meet 
as, to meet one's fate calmly: his conduct meets 
the approbation of the public; you will meet 
your reward. 
Let no whit !h'-r dismay 
The hurt! beginne that meetes tin-.- In the dore 
And with sharpe II In thy tender hart oppresseth tore. 
Hinuer. Y. I)., 111. III. il. 
Ail Hurts of cruelties they meet like pleasures. 
Fletclmr (ana aiwtlier), Sea Voyage, iv. 2. 
I have a little satisfaction in seeing a letter written to 
you upon my tuble, though I meet no opportunity of send- 
ing It. Donne, letters, xvlt 
< Iniriuts and tlaming arms, and flery steeds, 
Hetlecting blaze on blaze, tirst met his view. 
Milt,,.,, V. I. , vl. 18. 
6. To come into collision with ; encounter with 
force or opposition ; come or move against : as, 
to meet the enemy in battle. 
To meet the noise 
Of his almighty engine he shall hear 
Infernal thunder. Miltun, P. L., u. 64. 
I have heard of your tricks. 
And you that smell of amber at my charge, 
And triumph in your cheat well, I may live 
To meet thee. 
Beau, and Ft., Honest Man's Fortune, ill. :;. 
Some new device they have afoot again, 
Some trick upon my credit ; I shall ,<" , t It. 
Fletcher, Rule a Wife, v. 3. 
Like Ore he meet* the foe, 
And strikes him dead for thine and thee. 
Tennyson, Princess, Iv. (song). 
6. To come into conformity to; be or act in 
agreement with: as,conduct that meet* one's ex- 
pectations. 7. To discharge; satisfy: as, to 
meet a note at maturity. 
This day he requires a large sum to meet demands that 
cannot be denied. Bulwer, Lady of Lyons, v. 2. (Hoppe.) 
8. To answer; refute: as, to meet an opponent's 
objections. To meet half-way, to approach from an 
equal distance and meet ; figuratively, make mutual and 
equal concessions to, each party renouncing some claim ; 
make a compromise with. To meet the eye, to arrest 
the sight; come into notice ; become visible. well met, 
a salutation of compliment. Compare hail-fMinr, well 
met, under hail fellow. Shakspere has also ill met in the 
opposite sense. 
Weel met, weft met, now, Parcy Keed. 
Death of Parcy Reed (Child's Ballads, VI. 144). 
= 8yn. 1. To light or happen upon. 6. To comply with, 
fulfil. 
II. intrang. 1. To come together ; come face to 
face; join company, assemble, or congregate. 
Also we inttti' with ij Gnlyes of Venys, whlche went owte 
of Vcnys a moueth afor vs. 
Torkinyton, Dlarie of Eng. Travel], p. 18. 
And for the rest o' the fleet 
Which I dispersed, they all have met again, 
And are upon the Mediterranean flote. 
Shall., Tempest, i. 2. 233. 
So hand in hand they paas'd, the loveliest pair 
That ever yet In love's embraces met. 
Milton, P. L., iv. 322. 
2. To come together in opposition or in con- 
tention, as in fight, competition, or play. 
And therefore this marcke that we must shoot at, set 
vp wel in our sight, wo shal now meat for y shoot. 
Sir T. Mori, Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. S3. 
Weapons more violent, when next we meet, 
May serve to better us, and worse our foes. 
.Milt,.,,. P. L, vi. 439. 
3. To come into contact; form a junction; 
unite; be contiguous or coalesce. 
There Savoy and 1'lemont tneete. 
Coryat, Crudities, I. 90. 
4. To combine. 
How all things meet to make me this day happy. 
Beau, and VI., Thierry and Theodoret, II. 1. 
Thou, the latest-left of all my knights, 
In whom should meet the offices of all. 
orte d' Arthur. 
5. To come together exactly ; agree; square or 
balance, as accounts. 
The Courtly figure Allegoria, which Is when we speake 
one thing and tninke another, and that our wordes and 
our meanings meete not. 
Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 164. 
It is mighty pleasant at the end of the year to make all 
(our accounts] meet. Lamb, Old China. 
To make both ends meet See end. To meet up with, 
to come upon, whether by encountering or by overtaking. 
[Southern U. S.J- To meet with, (a) To join; unite in 
company. 
When Oabryell owre lady grette, 
And Elyzabeth irith here mette. 
Batteei Boole (E. E. T. 3.), p. 17. 
Falstaff at that oak shall meet tritA us. 
Stoj*.,M. W.of W.,iv. 4. 4-2. 
(b) To light on ; find ; come to : often said of an unex- 
pected event. 
We met with many things worthy of observation. Bacon. 
(c) To suffer; be exposed to; experience. 
Royal Mistress. 
Prepare to meet tcith more than brutal fury 
From the tierce prince. 
Horn, Ambitious step-Mother, ii. i 
3680 
(d) To obviate. [A Utinism. I 
Before I proceed farther. It Is good to meet with an ob- 
jection, which if not removed, the conclusion of experi- 
ence from the time past to the present will not be sound. 
Bacim. 
(e) To counteract ; oppose. 
We must prepare to meet tcith Caliban. 
Shalt., Tempest, Iv. 1. 160. 
[Meet in the intransitive sense Is sometimes conjugated 
with to be as an auxiliary as well as with Aaw.] = 8yn. 1. 
To collect, muster, gather. 
meet 1 (met), . [< mrrti, r.] 1. A meeting 
of huntsmen for fox-hunting or coursing, or 
of bicyclists for a ride ; also, the company so 
met. 
The mantelpiece, In which Is stuck a large card with the 
list of the //-' for the week of the county hounds. 
T. llughet, Tom Brown at Rugby, L 4. 
2. The place appointed for such a meeting; 
the rendezvous. 
meet 2 (met), . and n. [< ME. meete, mete, < AS. 
ijemet, fit, suitable (cf. mate, moderate, = Icel. 
meetr, meet), < ye-, a generalizing suffix, + - 
tun, measure: see mete 1 .] I. a. 1. Fit; suit- 
able; proper; convenient; adapted; appro- 
priate. 
The said Towne of Brymyncham ys a verey mete place, 
and yt is verey mfte and necessarye that theare be a tfree 
Schoole erect theare. Enyluh Oildi(E.. E. T. S.), p. 249. 
But for Adam there was not found an help meet for him. 
Gen. II. 20. 
It was meet that we should make merry. Luke zv. 32. 
2f. Proper; own. 
Menelay the mighty, that waa his mete brother, 
Come fro his kingdom with clene shlppes SixtL 
Destruction of Troy (E. E. T. S.X 1. 4057. 
3f. Equal. 
Lord of lordea both loud and still, 
And none on melde I mold) mete him untill. 
Holy Rood (E. E. T. 8.), p. 122. 
4. Even. [Now only prov. Eng.] 
Niece, you tax Slgnior Benedick too much ; but he'll be 
meet with you. Shak., Much Ado, L 1. 47. 
Ill be meet with 'em : 
Seven of their young pigs I've bewitch'd already. 
Jttddfeton, The Witch, L 2. 
Syn. 1. Fitting, suitable, suited, congenial. 
II. t a. An equal ; a companion. 
meetelest, " See meMs. 
meetent(me'tn),E. t. [< meefi + -en 1 .] To make 
meet or fit; adapt; prepare. Ash. [Bare.] 
meeter 1 (me'ter), n. [< meefl + -er 1 .] One 
who meets or encounters; a participant in a 
meeting. [Rare.] 
meeter^t, . An obsolete spelling of meter 2 . 
meeth 1 !, [Also meith; said to be a var. of 
mete 1 , .] A mark; a sign; a landmark or 
boundary : as, meeths and marches. 
meeth'^t, . See meaeft. 
meeting (me'ting), . [< ME. metinge; verbal 
n. of meet 1 , .] 1. A coming together; an in- 
terview: as, a happy meeting of friends. 2. 
An assembly; a congregation; a collection of 
people; a convention: as, a social, religious, 
or political meeting; the meeting adjourned till 
the next day: applied in the United States, 
especially in rural districts, te any assemblage 
for religious worship, and in England and Ire- 
land to one of dissenters from the established 
church; specifically, an assembly of Friends for 
religious purposes : as, to go to meeting. 
Many sober Baptists and professors . . . came In, and 
abode In the meetiivj to the end. 
Penn, Travels In Holland, etc. 
I seem to see again 
Aunt, in her hood and train, 
Glide, with a sweet disdain, 
liravely to Meetiny. 
Locker, On an Old Muff. 
Your yellow dog was always on hand with a sober face 
to patter on his four solemn paws behind the farm-wagon 
as it went to meeting of a Sunday morning. 
II. B. Stow, Oldtown, p. 20. 
3. A conflux, as of rivers; a confluence; a join- 
ing, as of lines ; junction ; union. 
Her face <s like the Milky Way I' the sky, 
A meetina of gentle lights without a name. 
Suckling, Breunowalt, iU. 
4. A hostile encounter; a duel. 
At the first mefynpe there waa a sore lust 
Bernen, tr. of Frolssart's I'hron., I. ccxi. 
Basket-meeting. See the quotation. [Western U. S.J 
Banket Meeting! Jolly religious picnics, where you could 
attend to your salvation and eat "roas'in' ears with old 
fi -lends in the thronged recesses of the forests. 
E. Eggletton, The Graysons, x. 
Experience, family, Indignation, etc.. meeting. See 
the qualifying words. March meeting, in New England 
towns, the principal town-meeting, occurring annually in 
March. 
megacerou.s 
1 tin' ein ready planted in March-meetin', 
Warm / a lyccum audience in their greetin'. 
Lmcell, Blglow Papers, 2d ser., lloncn Blglow's Speech in 
[March Meeting. 
meetinger (mc'ting-cr), . [Also dial, meet- 
iner, meetner; < meetimj + -er 1 .] In some parts 
of England, a habitual attendant of a dissent- 
ing meeting or chapel. 
The Meetinger keeps himself posted up with the hut 
clerical escapade, and Ores It off at u> when he gets a 
chance. nineteenth Century, XXII. 206. 
meeting-house (me'ting-hous), n. A house of 
worship: specifically employed by Friends to 
designate tneir houses of worship, in England 
by members of the established church to desig- 
nate the houses of worship of dissenters, and 
in the United States, chiefly in the country, as 
a designation of any house for worship. 
The meeting-home was much enlarged, and there was a 
fresh enquiry among many people after the truth. 
Penn, Travels In Holland, etc. 
His heart misgave him that the churches were so many 
meetiiuj-huutet, but I soon made him easy. Addinm. 
In the old days it would have been thought unphilo- 
sophic aa well as effeminate to warm the meetiiuj-houtei 
artificially. C. D. Warner, Backlog Studies, p. 27. 
meeting-post (me 'ting-post), M. The outer 
stile of a canal-lock gate, which meets, at the 
middle of the gateway, the corresponding stile 
of the companion gate. Also called miter-pout. 
meeting-seed (me'ting-sed), n. Fennel, cara- 
way, dill, or other aromatic and pungent seed, 
eaten to prevent drowsiness in church. [New 
Eng.] 
She munched a spilg of meetin' teed. 
St. Nicholat. IV. 202. 
meetlyt (met'li), a. [< ME. metely; < meet* + 
-ty 1 .] Meet; becoming; appropriate; propor- 
tionable. 
Fetys he waa and wel beseye, 
With metely mouth and yen greye. 
limn, of the Rote, 1. 822. 
Diners other, that were more meetelie . . . for your es- 
tate. State, Edw. V., an. 1482. 
meetly (met'li), adv. [< ME. meetely, metely; 
< meet 2 + -fy 2 .] 1. In a meet or fit manner; 
fitly; suitably; properly. 
So that the mete & the masse watz metely delyuered. 
Sir Gawayne and the Green KniahtfE. E. T. S.X L 1414. 
I account the Mirrour of Magistrates meetely furnished 
of beautiful parts. Sir P. Sidney, ApoL for Poetrie. 
2. Measurably; tolerably. 
And It Is yet of a metely good strengthe, and It wan 
called in olde tyme Effrata. 
Sir R. Ouy(forde, Pylgrymage, p. 35. 
meetness (met'nes), n. [< meeft + - <*.] The 
state or quality of being meet; fitness; suita- 
bleness; propriety. 
meg-, mega-. [< Gr. ^/jof, great, large, big: see 
mickle, muc/i.] \nphysics, a prefix to a unit of 
measurement to denote the unit taken a million 
times: as, a ie</ohm, a megavolt, etc. 
megabacteria (meg'a-bak-te'ri-a), n.jil. [NL., 
< Gr. fityaf, great, large, + NL.'oacten'a, q. v.l 
The largest kind of bacteria : distinguished 
from mierobacteria. Ziegler, Pat hoi. Anat., i. 
185. 
megabasitfi (meg-a-ba'sit), . [< Gr. 
great, +/)daif, base, + -ite 2 .] In mineral., 
state of iron and manganese, probably a vari- 
ety of wolfram. 
megacephalic (meg'a-se-fal'ik or -sef'a-lik), a. 
[< Gr. ftiyaf, great, large, + ^o>.^, head, + -ic.] 
Large-headed: specifically applied in craniom- 
etry to skulls whose cranial capacity exceeds 
1450 cubic centimeters. 
Megacephalon (meg-a-sef 'a-lon), n. [NL. (C. J. 
Temminck, 1844), < Gr. pfyaf, great, large, + t- 
<t>a)^, head.] A genus of mound-birds or brush- 
turkeys of Celebes, of the family Mfgapodii- 
ilte and subfamily Talegallintr; the maleos: so 
called from the size of the head, which results 
from an expansion of the cranial walls into a 
kind of helmet. M. maleo is the only species. 
megacephalous (meg-a-sef'a-lus), a. [< Gr. 
"'/"'-', great, large, -f- Kcfa/!/, head.] Large- 
headed ; megacephalic in general. Also ategu- 
iMnfcwMA 
Megaceros (me-gas'e-ros), M. [NL., < Gr. //*'- 
>af, great, large, + wyxic. horn.] The genus of 
large extinct ( 'enidn- of which the Irish elk is the 
type, having immense palmated antlers. The 
animal formerly called Cerna meyacerot or C. Mberniau 
is now known as Meya&nt hibernicut. It to related to 
the elk of Europe and the moose of America, but is much 
larger. Its remains abound in the peat-bogs of England 
and Scotland. 
megacerous (me-gas'e-rus), n. [< Gr. pfyaf, 
great, large. + Ktpac, horn.] Having very large 
horns, as the extinct Irish elk. 
