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METALLURGIC, a. [See Metallurgy.] Pertaining to metallurgy, or the art of working metals. NWAD METALLURGIC.1
METALLURGIST, n. One whose occupation is to work metals, or to purify, refine and prepare metals for use. NWAD METALLURGIST.1
METALLURGY, n. [Gr. metal, and work.] The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining and parting them. Gilding is also a branch of metallurgy. But in a more limited and usual sense, metallurgy is the operation of separating metals from their ores. NWAD METALLURGY.1
The French include in metallurgy the art of drawing metals from the earth. NWAD METALLURGY.2
METALMAN, n. A worker in metals; a coppersmith or tinman. NWAD METALMAN.1
Changing the form; transforming. NWAD METAMORPHIC.2
METAMORPHOSE, v.t. [Gr. over, beyond, and form.] To change into a different form; to transform; particularly, to change the form of insects, as from the larva to a winged animal. The ancients pretended that Jupiter was metamorphosed into a bull, and Lycaon into a wolf. NWAD METAMORPHOSE.1
And earth was metamorphosed into man. NWAD METAMORPHOSE.2
METAMORPHOSER, n. One that transforms or changes the shape. NWAD METAMORPHOSER.1
METAMORPHOSING, ppr. Changing the shape. NWAD METAMORPHOSING.1
METAMORPHOSIS, n. Change of form or shape; transformation; particularly, a change in the form of being; as the metamorphosis of an insect from the aurelia or chrysalis state into a winged animal. NWAD METAMORPHOSIS.1
1. Any change of form or shape. NWAD METAMORPHOSIS.2
METAMORPHOSTICAL, a. Pertaining to or effected by metamorphosis. NWAD METAMORPHOSTICAL.1
METAPHOR, n. [Gr. to transfer, over, to carry.] A short similitude; a similitude reduced to a single word; or a word expressing similitude without the signs of comparison. Thus “that man is a fox,” is a metaphor; but “that man is like a fox,” is a similitude or comparison. So when I say, “the soldiers fought like lions,” I use a similitude. In metaphor, the similitude is contained in the name; a man is a fox, means, a man is as crafty as a fox. So we say, a man bridles his anger, that is, restrains it as a bridle restrains a horse. Beauty awakens love or tender passions; opposition fires courage. NWAD METAPHOR.1
METAPHORIC, METAPHORICAL, a. Pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; as a metaphorical use of words; a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense. NWAD METAPHORIC.1
METAPHORICALLY, adv. In a metaphorical manner; not literally. NWAD METAPHORICALLY.1
METAPHORIST, n. One that makes metaphors. NWAD METAPHORIST.1
METAPHRASE, n. [Gr. over, according to or with, and phrase.] NWAD METAPHRASE.1
A verbal translation; a version or translation or one language into another, word for word. NWAD METAPHRASE.2
METAPHRAST, n. A person who translates from one language into another, word for word. NWAD METAPHRAST.1
METAPHRASTIC, a. Close or literal in translation. NWAD METAPHRASTIC.1
METAPHYSIC, METAPHYSICAL, a. s as z. [See Metaphysics.] NWAD METAPHYSIC.1
1. Pertaining or relating to metaphysics. NWAD METAPHYSIC.2
2. According to rules or principles of metaphysics; as metaphysical reasoning. NWAD METAPHYSIC.3
3. Preternatural or supernatural. [Not used.] NWAD METAPHYSIC.4
METAPHYSICALLY, adv. In the manner of metaphysical science. NWAD METAPHYSICALLY.1
METAPHYSICIAN, n. s as z. One who is versed in the science of metaphysics. NWAD METAPHYSICIAN.1
METAPHYSICS, n. s as z. [Gr. after, and physics. It is said that this name was given to the science by Aristotle or his followers, who considered the science of natural bodies, physics, as the first in the order of studies, and the science of mind or intelligence to be the second.] NWAD METAPHYSICS.1
The science of the principles and causes of all things existing; hence, the science of mind or intelligence. This science comprehends ontology, or the science which treats of the nature, essence, and qualities or attributes of being; cosmology, the science of the world, which treats of the nature and laws of matter and of motion; anthroposophy, which treats of the power of man, and the motions by which life is produced; psychology, which treats of the intellectual soul; pneumatology, or the science of spirits or angels, etc. Metaphysical theology, called by Leibnitz and others theodicy, treats of the existence of God, his essence and attributes. These divisions of the science of metaphysics, which prevailed in the ancient schools, are now not much regarded. The natural division of things that exist is into body and mind, things material and immaterial. The former belong to physics, and the latter to the science of metaphysics. NWAD METAPHYSICS.2
METAPLASM, n. [Gr. transformation; over, and to form.] NWAD METAPLASM.1
In grammar, a transmutation or change made in a word by transposing or retrenching a syllable or letter. NWAD METAPLASM.2
METASTASIS, n. [Gr. mutation; over, and to place.] A translation or removal of a disease form one part to another, or such an alteration as is succeeded by a solution. NWAD METASTASIS.1
METATARSAL, a. [from metatarsus.] Belonging to the metatarsus. NWAD METATARSAL.1
METATARSUS, n. [Gr. beyond, and tarsus.] The middle of the foot, or part between the ankle and the toes. NWAD METATARSUS.1
METATHESIS, n. [Gr. over, and to set.] NWAD METATHESIS.1
1. Transposition; a figure by which the letters or syllables of a word are transposed; as pistris for pristis. NWAD METATHESIS.2
2. In medicine, a change or removal of a morbid cause, without expulsion. NWAD METATHESIS.3
METE, v.t. [L. metior; Heb. to measure.] To measure; to ascertain quantity, dimensions or capacity by any rule or standard. [Obsolescent.] NWAD METE.1
METE, n. Measure; limit; boundary; used chiefly in the plural, in the phrase, metes and bounds. NWAD METE.2
METEMPSYCHOSE, v.t. To translate from one body to another, as the soul. NWAD METEMPSYCHOSE.1
METEMPSYCHOSIS, n. [Gr. beyond, and animation, life; to animate.] NWAD METEMPSYCHOSIS.1
Transmigration; the passing of the soul of a man after death into some other animal body. Pythagoras and his followers held that after death the soul of men pass into other bodies, and this doctrine still prevails in some parts of Asia, particularly in India and China. NWAD METEMPSYCHOSIS.2
METEMPTOSIS, n. [Gr. after, and to fall.] In chronology, the solar equation necessary to prevent the new moon from happening a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 300 years, and another every 2400 years. NWAD METEMPTOSIS.1
METEOR, n. [Gr. sublime, lofty.] NWAD METEOR.1
1. In a general sense, a body that flies or floats in the air, and in this sense it includes rain, hail, snow, etc. But in a restricted sense, in which it is commonly understood. NWAD METEOR.2
2. A fiery or luminous body or appearance flying or floating in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region. We give this name to the brilliant globes or masses of matter which are occasionally seen moving rapidly through our atmosphere, and which throw off, with loud explosions, fragments that reach the earth, and are called falling stones. We call by the same name those fire balls which are usually denominated falling stars, supposed to be owning to gelatinous matter inflated by phosphureted hydrogen gas; also, the lights which appear over moist grounds and grave yards, called ignes fatui, which are ascribed to the same cause. NWAD METEOR.3
And meteor-like flame lawless through the sky. NWAD METEOR.4
METEORIC, a. Pertaining to meteors; consisting of meteors. NWAD METEORIC.1
1. Proceeding from a meteor; as meteoric stones. NWAD METEORIC.2
METEORIZE, v.i. To ascend in vapors. [Not used.] NWAD METEORIZE.1
METEOROLITE, METEROLITE, n. A meteoric stone; a stone or solid compound of earthy and metallic matter which falls to the earth after the displosion of a luminous meteor or fire ball; called also aerolite. NWAD METEOROLITE.1
METEOROLOGIC, METEOROLOGICAL, a. Pertaining to the atmosphere and its phenomena. A meteorological table or register is an account of the state of the air and its temperature, weight, dryness or moisture, winds, etc. ascertained by the barometer, thermometer, hygrometer, anemometer and other meteorological instruments. NWAD METEOROLOGIC.1
METEOROLOGIST, METEROLOGIST, n. A person skilled in meteors; one who studies the phenomena of meteors, or keeps a register of them. NWAD METEOROLOGIST.1
METEOROLOGY, n. [Gr. lofty, and discourse.] The science which treats of the atmosphere and its phenomena, particularly in its relation to heat and moisture. NWAD METEOROLOGY.1
METEOROMANCY, METEROMANCY, n. [Gr. a meteor, and divination.] A species of divination by meteors, chiefly by thunder and lightning; held in high estimation by the Romans. NWAD METEOROMANCY.1
METEOROSCOPY, n. [Gr. lofty, and to view.] That part of astronomy which treats of sublime heavenly bodies, distance of stars, etc. NWAD METEOROSCOPY.1
METEOROUS, a. Having the nature of a meteor. NWAD METEOROUS.1
METER, n. [from mete.] One who measures; used in compounds, as in coal-meter, land-meter. NWAD METER.1
METER, n. [L. metrum.] NWAD METER.2
1. Measure; verse; arrangement of poetical feet, or of long and short syllables in verse. Hexameter is a meter of six feet. This word is most improperly written metre. How very absurd to write the simple word in this manner, but in all its numerous compounds, meter, as in diameter, hexameter, thermometer, etc. NWAD METER.3
2. A French measure of length, equal to 39 37/100 English inches, the standard of linear measure, being the ten millionth part of the distance from the equator to the North Pole, as ascertained by actual measurement of an arc of the meridian. NWAD METER.4
METEWAND, n. [mete and wand.] A staff or rod of a certain length, used as a measure. NWAD METEWAND.1
METEYARD, n. A yard, staff or rod, used as a measure. [We now use yard.] NWAD METEYARD.1
METHEGLIN, n. A liquor made of honey and water boiled and fermented, often enriched with spices. NWAD METHEGLIN.1
METHINKS, v. impers. pp. methought. [me and think.] It seems to me; it appears to me; I think. Me is here in the dative. The word is not antiquated, but is not elegant. NWAD METHINKS.1
METHOD, n. [L. methodus; Gr. with, and way.] NWAD METHOD.1
1. A suitable and convenient arrangement of things, proceedings or ideas; the natural or regular disposition of separate things or parts; convenient order for transacting business, or for comprehending any complicated subject. Without method, business of any kind will fall into confusion. To carry on farming to advantage, to keep accounts correctly, method is indispensable. NWAD METHOD.2
2. Way; manner. Let us know the nature of the disease, and the method of cure. NWAD METHOD.3
3. Classification; arrangement of natural bodies according to their common characteristics; as the method of Theophrast; the method of Ray; the Linnean method. NWAD METHOD.4
In natural arrangements a distinction is sometimes made between method and system. System is an arrangement founded, throughout all its parts, on some one principle. Method is an arrangement less fixed and determinate, and founded on more general relations. Thus we say, the natural method, and the artificial or sexual system of Linne, though the latter is not a perfect system. NWAD METHOD.5
METHODIC, METHODICAL, a. Arranged in convenient order; disposed in a just and natural manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical operations; as a methodical arrangement of the parts of a discourse or of arguments; a methodical treatise; methodical accounts. NWAD METHODIC.1
METHODICALLY, adv. In a methodical manner; according to natural or convenient order. NWAD METHODICALLY.1
METHODISM, n. The doctrines and worship of the sect of christians called Methodists. NWAD METHODISM.1
METHODIST, n. One that observes method. NWAD METHODIST.1
1. One of a sect of christians, founded by Morgan, or rather by John Wesley, and so called from the exact regularity of their lives, and the strictness of their principles and rules. NWAD METHODIST.2
2. A physician who practices by method or theory. NWAD METHODIST.3
3. In the cant of irreligious men, a person of strict piety; one who lives in the exact observance of religious duties. NWAD METHODIST.4
METHODISTIC, a. Resembling the Methodists; partaking of the strictness of Methodists. NWAD METHODISTIC.1
METHODIZE, v.t. To reduce to method; to dispose in due order; to arrange in a convenient manner. NWAD METHODIZE.1
One who brings with him any observations he has made in reading the poets, will find his own reflections methodized and explained in the works of a good critic. NWAD METHODIZE.2
METHOUGHT, pret. of methinks. It seemed to me; I thought. NWAD METHOUGHT.1
METIC, n. [Gr. house.] In ancient Greece, a sojourner; a resident stranger in a Grecian city or place. NWAD METIC.1
METICULOUS, a. [L. Feticulosus.] Timid. [Not used.] NWAD METICULOUS.1
METONIC CYCLE, METONIC YEAR, the cycle of the moon, or period of nineteen years, in which the lunations of the moon return to the same days of the month; so called from its discoverer Meton the Athenian. NWAD METONIC_CYCLE.1
METONYMIC, METONYMICAL, a. [See Metonymy.] Used by way of metonymy, by putting one word for another. NWAD METONYMIC.1
METONYMICALLY, adv. By putting one word for another. NWAD METONYMICALLY.1
METONYMY, n. [Gr. over, beyond, and name.] In rhetoric, a trope in which one word is put for another; a change of names which have some relation to each other; as when we say, “a man keeps a good table.” instead of good provisions. “We read Virgil.” that is, his poems or writings. “They have Moses and the prophets,” that is, their books or writings. A man has a clear head, that is, understanding, intellect; a warm heart, that is affections. NWAD METONYMY.1
METOPE, n. met’opy. [Gr. with, near or by, and an aperture or hollow.] In architecture, the space between the triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which among the ancients used to be painted or adorned with carved work. NWAD METOPE.1
METOPOSCOPIST, n. [infra.] One versed in physiognomy. NWAD METOPOSCOPIST.1
METOPOSCOPY, n. [Gr. the forehead, and to view.] The study of physiognomy; the art of discovering the character or the dispositions of men by their features, or the lines of the face. NWAD METOPOSCOPY.1
METRE. [See Meter.] NWAD METRE.1
METRICAL, a. [L. metricus.] NWAD METRICAL.1
1. Pertaining to measure, or due arrangement or combination of long and short syllables. NWAD METRICAL.2
2. Consisting of verses; as metrical compositions. NWAD METRICAL.3
METROLOGY, n. [Gr. measure, and discourse.] NWAD METROLOGY.1
1. A discourse on measures or mensuration; the description of measures. NWAD METROLOGY.2
2. An account of measures, or the science of weights and measures. NWAD METROLOGY.3
METROPOLIS, n. [L. from Gr. mother, and city. It has no plural.] NWAD METROPOLIS.1
Literally, the mother-city, that is, the chief city or capital of a kingdom, state or country, as Paris in France, Madrid in Spain, London in Great Britain. In the United States, Washington, in the District of Columbia, is the metropolis, as being the seat of government; but in several of the states, the largest cities are not the seats of the respective governments. Yet New York city, in the state of that name, and Philadelphia in Pennsylvania, are the chief cities, and may be called each the metropolis of the state in which it is situated, though neither of them is the seat of government in the state. NWAD METROPOLIS.2
METROPOLITAN, a. Belonging to a metropolis, or to the mother church; residing in the chief city. NWAD METROPOLITAN.1
METROPOLITAN, n. The bishop of the mother church; an archbishop. NWAD METROPOLITAN.2
METROPOLITE, a. A metropolitan. [Not used.] NWAD METROPOLITE.1
METROPOLITIC, METROPOLITICAL, a. Pertaining to a metropolis; chief or principal of cities; archiepiscopal. NWAD METROPOLITIC.1
METTLE, n. met’l. [usually supposed to be corrupted from metal. L. animus, animosus.] Spirit; constitutional ardor; that temperament which is susceptible of high excitement. It is not synonymous with courage, though it may be accompanied with it, and is sometimes used for it. NWAD METTLE.1
The winged courser, like a generous horse, NWAD METTLE.2
Shows most true mettle when you check his course. NWAD METTLE.3
METTLED, a. High spirited; ardent; full of fire. NWAD METTLED.1
METTLESOME, a. Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; brisk; fiery; as a mettlesome horse. NWAD METTLESOME.1
METTLESOMENESS, n. The state of being high spirited. NWAD METTLESOMENESS.1
MEW, n. A seafowl of the genus Larus; a gull. NWAD MEW.1
MEW, n. A cage for birds; an inclosure; a place of confinement. NWAD MEW.2
MEW, v.t. [from the noun.] To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure. NWAD MEW.3
More pity that the eagle should be mew’d. NWAD MEW.4
Close mew’d in their sedans, for fear of air. NWAD MEW.5
MEW, v.t. [L. muto and moto.] To shed or cast; to change; to molt. The hawk mewed his feathers. NWAD MEW.6
Nine times the moon had mew’d her horns-- NWAD MEW.7
MEW, v.i. [L. mugio.] To cry as a cat. NWAD MEW.8
MEW, v.i. To change; to put on a new appearance. NWAD MEW.9
MEWING, ppr. Casting the feathers or skin; crying. NWAD MEWING.1
MEWL, v.i. [L. mugio, to low.] To cry or squall, as a child. NWAD MEWL.1
MEWLER, n. One that squalls or mewls. NWAD MEWLER.1
MEZEREON, n. A plant of the genus Daphne; the spurge olive. NWAD MEZEREON.1
MEZZO, in music, denotes middle, mean. NWAD MEZZO.1
MEZZORELIEVO, n. Middle relief. NWAD MEZZORELIEVO.1
MEZZOTINTO, n. [L. tinctus, painted.] A particular manner of engraving or representation of figures on copper, in imitation of painting in Indian ink. To perform this the plate is scratched and furrowed in different directions; the design is then drawn on the face, then the dents and furrows are erased from the parts where the lights of the piece are to be; the parts which are to represent shades being left. NWAD MEZZOTINTO.1
MIASM, MIASMA, n. [Gr. to pollute.] Infecting substances floating in the air; the effluvia or fine particles of any putrefying bodies, rising and floating in the atmosphere, and considered to be noxious to health. NWAD MIASM.1
MIASMATIC, a. Pertaining to miasma; partaking of the qualities of noxious effluvia. NWAD MIASMATIC.1
MICA, n. [L. mica, a grain or particle; mico, to shine.] A mineral of a foliated structure, consisting of thin flexible lamels or scales, having a shining surface. The scales are sometimes parallel, sometimes interwoven, sometimes wavy or undulated, sometimes representing filaments. It is called also talck, glimmer, muscovy-glass, and glist. NWAD MICA.1
Jameson subdivides mica into ten subspecies, viz. mica, pinite, lepidolite, chlorite, green earth, talck, nacrite, potstone, steatite and figure stone. NWAD MICA.2
MICACEOUS, a. Pertaining to mica; resembling mica or partaking of its properties. NWAD MICACEOUS.1
MICAREL, n. A species of argillaceous earth; a mineral of a brownish or blackish red color, commonly crystallized in rhomboidal prisms, or in prisms of six sides. NWAD MICAREL.1
MICE, plu. of mouse. NWAD MICE.1
MICHAELITE, n. A subvariety of siliceous sinter, found in the isle of St. Michael. NWAD MICHAELITE.1
MICHAELMAS, n. The feast of St. Michael, a festival of the Romish church, celebrated Sept. 29; hence, NWAD MICHAELMAS.1
1. In colloquial language, autumn. NWAD MICHAELMAS.2
MICHE, v.i. NWAD MICHE.1
1. To lie hid; to skulk; to retire or shrink from view. NWAD MICHE.2
2. To pilfer. NWAD MICHE.3
MICHER, n. One who skulks, or creeps out of sight; a thief. NWAD MICHER.1
MICHERY, n. Theft, cheating. NWAD MICHERY.1
MICHING, ppr. Retiring; skulking; creeping from sight; mean; cowardly. [Vulgar.] NWAD MICHING.1
MICKLE, a. Much; great. [Obsolete, but retained in the Scottish language.] NWAD MICKLE.1
MICO, n. A beautiful species of monkey. NWAD MICO.1
MICROCOSM, n. [Gr. small, and world.] Literally, the little world; but used for man, supposed to be an epitome of the universe or great world. NWAD MICROCOSM.1
Microcosmic salt, a triple salt of soda, ammonia and phosphoric acid, obtained from urine. NWAD MICROCOSM.2
MICROCOSMICAL, a. Pertaining to the microcosm. NWAD MICROCOSMICAL.1
MICROCOUSTIC, n. [Gr. small, and to hear.] An instrument to augment small sounds, and assist in hearing. NWAD MICROCOUSTIC.1
MICROGRAPHY, n. [Gr. small, and to describe.] The description of objects too small to be discerned without the aid of a microscope. NWAD MICROGRAPHY.1
MICROMETER, n. [Gr. small, and measure.] An instrument for measuring small objects or spaces, by the help of which, the apparent magnitude of objects viewed through the microscope or telescope, is measured with great exactness. NWAD MICROMETER.1
MICROPHONE, n. [Gr. small, and sound.] An instrument to augment small sounds; a microcoustic. NWAD MICROPHONE.1