microsyops

[Pref. micro-; Gr.sus=a pig, and õps the face, the countenance.] Paleont.: A genus of Limn other ide, from the Eocene of America. mi-cro-ta-sim-e-ter, s . [Pref. micro-; Greek tas is stretching, tension, and metron a measure.] An instrument invented by Mr. T. A. Edison, and announced by him in 1878. In it he uses the principle of the carbon microphone to measure infinitesimal pre ure. Zool .: The same as MICRO ZOARIA (q. v.). +mi-cro-zō-är-I-a, s. pl . [Pref. micro-; Greek zõa , pl. of zoon =an animal, and Lat. neut. pl. adj. suff. -aria ; Fr. micro zoa ires .] Zool .: A name proposed for a group including the Rotifer a and the Infusoria. mi-cro-zymeş, s. pl. [Pref. micro-, and Gr. zymē yeast.] Human & Comp. Physiol.: The smallest and least organized of living beings. They may be either globular, rod-shaped, egg-shaped, or filamentous; but the most common form is that of jointed rods moving with rapidity, in size about soos of an inch. Many physiologists at home and abroad contend these organisms in the blood. They have been that infectious diseases depend on the presence of found in variolous blood, human and ovine, in human blood in scarlet fever and measles, and, according to Dr. Koch, in cholera; and in the blood of sheep and cattle which have died of splenic apoplexy. Called also Bacteria and Vibriones. [GERM-THEORY.] "Experiments have proved that two of the most destructive of epizoötic diseases, sheep-pox and glanders, are also dependent for their existence and their propagation upon extremely small living solid particles, to which the title of micro zymes is applied." -Huxley: Critiques and Addre es (1873), p. 242. +mi-cry-phăn-tēs, subst . [Pref. micr- , and Gr. hyphaino =to weave.] Entom .: The same as WALCKENAERA (q. v.). mic-tu-ri-tion, s. [Lat. micturio =to desire to make water, desid. from mictus , pa. par. of min go to make water.] Med.: The desire of making water; a morbid frequency in the pa age of urine. mid, midde, a . & s . [A. S. mid , midd ; cogn, with Dut, mid- (used in composition as mid - dag = mid-day); Icel. midhr ; Sw. & Dan. mid- (in composition); Goth. midja; O. H. Ger. mitt i ; Lat. medius; Gr. mesos; Sansc. madhya =middle.] A. As adj .: Middle; situated between extremes; intervening. *B. As subst.: The middle, the midst. "About the mid of night." --Shakesp.: Richard III., ν. 3. Mid is largely used in composition to indicate position, point of time, ., between extremes; as, mid-age, mid-air, mid- career , mid-channel, mid earth, mid- furrow , mid - harvest, mid-ocean, mid period , mid - space , . mid-couples, s. pl. Scots Law : The writings by which an heir, a ignee, or adjudger, is connected with a precept of sasine granted in favor of his predece or or author, which, when such heir, ., takes infeftment in virtue of such precept, must be deduced in the instrument of sasine. mid-course, s . 1. The middle of the course, way, or progre . 2. A middle course or mode of procedure. mid-day, *myd-dai, a. & 8. A. As adj .: Pertaining to noon; meridional; at noon. "His hour of mid - day rest is nearly over." Byron: Cain, iii. 1. B. As subst. The middle of the day; noon. "As if God, with the broad eye of mid -day, Clearer looked in at the windows." Long fellow: Children of the Lord's Supper. Mid-day flower: Bot.: An Australian popular name for Mesembryanthemum. IMG:content-1189.png:[blocks in formation] Cricket : A fielder who is stationed about mid way, right or left, between the wickets. Mid-wicket off (commonly abbreviated to mid-off) stands to the right of the wicket-keeper; mid-wicket on (or mid-on) to his left. mid (1), prep. [A. S. mid, midh; Icel. medh; Goth. mith; O. H. Ger. mit, mit i; Ger. mit.] With. " Mid him he hadde a stronge axe." Robert of Gloucester, 17. mid (2), prep. [A contraction of amid (q. v.).] Amid, amidst.