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Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. -- n.

Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as, the mental nerve; the mental region.

Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic exhalations; mephitic regions.

Of or pertaining to the middle of the ethmoid region or ethmoid bone. -- n. (Anat.)

Middle; median; in, or in the region of, the mesial plane; internal; -- opposed to lateral. Mesial plane. (Anat.) See Meson.

Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.

Of or pertaining to, or in the region of, the middle of the head; as, the mesocephalic flexure.

Of or pertaining to the middle region of the abdomen, or of the stomach.

The umbilical region.

Of or pertaining to the middle portion of the nasal region.

f.: A transient luminous body or appearance seen in the atmosphere, or in a more elevated region. The vaulty top of heaven Figured quite o'er with burning meteors. Shak.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell; the abode of human beings; the earth.

The middle space or region between heaven and hell, the abode of human beings; the earth.

The interior or central region of a country; -- usually in the plural. Drayton.

To remove from one country or region to another, with a view to residence; to change one's place of residence; to remove; as, the Moors who migrated from Africa into Spain; to migrate to the West.

Removing regularly or occasionally from one region or climate to another; as, migratory birds.

Of or pertaining to mines; as, mining engineer; mining machinery; a mining region. Mining engineering. See the Note under Engineering.

fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.

women. (b) A member of a similar association of Irishmen organized in the anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, about 1854, for the purpose of intimidating employers and officers of the law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.…

ited time; chartered trading companies have sometimes had a monopoly of trade with remote regions; a combination of traders may get a monopoly of a particular product. Raleigh held a monopoly of cards, Essex a monopoly of sweet wines. Macaulay.