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That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient. James Mill. I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. G. Eliot.

g parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozoites. An indefinite but not ultimated number of such generations may follow, but if mea…

The parsonage; a clergyman's house. [Scot.] Capital manse, the manor house, or lord's court.

shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.

Border; margin; edge; verge. [Poetic] Tennyson. Along the river's stony marge. Wordsworth.

A border; edge; brink; verge; as, the margin of a river or lake.

ly and figuratively; as, this monument marks the spot where Wolfe died; his courage and energy marked him for a leader.

; strong; robust. That lady, after her husband's death, held the reins with a masculine energy. Hallam.

The black rattlesnake (Crotalus, or Caudisona, tergemina), found in the Mississippi Valley.

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

nd perhaps the first complete book, printed with movable metal types; -- printed by Gutenberg at Mentz, 1450-55; -- so called because a copy was found in the Mazarine Library, at Paris, about 1760. -- Mazarine blue, a deep blue color, named in honor of Cardinal Mazarin.

A genus of evergreen tropical shrubs; -- so called from the black berries of some species, which stain the mouth.

A Japanese evergreen rose (Rosa wichuraiana) with creeping branches, shining leaves, and single white flowers. It is often planted in cemeteries.

of the intervertebral synovial disks in some parts of the vertebral column of birds. Converging meniscus, Diverging meniscus. See Lens.

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

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

An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.

The change of form which one animal species undergoes in a series of successively produced individuals, extending from the one developed from the ovum to the final perfected individual. Hence, metagenesis involves the production of sexual individuals by nonsexual means, either directly or through intervening sexless ge…

ining to, produced by, or exhibiting, certain changes which minerals or rocks may have undergone since their original deposition; -- especially applied to the recrystallization which sedimentary rocks have undergone through the influence of heat and pressure, after which they are called metamorphic rocks.…

One who believes that the body of Christ was merged into the Deity when he ascended.