MERLON
MER'LON, noun In fortification, that part of a parapet which lies between two embrasures.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MERMAID
MER'MAID, noun [Latin mare, the sea, and maid.] A marine animal, said to resemble a woman in the upper parts of the body, and a fish in the lower part. The male is called the me...
MEROPS
ME'ROPS, noun A genus of birds called bee-eaters.
MERRILY
MER'RILY, adverb [from merry.] With mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. [See Mirth and Merry.]Merrily sing and sport and play.
MERRIMAKE
MER'RIMAKE, noun [merry and make.] A meeting for mirth; a festival; mirth.MER'RIMAKE, verb intransitive To be merry or jovial; to feast.
MERRIMENT
MER'RIMENT, noun Mirth; gayety with laughter or noise; noisy sports; hilarity; frolick.
MERRINESS
MER'RINESS, noun Mirth; gayety with laughter.
MERRY
MER'RY, adjective1. Gay and noisy; jovial; exhilarated to laughter.Man is the merriest species of the creation.They drank and were merry with him. Genesis 43:34.2. Causing laugh...
MERRY-ANDREW
MERRY-AN'DREW, noun A buffoon; a zany; one whose business is to make sport for others.
MERRY-MAKING
MER'RY-MAKING, adjective Producing mirth.Mirth, music, merry-making melodySpeed the light hours no more at Holyrood.
MERRY-MEETING
MER'RY-MEETING, noun A festival; a meeting for mirth.
MERRY-THOUGHT
MER'RY-THOUGHT, noun The forked bone of a fowl's breast, which boys and girls break by pulling each one side; the longest part broken betokening priority of marriage.
MERSION
MER'SION, noun [Latin mersio, from mergo, to dive or sink.]The act of sinking or plunging under water. But immersion is generally used.
MESARAIC
MESARA'IC, adjective [Gr. middle, and intestines.] The same as mesenteric; pertaining to the mesentery.
MESEEMS
MESEE'MS, verb impersonal. [me and seems.] It seems to me. It is used also in the past tense, meseemed.
MESENTERIC
MESENTER'IC, adjective [See Mesentery.] Pertaining to the mesentery; as mesenteric glands or arteries.
MESENTERY
MES'ENTERY, noun [Gr. middle, and intestine.] A fatty membrane placed in the middle of the intestines, and to which they are attached. This prevents them from becoming entangled...
MESH
MESH, noun1. The opening or space between the threads of a net.2. The grains or wash of a brewery.MESH, noun1. The opening or space between the threads of a net.2. The grains or...
MESHY
MESH'Y, adjective Formed like net-work; reticulated.
MESLIN
MES'LIN, noun [Latin miscellaneus, from misceo, to mix.]A mixture of different sorts of grain; in America, a mixture of wheat and rye.
MESNE
MESNE, adjective meen. In law, 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 this case, he is...
MESOCOLON
MES'OCOLON, noun [Gr. middle, and colon.]In anatomy, that part of the mesentery, which, having reached the extremity of the ileum, contracts and changes its name, or that part o...
MESOLEUCYS
MESOLEU'CYS, noun [Gr. middle, and white.]A precious stone with a streak of white in the middle.
MESOLITE
MES'OLITE, noun A mineral of the zeolite family.
MESOLOGARITHM
MESOLOG'ARITHM, noun [Gr. middle, and logarithm.]A logarithm of the co-sines and co-tangents.The former is called by Napier an antilogarithm, the latter a differential.
MESOMELAS
MESOM'ELAS, noun [Gr. middle, and black.] A precious stone with a black vein parting every color in the midst.
MESOTYPE
MES'OTYPE, noun [Gr. middle, and form, type.] Prismatic zeolite; a mineral divided into three subspecies, fibrous zeolite, natrolite, and mealy zeolite. This is said by some wri...