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The state of a demon. Mede.

One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede.

To destroy. [Obs.] Mede.

To unbind; to loosen. [Obs.] Mede.

Disjunction; separation. [Obs.] Mede.

Indicating division or distribution. Mede.

The exclamation attributed to Archimedes, who is said to have cried out "Eureka! eureka!" (I have found it! I have found it!), upon suddenly discovering a method of finding out how much the gold of King Hiero's crown had been alloyed. Hence, an expression of triumph concerning a discovery.

To lay down beforehand. These grounds being forelaid and understood. Mede.

An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony. [Obs.] Mede.

he equilibrium of fluids. The first discovery made in hydrostatics since the time of Archimedes is due to Stevinus. Hallam. Hydrostatic balance, a balance for weighing substances in water, for the purpose of ascertaining their specific gravities. -- Hydrostatic bed, a water bed. -- Hydrostatic bellows, an apparatus c…

s (Bot.), nasturtium. See Nasturtium, 2. -- Indian cucumber (Bot.), a plant of the genus Medeola (M. Virginica), a common in woods in the United States. The white rootstock has a taste like cucumbers. -- Indian currant (Bot.), a plant of the genus Symphoricarpus (S. vulgaris), bearing small red berries. -- Indian dy…

To generate or produce within; to begete; to engener; to occasion; to cause. Mede. Those noble habits are ingenerated in the soul. Sir M. Hale.

An interlude; an intermede. See Intermede.

A curious South American bird (Anhima, or Palamedea, cornuta), often domesticated by the natives and kept with poultry, which it defends against birds of prey. It has a long, slender, hornlike ornament on its head, and two sharp spurs on each wing. Although its beak, feet, and legs resemble those of gallinaceous birds,…

ged after thy precepts. Ps. cxix. 40. I have longed for thy salvation. Ps. cxix. 174. Nicomedes, longing for herrings, was supplied with fresh ones . . . at a great distance from the sea. Arbuthnot.

To dwell; to reside. [Obs.] Mede.

A meadow. A mede All full of freshe flowers, white and reede. Chaucer. To fertile vales and dewy meads My weary, wandering steps he leads. Addison.

The quality or state of being peculiar; peculiarity. Mede.

A reddish herb (Pterospora andromedea) of the United States, found parasitic on the roots of pine trees.

r the state of being placed after. "The postposition of the nominative case to the verb." Mede.