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Show ME ME the hammer and is ofa bright glofly and glittering fubftance where newl 'The metals are fix i cut or broken namber: 1. gold; 2. filver; 3. copper The impoflibility to conceive fo great a princ METAMO RPROSIS then copper, an 1. welapbpQuoic. the filver fron is the lighteft except tin: fom have added mercury or quickfilver, t the number of mezals; bu a 1t want malleability, the criterion of metals, i 3s more properly ranked among th 3 femi-metals Metallifts ufe a kind of terrace in their veflel for fining metals, that the melted et/ run not out Doxon I {pirit 2. Courage this fenfe it i more frequently written meztle Being glad to find theit companions had fo muc mezal, afier- long debate the major part casried it Clarendon 3.-Upon this fignification the followin ambiguity is founded Both kinds of metal he prepar'd Either to give blows or to ward Courage and &eel both of great force Prepar'd for better or for worfe #. / Meravre'psis [udéanbici Hudibras A con tinuation ofa trope in one word throug a fucceflion of fignifications Mera'LLicar. ] adj. [fro MEeTa'LLICK Lat Bailey metallum metalligue Fr. Partaking of metal ; containing metal confifting of metal The ancients obferving in that material a kin of metallical nature, or fufibility, feem to have refolved it to nobler ufe; an art now utterly loft Weottor's Architeture The lofty lines abound with endlefs ftor Of min'ral treafure, and metallick oar Blackmore MEeTALLlFEROUS. adf. [metallum an Sero, Latin. Producing metals. Dig MzeTa'LLINE. adj. [from metal. 1. Impregnated with metal DMetalline waters have virtual cold in them; pu therefore wood or clay into fmith's water, and tr whether it will not harden Bacon 2. Confifting of metal Though the quickfilyer were brought to a ver clofe and lovely metalline cylinder, not interrupte by interfperfed bubbles, yet having caufed the ai to ‘be again drawn out of the receiver, fevera little bubbles difclofed themfelves Mgz'raLvist lifte, Fr. in metals. Metallift #z / [fro Boyle metal5 metal A worker in metals5 fkille vfe a kin of terrace in their veflel for fining metals, that the melted metal run no out; it is made of quick lime and ox blood Maron's Mech. Exercifes Merarro'craruy. n. f. [metallum an An account or defcription o Diét Mg TaLLURGIST. 7. f. [metallum an Yyer ] A worker in metals Mz TALLURGY. 7. /. [metallum and {0, The ait of working metals, or feparating them from their ore 9o METAMORPHOSE. . a. [metamor phofers French 5 pdlapogrés.] To chang the form or fhape of any thing Thou Julia, thou haf¥ metamorphos'd mes Made me negle€t my ftudies, lofe my. time Shakefpeare They became degenerate and metamorphojed lik Nebuchadnezzar thoug he had the face o a man, had the heart of a beal Dawies on Ireland who Call her the met and favourite fo fuddenly metamorphofed into travellers, with no train, was enough to make an man unbelieve his five fenfes Wotton From {uch rude principles our form began And carth was metamorphos'd into man. - Dryden 4. tin; 5. iron; and, 6. lead; of whig gold is the heaviett, lead the fecond i weight ME 7. f And fay fhe torturef%i/;s a oé‘ufifia?x Phyficians ; If fight be caufed by intromifi x}fufcdl [metamorphofe Obfcene talk is grown fo common, that on would think we were fallen into an age of metamorphafis, and that the brutes did not only poeticall but really fpeak Gowernment of the Longue What ! my noble colonel in wmetamorphofis! O what occafion are you transformed Dryden There are probable machines in epic poems where the gods are no lefs actors than the me but the lefs credible fort, fuch as metamorphofes are far more rare LBroome both in its form ation and growth ; and by feveral t the various fhapes fome infe&s in particular pafs through, as the filk-worm and the like Quiney ME'TAPHOR. #. /. [metaphore, French pélo@op. ] The application of a2 word t is its original import he bridles hi found ; the Sprin A metaphor is word the Sprin powers of vege were torpid in the Winter as the powers of a fleeping animal ar excited by awaking him The wor of tragedy is on-the paffions, an i a dialogue5 both of them abhor ftrong metaphors in which the epopeea delights Dryden One died in metaphor, and one in fong Pope MEerarHO RICAL MzraPHO RICK adj [metaphorique French; from me taphor. Not literal; not accordin to the primitive meaning of the word figurative The words which were do continue; the onl difference is, that whercas before they had a literal they now have a metaphorical ufe MeTararasE 7. [ mere verbal tranflatio guage into another Thi tranflatio i no nor fo clofe as metaphrafe [wddppaoic. fro f{o loof a hoy abf"cc.e"ed u;, g Hooker one lanparaphrafe Drydzi Matavuara'st. u. f. [metaphrafe," Fr pilappasnc. ] A literal tranflator; on who tranflates word for word from one language into another MEeTarHY SICAL }a/{'j Merarny'sick 1. Verfed in metaphyficks; relating t metaphyficks z. In Shakefpeare it means fupernatural o preternatural Hie thee hither To chattife with the valour of my tongu All that impedes thee from the golden round ‘Which' fate, and metaphyfical aid, doth fee To have crown'd thee withal. Shakefpeare's Mach MeTaruY sick. % n./. [metaphyfique, Fr MeTaruy sicks pélaPuoin, Ontology ;5 the do@rine of the genera afiections of fubftances exifting The mathematicks and the metaphyficks Fall to them as you find your ftomach ferves you Shakefpeare See metaphyfick call for aid o fenfel p e; caufe, effcét, action, pafiion, idcntityrz;'.?" Th topick fubjet of ontology op m;r:ahhffisl adjunét, and fign 7 MEe‘rarrLasm = Wa;ts;s?})fifi?? og th [,,g!m,\m,y'sg.] i figure in rhetorick, wherein words ¢ g e 1 c n r r pofe letters r natural order Mh'l m~ AST A'SIS tio oO Di; q 7/._/: [:welcw,'am‘.] Tranf. removai His difeafe was a dangerou afth ma; the eu a metaffafis, or tranflation of tart aro s humour from his joints to his lungs 2. lt is applied by Harwey to the change tation, whic which See phyfick beg the Stagyrite's defenc |mc!'% His whole oraticn ftood upon a fhort narration what was the caufer of this metamorphofis. Sidney it cannot be put anger; he deadens th awakes the flowers fimile comprized in putting in ation th together Ariftotle thews in his metaphyficks 1. Transformation; change of thape an ufe to which flm'{a?" in, the form of contrary fpecies fhould I:YMY "G c an animal undergoes fick N Harvey on Confumptin ¢ onjutiplim, ME)! ,A'I‘.'\. RSAL. ‘az{/ bmongm :1 ~ ne' L}on t c me d!(hfz: th £ o metatarius th bones [frorp metatarfiy) toes ma b ' ar':d par only of th 3 carious; in which o cut off only fo much of the foot as is difordered Si;m;a‘:s,,,- - METATA'RSUS. 2. [ [uéra and ragoi] The middle of the foot, whichistop, pofe of five {fmall bones conneledyy thofe of the firft part of the foot Th conjun@io Dig is called fynarthrofis, ai the joining the tarfus to the metatarfus Wifma METa'tHESIS. 7./. [pdeSecic.] A treyanl pofition v 7o MeTe. @. a. [metior, Latin.] T mealare ; to reduce to meafure I will divide Shechem, and mete the valleyf Succoth Pfalss. To meafure any diftance by a line, apply fone known- meafure wherewith to mete it Hell Though you many ways purfu To find their length, you'll never mete the true But thus j take ali that fpace the fo Metes out, when every daily round is run. Crezh MEe'TEwaND, } 2. /. [mete and jyard,o Mz TEY ARD awand.] A faff ofa certai lengt wherewith meafaresae talken A true touchitone a fure meteoard lieth beftre their eyes Afcham's Schulmafn Ye fhall do no unrighteoufnefs in m{fijfli weight, or meafure Lewe Xixe 35 70 METEMPSYCHOSE @ a [fromm: tempfychofis.] To tranflate from bodjlo body A word not received The-foul of ufurer after their dcath,. Luca affirms to be metempfychsfed, or tranflated int bodies of afles, and there remain certain Yo for poor men to take their pennyworth out of t!'m Peacham on Blazinie bones Merempsy cuo'sts. 7 /o [pleudoxasts The tranfmigration of fouls from bot to b(:dy Fro th opinio o mctfm[/fi:bffi v oi,d‘tf::o migration of the fouls of men into thEbd'fib beafts, mioft fuitable unto their human Cm;nfl after his" deat {wan Mge'TEOR Orpheu 7. f the mufician beg Browon's Pulgar f"'" [meteore Er Wh""@‘f'(' Any bodies in the air or fky thata a flux and tranfitory nature Look'd he or red, or pale, or.fad, °'£‘m What obfervation mad'& thow 'm_th}s ca>e,SMk tilting in his races Of his heart's meteor She began to caft with herfelf from W this blazing ftar mu@ rife upon. the howzon Ircland 3 for ther fluence 1before ha the Jik ',i}; matedk SEg " Bacon's Hewl) V"' The |