Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MER'LON, n. [It. merlo; Fr. merlon.]

In fortification, that part of a parapet which lies between two embrasures. Encyc.

MER'MAID, n. [Fr. mer, L. mare, the sea, and maid.]

A supposed marine animal, said to resemble a woman in the upper part of the body, and a fish in the lower part. The male is called the merman.

ME'ROPS, n.

A genus of birds called bee-eaters.

MER'RI-LY, adv. [from merry.]

With mirth; with gayety and laughter; jovially. [See Mirth and Merry.] Merrily sing and sport and play. Glanville.

MER'RI-MAKE, n. [merry and make.]

A meeting for mirth; a festival; mirth. Spenser.

MER'RI-MAKE, v.i.

To be merry or jovial; to feast. Gay.

MER'RI-MENT, n.

Mirth; gayety with laughter or noise; noisy sports; hilarity; frolick. Milton.

MER'RI-NESS, n.

Mirth; gayety with laughter. Shak.

MER'RY, a. [Sax. mirige, myrig; Ar. مَرِحَ maricha, to be joyful. Class Mr, No. 10.]

1. Gay and noisy; jovial; exhilarated to laughter. Man is the merriest species of the creation. Addison. They drank and were merry with him. Gen. xliii.
2. Causing laughter or mirth; as, a merry jest. Shak.
3. Brisk; as, a merry gale. [This is the primary sense of the word.]
4. Pleasant; agreeable; delightful. Chaucer. To make merry, to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth. Judges ix.

MER-RY-AN'DREW, n.

A buffoon; a zany; one whose business is to make sport for others. Spectator.

MER'RY-MAK-ING, a.

Producing mirth. Mirth, music, merry-making melody / Speed the light hours no more at Holyrood. Hillhouse.

MER'RY-MEET-ING, n.

A festival; a meeting for mirth. Bp. Taylor.

MER'RY-THOUGHT, n.

The forked bone of a fowl's breast, which boys and girls break by pulling each one side; the longest part broken betokening priority of marriage. Echard.

MER'SION, n. [L. mersio, from mergo, to dive or sink.]

The act of sinking or plunging under water. But immersion is generally used.

MES-A-RA'IC, a. [Gr. μεσαριον; μεσος, middle, and αραια, intestines.]

The same as mesenteric; pertaining to the mesentery.

ME-SEEMS, v. [Verb impersonal. me and seems.]

It seems to me. It is used also in the past tense, meseemed. Spenser.

MES-EN-TER'IC, a. [See Mesentery.]

Pertaining to the mesentery; as, mesenteric glands or arteries.

MES'EN-TER-Y, n. [Gr. μεσεντεριον; μεσος, middle, and εντερον, intestine.]

A membrane in the cavity of the abdomen, attached to the lumbar vertebers posteriorly, and to the intestines anteriorly. It is formed of a duplicature of the peritoneum, and contains adipose matter, lacteals, mesenteric glands, lymphatics, and mesenteric arteries, veins and nerves. Its use is to retain the intestines, and their appendages in a proper position. Hooper.

MESH, n. [W. masg, net-work, a mesh; D. maas; G. masche, a mesh or a stitch.]

1. The opening or space between the threads of a net.
2. The grains or wash of a brewery.

MESH, v.t.

To catch in a net; to insnare. Drayton.

MESH'ED, pp.

Caught in a net; insnaring.

MESH'ING, ppr.

Insnaring.

MESH'Y, a.

Formed like net-work; reticulated. Thomson.

MES'LIN, n. [from Fr. mesler, mêler, to mix, or L. miscellaneus, from misceo, to mix.]

A mixture of different sorts of grain; in America, a mixture of wheat and rye.

MES-MER'IC, or MES-MER'IC-AL, a.

Pertaining to mesmerism, or being under its influence.