Search the Dictionary

and are required to be supported by alms, esp. the Franciscans, the Dominicans, the Carmelites, and the Augustinians.

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

An old term covering natrolite or soda mesolite, scolecite or lime mesotype, and mesolite or lime-soda mesotype.

he letters of the alphabet of one language into the possible equivalents of another; transliteration. Stormonth.

Of or pertaining to metaphor; comprising a metaphor; not literal; figurative; tropical; as, a metaphorical expression; a metaphorical sense. -- Met`a*phor"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Met`a*phor"ic*al*ness, n.

Translated literally.

A literal translator.

Close, or literal.

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.

A mass of stone or iron which has fallen to the earth from space; an aërolite.

d England. The principal unit is the meter (see Meter). From this are formed the are, the liter, the stere, the gram, etc. These units, and others derived from them, are divided decimally, and larger units are formed from multiples by 10, 100, 1,000, and 10,000. The successive multiplies are designated by the prefixes,…

A granitoid rock containing feldspar, biotite, elæolite, and sodalite.

Same as Microlite, 2.

Of or pertaining to the genus Miliola; containing miliolites.

A liter, or cubic decimeter.

A mistress; a wife; -- so used by the illiterate. G. Eliot.

The doctrine of the Monothelites.

Of or pertaining to the Monothelites, or their doctrine.

The celestial orb which revolves round the earth; the satellite of the earth; a secondary planet, whose light, borrowed from the sun, is reflected to the earth, and serves to dispel the darkness of night. The diameter of the moon is 2,160 miles, its mean distance from the earth is 240,000 miles, and its mass is one eig…

which renders it good; the conformity of an act to the accepted standard of right. Of moralitee he was the flower. Chaucer. I am bold to think that morality is capable of demonstration. Locke.