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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.

Concavo-convex, like a meniscus.

An interarticular synovial cartilage or membrane; esp., one of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. Converging meniscus, Diverging meniscus. See Lens.

Pertaining to a natural order (Menispermaceæ) of climbing plants of which moonseed (Menispermum) is the type.