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A memorial account; a history composed from personal experience and memory; an account of transactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

r pace. The best service they could do the state was to mend the lives of the persons who composed it. Sir W. Temple.

Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.

An ovum, as that of a mammal, only partially composed of germinal matter, that is, consisting of both a germinal portion and an albuminous or nutritive one; -- opposed to holoblast.

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

personal action. -- Mixed angle, a mixtilineal angle. -- Mixed fabric, a textile fabric composed of two or more kinds of fiber, as a poplin. -- Mixed marriage, a marriage between persons of different races or religions; specifically, one between a Roman Catholic and a Protestant. -- Mixed number, a whole number and…

Consisting in, or composed of, money. A. Hamilton.

A character or cipher composed of two or more letters interwoven or combined so as to represent a name, or a part of it (usually the initials). Monograms are often used on seals, ornamental pins, rings, buttons, and by painters, engravers, etc., to distinguish their works. Monogram.

Composed of solitary parts, as a flower with one sepal, one petal, one stamen, and one pistil.

Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.

One-leaved; composed of a single leaf; as, a monophyllous involucre or calyx.

Having only one sepal, or the calyx in one piece or composed of the sepals united into one piece; gamosepalous.

Being a monosyllable, or composed of monosyllables; as, a monosyllabic word; a monosyllabic language. -- Mon`o*syl*lab"ic*al*ly, adv.

al in spaced letters, as O . ., is equal to three dots. There are no spaces in any letter composed wholly or in part of dashes.

lled mosaic; formed by uniting pieces of different colors; variegated; tessellated; also, composed of various materials or ingredients. A very beautiful mosaic pavement. Addison. Florentine mosaic. See under Florentine. -- Mosaic gold. (a) See Ormolu. -- (b) Stannic sulphide, SnS2, obtained as a yellow scaly crystall…

Composed of different or various parts; heterogeneously made or mixed up; discordantly composite; as, motley style. Byron.

Any mollusk which has a shell composed of more than two pieces.

The protoplasmic matter of which bacteria are composed.

A soft white substance constituting the medullary sheats of nerve fibers, and composed mainly of cholesterin, lecithin, cerebrin, albumin, and some fat.

Composed of, or resembling, muscular fiber.