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One of a group of univalve shells, having a large aperture or mouth.

c quaternary mammal, allied to the ant-eaters and sloths. Its remains are found in South America.

One of a family of extinct edentates found in America. The family includes the megatherium, the megalonyx, etc.

One of the larger measures of electro-motive force, amounting to one million volts.

A million webers.

One of the larger measures of work, amounting to one million ergs; -- called also megalerg.

A gelatinous compound of linseed oil and mastic varnish, used by artists as a vehicle for colors. [Written also magilp, and magilph.]

One of the larger measures of electrical resistance, amounting to one million ohms.

A fancy; a whim; a freak; a humor; esp., in the plural, lowness of spirits. These are his megrims, firks, and melancholies. Ford.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Meibomius. Meibomian glands, the slender sebaceous glands of the eyelids, which discharge, through minute orifices in the edges of the lids, a fatty secretion serving to lubricate the adjacent parts.

See Menge.

A family, including servants, etc.; household; retinue; train. [Obs.] Chaucer. Shak.

See Miocene.

A member of the scapolite, group, occuring in glassy crystals on Monte Somma, near Naples.

Diminution; a species of hyperbole, representing a thing as being less than it really is.

Having fever stamens than the parts of the corolla.

See Mastersinger.

See Mechitarist.

An earthy black oxide of copper, arising from the decomposition of other ores.

A mixture of sugar and molasses; crude sugar as it comes from the pans without being drained.