AbstractPhil/geometric-vocab-english-full-a-to-z huggingface dataset:
meridian: being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.-pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.-midday; noon.-hence: the highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.-a great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. it is crossed by the sun at midday.-a great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.
meridional: of or pertaining to the meridian.-having a southern aspect; southern; southerly.
meridionality: the state of being in the meridian.-position in the south; aspect toward the south.
meringue: a delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, -- with jam or cream added.
merino: of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in spain.-made of the wool of the merino sheep.-a breed of sheep originally from spain, noted for the fineness of its wool.-a fine fabric of merino wool.
merismatic: 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.
merit: the quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.-esp. in a good sense: the quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.-reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.-to earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.-to reward.-to acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
meritorious: possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
meritot: a play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
merk: an old scotch silver coin; a mark or marc.-a mark; a sign.
merlin: a small european falcon (falco lithofalco, or f. aesalon).
merlon: one of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. see illust. of battlement.
mermaid: 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.
meroblast: 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.
meroblastic: 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.
meroistic: applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.
meropidan: one of a family of birds (meropidae), including the bee-eaters.
meros: the plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.-the proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.
merosome: one of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.
merostomata: a class of arthropoda, allied to the crustacea. it includes the trilobites, eurypteroidea, and limuloidea. all are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. see limulus.
merovingian: of or pertaining to the first frankish dynasty in gaul or france.-one of the kings of this dynasty.
merrily: in a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. see mirth, and merry.
merriness: the quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.
merry: laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.-cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.-causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.-a kind of wild red cherry.
merry-andrew: one whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.
merry-go-round: any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
merrymake: mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival.-to make merry; to be jolly; to feast.
merrymaker: one who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
merrymaking: making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.-the act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity.
merrythought: the forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. see furculum.
mes-: see meso-.-a combining form denoting in the middle, intermediate;-denoting a type of hydrocarbons which are regarded as methenyl derivatives. also used adjectively.
mesaconic: pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid.
mesam/boid: one of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.
mesaticephalic: having the ratio of the length to the breadth of the cranium a medium one; neither brachycephalic nor dolichocephalic.
mescal: a distilled liquor prepared in mexico from a species of agave. see agave.
mesdames: of madam-of madame-pl. of madame and madam.
mesembryanthemum: a genus of herbaceous or suffruticose plants, chiefly natives of south africa. the leaves are opposite, thick, and f/eshy. the flowers usually open about midday, whence the name.
mesencephalon: the middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. sometimes abbreviated to mesen. see brain.
mesenchyma: the part of the mesoblast which gives rise to the connective tissues and blood.
mesenteron: all that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. it is distinguished from the stomod/um, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod/um, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast.
mesentery: the membranes, or one of the membranes (consisting of a fold of the peritoneum and inclosed tissues), which connect the intestines and their appendages with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity. the mesentery proper is connected with the jejunum and ilium, the other mesenteries being called mesocaecum, mesocolon, mesorectum, etc.-one of the vertical muscular radiating partitions which divide the body cavity of anthozoa into chambers.
mesethmoid: of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone.-the median vertical plate, or median element, of the ethmoid bone.
mesh: the opening or space inclosed by the threads of a net between knot and knot, or the threads inclosing such a space; network; a net.-the engagement of the teeth of wheels, or of a wheel and rack.-to catch in a mesh.-to engage with each other, as the teeth of wheels.
mesiad: toward, or on the side toward, the mesial plane; mesially; -- opposed to laterad.
mesial: middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral.
mesitylene: a colorless, fragrant liquid, c6h3(ch3)3, of the benzene series of hydrocarbons, obtained by distilling acetone with sulphuric acid.
mesmerical: of, pertaining to, or induced by, mesmerism; as, mesmeric sleep.
mesmerism: 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. see animal magnetism, under magnetism.
mesne: 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.
mesoarium: the fold of peritoneum which suspends the ovary from the dorsal wall of the body cavity.
mesobranchial: of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.
mesocarp: the middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers.
mesocephalic: 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.
mesocolon: the fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon.
mesocuniform: one of the bones of the tarsus. see 2d cuneiform.
mesoderm: 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.
mesodermal: pertaining to, or derived from, the mesoderm; as, mesodermal tissues.
mesogaster: the fold of peritoneum connecting the stomach with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity; the mesogastrium.
mesogastric: of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach.-of or pertaining to the mesogaster.-of or pertaining to the middle gastric lobe of the carapace of a crab.
mesogl/a: a thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain coelenterates.
mesognathous: having the jaws slightly projecting; between prognathous and orthognathous. see gnathic index, under gnathic.
mesohepar: a fold of the peritoneum connecting the liver with the dorsal wall of the abdominal cavity.
mesohippus: an extinct mammal of the horse family, but not larger than a sheep, and having three toes on each foot.
mesolabe: 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.
mesolite: a zeolitic mineral, grayish white or yellowish, occuring in delicate groups of crystals, also fibrous massive. it is a hydrous silicate of alumina, lime, and soda.
mesomyodous: having the intrinsic muscles of the larynx attached to the middle of the semirings.
meson: the mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. the line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson.
mesonephric: of or pertaining to the mesonephros; as, the mesonephric, or wolffian, duct.
mesonephros: the middle one of the three pairs of embryonic renal organs developed in most vertebrates; the wolffian body.
mesophl/um: the middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.
mesophyllum: the parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces.
mesopodial: of or pertaining to the mesopodialia or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
mesopterygium: the middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
mesorchium: the fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.
mesorectum: the fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum.
mesorhine: having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.
mesoscapula: a process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.
mesoscutum: the scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. see illust. of butterfly.
mesoseme: having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.
mesosternum: the middle portion, or body, of the sternum.-the ventral piece of the middle segment of the thorax in insects.
mesotartaric: pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid.
mesothelium: epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. it constitutes the boundary of the c/lum.
mesothorax: the middle segment of the thorax in insects. see illust. of coleoptera.
mesotrochal: having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvae of certain marine annelids.
mesotype: an old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.
mesovarium: the fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.
mesoxalic: pertaining to, or designating, an acid, ch2o2(co2h)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.
mesozoa: a group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the dicyemata. they are found in cephalopods. see dicyemata.
mesozoic: belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the paleozoic and cenozoic. see chart of geology.-the mesozoic age or formation.
mesquit: a name for two trees of the southwestern part of north america, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.
mess: mass; church service.-a quantity of food set on a table at one time; provision of food for a person or party for one meal; as, a mess of pottage; also, the food given to a beast at one time.-a number of persons who eat together, and for whom food is prepared in common; especially, persons in the military or naval service who eat at the same table; as, the wardroom mess.-a set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.-the milk given by a cow at one milking.-a disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it.-to take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to eat (with others); as, i mess with the wardroom officers.-to supply with a mess.
message: 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.
messenger: one who bears a message; the bearer of a verbal or written communication, notice, or invitation, from one person to another, or to a public body; specifically, an office servant who bears messages.-one who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells.-a hawser passed round the capstan, and having its two ends lashed together to form an endless rope or chain; -- formerly used for heaving in the cable.-a person appointed to perform certain ministerial duties under bankrupt and insolvent laws, such as to take charge og the estate of the bankrupt or insolvent.
messiah: the expected king and deliverer of the hebrews; the savior; christ.
messianic: of or relating to the messiah; as, the messianic office or character.
messidor: the tenth month of the french republican calendar dating from september 22, 1792. it began june 19, and ended july 18. see vendemiaire.
messieurs: sirs; gentlemen; -- abbreviated to messrs., which is used as the plural of mr.-of monsieur
messuage: a dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.
mestee: the offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the west indies.
met: of meet-imp. & p. p. of meet.-imp. & p. p. of mete, to measure.-p. p. of mete, to dream.-of mete
met-: a prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.-other; duplicate, corresponding to; resembling; hence, metameric; as, meta-arabinic, metaldehyde.-that two replacing radicals, in the benzene nucleus, occupy the relative positions of 1 and 3, 2 and 4, 3 and 5, 4 and 6, 5 and 1, or 6 and 2; as, metacresol, etc.  see ortho-, and para-.-having less than the highest number of hydroxyl groups; -- said of acids; as, metaphosphoric acid. also used adjectively.
metabolic: of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.-of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.
metabolism: the act or process, by which living tissues or cells take up and convert into their own proper substance the nutritive material brought to them by the blood, or by which they transform their cell protoplasm into simpler substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).
metabranchial: of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.
metacarpus: that part of the skeleton of the hand or forefoot between the carpus and phalanges. in man it consists of five bones. see illust. of artiodactyla.
metacetone: a colorless liquid of an agreeable odor, c6h10o, obtained by distilling a mixture of sugar and lime; -- so called because formerly regarded as a polymeric modification of acetone.
metachloral: a white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.
metachrosis: the power og changing color at will by the expansion of special pigment cells, under nerve influence, as seen in many reptiles, fishes, etc.
metacism: a defect in pronouncing the letter m, or a too frequent use of it.
metacrolein: a polymeric modification of acrolein obtained by heating it with caustic potash. it is a crystalline substance having an aromatic odor.
metacromion: a process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.
metadiscoidal: discoidal by derivation; -- applied especially to the placenta of man and apes, because it is supposed to have been derived from a diffused placenta.
metagastric: of or pertaining to the two posterior gastric lobes of the carapace of crabs.
metagenesis: the change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless generations. opposed to monogenesis. see alternate generation, under generation.-alternation of sexual and asexual or gemmiparous generations; -- in distinction from heterogamy.
metagnathous: cross-billed; -- said of certain birds, as the crossbill.
metagraphy: the art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration.
metal: an elementary substance, as sodium, calcium, or copper, whose oxide or hydroxide has basic rather than acid properties, as contrasted with the nonmetals, or metalloids. no sharp line can be drawn between the metals and nonmetals, and certain elements partake of both acid and basic qualities, as chromium, manganese, bismuth, etc.-ore from which a metal is derived; -- so called by miners.-a mine from which ores are taken.-the substance of which anything is made; material; hence, constitutional disposition; character; temper.-courage; spirit; mettle. see mettle.-the broken stone used in macadamizing roads and ballasting railroads.-the effective power or caliber of guns carried by a vessel of war.-glass in a state of fusion.-the rails of a railroad.-to cover with metal; as, to metal a ship's bottom; to metal a road.
metalammonium: a hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.
metalbumin: a form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. it is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.
metaldehyde: a white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
metalepsis: the continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.
metaleptic: of or pertaining to a metalepsis.-transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.-of, pertaining to, concerned in, or occurring by, metalepsy.
metallic: of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.-of, pertaining to, or characterized by, the essential and implied properties of a metal, as contrasted with a nonmetal or metalloid; basic; antacid; positive.
metalline: pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties.-impregnated with metallic salts; chalybeate; as, metalline water.-a substance of variable composition, but resembling a soft, dark-colored metal, used in the bearings of machines for obviating friction, and as a substitute for lubricants.
metallochrome: a coloring produced by the deposition of some metallic compound; specifically, the prismatic tints produced by depositing a film of peroxide of lead on polished steel by electricity.
metallography: the science or art of metals and metal working; also, a treatise on metals.-a method of transferring impressions of the grain of wood to metallic surfaces by chemical action.-a substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone.
metalloid: formerly, the metallic base of a fixed alkali, or alkaline earth; -- applied by sir h. davy to sodium, potassium, and some other metallic substances whose metallic character was supposed to be not well defined.-now, one of several elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids.-having the appearance of a metal.-having the properties of a nonmetal; nonmetallic; acid; negative.
metallurgist: one who works in metals, or prepares them for use; one who is skilled in metallurgy.
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.
metalorganic: pertaining to, or denoting, any one of a series of compounds of certain metallic elements with organic radicals; as, zinc methyl, sodium ethyl, etc.
metamer: 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.
metamere: 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.
metameric: having the same elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. see isomeric.-of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation.
metamerism: the symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.-the state or quality of being metameric; also, the relation or condition of metameric compounds.
metamorphic: subject to change; changeable; variable.-causing a change of structure.-pertaining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.
metamorphism: 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.
metamorphist: one who believes that the body of christ was merged into the deity when he ascended.
metamorphose: to change into a different form; to transform; to transmute.-same as metamorphosis.