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Mere
(gcide) | Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), v. t.
To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
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Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser.
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Mere
(gcide) | Mere \Mere\, n.
A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
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Mere
(gcide) | Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is
rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
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Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman.
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The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
--Jer. Taylor.
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2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple;
bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
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From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor
of any nation. --Atterbury.
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-mere
(gcide) | -mere \-mere\ [Gr. ? part.]
A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere,
epimere.
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Mere
(gcide) | Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere
mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri,
mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor,
Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and
meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf.
Mortal, Marine, Marsh, Mermaid, Moor.]
A pool or lake. --Drayton. --Tennyson.
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Mere
(gcide) | Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[=ae]re.
[root]269.]
A boundary. --Bacon.
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MERE
(bouvier) | MERE. This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in
ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
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meretricious
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Actinomere
(gcide) | Actinomere \Ac*tin"o*mere\, n. [Gr. ?, ?, ray + ? part.] (Zool.)
One of the radial segments composing the body of one of the
C[oe]lenterata.
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Antimere
(gcide) | Antimere \An"ti*mere\, n. [. anti- + -mere.] (Biol.)
One of the two halves of bilaterally symmetrical animals; one
of any opposite symmetrical or homotypic parts in animals and
plants.
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Antimeres
(gcide) | Morphon \Mor"phon\, n. [Gr. ?, p. pr. of ? to form.] (Biol.)
A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of
form, in distinction from bion, a physiological individual.
See Tectology. --Haeckel.
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Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1.
Plastids or elementary organisms. 2. Organs,
homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. Antimeres (opposite
or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. Metameres
(successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Personae
(shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest
sense among the higher animals). 6. Corms (stocks or
colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has
been recently substituted. See Idorgan.
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Arthromere
(gcide) | Arthromere \Ar"thro*mere\, n. [Gr. 'a`rqron joint + -mere.]
(Zool.)
One of the body segments of Arthropods. See Arthrostraca.
--Packard.
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Baenomere
(gcide) | Baenomere \B[ae]"no*mere\, n. [Gr. bai`nein to walk + -mere.]
(Zool.)
One of the somites (arthromeres) that make up the thorax of
Arthropods. --Packard.
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Blastomere
(gcide) | Blastomere \Blas"to*mere\, n. [Gr. blasto`s sprout + -mere.]
(Biol.)
One of the segments first formed by the division of the ovum.
--Balfour.
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Cashmere
(gcide) | Cashmere \Cash"mere\, n.
1. A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in
Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the
goats of Cashmere, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Some
cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale
to Europeans.
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2. A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and
cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
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Cashmere shawl, a rich and costly shawl made of cashmere;
-- often called camel's-hair shawl.
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cashmere shawl
(gcide) | Camelshair \Cam"els*hair`\, a.
Of camel's hair.
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Camel's-hair pencil, a small brush used by painters in
water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials.
Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a {cashmere
shawl}. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere.
[1913 Webster] CamembertCashmere \Cash"mere\, n.
1. A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in
Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the
goats of Cashmere, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Some
cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale
to Europeans.
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2. A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and
cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
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Cashmere shawl, a rich and costly shawl made of cashmere;
-- often called camel's-hair shawl.
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Cashmere shawl
(gcide) | Camelshair \Cam"els*hair`\, a.
Of camel's hair.
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Camel's-hair pencil, a small brush used by painters in
water colors, made of camel's hair or similar materials.
Camel's-hair shawl. A name often given to a {cashmere
shawl}. See Cashmere shawl under Cashmere.
[1913 Webster] CamembertCashmere \Cash"mere\, n.
1. A rich stuff for shawls, scarfs, etc., originally made in
Cashmere from the soft wool found beneath the hair of the
goats of Cashmere, Tibet, and the Himalayas. Some
cashmere, of fine quality, is richly embroidered for sale
to Europeans.
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2. A dress fabric made of fine wool, or of fine wool and
cotton, in imitation of the original cashmere.
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Cashmere shawl, a rich and costly shawl made of cashmere;
-- often called camel's-hair shawl.
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Cashmerette
(gcide) | Cashmerette \Cash`me*rette"\, n.
A kind of dress goods, made with a soft and glossy surface
like cashmere.
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Cassimere
(gcide) | Cassimere \Cas"si*mere\, n. [Cf. F. casimir, prob. of the same
origin as E. cashmere. Cf. Kerseymere.]
A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.
[Written also kerseymere.]
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centromere
(gcide) | centromere \centromere\ n. (Biol.)
a specialized condensed region of a chromosomes that appears
during mitosis where the chromatids are held together to form
an X shape.
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Cephalomere
(gcide) | Cephalomere \Ceph"a*lo*mere\, n. [Cephalo- + -mere.] (Zool.)
One of the somites (arthromeres) which make up the head of
arthropods. --Packard.
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Charmeress
(gcide) | Charmeress \Charm"er*ess\, n.
An enchantress. --Chaucer.
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Chimere
(gcide) | Chimere \Chi*mere"\, n. [OF. chamarre., F. simarre (cf. It.
zimarra), fr. Sp. chamarra, zamarra, a coat made of
sheepskins, a sheepskin, perh. from Ar. samm[=u]r the
Scythian weasel or marten, the sable. Cf. Simarre.]
The upper robe worn by a bishop, to which lawn sleeves are
usually attached. --Hook.
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Dummerer
(gcide) | Dummerer \Dum"mer*er\, n.
One who feigns dumbness. [Obs.] --Burton.
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Ectomere
(gcide) | Ectomere \Ec"to*mere\, n. [Ecto- + -mere.] (Biol.)
The more transparent cells, which finally become external, in
many segmenting ova, as those of mammals.
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Entomere
(gcide) | Entomere \En"to*mere\, n. [Ento- + -mere.] (Biol.)
The more granular cells, which finally become internal, in
many segmenting ova, as those of mammals. Entomic |
Epimere
(gcide) | Epimere \Ep"i*mere\, n. [Epi- + -mere.] (Biol.)
One of the segments of the transverse axis, or the so called
homonymous parts; as, for example, one of the several
segments of the extremities in vertebrates, or one of the
similar segments in plants, such as the segments of a
segmented leaf. --Syd. Soc. Lex.
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Farmeress
(gcide) | Farmeress \Farm"er*ess\, n.
A woman who farms.
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farmerette
(gcide) | farmerette \farmerette\ n.
a woman working on a farm; a farmeress.
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Femerell
(gcide) | Femerell \Fem"er*ell\, n. [OF. fumeraille part of a chimney. See
Fume.] (Arch.)
A lantern, or louver covering, placed on a roof, for
ventilation or escape of smoke.
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Fermerere
(gcide) | Fermerere \Fer"mer*ere\, n. [OF. enfermerier, fr. enfermerie
infirmary. See Infirmary.]
The officer in a religious house who had the care of the
infirmary. [Obs.]
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Formeret
(gcide) | Formeret \For`me*ret"\, n. [F.] (Arch.)
One of the half ribs against the walls in a ceiling vaulted
with ribs.
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Fumerell
(gcide) | Fumerell \Fu"mer*ell\, n. (Arch.)
See Femerell.
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Glimmered
(gcide) | Glimmer \Glim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Glimmered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Glimmering.] [Akin to G. glimmer a faint, trembling
light, mica, glimmern to glimmer, glimmen to shine faintly,
glow, Sw. glimma, Dan. glimre, D. glimmen, glimpen. See
Gleam a ray, and cf. Glimpse.]
To give feeble or scattered rays of light; to shine faintly;
to show a faint, unsteady light; as, the glimmering dawn; a
glimmering lamp.
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The west yet glimmers with some streaks of day. --Shak.
Syn: To gleam; to glitter. See Gleam, Flash.
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Hammered
(gcide) | Hammer \Ham"mer\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Hammered (-m[~e]rd); p.
pr. & vb. n. Hammering.]
1. To beat with a hammer; to beat with heavy blows; as, to
hammer iron.
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2. To form or forge with a hammer; to shape by beating.
"Hammered money." --Dryden.
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3. To form in the mind; to shape by hard intellectual labor;
-- usually with out.
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Who was hammering out a penny dialogue. --Jeffry.
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Hammerer
(gcide) | Hammerer \Ham"mer*er\ (-[~e]r), n.
One who works with a hammer.
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Isomere
(gcide) | Isomere \I"so*mere\, n. [Iso- + -mere.] (Zool.)
1. A homologous or corresponding part or segment.
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2. (Chem.) same as Isomer. [archaic]
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Kerseymere
(gcide) | Kerseymere \Ker"sey*mere\, n. [For cassimere, confounded with
kersey.]
See Cassimere.
[1913 Webster]Cassimere \Cas"si*mere\, n. [Cf. F. casimir, prob. of the same
origin as E. cashmere. Cf. Kerseymere.]
A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.
[Written also kerseymere.]
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kerseymere
(gcide) | Kerseymere \Ker"sey*mere\, n. [For cassimere, confounded with
kersey.]
See Cassimere.
[1913 Webster]Cassimere \Cas"si*mere\, n. [Cf. F. casimir, prob. of the same
origin as E. cashmere. Cf. Kerseymere.]
A thin, twilled, woolen cloth, used for men's garments.
[Written also kerseymere.]
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Mere
(gcide) | Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), v. t.
To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
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Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser.
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A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is
rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
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Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman.
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The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
--Jer. Taylor.
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2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple;
bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
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From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor
of any nation. --Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]-mere \-mere\ [Gr. ? part.]
A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere,
epimere.
[1913 Webster]Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere
mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri,
mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor,
Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and
meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf.
Mortal, Marine, Marsh, Mermaid, Moor.]
A pool or lake. --Drayton. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[=ae]re.
[root]269.]
A boundary. --Bacon.
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Mere
(gcide) | Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), v. t.
To divide, limit, or bound. [Obs.]
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Which meared her rule with Africa. --Spenser.
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A mare. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
[1913 Webster]Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is
rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
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Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman.
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The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
--Jer. Taylor.
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2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple;
bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
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From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor
of any nation. --Atterbury.
[1913 Webster]-mere \-mere\ [Gr. ? part.]
A combining form meaning part, portion; as, blastomere,
epimere.
[1913 Webster]Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), n. [Written also mar.] [OE. mere, AS. mere
mere, sea; akin to D. meer lake, OS. meri sea, OHG. meri,
mari, G. meer, Icel. marr, Goth. marei, Russ. more, W. mor,
Ir. & Gael. muir, L. mare, and perh. to L. mori to die, and
meaning originally, that which is dead, a waste. Cf.
Mortal, Marine, Marsh, Mermaid, Moor.]
A pool or lake. --Drayton. --Tennyson.
[1913 Webster]Mere \Mere\, n. [Written also meer and mear.] [AS. gem[=ae]re.
[root]269.]
A boundary. --Bacon.
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Merely
(gcide) | Merely \Mere"ly\, adv.
1. Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
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Ulysses was to force forth his access,
Though merely naked. --Chapman.
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2. Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
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Prize not your life for other ends
Than merely to oblige your friends. --Swift.
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Syn: Solely; simply; purely; barely; scarcely.
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Merenchyma
(gcide) | Merenchyma \Me*ren"chy*ma\, n. [NL., fr. Gr. ? a part +
-enchyma, as in parenchyma.] (Bot.)
Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.
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Meresman
(gcide) | Meresman \Meres"man\, n.
An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries. [Eng.]
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Merest
(gcide) | Mere \Mere\ (m[=e]r), a. [Superl. Merest. The comparative is
rarely or never used.] [L. merus.]
1. Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
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Then entered they the mere, main sea. --Chapman.
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The sorrows of this world would be mere and unmixed.
--Jer. Taylor.
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2. Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple;
bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
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From mere success nothing can be concluded in favor
of any nation. --Atterbury.
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Merestead
(gcide) | Merestead \Mere"stead\, n. [Mere boundary + stead place.]
The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or
farm. [Archaic.] --Longfellow.
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Merestone
(gcide) | Merestone \Mere"stone`\, n.
A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark. --Bacon.
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Meretricious
(gcide) | Meretricious \Mer`e*tri"cious\, a. [L. meretricius, from
meretrix, -icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i.
e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See Merit.]
1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with
harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
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2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show;
gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as,
meretricious dress or ornaments.
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3. Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but
based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading;
insincere; specious; as, meretricious arguments.
[PJC] -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. --
Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.
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Meretriciously
(gcide) | Meretricious \Mer`e*tri"cious\, a. [L. meretricius, from
meretrix, -icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i.
e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See Merit.]
1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with
harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
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2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show;
gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as,
meretricious dress or ornaments.
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3. Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but
based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading;
insincere; specious; as, meretricious arguments.
[PJC] -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. --
Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.
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meretriciousness
(gcide) | meretriciousness \mer`e*tri"cious*ness\ n.
1. an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming
plausibility.
Syn: speciousness.
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2. tasteless showiness.
Syn: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, tawdriness,
glitz.
[WordNet 1.5]Meretricious \Mer`e*tri"cious\, a. [L. meretricius, from
meretrix, -icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i.
e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See Merit.]
1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with
harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
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2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show;
gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as,
meretricious dress or ornaments.
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3. Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but
based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading;
insincere; specious; as, meretricious arguments.
[PJC] -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. --
Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.
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Meretriciousness
(gcide) | meretriciousness \mer`e*tri"cious*ness\ n.
1. an appearance of truth that is false or deceptive; seeming
plausibility.
Syn: speciousness.
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2. tasteless showiness.
Syn: flashiness, garishness, gaudiness, loudness, tawdriness,
glitz.
[WordNet 1.5]Meretricious \Mer`e*tri"cious\, a. [L. meretricius, from
meretrix, -icis, a prostitute, lit., one who earns money, i.
e., by prostitution, fr. merere to earn, gain. See Merit.]
1. Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with
harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
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2. Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show;
gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as,
meretricious dress or ornaments.
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3. Deceptive or based on deception; seeming plausible, but
based on pretense or insincerity; deceptive; misleading;
insincere; specious; as, meretricious arguments.
[PJC] -- Mer`e*tri"cious*ly, adv. --
Mer`e*tri"cious*ness, n.
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Mesmeree
(gcide) | Mesmeree \Mes`mer*ee"\, n.
A person subjected to mesmeric influence; one who is
mesmerized. [R.]
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Metamere
(gcide) | Metamere \Met"a*mere\, n. [Pref. meta- + -mere.] (Biol.)
One of successive or homodynamous parts in animals and
plants; one of a series of similar parts that follow one
another in a vertebrate or articulate animal, as in an
earthworm; a segment; a somite. See Illust. of {Loeven's
larva}.
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Metameres
(gcide) | Morphon \Mor"phon\, n. [Gr. ?, p. pr. of ? to form.] (Biol.)
A morphological individual, characterized by definiteness of
form, in distinction from bion, a physiological individual.
See Tectology. --Haeckel.
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Note: Of morphons there are six orders or categories: 1.
Plastids or elementary organisms. 2. Organs,
homoplastic or heteroplastic. 3. Antimeres (opposite
or symmetrical or homotypic parts). 4. Metameres
(successive or homodynamous parts). 5. Personae
(shoots or buds of plants, individuals in the narrowest
sense among the higher animals). 6. Corms (stocks or
colonies). For orders 2, 3, and 4 the term idorgan has
been recently substituted. See Idorgan.
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Micromere
(gcide) | Micromere \Mi"cro*mere\, n. [Micro- + -mere.] (Biol.)
One of the smaller cells, or blastomeres, resulting from the
complete segmentation of a telolecithal ovum.
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Ne Temere
(gcide) | Ne Temere \Ne Te"me*re\ [So named from L. ne not + temere
rashly, the first two words in the decree.] (R. C. Ch.)
A decree of the Congregation of the Council declaring invalid
[so far as the laws of the Roman Catholic Church are
concerned] any marriage of a Roman Catholic, or of a person
who has ever been a Roman Catholic, if not contracted before
a duty qualified priest (or the bishop of the diocese) and at
least two witnesses. The decree was issued Aug. 2, 1907, and
took effect on Easter Apr. 19, 1908. The decree by its terms
does not affect mixed marriages (those between Roman
Catholics and persons of another faith) in Germany.
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Neuromere
(gcide) | Neuromere \Neu"ro*mere\, n. [Neuro- + -mere.] (Anat.)
A metameric segment of the cerebro-spinal nervous system.
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Osteomere
(gcide) | Osteomere \Os"te*o*mere\, n. [Osteo- + -mere.] (Anat.)
An osteocomma. --Owen.
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Paramere
(gcide) | Paramere \Par"a*mere\, n. [Pref. para- + -mere.] (Zool.)
One of the symmetrical halves of any one of the radii, or
spheromeres, of a radiate animal, as a starfish.
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Patent-hammered
(gcide) | Patent-hammered \Pat"ent-ham"mered\, a. (Stone Cutting)
Having a surface dressed by cutting with a hammer the head of
which consists of broad thin chisels clamped together.
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Rhabdomere
(gcide) | Rhabdomere \Rhab"do*mere\, n. [Rhabdom + -mere.] (Zool.)
One of the several parts composing a rhabdom.
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Shimmered
(gcide) | Shimmer \Shim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Shimmered; p. pr. &
vb. n. Shimmering.] [OE. schimeren, AS. scimerian; akin to
sc[imac]mian, sc[imac]man, to glitter, D. schemeren, G.
schimmern, Dan. skimre, Sw. skimra, AS. sc[imac]ma a light,
brightness, Icel. sk[imac]ma, Goth. skeima a torch, a
lantern, and E. shine. [root]157. See Shine, v. i.]
To shine with a tremulous or intermittent light; to shine
faintly; to gleam; to glisten; to glimmer.
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The shimmering glimpses of a stream. --Tennyson.
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Simmered
(gcide) | Simmer \Sim"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Simmered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Simmering.] [Prov. E. also simper; -- an onomatopoetic
word.]
To boil gently, or with a gentle hissing; to begin to boil.
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I simmer as liquor doth on the fire before it beginneth
to boil. --Palsgrave.
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Spheromere
(gcide) | Spheromere \Sphe"ro*mere\, n. [Sphere + -mere.] (Zool.)
Any one of the several symmetrical segments arranged around
the central axis and composing the body of a radiate anmal.
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Stammered
(gcide) | Stammer \Stam"mer\ (st[a^]m"m[~e]r), v. i. [imp. & p. p.
Stammered (-m[~e]rd); p. pr. & vb. n. Stammering.] [OE.
stameren, fr. AS. stamur, stamer, stammering; akin to D. &
LG. stameren to stammer, G. stammeln, OHG. stammal[=o]n,
stamm[=e]n, Dan. stamme, Sw. stamma, Icel. stama, stamma,
OHG. & Dan. stam stammering, Icel. stamr, Goth. stamms, and
to G. stemmen to bear against, stumm dumb, D. stom. Cf.
Stem to resist, Stumble.]
To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to
hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and
difficulty; to stutter.
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I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour
this concealed man out of thy mouth, as wine comes out
of a narrow-mouthed bottle, either too much at once, or
none at all. --Shak.
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Stammerer
(gcide) | Stammerer \Stam"mer*er\ (-[~e]r), n.
One who stammers.
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Summered
(gcide) | Summer \Sum"mer\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Summered; p. pr. & vb.
n. Summering.]
To pass the summer; to spend the warm season; as, to summer
in Switzerland.
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The fowls shall summer upon them. --Isa. xviii.
6.
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Swimmeret
(gcide) | Swimmeret \Swim"mer*et\, n. (Zool.)
One of a series of flat, fringed, and usually bilobed,
appendages, of which several pairs occur on the abdominal
somites of many crustaceans. They are used as fins in
swimming.
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Uromere
(gcide) | Uromere \U"ro*mere\, n. [2d uro- + -mere.] (Zool.)
Any one of the abdominal segments of an arthropod.
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MERE
(bouvier) | MERE. This is the French word for mother. It is frequently used as, in
ventre sa mere, which signifies; a child unborn, or in the womb.
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