<B>metazoon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-zoa.</B> <B>=metazoan.</B></DL>
<A NAME="mete">
<B>mete</B> (1), transitive verb, <B>meted,</B> <B>meting.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>to give to each a share of; give to each what is due him; distribute; allot. <BR> <I>Ex. The judges will mete out praise and blame. Chance has meted you a measure of happiness (Charlotte Bronte).</I> (SYN) apportion. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Archaic.) to measure. </DL>
<B>metempiric, </B>noun, adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B><B>=metempirics.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a supporter of the metempirical philosophy. <DD><I>adj. </I> <B>=metempirical.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="metempirical">
<B>metempirical, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>beyond, or outside of, the field of experience. <BR> <I>Ex. If then the Empirical designates the province we include within the range of Science, the province we exclude may fitly be styled the metempirical (George H. Lewes).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>of or having to do with metempirics. </DL>
<B>metempirics, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a branch of philosophy closely related to the transcendentalism of Immanuel Kant, Johann Fichte, and Georg Hegel, concerned with things outside the field of experience, but not beyond human knowledge. </DL>
<A NAME="metempsychic">
<B>metempsychic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with metempsychosis. </DL>
<A NAME="metempsychosis">
<B>metempsychosis, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ses.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the passing of the soul at death from one body into another body; transmigration of the soul. Some Oriental philosophies teach that by metempsychosis a person's soul lives again in an animal's body. The belief in metempsychosis is a characterizing feature of most animistic religions, and has reached a high degree of sophistication in Buddhism and Hinduism. </DL>
<A NAME="metencephalic">
<B>metencephalic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the metencephalon. </DL>
<A NAME="metencephalon">
<B>metencephalon, </B>noun, pl. <B>-la.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a section of the brain of the vertebrate embryo, the anterior part of the rhombencephalon or hindbrain, which comprises the cerebellum and pons. </DL>
<A NAME="meteor">
<B>meteor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mass of stone or metal that enters the earth's atmosphere from outer space with enormous speed; falling star; shooting star. Meteors become so hot from rushing through the air that they glow and often burn up. A trail of hot gas forms in the meteor's wake. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Obsolete.) any atmospheric phenomenon, such as winds, rain, a rainbow, or lightning. <BR> <I>Ex. In starry flake, and pellicle, All day the hoary meteor [snow] fell (John Greenleaf Whittier).</I> </DL>
<B>meteoric water,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> ground water that filters through the soil after a rain or seeps into the ground from rivers and lakes. <BR> <I>Ex. Meteoric water makes up most of the 2 million cubic miles of ground water in the earth (Ray K. Linsley).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="meteorite">
<B>meteorite, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a mass of stone or metal that has reached the earth from outer space without burning up; fallen meteor. <BR> <I>Ex. Meteorites are deceptive because some are predominantly iron while others are largely stone (Hubert J. Bernhard).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>a meteor or meteoroid. </DL>
<A NAME="meteoritic">
<B>meteoritic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with a meteorite or meteorites. </DL>
<A NAME="meteoriticist">
<B>meteoriticist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies meteorites, especially their structure and frequency. </DL>
<A NAME="meteorograph">
<B>meteorograph, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> an instrument for automatically recording various meteorological conditions, as barometricpressure, temperature, and humidity, at the same time, especially one carried aloft by a balloon or airplane; aerograph. </DL>
<A NAME="meteorographic">
<B>meteorographic, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the meteorograph. </DL>
<A NAME="meteoroid">
<B>meteoroid, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of the many small bodies, believed often to be the remains of disintegrated comets, that travel through space and become meteors or shooting stars when they enter the earth's atmosphere. </DL>
<B>meteorological, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>of or having to do with the atmosphere, atmospheric phenomena, or weather. <DD><B> 2. </B>having to do with meteorology. </DL>
<A NAME="meteorologically">
<B>meteorologically, </B>adverb.<DL COMPACT><DD> in meteorological respects; by meteorology; according to meteorology. </DL>
<A NAME="meteorologist">
<B>meteorologist, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a person who studies meteorology. </DL>
<A NAME="meteorology">
<B>meteorology, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the science dealing with the atmosphere and weather. The study of atmospheric conditions, such as winds, moisture, and temperature, and forecasts of the weather are part of meteorology. <DD><B> 2. </B>meteorological condition; atmosphere, atmospheric phenomena, or weather. <BR> <I>Ex. Little can be said about the meteorology of deserts (Science News).</I> </DL>
<B>meteor shower,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large number of meteors entering and burning up in the earth's atmosphere, occurring when the earth encounters a meteor swarm or a comet. <BR> <I>Ex. Meteor showers begin in earnest in mid-July (New York Times).</I> </DL>
<A NAME="meteorswarm">
<B>meteor swarm,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a large group of meteors that orbit together about the sun, considered to be the remains of a disintegrated comet. </DL>
<A NAME="meter">
<B>meter</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the basic measure of length in the metric system, approximately equal to 39.37 inches. It was intended to be, and very nearly is, equal to one ten-millionth of the distance from the equator to either pole measured on a meridian, but actually is equal to 1,650,-763.73 wave lengths of the orange-red light from the isotope krypton 86. This standard was adopted in 1960. (Abbr:) m. <DD><B> 2a. </B>any kind of poetic rhythm; the arrangement of beats or accents in a line of poetry. <BR> <I>Ex. The meter of "Jack and Jill went up the hill" is not the meter of "One, two, buckle my shoe."</I> <DD><B> b. </B>a specific kind of rhythm in verse, depending on the kind and number of feet of which the verse consists. <BR> <I>Ex. iambic meter, dactylic meter.</I> <DD><B> c. </B>(in English hymns) the rhythmical pattern of a stanza or strophe, determined by the kind and number of lines. <BR> <I>Ex. short meter, long meter, common meter.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>the arrangement of beats in music as divided into parts or measures of a uniform length of time; musical rhythm. <BR> <I>Ex. Three-fourths meter is waltz time.</I> <DD> Also, (especially British and Canadian,) <B>metre.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="meter">
<B>meter</B> (2), noun, verb.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>noun </I> <B>1. </B>a device for measuring. <DD><B> 2. </B>a device for measuring and recording the amount of something used, such as gas, water, or electricity. <DD><B> 3. </B>a person who measures, especially one whose duty or office is to see that commodities are of the proper measure. <DD><I>v.t., v.i. </I> to measure or record with a meter. </DL>
<A NAME="meter">
<B>-meter,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (combining form.) <DD><B> 1. </B>a device for measuring ______. <BR> <I>Ex. Speedometer = a device for measuring speed.</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>meter (39.37 inches). <BR> <I>Ex. Kilometer = one thousand meters. Millimeter = one thousandth of a meter.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>having ______ metrical feet. <BR> <I>Ex. Tetrameter = having four metrical feet.</I> </DL>
<B>meter candle,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a unit of illumination equal to one lux; candle meter. </DL>
<A NAME="meteredmail">
<B>metered mail,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> mail that has the amount to be paid for postage stamped on it by a machine. The post office controls the machines and collects the amounts from the senders. </DL>
<A NAME="meterkilogramsecond">
<B>meter-kilogram-second, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> having to do with a system of measurement in which the meter is the unit of length, the kilogram is the unit of mass, and the second is the unit of time. (Abbr:) M.K.S. </DL>
<A NAME="metermaid">
<B>meter maid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> (U.S.) a woman assigned to issue tickets for violations of parking regulations. </DL>
<A NAME="metestrum">
<B>metestrum, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Zoology.) the period of regressive changes following the estrous cycle. </DL>
<A NAME="metewand">
<B>metewand, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a measuring stick or yardstick. </DL>
