Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 29
Meconium (n.) Opium. [Obs.]
Meconium (n.) The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.
Meconium (n.) Thick dark green mucoid material that is the first feces of a newborn child.
Medal (n.) A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.
Medaled (imp. & p. p.) of Medal.
Medalled () of Medal.
Medaling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Medal.
Medalling () of Medal.
Medal (v. t.) To honor or reward with a medal. "Medaled by the king." -- Thackeray.
Medal (n.) An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon].
Medal (n.) A small metal disk given as a reward for virtues, attainments or services more or less authentic.
It is related of Bismark, who had been awarded a medal for gallantly rescuing a drowning person, that, being asked the meaning of the medal, he replied: "I save lives sometimes." And sometimes he didn't.
Medalet (n.) A small medal.
Medalist (n.) [Written also medallist.] 獎牌設計者；獎牌製作者；得到獎牌的人；獎牌收藏家 A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. -- Addison.
Medalist (n.) A designer of medals. -- Macaulay.
Medalist (n.) One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit ; as, the gold medalist in downhill skiing.
Medallist (n.) Someone who has won a medal [syn: medalist, medallist].
Medallist (n.) (Golf) The winner at medal play of a tournament [syn: medalist, medallist, medal winner].
Medallic (a.) Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals. "Our medallic history." -- Walpole.
Medallion (n.) A large medal or memorial coin.
Medallion (n.) A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.
Medallion (n.) Any of various large ancient Greek coins.
Medallion (n.) A circular helping of food (especially a boneless cut of meat); "medallions of veal".
Medallion (n.) An emblem indicating that a taxicab is registered.
Medallion (n.) An award for winning a championship or commemorating some other event [syn: decoration, laurel wreath, medal, medallion, palm, ribbon].
Medalurgy (n.) The art of making and striking medals and coins. [Written also medallurgy.]
Meddled (imp. & p. p.) of Meddle.
Meddling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Meddle.
Meddle (v. t.) To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
"Wine meddled with gall." -- Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34).
Meddle (v. i.) 干涉；管閒事 [（+in/ with）]；擅自摸弄（別人的物品）[（+with）] To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]
More to know Did never meddle with my thoughts. -- Shak.
Meddle (v. i.) To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- in a good sense. [Obs.] -- Barrow.
Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. -- Tyndale.
Meddle (v. i.) To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in.
Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? -- 2 Kings xiv. 10.
The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. -- Locke.
{To meddle and make}, To intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] -- Shak.
Syn: To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.
Meddle (v.) Intrude in other people's affairs or business; interfere unwantedly; "Don't meddle in my affairs!" [syn: {meddle}, {tamper}].
Meddler (n.) One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
Meddler (n.) An officious annoying person who interferes with others.
Meddlesome (a.) Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Med"dle*some*ness, n.
Meddlesome (a.) Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: interfering, meddlesome, meddling, officious, busy, busybodied].
Meddling (a.) 愛管閒事的；好干涉的 Meddlesome. -- Macaulay.
Meddling (a.) Intrusive in a meddling or offensive manner; "an interfering old woman"; "bustling about self-importantly making an officious nuisance of himself"; "busy about other people's business" [syn: {interfering}, {meddlesome}, {meddling}, {officious}, {busy}, {busybodied}].
Meddling (n.) 干預；瞎管 The act of altering something secretly or improperly [syn: {meddling}, {tampering}].
Meddlingly (adv.) In a meddling manner.
Mede (n.) A native or inhabitant of Media in Asia. "according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not" -- Daniel 6: 8.
Mede (n.) See lst & 2d Mead, and Meed. [Obs.]
Mede, () (Heb. Madai), A Median or inhabitant of Media (Dan. 11:1). In Gen. 10:2 the Hebrew word occurs in the list of the sons of Japheth. But probably this is an ethnic and not a personal name, and denotes simply the Medes as descended from Japheth.
Media (n.) pl. of Medium.
Mediae (n. pl. ) of Media.
Media (n.) (Phonetics) One of the sonant mutes [beta], [delta], [gamma] (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, [pi], [tau], [kappa] (p, t, k), and the aspiratae (aspirates) [phi], [theta], [chi] (ph or f, th, ch). Also called {middle mute}, or {medial}, and sometimes {soft mute}.
Mediacy (n.) The state or quality of being mediate.
Mediaeval (a.) Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediaeval architecture.
Mediaevalism (n.) The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages.
Mediaevalist (n.) One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages.
Mediaevally (adv.) In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance with mediaevalism.
Mediaevals (n. pl.) The people who lived in the Middle Ages.
Medial (a.) Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.
Medial (n.) See 2d Media.
Medialuna (n.) See Half-moon.
Median (a.) Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
Median (a.) (Zool.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.
Median line. (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body.
Median line. (b) (Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any line having the nature of a diameter.
Median plane (Anat.), The mesial plane.
Median point (Geom.), The point where the three median lines of a triangle mutually intersect.
Median (n.) (Geom.) A median line or point.
Median (a.) Relating to or constituting the middle value of an ordered set of values (or the average of the middle two in a set with an even number of values); "the median value of 17, 20, and 36 is 20"; "the median income for the year was $15,000" [syn: median(a), average].
Median (a.) Dividing an animal into right and left halves [syn: medial, median].
Median (a.) Relating to or situated in or extending toward the middle [syn: median, medial]
Median (n.) The value below which 50% of the cases fall [syn: median, median value].
Mediant (n.) (Mus.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
Mediant (n.) (Music) The third note of a diatonic scale; midway between the tonic and the dominant.
Mediastinal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a mediastinum.
Mediastine (n.) Alt. of Mediastinum.
Mediastinum (n.) (Anat.) A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.
Mediated (imp. & p. p.) of Mediate.
Mediating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mediate.
Mediate (v. i.) To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene.
Mediate (v. i.) 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.
Mediate (v. t.) To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.
Mediate (v. t.) To divide into two equal parts. [R.] -- Holder.
Mediate (a.) Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. --Prior.
Mediate (a.) Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.
Mediate (a.) Gained or effected by a medium or condition. -- Bacon.
An act of mediate knowledge is complex. -- Sir W. Hamilton.
Mediate (a.) Acting through or dependent on an intervening agency;
"the disease spread by mediate as well as direct contact" [ant: immediate].
Mediate (a.) Being neither at the beginning nor at the end in a series; "adolescence is an awkward in-between age"; "in a mediate position"; "the middle point on a line" [syn: in-between, mediate, middle].
Mediate (v.) Act between parties with a view to reconciling differences; "He interceded in the family dispute"; "He mediated a settlement" [syn: intercede, mediate, intermediate, liaise, arbitrate].
Mediate (v.) Occupy an intermediate or middle position or form a connecting link or stage between two others; "mediate between the old and the new."
MEDIATE, POWERS. () Those incident to primary powers, given by a principal to his agent. For example, the general authority given to collect, receive and pay debts due by or to the principal is a primary power. In order to accomplish this it is frequently required to settle accounts, adjust disputed claims, resist those which are unjust, and answer and defend suits; these subordinate powers are sometimes called mediate powers. Story, Ag. Sec. 58. See Primary powers, and 1 Camp. R. 43, note 4 Camp. R. 163; 6 S. & R. 149.
Mediately (adv.) In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately.
God worketh all things amongst us mediately. -- Sir W. Raleigh.
The king grants a manor to A, and A grants a portion of it to B. In this case. B holds his lands immediately of A, but mediately of the king. -- Blakstone.
Mediateness (n.) The state of being mediate.
Mediateness (n.) The quality of being mediate [syn: mediacy, mediateness] [ant: immediacy, immediateness].
Mediation (n.) The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.
The soul [acts] by the mediation of these passions. -- South.
Mediation (n.) Hence, specifically, agency between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them; entreaty for another; intercession. -- Bacon.
Mediation (n.) A negotiation to resolve differences that is conducted by some impartial party.
Mediation (n.) The act of intervening for the purpose of bringing about a settlement [syn: mediation, intermediation].
Mediation. () The act of some mutual friend of two contending parties, who brings them to agree, compromise or settle their disputes. Vattel, Droit des Gens, liv. 2, eh. 18, Sec. 328.
Mediative (a.) Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. -- Beaconsfield.
Mediatization (n.) The act of mediatizing.
Mediatized (imp. & p. p.) of Mediatize.
Mediatizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mediatize.
Mediatize (v. t.) To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank.
The misfortune of being a mediatized prince. -- Beaconsfield.
Mediator (n.) One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor.
For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. -- 1 Tim. ii. 5.
Mediator (n.) A negotiator who acts as a link between parties [syn: mediator, go-between, intermediator, intermediary, intercessor].
Mediator, () One who intervenes between two persons who are at variance, with a view to reconcile them. This word is not found in the Old Testament; but the idea it expresses is found in Job 9:33, in the word "daysman" (q.v.), marg., "umpire."
This word is used in the New Testament to denote simply an internuncius, an ambassador, one who acts as a medium of communication between two contracting parties. In this sense Moses is called a mediator in Gal. 3:19.
Christ is the one and only mediator between God and man (1 Tim. 2:5; Heb. 8:6; 9:15; 12:24). He makes reconciliation between God and man by his all-perfect atoning sacrifice. Such a mediator must be at once divine and human, divine, that his obedience and his sufferings might possess infinite worth, and that he might possess infinite wisdom and knowlege and power to direct all things in the kingdoms of providence and grace which are committed to his hands (Matt. 28:18; John 5:22, 25, 26, 27); and human, that in his work he might represent man, and be capable of rendering obedience to the law and satisfying the claims of justice (Heb. 2:17, 18; 4:15, 16), and that in his glorified humanity he might be the head of a glorified Church (Rom. 8:29).
This office involves the three functions of prophet, priest, and king, all of which are discharged by Christ both in his estate of humiliation and exaltation. These functions are so inherent in the one office that the quality appertaining to each gives character to every mediatorial act. They are never separated in the exercise of the office of mediator.
Mediator. () One who interposes between two contending parties, with their consent, for the purpose of assisting them in settling their differences.
Sometimes this term is applied to an officer who is appointed by a sovereign nation to promote the settlement of disputes between two other nations. Vide Minister; Mediator.
Mediatorial (a.) Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office. -- Me`di*a*to"ri*al*ly, adv.
My measures were . . . healing and mediatorial. -- Burke.
Mediatorial (a.) Of or relating to a mediator or the duties of a mediator.
Mediatorship (n.) The office or character of a mediator.
Mediatory (a.) Mediatorial. Mediatress
Mediatory (a.) Of or related to or directed toward mediation.
Mediatress (n.) Alt. of Mediatrix.
Mediatrix (n.) A female mediator.
Medic (n.) (Bot.) A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is Medicago sativa.
Medic (n.) A person who serves to provide medical care.
Medic (n.) Specifically: (Mil.) A member of the medical corps in the military.
Medic (n.) A medical doctor.
Medic (n.) A medical student.
Medic (a.) Medical. [R.]
Medick (n.) Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves. [Also spelled medic.]
Syn: trefoil.
Medic (n.) Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves [syn: medic, medick, trefoil].
Medic (n.) A medical practitioner in the armed forces [syn: medical officer, medic].
Medicable (a.) Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.
Medical (a.) 醫學的；醫術的；醫療的；內科的 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.
Medical (a.) Containing medicine; used in medicine; medicinal; as, the medical properties of a plant.
Medical (a.) Relating to the study or practice of medicine; "the medical profession"; "a medical student"; "medical school."
Medical (a.) Requiring or amenable to treatment by medicine especially as opposed to surgery; "medical treatment"; "pneumonia is a medical disease" [ant: {operative}, {surgical}].
Medical (a.) Of or belonging to Aesculapius or the healing art [syn: {aesculapian}, {medical}].
Medical (n.) 【口】健康檢查 [C] A thorough physical examination; includes a variety of tests depending on the age and sex and health of the person [syn: {checkup}, {medical checkup}, {medical examination}, {medical exam}, {medical}, {health check}].
Medically (adv.) 醫學上地；醫藥上地 In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.
Medically (adv.) Involving medical practice; "medically trained nurses"; "medically correct treatment."
Medicament (n.) 醫藥，藥劑 Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.
Medicament (n.) (medicine) Something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease [syn: {medicine}, {medication}, {medicament}, {medicinal drug}].
Medicamental (a.) (Archaic) Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. -- Med`ica*men"tal*ly, adv.
Medicamental (a.) (Rare) Of the nature of a medicine, medicinal; involving a medicine.
Medicaster (n.) 庸醫 A quack.
Medicated (imp. & p. p.) of Medicate.
Medicating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Medicate.
Medicate (v. t.) To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug. "Medicated waters." -- Arbuthnot.
Medicate (v. t.) To treat with medicine.
Medicate (v.) Impregnate with a medicinal substance
Medicate (v.) Treat medicinally, treat with medicine [syn: medicate, medicine].
Medication () The act or process of medicating.
Medication (n.) (Medicine) Something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease [syn: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug].
Medication (n.) The act of treating with medicines or remedies.
Medicative (a.) Medicinal; acting like a medicine.
Medicative (a.) Having the properties of medicine; "medicative drugs"; "medicinal herbs"; "medicinal properties" [syn: medicative, medicinal].
Medicean (a.) Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.
Medicean planets (Astron.), A name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.
Compare: Medici
Medici (n.) Aristocratic Italian family of powerful merchants and bankers who ruled Florence in the 15th century.
Compare: Aristocratic
Aristocratic (a.) 貴族的；有貴族氣派的；儀態高貴的；贊成貴族的；主張貴族統治的 Of, belonging to, or typical of the aristocracy.
‘An aristocratic family.’
‘A stately, aristocratic manner.’
Compare: Aristocracy
Aristocracy (n.) (Aristocracies) (Treated as singular or plural) (Usually the aristocracy)（總稱）貴族 [the S] [G]；特權階級；上層社會 [the S] [G]；貴族的統治；貴族統治的國家 [U] [C] The highest class in certain societies, typically comprising people of noble birth holding hereditary titles and offices.
‘Members of the aristocracy.’
Aristocracy (n.) A form of government in which power is held by the nobility.
Aristocracy (n.) A state in which governing power is held by the nobility.
Aristocracy (n.) A group regarded as privileged or superior in a particular sphere.
‘Britain's pop aristocracy.’
‘A new aristocracy of talented young people.’
Aristocracy (n.; pl. Aristocracies.) Government by the best citizens.
Aristocracy (n.) A ruling body composed of the best citizens. [Obs.]
In the Senate Right not our quest in this, I will protest them To all the world, no aristocracy. -- B. Jonson.
Aristocracy (n.) A form a government, in which the supreme power is vested in the principal persons of a state, or in a privileged order; an oligarchy.
The aristocracy of Venice hath admitted so many abuses, trough the degeneracy of the nobles, that the period of its duration seems approach. -- Swift.
Aristocracy (n.) The nobles or chief persons in a state; a privileged class or patrician order; (in a popular use) those who are regarded as superior to the rest of the community, as in rank, fortune, or intellect.
Aristocracy (n.) A privileged class holding hereditary titles [syn: nobility, aristocracy].
Aristocracy (n.) The most powerful members of a society [syn: gentry, aristocracy].
Medicean planets (Astron.) 「麥迪奇行星」（木星的衛星） A name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.
Medicinable (a.) 醫藥的 Medicinal; having the power of healing. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Medicinal (a.) 藥的；藥用的；有藥效的 Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.
Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. -- Shak.
Compare: Curative
Curative (a.) 治病的 Able to cure disease.
‘The curative properties of herbs.’
Curative (n.) 醫藥；治療藥 A curative medicine or agent.
Compare: Palliative
Palliative (a.) 緩和的；減輕的；保守（治療）的；掩飾的 (Of a medicine or medical care) Relieving pain without dealing with the cause of the condition.
‘Orthodox medicines tend to be palliative rather than curative.’
Palliative (a.) (Of an action) Intended to alleviate a problem without addressing the underlying cause.
‘Short-term palliative measures had been taken.’
Palliative (n.) 辯解；緩和劑；暫時姑息的手段 A palliative medicine, measure, etc.
‘Antibiotics and other palliatives.’
‘Social projects presented as palliatives for the urban crisis.’
Medicinal (a.) Of or pertaining to medicine; medical.
Medicinal (a.) Having the properties of medicine; "medicative drugs"; "medicinal herbs"; "medicinal properties" [syn: medicative, medicinal].
Medicinally (adv.) 當做藥；用藥物 In a medicinal manner.
Medicine (v. t.) To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure. "Medicine thee to that sweet sleep." -- Shak.
Medicine (n.) The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
Medicine (n.) Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic.
By medicine, life may be prolonged. -- Shak.
Medicine (n.) A philter or love potion. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Medicine (n.) A physician. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Medicine (n.) (a) Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing; also, magical power itself; the potency which a charm, token, or rite is supposed to exert.
The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty. -- F. H. Giddings.
Medicine (n.) (b) Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.
Medicine (n.) Short for Medicine man.
Medicine (n.) Intoxicating liquor; drink. [Slang]
Medicine bag, A charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them.
Medicine man (among the North American Indians), A person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic; a shaman.
Medicine seal, A small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.
Medicine (n.) The branches of medical science that deal with nonsurgical techniques [syn: medicine, medical specialty].
Medicine (n.) (Medicine) something that treats or prevents or alleviates the symptoms of disease [syn: medicine, medication, medicament, medicinal drug].
Medicine (n.) The learned profession that is mastered by graduate training in a medical school and that is devoted to preventing or alleviating or curing diseases and injuries; "he studied medicine at Harvard" [syn: medicine, practice of medicine].
Medicine (n.) Punishment for one's actions; "you have to face the music"; "take your medicine" [syn: music, medicine].
Medicine (v.) Treat medicinally, treat with medicine [syn: medicate, medicine].
Medicine (n.) A stone flung down the Bowery to kill a dog in Broadway.
Medico-legal (a.) Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.
Medicommissure (n.) (Anat.) A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. -- B. G. Wildex.
Medicornua (n. pl. ) of Medicornu.
Medicornu (n.) (Anat.) The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. -- B. G. Wilder.