Pertaining to, or by means of, metallography.

One who writes on the subject of metals.

The science or art of metals and metal working; also, a treatise on metals.

Having the appearance of a metal.

Metalloid.

An instrument like a pianoforte, but having metal bars instead of strings. An instrument like the xylophone, but having metallic instead of wooden bars.

Metalorganic.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

Of or pertaining to metallurgy.

One who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy.

The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.

A worker in metals.

Beyond the scope or province of logic.

Pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.; now usually organometallic.

Any one of several metameric forms of the same substance, or of different substances having the same composition; as, xylene has three metamers, viz., orthoxylene, metaxylene, and paraxylene; an isomer.

One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of Loeven's larva.

Having the same molecular formula, but possessing a different bonding structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.

In a metameric manner.

The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.

Subject to change; changeable; variable.

The state or quality of being metamorphic; the process by which the material of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble.

One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.

To metamorphose.

Same as Metamorphosis.

One who metamorphoses.

Changing the form; transforming.

A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.

Of or pertaining to the metanephros.

The most posterior of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in many vertebrates.

The dorsal portion of the metaphorax of insects.

A salt of metantimonic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid (formerly called antimonic acid) analogous to metaphosphoric acid, and obtained as a white amorphous insoluble substance, (HSbO3). Formerly, designating an acid, which is now properly called pyroantimonic acid, and analogous to pyrophosphoric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a supposed acid obtained from pectin.

A substance obtained from, and resembling, pectin, and occurring in overripe fruits.

An intermediate product formed in the gastric digestion of albuminous matter.

The transference of the relation between one set of objects to another set for the purpose of brief explanation; a compressed simile; e. g., the ship plows the sea.

Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense.

One who makes metaphors.

A salt of metaphosphoric acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, HPO3, analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called glacial phosphoric acid. Compare the tribasic orthophosphoric acid.

A verbal translation; a version or translation from one language into another, word for word; a literal translation; -- opposed to paraphrase.

Translated literally.

Metaphrase.

A literal translator.

Close, or literal.

Metaphysical.

Of or pertaining to metaphysics.

In the manner of metaphysical science, or of a metaphysician.

One who is versed in metaphysics.

The science of real as distinguished from phenomenal being; ontology; also, the science of being, with reference to its abstract and universal conditions, as distinguished from the science of determined or concrete being; the science of the conceptions and relations which are necessarily implied as true of every kind of being; philosophy in general; first principles, or the science of first principles.

Change of form; transformation.

A change in the letters or syllables of a word.

A word having more than one form of the root.

The posterior division of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.

Of or pertaining to the metapodialia, or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.

One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus.

Same as Metapode.

A tubercle projecting from the anterior articular processes of some vertebrae; a mammillary process.

The posterior of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.

A salt of metasilicic acid.

An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization.

One of the component segments of the body of an animal.

A salt of metastannic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a compound of tin (metastannic acid), obtained, as an isomeric modification of stannic acid, in the form of a white amorphous substance.

A spiritual change, as during baptism.

to spread from one part of the body to other parts, and grow there; to spread by metastasis{3}; -- said of cancer cells.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, metastasis; as, a metastatic abscess; the metastatic processes of growth; a metastatic tumor.

Of or pertaining to the metasternum.

The most posterior element of the sternum; the ensiform process; xiphisternum.

A median elevation behind the mouth in the arthropods.

Of or pertaining to the metatarsus. A metatarsal bone.

Metatarsus.

That part of the skeleton of the hind or lower limb between the tarsus and phalanges; metatarse. It consists, in the human foot, of five bones. See Illustration in Appendix.

A flat or somewhat hollowed stone upon which grain or other food is ground, by means of a smaller stone or pestle.

A subclass of pouched animals.

Any of a group of primitive pouched mammals found mainly in Australia and the Americas.

Transposition, as of the letters or syllables of a word; as, pistris for pristis; meagre for meager.

Of or pertaining to metathesis.

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.

The last or posterior segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid of titanium analogous to metasilicic acid.

A salt of metatungstic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid known only in its salts (the metatungstates) and properly called polytungstic, or pyrotungstic, acid.

A salt of metavanadic acid.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, a vanadic acid analogous to metaphosphoric acid.

That variety of xylene, or dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta position with reference to each other. It is a colorless inflammable liquid.

A system of farming on halves.

One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord; a type of sharecropper.

Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.

One of the Metazoa.

Of or pertaining to the Metazoa.

One of the Metazoa.

Measure; limit; boundary; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in the phrase metes and bounds.

A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.

According to measure or proportion; proportionable; proportionate.

Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics.

The science that is concerned with metempirics.

The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another.

The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls.

The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.

The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.

The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.

Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.

Meteoric.

Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.

A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aerolite.

To ascend in vapors; to take the form of a meteor.

An instrument which registers meteorologic phases or conditions.

Of or pertaining to meteorography.

The registration of meteorological phenomena.

A small body moving through space, or revolving about the sun, which on entering the earth's atmosphere would be deflagrated and appear as a meteor.

Of or pertaining to a meteoroid or to meteoroids.

A meteoric stone; an aerolite; a meteorite.

Of or pertaining to the atmosphere and its phenomena, or to meteorology.

A person skilled in meteorology.

The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly of its variations of heat and moisture, of its winds, storms, etc.

A species of divination by atmospheric phenomena, chiefly by thunder and lightning, which was held in high estimation by the Romans.

An apparatus which transmits automatically to a central station atmospheric conditions as marked by the anemometer, barometer, thermometer, etc.

An astrolabe; a planisphere. An instrument for measuring the position, length, and direction, of the apparent path of a shooting star.