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To serve as the measure of; as, the thermometer measures changes of temperature.

pied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography; as, a mechanographic record of changes of temperature; mechanographic prints.

colors are ground and prepared for application. Circulating medium, a current medium of exchange, whether coin, bank notes, or government notes. -- Ethereal medium (Physics), the ether. -- Medium of exchange, that which is used for effecting an exchange of commodities -- money or current representatives of money.…

The Gorgon; or one of the Gorgons whose hair was changed into serpents, after which all who looked upon her were turned into stone.

To be changed from a solid to a liquid state under the influence of heat; as, butter and wax melt at moderate temperatures.

The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See Change of life, under Change.

gone through in a month; as, the menstrual revolution of the moon; pertaining to monthly changes; as, the menstrual equation of the sun's place.

ualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament. A mercurial man Who fluttered over all things like a fan. Byron.

A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.

Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.

To change by a metabolic process. See Metabolism.

The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless ge…

Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis. [R.]

Subject to change; changeable; variable.

al of rock masses has been more or less recrystallized by heat, pressure, etc., as in the change of sedimentary limestone to marble. Murchison.

To change into a different form; to transform; to transmute. And earth was metamorphosed into man. Dryden.

Change of form, or structure; transformation.

Change of form; transformation.

A change in the letters or syllables of a word.

An alteration in a mineral or rock mass when involving a chemical change of the substance, as of chrysolite to serpentine; -- opposed to ordinary metamorphism, as implying simply a recrystallization. -- Met`a*so*mat"ic, a.