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  • English Word Methought Definition of Methinks
  • English Word Methoxyl Definition A hypothetical radical, CH3O, analogous to hydroxyl.
  • English Word Methyl Definition A hydrocarbon radical, CH3, not existing alone but regarded as an essential residue of methane, and appearing as a component part of many derivatives; as, methyl alcohol, methyl ether, methyl amine, etc.
  • English Word Methylal Definition A light, volatile liquid, H2C(OCH3)2, regarded as a complex ether, and having a pleasant ethereal odor. It is obtained by the partial oxidation of methyl alcohol. Called also formal.
  • English Word Methylamine Definition See Methyl amine, under Methyl.
  • English Word Methylate Definition An alcoholate of methyl alcohol in which the hydroxyl hydrogen is replaced by a metal, after the analogy of a hydrate; as, sodium methylate, CH3ONa.
  • English Word Methylate Definition To impregnate or mix with methyl or methyl alcohol.
  • English Word Methylated Definition Impregnated with, or containing, methyl alcohol or wood spirit; as, methylated spirits.
  • English Word Methylene Definition A hydrocarbon radical, CH2, not known in the free state, but regarded as an essential residue and component of certain derivatives of methane; as, methylene bromide, CH2Br2; -- formerly called also methene.
  • English Word Methylic Definition Pertaining to, derived from, or containing, methyl; specifically, designating methyl alcohol. See under Methyl.
  • English Word Methysticin Definition A white, silky, crystalline substance extracted from the thick rootstock of a species of pepper (Piper methysticum) of the South Sea Islands; -- called also kanakin.
  • English Word Metic Definition A sojourner; an immigrant; an alien resident in a Grecian city, but not a citizen.
  • English Word Meticulous Definition Timid; fearful.
  • English Word Metif Definition Alt. of Metive
  • English Word Meting Definition of Mete
  • English Word Metis Definition Alt. of Metisse
  • English Word Metisse Definition The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
  • English Word Metisse Definition The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon.
  • English Word Metive Definition See Metis.
  • English Word Metoche Definition The space between two dentils.
  • English Word Metoche Definition The space between two triglyphs.
  • English Word Metonic Definition Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian.
  • English Word Metonymic Definition Alt. of Metonymical
  • English Word Metonymical Definition Used by way of metonymy.
  • English Word Metonymy Definition A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.
  • English Word Metope Definition The space between two triglyphs of the Doric frieze, which, among the ancients, was often adorned with carved work. See Illust. of Entablature.
  • English Word Metope Definition The face of a crab.
  • English Word Metopic Definition Of or pertaining to the forehead or frontal bones; frontal; as, the metopic suture.
  • English Word Metopomancy Definition Fortune telling by physiognomy.
  • English Word Metoposcopic Definition Alt. of Metoposcopical