Mesophyllum (n.) The parenchyma of a leaf between the skin of the two surfaces.
Mesoplast (n.) The nucleus of a cell; mesoblast.
Mesopodial (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesopodialia or to the parts of the limbs to which they belong.
Mesopodialia (pl. ) of Mesopodiale
Mesopodiale (n.) One of the bones of either the carpus or tarsus.
Mesopodium (n.) The middle portion of the foot in the Gastropoda and Pteropoda.
Mesopterygium (n.) The middle one of the three principal basal cartilages in the fins of fishes.
Mesorchium (n.) The fold of peritoneum which attaches the testis to the dorsal wall of the body cavity or scrotal sac.
Mesorectum (n.) The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum.
Mesorhine (a.) Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.
Mesosauria (n.) Same as Mosasauria.
Mesoscapula (n.) A process from the middle of the scapula in some animals; the spine of the scapula.
Mesoscapular (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesoscapula.
Mesoscutum (n.) The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.
Mesoseme (a.) Having a medium orbital index; having orbits neither broad nor narrow; between megaseme and microseme.
Mesosiderite (n.) See the Note under Meteorite.
Mesosperm (n.) A membrane of a seed. See Secundine.
Mesostate (n.) A product of metabolic action.
Mesosternal (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesosternum.
Mesosternum (n.) The middle portion, or body, of the sternum.
Mesosternum (n.) The ventral piece of the middle segment of the thorax in insects.
Mesotartaric (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid called also inactive tartaric acid.
Mesotheca (n.) The middle layer of the gonophore in the Hydrozoa.
Mesothelium (n.) 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/lum.
Mesothoracic (a.) Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.
Mesothorax (n.) The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.
Mesotrochal (a.) Having the middle of the body surrounded by bands of cilia; -- said of the larvae of certain marine annelids.
Mesotype (n.) An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.
Mesovarium (n.) The fold of peritoneum connecting the ovary with the wall of the abdominal cavity.
Mesoxalate (n.) A salt of mesoxalic acid.
Mesoxalic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid, CH2O2(CO2H)2, obtained from amido malonic acid.
Mesozoa (n. pl.) A group of very lowly organized, wormlike parasites, including the Dicyemata. They are found in cephalopods. See Dicyemata.
Mesozoic (a.) 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.
Mesprise (n.) Contempt; scorn.
Mesprise (n.) Misadventure; ill-success.
Mesquite (n.) Alt. of Mesquit
Mesquit (n.) A name for two trees of the southwestern part of North America, the honey mesquite, and screw-pod mesquite.
Mess (n.) Mass; church service.
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.
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.
Mess (n.) A set of four; -- from the old practice of dividing companies into sets of four at dinner.
Mess (n.) The milk given by a cow at one milking.
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.
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.
Mess (v. t.) To supply with a mess.
Message (n.) Any notice, word, or communication, written or verbal, sent from one person to another.
Message (n.) Hence, specifically, an official communication, not made in person, but delivered by a messenger; as, the President's message.
Message (v. t.) To bear as a message.
Message (n.) A messenger.
Messager (n.) A messenger.
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.
Messenger (n.) 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.) 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.
Messet (n.) A dog.
Messiad (n.) A German epic poem on the Messiah, by Klopstock.
Messiah (n.) The expected king and deliverer of the Hebrews; the Savior; Christ.
Messiahship (n.) The state or office of the Messiah.
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.) An associate in a mess.
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 (pl. ) of Mestino
Mestino (n.) See Mestizo.
Mestizos (pl. ) of Mestizo
Mestizo (n.) The offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock.
Mestling (n.) A kind of brass. See Maslin.
Mesymnicum (n.) A repetition at the end of a stanza.
Met () imp. & p. p. of Meet.
Met () imp. & p. p. of Mete, to measure.
Met () p. p. of Mete, to dream.
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- () Other; duplicate, corresponding to; resembling; hence, metameric; as, meta-arabinic, metaldehyde.
Met- () 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- () Having less than the highest number of hydroxyl groups; -- said of acids; as, metaphosphoric acid. Also used adjectively.
Metabases (pl. ) of Metabasis
Metabasis (n.) A transition from one subject to another.
Metabasis (n.) Same as Metabola.
Metabola (n.) Alt. of Metabole
Metabole (n.) A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.
Metabola (n. pl.) Alt. of Metabolia
Metabolia (n. pl.) A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.
Metabolian (n.) An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.
Metabolic (a.) Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
Metabolic (a.) Of or pertaining to metabolism; as, metabolic activity; metabolic force.
Metabolisis (n.) Metabolism.
Metabolism (n.) 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 (katabolism).
Metabolite (n.) A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.
Metabolize (v. t. & i.) To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.
Metabranchial (a.) Of or pertaining to the lobe of the carapace of crabs covering the posterior branchiae.