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Any bird of the genus Meliphaga and allied genera; a honey eater; -- called also meliphagidan.

An absorption of one estate, or one contract, in another, or of a minor offense in a greater.

One of a family of birds (Meropidæ), including the bee-eaters.

The chattering, or garrulous, honey eater of Australia (Myzantha garrula). Miner's elbow (Med.), a swelling on the black of the elbow due to inflammation of the bursa over the olecranon; -- so called because of frequent occurrence in miners. -- Miner's inch, in hydraulic mining, the amount of water flowing under a giv…

One of the great races of man, including the greater part of the inhabitants of China, Japan, and the interior of Asia, with branches in Northern Europe and other parts of the world. By some American Indians are considered a branch of the Mongols. In a more restricted sense, the inhabitants of Mongolia and adjacent cou…

Greater; superior; increased; as:

. (D), . (E), .. (O), ... (R), -- (T), etc., or by sounds, flashes of light, etc., with greater or less intervals between them.

Consisting of the greatest number or quantity; greater in number or quantity than all the rest; nearly all. "Most men will proclaim every one his own goodness." Prov. xx. 6. The cities wherein most of his mighty works were done. Matt. xi. 20.

The European bee-eater. See Bee-eater. [Written also modwall.]

To become greater in number; to become numerous. When men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them. Gen. vi. 1.

Having a valence greater than one, as silicon.

An African bird of the genus Schizorhis, related to the plantain eaters.

A black man; especially, one of a race of black or very dark persons who inhabit the greater part of tropical Africa, and are distinguished by crisped or curly hair, flat noses, and thick protruding lips; also, any black person of unmixed African blood, wherever found.

ly distributed, and at Niagara Falls consist of about eighty feet of shale supporting a greater thickness of limestone, which is gradually undermined by the removal of the shale. See Chart of Geology.

The number greater than eight by a unit; nine units or objects.

The number greater than eighteen by a unit; the sum of ten and nine; nineteen units or objects.

The sum of nine times ten; the number greater by a unit than eighty-nine; ninety units or objects.

Something shaped like the letter O; a circle or oval. "This wooden O [Globe Theater]". Shak.

Having greater length than breadth, esp. when rectangular.

A prolate spheroid; a figure described by the revolution of an ellipse about its greater axis. Cf. Oblatum, and see Ellipsoid of revolution, under Ellipsoid.