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A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.

ned rabbis of the school of Tiberias, in the eighth and ninth centuries. [Written also Masorah, Massora, and Massorah.]

Same as Masora.

The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.

The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable. Nature by art we nobly meliorate. Denham. The pure and bening light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. Washington.

Same as Meliorator.

The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement. Bacon.

One who meliorates.

Things remarkable and worthy of remembrance or record; also, the record of them.

The quality or state of being memorable.

ra*ble*ness, n. -- Mem"o*ra*bly, adv. Surviving fame to gain, Buy tombs, by books, by memorable deeds. Sir J. Davies.

omething which it is desired to remember; a note to help the memory. I . . . entered a memorandum in my pocketbook. Guardian. I wish you would, as opportunity offers, make memorandums of the regulations of the academies. Sir J. Reynolds.

To commemorate. [Obs.]

Commemorative. [Obs.] Hammond.

A process from the middle of the coracoid in some animals.

Of or pertaining to the mesothorax.

The middle segment of the thorax in insects. See Illust. of Coleoptera.

A white, amorphous, insoluble substance regarded as a polymeric variety of chloral.

Of or pertaining to the metathorax.