A maker of verses.

Inflammation of the womb.

An instrument for measuring colors.

An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.

Of or pertaining to metrology.

The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject.

A mania for writing verses.

One who has metromania.

An instrument for measuring the size of the womb.

An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.

Measurement of time by an instrument.

Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. A metronymic appellation.

A metropolis.

The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

The see of a metropolitan bishop.

A metropolitan.

Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair.

Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.

A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.

A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood.

An instrument for cutting or scarifying the uterus or the neck of the uterus.

The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Caesarean section.

imp. of Mete, to dream.

Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense; as, to test a person's mettle.

Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.

Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse.

Lit., mine; that which is mine; -- used in the phrase meum et tuum, or meum and tuum; as, to confound meum and tuum, to fail to distinguish one's own property from that of others; to be dishonest.

A European river, flowing into the North Sea.

an American operation in World War I (1918); American troops under Pershing drove back the German armies which were saved only by the Armistice on November 11.

A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1.

To move.

The common cry of a cat.

To cry, as a young child; to squall.

One that mewls.

An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place.

See Mescal.

Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people. A native or inhabitant of Mexico.

To become like the Mexicans, or their country or government.

Same as Meine.

Same as Mescal.

A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine.

A mosque.

A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews. The term is also used to refer to the small case containing this scroll, together with the biblical inscription inside. The text is usually taken from Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21.

Same as Entresol. A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.

Mean; not extreme.

Mezzo-rilievo.

A middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief. Sculpture in this kind of relief. See under Alto-rilievo.

Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer. A mezzo-soprano voice. A person having such a voice.

To engrave in mezzotint.

One who engraves in mezzotint.

To engrave in mezzotint; to represent by mezzotint.

A unit of conductivity, being the reciprocal of the ohm.

An instrument for measuring conductivity.

See Mohr.

A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, i. e., to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system.

A tribe of Indians that formerly occupied the country between the Wabash and Maumee rivers.

A mineral of an iron-black color, and very sectile, consisting principally of sulphur, antimony, and silver.

The orang-outang.

A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elaeolite, and sodalite.

Miasma.

Containing miasma; miasmatic.

Containing, or relating to, miasma; caused by miasma; as, miasmatic diseases.

One who has made a special study of miasma.

That department of medical science which treats of miasma.

The crying of a cat.

The name of a group of minerals characterized by highly perfect cleavage, so that they readily separate into very thin leaves, more or less elastic. They differ widely in composition, and vary in color from pale brown or yellow to green or black. The transparent forms are used in lanterns, the doors of stoves, etc., being popularly called isinglass. Formerly called also cat-silver, and glimmer.

Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.

Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into laminae or leaves like mica.

pl. of Mouse.

A theoretical aggregation of molecules constituting a structural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.

The feast of the archangel Michael, a church festival, celebrated on the 29th of September. Hence, colloquially, autumn.

To lie hid; to skulk; to act, or carry one's self, sneakingly.

Of or pertaining to Michelangelo.

Michelangelo Buonarroti, renowned Italian painter, sculptor and architect; 1475-1564.

One who skulks, or keeps out of sight; hence, a truant; an idler; a thief, etc.

Theft; cheating.

A resident of Michigan.

Hiding; skulking; cowardly.

a person of Irish descent; -- an ethnic slur, offensive and disparaging.

Much; great.

A tribe of Indians inhabiting Nova Scotia and New Brunswick.

A small South American monkey (Mico melanurus), allied to the marmoset. The name was originally applied to an albino variety.

Same as Microustic.

A genus of sea urchins, similar to Spatangus, abounding in the chalk formation; -- from the starlike disposal of the ambulacral furrows.

Of or pertaining to microchemistry; as, a micro-chemical test.

The application of chemical tests to minute objects or portions of matter, usually assisted by sensitive instruments; -- distinguished from macro-chemistry.

Of or pertaining to micro-geology.

The part of geology relating to structure and organisms which require to be studied with a microscope.

One of the smaller measures of electrical currents; the millionth part of one amp/re.

Analysis of the structure of materials from careful observation of photomicrographs.

In the classification of Cohn, one of the four tribes of Bacteria.

An instrument for recording minor fluctuations of atmospheric pressure, as opposed to general barometric surges.

Of, pertaining to, or caused by, microbes; as, microbial growth; the microbian theory; a microbian disease.

Of or pertaining to a microbe.

Any agent detrimental to, or destructive of, the life of microbes or bacterial organisms.

The branch of biology studying minute organisms, or microbes, such as the bacteria, fungi, viruses, and protozoa.

A microscopic organism; a microorganism; -- particularly applied to bacteria and especially to pathogenic forms; as, the microbe of fowl cholera.

Having a small head; having the cranial cavity small; -- opposed to megacephalic.

A chronoscope.

A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.

Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci.

A genus of Spherobacteria, in the form of very small globular or oval cells, forming, by transverse division, filaments, or chains of cells, or in some cases single organisms shaped like dumb-bells (Diplococcus), all without the power of motion. See Illust. of Ascoccus.

A small computer based on a microprocessor; in practise, at any given time in the technology of computer development, a microcomputer will be one that is less powerful than a minicomputer.

A little world; a miniature universe. Hence (so called by Paracelsus), a man, as a supposed epitome of the exterior universe or great world. Opposed to macrocosm.

Of or pertaining to the microcosm.

Description of man as a microcosm.

A measure of electrical quantity; the millionth part of one coulomb.

An instrument for making faint sounds audible, as to a partially deaf person.

The weight of the half hydrogen molecule, or of the hydrogen atom, at one time taken as the standard in comparing the atomic weights of the elements; thus, an atom of oxygen weighs sixteen microcriths. This unit is no longer used, and has been replaced by the Dalton, which is of approximately the same value. See molecular weight and Crith.

Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.

One of the elementary granules found in blood. They are much smaller than an ordinary corpuscle, and are particularly noticeable in disease, as in anaemia.

Having small teeth.

The millionth part of a farad.

to photograph and produce images of on microfilm.

A microscopic form of life; an animal or vegetable organism of microscopic size.

An instrument for executing minute writing or engraving.

Of or pertaining to micrography.

The description of microscopic objects.

The millionth part of an ohm.

A tribe of Lepidoptera, including a vast number of minute species, as the plume moth, clothes moth, etc.