merryman1 (meriman)

A dialectal form of merman. [Cornwall, Eng.] merryman2 (mer'i-man), n.; pl. merrymen (-men). A merry-andrew; a buffoon; a clown: used as an appellative or pretended surname for a clown: as, Mr. Merryman. merry meeting (mer'i-mē"ting), n. A meeting mervailest, a. A Middle English variant of for mirth or sport; a merrymaking; a festival. The studious man prefers a book before a revel, the rig. ours of contemplation before merry - meetings and jolly South , Sermons, VIII. 408. merry-night (mer'i-nīt), n. A rural festival held in the north of En England, where young Engl people meet in the evening for the purpose of dancing. He hears a sound, and sees the light, And in a moment calls to mind That 'tis the village Merry -Night! merry-trotter (mer'i-trot"ėr), n. A variant of merry-totter. Hall i well . [Prov. Eng.] merry wing (mer'i-wing), n. wing or common goldeneye of Europe and Amer- ica, Clangula clangula ; also, the buffle, Buce- phala albeolo. G. Trumbull, 1888. See cut un- der bufflel . [Connecticut.] mervaillet, mervailet, etc., n. and v . Obsolete forms of marvel . merveil-du-jour (mer-vāly'dü-zhör'), n. [F. merveille - du - jour , lit. 'marvel of the day': mer- veille, marvel; du for de le , gen. of def. art., of the; jour , day.] An English collectors' name for certain noctuid moths. The common mer- veil-du-jour is Agriopis april in a ; another is Diphthera orion . merveillet, merveilet, etc., n. and v. Obsolete merveilleuse (mer-va-lyėz'), n. [F., fem. of merveilleux , marvelous: see marvelous .] A fashionable woman under the Directory in France at the close of the eighteenth century, at which time ultra-fashionable people affected extraordinary innovations in costume, especial- ly in a fancied revival of the feminine dre of the ancient Greeks and Romans, and even of their mythology. See inc roy able . mervelet, mervellet, n. and v. Obsolete forms of marvel . merveloust, mervelyoust, a. Middle English forms of marvelous . merwoman (mer'wuman), n.; pl. merwomen (-wim'en). [ mer- , as in mermaid , + woman .] A fabled sea-creature with the body of a woman and the tail of a fish; a mermaid. T. Gill. meryt, a. An obsolete form of merry1 . Merychippus (mer-i-kip'us), n. [NL., Gr. μήρυξ (μηρυκ-), a ruminating animal (applied to a fish) (> μηρυκίζειν , μηρυκάζειν , ruminate: see merycism), + ἵππος , horse.] A genus of fo il horses, of the family Equidæ , founded by Leidy in 1856 upon remains from the Pliocene of North America. It is one of the more recent extinct forms, related to Hipparion and to Pro to hip- merycism (mer'i-sizm), n . [ μηρυκισμός , chewing the cud, rumination, μηρυκίζειν , chew the cud, ruminate.] The abnormal habit or act of raising the food from the stomach to the mouth, and rem as tic at ing it; rumination in the merswinet, n. See meres wine. Mertensia (mėr-ten'si-ä), n. [NL. (Roth, 1797), named after F. C. Mertens , a German botanist.] A genus of boraginaceous plants of the tribe Borageæ and the subtribe Litho- spermeæ , characterized by having bractle or slightly bracted flower-clusters, an almost Merycopotamide (mer'i-kō-po-tam'i-dē), n. pl . [NL., Merycopotamus + -ida . ] An extinct family of omnivorous artiodactyl ungulates, typified by the genus Merycopotamus . The near- est relatives of these animals are the existing hippopota- muses, with which they agree in the ma ive obese body with phalangigrade feet of four digits each, the obtuse rounded IMG:content-0508.png:[merged small][graphic] Skulls are cla ified according to their cephalic indices into three groups - dolichocephalic, mesaticephalic , and brachycephalic. Nature , XXXIII. 4. mesaventuret, mesaunturet, n. Middle Eng- lish forms of misadventure . mescal (mes-kal'), n. [ mezcal , mexcalli .] A strong intoxicating spirit distilled snout with superolateral nostrils, and the two inguinal mam me. They differ in some dental characters, as paratively small cylindroconic canines, and the inequality of the upper and lower molars, the former of which simulate those of ruminants in the detail of their structure. Merycopotamoidea (meri-ko-pot-a-moi'de-a), n. pl. [NL., Merycopotamus + -oidea .] A American a of Mexico. Also mexcal , mezcal. superfamily founded by Gill in 1872 for the remeschauncet, n. A Middle English form of ception of the family Merycopotamida . Merycopotamus (mer"i-kō-pot'a-mus), () μηρυκίζειν, μηρυκάζειν , ruminate), + πόταμος, meschitt, n. A form of mesquit . river. Cf. hippopotamus .] The typical and only mesdames, n. Plural of madame . genus of the family Merycopotamida , founded mesdemoiselles, n. Plural of mademoiselle . by Falconer and Cantle roy upon remains from America. They are perennial herbs, with alternate entire leaves and handsome blue or purplish flowers in corymbs composed of loose raceme-like clusters. The plants are called smooth lungwort. M. Virginica , the Virgin i an cow- slip or lungwort, is a fine spring wild flower of the eastern mest, n. An obsolete form of me 1 . United States, also in gardens. M. maritima , the sea-lung-mes-t. An obsolete form of the prefix mis -2. wort, with smaller flowers, is a sea-coast plant of both hemispheres in northern latitudes, also called sea - buglo , mesa (ma'sä), n. [Sp., mensa , a table: see and locally oyster - plant . See lungwort , 2. merthet, n. An obsolete form of mirth . Meru (mer'ö), n. In Hind . myth., the central mountain of the earth, of prodigious size and precious material, having on its summit the abode of the gods. Merula (merʼö-lä), n. [NL., merula , a blackbird: see merle1 .] A genus of thrushes, of the family Turdida , giving to that family the alternative name Merulida . The genus, in the sense in which it is at present used, was based in 1816 by W. E. Leach upon the European blackbird, Turdus meru- la , or Merula vulgar is . (See cut under blackbird .) It also includes such species as the ring-ouzel, M. torquata , and mens all.] A table-land; a broad and flat river- terrace; a level or gently sloping region. This Spanish word is in common use throughout the southwest- ern part of the United States, where large areas, ly on the Colorado river and its branches, are table-lands, deeply intersected by valleys (cañons) of erosion, which are often 1,000 or 2,000 feet deep, and occasionally much more. mesad (mē'sad), adv . [ mes ( on ) + -ad3 .] To- ward the meson; in a mesal direction. B. G. Wilder . mesail, mezail, n. [OF.?] The vizor of a hel- met, especially of the armet, or any headpiece having the face-opening covered by two sep a- rate movable parts, the upper one of which contained the œillère, or sight-opening. See cut in next column. mesal (mes'al), a . [ meson + -al .] Middle; wise vertical plane of the body between the median; relating to the meson or middle length- mésalliance (mā-zal-li-ons'), n . [F.] Same as misalliance . mesally (mes'al-i), adv . In the meson or median plane of the body: as, to cut mesally ; to be situ- ated mesally. Also mesially. mese2t, v. t. [ME. mesen , moderate, subdue; prob. of Scand. origin, orig. refl. form, corre- sponding to meke , v .: see meek .] To moderate; subdue; abate; mollify. Wylt thou mese thy mode [abate thy anger] and menddyng Mese youre hart and mend youre mode. Towneley Mysteries , p. 175. mese3 (mēs), n . A dialectal form of mo 1 . meseems (mē-sēmz'), v . impers .; pret. meseemed . [Orig. and prop. two words me seems (pret. me seemed ): me , dat. of I (see mel ); seem , appear: see seem1 . Cf. methinks .] It seems to me. See methinks . And when in Combat these fell Monsters cro , Me seem some Tempest all the seas doth to . The knave that doth thee service as full knight Is all as good, meseems , as any knight. ease . mesel