medallic 
I hare lately seen, say Eugenitis, a metallic history of 
the present King of Krani'c. .I././/.,.,/ \nrimi Mi-<lals, ill. 
If It is possible to ronccivi- literature tlrHtruynl, ami 
modern cities ami their monuments in ruin ami MOVi 
medallic coins would become the most durable memorials. 
Jevorut, Money and Much, of Exchange, p. 03. 
medallion (ine-dal'yon), H. [< F. meiliiilliin (= 
Sp. uii'iliillini), a large medal, a medallion, lock- 
et, etc., < medaille, a medal: see medal.'] 1. A 
medal of large size. Some Greek coins of unusually 
large module are popularly, though incorrectly, so called : 
as, the Syracusan medallions. The pieces called by numls- 
' : '*> 
r 
diverse. Reverse. 
Medallion of Maximus I. (Size of the original.) 
matlsts the Human medallions are generally struck In cop- 
per, though sometimes In the precious metals, and bear a 
general resemblance to the sestertii or large bronze coins 
of the earlier Roman emperors; but they are often of finer 
workmanship than the coins, and are not inscribed with 
the letters S. C. (for senatiu umstilto). These medallions 
(the ancient name of which is notknown)did not circulate 
as money, but were given by the emperors as presents to 
state officials and others. Their types are of a more or less 
commemorative character. 
Medallions Iwere], ... In respect of the other coins, 
. . . the same as modern medals in respect of modern 
money. They were exempted from all commerce, and 
had no other value but what was set upon them by the 
fancy of the owner. They are supposed to have neen 
struck by emperors for presents to their friends, foreign 
princes, or ambassadors. Addison, Ancient Medals, iii. 
2. Anything resemblingtheclassical medallion, 
(o) A circular or oval disk decorated with figures, as a 
portrait with legends, and cast In metal. Medallions of 
this sort were common at the epoch of the Renaissance, 
and are among the most interesting specimens of the 
sculptures of that time, (b) In arch., a tablet, circular, 
oval, square, or of any other form, bearing on It objects 
represented in relief, as figures, heads, animals, flowers, 
etc., and applied to an exterior or interior wall, a frieze, 
or other architectural member; a cartouche, (c) A mem- 
ber in a decorative design resembling a panel ; a space re- 
served for some special work of art, as a landscape, a 
portrait, etc.. or merely (tiled with ornamentation different 
from the surface around it: as, a medallion in a carpet, on 
a painted vase, etc. 
medallion-carpet (me-dal'ymi-kar'pet), n. A 
carpet woven in one piece, with a large central 
figure, surrounded by a plainer surface, and 
usually a border. 
medallioned (me-dal'yond), a. [< medallion + 
-erf 2 .] Ornamented with a medallion or me- 
dallions. 
An elaborate medallioned title-page of birds, by Mr. J. 
O. Millais. Athenaeum, No. 315C, p. 503. 
medallion-pattern (me-daryon-pat'ern), n. 
In decorative art, a design for the ornamenta- 
tion of a surface of which a medallion or medal- 
lions form an important part. 
medallist, n. See medalist. 
metallurgy (med'al-er-ji), M. [< medal + Gr. 
Vp)f<>>, work. Cf. metallurgy."] The art of de- 
signing and striking medals. [Obsolescent.] 
medal-machine (med'al-ma-shen"), n. A ma- 
chine for copying medals and similar works in 
relief or in intaglio, on a scale larger or smaller 
than the originals. It is an adaptation of the 
carving-machine. 
medal-tankard (med'al-tang'kard), w. Same 
meddle (med'l), t 1 . ; pret. and pp. meddled. p]ir. 
meddling. [Early mod. E. also medic; < ME. 
niedlen, ' medfleii, < OF. medler, mcaler. assimi- 
lated meiler, meller, F. meler = Pr. RMMUT = Sp. 
mezrlar = Pg. tuttiwtm It. mtsrliinre, iinxcolare, 
mix, < ML. as if *mi.ieiilare, < L. miscere, mix: 
see mix 1 . Cf. mett 1 , medley, intermeddle, etc.] 
I.t trans. To mix; mingle. 
Wordly [worldly) selynesse, 
Which clerkes callen fals felicltee, 
Ymedled Is with many :> hitternesse. 
Chaucer, Troilus, ill. 815. 
six sexter with a pounde 
Of honey meddel thai, and save it sounde. 
Palladia, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 118. 
He cutt a lock of all their In arc. 
Which medliny with their blood and earth lie tlurw 
Into the grave. Spenser, F. Q., II. i. 81. 
A medled estate of the orders of the Gospel and the 
ceremonies of popery is 
Quot. 
He tok his senrd in hand, the croyce let he falli-, 
And mcdelcd him in the prcs, among the barons alle. 
Rob. of Bntnnc, p. 18. 
3681 
II. intrant. If. To be mixed or mingled ; mix. 
More to know 
Did never meddle with my thought*. 
Shall., Tempest, L 2. 28. 
2f. To mingle in association or interest: con- 
cern one's self; take part; deal: generally re- 
quiring irilh in construction. 
Whan these ill] kynges saugh that these were a-nionge 
hem uunlfliit'ii; the! departed her peple In tweyne, and 
lefte vlij'i fighting stllle. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), li. -Ji)7. 
study to be quiet, and to meddle with your own busi- 
ness. Tyndale, 1 Then. Iv. 11. 
Meddle not with them that are given to change. 
Prov. xxlv. 21. 
The shoemaker should tnrddlr mth his yard, and the 
tailor with his last. Shalt., R. and J., L 2. 40. 
3. To interfere or take part inappropriately, 
improperly, or impertinently ; concern or busy 
one's self with or about something without 
necessity or warrant; act in a matter with 
which one has no business: used absolutely, 
or followed by in or with. 
Why shouldest thou meddle to thy hurt! 2 K i. xlv. 10. 
In those days nobody meddled icith concerns above his 
comprehension. Ininy, Knickerbocker, p. IBS. 
Miss Alethen was a lady of excellent sense, and did not 
meddle with him any more. 
J. E. Conltt, Virginia Comedians, I. xxx. 
To meddle or make, to have to do ; take part ; Interfere. 
[Colloo,.] 
For such kind of men, the less you meddle or make with 
them, why, the more Is for your honesty. 
Shot., Much Ado, iii. 3. 55. 
meddler (med'ler), n. One who meddles; one 
who interferes or busies himself with things in 
which he has no personal or proper concern ; an 
officious person ; a busybody. 
Do not drive away such as bring thee Information as med- 
dlers, but accept of them In good part. 
Bacon, Of Great Place. 
Layer-overs for meddlers. See layer^nxr. 
meddlesome (med'1-sum), a. [< meddle + 
-.some.] Given to meddling; apt to interpose in 
the affairs of others ; inclined to be officiously 
intrusive. 
Honour, that meddlesome, officious 111, 
Pursues thee e'en to death. Blair, The Grave. 
meddlesomeness (med'1-sum-nes), n. Officious 
interference in or with the affairs of others. 
I shall propound some general rules according to which 
such meddlesomeness Is commonly blameable. 
Barrow, Sermons, I. xxl. 
meddling 1 (med'ling), . [< ME. medlyng, 
meddelynge; verbal u. of meddle, .] 1. The 
act or habit of interfering in matters not of 
one's proper concern. 
Most of the vices of Frederic's administration resolve 
themselves into one vice, the spirit of meddlinj. 
Macaulay, Frederic the Great. 
2f. Contention in battle; fighting. 
Whan Agravayn hadde the horse, he lepte vp as soone 
as he myght, and than be-gan the medtlelynge ainonge hem 
full crewell and fell. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), U. 199. 
meddling'- 2 (med'ling), p. a. Officious; unwar- 
rantably busy or officiously interposing in other 
men's affairs : as, a meddling neighbor. 
A metlliny man is one that ha* nothing to do with his 
buslnesse, and yet no man busier than hee, and his busi- 
nesse is most in his face. 
Bp. Earlc, Micro-cosmographie, A Medltng Man. 
meddlingly (med'ling-li), adr. In a meddling 
manner; officiously. 
mode 1 !, mede 2 t. " Middle English forms of 
men, I 1 and meed. 
Mede :! (med), . [= 
F. Mede, < L. Medm, 
pi. Medi, < Gr. M/<!or, 
usually in pi. Mijfoi, 
the Medes, = Heb. 
Mddhai, the Medes, 
Media, Mddhi, a 
Mede, < OPers. and 
Zend Mdda, a Mede.] 
A native or an in- 
habitant of Media, 
an ancient kingdom 
of Asia, south of the 
Caspian Sea, and 
later a part of the 
Persian empire. 
The thing is true, ac- 
cording to the law of 
the Mtdts and Persians, 
which altered! not. 
Dan. vl. 12. 
medefult,"- A Mid- 
dle English form of 
n/i i ttt nl. 
Medeola (me-de'o- 
median 
r T-r ' ,1 ' Dr-root \.weat 
lil,i. It. [-NJ-1. (Llll- flower; *, fruit 
Plant oflndian Cucum- 
ber-root ifffdfela yirfinifa). a. 
tifT-iis, 1737), < L. Me/lin, M'lliti, < Gr. 
Medea, famed as a smvi-iv^.J A genus of 
liliaceous plants of the tribe Mulmli-a: it Is 
characterirea by a whorl of leaves at the middle of tin- 
stem, and by the flowers being In a terminal umbel, sur- 
rounded by three iuvulucrate leaves. There Is but a sin 
gle species, H. Virginica, the Indian cuciiinber-nHit, which 
i.Tiiniiii'in In damp, rich woods In .North America. See 
cucitmber-root. 
Medeoleae (me-de-6'Ie-e), n. nl. [NL. (Bentham 
and Hooker, 188&),< Medetila + -*.] A triln' 
of plants of the natural order /.ilinrea: It Is char- 
acterized by a bulbless stem (the few leaves radical, or 
M boiled on the stem), terminal solitary or umbelled flow- 
ers, extrorse anthers, and an Indehlscent fleshy fruit. It 
contains 5 genera and about 25 species, natives of North 
America and the northern and temperate parts of Europe 
and Asia. 
media 1 (me'di-il), n. [L., fern, of media*, mid- 
dle: see IIKI/III'III.] In ana'., the middle tunic 
of an artery or a lymphatic vessel. Leidy, Anat . 
(1889). 
media 2 , n. Plural of medium. 
mediacy (me'di-a-si), n. [< media(te) + -cy.] 1. 
The state of being mediate ; the state or fact of 
being a medium or mean cause. 2. Mediation. 
Were there in these syllogisms no occult conversion of 
an undeclared consequent, no mediacy from the antece- 
dent, they could not In their ostensible conclusion reverse 
the quantities of Breadth and Depth. Sir W. Hamilton. 
mediad(me'di-ad), adv. [< medial + -rf 3 .] In 
anat. and zoril., to or toward the meson or mid- 
dle line or plane in situation or direction ; me- 
siad. 
Almost all the Lamellibrancbiata have two pairs of these 
gills on either side : an Inner pair, which are placed mediail, 
and an outer pair at the sides of these. 
Gcycnbaur, Comp. Auat. (trans.), p. 336. 
mediaeval, medievalism, etc. See medieval, etc. 
medial (me'di-al), a. and n. [< LL. medialin, 
of the middle, <L. medium, middle : see medium.] 
1. a. 1. Pertaining to the middle; situated or 
existing between two extremities or extremes ; 
intermediate in situation, rank, or degree: as, 
the medial letters of a word ; a medial mark on 
an insect's wing. 
The Inherent use of all medial knowledges, all truths, 
cognitions, books, appearings, and teachings, is that they 
bring us In to know God by an Immediate knowledge. 
Bushncll, Sermons on Living Subjects, p. 12S. 
Among the Dipnoi, Protopterus retains the medial row 
of rays only, which have the form of fine rods of cartilage. 
Qeyenbaur, Comp. Anat. (trans.), p. 477. 
2. Mean; pertain ing to a mean or average. 3. 
In modern spiritualism, pertaining to a medi- 
um or to mediumship ; mediumistic: as, medial 
faculties; medial phenomena. 4. In coo/, and 
anat., same as median^ and mesal. 5. In bot., 
same as median 1 Alligation medial. Sec alliga- 
tion. Medial cadence! (a) In Gregorian music, a ca- 
dence closing with the chord of the mediant of any mode. 
(b) In modern music, a cadence, final or not, In which the 
next to the hist chord Is Inverted ; an inverted cadence. 
Medial cells, basal cells of an Insect's wing, between the 
subcostal, median, and submedian veins, distinguished 
in the Hymenaptrra. Also called median and brachial 
cells. Medial consonances, in music, a term used by 
Uelmholtz for the major third and major sixth, as dietiu 
guished from the minor third and minor sixth. - Medial 
eyes, eyes equally distant from the base of the head and 
the apex or end of the labrum. Medial line, a line whose 
length la a mean proportional between those of two other 
lines. Medial moraine, stress, etc. See the nouns. 
II. H. In Gr. gram., one of the mutes j), y, t, 
as if intermediate in sound between the surd 
mutes TT, K, T and the aspirates , x< " The term 
medial (Latin media) translates the technical Greek JHCTOI-, 
sc. a^ttfi-or, middle mute. 
medially (me'di-al-i), adv. In or along the mid- 
dle; as regards the middle; midway: as, me- 
dially situated. 
medialuna (me'di-a-lu'nft), M. A pimelepte- 
roid fish of the Pacific coast, f Ynwwoma eali- 
fornica. It has an ovate form, vertical fins not falcate, 
'color blackish above with bluish and lighter tints below, the 
fins blackish. It is about one foot long, is common along 
the coast from Point Conception In California southward, 
and is an esteemed food-fish. 
median 1 (me'di-an ), a. [= F. median = Sp. Pg. 
It. mediano, < li.'mediantts, that is in the middle. 
< medius, middle: see medium. Cf. mean 9 and 
mizzen, ult. doublets of median 1 .] Pertaining to 
or situated in the middle; specifically, in anat. 
and zoiil., intermediate as dividing the body 
by a longitudinal and vertical plane: medial; 
mesal : as, the linea alba is the median line of the 
abdomen ; in bot., situated in or along, or belong- 
ing to, the middle of a structure having a right 
side and a left. See below. Median area, In m. 
tom., a large space occupying the center of the wing, from 
base to end, lying between the median and submedian or 
internal veins. In Orthtipiem it is often marked by a 
different structure from the rest of the wing. Median 
artery, a branch, usually of the anterior interosseous, ac- 
companying the median nerve. It is sometimes of large 
size, and may arise from the nlnar or the brachial. Me- 
dian basilic vein. See basilic.- Median cells. Same 
