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A house used as a place of worship; a church; -- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.

Fitly; suitably; properly.

Fitness; suitableness; propriety.

Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.)

Large headed; -- applied to animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads.

The Irish elk.

A leaf-cutting bee of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf.

See Macrocosm. Croft.

A million coulombs.

Any one of several species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.

One of the larger measures of force, amounting to one million dynes.

One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.

A million ergs; a megerg.

Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.

An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.

A large stone; especially, a large stone used in ancient building. -- Meg`a*lith"ic, a.

See Meg-.

The condition of having an abnormally large head. -- Meg`a*lo*ce*phal"ic (#), a.

A large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound anæmia.

A form of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.