Index of English words, starting with "me"

(1) - Mercury (v. t.) To wash with a preparation of mercury.
(2) - Mercury (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
(3) - Mercury (n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
(4) - Mercury (n.) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
(5) - Mercury (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
(6) - Mercury (n.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
(7) - Mercury (n.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.

(1) - Mercy (n.) A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.
(2) - Mercy (n.) Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
(3) - Mercy (n.) Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.
(4) - Mercy (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.

(1) - Mere (Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.
(2) - Mere (Superl.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
(3) - Mere (n.) A mare.
(4) - Mere (v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound.
(5) - Mere (n.) A boundary.
(6) - Mere (n.) A pool or lake.

(1) - Merely (adv.) Not otherwise than; simply; barely; only.
(2) - Merely (adv.) Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.

(1) - Meretricious (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.
(2) - Meretricious (a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.