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A transition from one subject to another.

One who writes on the subject of metals.

Subject to change; changeable; variable.

nged with regard to method; disposed in a suitable manner, or in a manner to illustrate a subject, or to facilitate practical observation; as, the methodical arrangement of arguments; a methodical treatise. "Methodical regularity." Addison.

The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject.

cifically, the body of citizens enrolled for military instruction and discipline, but not subject to be called into actual service except in emergencies. The king's captains and soldiers fight his battles, and yet... the power of the militia is he. Jer. Taylor.

he incorporated materials for gunpowder, in the form of a dense mass or cake, ready to be subjected to the process of granulation.

Having been subjected to some process of milling. Milled cloth, cloth that has been beaten in a fulling mill. -- Milled lead, lead rolled into sheets.

of the fourteenth century. They were chiefly of noble birth, and made love and beauty the subjects of their verses.

e, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn subjects. -- Minor orders (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical offices who are not in holy orders, as doorkeepers, acolytes, etc. -- Minor scale (Mus.) The form of the minor scale is various. The strictly corr…

ass or mixture of various things; a medley; esp., a collection of compositions on various subjects. 'T is but a bundle or miscellany of sin; sins original, and sins actual. Hewyt. Miscellany madam, a woman who dealt in various fineries; a milliner. [Obs.] B. Jonson.

Subject of laughter, derision, or sport. The cruel handling of the city whereof they made a mockery. 2 Macc. viii. 17.

The form in which the proposition connects the predicate and subject, whether by simple, contingent, or necessary assertion; the form of the syllogism, as determined by the quantity and quality of the constituent proposition; mood.

s; the moiety of a jury, or of a nation. Shak. The more beautiful moiety of his majesty's subject. Addison.

chy afford false Clarence. Shak. Fifth monarchy, a universal monarchy, supposed to be the subject of prophecy in Daniel ii.; the four preceding monarchies being Assyrian, Persian, Grecian, and Roman. See Fifth Monarchy men, under Fifth.

or description of a single thing, or class of things; a special treatise on a particular subject of limited range.

Derangement of the mind in regard of a single subject only; also, such a concentration of interest upon one particular subject or train of ideas to show mental derangement.

One who talks in the same strain or on the same subject until weariness is produced. Richardson.

Subject to varying moods, especially to states of mind which are unamiable or depressed.

Subject, or open, to argument or discussion; undecided; debatable; mooted.