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One who cultivates land for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools, and seed from the landlord. [France & Italy] Milman.

rotoplasmic mass, constituting the egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed, and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all animals except the Proto…

One of the Metazoa.

Of or pertaining to the Metazoa.

One of the Metazoa.

To dream; also impersonally; as, me mette, I dreamed. [Obs.] "I mette of him all night." Chaucer.

A quantity of corn formerly given by the lord to his customary tenants, as an encouragement to, or reward for, labor and faithful service.

According to measure or proportion; proportionable; proportionate. [Obs.]

Related, or belonging, to the objects of knowledge within the province of metempirics. If then the empirical designates the province we include within the range of science, the province we exclude may be fitly styled the metempirical. G. H. Lewes.

The science that is concerned with metempirics.

The concepts and relations which are conceived as beyond, and yet as related to, the knowledge gained by experience.

To translate or transfer, as the soul, from one body to another. [R.] Peacham.

The passage of the soul, as an immortal essence, at the death of the animal body it had inhabited, into another living body, whether of a brute or a human being; transmigration of souls. Sir T. Browne.

The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the proemptosis, or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.

The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.

The assimilation by one body or organism of the elements of another.

enon or appearance in the atmosphere, as clouds, rain, hail, snow, etc. Hail, an ordinary meteor. Bp. Hall.

Of or pertaining to a meteor, or to meteors; atmospheric, as, meteoric phenomena; meteoric stones.

Meteoric.

Flatulent distention of the abdomen; tympanites.