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The act of lucubrating, or studying by candlelight; nocturnal study; meditation. After long lucubration I have hit upon such an expedient. Goldsmith.

Luxury. [Obs.] Shenstone. Édition de luxe (. Etym: [F.] (Printing) A sumptuous edition as regards paper, illustrations, binding, etc.

A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.] Goldsmith.

The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine. [Colloq.] Byron.

One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.]

alcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.

te of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity. [Obs.] The maidenhead of their credit. Sir H. Wotton.

A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.

cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. Shak.

by tree of the genus Pistacia (P. Lentiscus), growing upon the islands and coasts of the Mediterranean, and producing a valuable resin; -- called also, mastic tree.

e sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.

Favorable to meditation; somber. A pretty, melancholy seat, well wooded and watered. Evelin.

A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).

A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.

In the mind; in thought or meditation; intellectually; in idea.

ts; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial. The expedition of the Argonauts was partly mercantile, partly military. Arbuthnot. Mercantile agency, an agency for procuring information of the standing and credit of merchants in different parts of the country, for the use of dealers w…

The middle part of the sea or ocean. Milton. The Mid-sea, the Mediterranean Sea. [Obs.]

Surrounded by the land; mediterranean. And on the midland sea the French had awed. Dryden.

The popular designation of the hereditary sovereign of Japan.