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The Messiah. I know that Messias cometh, which is called Christ. John iv. 25.

The tenth month of the French republican calendar dating from September 22, 1792. It began June 19, and ended July 18. See VendÉmiaire.

Sirs; gentlemen; -- abbreviated to Messrs., which is used as the plural of Mr.

Of or pertaining to Messina, or its inhabitans.

An associate in a mess.

usehold. Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson.

Most. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; -- so called in the West Indies. [Written also mustee.]

See Mister, a trade.

See Mestizo.

e offspring of an Indian or a negro and a European or person of European stock. [Spanish America] Mestizo wool, wool imported from South America, and produced by mixed breeds of sheep.

A kind of brass. See Maslin. [Obs.]

A repetition at the end of a stanza.

of Meet.

A prefix meaning between, with, after, behind, over, about, reversely; as, metachronism, the error of placing after the correct time; metaphor, lit., a carrying over; metathesis, a placing reversely.

Same as Metabola.

A change or mutation; a change of disease, symptoms, or treatment.

A comprehensive group of insects, including those that undegro a metamorphosis.

An insect which undergoes a metamorphosis.

Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.