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dicean Venus. Medicean planets (Astron.), a name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.

o ansver; as, to meet one's expectations; the supply meets the demand. To meet half way, literally, to go half the distance between in order to meet (one); hence, figuratively, to yield or concede half of the difference in order to effect a compromise or reconciliation with.

A small fish of the Mediterranean; a gilthead. See Gilthead (a).

Causing to melt; becoming melted; -- used literally or figuratively; as, a melting heat; a melting appeal; a melting mood. -- Melt"ing*ly, adv.

ransactions or events (usually written in familiar style) as they are remembered by the writer. See History, 2.

A writer of memoirs.

The cavity of the mesencephalon; the iter.

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

e 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.

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,…

The middle part of the sea or ocean. Milton. The Mid-sea, the Mediterranean Sea. [Obs.]

Surrounded by the land; mediterranean. And on the midland sea the French had awed. Dryden.

A liter, or cubic decimeter.

A writer of mimes. Sir T. Herbert.

; that part of Asia which lies between the Euxine, or Black Sea, on the north, and the Mediterranean on the south. -- Minor mode (Mus.), that mode, or scale, in which the third and sixth are minor, -- much used for mournful and solemn subjects. -- Minor orders (Eccl.), the rank of persons employed in ecclesiastical o…

A king and lawgiver of Crete, fabled to be the son of Jupiter and Europa. After death he was made a judge in the Lower Regions.