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Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more materialistic than his physics. C. Kingsley.

Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow. "Fat meadow ground." Milton.

guage. "Mealy-mouthed philanthropies." Tennyson. She was a fool to be mealy-mouthed where nature speaks so plain. L'Estrange. -- Meal"y-mouth`ness, n.

One who regards the phenomena of nature as the effects of forces merely mechanical.

drawn from an angle of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any line having the nature of a diameter. -- Median plane (Anat.), the mesial plane. -- Median point (Geom.), the point where the three median lines of a triangle mutually intersect.

Ill nature. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Affected with melanism; of the nature of melanism.

To make better; to improve; to ameliorate; to soften; to make more tolerable. Nature by art we nobly meliorate. Denham. The pure and bening light of revelation has had a meliorating influence on mankind. Washington.

The doctrine that there is a tendency throughout nature toward improvement. J. Sully.

Of the nature of melody; relating to, containing, or made up of, melody; melodious.

Of or pertaining to a metal; of the nature of metal; resembling metal; as, a metallic appearance; a metallic alloy.

Of the nature or appearance of a meteor.

Partaking of the nature of, or consisting of, mica and lime; -- applied to a mica schist containing carbonate of lime.

ural particle of protoplasm, capable of increase or diminution without change in chemical nature.

Of or pertaining to micrococci; caused by micrococci. Nature.

Pertaining to, or of the nature of, microphytes.

To assume a resemblance to (some other organism of a totally different nature, or some surrounding object), as a means of protection or advantage.

; the intellect; the power that conceives, judges, or reasons; also, the entire spiritual nature; the soul; -- often in distinction from the body. By the mind of man we understand that in him which thinks, remembers, reasons, wills. Reid. What we mean by mind is simply that which perceives, thinks, feels, wills, and de…

An inorganic species or substance occurring in nature, having a definite chemical composition and usually a distinct crystalline form. Rocks, except certain glassy igneous forms, are either simple minerals or aggregates of minerals.

The conversion of a cell wall into a material of a stony nature.