| Words | Parts of Speech | Meaning/Definition/Similar Words |
|---|---|---|
| merchet | noun | 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. |
| meacock | noun | An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man. |
| meadowy | adjective | Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow. |
| meaking | noun | The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked. |
| mealies | noun pl. | Maize or Indian corn; — the common name in South Africa. |
| meaning | present participle & vb. noun | of Mean, That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent., That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint., Sense; power of thinking. |
| meander | noun | A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries., A tortuous or intricate movement., Fretwork. See Fret., To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous., To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate. |
| meandry | adjective | Winding; flexuous. |
| measled | adjective | Infected or spotted with measles, as pork. |
| measles | noun | Leprosy; also, a leper., A contagious febrile disorder commencing with catarrhal symptoms, and marked by the appearance on the third day of an eruption of distinct red circular spots, which coalesce in a crescentic form, are slightly raised above the surface, and after the fourth day of the eruption gradually decline; rubeola., A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm., A disease of trees., The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms. |
| measure | noun | A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged., An instrument by means of which size or quantity is measured, as a graduated line, rod, vessel, or the like., The dimensions or capacity of anything, reckoned according to some standard; size or extent, determined and stated; estimated extent; as, to take one’s measure for a coat., The contents of a vessel by which quantity is measured; a quantity determined by a standard; a stated or limited quantity or amount., Extent or degree not excessive or beyong bounds; moderation; due restraint; esp. in the phrases, in measure; with measure; without or beyond measure., Determined extent, not to be exceeded; limit; allotted share, as of action, influence, ability, or the like; due proportion., The quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure., Undefined quantity; extent; degree., Regulated division of movement, A regulated movement corresponding to the time in which the accompanying music is performed; but, especially, a slow and stately dance, like the minuet., The group or grouping of beats, caused by the regular recurrence of accented beats., The space between two bars., The manner of ordering and combining the quantities, or long and short syllables; meter; rhythm; hence, a foot; as, a poem in iambic measure., A number which is contained in a given number a number of times without a remainder; as in the phrases, the common measure, the greatest common measure, etc., of two or more numbers., A step or definite part of a progressive course or policy; a means to an end; an act designed for the accomplishment of an object; as, political measures; prudent measures; an inefficient measure., The act of measuring; measurement., Beds or strata; as, coal measures; lead measures., To ascertain by use of a measuring instrument; to compute or ascertain the extent, quantity, dimensions, or capacity of, by a certain rule or standard; to take the dimensions of; hence, to estimate; to judge of; to value; to appraise., To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature., To pass throught or over in journeying, as if laying off and determining the distance., To adjust by a rule or standard., To allot or distribute by measure; to set off or apart by measure; — often with out or off., To make a measurement or measurements., To result, or turn out, on measuring; as, the grain measures well; the pieces measure unequally., To be of a certain size or quantity, or to have a certain length, breadth, or thickness, or a certain capacity according to a standard measure; as, cloth measures three fourths of a yard; a tree measures three feet in diameter. |
| mechlin | noun | A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium. |
| meconic | adjective | Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. |
| meconin | noun | A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid. |
| medaled | imp. & past participle | of Medal |
| medalet | noun | A small medal. |
| meddled | imp. & past participle | of Meddle |
| meddler | noun | One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody. |
| mediacy | noun | The state or quality of being mediate. |
| mediant | noun | The third above the keynote; — so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds. |
| mediate | adjective | Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate., Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition., Gained or effected by a medium or condition., To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene., To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations., To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace., To divide into two equal parts. |
| medical | adjective | Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence., Containing medicine; used in medicine; medicinal; as, the medical properties of a plant. |
| mediety | noun | The middle part; half; moiety. |
| mediums | plural | of Medium |
| medleys | plural | of Medley |
| medrick | noun | A species of gull or tern. |
| medulla | noun | Marrow; pith; hence, essence., The marrow of bones; the deep or inner portion of an organ or part; as, the medulla, or medullary substance, of the kidney; specifically, the medula oblongata., A soft tissue, occupying the center of the stem or branch of a plant; pith. |
| medusae | plural | of Medusa |
| meedful | adjective | Worthy of meed, reward, or recompense; meritorious. |
| meerkat | noun | A South African carnivore (Cynictis penicillata), allied to the ichneumons. |
| meeting | present participle & vb. noun | of Meet, A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress., A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers., A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting., An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; — in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters. |
| megalo- | Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm., A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms., See Meg-. | |
| megaric | adjective | Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece. |
| megasse | noun | See Bagasse. |
| megilph | noun | A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors. |
| meiosis | noun | Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is. |
| melaena | noun | A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood. |
| melange | noun | A mixture; a medley. |
| melanic | adjective | Melanotic., Of or pertaining to the black-haired races. |
| melanin | noun | A black pigment found in the pigment-bearing cells of the skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin. |
| melasma | noun | A dark discoloration of the skin, usually local; as, Addison’s melasma, or Addison’s disease. |
| meletin | noun | See Quercitin. |
| melilot | noun | Any species of Melilotus, a genus of leguminous herbs having a vanillalike odor; sweet clover; hart’s clover. The blue melilot (Melilotus caerulea) is used in Switzerland to give color and flavor to sapsago cheese. |
| melisma | noun | A piece of melody; a song or tune, — as opposed to recitative or musical declamation., A grace or embellishment. |
| melissa | noun | A genus of labiate herbs, including the balm, or bee balm (Melissa officinalis). |
| mellate | noun | A mellitate. |
| melligo | noun | Honeydew. |
| mellite | noun | A mineral of a honey color, found in brown coal, and partly the result of vegetable decomposition; honeystone. It is a mellitate of alumina. |
| mellone | noun | A yellow powder, C6H3N9, obtained from certain sulphocyanates. It has acid properties and forms compounds called mellonides. |
| mellowy | adjective | Soft; unctuous. |
| melluco | noun | A climbing plant (Ullucus officinalis) of the Andes, having tuberous roots which are used as a substitute for potatoes. |
| melodic | adjective | Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious. |
| melrose | noun | Honey of roses. |
| melting | present participle & vb. noun | of Melt, Liquefaction; the act of causing (something) to melt, or the process of becoming melted., Causing to melt; becoming melted; — used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood. |
| membral | adjective | Relating to a member. |
| memento | noun | A hint, suggestion, token, or memorial, to awaken memory; that which reminds or recalls to memory; a souvenir. |
| meminna | noun | A small deerlet, or chevrotain, of India. |
| memoirs | noun | 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., A memorial of any individual; a biography; often, a biography written without special regard to method and completeness., An account of something deemed noteworthy; an essay; a record of investigations of any subject; the journals and proceedings of a society. |
| memoria | noun | Memory. |
| menaced | imp. & past participle | of Menace |
| menacer | noun | One who menaces. |
| menaion | noun | A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same. |
| mending | present participle & vb. noun | of Mend |
| mendole | noun | The cackerel. |
| menisci | plural | of Meniscus |
| meniver | adjective | Same as Miniver. |
| menthol | noun | A white, crystalline, aromatic substance resembling camphor, extracted from oil of peppermint (Mentha); — called also mint camphor or peppermint camphor. |
| menthyl | noun | A compound radical forming the base of menthol. |
| mention | noun | A speaking or notice of anything, — usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of., To make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name. |
| mercery | noun | The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals. |
| mercify | verb t. | To pity. |
| mercury | noun | A Latin god of commerce and gain; — treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence., A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /., One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles., A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper., Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness., A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe., To wash with a preparation of mercury. |
| mercies | plural | of Mercy |
| merging | present participle & vb. noun | of Merge |
| merinos | plural | of Merino |
| merited | imp. & past participle | of Merit |
| meritot | noun | A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy. |
| merling | noun | The European whiting. |
| merluce | noun | The European hake; — called also herring hake and sea pike. |
| mermaid | noun | 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. |
| merrily | adverb | In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry. |
| mersion | noun | Immersion. |
| mesally | adverb | Same as Mesially. |
| meseems | verb impers. | It seems to me. |
| meselry | noun | Leprosy. |
| meshing | present participle & vb. noun | of Mesh |
| mesityl | noun | A hypothetical radical formerly supposed to exist in mesityl oxide. |
| mesozoa | noun pl. | A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata. |
| mesquit | noun | A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite. |
| messing | present participle & vb. noun | of Mess |
| message | noun | Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another., Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President’s message., To bear as a message., A messenger. |
| messiad | noun | A German epic poem on the Messiah, by Klopstock. |
| messiah | noun | The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ. |
| messias | noun | The Messiah. |
| mestino | noun | See Mestizo. |
| mestizo | noun | The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. |
| metaled | imp. & past participle | of Metal |
| metamer | noun | 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. |
| metayer | adjective | One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord. |
| metazoa | noun pl. | 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. |
| methane | noun | A light, colorless, gaseous, inflammable hydrocarbon, CH4; marsh gas. See Marsh gas, under Gas. |
| methene | noun | See Methylene. |
| methide | noun | A binary compound of methyl with some element; as, aluminium methide, Al2(CH3)6. |
| metisse | noun f. | The offspring of a white person and an American Indian., The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon. |
| metoche | noun | The space between two dentils., The space between two triglyphs. |
| metonic | adjective | Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian. |
| metopic | adjective | Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture. |
| metrify | verb i. | To make verse. |
| metrist | noun | A maker of verses. |
| mettled | adjective | Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire. |
| mewling | present participle & vb. noun | of Mewl |
| mexical | mexcal. | See Mescal. |
| mexican | adjective | Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people., A native or inhabitant of Mexico. |
| messrs. | plural | of Monsieur |