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The state or quality of being withered or lean. [R.]

A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite.

Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

Meditation. [Obs.]

; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.

The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. Ps. xix. 14.

One who is given to meditation.

Disposed to meditate, or to meditation; as, a meditative man; a meditative mood. -- Med"i*ta*tive*ly, adv. -- Med"i*ta*tive*ness, n.

Inclosed, or nearly inclosed, with land; as, the Mediterranean Sea, between Europe and Africa.

A two-winged fly (Ceratitis capitata) with black and white markings, native of the Mediterranean countries, but now widely distributed. Its larva lives in ripening oranges, peaches, and other fruits, causing them to decay and fall.

Inland. Sir T. Browne.

The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.

An incorrect or spurious edition. [Obs.] Bp. Hall.

A wrong tradition. "Monsters of mistradition." Tennyson.

Molybdic ocher.

The quality or state of being morbid.

Inflammation of the myocardium.

A grantitoid variety of rhyolite, common in Nevada.

Neglect of rendition; the not rendering what is due. The nonrendition of a service which is due. S. E. Dwight.

uch licenses permitted in poetry any more than in painting, to design and color obscene nudities. Dryden.