Meet (v. t.) To come together by mutual approach; esp., to come in contact, or into proximity, by approach from opposite directions; to join; to come face to face; to come in close relationship; as, we met in the street; two lines meet so as to form an angle.
Meet (v. t.) To come together with hostile purpose; to have an encounter or conflict.
Meet (v. t.) To assemble together; to congregate; as, Congress meets on the first Monday of December.
Meet (v. t.) To come together by mutual concessions; hence, to agree; to harmonize; to unite.
Meet (n.) An assembling together; esp., the assembling of huntsmen for the hunt; also, the persons who so assemble, and the place of meeting.
Meet (a.) Suitable; fit; proper; appropriate; qualified; convenient.
Meet (adv.) Meetly.
Meeten (v. t.) To render fit.
Meeter (n.) One who meets.
Meeth (n.) Mead. See Meathe.
Meeting (n.) A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of Congress.
Meeting (n.) A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of two rivers.
Meeting (n.) A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large meeting; an harmonius meeting.
Meeting (n.) An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping assemblies of Dissenters.
Meetinghouse (n.) A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
Meetly (adv.) Fitly; suitably; properly.
Meetness (n.) Fitness; suitableness; propriety.
Meg- () Alt. of Megalo-
Mega () Alt. of Megalo-
Megalo- () Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm.
Megalo- () A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms.
Megacephalic (a.) Alt. of Megacephalous
Megacephalous (a.) Large headed; -- applied to animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads.
Megaceros (n.) The Irish elk.
Megachile (n.) A leaf-cutting bee of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf.
Megacosm (n.) See Macrocosm.
Megacoulomb (n.) A million coulombs.
Megaderm (n.) Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.
Megadyne (n.) One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.
Megafarad (n.) One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.
Megalerg (n.) A million ergs; a megerg.
Megalesian (a.) Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.
Megalethoscope (n.) An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.
Megalith (n.) A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building.
Megalo- () See Meg-.
Megalocyte (n.) A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anaemia.
Megalomania (n.) A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
Megalonyx (n.) An extinct quaternary mammal, of great size, allied to the sloth.
Megalophonous (a.) Having a loud voice.
Megalopolis (n.) A chief city; a metropolis.
Megalops (n.) A larva, in a stage following the zoea, in the development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes are large. Also used adjectively.
Megalops (n.) A large fish; the tarpum.
Megalopsychy (n.) Greatness of soul.
Megalosaur (n.) Alt. of Megalosaurus
Megalosaurus (n.) A gigantic carnivorous dinosaur, whose fossil remains have been found in England and elsewhere.
Megameter (n.) An instrument for determining longitude by observation of the stars.
Megameter (n.) A micrometer.
Megameter (n.) Alt. of Megametre
Megametre (n.) In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.
Megampere (n.) A million amperes.
Megaphone (n.) A device to magnify sound, or direct it in a given direction in a greater volume, as a very large funnel used as an ear trumpet or as a speaking trumpet.
Megaphyton (n.) An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.
Megapode (n.) Any one of several species of large-footed, gallinaceous birds of the genera Megapodius and Leipoa, inhabiting Australia and other Pacific islands. See Jungle fowl (b) under Jungle, and Leipoa.
Megapolis (n.) A metropolis.
Megarian (a.) Alt. of Megaric
Megaric (a.) Belonging, or pertaining, to Megara, a city of ancient Greece.
Megascope (n.) A modification of the magic lantern, used esp. for throwing a magnified image of an opaque object on a screen, solar or artificial light being used.
Megaseme (a.) Having the orbital index relatively large; having the orbits narrow transversely; -- opposed to microseme.
Megass (n.) Alt. of Megasse
Megasse (n.) See Bagasse.
Megasthene (n.) One of a group which includes the higher orders of mammals, having a large size as a typical characteristic.
Megasthenic (a.) Having a typically large size; belonging to the megasthenes.
Megastome (n.) One of a group of univalve shells, having a large aperture or mouth.
Megathere (n.) Alt. of Megatherium
Megatherium (n.) An extinct gigantic quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.
Megatheroid (n.) One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.
Megavolt (n.) One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.
Megaweber (n.) A million webers.
Megerg (n.) One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.
Megilp (n.) Alt. of Megilph
Megilph (n.) A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors.
Megohm (n.) One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.
Megrim (n.) A kind of sick or nevrous headache, usually periodical and confined to one side of the head.
Megrim (n.) A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits.
Megrim (n.) A sudden vertigo in a horse, succeeded sometimes by unconsciousness, produced by an excess of blood in the brain; a mild form of apoplexy.
Megrim (n.) The British smooth sole, or scaldfish (Psetta arnoglossa).
Meibomian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Meibomius.
Meine (v. t.) See Menge.
Meine (n.) Alt. of Meiny
Meiny (n.) A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train.
Meiny (n.) Company; band; army.
Meiocene (a.) See Miocene.
Meionite (n.) A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.
Meiosis (n.) Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.
Melostemonous (a.) Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.
Meistersinger (n.) See Mastersinger.
Mekhitarist (n.) See Mechitarist.
Melaconite (n.) An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.
Melada (n.) Alt. of Melado
Melado (n.) A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.
Melaena (n.) A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.
Melain (n.) The dark coloring matter of the liquid of the cuttlefish.
Melainotype (n.) See Melanotype.
Melam (n.) A white or buff-colored granular powder, C6H9N11, obtained by heating ammonium sulphocyanate.
Melamine (n.) A strong nitrogenous base, C3H6N6, produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance, -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of melam. Called also cyanuramide.
Melampode (n.) The black hellebore.
Melampyrin (n.) Alt. of Melampyrite
Melampyrite (n.) The saccharine substance dulcite; -- so called because found in the leaves of cowwheat (Melampyrum). See Dulcite.
Melanaemia (n.) A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.
Melanagogue (n.) A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler.