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Serving to show or make known; showing; indicative; signifying; implying.

A prefix signifying Indian (i. e., East Indian); of or pertaining of India.

A suffix used to form nouns from verbs, and signifying the act of; the result of the act; as, riding, dying, feeling. It has also a secondary collective force; as, shipping, clothing.

A prefix signifying among, between, amid; as, interact, interarticular, intermit.

A prefix signifying in, within, interior; as, intraocular, within the eyeball; intramarginal.

A prefix signifying within, into, in, inward; as, introduce, introreception, introthoracic.

A combining from (also used adjectively), signifying: Pertaining to, or designating, the characteristic, nitrogenous radical, NOH, called the isonitroso group.

A verb suffix signifying to make, to do, to practice; as apologize, baptize, theorize, tyrannize.

remainder of the session." Journal H. of R., U. S. -- Joint and several (Law), a phrase signifying that the debt, credit, obligation, etc., to which it is applied is held in such a way that the parties in interest are engaged both together and individually thus a joint and several debt is one for which all the debtors…

A combining form used to signify thousand in forming the names of units of measurement; as, kilogram, kilometer, kilowatt, etc.

A combining form signifying white, colorless; specif. (Chem.), denoting an extensive series of colorless organic compounds, obtained by reduction from certain other colored compounds; as, leucaniline, leucaurin, etc.

Same as Lombard-house. A Lombard unto this day signifying a bank for usury or pawns. Fuller.

A combining form signifying orange yellow or brownish yellow.

A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.

rose or verse, are effected. The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in a poem. Pope.

A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.

Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. T. Warton. Macaulay. Maiden assize (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. Smart…

To be of importance; to import; to signify. It matters not how they were called. Locke.

To signify; to indicate; to import; to denote. What mean these seven ewe lambs Gen. xxi. 29. Go ye, and learn what that me. Matt. ix. 13.

Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended, powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech., etc.)