Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 27
Mazourka (n.) Alt. of Mazurka
Mazurka (n.) A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat.
Mazy (a.) Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.
Me (pron.) One. See Men, pron.
Me (pers. pron.) The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me.
Meach (v. i.) To skulk; to cower. See Mich.
Meacock (n.) An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.
Mead (n.) A fermented drink made of water and honey with malt, yeast, etc.; metheglin; hydromel.
Mead (n.) A drink composed of sirup of sarsaparilla or other flavoring extract, and water. It is sometimes charged with carbonic acid gas.
Mead (n.) A meadow.
Meadow (n.) 草地，牧草地 [C] [U] A tract of low or level land producing grass which is mown for hay; any field on which grass is grown for hay.
Meadow (n.) Low land covered with coarse grass or rank herbage near rives and in marshy places by the sea; as, the salt meadows near Newark Bay.
Meadow (a.) Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow ground." -- Milton.
Note: For many names of plants compounded with meadow, see the particular word in the Vocabulary.
Meadow beauty. (Bot.) Same as Deergrass.
Meadow foxtail (Bot.), A valuable pasture grass ({Alopecurus pratensis) resembling timothy, but with softer spikes.
Meadow hay, A coarse grass, or true sedge, growing in uncultivated swamp or river meadow; -- used as fodder or bedding for cattle, packing for ice, etc. [Local, U. S.]
Meadow hen. (Zool.) (a) The American bittern. See Stake-driver.
Meadow hen. (Zool.) (b) The American coot ({Fulica).
Meadow hen. (Zool.) (c) The clapper rail.
Meadow mouse (Zool.), Any mouse of the genus Arvicola, as the common American species Arvicola riparia; -- called also field mouse, and field vole.
Meadow mussel (Zool.), An American ribbed mussel ({Modiola plicatula), very abundant in salt marshes.
Meadow ore (Min.), Bog-iron ore, a kind of limonite.
Meadow parsnip. (Bot.) See under Parsnip.
Meadow pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
Meadow pipit (Zool.), A small singing bird of the genus Anthus, as Anthus pratensis, of Europe.
Meadow rue (Bot.), A delicate early plant, of the genus Thalictrum, having compound leaves and numerous white flowers. There are many species.
Meadow saffron. (Bot.) See under Saffron.
Meadow sage. (Bot.) See under Sage.
Meadow saxifrage (Bot.), An umbelliferous plant of Europe ({Silaus pratensis), somewhat resembling fennel.
Meadow snipe (Zool.), The common or jack snipe. Meadowgrass
Meadow (n.) A field where grass or alfalfa are grown to be made into hay [syn: hayfield, meadow].
Meadow, () (1.) Heb. ha'ahu (Gen. 41:2, 18), probably an Egyptain word transferred to the Hebrew; some kind of reed or water-plant. In the Revised Version it is rendered "reed-grass", i.e., the sedge or rank grass by the river side.
Meadow, () (2.) Heb. ma'areh (Judg. 20:33), pl., "meadows of Gibeah" (R.V., after the LXX., "Maareh-geba"). Some have adopted the rendering "after Gibeah had been left open." The Vulgate translates the word "from the west."
Meadow, TX -- U.S. town in Texas
Population (2000): 658
Housing Units (2000): 236
Land area (2000): 1.599908 sq. miles (4.143742 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1.599908 sq. miles (4.143742 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47316
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 33.338336 N, 102.207772 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 79345
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meadow, TX
Meadow
Meadow, UT -- U.S. town in Utah
Population (2000): 254
Housing Units (2000): 124
Land area (2000): 0.495077 sq. miles (1.282244 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.495077 sq. miles (1.282244 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48830
Located within: Utah (UT), FIPS 49
Location: 38.886764 N, 112.406698 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Meadow, UT
Meadow
Meadowsweet (n.) Alt. of Meadowwort
Meadowwort (n.) The name of several plants of the genus Spiraea, especially the white- or pink-flowered S. salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous S. Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.
Meadowy (a.) Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.
Meager (a.) Alt. of Meagre
Meagre (a.) 少量的; 粗劣的；瘦削的 Destitue of, or having little, flesh; lean.
Meager were his looks; Sharp misery had worn him to the bones. -- Shak.
Meagre (a.) Destitute of richness, fertility, strength, or the like; defective in quantity, or poor in quality; poor; barren; scanty in ideas; wanting strength of diction or affluence of imagery; as, meager resources; meager fare. Opposite of ample. [Narrower terms: exiguous] [Narrower terms: hardscrabble, marginal] [Narrower terms: measly, miserable, paltry] "Meager soil." -- Dryden.
Syn: meagre, meagerly, scanty.
Of secular habits and meager religious belief. -- I. Taylor.
His education had been but meager. -- Motley.
Meagre (a.) (Min.) Dry and harsh to the touch, as chalk.
Meagre (a.) less than a desirable amount; -- of items distributed from a larger supply.
Syn: scrimpy, skimpy, skimping.
Syn: Thin; lean; lank; gaunt; starved; hungry; poor; emaciated; scanty; barren. Meager
Meager (v. t.) Alt. of Meagre
Meagerly (adv.) Alt. of Meagrely
Meagrely (adv.) Poorly; thinly.
Meagerness (n.) Alt. of Meagreness
Meagreness (n.) The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.
Meagre (v. t.) To make lean. [Obs.]
Meagre (n.) (Zool.) A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or S. aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish. [Written also maigre.]
Meagre (a.) Deficient in amount or quality or extent; "meager resources"; "meager fare" [syn: meager, meagre, meagerly, stingy, scrimpy] [ant: ample].
Meak (n.) A hook with a long handle.
Meaking (n.) The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.
Meal (n.) A part; a fragment; a portion.
Meal (n.) [C] 膳食；一餐；進餐；進餐時間 The portion of food taken at a particular time for the satisfaction of appetite; the quantity usually taken at one time with the purpose of satisfying hunger; a repast; the act or time of eating a meal; as, the traveler has not eaten a good meal for a week; there was silence during the meal.
Meal (n.) [U] （穀，豆類）未經篩過的粗粉 Grain (esp. maize, rye, or oats) that is coarsely ground and unbolted; also, a kind of flour made from beans, pease, etc.; sometimes, any flour, esp. if coarse.
Meal (n.) Any substance that is pulverized like meal, but not granulated.
Meal (v. t.) To with, or as with, meal.
Meal (v. t.) To pulverize; as, mealed powder.
Mealies (n. pl.) Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.
Mealiness (n.) The quality or state of being mealy.
Meal-mouthed (a.) See Mealy-mouthed.
Mealtime (n.) The usual time of eating a meal.
Mealy (a.) Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.
Mealy (a.) Overspread with something that resembles meal; as, the mealy wings of an insect.
Mealy-mouthed (a.) Using soft words; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language.
Mean (v. i.) To have a purpose or intention. [Rare, except in the phrase to mean well, or ill.] -- Shak.
Mean (a.) 吝嗇的，小氣的 [（+about/ over/ with）]；卑鄙的，心地不好的 [（+to）]；【美】【口】脾氣暴躁的，難駕馭的 Destitute of distinction or eminence; common; low; vulgar; humble. "Of mean parentage." -- Sir P. Sidney.
The mean man boweth down, and the great man humbleth himself. -- Is. ii. 9.
Mean (a.) Wanting dignity of mind; low-minded; base; destitute of honor; spiritless; as, a mean motive.
Can you imagine I so mean could prove, To save my life by changing of my love ? -- Dryden.
Mean (a.) Of little value or account; worthy of little or no regard; contemptible; despicable.
The Roman legions and great Caesar found Our fathers no mean foes. -- J. Philips.
Mean (a.) Of poor quality; as, mean fare.
Mean (a.) 吝嗇的 Penurious; stingy; close-fisted; illiberal; as, mean hospitality.
Note: Mean is sometimes used in the formation of compounds, the sense of which is obvious without explanation; as, meanborn, mean-looking, etc.
Syn: Base; ignoble; abject; beggarly; wretched; degraded; degenerate; vulgar; vile; servile; menial; spiritless; groveling; slavish; dishonorable; disgraceful; shameful; despicable; contemptible; paltry; sordid. See Base.
Meant (imp. & p. p.) of Mean
Meaning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mean
Mean (v. t.) To have in the mind, as a purpose, intention, etc.; to intend; to purpose; to design; as, what do you mean to do ?
What mean ye by this service ? -- Ex. xii. 26.
Ye thought evil against me; but God meant it unto good. -- Gen. 1. 20.
I am not a Spaniard To say that it is yours and not to mean it. -- Longfellow.
Mean (v. t.) （言詞等）表示……的意思 [+（that）] To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote.
What mean these seven ewe lambs ? -- Gen. xxi. 29.
Go ye, and learn what that meaneth. -- Matt. ix. 13.
Mean (n.) [S1] 中間，中部；中庸 That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.
But to speak in a mean, the virtue of prosperity is temperance; the virtue of adversity is fortitude. -- Bacon.
There is a mean in all things. -- Dryden.
The extremes we have mentioned, between which the wellinstracted Christian holds the mean, are correlatives. -- I. Taylor.
Mean (n.) (Math.) A quantity having an intermediate value between several others, from which it is derived, and of which it expresses the resultant value; usually, unless otherwise specified, it is the simple average, formed by adding the quantities together and dividing by their number, which is called an arithmetical mean. A geometrical mean is the nth root of the product of the n quantities being averaged.
Mean (n.) That through which, or by the help of which, an end is attained; something tending to an object desired; intermediate agency or measure; necessary condition or coagent; instrument.
Their virtuous conversation was a mean to work the conversion of the heathen to Christ. -- Hooker.
You may be able, by this mean, to review your own scientific acquirements. -- Coleridge.
Philosophical doubt is not an end, but a mean. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Note: In this sense the word is usually employed in the plural form means, and often with a singular attribute or predicate, as if a singular noun.
By this means he had them more at vantage. -- Bacon.
What other means is left unto us. -- Shak.
Mean (n.) pl. Hence: Resources; property, revenue, or the like, considered as the condition of easy livelihood, or an instrumentality at command for effecting any purpose; disposable force or substance.
Your means are very slender, and your waste is great. -- Shak.
Mean (n.) (Mus.) A part, whether alto or tenor, intermediate between the soprano and base; a middle part. [Obs.]
The mean is drowned with your unruly base. -- Shak.
Mean (n.) Meantime; meanwhile. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Mean (n.) A mediator; a go-between. [Obs.] -- Piers Plowman.
He wooeth her by means and by brokage. -- Chaucer.
By all means, Certainly; without fail; as, go, by all means.
By any means, In any way; possibly; at all.
If by any means I might attain to the resurrection of the dead. -- Phil. iii. ll.
By no means, or By no manner of means, Not at all; certainly not; not in any degree.
The wine on this side of the lake is by no means so good as that on the other. -- Addison.
Mean (a.) 中間的，中等的，中庸的 Occupying a middle position; middle; being about midway between extremes.
Being of middle age and a mean stature. -- Sir. P. Sidney.
Mean (a.) Intermediate in excellence of any kind.
According to the fittest style of lofty, mean, or lowly. -- Milton.
Mean (a.) (Math.) Average; having an intermediate value between two extremes, or between the several successive values of a variable quantity during one cycle of variation; as, mean distance; mean motion; mean solar day.
Mean distance (Of a planet from the sun) (Astron.), The average of the distances throughout one revolution of the planet, equivalent to the semi-major axis of the orbit.
Mean error (Math. Phys.), The average error of a number of observations found by taking the mean value of the positive and negative errors without regard to sign.
Mean-square error, or Error of the mean square (Math. Phys.), The error the square of which is the mean of the squares of all the errors; -- called also, mean square deviation, mean error.
Mean line. (Crystallog.) Same as Bisectrix.
Mean noon, Noon as determined by mean time.
Mean proportional (Between two numbers) (Math.), The square root of their product.
Mean sun, A fictitious sun supposed to move uniformly in the equator so as to be on the meridian each day at mean noon.
Mean time, Time as measured by an equable motion, as of a perfect clock, or as reckoned on the supposition that all the days of the year are of a mean or uniform length, in contradistinction from apparent time, or that actually indicated by the sun, and from sidereal time, or that measured by the stars.
Mean (a.) Approximating the statistical norm or average or expected value; "the average income in New England is below that of the nation"; "of average height for his age"; "the mean annual rainfall" [syn: average, mean(a)].
Mean (a.) Characterized by malice; "a hateful thing to do"; "in a mean mood" [syn: hateful, mean].
Mean (a.) Having or showing an ignoble lack of honor or morality; "that liberal obedience without which your army would be a base rabble"- Edmund Burke; "taking a mean advantage"; "chok'd with ambition of the meaner sort"- Shakespeare; "something essentially vulgar and meanspirited in politics" [syn: base, mean, meanspirited].
Mean (a.) Excellent; "famous for a mean backhand".
Mean (a.) Marked by poverty befitting a beggar; "a beggarly existence in the slums"; "a mean hut" [syn: beggarly, mean].
Mean (a.) (Used of persons or behavior) Characterized by or indicative of lack of generosity; "a mean person"; "he left a miserly tip" [syn: mean, mingy, miserly, tight].
Mean (a.) (Used of sums of money) So small in amount as to deserve contempt [syn: beggarly, mean].
Mean (a.) Of no value or worth; "I was caught in the bastardly traffic" [syn: bastardly, mean].
Mean (n.) An average of n numbers computed by adding some function of the numbers and dividing by some function of n [syn: mean, mean value].
Mean (v.) Mean or intend to express or convey; "You never understand what I mean!"; "what do his words intend?" [syn: mean, intend].
Mean (v.) Have as a logical consequence; "The water shortage means that we have to stop taking long showers" [syn: entail, imply, mean].
Mean (v.) Denote or connote; "`maison' means `house' in French"; "An example sentence would show what this word means" [syn: mean, intend, signify, stand for].
Mean (v.) Have in mind as a purpose; "I mean no harm"; "I only meant to help you"; "She didn't think to harm me"; "We thought to return early that night" [syn: intend, mean, think].
Mean (v.) Have a specified degree of importance; "My ex-husband means nothing to me"; "Happiness means everything".
Mean (v.) Intend to refer to; "I'm thinking of good food when I talk about France"; "Yes, I meant you when I complained about people who gossip!" [syn: think of, have in mind, mean].
Mean (v.) Destine or designate for a certain purpose; "These flowers were meant for you".
MEAN. This word is sometimes used for mesne. (q.v.)
Meander (n.) A winding, crooked, or involved course; as, the meanders of the veins and arteries.
Meander (n.) A tortuous or intricate movement.
Meander (n.) Fretwork. See Fret.
Meander (v. t.) To wind, turn, or twist; to make flexuous.
Meandered (imp. & p. p.) of Meander
Meandering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meander
Meander (v. i.) To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.
Meandrian (a.) Winding; having many turns.
Meandrina (n.) A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.
Meandrous (a.) Alt. of Meandry
Meandry (a.) Winding; flexuous.
Meaning (n.) That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.
Meaning (n.) That which is signified, whether by act lanquage; signification; sence; import; as, the meaning of a hint.
Meaning (n.) Sense; power of thinking.
Meaninglessness (n.) 無意義；無目的；無道理 The fact of having no purpose or reason.
// The meaninglessness of existence.
Meaninglessness (n.) The fact of not having a meaning that is easy to understand.
// The rules have been edited and revised to the point of meaninglessness.
Meaninglessness (n.) A message that seems to convey no meaning [syn: nonsense, bunk, nonsensicality, meaninglessness, hokum].
Meaninglessness (n.) The quality of having no value or significance; "he resented the meaninglessness of the tasks they assigned him" [ant: meaningfulness].
Compare: Meaningfulness
Meaningfulness (n.) 有意義；有意味；有意圖 The fact of having a serious or important meaning.
// The meaningfulness of our lives.
Meanly (adv.) 卑賤地；吝嗇地；簡陋地 Moderately.
Compare: Moderately
Moderately (adv.) [As submodifier] 適度地，有節制地；普通地；溫和地；不過度地 To a certain extent; quite; fairly.
‘The event was moderately successful.’
Moderately (adv.) In a moderate manner.
‘Growth continues moderately.’
Moderately (adv.) Within reasonable limits.
‘Both hotels are moderately priced.’
Compare: Submodifier
Submodifier (n.) [Grammar] 次修飾語 An adverb used in front of an adjective or another adverb to modify its meaning, for example very in very cold or unusually in an unusually large house.
Meanly (adv.) 卑賤地；吝嗇地；簡陋地 In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.
Meanness (n.) 卑賤；吝嗇；劣等；惡意的行為 The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.
Meanness (n.) A mean act; as, to be guilty of meanness.
Mean-spirited (a.) Of a mean spirit; base; groveling.
Meant () imp. & p. p. of Mean.
Meantime (n.) 其時，其間 [the S] Alt. of Meanwhile
Meantime, Meanwhile (n.) The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time). Meantime
Meantime, Meanwhile (adv.) 其間；同時 In the intervening time; during the interval.
Meantime (adv.) During the intervening time; "meanwhile I will not think about the problem"; "meantime he was attentive to his other interests"; "in the meantime the police were notified" [syn: meanwhile, meantime, in the meantime].
Meantime (n.) The time between one event, process, or period and another; "meanwhile the socialists are running the government" [syn: interim, meantime, meanwhile, lag].
Meanwhile (n.) 其時，其間 [the S] The intervening time; as, in the meantime (or mean time).
Meantime (adv.) Alt. of Meanwhile
Meanwhile (adv.) 其間；同時 In the intervening time; during the interval.
Mear (n.) 亦作 mere. [英方] 分界線；界碑 A boundary. See Mere.
Mease (n.) Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings.
Measelry (n.) Leprosy.
Measle (n.) A leper.
Measle (n.) A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.
Measled (a.) Infected or spotted with measles, as pork.
Measles (n.) 麻疹，風疹，包蟲病，痧子 Leprosy; also, a leper.
Measles (n.) 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.
Measles (n.) A disease of cattle and swine in which the flesh is filled with the embryos of different varieties of the tapeworm.
Measles (n.) A disease of trees.
Measles (n.) The larvae of any tapeworm (Taenia) in the cysticerus stage, when contained in meat. Called also bladder worms.
Measly (a.) Infected with measles.
Measly (a.) Containing larval tapeworms; -- said of pork and beef.
Measly (a.) (Informal) 少（或小）得可憐的，微不足道的 Too small in size or amount, or not enough.
// A measly amount of money.
// A measly little present.
Measurable (a.) Capable of being measured; susceptible of mensuration or computation.
Measurable (a.) 可測量的；顯著的 Able to be measured, or large enough to be noticed.
// The service produces clear, measurable benefits to people's health.