meroxene

[Gr. meros = part, and xenos a stranger. Min.: The name was originally given by Breithaupt to the mica (q. v.), from Monte Somma, which was found in brilliant crystals and with numerous planes. It was considered to be uniaxial and rhombohedral in crystallization, and referred to the species biotite (q. v.). Tschermak retains the name for the Vesuvian magnesian mica, and refers it to a group in which the optic axial plane is parallel to the plane of symmetry. He shows also that this mica, in common with all the others, is monoclinic crystallization. *měr-ri-fÿ, *měr-rỹ-fỹ, v.t. [Eng. merry; -fy.] To make merry; to amuse. "It merryfied us all."- Mdme . D'Arblay : Diary , i. 324. chin, bench; go, gem; thin, this; IMG:content-1125.png:[blocks in formation] making. "We'll have feasts, And funerals also, merry makes and wars." 2. Mirth, sport, jest. E. B. Browning: Drama of Exile . "He saw her gibe, and toy, and geare, And pa the bounds of modest merry make ." Spenser: F. Q. , II. vi. 21. *měr-ri-māke, v . i . (MERRIMAKE, 8. ] To make merry; to be merry and mirthful; to feast.