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<p><b>4.</b> <ety>[F. <ets>m\'82decin</ets>.]</ety> <def>A physician.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Shak.</i>

<cs><col>Medicine bag</col>, <cd>a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them.</cd> -- <col>Medicine man</col> (among the North American Indians), <cd>a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic.</cd> -- <col>Medicine seal</col>, <cd>a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.</cd></cs>

<h1>Medicine</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Med"i*cine</hw>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure.</def> "<i>Medicine</i> thee to that sweet sleep."

<i>Shak.</i>

<h1>Medico-legal</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Med`i*co-le"gal</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.</def>

<h1>Medicommissure</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Med`i*com"mis*sure</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>medius</ets> middle + E. <ets>commissure</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure.</def>

<i>B. G. Wildex.</i>

<h1>Medicornu</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Med`i*cor"nu</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt>; <plu>pl. <plw>Medicornua</plw> <tt>(#)</tt></plu>. <ety>[NL., fr. L. <ets>medius</ets> middle + <ets>cornu</ets> horn.]</ety> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain.</def>

<i>B. G. Wilder.</i>

<h1>Medics</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Med"ics</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Science of medicine.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<h1>Mediety</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Me*di"e*ty</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>medietas</ets>.]</ety> <def>The middle part; half; moiety.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Sir T. Browne.</i>

<h1>Medieval, Medievalism, Medievalist</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw><hw>Me`di*e"val</hw>, <hw>Me`di*e"val*ism</hw>, <hw>Me`di*e"val*ist</hw><hw>. <def>Same as <er>Medi<?/val</er>, <er>Medi<?/valism</er>, etc.</def>

<h1>Medina epoch</h1> <Xpage=907>

<hw>Me*di"na ep"och</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>. <ety>[From <ets>Medina</ets> in New York.]</ety> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the <i>Chart</i> of <er>Geology</er>.</def>

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<h1>Medino</h1> <Xpage=908>

<hw>Me*di"no</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Same as <er>Para</er>.</def>

<h1>Mediocral</h1> <Xpage=908>

<hw>Me"di*o`cral</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Mediocre.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>