Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 39
Mesophyllum (n.) (Bot.) The parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces. -- Gray.
Mesophyllum (n.) (Bot.) Mesophyll.
Compare: Mesophyll
Mesophyll (n.) 葉肉組織 The parenchyma between the epidermal layers of a foliage leaf.
Mesophyllic (a.) [varients] or Mesophyllous.
Mesoplast (n.) (Biol.) The nucleus of a cell; mesoblast. -- Agassiz.
Mesopodial (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mesopodialia or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
Mesopodialia (n. pl. ) of Mesopodiale.
Mesopodiale (n.) (Anat.) One of the bones of either the carpus or tarsus.
Mesopodium (n.) (Zool.) The middle portion of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.
Mesopterygium (n.) (Anat.) The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes. -- Me*sop`ter*yg"i*al, a.
Mesorchium (n.) (Anat.) The fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.
Mesorectum (n.) (Anat.) The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum. -- Mes`o*rec"tal, a.
Mesorhine (a.) (Anat.) Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.
Mesosauria (n.) Same as Mosasauria.
Mesoscapula (n.) (Anat.) A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.
Mesoscapular (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.
Mesoscutum (n.) (Zool.) The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.
Mesoseme (a.) (Anat.) Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.
Mesosiderite (n.) (Min.) See the Note under Meteorite.
Mesosperm (n.) (Bot.) A membrane of a seed. See Secundine.
Mesostate (n.) (Physiol.) A product of metabolic action.
Note: Every mesostate is either an anastate or katastate, according as it is formed by an anabolic or katabolic process. See Metabolism.
Mesosternal (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.
Mesosternum (n.) (Anat.) The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.
Mesosternum (n.) (Zool.) The ventral piece of the middle segment of the thorax in insects.
Mesotartaric (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid. It is an optically inactive stereoisomer of tartaric acid due to internal compensation of the rotatory activity of the two asymmetric centers; it has a plane of symmetry in the molecule.
Mesotheca (n.) (Zool.) The middle layer of the gonophore in the Hydrozoa.
Mesothelium (n.) (Biol.) 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[oe]lum.
Mesothelium (n.) Epithelium originating in the embryonic mesoderm; lines the primordial body cavity.
Mesothoracic (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.
Mesothorax (n.) (Zool.) The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
Mesotrochal (a.) (Zool.) Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvae of certain marine annelids.
Mesotype (n.) (Min.) An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.
Mesoarium (n.) (Anat.) The fold of
peritoneum which suspends the ovary from the dorsal wall of the body cavity;
the mesovarium.
Mesovarium (n.)
(Anat.) The fold of peritoneum which suspends the ovary from the dorsal
wall of the body cavity; the mesovarium.
Mesovarium (n.) (Anat.) The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.
Mesoxalate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of mesoxalic acid.
Mesoxalic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.
Mesozoa (n. pl.) (Zool.) A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata.
They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata.
Mesozoic (a.) (Geol.) Belonging, or relating, to the secondary or reptilian age, or the era between the Paleozoic and Cenozoic. See Chart of Geology.
Mesozoic (n.) The Mesozoic age or formation.
Mesozoic (a.) Of or relating to or denoting the Mesozoic era.
Mesozoic (n.) From 230 million to 63 million years ago [syn: Mesozoic, Mesozoic era, Age of Reptiles].
Mesprise (n.) Contempt; scorn. [Obs.]
Mesprise (n.) Misadventure; ill-success. [Obs.] -- Spenser. Mesquite
Mesquite (n.) Alt. of Mesquit.
Mesquit (n.) (Bot.) Aany of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the southwestern part of North America belonging to the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large sugar-rich pods, especially the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.
Honey mesquite. See Algaroba (b).
Screw-pod mesquite, A smaller tree ({Prosopis pubescens">Screw-pod mesquite, a smaller tree ({Prosopis pubescens), having spiral pods used as fodder and sometimes as food by the Indians.
Mesquite grass, A rich native grass in Western Texas ({Bouteloua oligostachya, and other species); -- so called from its growing in company with the mesquite tree; -- called also muskit grass, grama grass.
Mesquite (n.) Any of several small spiny trees or shrubs of the genus Prosopis having small flowers in axillary cylindrical spikes followed by large pods rich in sugar [syn: mesquite, mesquit].
Mesquite, NV -- U.S. city in Nevada
Population (2000): 9389
Housing Units (2000): 4442
Land area (2000): 15.309435 sq. miles (39.651253 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.335395 sq. miles (0.868670 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 15.644830 sq. miles (40.519923 sq. km)
FIPS code: 46000
Located within: Nevada (NV), FIPS 32
Location: 36.802582 N, 114.082168 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mesquite, NV
Mesquite
Mesquite, NM -- U.S. Census Designated Place in New Mexico
Population (2000): 948
Housing Units (2000): 276
Land area (2000): 0.825660 sq. miles (2.138450 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.825660 sq. miles (2.138450 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48270
Located within: New Mexico (NM), FIPS 35
Location: 32.162976 N, 106.693434 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 88048
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mesquite, NM
Mesquite
Mesquite, TX -- U.S. city in Texas
Population (2000): 124523
Housing Units (2000): 46245
Land area (2000): 43.415940 sq. miles (112.446764 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.048415 sq. miles (0.125395 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 43.464355 sq. miles (112.572159 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47892
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 32.782878 N, 96.609862 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 75149 75150 75181 75182
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mesquite, TX
Mesquite
Mess (n.) Mass; church service. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Mess (n.) 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.
At their savory dinner set Of herbs and other country messes. -- Milton.
Mess (n.) 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. -- Shak.
Mess (n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner. [Obs.] -- Latimer.
Mess (n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking. [U.S.]
Mess (n.) A disagreeable mixture or confusion of things; hence, a situation resulting from blundering or from misunderstanding; as, he made a mess of it. [Colloq.]
Messed (imp. & p. p.) of Mess.
Messing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of
Mess.
Mess (v. i.) To take meals with a mess; to belong to a mess; to
eat (with others); as, I mess with the wardroom officers. -- Marryat.
Mess (v. t.) To supply with a mess.
Mess (v. t.) To make a mess[5] of; to disorder or muddle; to muss; to jumble; to disturb; to mess up.
It was n't right either to be messing another man's sleep. -- Scribner's Mag.
Mess (n.) A state of confusion and disorderliness; "the house was a mess"; "she smoothed the mussiness of the bed" [syn: mess, messiness, muss, mussiness].
Mess (n.) Informal terms for a difficult situation; "he got into a terrible fix"; "he made a muddle of his marriage" [syn: fix, hole, jam, mess, muddle, pickle, kettle of fish].
Mess (n.) Soft semiliquid food; "a mess of porridge."
Mess (n.) A meal eaten in a mess hall by service personnel.
Mess (n.) A (large) military dining room where service personnel eat or relax [syn: mess, mess hall].
Mess (n.) (Often followed by `of') A large number or amount or extent; "a batch of letters"; "a deal of trouble"; "a lot of money"; "he made a mint on the stock market"; "see the rest of the winners in our huge passel of photos"; "it must have cost plenty"; "a slew of journalists"; "a wad of money" [syn: batch, deal, flock, good deal, great deal, hatful, heap, lot, mass, mess, mickle, mint, mountain, muckle, passel, peck, pile, plenty, pot, quite a little, raft, sight, slew, spate, stack, tidy sum, wad].
Mess (v.) Eat in a mess hall.
Mess (v.) Make a mess of or create disorder in; "He messed up his room" [syn: mess, mess up].
Mess, () A portion of food given to a guest (Gen. 43:34; 2 Sam. 11:8).
Message (n.) Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.
Ehud said, I have a message from God unto thee. -- Judg. iii. 20.
Message (n.) Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message.
Message shell. See Shell.
Message (v. t.) To bear as a message. [Obs.]
Message (n.) A messenger. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Message (n.) A communication (usually brief) that is written or spoken or signaled; "he sent a three-word message."
Message (n.) What a communication that is about something is about [syn: message, content, subject matter, substance].
Message (v.) Send a message to; "She messaged the committee."
Message (v.) Send as a message; "She messaged the final report by fax."
Message (v.) Send a message; "There is no messaging service at this company."
Message, () In object-oriented programming sending a message to an object (to invoke a method) is equivalent to calling a procedure in traditional programming languages, except that the actual code executed may only be selected at run time depending on the class of the object. Thus, in response to the message "drawSelf", the method code invoked would be different if the target object were a circle or a square. (1995-02-16)
Messager (n.) [OE.] A messenger. [Obs.]
Messenger (n.) 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.
Messenger (n.) One who, or that which, foreshows, or foretells.
Yon gray lines That fret the clouds are messengers of day. -- Shak.
Messenger (n.) (Naut.) 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.
Messenger (n.) (Law) 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. -- Bouvier. Tomlins.
Syn: Carrier; intelligencer; courier; harbinger; forerunner; precursor; herald.
Messenger bird, The secretary bird, from its swiftness.
Messenger (n.) A person who carries a message [syn: messenger, courier].
Messenger, () (Heb. mal'ak, Gr. angelos), an angel, a messenger who runs on foot, the bearer of despatches (Job 1:14; 1 Sam. 11:7; 2 Chr. 36:22); swift of foot (2 Kings 9:18).
Messenger. () A person appointed to perform certain duties, generally of a ministerial character.
Messenger. () In England, a messenger appointed under the bankrupt laws, is an officer who is authorized to execute the lawful commands of commissioners of bankrupts.
Messet (n.) A dog. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.]
Messiad (n.) A German epic poem on the Messiah, by Klopstock.
Compare: Ghost dance
Ghost dance, () A religious dance of the North American Indians, participated in by both sexes, and looked upon as a rite of invocation the purpose of which is, through trance and vision, to bring the dancer into communion with the unseen world and the spirits of departed friends. The dance is the chief rite of the Ghost-dance, or Messiah, Religion, Which originated about 1890 in the doctrines of the Piute Wovoka, the Indian Messiah, who taught that the time was drawing near when the whole Indian race, the dead with the living, should be reunited to live a life of millennial happiness upon a regenerated earth. The religion inculcates peace, righteousness, and work, and holds that in good time, without warlike intervention, the oppressive white rule will be removed by the higher powers. The religion spread through a majority of the western tribes of the United States, only in the case of the Sioux, owing to local causes, leading to an outbreak.
Ghost dance (n.) A religious dance of Native Americans looking for communication with the dead.
Messiah (n.) 彌賽亞 The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.
And told them the Messiah now was born. -- Milton.
Messiah (n.) Any expected deliverer [syn: messiah, christ].
Messiah (n.) Jesus Christ; considered by Christians to be the promised deliverer.
Messiah (n.) The awaited king of the Jews; the promised and expected deliverer of the Jewish people.
Messiah (n.) An oratorio composed by Handel in 1742.
Messiah, () (Heb. mashiah), in all the thirty-nine instances of its occurring in the Old Testament, is rendered by the LXX. "Christos." It means anointed. Thus priests (Ex. 28:41; 40:15; Num. 3:3), prophets (1 Kings 19:16), and kings (1 Sam. 9:16; 16:3; 2 Sam. 12:7) were anointed with oil, and so consecrated to their respective offices. The great Messiah is anointed "above his fellows" (Ps. 45:7); i.e., he embraces in himself all the three offices. The Greek form "Messias" is only twice used in the New Testament, in John 1:41 and 4:25 (R.V., "Messiah"), and in the Old Testament the word Messiah, as the rendering of the Hebrew, occurs only twice (Dan 9:25, 26; R.V., "the anointed one").
The first great promise (Gen. 3:15) contains in it the germ of all the prophecies recorded in the Old Testament regarding the coming of the Messiah and the great work he was to accomplish on earth.
The prophecies became more definite and fuller as the ages rolled on; the light shone more and more unto the perfect day. Different periods of prophetic revelation have been pointed out, (1) the patriarchal; (2) the Mosaic; (3) the period of David; (4) the period of prophetism, i.e., of those prophets whose works form a part of the Old Testament canon. The expectations of the Jews were thus kept alive from generation to generation, till the "fulness of the times," when Messiah came, "made of a woman, made under the law, to redeem them that were under the law." In him all these ancient prophecies have their fulfilment. Jesus of Nazareth is the Messiah, the great Deliverer who was to come. (Comp. Matt. 26:54; Mark 9:12; Luke 18:31; 22:37; John 5:39; Acts 2; 16:31; 26:22, 23.)
Messiah, () Anointed.
Messiahship (n.) The state or office of the Messiah.
Messiahship (n.) The position of messiah.
Messiahship (n.) (pl. Messiahships) Having the position of, or being ordained by God as messiah.
Messiahship (n.) His miracles furnished evidence of Jesus' claim of messiahship.
Messianic (a.) Of or relating to the Messiah; as, the Messianic office or character.
Messias (n.) The Messiah.
Messidor (n.) The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendEmiaire.
Messieurs (n. pl.) Sirs; gentlemen; -- abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of Mr.
Messinese (a.) Of or pertaining to Messina, or its inhabitans.
Messmate (n.) （軍隊中）同膳伙伴 An associate in a mess.
Messmate (n.) (Nautical) An associate with whom you share meals in the same mess (as on a ship).
Compare: Nautical
Nautical (a.) 海上的；船員的；船舶的；航海的 Of or concerning navigation, sailors, or the sea; maritime.
‘Nautical charts.’
Messuage (n.) A dwelling house, with the adjacent buildings and curtilage, and the adjoining lands appropriated to the use of the household.
Mest (a.) Most.
Mestee (n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies.
Mester (n.) See Mister, a trade.
Mestinos (n. pl. ) of Mestino.
Mestino (n.) See Mestizo.
Mestizos (n. pl. ) of Mestizo.
Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. [Spanish America]
Mestizo wool, Wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.
Mestizo (n.) A person of mixed racial ancestry (especially mixed European and Native American ancestry) [syn: mestizo, ladino].
Mestling (n.) A kind of brass. See Maslin. [Obs.]
Mesymnicum (n.) (Anc. Poetry) A repetition at the end of a stanza.
Met () imp. & p. p. of Meet.
Met () imp. & p. p. of Mete, to measure. -- Chapman.
Met () p. p. of Mete, to dream. -- Chaucer. Meta
Meta- () Alt. of Met-.
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.
Met- () (Chem.) A prefix denoting: Other; duplicate, corresponding to; resembling; hence, metameric; as, meta-arabinic, metaldehyde.
Met- () (Organic Chem.) 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-.
Met- () (Inorganic Chem.) Having less than the highest number of hydroxyl groups; -- said of acids; as, metaphosphoric acid. Also used adjectively.
Met- () A prefix meaning at a level above, as in metaphysics, metalanguage.
MET, () Memory Enhancement Technology (HP), "Met."
MET, () Micro Exposure Tool (Intel, EuropeV).
MET, () Middle European Time [+0100] (TZ, CET, METDST, MEZ)
Metabases (n. pl. ) of Metabasis.
Metabasis (n.) (Rhet.) A transition from one subject to another.
Metabasis (n.) (Med.) Same as Metabola. Metabola
Metabola (n.) Alt. of Metabole.
Metabole (n.) (Med.) A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment. Metabola
Metabola (n. pl.) Alt. of Metabolia.
Metabolia (n. pl.) (Zool.) A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.
Metabolian (n.) (Zool.) An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.
Metabolic (a.) (Biol.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
Metabolic (a.) (Physiol.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.
Metabolic (a.) Of or relating to metabolism; "metabolic rate".
Metabolic (a.) Undergoing metamorphosis [syn: metabolic, metabolous] [ant: ametabolic, ametabolous].
Metabolisis (n.) [NL.] Metabolism. [R.]
Metabolism (n.) (Physiol.) 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 ({catabolism).
Metabolism (n.) (Biol.) The series of chemical changes which take place in an organism, by means of which food is manufactured and utilized and waste materials are eliminated.
Metabolism (n.) The marked and rapid transformation of a larva into an adult that occurs in some animals [syn: metamorphosis, metabolism].
Metabolism (n.) The organic processes (in a cell or organism) that are necessary for life [syn: metabolism, metabolic process].
Metabolite (n.) (Physiol Chem.) A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.
Metabolite (n.) Any substance involved in metabolism (either as a product of metabolism or as necessary for metabolism).
Metabolize (v. t. & i.) (Physiol.) To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.
Metabolize (v.) Produce by metabolism [syn: metabolize, metabolise].
Metabranchial (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.