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Kirwan calls it' Keffekil, from Kaffa, a town of the 
Crimea, where it is fhipped for Conftantinople. It is 
alfo found in Natolia, and in the iflands of Samos and 
Negropont; alfo in Crim Tartary, in Canada, in Flanders, 
and other places. It is the fubftance of which the large 
Turkifh pipes are made; the Tartars ufe it inftead of foap, 
and it is fo ufed in Auftrian Flanders. When dug from its 
thin beds, it is foft, and hardens by being expofed to the air. 
A fimilar fubftance has been difeovered by Fabbroni at 
Caftel del Piano, near Sienna : this confifts of 55 parts of 
filex, 25 only of magnefia, 12 of alumine, 3 of lime, and 
01 of oxyd of iron. It has been formed into bricks which 
float in the water, a manufacture which revives one of the 
loft arts recorded by Strabo and Pliny. 
MEER/SSEN, a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Meufe, and chief place of a canton, in the dif- 
triCl of Maeftricht. The place contains 1149, and the 
canton 11,530, inhabitants, in 16 communes. 
MEER'TA, a town of Hindooftan, in the fubah of 
Agimere. Thevenot calls it Minta , and feys it is a great 
city, but ill-built: forty-five miles north-eaft of Jood- 
f >our, and forty-two weft of Agimere. Lat. 26.23. N. 
on. 74. 32. E. 
MEES (Les), a town of France, in the department of 
the Lower Alps: twelve miles fouth-weft of Digne, and 
nine north-north-eaft of Forcalquier. 
MEE'SIA, f. [named by Hedwig in memory of David 
Meefe, gardener in the univerfity of Franeker; author of 
the Flora Frifica, 1760 5 an arrangement of plants in La¬ 
tin and Dutch, founded on their cotyledons and mode of 
germination; and a work on the fyngenefious clafs of Lin¬ 
naeus.] In botany, a genus of the clafs cryptogamia, order 
mufei. Generic characters—Capfule oblong; periftome 
double; outer with fixteen fhort blunt teeth ; inner with as 
many fharp cilias, diftinCt or connected by network. Males 
approaching the females, or difeoid on a different plant. 
This genus of mofles differs from the Bryum of Hedwig 
folely in the fhortnefs and bluntnefs of the teeth of its 
external fringe, which are not half fo long as the inner 
one. The author indeed, in his original lpecies, found 
an auxiliary character in the reticulated ftruCture of this 
Inner fringe ; but this differs only in degree, and that very 
flightly, from what is obfervable in every Bryum, nor is 
it found in the other Meefias. Three fpecies are all that 
have been referred to this genus in the lateft work of 
Hedwig, his Species Mufcorum; and thefe have been re¬ 
duced by the author of the Flora Britannica and others 
to Bryum. As we did not enumerate the fpecies under 
that article, we fttall give them here. 
1. Meefia longifeta, (Mnium triquetrum, Linn.) Stem 
fubdivided; branches lirnple, er.eCl; leaves fpreading in 
three rows, ovate-lanceolate, fharp-pointed, finely ferrated; 
capfule flender, pear-fhaped, oblique and incurved; lid 
conical. This fine mofs, diftinguifhed from all others by 
the length of its fruit-ftalks, which extends to three or 
four inches, is found in bogs in Sweden, Swifferland, and, 
fince the publication of FI. Brit, in Ireland. Hedwig er- 
roneoufly deferibes the leaves as entire, notwithftanding 
the elaborate detail of the two folio plates which he has 
devoted to this fpecies. 
2. Meefia uliginofa. Native of bogs in Germany and 
Scotland. Hedwig fays it is common on alpine calcareous 
rocks in Auftria. 
3. Meefia dealbata. Native of Sweden and Scotland; 
as well as of St. Faith’s bogs, near Norwich. The leaves 
are of a fingularly-whitifh green, finely reticulated. 
4. Meefia ferrata. See Walkeria. 
MEET, adj. [of obfeure etymology.] Fit; proper; 
qualified: applied both to perfons and things. Now rareh/ 
-ufed. —If the election of the minifter fliould be committed 
to every parifh, would they chufe the meeteft. Whit gift. 
Ah! my dear love, why do you fleep thus long, 
When mecter were that you fhould now awake? Spenfer. 
My boon I make it, that you know me not, 
Till time and I think meet. Shakefpeare's K. Lear. 
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MkIST with, [from to meet.] Even with. A low expref- 
fion .—Niece,T'Oittaxfrgnior. Benedic too much; but he’ll 
be meet with you. Shakefpecre. 
To MEET, v. a. [meuan, Sax. to find.] To come face 
to face; to encounter, by travelling in oppofite direc¬ 
tions.—His daughter came out to meet him with timbrels 
and dances, dud. xi. 34. 
Meanwhile, our primitive great fire, to meet 
His godlike gueft, walks forth. Milton. 
To encounter in hoftility: 
So match’d they flood; 
For never but once more was either like 
To meet fo great a foe. Milton. 
To encounter unexpectedly: 
So judge thou ftill, prefumptuous, till the wrath 
Which thou incurr’ft by flying meet thy flight 
Sev’nfold, and lcourge that wiidom back to hell. Milton. 
To join another in the fame place : 
When fhall we three meet again. 
In thunder, lightning, or in rain ? Shdhef. Macheih. 
Chance may lead where I may meet 
Some wand’ring fpirit of heav’n by fountain-fide, 
Or in thick fhade retir’d. Milton. 
To clofe one with another.—The nearer you come to the 
end of the lake, the mountains on each fide grow higher, 
till at laft they meet. Addifon .—To find; to be treated 
with ; to light on ; 
Had I a hundred mouths, a hundred tongues, 
I could not half thofe horrid crimes repeat, 
Nor half the punifhments thofe crimes have met. Drnden. 
Of vice or virtue, whether blell or curft, 
Which meets contempt, or which compaftion firft ? Pope. 
To MEET, v. 71. To encounter; to clofe face to face. 
To encounter in hoftility: 
Then borne to diftance by the tides of men, 
Like adamant and fteel they meet again. Dryden. 
To affemble; to come together.—They appointed a day 
to meet in together. 2 Mace. 
Their choice nobility and flower 
Met from all parts to folemnize this feaft. Milton. 
To advance half way.—He yields himfelf to the man of 
bufinefs with reluCtancy; but offers himfelf to the vifits 
of a friend with facility, and all the meeting readinefs of 
defire. South. 
Our meeting hearts 
Confented foon, and marriage made us one. Rowe. 
To unite, to join; as, Thefe rivers meet at fuch a place, 
and join. 
To Meet with. To light on ; to find : it includes, fome- 
times oblcurely, the idea of fomething unexpected.—What 
a majefty and force does one meet with in thefe fhort in- 
feriptions: are not you amazed to fee fo much hiftory 
gathered into fo fmall a compals ? Addifon on A ncient 
Medals. —To join. — Falftaff at that oak fhall meet with us. 
Shahefpeare .— To fuffer unexpectedly: 
He, that hath luffer’d this difordered fpring, 
Hath now himfelf met with the fall of leaf. Shahefpeare. 
To encounter; to engage: 
Royal miftrefs. 
Prepare to meet with more than brutal fury 
From the fierce prince. Rowe's Ambitious Stepmother. 
A latinifm. To obviate; occurrerc ohjeclo .— Before I pro¬ 
ceed farther, it is good to meet with an objection, which 
if not removed, the conclufion of experience from the 
time paft to the prefent will not be found. Bacon. 
MEE'TER, J'. One that meets and accofts another: 
There are befide 
Lafcivious meeters, to whole venom’d found 
The open ear of youth doth always liften. Shahefpeare. 
H MEETING, 
