A natural family of insects comprising the blister beetles.
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A natural subfamily of beetles, considered a separate family in some classification systems.
A beetle of the genus Melolontha, and allied genera. See May beetle, under May.
A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.
Of or pertaining to meloplasty, or the artificial formation of a new cheek.
The process of restoring a cheek which has been destroyed wholly or in part.
The art of forming melody; melody; -- now often used for a melodic passage, rather than a complete melody.
A South American herb (Madia sativa) with sticky glandular foliage; it is a source of madia oil.
A genus of American song sparrows and swamp sparrows.
A picture produced by a process in which development after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.
The Muse of tragedy.
Honey of roses.
To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.
Capable of being melted.
One who, or that which, melts.
Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood.
A vessel in which anything is melted; a crucible.
A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.
One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.
A genus of mammals including the sloth bears; in some classifications not a separate genus from Ursus.
Herman Melville, American novelist, author of Moby Dick; b. 1819, d. 1891.
the 13th letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
Lady; mistress; -- used by Hindustani-speaking natives in India in addressing European women.
To remember; to cause to remember; to mention.
Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.
The state of being a member.
Relating to a member.
A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.
See Membranous.
Having or producing membranes.
Having the form of a membrane or of parchment.
The science which treats of membranes.
Pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling, membrane; as, a membranous covering or lining.
A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir.
A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India.
A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.
A writer of memoirs.
A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.
Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.
The quality or state of being memorable.
Worthy to be remembered; very important or remarkable.
To commemorate.
Commemorative.
Memory.
Anything intended to preserve the memory of a person or event; something which serves to keep something else in remembrance; a monument.
Same as memorialize.
One who writes or signs a memorial.
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; as, to memorialize the legislature.
One who petitions by a memorial.
One who, or that which, causes to be remembered.
By, or from, memory.
A person who learns by rote.
A native or resident of the city of Memphis in Tennessee.
A man; one; -- used with a verb in the singular, and corresponding to the present indefinite one or they.
One whose motive is to please men or the world, rather than God.
An iron-black or steel-gray mineral, consisting chiefly of the oxides of iron and titanium. It is commonly massive, but occurs also in rhombohedral crystals. Called also titanic iron ore, and ilmenite.
To act in threatening manner; to wear a threatening aspect.
One who menaces.
In a threatening manner.
A collection of animals; a menagerie.
A relationship involving three people, especially one in which three people live together and have sexual relations, such as a married couple and a lover of one of the pair.
A place where animals are kept and trained.
Emmenagogue.
A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same.
Covered with spots; speckled; variegated.
To grow better; to advance to a better state; to become improved; to recover; to heal.
Capable of being mended.
Given to deception or falsehood; lying; as, a mendacious person.
The quality or state of being mendacious; a habit of lying.
Gregor Johann Mendel, founder of the science of genetics (1822-1884); Gregor Mendel.
an unstable radioactive element discovered in 1955 and produced artificially only in very small quantities; symbol Md (also Mv). It is a transuranic element with atomic number 101. Isotopes 255, 256, 257, and 258 have been prepared. Md258, the longest-lived, has a half-life of two months.
Pert. to Mendel, or to Mendel's law; as, Mendelian inheritance.
One who mends or repairs.
See Mendinant.
The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging.
A beggar; esp., one who makes a business of begging; specifically, a begging friar.
To beg.
The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy.
The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy.
A mendicant or begging friar.
Amendment.
The cackerel.
Medregal.
See Amends.
To mix.
An American marine fish (Brevoortia tyrannus) of the Herring family (Clupeidae), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.
A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.
A domestic servant or retainer, esp. one of humble rank; one employed in low or servile offices.
See Opal.
Of or pertaining to the meninges.
The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.
Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord.
Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.
Concavo-convex, like a meniscus.
A crescent.
Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermaceae) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.
Pertaining to, or obtained from, moonseed (Menispermum), or other plants of the same family, as the Anamirta Cocculus.
An alkaloid distinct from picrotoxin and obtained from the cocculus indicus (the fruit of Anamirta Cocculus, formerly Menispermum Cocculus) as a white, crystalline, tasteless powder; -- called also menispermina.
Same as Miniver.
One of a small denomination of Christians, so called from Menno Simons of Friesland, their founder. They believe that the New Testament is the only rule of faith, that there is no original sin, that infants should not be baptized, and that Christians ought not to take oath, hold office, or render military service.
A large aquatic American salamander of the genus Necturus, having permanent external gills.
A register of months.
The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.
The hellbender.
Profuse menstruation. Any profuse bleeding from the uterus; Metrorrhagia.
Stoppage of the menses.
Same as Menostasis.
A minnow.
Occurring once in a month; monthly.
To grace.
The catamenial or menstrual discharge, a periodic flow of blood or bloody fluid from the uterus or female generative organs.
Recurring once a month; monthly; gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.
Subject to monthly flowing or menses.
To discharge the menses; to have the catamenial flow.
discharging menstrual fluid; -- of women during their menstrual period.
The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.
The menstrual flux; menses.
Having the monthly flow or discharge; menstruating.
Any substance which dissolves a solid body; a solvent.
The quality of being mensurable.
Capable of being measured; measurable.
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