Meet"er (mt"r), n. One who meets.
Meeth (mth), n. Mead. See Meathe. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Meet"ing, n. 1. A coming together; an assembling; as, the meeting of
Congress.
2. A junction, crossing, or union; as, the meeting of the roads or of
two rivers.
3. A congregation; a collection of people; a convention; as, a large
meeting; an harmonious meeting.
4. An assembly for worship; as, to attend meeting on Sunday; -- in
England, applied distinctively and disparagingly to the worshiping
assemblies of Dissenters.
Syn. -- Conference; assembly; company; convention; congregation;
junction; confluence; union.
Meet"ing*house` (?), n. A house used as a place of worship; a church;
-- in England, applied only to a house so used by Dissenters.
Meet"ly, adv. Fitly; suitably; properly.
Meet"ness, n. Fitness; suitableness; propriety.
{ Meg- (mg-), Meg"a (mg"- ), Meg"a*lo- (-l-) }. [Gr. me`gas, gen.
mega`loy, great.] Combining forms signifying: (a) Great, extended,
powerful; as, megascope, megacosm. (b) (Metric System, Elec., Mech.,
etc.) A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters;
megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms.
{ Meg`a*ce*phal"ic (mg`*s*fl"k), Meg`a*ceph"a*lous (-sf"*ls) }, a.
[Mega- + Gr. kefalh` head.] (Biol.) Large headed; -- applied to
animals, and to plants when they have large flower heads.
||Me*gac"e*ros (m*gs"*rs), n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`gas great + ke`ras
||horn.] (Paleon.) The Irish elk.
Meg"a*chile (?), n. [Mega- + Gr. &?; lip.] (Zoöl.) A leaf-cutting bee
of the genus Megachilus. See Leaf cutter, under Leaf.
Meg"a*cosm (?), n. [Mega- + Gr. &?; world.] See Macrocosm. Croft.
Meg`a*cou`lomb" (?), n. [Mega- + coulomb.] (Elec.) A million coulombs.
Meg"a*derm (?), n. [Mega- + Gr. &?; skin.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several
species of Old World blood-sucking bats of the genus Megaderma.
Meg"a*dyne (?), n. [Mega- + dyne.] (Physics) One of the larger measures
of force, amounting to one million dynes.
Meg"a*far`ad (?), n. [Mega- + farad.] (Elec.) One of the larger
measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a
macrofarad.
Meg"a*lerg (?), n. [Megalo- + erg.] (Physics) A million ergs; a megerg.
Meg`a*le"sian (?), a. [L. Megalesius, fr. Gr. Mega`lh the Great, a
surname of Cybele, the Magna Mater.] Pertaining to, or in honor of,
Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.
Meg`a*leth"o*scope (?), n. [Mega- + alethoscope.] An optical apparatus
in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical
effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.
Meg"a*lith (?), n. [Mega- + - lith; cf. F. mégalithe.] A large stone;
especially, a large stone used in ancient building. -- Meg`a*lith"ic
(#), a.
Meg"a*lo- (?). See Meg-.
Meg"a*lo*cyte (?), n. [Megalo- + Gr. &?; a hollow vessel.] (Physiol.) A
large, flattened corpuscle, twice the diameter of the ordinary red
corpuscle, found in considerable numbers in the blood in profound
anæmia.
Meg`a*lo*ma"ni*a (?), n. [NL., fr. megalo- + mania.] (Pathol.) A form
of mental alienation in which the patient has grandiose delusions.
||Meg`a*lon"yx (?), n. [NL., from Gr. me`gas, mega`lh, great + 'o`nyx
||claw.] (Paleon.) An extinct quaternary mammal, of great size, allied
||to the sloth.
Meg`a*loph"o*nous (mg`*lf"*ns), a. [Megalo- + Gr. fwnh` voice.] Having
a loud voice.
Meg`a*lop"o*lis (-lp"*ls), n. [NL., fr. Gr. megalo`polis; me`gas,
mega`lh, great + po`lis city.] A chief city; a metropolis. [R.]
Meg"a*lops (mg"*lps), n. [NL., fr. Gr. me`gas, - a`loy, large + 'w`ps
eye.] (Zoöl.) 1. A larva, in a stage following the zoëa, in the
development of most crabs. In this stage the legs and abdominal
appendages have appeared, the abdomen is relatively long, and the eyes
are large. Also used adjectively.