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To MfiE'KEN, v. a. To make meek ; to foften : 
The glaring lion faw, his horrid heart 
Was meeken'd, and he join'd his fallen joy. Thomfon. 
MEE'KLY, adv. Mildly; gently; not ruggedly ; not 
proudly : 
No pride does with your riling honours grow, 
You meekly look on fuppliant crowds below. Stepney. 
MEE'KNESS, f. Gentlenefs ; mildnefs ; foftnefs of 
temper.—When his diftemper attack’d him, he fubmitted 
toit with great meeknefs and refignation,as became aChriftian. 
Atterbury. 
You fign your place and calling, in full feeming, 
With meeknefs and humility; but your heart 
Is cramin’d with arrogancy, fpleen,and pride. Shakefpeare . 
MEEK'REN (Job Van), a Ikilful furgeon of the feven- 
teenth century, was furgeon to the public hofpital and ad¬ 
miralty of Amfterdam, and pradtifed in his profelfion with 
much reputation and fuccefs. He was the inventor or 
improver of feveral inftruments; and benefited the art of 
furgery by a colledtion. of inedico-chirurgical cafes, written 
in Dutch, and publithed after his death in 1668, 8vo. at 
Amfterdam; tranflated into Latin by Abraham Blafius in 
1682. Halleri Bibl. Ckirurg. 
MEE'LAH, a town of Algiers, in the province of Con- . 
flantina, the Milevum of the ancients, built in the centre 
of a beautiful interchange of valleys and mountains. It 
is furrounded with gardens, and plentifully fupplied with 
fountains; one of which, bubbling up in the centre of 
the city, is immediately received into a large fquare bafin 
of Roman workmanlhip. Conftantina is fupplied chiefly 
from this place with herbs and fruit; and the pomegra¬ 
nates particularly are of fo large a fize, and have withal fo 
delicate a mixture of the tart and fweet, that they are in 
great efteem all over the kindom. Leo and Marmol bear 
teftimony likewife to the goodnefs of the apples, inafmuch 
as they have thought fit to derive the very name of the 
city from that fruit. It is thirteen miles north-welt of 
Conftantina. 
MEEN (St.), a town of France, in the department of 
the Ille and Vilaine, and chief place of a canton, in the 
diftridt of Montfort. The place contains 806, and the 
canton 9905, inhabitants, in nine communes. 
MEE'NAH el DSA'HAB, a feaport-town of Arabia 
Petrea, fituated on the ealt coall of the gulf of Accaba, in 
the north part of the Red Sea, with a lpacious harbour: 
anciently Ezion-geberi fifty miles fouth of Ailah. 
MEENDOR', a town of Hindooftan, in the circar of 
Condapilly : eighteen miles weft of Mafulipatam. 
MEENEE'S, a fmall ifland in the Sooloo Archipelago. 
Lat. 6. 32. N. Ion. 121. 35. E. 
MEE'NKOOT, a town of Bengal: fourteen miles north 
of Moorlhedabad. 
MEER, adj. [See Mere.] Simple; unmixed. 
MEER,y. [See Mere.] A lake. A boundary. 
To MEER, v. a. To limit ; to bound j 
When that brave honour of the Latine name 
(Which meer’d her rule with African and Byze, 
With Thames’ inhabitants of noble fame, 
And they which fee the dawning day arife) 
Her nourftings did with mutinous uprore 
Hearten againft herfelf. Spenfer's Ruines of Rome. 
MEER, a village of the duchy of Cleves, near the 
Rhine : five miles ibuth-ealt of Rees. 
MEER (John Vander), called the Old, an efteemed 
painter, was born in 1627. He chofe for his fubjedts fea- 
pieces, landfcapes, and views of the lea and its fhores; 
which he painted with great truth, as he had accultomed 
himfeli to (ketch every lcene after nature. The fituations 
ot his landfcapes are agreeably chofen; frequently they 
are folemn, and generally pleafing. The forms of his 
treei are eafy and natural, his diftances well obferved, and 
the whole feenery has a Unking effect, by a happy oppofi- 
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tion of his lights and fliadows. He alfo printed battles 
in an agreeable rtyle. He died in 1690. 
MEER (John Vander), called the Young , an eminent 
landfcape-painter, is fuppofed to have been the fon of the 
old John Vander Meer, and of whom he learned the firft 
riidiments of the art ; bur, being in his youth deprived of 
his inltrudlor before he had made any great progrefs, he 
became a difciple of Nicholas Berghem, and was accounted 
the beft of thofe who were educated in the fchool of that 
admired mafter. In the manner of his matter, he painted 
landfcapes and cattle ; and his ufual fubjedts are cottages, 
with peafants at their rural occupations and diverfions. 
It is obferved of him, that he very rarely introduced cows, 
liorfes, or any other fpecies of animals, except goats and 
flieep ; the latter of which are fo highly finifhed, that one 
would imagine the wool might be felt by the foftnefs of its 
appearance. He died in 1688. The genuine works of 
this Vander Meer bear a very high price, and are efteemed 
even in Italy, where they are admitted into the beft col¬ 
lections ; but the fcarcity of them has occafioned many 
moderate copies after his works to be palled on the un- 
difeerning for real originals. 
_ There was another John Vander Meer, who was an hifto- 
rical and portrait painter. 
MEER, f [emir, Arab.] A chief officer in India ; of 
which there are various kinds ; as, 
Meer Bukshy, a chief paymafter. 
Meer Tozuk, a marfhal, whofe bufinefs it is to pre- 
ferve order in a procefiion or line of march, and to report 
abfentees. 
MEE'RBECK, or Mul'beck, a town of France, in the 
department of the Lys, on a fmall river which runs into 
the Mandel: eight miles north of Courtray. 
MEEREASERA'l, a town of Bengal, in the province 
of Chittigong : thirty-one miles north-welt of Iflamabad. 
Lat. 22.47. N. Ion. 91.42. E. 
MEE'RED, adj. Relating to a boundary ; meer being a 
boundary, or mark of divifion. Hanmer. 
What though you fled ! why Ihould he follow you ? 
The itch of his affedfion (hould not then 
Have nickt his captainlhip ; at fuch a point, 
When half to half the world oppos’d, he being 
The meered queftion. Shakefpeare's Antony and Cleopatra, 
MEERGUN'GE, a town of Bengal: five miles fouth- 
ealt of Mihmudpour. 
MEERGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Benares: 
twenty miles louth ibuth-weft of Jionpour. 
MEERGUN'GE, a town of Hindooftan, in Oude : 
forty-four miles ealt of Fyzabad. 
MEERGUR', a town of Bengal : four miles north of 
Dinagepour. 
MEER'HOLZ, a town of Germany, fituated on the 
Kinzig, which gives name to a branch of the houfe of 
Ifenburg, called ljenburg-Meerholz: feventeen miles eaft of 
Frankfort on the Maine, and twenty-eight fouth-weft of 
Fulda. ' 
MEERJAPOU'R, a town of Bengal: fix miles fouth 
of N ogorig. 
MEERJASER'RA, a town of Bengal : twenty-five 
miles north of Mauldah. 
MEERJE'E, or Meerzaw', a town of Hindooftan, in 
Canara, on the coalt: ten miles north of Onore, and ie- 
venty-five welt of Harponelly. Lat. 14. 28. N. Ion. 74. 
10. E. 
MEERMAN (Johan), a modern Dutch writer of great 
diltindtion, firft counlellor and penfionary of Rotterdam, 
was born at the Hague in 1754. He commenced his 
ftudies at Leyden ; and afterwards continued them at 
Leipfic under Ernelius, and at Gottingen under Heyne, 
who uniformly remained the friend, and highly appre¬ 
ciated the talents, of lo diltinguilhed a pupil. Whillt a 
youth, he made the grand tour, attended by his governor, 
M. Erp, afterwards profellor at Heidelberg ; when they 
vifited England, France, Italy, and part of Germany. On 
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