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Possessing merit; deserving of reward or honor; worthy of recompense; valuable. And meritorious shall that hand be called, Canonized, and worshiped as a saint. Shak. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ly, adv. -- Mer`i*to"ri*ous*ness, n.

rofits, profits of premises during the time the owner has been wrongfully kept out of the possession of his estate. Burrill.

The art or act of rendering the letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

eral elementary substances which in the free state are unlike metals, and whose compounds possess or produce acid, rather than basic, properties; a nonmetal; as, boron, carbon, phosphorus, nitrogen, oxygen, sulphur, chlorine, bromine, etc., are metalloids.

elements united in the same proportion by weight, and with the same molecular weight, but possessing a different structure and different properties; as, methyl ether and ethyl alcohol are metameric compounds. See Isomeric.

Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse. -- Met"tle*some*ly, adv. -- Met"tle*some*ness, n.

The quality of being mighty; possession of might; power; greatness; high dignity. How soon this mightiness meets misery. Shak.

Possessing might; having great power or authority. Wise in heart, and mighty in strength. Job ix. 4.

To reduce to the smallest part or proportion possible; to reduce to a minimum. Bentham.

The least quantity assignable, admissible, or possible, in a given case; hence, a thing of small consequence; -- opposed to Ant: maximum.

To make or form amiss; to spoil in making. "Limping possibilities of mismade human nature." Mrs. Browning.

To make a false profession; to make pretensions to skill which is not possessed.

nal error of conduct. Infallibility is an absolute security of the understanding from all possibility of mistake. Tillotson.

dient entering into a mixed mass; an additional ingredient. Cicero doubts whether it were possible for a community to exist that had not a prevailing mixture of piety in its constitution. Addison.

o compress it to half, its original length, were that degree of elongation or compression possible, or within the limits of elasticity; -- called also Young's modulus. -- Modulus of rupture, the measure of the force necessary to break a given substance across, as a beam, expressed by eighteen times the load which is r…

The smallest part of any substance which possesses the characteristic properties and qualities of that substance, and which can exist alone in a free state.

The possession by a woman of only one husband at the same time; -- contrasted with polyandry.

Having a single floral envelope, that is, a calyx without a corolla, or, possibly, in rare cases, a corolla without a calyx.

Possessing but one capacity or power. "Monodynamic men." De Quincey.

opoly of; to have or get the exclusive privilege or means of dealing in, or the exclusive possession of; to engross the whole of; as, to monopolize the coffee trade; to monopolize land.