Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 43
Methysticin (n.) (Chem.) A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; -- called also kanakin.
Metic (n.) (Gr. Antiq.) A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen. -- Mitford.
The whole force of Athens, metics as well as citizens, and all the strangers who were then in the city. -- Jowett (Thucyd. ).
Metic (n.) An alien who paid a fee to reside in an ancient Greek city.
Meticulous (a.) Timid; fearful. [archaic]
Meticulous (a.) Taking great care to get every detail correct; working thoroughly and with precision; as, meticulous workmanship. -- Me*tic"u*lous*ly, adv.
Meticulous (a.) Marked by precise accordance with details; "meticulous research"; "punctilious in his attention to rules of etiquette" [syn: meticulous, punctilious].
Meticulous (a.) Marked by extreme care in treatment of details; "a meticulous craftsman"; "almost worryingly meticulous in his business formalities."
Metif (n.) Alt. of Metive.
Metive (n.) See Metis. Metis
Metis (n.) Alt. of Metisse.
Metisse (n.) The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
Metisse (n.) The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon. [Local, U. S.] -- Bartlett.
Metoche (n.) (Arch.) The space between two dentils.
Metoche (n.) (Arch.) The space between two triglyphs.
Metonic (a.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian.
Metonic year or Metonic cycle. (Astron.) See under Cycle. Metonymic
Metonymic (a.) Alt. of Metonymical.
Metonymical (a.) Used by way of metonymy ; using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated. -- Met`o*nym"ic*al*ly, adv.
Metonymic (a.) Using the name of one thing for that of another with which it is closely associated; "to say `he spent the evening reading Shakespeare' is metonymic because it substitutes the author himself for the author's works" [syn: metonymic, metonymical].
Metonymy (n.) (Rhet.) A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections; a city dweller has no wheels, that is, no automobile.
Metonymy (n.) Substituting the name of an attribute or feature for the name of the thing itself (as in `they counted heads').
Metope (n.) (Arch.) The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.
Metope (n.) (Zool.) The face of a crab.
Note: In the Parthenon, groups of centaurs and heroes in high relief occupy the metopes.
Metopic (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture.
Metopomancy (n.) Fortune telling by physiognomy. [R.] -- Urquhart. Metoposcopic
Metoposcopic (a.) Alt. of Metoposcopical.
Metoposcopical (a.) Of or relating to metoposcopy.
Metoposcopist (n.) One versed in metoposcopy.
Metoposcopy (n.) The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character of persons by their features, or the lines of the face.
Metosteon (n.) (Anat.) The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification.
Compare: Meter
-meter, () A suffix denoting that by which anything is measured; as, barometer, chronometer, dynamometer.
Meter (n.) [From Mete to measure.] One who, or that which, metes or measures. See Coal-meter.
Meter (n.) An instrument for measuring, and usually for recording automatically, the quantity measured.
Dry meter, A gas meter having measuring chambers, with flexible walls, which expand and contract like bellows and measure the gas by filling and emptying.
Wet meter, A gas meter in which the revolution of a chambered drum in water measures the gas passing through it.
Meter (n.) A line above or below a hanging net, to which the net is attached in order to strengthen it. Meter
Meter, Metre (n.) Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter.
The only strict antithesis to prose is meter. -- Wordsworth.
Meter, Metre (n.) A poem. [Obs.] -- Robynson (More's Utopia).
Meter, Metre (n.) A measure of length, equal to 39.37 English inches, the standard of linear measure in the metric system of weights and measures. It was intended to be, and is very nearly, the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the north pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of a meridian. See Metric system, under Metric.
Common meter (Hymnol.), Four iambic verses, or lines, making a stanza, the first and third having each four feet, and the second and fourth each three feet; -- usually indicated by the initials C. M.
Long meter (Hymnol.), Iambic verses or lines of four feet each, four verses usually making a stanza; -- commonly indicated by the initials L. M.
Short meter (Hymnol.), Iambic verses or lines, the first, second, and fourth having each three feet, and the third four feet. The stanza usually consists of four lines, but is sometimes doubled. Short meter is indicated by the initials S. M.
Meter (n.) The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter, metre, m].
Meter (n.) Any of various measuring instruments for measuring a quantity
Meter (n.) (Prosody) The accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence].
Meter (n.) Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration [syn: meter, metre, time].
Meter (v.) Measure with a meter; "meter the flow of water."
Meter (v.) Stamp with a meter indicating the postage; "meter the mail."
Meter, () US spelling of "{metre". (1998-02-07)
Metre (n.) See Meter.
Metre (n.) The basic unit of length adopted under the Systeme International d'Unites (approximately 1.094 yards) [syn: meter, metre, m].
Metre (n.) (Prosody) The accent in a metrical foot of verse [syn: meter, metre, measure, beat, cadence].
Metre (n.) Rhythm as given by division into parts of equal duration [syn: meter, metre, time].
Metre (US "meter") The fundamental SI unit of length.
From 1889 to 1960, the metre was defined to be the distance between two scratches in a platinum-iridium bar kept in the vault beside the Standard Kilogram at the International Bureau of Weights and Measures near Paris.
This replaced an earlier definition as 10^-7 times the distance between the North Pole and the Equator along a meridian through Paris; unfortunately, this had been based on an inexact value of the circumference of the Earth.
From 1960 to 1984 it was defined to be 1650763.73 wavelengths of the orange-red line of krypton-86 propagating in a vacuum.
It is
now defined as the length of the path traveled by light
in a vacuum in the
time interval of 1/299,792,458 of a second. (1998-02-07)
Metre or Meter. () This word is derived from the Greek, and
signifies a measure.
Metre or Meter. () This is the standard of French measure.
Metre or Meter. () The fundamental base of the metre is the quarter of the terrestrial meridian, or the distance from the pole to equator, which has been divided into ten millions of equal parts, one of which is of the length of the metre.
The metre is equal to 3.28 feet, or 39.371 inches. Vide Measure.
Metric (a.) 公尺的；公制的；韻律的；詩韻的 Relating to measurement; involving, or proceeding by, measurement.
Metric (a.) Of or pertaining to the meter as a standard of measurement; of or pertaining to the decimal system of measurement of which a meter is the unit; as, the metric system; a metric measurement.
Metric analysis (Chem.), Analysis by volume; volumetric analysis.
Metric system, See metric system in the vocabulary.
Metric (a.) Based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric system"; "metrical equivalents" [syn: metric, metrical].
Metric (a.) The rhythmic arrangement of syllables [syn: measured, metrical, metric].
Metric (n.) A function of a topological space that gives, for any two points in the space, a value equal to the distance between them [syn: metric function, metric].
Metric (n.) A decimal unit of measurement of the metric system (based on meters and kilograms and seconds); "convert all the measurements to metric units"; "it is easier to work in metric" [syn: metric unit, metric].
Metric (n.) A system of related measures that facilitates the quantification of some particular characteristic [syn: system of measurement, metric].
Software metric
metric
A measure of software quality which indicates the complexity, understandability, testability, description and intricacy of code. (1994-11-16)
Metrical (a.) = metric; Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.
Metrical (a.) Of or pertaining to measurement; as, the inch, foot, yard, etc., are metrical terms; esp., of or pertaining to the metric system.
Compare: Algometer
Algometer (n.) (Psychol.) An instrument for measuring sensations of pain due to pressure. It has a piston rod with a blunted tip which is pressed against the skin. -- Al*gom"e*try, n. -- Al`go*met"ric, *met"ric*al, a. -- Al`go*met"ric*al*ly, adv.
Metrical (a.) Based on the meter as a standard of measurement; "the metric system"; "metrical equivalents" [syn: metric, metrical].
Metrical (a.) The rhythmic arrangement of syllables [syn: measured, metrical, metric].
Metrically (adv.) In a metrical manner.
Metrically (adv.) With regard to meter; "metrically, these poems are matched."
Metrician (n.) A composer of verses. [Obs.]
Metric system () See Metric, a.
Metric system (n.) A system of weights and measures originating in France, the use of which is required by law in many countries, and permitted in many others, including the United States; the system is also called by its French name, Le Syst[`e]me International de Unit['e]s (abbreviated SI). The principal unit of length is the meter (see Meter). From this are formed the are, the liter, the stere, the gram, etc. These units, and others derived from them, are divided decimally, and larger units are formed from multiples by 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000. The successive multiplies are designated by the prefixes, deka- (formerly deca-), hecto-, kilo-, and myria-(seldom used); successive parts by deci-, centi-, and milli-. The prefixes mega- and micro- are used to denote a multiple by one million, and the millionth part, respectively; giga-and nano- denote multiples of one billion (1,000,000,000) and one billionth, respectively. The prefix for one trillion (1012) is tera, and for one trillionth (10-12) is pico; for one quintillion (1015) peta, and for (10-15) (one quintillionth) femto; for (10-18) atto. See the words formed with these prefixes in the Vocabulary. For metric tables, see p. 1682.
Metric system (n.) A decimal system of weights and measures based on the meter and the kilogram and the second.
Metrification (n.) Composition in metrical form; versification. [R.] -- Tennyson.
Metrification (n.) The act or process of converting the standard system of units of a country to those of the metric system;
metrication.
Metrification (n.) Writing a metrical composition (or the metrical structure of a composition).
Metrification (n.) The act of changing from imperial units of measurement to metric units: meters, grams, seconds [syn: metrification, metrication].
Metrify (v. i.) To make verse. [R.] -- Skelton.
Metrify (v.) Compose in poetic meter; "The bard metrified his poems very precisely."
Metrify (v.) Convert from a non-metric to the metric system [syn: metricize, metricise, metrify, metricate]
Metrist (n.) A maker of verses. -- Bale.
Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. -- Lowell.
Metritis (n.) (Med.) Inflammation of the womb.
Metritis (n.) Inflammation of the lining of the uterus (of the endometrium) [syn: metritis, endometritis].
Metrochrome (n.) An instrument for measuring colors.
Metrograph (n.) An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.
Metrological (a.) 度量衡學的 Of or pertaining to metrology.
Metrological (a.) Of or relating to metrology.
Metrology (n.) 度量衡學；度量衡 The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject.
Metrology (n.) The scientific study of measurement.
Metromania (n.) A mania for writing verses.
Metromaniac (n.) One who has metromania.
Metromenorrhagia (n.) [醫] 月經過多 Menometrorrhagia: Excessive uterine bleeding, both at the usual time of menstrual periods and at other irregular intervals. Menometrorrhagia can be a sign of a number of different disorders including hormone imbalance, endometriosis, benign fibroid tumors in the uterus, and, less commonly, cancer. Women who have abnormal menstrual bleeding should always consult their physician to rule out these conditions.
Anemia may result from the excessive uterine bleeding. Treatment depends on the cause. If there does not appear to be a dangerous cause, such as cancer, hormone supplementation, the therapeutic use of birth control pills to better control the menstrual cycle, or fibroid removal (myomectomy) may be recommended.
Hysterectomy may sometimes be required. See also: Menorrhagia; Metrorrhagia.
Metrometer (n.) (Med.) An instrument for measuring the size of the womb. -- Knight.
Metronome (n.) An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.
Metronome (n.) Clicking pendulum indicates the exact tempo of a piece of music.
Metronomy (n.) Measurement of time by an instrument.
Metronymic (a.) Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. -- A metronymic appellation.
Metronymic (n.) A name derived from the name of your mother or a maternal ancestor [syn: matronymic, metronymic].
Metropole (n.) A metropolis. [Obs.] -- Holinshed.
Metropolis (n.) The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
[Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North. -- Tennyson.
Metropolis (n.) (Eccl.) 大主教教區 The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
The great metropolis and see of Rome. -- Shak.
Metropolis (n.) Any large city.
Metropolis (n.) A large and densely populated urban area; may include several independent administrative districts; "Ancient Troy was a great city" [syn: city, metropolis, urban center].
Metropolis (n.) People living in a large densely populated municipality; "the city voted for Republicans in 1994" [syn: city, metropolis].
Metropolis, (n.) A stronghold of provincialism.
Metropolis, IL -- U.S. city in Illinois
Population
(2000): 6482
Housing Units (2000): 3265
Land area (2000): 5.005127 sq. miles (12.963220 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.063759 sq. miles (0.165134 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 5.068886 sq. miles (13.128354 sq. km)
FIPS code: 48645
Located within: Illinois (IL), FIPS 17
Location: 37.153332 N, 88.725374 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 62960
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Metropolis, IL
Metropolis
Metropolis (n.) [ C ] (Formal) 大城市，大都會；首府；首都 A very large city, often the most important city in a large area or country.
// Soon afterwards he left to begin his career in the metropolis.
// A sprawling/ bustling/ modern metropolis.
Metropolitan (a.) 大都市的；（基督教）大主教轄區的；宗主國的；宗主城市的 Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
Metropolitan (a.) (Eccl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. "Bishops metropolitan." -- Sir T. More.
Metropolitan (n.) 大城市人；（常大寫）（基督教的）大主教 The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
Metropolitan (n.) (Lat. Church.) An archbishop.
Metropolitan (n.) (Gr. Church) A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch. as, the metropolitan of Constantinople. -- Hook.
Metropolitan (a.) Relating to or characteristic of a metropolis; "metropolitan area."
Metropolitan (n.) In the Eastern Orthodox Church this title is given to a position between bishop and patriarch; equivalent to archbishop in western Christianity.
Metropolitan (n.) A person who lives in a metropolis.
Metropolitanate (n.) The see of a metropolitan bishop. -- Milman.
Metropolite (n.) A metropolitan. -- Barrow.
Metropolitical (a.) Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair. -- Bp. Hall.
Metrorrhagia (n.) (Med.) Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.
Metrorrhagia (n.) Bleeding from the uterus that is not due to menstruation; usually indicative of disease (as cervical cancer).
Metroscope (n.) A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.
Metrosideros (n.) (Bot.) A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood.
Metrotome (n.) (Surg.) An instrument for cutting or scarifying the uterus or the neck of the uterus.
Metrotomy (n.) (Surg.) The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Caesarean section.
-metry () A suffix denoting the art, process, or science, of measuring; as, acidmetry, chlorometry, chronometry.
Compare: Mete
Mete (v. i. & t.) [imp. Mette; p. p. Met.] To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.] "I mette of him all night." -- Chaucer.
Mette () (Obs.) imp. of Mete, to dream. -- Chaucer.
Mettle (n.) Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense ; as, to test a person's mettle.
A certain critical hour which shall . . . try what mettle his heart is made of. -- South.
Gentlemen of brave mettle. -- Shak.
The winged courser, like a generous horse, Shows most true mettle when you check his course. -- Pope.
To put one one's mettle, To cause or incite one to use one's best efforts.
Mettle (n.) The courage to carry on; "he kept fighting on pure spunk"; "you haven't got the heart for baseball" [syn: heart, mettle, nerve, spunk].
Mettled (a.) Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire. -- Addison.
Mettlesome (a.) 精神抖擻的；精神蓬勃的；勇敢的 Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse. -- {Met"tle*some*ly}, adv. -- {Met"tle*some*ness}, n.
Mettlesome (a.) Having a proud and unbroken spirit.
Mettlesome (a.) Willing to face danger [syn: {game}, {gamy}, {gamey}, {gritty}, {mettlesome}, {spirited}, {spunky}].
Meute (n.) A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1. -- Milman.
Meve (v. t. & i.) To move. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Compare: Spicknel
Spicknel (n.) (Bot.) （開芳香性白花的）傘形科植物 An umbelliferous herb ({Meum Athamanticum) having finely divided leaves, common in Europe; -- called also baldmoney, mew, and bearwort. [Written also spignel.]
Mew (n.) (Zool.) 【鳥】海鷗（尤指歐洲海鷗）[C] A gull, esp. the common British species ({Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
Mewed (imp. & p. p.) of Mew.
Mewing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mew.
Mew (v. t.) To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
Nine times the moon had mewed her horns. -- Dryden.
Mew (v. i.) To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
Now everything doth mew, And shifts his rustic winter robe. -- Turbervile.
Mew (n.) [C] （尤指供鷹換毛時用的）鷹籠；隱居地；密室 A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.
Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. -- Chaucer.
Forthcoming from her darksome mew. -- Spenser.
Violets in their secret mews. -- Wordsworth.
Mew (n.) A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.
Mew (v. t.) 把……關在籠內；把……關起來 [（+up）]；【古】換（羽毛）To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
More pity that the eagle should be mewed. -- Shak.
Close mewed in their sedans, for fear of air. -- Dryden.
Mew (v. i.) 【古】換羽 ；咪咪地叫，喵喵地叫 To cry as a cat. [Written also meaw, meow.] -- Shak.
Mew (n.) 咪，喵（貓的叫聲）[C] The common cry of a cat. -- Shak.
Mew (n.) The sound made by a cat (or any sound resembling this) [syn: meow, mew, miaou, miaow, miaul].
Mew (n.) The common gull of Eurasia and northeastern North America [syn: mew, mew gull, sea mew, Larus canus].
Mew (v.) Cry like a cat; "the cat meowed" [syn: meow, mew].
Mew (v.) Utter a high-pitched cry, as of seagulls.
Mewled (imp. & p. p.) of Mewl.
Mewling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mewl.
Mewl (v. i.) To cry, as a young child; to squall. [Written also meawl.] -- Shak.
Mewler (n.) One that mewls.
Mews (n. sing. & pl.) An alley where there are stables; a narrow passage; a confined place. [Eng.]
Mr. Turveydrop's great room . . . was built out into a mews at the back. -- Dickens. Mexal
Mexal (Sp. mexcal.) Alt. of Mexical.
Mexical (Sp. mexcal.) See {Mescal}.
Mexican (a.) 墨西哥的；墨西哥人的 Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Mexico.
{Mexican poppy} (prop. n.) (Bot.), A tropical American herb of the Poppy family ({Argemone Mexicana}) with much the look of a thistle, but having large yellow or white blossoms.
{Mexican tea} (prop. n.) (Bot.), An aromatic kind of pigweed from tropical America ({Chenopodium ambrosioides}).
Mexican (a.) Of or relating to Mexico or its inhabitants; "Mexican food is hot."
Mexican (n.) 墨西哥人 A native or inhabitant of Mexico.
Mexicanize (prop. v. t.) To cause to be like the Mexicans, or their country.
Note: At one time this word referred to frequent revolutions of government, considered characteristic of Mexican politics.
Mexicanize (v. i.) To become like the Mexicans, or their country or government.
Mexico (n.) (Spanish: México), Officially the United Mexican States (Spanish: Estados Unidos Mexicanos,), 墨西哥合眾國（西班牙語：Estados Unidos Mexicanos,），通稱墨西哥（西班牙語：México），是中美洲的一個聯邦共和制主權國家，北部同美國接壤，南側和西側濱臨太平洋，東南為貝里斯、瓜地馬拉和加勒比海，東部則為墨西哥灣 [13]。其面積達近二百萬平方公里（超過760,000平方英里）[12]，為美洲面積第五大國家和世界面積第十四大國家。其總人口超過1.2億 [14]，為世界第十人口大國，西班牙語世界第一人口大國及拉丁美洲第二人口大國。墨西哥為聯邦國家，包括三十二個州；其首都和最大城市墨西哥城亦為一州。
Is a federal republic in the southernmost portion of North America. It is bordered to the north by the United States; to the south and west by the Pacific Ocean; to the southeast by Guatemala, Belize, and the Caribbean Sea; and to the east by the Gulf of Mexico. [14] Covering almost 2,000,000 square kilometres (770,000 sq mi), [13] the nation is the fifth largest country in the Americas by total area and the 13th largest independent state in the world.
With an estimated population of over 120 million people, [15] the country is the eleventh most populous state and the most populous Spanish-speaking state in the world, while being the second most populous nation in Latin America after Brazil. Mexico is a federation comprising 31 states and Mexico City, a special federal entity that is also the capital city and its most populous city. Other metropolises in the state include Guadalajara, Monterrey, Puebla, Toluca, and Tijuana.
Meyne (n.) [Obs.] Same as Meine.
Mezcal (n.) Same as Mescal.
Mezcal (n.) A small spineless globe-shaped cactus; source of mescal buttons [syn: mescal, mezcal, peyote, Lophophora williamsii].
Mezereon (n.) (Bot.) A small European shrub ({Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine.
Mezquita (n.) [Sp.] A mosque. Mezuzah; Mezuza
Mezuza, Mezuzah, Mezuzoth (n.) A piece of parchment bearing the Decalogue and attached to the doorpost; -- in use among orthodox Hebrews. The term is also used to refer to the small case containing this scroll, together with the biblical inscription inside. The text is usually taken from Deuteronomy 6:4-9 and 11:13-21.
Mezzanine (n.) (Arch.) 夾樓；中層樓；【美】戲院最底層樓廳；【英】舞臺下房間 Same as Entresol.
Mezzanine (n.) (Arch.) A partial story which is not on the same level with the story of the main part of the edifice, as of a back building, where the floors are on a level with landings of the staircase of the main house.
Mezzanine (n.) A flooring laid over a floor to bring it up to some height or level.
Mezzanine (n.) Also mezzanine floor. (Theat.) A floor under the stage, from which various contrivances, as traps, are worked.
Mezzanine (n.) The lowest balcony in a theater, or the forward part of the first balcony.
Mezzanine (n.) First or lowest balcony [syn: {mezzanine}, {first balcony}].
Mezzanine (n.) Intermediate floor just above the ground floor [syn: {mezzanine}, {mezzanine floor}, {entresol}]
Mezza voce () (Mus.) With a medium fullness of sound.
Mezzo (a.) (Mus.) Mean; not extreme.
Mezzo-relievo (n.) Mezzo-rilievo.
Mezzo-relievo (n.) A sculptural relief between low relief and high relief [syn: mezzo-relievo, mezzo-rilievo, half-relief].
Mezzo-rilievo (n.) [It.] A middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief.