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I muft bring together 
All thefe extremes, and mull remove all mediums , 
That each may be the other’s object. Denham. 
Any thing ufed in ratiocination, in order to a conclufion; 
the middle term in an argument, by which propofitions 
are connected.—We, whofe underftandings are fhort, are 
forced to collect one thing from another, and in that pro- 
cefs we feek out proper mediums. Baker on Learning. —The 
Latin plural fometimes is ufed.—Having explained the 
ufe of general principles, lliewn them to be the great media 
of certainty, found, &c. Duncan's Logick.— The middle 
place or degree; the juft temperature between extremes. 
—The juft medium of this cafe lie* betwixt the pride and 
the abjection, the two extremes. L'EJlrange. 
Medium, in mathematics, the fame as mean. Thus, 9 is 
an arithmetical medium, or mean, between 6 and 12; 6 is 
a geometrical medium between 4 and 9. 
Medium, in philofophy, is that fpace or region through 
which a body in motion partes to any point; thus aether 
is fuppofed to be the medium through which the heavenly 
bodies move; air, the medium wherein bodies move near 
our earth ; water, the medium wherein fillies live and 
move ; and glafs is alfo a medium of light, as it affords it 
a free paffage. That denfity or confiftency in the parts of 
the medium, whereby the motion of bodies in it is retarded, 
is called the rejijlance of the medium ; which, together with 
the force of gravity, is the caufe of the ceffation of the 
motion of projectiles. 
Sir Ifaac Newton confiders it probable, that, befides the 
particular aereal medium wherein we live and breathe, 
there is another more univerfal one, which he calls an 
ethereal medium ; vaftly more rare, fubtle, elaltic, and aftive, 
than air, and by that means freely permeating the pores 
and interftices of all other mediums, and diifufing itfelf 
through the whole creation ; and by the intervention 
hereof he thinks it is that molt of the great phenomena of 
nature are effected. 
ME'DIUM, f. in botany. See Campanula and Con¬ 
volvulus. 
MED'JUS, a town of Perfia, in Farfiftan : thirty miles 
fouth-weft of Yefd. 
MED'LAR, /. in botany. See Mespilus. —Oftobcr 
is drawn in a garment of yellow and carnation ; with a 
balket of fervices, medlars , and chefnuts. Peackam. 
Now will he fit under a medlar- tree, 
And wilh his miftrefs were that kind of fruit 
Which maids call medlars. Shakefpeare's Romeo and Juliet. 
MED'LE, a town of the ifland of Cuba: fixty-two 
miles north of St. Yago. 
To MED'LE, or Med'ley, v. a. To mingle. Spenfcr. 
MED'LEF, f. [from mcler, Fr. ] An old law-word for 
a>quarrel or brawl. BraElon, iii. 35. 
MED'LERSTO, a fmall ifland in-the north part of the 
gulfiof Bothnia. Lat. 61.13. N. Ion. 21.39. E. 
MED'LEY, or Med'ly, f. [from medle for mingle.] A 
mixture; a mifcellany ; a mingled mafs. It is commonly 
ufed with fome degree of contempt.—Some imagined that 
the powder in the armory had taken fire ; others, that 
troops of horfemen approached ; in which medly of con¬ 
ceits they bare down one upon another, and joltled many 
into the tower-ditch. Hayward. —Mahomet began to knock 
down his fellow-citizens, and to -fill all Arabia with an 
unnatural medley of religion and bloodlhed. Addifon. 
Love is a medly of endearments, jars, 
Sufpicions, quarrels, reconcilements, wars ; 
Then peace again. Walfh. 
There are that a compounded fluid drain 
From different mixtures; and the blended ftreams. 
Each mutually correcting each, create 
A pleafurable medley. Phillips. 
MED'LEY, adj. Mingled ; confufed : 
lfl 
I’m ftrangely difcompos’d ; 
Qualms at my heart, convulfions in my nerves, 
Within my little world make medley war. Dryden. 
MED'LING, in geography. See Modling. 
MED'LOCK, a river of England, which runs into the 
Irwell near Manchefter. 
MED'MAN, a town of the duchy of Berg, which con¬ 
tains three churches for the different perluafions : fix 
miles eaft-north-eaft of Duffeldorp. Lat. 51.17. N. Ion. 
6.43.E. 
MEDNI'KI, Mi'edniki, or War'mie, a town of Sa- 
mogitia, the refidence of the bifliop: twenty-eight miles 
north-eaft Konigfberg,and fixty fouth-fouth-weft of Mittau. 
MED'NOE, a town of Ruflia, in the government of the 
Tver, on the Tvertza: thirty-two miles welt-north-wefc 
of Tver. 
ME'DOC, a country of France, fituated, in the form 
of a peninfula, between the Garonne and the fea, but is 
neither populous nor fruitful, the high tide overflowing 
the north part of it. On a rock at the mouth of the Ga¬ 
ronne (lands a fine light-houfe, called La Tour de Cordouan. 
ME'DOC, a fort of France, on the eaft fide of the Gi¬ 
ronde, nearly oppofite Blaye: eighteen fniles north of 
Bourdeaux. 
MEDOCTU', a town of New Brunfwick, on the river 
St.John. Lat.46.12.N. Ion. 67. 35. W. 
MEDO'LA, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
Panaro: eighteen miles fouth of Modena. 
MEDO'LI, a town of Italy, in the department of the 
Mincio s feventeen miles north-weft of Mantua. 
MEDOLI'NO, a town of Iltria : four miles fouth-eafl 
of Pola. 
ME'DON, fon of Codrus the feventeenth and laft king 
of Athens, was the firft archon that was appointed with 
regal authority, B. C. 1070. In the election, Medon was 
preferred to his brother Neleus, by the oracle of Delphi; 
and he rendered himfelf popular by the juftice and mode¬ 
ration of his adminiftration. His fucceffors were called 
from him Medontidtt ; and the office of archon remained 
for above 200 years in the family of Codrus, under twelve 
perpetual archons. 
ME'DON, a king of Argos, who died about 990 years 
B.C. 
MEDOROS'TA, a lake of North America, in the pro¬ 
vince of Maine, near the Canada line. Lat. 47. 56. N. 
Ion. 68. 22. W. 
ME'DRA, a town of Africa, in Lower Guinea, capital 
of a country near the river Camerones. 
ME'DRA, a town of Perfia, in the province of Mecran s 
eight miles north of Kieh. 
MEDRASH'EM, a town of Algiers: forty miles fouth 
of Conftantina. 
MEDSHETISAR', a village, being one of the Perfian 
havens on the Cafpian, is fituated, as is alfo Farabat, on 
the fouthern coaft, in the province of Mazanderan. Of 
thefe two villages Medihetifar is the moll convenient, from 
its vicinity to Balfrufch, capital of the province, where the 
Ruffians and Armenians convey their merchandife; the 
traffic, however, is much diminifhed on account of the im- 
pofitions of the khan of Mazanderan. The chief produc¬ 
tions of this country are filk, (far inferior to that of Ghilan,) 
rice, and cotton, which are largely exported. 
MEDU'A, a town of Algiers, at the foot of Mount Atlas, 
in the midft of fprings : j8o miles fouth-weft of Algiers. 
MEDUA'CUS, in ancient geography, two rivers (Major,' 
now Brenta, and Minor, now Bachalione), falling near Ve¬ 
nice into the Adriatic Sea. 
MEDUA'NA, a river of Gaul flowing into the Ligeris, 
now the Mayne. 
MEDVEDIT'ZA, a river of Ruflia, in the country of 
the Cofacs, which riles about ten miles north from Saratov, 
and runs into the Don about eight miles north-weft from 
Snafkaia. 
* MEDVEDI'VA, a town of Ruffia, in the government 
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