Part 6936

<h1>Megerg</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw>Meg"erg`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Mega-</ets> + <ets>erg</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Physics)</fld> <def>One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also <altname>megalerg</altname>.</def>

<h1>Megilp, Megilph</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw><hw>Me*gilp"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Me*gilph"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt><hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Paint.)</fld> <def>A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.</def> <altsp>[Written also <asp>magilp</asp>, and <asp>magilph</asp>.]</altsp>

<h1>Megohm</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw>Meg"ohm"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[<ets>Mega-</ets> + <ets>ohm</ets>.]</ety> <fld>(Elec.)</fld> <def>One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.</def>

<h1>Megrim</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw>Me"grim</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OE. <ets>migrim</ets>, <ets>migrene</ets>, F. <ets>migraine</ets>, LL. <ets>hemigrania</ets>, L. <ets>hemicrania</ets>, <ets>hemicranium</ets>, Gr. <?/; <?/- half + <?/ skull. See <er>Hemi-</er> and <er>Cranium</er>, and cf. <er>Hemicrania</er>, <er>Migraine</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.</def>

<blockquote>These are his <b>megrims</b>, firks, and melancholies. <i>Ford.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <pluf>pl.</pluf> <fld>(Far.)</fld> <def>A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.</def>

<i>Youatt.</i>

<h1>Megrim</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw>Me"grim</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Etymol. uncertain.]</ety> <fld>(Zo\'94l.)</fld> <def>The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (<spn>Psetta arnoglossa</spn>).</def>

<h1>Meibomian</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw>Mei*bo"mi*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Anat.)</fld> <def>Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, <i>Meibomius</i>.</def>

<cs><col>Meibomian glands</col>, <cd>the slender sebaceous glands of the eyelids, which discharge, through minute orifices in the edges of the lids, a fatty secretion serving to lubricate the adjacent parts.</cd></cs>

<h1>Meine</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw>Meine</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <def>See <er>Menge</er>.</def>

<h1>Meine, Meiny</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw><hw>Mein"e</hw>, <hw>Mein"y</hw>, <tt>(<?/)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[OF. <ets>maisni\'82e</ets>, <ets>maisnie</ets>. See <er>Menial</er>.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer. Shak.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Company; band; army.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Chaucer.</i>

<h1>Meiocene</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw>Mei"o*cene</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Geol.)</fld> <def>See <er>Miocene</er>.</def>

<h1>Meionite</h1> <Xpage=909>

<hw>Mei"o*nite</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Gr. <?/ smaller. So called in a allusion to the low pyramids of the crystals.]</ety> <fld>(Min.)</fld> <def>A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.</def>