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To keep the mind in a state of contemplation; to dwell on anything in thought; to think seriously; to muse; to cogitate; to reflect. Jer. Taylor. In his law doth he meditate day and night. Ps. i. 2.

se or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing. Let the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart be acceptable in thy sight. Ps. xix. 14.

e produced with sensitized collodion on a smooth surface of black varnish, coating a thin plate of iron; also, the process of making such a picture. [Written also melainotype.]

nt after exposure may be deferred indefinitely, so as to permit transportation of exposed plates; also, the process itself.

A plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or reptile.

The front median plate of the labium in insects. See Labium.

A high tableland; a plateau on a hill. [Southwestern U.S.] Bartlett.

The median vertical plate, or median element, of the ethmoid bone.

Having the nose of medium width; between leptorhine and platyrhine.

The scutum or dorsal plate of the middle thoracic segment of an insect. See Illust. of Butterfly.

Barreled salt beef, packed with about 80 pounds chuck and rump, two flanks, and the rest plates.

kalies, alkaline earths, or the earths; specifically, the heavy metals, as gold, mercury, platinum, lead, silver, etc. -- Light metals (Chem.), the metallic elements of the alkali and alkaline earth groups, as sodium, lithium, calcium, magnesium, etc.; also, sometimes, the metals of the earths, as aluminium. -- Muntz…

A substitute for lithography, in which metallic plates are used instead of stone. Knight.

Treatment of disease by applying metallic plates to the surface of the body.

The ventral plate of the third or last segment of the thorax of insects.

An enlarged representation of a microscopic object, produced by throwing upon a sensitive plate the magnified image of an object formed by a microscope or other suitable combination of lenses.

variety of the carp, having only three or fur rows of very large scales side. -- Mirror plate. (a) A flat glass mirror without a frame. (b) Flat glass used for making mirrors. -- Mirror writing, a manner or form of backward writing, making manuscript resembling in slant and order of letters the reflection of ordinar…

A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.

A curved plate of iron (originally of wood) back of the share of a plow, which turns over the earth in plowing.

of Joseph Smith, who professed to have found an addition to the Bible, engraved on golden plates, called the Book of Mormon, first published in 1830. The Mormons believe in polygamy, and their hierarchy of apostles, etc., has control of civil and religious matters.