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The side or limb-bearing portion of an arthromere.

virtue; this actor will appear as Hamlet. The beggar is greater as a man, than is the man merely as a king. Dewey.

Ashlar when in thin slabs and made to serve merely as a case to the body of the wall. Brande & C.

helper; an auxiliary; a means of help. Four assistants who his labor share. Pope. Rhymes merely as assistants to memory. Mrs. Chapone.

See Indicator card.) -- Atmospheric pressure, the pressure exerted by the atmosphere, not merely downwards, but in every direction. In amounts to about 14.7 Ibs. on each square inch. -- Atmospheric railway, one in which pneumatic power, obtained from compressed air or the creation of a vacuum, is the propelling force.…

To adhere; to be attached. The great interest which attaches to the mere knowledge of these facts cannot be doubted. Brougham.

country was rapidly changing. J. R. Green. To strike an attitude, to take an attitude for mere effect.

Idle talk; senseless prattle; gabble; twaddle. "This is mere moral babble." Milton.

baffled, until within a . . . recent period, the most enlightened nations. Prescott. The mere intricacy of a question should not baffle us. Locke. Baffling wind (Naut.), one that frequently shifts from one point to another.

Mere; alone; unaccompanied by anything else; as, a bare majority. "The bare necessaries of life." Addison. Nor are men prevailed upon by bare of naked truth. South. Under bare poles (Naut.), having no sail set.

Merely; only. R. For now his son is duke. W. Barely in title, not in revenue. Shak.

An improvement of an estate which renders it better than mere repairing would do; -- generally used in the plural. [U. S.] Bouvier.

edit. (a) Within the constitution of the United States, a paper issued by a State, on the mere faith and credit of the State, and designed to circulate as money. No State shall "emit bills of credit." U. S. Const. Peters. Wharton. Bouvier (b) Among merchants, a letter sent by an agent or other person to a merchant, des…

ord as used in the Public Works Department; but the term has also been locally applied to mere back-waters forming stagnant pools and to certain water channels arising from a source.

The hollow globe or sphere formed by the arrangement of the blastomeres on the periphery of an impregnated ovum.

Infamous; contemptible; -- variously used for mere emphasis or as a low epithet. [Vulgar] Thackeray.

Having a body or material form; physical; corporeal; consisting of matter. You are a mere spirit, and have no knowledge of the bodily part of us. Tatler.

to study; a reader without appreciation. I wanted but a black gown and a salary to be as mere a bookworm as any there. Pope.

Empty boasting; mere brag; pretension.

; ferocious; savage; pitiless; as, brute violence. Macaulay. The influence of capital and mere brute labor. Playfair.