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ollowed by with or in. Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt 2 Kings xiv. 10. The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke. To meddle and make, to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] Shak.

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.

ence; characterized by mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face. "Her meek prayer." Chaucer.

e skin (particularly in the skin of the negro), in the epithelial cells of the external layer of the retina (then called fuscin), in the outer layer of the choroid, and elsewhere. It is supposed to be derived from the decomposition of hemoglobin.

A piano having a mechanical attachment which enables the player to prolong the notes at will.

A thin layer or fold of tissue, usually supported by a fibrous network, serving to cover or line some part or organ, and often secreting or absorbing certain fluids.

One of a class of independent, isolated cells found in the mesoderm, while the germ layers are undergoing differentiation.

Relating to the mesoblast; as, the mesoblastic layer.

The middle layer of a pericarp which consists of three distinct or dissimilar layers. Gray.

The layer of the blastoderm, between the ectoderm and endoderm; mesoblast. See Illust. of Blastoderm and Ectoderm.

The middle bark of a tree; the green layer of bark, usually soon covered by the outer or corky layer, and obliterated.

The middle layer of the gonophore in the Hydrozoa.

Epithelial mesoderm; a layer of cuboidal epithelium cells, formed from a portion of the mesoderm during the differetiation of the germ layers. It constitutes the boundary of the coelum.

tral cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Protozoa.

if by milking; to compel to yield profit or advantage; to plunder. Tyndale. They [the lawyers] milk an unfortunate estate as regularly as a dairyman does his stock. London Spectator. To milk the street, to squeeze the smaller operators in stocks and extract a profit from them, by alternately raising and depressing pri…

a mosque and surrounded by one or more projecting balconies, from which the summon to prayer is cried by the muezzin.

The act of misdealing; a wrong distribution of cards to the players.

e not recollected; to lose. The... charter, indeed, was unfortunately mislaid: and the prayer of their petition was to obtain one of like import in its stead. Hallam.

o, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

anthracite coal region of Pennsylvania, about 1854, for the purpose of intimidating employers and officers of the law, and for avenging themselves by murder on persons obnoxious to them. The society was broken up by criminal prosecutions in 1876.