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

A composer of verses. [Obs.]

A maker of verses. Bale. Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer. Lowell.

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.

he celestial spheres. -- Music paper, paper ruled with the musical staff, for the use of composers and copyists. -- Music pen, a pen for ruling at one time the five lines of the musical staff. -- Music shell (Zoöl.), a handsomely colored marine gastropod shell (Voluta musica) found in the East Indies; -- so called b…

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.

One who composes or sings a myriologue.