Meridion (meridion)

[NL. (Agardh, 1824), = meristem menting other confections. Puddings or tarts. etc., covered with this preparation are sometimes called meringues. - Meringue glacé, ice-cream served with a casing of meringue. merino (me-rēnō), a. and n. [= F. mérinos = Pg. merino, merino (sheep), IMG:content-0499.jpg:[graphic] meridional (mē-rid'i-o-nal), a. [ The meridional lines stand wider upon one side then the other. Sir T. Browne , Garden of Cyrus, iv. Along one side of this body is a meridional groove, resembling that of a peach. W. B. Carpenter , Micros., $ 427. 2. Highest; consummate. is to be a Christian. The meridional brightne , the glorious noon, and height, Donne , Sermons, xvii. 3. Southern; southerly; extending or turned toward the south. Ethiope is departed in 2 princypalle parties; and that is, in the Est partie and in the Meridionelle partie: the whiche partie meridionelle is clept More tane. An effrontery out of the mouth of a meridian villain. Roger North, Examen, p. 186. ( Davies.) Meridian altitude of a star. See altitude. - Merid1an line on a dial, the twelve o'clock hour-line. II. n. 1. Midday; noon.-24. Midday repose or indulgence; nooning: used specifically as in the quotations. We have, in the course of this our toilsome journey, lost our meridian (the hour of repose at noon, which in the middle ages was employed in slumber, and which the monastic rules of nocturnal vigils rendered nece ary). Scott , Monastery, xix. Plumdamas joined the other two gentlemen in drinking their meridian (a bumper-dram of brandy). Scott , Heart of Mid-Lothian, iv. 3. The highest point reached before a decline; the culmination; the point of greatest increment or development. You seem to marvel I do not marry all this while, considering that I am past the Meridian of my Age. Howell, Letters, I. vi. 60. In the meridian of Edward's age and vigour. Hallam, Middle Ages, iii. 8. 4. A great circle of a sphere pa ing through the poles, or the half of such a circle included between the poles; in geog., such a circle drawn upon the earth; in astron., such a circle on the celestial sphere. The meridian of a place on the earth's surface is the great circle pa ing through it and the poles, or the great circle of the celestial sphere pa ing through the pole and the zenith of the place. See longitude. ern peoples. A dark meridional physiognomy. Motley, United Netherlands, I. 139. Meridional distance. See distance. - Meridional parts, the distance of any given latitude from the equator upon Mercat or's map-projection expre ed in minutes of the equator. Neglecting the compre ion, the meridional parts are proportional to the integral of the secant of the latitude, which is the logarithm of the tangent of half the polar distance. Taking account of the compre ion, the secant of the latitude must be divided before integrating by 1 + e2 cos2 $ (where & is the latitude and e the ellip. ticity of the meridian). IMG:content-0500.jpg:[blocks in formation] Who [the Jews], reverentially declining the situation of their Temple, nor willing to lye as that stood, doe place their beds from north to south, and delight to sleep me rid i on ally. Sir T. Browne, Vulg. Err., ii. 3.