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A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is M. sativa.

Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.

Of, pertaining to, or having to do with, the art of healing disease, or the science of medicine; as, the medical profession; medical services; a medical dictionary; medical jurisprudence.

In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.

Anything used for healing diseases or wounds; a medicine; a healing application.

Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. -- Med`ica*men"tal*ly, adv.

A quack. [R.] Whitlock.

To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug. "Medicated waters." Arbuthnot.

The act or process of medicating.

Medicinal; acting like a medicine.

Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus. Medicean planets (Astron.), a name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.

Medicinal; having the power of healing. [Obs.] Shak.

ative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs. Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinal gum. Shak.

In a medicinal manner.

ubstance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a remedy; physic. By medicine, life may be prolonged. Shak.

Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.

A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. B. G. Wildex.

The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.

Science of medicine. [Obs.]

Not to be healed; incurable. "Wounds immedicable." Milton.