peritoneum attached to the caecum.

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the middle of the head; as, the mesocephalic flexure. Having the cranial cavity of medium capacity; neither megacephalic nor microcephalic. Having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; mesaticephalic.

The pons Varolii.

Mesocephalic.

The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.

The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon.

A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.

One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.

The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm. The middle body layer in some invertebrates. The middle layer of tissue in some vegetable structures.

Pertaining to, or derived from, the mesoderm; as, mesodermal tissues.

Same as Mesodermal.

Having teeth of moderate size.

The fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.

The umbilical region. The mesogaster.

A thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain coelenterates.

Having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. See Gnathic index, under Gnathic.

A fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.

An extinct mammal of the Horse family, but not larger than a sheep, and having three toes on each foot.

An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube.

Same as Thomsonite.