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Consisting only in part of germinal matter; characterized by partial segmentation only; as, meroblastic ova, in which a portion of the yolk only undergoes fission; meroblastic segmentation; -- opposed to holoblastic.

Hernia in the thigh; femoral hernia .

Applied to the ovaries of insects when they secrete vitelligenous cells, as well as ova.

One of a family of birds (Meropidæ), including the bee-eaters.

The fourth joint of a typical appendage of Crustacea.

Organization in part. [R.]

The plain surface between the channels of a triglyph. [Written also merus.] Weale.

One of the serial segments, or metameres, of which the bodies of vertebrate and articulate animals are composed.

A class of Arthropoda, allied to the Crustacea. It includes the trilobites, Eurypteroidea, and Limuloidea. All are extinct except the horseshoe crabs of the last group. See Limulus.

See Jack, 8 (c).

Of or pertaining to the first Frankish dynasty in Gaul or France. -- n.

A form of spore, usually elongate or falciform, and somewhat amoboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.

In a merry manner; with mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. See Mirth, and Merry. Merrily sing, and sport, and play. Granville.

See Merrymake, n.

Gayety, with laughter; mirth; frolic. "Follies and light merriment." Spenser. Methought it was the sound Of riot and ill-managed merriment. Milton.

The quality or state of being merry; merriment; mirth; gayety, with laughter.

r and good spirits; jovial; inclined to laughter or play ; sportive. They drank, and were merry with him. Gen. xliii. 34. I am never merry when I hear sweet music. Shak.

One whose business is to make sport for others; a buffoon; a zany; especially, one who attends a mountebank or quack doctor.

Any revolving contrivance for affording amusement; esp., a ring of flying hobbyhorses.

Mirth; frolic; a meeting for mirth; a festival. [Written also merrimake.]