Mesozoio Strata
Mesozoio Strata. Cretaceous System. Chalk (500 Feet Thick).—it Constitutes The Weld Hills. This Is Usually A Harder Rock Than That Of The South Of England, And The Nodular Flints Which It Contains Are Scattered Through A Great Part Of Its Thickness. The Lower Part Assumes In Places A Grayer And ...
Messiah
Messiah Is A Hebrew Word, Of The Same Signification As The Greek Xpurros• (christ), Anointed. In The Old Testament The Word Is Repeatedly Applied To Persons Who Were Consecrated To The Service Of God In Some Sacred Office. Thus The Jewish Priests, Prophets, And Kings Are Called Anointed (messiah), Or ...
Metacentre
Metacentre Is A Point In A Floating Body, The Position Of Which, Relative To That Of The Centre Of Gravity, Determines The Conditions For The Stability Or Instability Of The Equilibrium Of That Body. The Equi Librium Is Stable, If, When The Body Receives A Slight Disturbance From Its Position, ...
Metals
Metals. The Great Characteristio Of These Well Known Substances Is Their Lustrous Appearance; It Is Indeed So Constant An Accompaniment Of Them Ea To Afford, Under The Name Of Metallic Lustre, A Standard Of Deacriptlon For The Appearance Of Other Bodies. Metals, In The Common Acceptation Of The Term, Are ...
Metaphor
Metaphor (aerra4sopcf, Literally 'a Transference'), A Figure Of Speech Which Renders The Subject Of Discourse Striking, By The Aid Of Expres Sions Primarily Referring To Other Objects. A Common Kind Of Metaphor Is That Called Personification, Where Inanimate Beings Are Represented As Endowed With Life, And Even With Feeling, Reason, ...
Metaphysics
Metaphysics, A Name Originally Applied To Those Books Of Aris Totle Which Followed His Physics,' And Which His Editors Called The Books After The Physics' (uera Tb Inumisri). In Modern Times The Word Has Been Variously Applied, And Seems To Assume Quite A Distinct Mean Ing As Employed By Different ...
Metaphysics_2
Metaphysics, A Name Originally Applied To Those Books Of Aris Totle Which Followed His Physics,' And Which His Editors Called 'the Books After The Physics' (aerit .ra 0.0-.0. In Modern Times The Word Has Been Variously Applied, And Seems To Assume Quite A Distinct Mean Ing As Employed By Different ...
Metempsychosis
Metempsychosis (afresopxtetris), Derived From A Greek Word Signifying The Passage Or Transmigration Of Souls, Forms A Part Of The Philosophical Or Religious Belief Of Many Nations. The Hindus Believe That The Souls Of Men Pass After Death Into Different Bodies, Either Of Men Or Animals, Unless An Individual Has Lived ...
Metempsychosis
Metempsychosis (asi-estpiixcecris), Derived From A Greek Word Signifying The Passage Or Transmigration Of Souls, Forms A Part Of The Philosophical Or Religious Belief Of Many Nations. The Hindus Believe That The Souls Of Men Pass After Death Into Different Bodies, Either Of Men Or Animals, Unless An Individual Has Lived ...
Meteorology
Meteorology, In Its Extended Sense, Embraces All Physical Causes Which Affect The State Of The Atmosphere Or Are Affected By It. Hence It Is Connected With The Phenomena Of Haat And Cold, Dew, Rain, Hail And Snow, Clouds, Winds, Aurora:, Boreales And Australes, Or Polar Lights, Haloes, Parhelia, .to The ...
Method Of Least Squares
Least Squares, Method Of. This Is A Method, Which, Since Its First Introduction, Has Been Shown To Be The Method Of Finding The Most Probable Truth, When A Number Of Discordant Observations Have Been Made Upon A Phenomenon. The Earliest Attempt At Any Thing Of The Sort Was Made By ...
Method Of Quadratures
Quadratures, Method Of. The Method Of Quadratures Derives Its Name From Its Earliest Application, That Of Finding The Areas Of Curves, Which Was Always Called Their Quadrature, As Being The Arithmetical Process By Which, When Exact, Squares Equal To Them Might Be Found. And Since The Area Of A Curve ...
Methodism
Methodism, A Very Memorable Word In The English Vocabulary, As The Thing Sioaified Is Also Very Memorable In The History Of The Christian Church, And Especially Of That Part Of It Which Consists Of In Habitants Of The British Isles. The People Of England Have Been Described By Foreign Writers ...
Methods Of Finding Longitude
Longitude And Latitude, Methods Of Finding. We Shall Classify The Various Modes Of Determining Geographical Lati Tude And Longitude, Partly By The Instrumental Means Of The Observer And Partly By The Nature Of The Phenomena. The Problems Are Of Course The Same Whatever Instrument Is Employed, For The Latitude Of ...
Methyl
Methyl An Organic Radical, Homologous With Elam. C,h. It Is The Lowest Term In The Series C,, Like Ethyl It Forms Every Numerous Class Of Compounds, But They Have Not Been So Completely Investigated As Those Of The Latter Radical. • Methyl Is Obtained By Acting Upon Iodide Of Methyl ...
Metre
Metre (from The Greek Airpor, A Measure) Is That Quality Of Verso By Which It Is To The Car Distinguishable From Prose. It Is Frequently Held To Be One Of The Essentials Of Poetry; Imaginative Thought Being The Other. No Remon Can Be Assigned For This Opinion, The Truth Being ...
Metro Giannone
Gianno'ne, Metro, Born At Ischitella, In The Province Of Capitanata, In 1676; Studied At Naples, And Applied Himself To Tho Profession Of The Law. From The Prate Of His Practice He Managed By Assiduous Labour And Economy To Purchase A Small Country-house, Where Ho Spent All The Time Ha Could ...
Mexican A Rcii Itecture
Mexican A Rcii Itecture. Tim Ancient Architectural Remains In The Valley Of Mexico, And In The Adjacent Countries, Have Never Yet Been Examined With Care And Patience By A Competent Archi Tect, Or Archeologist, To Enable Tin To Speak With Any Approach To Certainty Of Their Relative Antiquity, Or To ...
Mezzotinio
Mezzotin'i'o, In Engraving, A Peculiar Mode Of Engraving Designs Of Any Description Upon Pities Of Copper Or Steel, With The View Of Obtaining Impressions Therefrom. In This Style Of Engraving, Which Essentially Differs From Every Other, The Surface Of The Plate Is First Indented Or Hacked All Over By The ...
Mhos
Mhos, One Of The Larger Cycled's., Is Situated West Of Naxos, From Which It Is Separated By A Channel Six Miles Wide. Pares Is Estimated To Be About One-half The Duo Of Naxos It Is About 36 Miles In Circum Femme. The Surface Is Billy ; It Prodeces Corn, Abundance ...
Miasma
Miasma Is A Greek Word (alcursda)mignifying Pollution Or Corruption Generally, And Is Employed To Designate A Certain Volatile Deleterious Principle, Arising Either From The Bodies Of The Nick, From Animal Or Vegetable Substances, Or From The Earth, And Capable Of Exerting A Morbid Influence On Those Exposed To Its Action. ...
Michael Coxie
Coxie, Michael, A Very Celebrated Old Flemish Painter, Born Nt Mechlin, In 1197. Ile Studied First Under Bernard Van Orley, And Devoted Afterwards Much Time To The 'body Of The Works Of Ilaffaelle At Rome, In Which City He Obtained Some Distinction As A Fresco Painter. Lie Returned With An ...
Michael Drayton
Drayton, Michael, Was Born At Hartshill In The County Of Warwick, In The Year 1563. His Life Is Involved Iu Great Obscurity, And Different Circumstances Concerning Him Are Rather Conjectured Than Affirmed. It Is Supposed That He Went To The University Of Oxford, But Without Taking Any Degree, And Also ...
Michael Vasilievich Lomonosov
Lomonosov, Michael Vasilievich, The Father Of Modern Russian Poetry And Literature, Was Born In 1711, Near Kholmogor, Iu The Government Of Archangel. His Father, Who Was A Serf Of The Crown, Was By Occupation A Fisherman, And Michael More Than Once Accompanied Him In Fisiing Excursions In The White And ...
Michel Eugene Chevreul
*chevreul, Michel Eugene, A Distinguished Chemist, Was Born At Angers, August 31st, 1786. His Father, Who Practised As A Physician, Took Good Care Of His Education, And Sent Him To The Central School At Angers. In 1803 The Youth Removed To Paris, And Studied Chemistry Under Vauquelin. In 1310, When ...
Michel Fourmont
Fourmo'nt, Miche'l, Younger Brother Of Etienne, Born In 1690, Exhibited Also A Facility For Learning Languages : He Assisted His Mother In His Philological !aboard, Was Made Profeseor Of Syriao In The College Royal In 1720, And-he Gave Also From His Chair Lectures Ou The Ethiopic Language. In 1726,• Being ...
Michelangelo Carava0010
Carava'0010, Michelangelo, Americiiii, Or Morigl Called Da Caravaggio, From A Town Of That Name In The Milanese, In Which He Was Born About The Year 1509. His Father Worked At ]ilan As A Labouring Builder. The Son Derived His First Love Of The Art, Together With Such Knowledge As He ...
Micrometer
Micrometer ( From Isafph Small, And A Measure), The Term Generally Applied To Contrivances For Measuring Small Spaces Or Angles With Great Accuracy Or Convenience. The Word Is Not Applied To Some Artifices For Subdividing The Gradua Tions Of An Astronomical Instrument (for These See Vernier), Nor When A Magnified ...
Middle Voice
Middle Voice Is A Term Employed In Greek Grammar To Indicate A Cleft, Of Verbs Which Are Called Reflective In Some Other Languages. The Reflective Meaning Is Supposed To Be The Original And Main Significa Tion Of The Middle Voice, But It Is Difficult In Many Of The Middle Verbs ...
Midianites
Midianites Manisa/et), The Descendants Of Midian, The Son Of Abraham By Keturah (gen. Xxv. 2, 4), Who, With The Other Sons Of Abraham's Concubines,migrated Eastward From Canaan During Abraham's Life (gen. Xxv. 6). In The Time Of Jacob Their Mer Chants Had Caravans From Gilead Through Palestine To Egypt (gen. ...
Mignonette
Mignonette (reseda Odorata) Is A Common Garden Flower, With Lanceolate Bluntish Entire Or Trifid Leaves, And A 6-parted Calyx Equal In Length To The Petals, Which Are Finely Cleft Into Many Club-shaped Divisions, The Two Lowest Simple, The Capsules 3-toothed. It Is A Native Of The North Of Africa And ...
Miiialy Vitez Csokonai
Csokonai, Miiialy Vitez, An Eminent Hungarian Poet, Was Born At Debreezin, On The 17th Of November 1773, And Educated At The College There, Where Joseph Kovacs, Who Had Published A Very Poor Translation Of The '2eueida Was At That Time Professor Of' Poetry. Kovacs, Who Was In The Habit Of ...
Mikhail Ivanovich Lermontov
Lermontov, Mikhail Ivanovich, A Russian Poet And Novelist Was Born In 18[1, Of A Noble Family, Was Educated At Home And At The School Of The Pages, Entered The Military Service, And Became An Officer Of The Guards. In 1837, When Pushkin, The Russian Byron, Fell In A Duel With ...
Mile
Mile. This Word Is Derived From =ware, The Nzille Passes, Or Thousand Paces, Of The Romans. Each Pace Was 5 Feet, And Each Foot Certainly Contained Between And 11.64 Modern English Inches. [weicsas And Measures.] Taking The Roman Foot At English Inches, The Original Roman Mile Was Therefore 1614 Yards, ...
Miles Coverdale
Coverdale, Miles, Bishop O Exeter, A Native Of Yorkshire, Was Born In 1487. Lie Was Educated Iu The House Of The Augustin Friars In Cambridge, Of Which Dr. Barnes, Afterwards One Of The Protestant Martyrs, Was Thee Prior. Whether He Took A Degree At The Uuiver Rity Of Cambridge In ...
Military Mines
Mines, Military, Are Excavations Made In The Rampart Of A Fortress, Or Underground, In Order To Contain Gunpowder, Which, Being Exploded, The Rampart May He Breached, Or Any Works Of The Enemy, Above Or Near The Mine, May Be Destroyed. The Term Offensive Is Applied To The Mines Which Are ...
Military Staff
Staff, Military. In The British Empire This Consists, Under The Sovereign And The General Commanding-in-chief, Of Those General, Field, And Regimental Officers To Whom Is Confided The Care Of Providing The Means Of Rendering The Military Force Of The Nation Efficient, Of Main Taining Discipline An The Army, And Regulating ...
Militia
Militia. The Body Of Soldiers Raised For The Defence Of A Nation May Be Called The Militia Of That Nation ; But In Great Britain And Ireland The Term Is Applied Particularly To Those Men Who Are Either Chosen By Ballot Or Volunteer To Serve For A Certain Number Of ...
Milky Way
Milky Way. It Is Desirable, In Describing Astronomical Objects, To Keep As Close As Possible To The Words Of Those Who Are Accustomed To The Sight And Description Of Such Things. Two Passages In Sir John Herschel's Astronomy ' Will Describe The Milky Way, And The Theory Of It, By ...
Millard Fillmore
Fillmore, Millard, Late President Of The United States Of North America, Was Born On The 7th Of January, 1800, At Summer In The State Of New York. His Father Cultivated A Small Farm, And Millard Fillmore Was Apprenticed To A Wool-carder, And Worked At The Trade Four Years, During Which ...
Million 31
Million. [31 Exs On Artox.] Mime (from The Greek Mimus (wren), An Imitator), A Dramatic Per Formance Of Irregular Form Among The Greeks, In Which Occurrences Of Real Life Were Clothed In A Poetical Dress. It Usually Consisted Of A Single Sccm, Mostly Comic, Sometimes With Such Dialogue Added As ...
Mineral Waters
Mineral Waters. Mineral Waters, Though Generally Charac Terised By Possessing Some Principle Different From What Is Found In Common Water, Or Some Of The Ordinary Principles In Unusual Pro Portion, Yet Among These Are Reckoned Certain Springs Which Have No Claim To Repute Beyond What Is Due To Their Extreme ...
Mineral Waters Springs
Springs, Mineral. [waters, 31ms:rut.] Spy. In The Discussion Of This And Many Other Questions Of Inter National Law The Terms Right, Law, Lawful, And Others Of The Same Class, Must Be Understood In A Different Sense From Their Proper Technical Meaning. What Writers On International Law Speak Of As A ...
Mines
Mines. Mines Are Properly Openings In The Ground From Which Any Thing Is Dug. Until An Opening Is Made, The Name Is Not Properly Applied, Though The Term Is Now Generally Used To Signify Coal, Lead, Iron And So Forth, Before Au Opening Is Made For Digging Them Out. Mines ...
Miniature
Miniature. The Term Miniature Would Apply With Equal Propriety To Every Kind Of Painting Executed On A Minute Or Diminutive Scale ; But As Commonly Employed It Includes Only Two, Though Some What Widely Different, Kinds Of Painting. One Of These Is That Style Of Ornamental Painting, Or Illuminating, Which ...
Mining
Mining. The Art Of Mining Embraces The Contrivance And Manage Ment Of The Operations Necessary To Effect The Various Objects Requisite In A Mine, As The Discovery Of Mineral Deposits, The Preliminary Trials Of The Value, And The Final Extraction Of Their Produce By Means Of Suitable Excavations And The ...