Merge (v. t.) To cause to be swallowed up; to immerse; to sink; to absorb.
Merge (v. i.) To be sunk, swallowed up, or lost.
Merger (n.) One who, or that which, merges.
Merger (n.) An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.
Mericarp (n.) One carpel of an umbelliferous fruit. See Cremocarp.
Meride (n.) A permanent colony of cells or plastids which may remain isolated, like Rotifer, or may multiply by gemmation to form higher aggregates, termed zoides.
Meridian (a.) Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.
Meridian (a.) Pertaining to the highest point or culmination; as, meridian splendor.
Meridian (a.) Midday; noon.
Meridian (a.) Hence: The highest point, as of success, prosperity, or the like; culmination.
Meridian (a.) A great circle of the sphere passing through the poles of the heavens and the zenith of a given place. It is crossed by the sun at midday.
Meridian (a.) A great circle on the surface of the earth, passing through the poles and any given place; also, the half of such a circle included between the poles.
Meridional (a.) Of or pertaining to the meridian.
Meridional (a.) Having a southern aspect; southern; southerly.
Meridionality (n.) The state of being in the meridian.
Meridionality (n.) Position in the south; aspect toward the south.
Meridionally (adv.) In the direction of the meridian.
Merils (n.) A boy's play, called also fivepenny morris. See Morris.
Meringue (n.) A delicate pastry made of powdered sugar and the whites of eggs whipped up, -- with jam or cream added.
Merino (a.) Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain.
Merino (a.) Made of the wool of the merino sheep.
Merinos (pl. ) of Merino
Merino (n.) A breed of sheep originally from Spain, noted for the fineness of its wool.
Merino (n.) A fine fabric of merino wool.
Merismatic (a.) Dividing into cells or segments; characterized by separation into two or more parts or sections by the formation of internal partitions; as, merismatic growth, where one cell divides into many.
Meristem (n.) A tissue of growing cells, or cells capable of further division.
Merit (n.) The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Merit (n.) Esp. in a good sense: The quality or state of deserving well; worth; excellence.
Merit (n.) Reward deserved; any mark or token of excellence or approbation; as, his teacher gave him ten merits.
Merited (imp. & p. p.) of Merit
Meriting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merit
Merit (n.) To earn by service or performance; to have a right to claim as reward; to deserve; sometimes, to deserve in a bad sense; as, to merit punishment.
Merit (n.) To reward.
Merit (v. i.) To acquire desert; to gain value; to receive benefit; to profit.
Meritable (a.) Deserving of reward.
Meritedly (adv.) By merit; deservedly.
Merithal (n.) Alt. of Merithallus
Merithallus (n.) Same as Internode.
Meritmonger (n.) One who depends on merit for salvation.
Meritorious (a.) Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable.
Meritory (a.) Meritorious.
Meritot (n.) A play of children, in swinging on ropes, or the like, till they are dizzy.
Merk (n.) An old Scotch silver coin; a mark or marc.
Merk (n.) A mark; a sign.
Merke (a.) Murky.
Merkin (n.) Originally, a wig; afterwards, a mop for cleaning cannon.
Merl (n.) Alt. of Merle
Merle (n.) The European blackbird. See Blackbird.
Merlin (n.) A small European falcon (Falco lithofalco, or F. aesalon).
Merling (n.) The European whiting.
Merlon (n.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
Merluce (n.) The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.
Mermaid (n.) A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
Mermen (pl. ) of Merman
Merman (n.) The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.
Meroblast (n.) An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.
Meroblastic (a.) Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.
Merocele (n.) Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .
Meroistic (a.) Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.
Meropidan (n.) One of a family of birds (Meropidae), including the bee-eaters.
Meropodite (n.) The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.
Merorganization (n.) Organization in part.
Meros (n.) The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.
Meros (n.) The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.
Merosome (n.) One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.
Merostomata (n. pl.) A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.
Merou (n.) See Jack, 8 (c).
Merovingian (a.) Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France.
Merovingian (n.) One of the kings of this dynasty.
Merrily (adv.) In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.
Merrimake (n.) See Merrymake, n.
Merrimake (v. i.) See Merrymake, v.
Merriment (n.) Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.
Merriness (n.) The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.
Merry (superl.) Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
Merry (superl.) Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
Merry (superl.) Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.
Merry (n.) A kind of wild red cherry.
Merry-andrew (n.) One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.
Merry-go-round (n.) Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.
Merrymake (n.) Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival.
Merrymake (v. i.) To make merry; to be jolly; to feast.
Merrymaker (n.) One who makes merriment or indulges in conviviality; a jovial comrade.
Merrymaking (a.) Making or producing mirth; convivial; jolly.
Merrymaking (n.) The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity.
Merrymeeting (n.) A meeting for mirth.
Merrythought (n.) The forked bone of a fowl's breast; -- called also wishbone. See Furculum.
Mersion (n.) Immersion.
Merulidan (n.) A bird of the Thrush family.
Merus (n.) See Meros.
Mervaille (n.) Marvel.
Mes- () See Meso-.
Mesa (/.) A high tableland; a plateau on a hill.
Mesaconate (n.) A salt of mesaconic acid.
Mesaconic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, one of several isomeric acids obtained from citric acid.
Mesad (adv.) Same as Mesiad.
Mesal (a.) Same as Mesial.
Mesalliance (n.) A marriage with a person of inferior social position; a misalliance.
Mesally (adv.) Same as Mesially.
Mesam/boid (n.) One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.