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The condition of being mendicant; beggary; begging. Burke.

Practicing beggary; begging; living on alms; as, mendicant friars. Mendicant orders (R. C. Ch.), certain monastic orders which are forbidden to acquire landed property and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

To beg. [R.] Johnson.

The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy. Sir T. Browne.

The practice of begging; the life of a beggar; mendicancy. Rom. of R.

A mendicant or begging friar. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Amendment. [Obs.]

The cackerel.

Medregal.

See Amends. [Obs.] Shak.

To mix. [Obs.] Spenser.

An American marine fish of the Herring familt (Brevoortia tyrannus), chiefly valuable for its oil and as a component of fertilizers; -- called also mossbunker, bony fish, chebog, pogy, hardhead, whitefish, etc.

A large stone set upright in olden times as a memorial or monument. Many, of unknown date, are found in Brittany and throughout Northern Europe.

Belonging to a retinue or train of servants; performing servile office; serving. Two menial dogs before their master pressed. Dryden.

A disease characterized by deafness and vertigo, resulting in incoördination of movement. It is supposed to depend upon a morbid condition of the semicircular canals of the internal ear. Named after Ménière, a French physician.

See Opal.

Of or pertaining to the meninges.

The three membranes that envelop the brain and spinal cord; the pia mater, dura mater, and arachnoid membrane.

Inflammation of the membranes of the brain or spinal cord. Cerebro-spinal meningitis. See under Cerebro-spinal.

Pertaining to, or having the form of, a meniscus.