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Mechanographic (mĕk�n�grăfĭk), a. 1. Treating of mechanics. [R.]
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2. Written, copied, or recorded by machinery; produced by mechanography; as, a mechanographic record of changes of temperature; mechanographic prints.
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Mechanographist (mĕk�nŏgrȧfĭst), n. An artist who, by mechanical means, multiplies copies of works of art.
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Mechanography (?), n. The art of mechanically multiplying copies of a writing, or any work of art.
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Mechanurgy (?), n. [Gr. mhchanh machine + the root of � work.] That branch of science which treats of moving machines.
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Mechitarist (?), n. [From Mechitar, an Armenian., who founded the congregation in the early part of the eighteenth century.] (Eccl. Hist.) One of a religious congregation of the Roman Catholic Church devoted to the improvement of Armenians.
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Mechlin (?), n. A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.
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Mechoacan (?), n. A species of jalap, of very feeble properties, said to be obtained from the root of a species of Convolvulus (Convolvulus Mechoacan); -- so called from Michoacan, in Mexico, whence it is obtained.
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Meckelian (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to, or discovered by, J. F. Meckel, a German anatomist.
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Coloq. Meckelian cartilage , the cartilaginous rod which forms the axis of the mandible; -- called also Meckel's cartilage.
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Meconate (?), n. [Cf. F. méconate.] (Chem.) A salt of meconic acid.
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Meconic (?), a. [Gr. � belonging to the poppy, fr. � the poppy: cf. F. méconique.] Pertaining to, or obtained from, the poppy or opium; specif. (Chem.), designating an acid related to aconitic acid, found in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance.
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Meconidine (?), n. (Chem) An alkaloid found in opium, and extracted as a yellow amorphous substance which is easily decomposed.
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Meconidium (?), n. [NL., dim. of Gr. � a poppy. So called in allusion to the shape of the seed capsules of the poppy.] (Zoöl.) A kind of gonophore produced by hydroids of the genus Gonothyræa. It has tentacles, and otherwise resembles a free medusa, but remains attached by a pedicel.
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Meconin (?), n. [Cf. F. méconine.] (Chem.) A substance regarded as an anhydride of meconinic acid, existing in opium and extracted as a white crystalline substance. Also erroneously called meconina, meconia, etc., as though it were an alkaloid.
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Meconinic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid which occurs in opium, and which may be obtained by oxidizing narcotine.
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Meconium (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. �, fr. � poppy.] (Med.) (a) Opium. [Obs.] (b) The contents of the fetal intestine; hence, first excrement.
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Medal (?), n. [F. médaille, It. medaglia, fr. L. metallum metal, through (assumed) LL. metalleus made of metal. See , and cf. a piece of money.] A piece of metal in the form of a coin, struck with a device, and intended to preserve the remembrance of a notable event or an illustrious person, or to serve as a reward.
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Medal, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Medaled (?), or Medalled; p. pr. & vb. n. Medaling or Medalling.] To honor or reward with a medal. “Medaled by the king.” Thackeray.
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Medalet (?), n. A small medal.
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Medalist, n. [Cf. F. médailliste, It. medaglista.] [Written also medallist.]
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1. A person that is skilled or curious in medals; a collector of medals. Addison.
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2. A designer of medals. Macaulay.
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3. One who has gained a medal as the reward of merit; as, the gold medalist in downhill skiing.
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Medallic (?), a. Of or pertaining to a medal, or to medals. “Our medallic history.” Walpole.
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Medallion (?), n. [F. médaillion, It. medaglione, augm. of medaglia. See .]
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1. A large medal or memorial coin.
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2. A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.
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Medal play. (Golf) Play in which the score is reckoned by counting the number of strokes.
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Medalurgy (?), n. [Medal + the root of Gr. � work.] The art of making and striking medals and coins. [Written also medallurgy.]
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Meddle (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Meddled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Meddling (?).] [OE. medlen to mix, OF. medler, mesler, F. mêler, LL. misculare, a dim. fr. L. miscere to mix. √271. See , and cf. , .]
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1. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.]
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More to know
Did never meddle with my thoughts. Shak.
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2. To interest or engage one's self; to have to do; -- in a good sense. [Obs.] Barrow.
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Study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own business. Tyndale.
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3. To interest or engage one's self unnecessarily or impertinently, to interfere or busy one's self improperly with another's affairs; specifically, to handle or distrub another's property without permission; -- often followed by with or in.
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Why shouldst thou meddle to thy hurt? 2 Kings xiv. 10.
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The civil lawyers . . . have meddled in a matter that belongs not to them. Locke.
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Coloq. To meddle and make , to intrude one's self into another person's concerns. [Archaic] Shak.
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Syn. -- To interpose; interfere; intermeddle.
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Meddle, v. t. To mix; to mingle. [Obs.] Chaucer.
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“Wine meddled with gall.” Wyclif (Matt. xxvii. 34).
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Meddler (?), n. One who meddles; one who interferes or busies himself with things in which he has no concern; an officious person; a busybody.
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Meddlesome (?), a. Given to meddling; apt to interpose in the affairs of others; officiously intrusive. -- Meddlesomeness, n.
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Meddling (?), a. Meddlesome. Macaulay.
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Meddlingly, adv. In a meddling manner.
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Mede (?), prop. n. A native or inhabitant of Media in Asia. “according to the law of the Medes and Persians, which altereth not” Daniel 6: 8.
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Mede, n. See 1st & 2d , and . [Obs.]
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medfly (mĕdflī), [Often cap.] Same as ; -- a shortened form.
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media (mēdĭȧ), n. sing. & pl., 1. The latinic plural form of , sometimes used as a singular noun with the same meaning as medium; as, (Computers) place your installation media into the device which will read it; (Microbiology) the tuberculosis bacterium will only grow in a special media.
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2. The public institutions that report the news, such as newspapers, magazines, radio, and television, collectively; the news media; as, the media were obsessed with Monica Lewinsky for months.
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Media, n.; pl. Mediæ (-ē). [NL., fr. L. medius middle.] 1. (Phonetics) One of the sonant mutes β, δ, γ (b, d, g), in Greek, or of their equivalents in other languages, so named as intermediate between the tenues, π, τ, κ (p, t, k), and the aspiratæ (aspirates) φ, θ, χ (ph or f, th, ch). Also called middle mute, or medial, and sometimes soft mute.
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Mediacy (mēdĭȧs�), n. The state or quality of being mediate. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Mediæval (mēdĭēv�l; 277), a. [L. medius middle + aevum age. See , and .] Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediæval architecture. [Written also medieval.]
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Mediævalism (mēdĭēv�lĭz'm), n. The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalism.]
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Mediævalist (mēdĭēv�lĭst), n. One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalist.]
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Mediævally (mēdĭēv�ll�), adv. In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance with mediævalism.
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Mediævals (mēdĭēv�lz), n. pl. The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.
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Medial (mēdĭ�l), a. [L. medialis, fr. medius middle: cf. F. médial. See .] Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; as, medial alligation.
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Medial, n. (Phonetics) See 2d .
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Medialuna (?), n. [Sp. media luna half-moon.] (Zoöl.) See .
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Median (mēdĭ�n), a. [L. medianus, fr. medius middle. See .] 1. Being in the middle; running through the middle; as, a median groove.
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2. (Zoöl.) Situated in the middle; lying in a plane dividing a bilateral animal into right and left halves; -- said of unpaired organs and parts; as, median coverts.
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Coloq. Median line . (a) (Anat.) Any line in the mesial plane; specif., either of the lines in which the mesial plane meets the surface of the body. (b) (Geom.) The line drawn from an angle of a triangle to the middle of the opposite side; any line having the nature of a diameter. -- Coloq. Median plane (Anat.), the mesial plane. -- Coloq. Median point (Geom.), the point where the three median lines of a triangle mutually intersect.
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Median, n. (Geom.) A median line or point.
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Mediant (?), n. [L. medians, p. p. of mediare to halve: cf. It. mediante, F. médiante.] (Mus.) The third above the keynote; -- so called because it divides the interval between the tonic and dominant into two thirds.
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Mediastinal (?), a. (Anat.) Of or pertaining to a mediastinum.
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{ Mediastine (?), Mediastinum (?), } n. [NL. mediastinum, fr. L. medius middle; cf. mediastinus helper, a menial servant, LL. mediastinus equiv. to medius: cf F. médiastin.] (Anat.) A partition; a septum; specifically, the folds of the pleura (and the space included between them) which divide the thorax into a right and left cavity. The space included between these folds of the pleura, called the mediastinal space, contains the heart and gives passage to the esophagus and great blood vessels.
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Mediate (?), a. [L. mediatus, p. p. of mediare, v. t., to halve, v. i., to be in the middle. See , and cf. .] 1. Being between the two extremes; middle; interposed; intervening; intermediate. Prior.
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2. Acting by means, or by an intervening cause or instrument; not direct or immediate; acting or suffering through an intervening agent or condition.
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3. Gained or effected by a medium or condition. Bacon.
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An act of mediate knowledge is complex. Sir W. Hamilton.
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Mediate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Mediated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mediating.] [LL. mediatus, p. p. of mediare to mediate. See , a.]
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1. To be in the middle, or between two; to intervene. [R.]
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2. To interpose between parties, as the equal friend of each, esp. for the purpose of effecting a reconciliation or agreement; as, to mediate between nations.
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Mediate, v. t. 1. To effect by mediation or interposition; to bring about as a mediator, instrument, or means; as, to mediate a peace.
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2. To divide into two equal parts. [R.] Holder.
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Mediately (?), adv. In a mediate manner; by a secondary cause or agent; not directly or primarily; by means; -- opposed to immediately.
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God worketh all things amongst us mediately. Sir W. Raleigh.
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The king grants a manor to A, and A grants a portion of it to B. In this case. B holds his lands immediately of A, but mediately of the king. Blakstone.
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Mediateness, n. The state of being mediate.
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Mediation (?), n. [OE. mediacioun, F. médiation. See , a.] 1. The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.
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The soul [acts] by the mediation of these passions. South.
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2. Hence, specifically, agency between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them; entreaty for another; intercession. Bacon.
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Mediative (?), a. Pertaining to mediation; used in mediation; as, mediative efforts. Beaconsfield.
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Mediatization (?), n. [Cf. F. médiatisation.] The act of mediatizing.
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Mediatize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mediatized (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mediatizing.] [Cf. F. médiatiser.] To cause to act through an agent or to hold a subordinate position; to annex; -- specifically applied to the annexation during the former German empire of a smaller German state to a larger, while allowing it a nominal sovereignty, and its prince his rank.
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The misfortune of being a mediatized prince. Beaconsfield.
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Mediator (?), n. [L. mediator: cf. E. médiateur.] One who mediates; especially, one who interposes between parties at variance for the purpose of reconciling them; hence, an intercessor.
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For there is one God, and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus. 1 Tim. ii. 5.
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Mediatorial (?), a. Of or pertaining to a mediator, or to mediation; mediatory; as, a mediatorial office. -- Mediatorially, adv.
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My measures were . . . healing and mediatorial. Burke.
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Mediatorship (?), n. The office or character of a mediator.
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Mediatory (?), a. Mediatorial.
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{ Mediatress (?), Mediatrix (?), } n. [L. mediatrix, f. of mediator: cf. F. médiatrice.] A female mediator.
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Medic (?), n. [L. medica, Gr. � (sc. �) a kind of clover introduced from Media, from � Median.] (Bot.) A leguminous plant of the genus Medicago. The black medic is the Medicago lupulina; the purple medic, or lucern, is Medicago sativa.
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Medic (?), n. A person who serves to provide medical care.
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2. Specifically: (Mil.) A member of the medical corps in the military.
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3. A medical doctor.
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4. A medical student.
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Medic, a. [L. medicus.] Medical. [R.]
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Medicable (?), a. [L. medicabilis, from medicare, medicari, to heal, fr. medicus physician. See .] Capable of being medicated; admitting of being cured or healed.
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medicaid n. A program controlled by the United States government to provide health care for the needy. It is funded by contributions from the salaries of workers, and is therefore a form of health insurance.
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Medical (?), a. [LL. medicalis, L. medicus belonging to healing, fr. mederi to heal; cf. Zend madha medical science, wisdom, Gr. � to learn, E. mind: cf. F. médical.]
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1. 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.
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2. Containing medicine; used in medicine; medicinal; as, the medical properties of a plant.
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Medically, adv. In a medical manner; with reference to healing, or to the principles of the healing art.
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Medicament (?), n. [L. medicamentum, fr. medicare, medicari, to heal: cf. F. médicament. See .] Anything used for healing diseases or wounds, especially a medicine; a medication; a healing application.
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Medicamental (?), a. Of or pertaining to medicaments or healing applications; having the qualities of medicaments. -- Medicamentally, adv.
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Medicaster (?), n. [Cf. F. médicastre. See .] A quack. [R.] Whitlock.
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Medicate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Medicated (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Medicating (?).] [L. medicatus, p. p. of medicare, medicari. See .]
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1. To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug. “Medicated waters.” Arbuthnot.
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2. To treat with medicine.
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Medication (?), [L. medicatio: cf. F. médication.] The act or process of medicating.
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Medicative (?), a. Medicinal; acting like a medicine.
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Medicean (?), prop. a. Of or relating to the Medici, a noted Italian family; as, the Medicean Venus.
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Coloq. Medicean planets (Astron.), a name given by Galileo to the satellites of Jupiter.
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Medicinable (?), a. Medicinal; having the power of healing. [Obs.] Shak.
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Medicinal (?), a. [L. medicinalis: cf. F. médicinal. See .] 1. Having curative or palliative properties; used for the cure or alleviation of bodily disorders; as, medicinal tinctures, plants, or springs.
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Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees
Their medicinal gum. Shak.
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2. Of or pertaining to medicine; medical.
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Medicinally, adv. In a medicinal manner.
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Medicine (?), n. [L. medicina (sc. ars), fr. medicinus medical, fr. medicus: cf. F. médecine. See .] 1. The science which relates to the prevention, cure, or alleviation of disease.
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2. Any substance administered in the treatment of disease; a remedial agent; a medication; a medicament; a remedy; physic.
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By medicine, life may be prolonged. Shak.
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3. A philter or love potion. [Obs.] Shak.
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4. [F. médecin.] A physician. [Obs.] Shak.
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5. (a) Among the North American Indians, any object supposed to give control over natural or magical forces, to act as a protective charm, or to cause healing; also, magical power itself; the potency which a charm, token, or rite is supposed to exert.
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The North American Indian boy usually took as his medicine the first animal of which he dreamed during the long and solitary fast that he observed at puberty. F. H. Giddings.
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(b) Hence, a similar object or agency among other savages.
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6. Short for .
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7. Intoxicating liquor; drink. [Slang]
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Coloq. Medicine bag , a charm; -- so called among the North American Indians, or in works relating to them. -- Coloq. Medicine man (among the North American Indians), a person who professes to cure sickness, drive away evil spirits, and regulate the weather by the arts of magic; a shaman. -- Coloq. Medicine seal , a small gem or paste engraved with reversed characters, to serve as a seal. Such seals were used by Roman physicians to stamp the names of their medicines.
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Medicine, v. t. To give medicine to; to affect as a medicine does; to remedy; to cure. “Medicine thee to that sweet sleep.” Shak.
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medick n. Any of several Old World herbs of the genus Medicago having small flowers and trifoliate compound leaves. [Also spelled medic.]
Syn. -- trefoil.
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medico n. 1. a student in medical school.
Syn. -- medical student.
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2. A licensed medical practitioner. [slang]
Syn. -- doctor, doc, physician, MD, Dr.
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Medico-legal (?), a. Of or pertaining to law as affected by medical facts.
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Medicommissure (?), n. [L. medius middle + E. commissure.] (Anat.) A large transverse commissure in the third ventricle of the brain; the middle or soft commissure. B. G. Wildex.
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Medicornu (?), n.; pl. Medicornua (#). [NL., fr. L. medius middle + cornu horn.] (Anat.) The middle or inferior horn of each lateral ventricle of the brain. B. G. Wilder.
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Medics (?), n. Science of medicine. [Obs.]
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Mediety (?), n. [L. medietas.] The middle part; half; moiety. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.
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{ Medieval, Medievalism, Medievalist }. Same as , , etc.
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Medina epoch (?). [From Medina in New York.] (Geol.) A subdivision of the Niagara period in the American upper Silurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of .
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Medinilla peop. n. A genus of tropical Old World ornamental evergreen shrubs having fleshy leaves and large panicles of white pink flowers.
Syn. -- genus Medinilla.
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