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  • English Word Merlon Definition One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.
  • English Word Merluce Definition The European hake; -- called also herring hake and sea pike.
  • English Word Mermaid Definition A fabled marine creature, typically represented as having the upper part like that of a woman, and the lower like a fish; a sea nymph, sea woman, or woman fish.
  • English Word Merman Definition The male corresponding to mermaid; a sea man, or man fish.
  • English Word Mermen Definition of Merman
  • English Word Meroblast Definition An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.
  • English Word Meroblastic Definition Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.
  • English Word Merocele Definition Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .
  • English Word Meroistic Definition Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.
  • English Word Meropidan Definition One of a family of birds (Meropidae), including the bee-eaters.
  • English Word Meropodite Definition The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.
  • English Word Merorganization Definition Organization in part.
  • English Word Meros Definition The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph.
  • English Word Meros Definition The proximal segment of the hind limb; the thigh.
  • English Word Merosome Definition One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.
  • English Word Merostomata Definition A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.
  • English Word Merou Definition See Jack, 8 (c).
  • English Word Merovingian Definition Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France.
  • English Word Merovingian Definition One of the kings of this dynasty.
  • English Word Merrily Definition In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry.
  • English Word Merrimake Definition See Merrymake, n.
  • English Word Merrimake Definition See Merrymake, v.
  • English Word Merriment Definition Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic.
  • English Word Merriness Definition The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.
  • English Word Merry Definition Laughingly gay; overflowing with good humor and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive.
  • English Word Merry Definition Cheerful; joyous; not sad; happy.
  • English Word Merry Definition Causing laughter, mirth, gladness, or delight; as, / merry jest.
  • English Word Merry Definition A kind of wild red cherry.
  • English Word Merry-andrew Definition One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.
  • English Word Merry-go-round Definition Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.