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One versed in mammalogy.

l; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies. The material elements of the universe. Whewell.

One versed in mathematics.

That of which the sensible universe and all existent bodies are composed; anything which has extension, occupies space, or is perceptible by the senses; body; substance.

One versed in mazology or mastology.

or by habit, without special intention or reflection; as, mechanical singing; mechanical verses; mechanical service.

One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalist.]

the weather by the arts of magic. -- Medicine seal, a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.

A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. B. G. Wildex.

cord are developed. -- Medullary rays (Bot.), the rays of cellular tissue seen in a transverse section of exogenous wood, which pass from the pith to the bark. -- Medullary sheath (Anat.), the layer of white semifluid substance (myelin), between the primitive sheath and axis cylinder of a medullated nerve fiber.…

Having the orbital index relatively large; having the orbits narrow transversely; -- opposed to microseme.

Alternately responsive, as verses.

A part of a discourse or of a period or sentence; a clause; a part of a verse.

A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.

Transverse; as, the metaleptic motion of a muscle.

One who is versed in metaphysics.

Rhythmical arrangement of syllables or words into verses, stanzas, strophes, etc.; poetical measure, depending on number, quantity, and accent of syllables; rhythm; measure; verse; also, any specific rhythmical arrangements; as, the Horatian meters; a dactylic meter. The only strict antithesis to prose is meter. Wordsw…

One versed in metoposcopy.

Of or pertaining to the meter; arranged in meter; consisting of verses; as, metrical compositions.

A composer of verses. [Obs.]