Mechanical (2)
Me‐chan″ic‐al, n. A mechanic. Shak.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Mechanicalize
Me‐chan″ic‐al‐ize (?), v. t. To cause to become mechanical.
Mechanically
Me‐chan″ic‐al‐ly, adv. In a mechanical manner.
Mechanicalness
Me‐chan″ic‐al‐ness, n. The state or quality of being mechanical.
Mechanician
Mech′a‐ni″cian (?), n. [Cf. F. mécanicien. See Mechanic.] One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist. Boyle.
Mechanico-chemical
Me‐chan′i‐co–chem″ic‐al (?), a. Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; — said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena...
Mechanics
Me‐chan″ics (?), n. [Cf. F. mécanique.] That science, or branch of applied mathematics, which treats of the action of forces on bodies.☞ That part of mechanics which considers t...
Mechanism
Mech″an‐ism (?), n. [Cf. F. mécanisme, L. mechanisma. See Mechanic.] 1. The arrangement or relation of the parts of a machine; the parts of a machine, taken collectively; the ar...
Mechanist
Mech″an‐ist, n. 1. A maker of machines; one skilled in mechanics.2. One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.
Mechanize
Mech″an‐ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Mechanized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Mechanizing (?).] [Cf. F. méchaniser.] To cause to be mechanical. Shelley.
Mechanograph
Mech″an‐o‐graph (?), n. [Gr. μηχανή machine + -graph.] One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.
Mechanographic
Mech′an‐o‐graph′ic (mĕk′an‐ō̍‐grăf″ĭk), a. 1. Treating of mechanics.2. Written, copied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography; as, a mechanographic record of chang...
Mechanographist
Mech′an‐og″ra‐phist (–ŏg″rȧ‐fĭst), n. An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.
Mechanography
Mech′an‐og″ra‐phy (?), n. The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.
Mechanurgy
Mech″an‐ur′gy (?), n. [Gr. μηχανή machine + the root of � work.] That branch of science which treats of moving machines.
Mechitarist
Mech″i‐tar‐ist (?), n. [From Mechitar, an Armenian., who founded the congregation in the early part of the eighteenth century.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious congregation of ...
Mechlin
Mech″lin (?), n. A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.
Mechoacan
Me‐cho″a‐can (?), n. A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (C. Mechoacan); — so called from Michoacan, in ...
Meckelian
Meck‐e″li‐an (?), a.(Anat.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist.Meckelian cartilage, the cartilaginous rod which forms the axis of the mandible; — ...
Meconate
Mec″o‐nate (?), n. [Cf. F. méconate.] (Chem.) A salt of meconic acid.
Meconic
Me‐con″ic (?), a. [Gr. � belonging to the poppy, fr. � the poppy: cf. F. méconique.] Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid re...
Meconidine
Me‐con″i‐dine (?), n.(Chem.) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.
Meconidium
‖Mec′o‐nid″i‐um (?), n.(Zoöl.) A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyræa. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by...
Meconin
Mec″o‐nin (?), n. [Cf. F. méconine.] (Chem.) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erron...
Meconinic
Mec′o‐nin″ic (?), a.(Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.
Meconium
‖Me‐co″ni‐um (?), n.(Med.) (a) Opium. (b) The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.
Medal
Med″al (?), n. [F. médaille, It. medaglia, fr. L. metallum metal, through (assumed) LL. metalleus made of metal. See Metal, and cf. Mail a piece of money.] A piece of metal in t...