MPage 143
- English Word Metropolis Definition The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.
- English Word Metropolis Definition The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.
- English Word Metropolitan Definition Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.
- English Word Metropolitan Definition Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority.
- English Word Metropolitan Definition The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.
- English Word Metropolitan Definition An archbishop.
- English Word Metropolitan Definition A bishop whose see is civil metropolis. His rank is intermediate between that of an archbishop and a patriarch.
- English Word Metropolitanate Definition The see of a metropolitan bishop.
- English Word Metropolite Definition A metropolitan.
- English Word Metropolitical Definition Of or pertaining to a metropolis; being a metropolis; metropolitan; as, the metropolitical chair.
- English Word Metrorrhagia Definition Profuse bleeding from the womb, esp. such as does not occur at the menstrual period.
- English Word Metroscope Definition A modification of the stethoscope, for directly auscultating the uterus from the vagina.
- English Word Metrosideros Definition A myrtaceous genus of trees or shrubs, found in Australia and the South Sea Islands, and having very hard wood. Metrosideros vera is the true ironwood.
- English Word Metrotome Definition An instrument for cutting or scarifying the uterus or the neck of the uterus.
- English Word Metrotomy Definition The operation of cutting into the uterus; hysterotomy; the Caesarean section.
- English Word Mette Definition of Mete
- English Word Mette Definition imp. of Mete, to dream.
- English Word Mettle Definition Substance or quality of temperament; spirit, esp. as regards honor, courage, fortitude, ardor, etc.; disposition; -- usually in a good sense.
- English Word Mettled Definition Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire.
- English Word Mettlesome Definition Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse.
- English Word Meute Definition A cage for hawks; a mew. See 4th Mew, 1.
- English Word Meve Definition To move.
- English Word Mew Definition A gull, esp. the common British species (Larus canus); called also sea mew, maa, mar, mow, and cobb.
- English Word Mew Definition To shed or cast; to change; to molt; as, the hawk mewed his feathers.
- English Word Mew Definition To cast the feathers; to molt; hence, to change; to put on a new appearance.
- English Word Mew Definition A cage for hawks while mewing; a coop for fattening fowls; hence, any inclosure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural.
- English Word Mew Definition A stable or range of stables for horses; -- compound used in the plural, and so called from the royal stables in London, built on the site of the king's mews for hawks.
- English Word Mew Definition To shut up; to inclose; to confine, as in a cage or other inclosure.
- English Word Mew Definition To cry as a cat.
- English Word Mew Definition The common cry of a cat.