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Very pleasing; -- applied loosely to almost anything which is not grand or merely pretty; as, a lovely view; a lovely valley; a lovely melody. Indeed these fields Are lovely, lovelier not the Elysian lawns. Tennyson.

A stammerer. [Obs.]

at which thou aright Believest so main to our success, I bring. Milton. By main force, by mere force or sheer force; by violent effort; as, to subdue insurrection by main force. That Maine which by main force Warwick did win. Shak. -- By main strength, by sheer strength; as, to lift a heavy weight by main strength. --…

A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." Tylor. To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. M. Arnold.

ind of large field beet (B. macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet. [Written also mangold-wurzel.]

A small lake. See Mere. [Prov. Eng.]

eady onward movement. With solemn march Goes slow and stately by them. Shak. This happens merely because men will not bide their time, but will insist on precipitating the march of affairs. Buckle.

, having huge flattened spiral horns. It inhabits the mountains of Northern India and Cashmere.

ard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and the name is now a mere title conferred by patent.

Possibility; uncertainty. [R.] What they offer is mere maybe and shift. Creech.

A boundary. See Mere. [Obs.]

One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.

Simple; unmixed. See Mere, a. [Obs.]

A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere, epimere.

One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.

Of or pertaining to a metamere or its formation; as, metameric segmentation.

The symmetry of a metameric structure; serial symmetry; the state of being made up of metameres.

A mere change in place of a morbid substance, without removal from the body.

A maker of verses. Bale. Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Lowell.

Culminating, or coming to the meredian, at or about the same time with the moon; -- said of a star or stars, esp. of certain stars selected beforehand, and named in an ephemeris (as the Nautical Almanac), as suitable to be observed in connection with the moon at culmination, for determining terrestrial longitude.…