Search the Dictionary

Any of the players who meet in the final round of a tournament in which the losers in any round do not play again.

To meet with, or light upon, accidentally; to gain the first sight or knowledge of, as of something new, or unknown; hence, to fall in with, as a person. Searching the window for a flint, I found This paper, thus sealed up. Shak. In woods and forests thou art found. Cowley.

Conformed to a standart of duty, properiety, or taste; convenient; meet; becoming; proper. Is it fit to say a king, Thou art wicked Job xxxiv. 18.

A point in which the rays of light meet, after being reflected or refrcted, and at which the image is formed; as, the focus of a lens or mirror.

the payment of an overdue mortgage, and the exposure of the mortgaged property to sale to meet the mortgage debt. Wharton.

nd, or in advance; to anticipate. What need a man forestall his date of grief, And run to meet what he would most avoid Milton.

To convene; to gossip; to meet accidentally. [Scot.] Jamieson. Within that circle he forgathered with many a fool. Wilson.

Occurring or appearing once in a fortnight; as, a fortnightly meeting of a club; a fortnightly magazine, or other publication. -- adv.

The resistance which a body meets with from the surface on which it moves. It may be resistance to sliding motion, or to rolling motion.

To oppose face to face; to oppose directly; to meet in a hostile manner. You four shall front them in the narrow lane. Shak.

The part which first meets the eye; as:

ng else; as, a cup full of water; a house full of people. Had the throne been full, their meeting would not have been regular. Blackstone.

for the maintenance of lectures or poor students; also, money systematically collected to meet the expenses of some permanent object.

A meeting; -- used in combination, as, Witenagemote, an assembly of the wise men.

One of the abatements. It is made of two curved lines, meeting in an acute angle in the fesse point.

o house, tattling and telling news; an idle tattler. The common chat of gossips when they meet. Dryden.

ce of the fibers in wood, or of the strata in stone, slate, etc. Knots, by the conflux of meeting sap, Infect the sound pine and divert his grain Tortive and errant from his course of growth. Shak.

To come upon, or meet, as with something that makes the heart glad. In vain the spring my senses greets. Addison.

Expression of kindness or joy; salutation at meeting; a compliment from one absent. Write to him . . . gentle adieus and greetings. Shak.

s) hastened the end of that famous mathematician, Mr. Harriot. Wood. To come to grief, to meet with calamity, accident, defeat, ruin, etc., causing grief; to turn out badly. [Colloq.]