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"Section M, N, and O"

That branch of applied geometry which
gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces,
or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and
angles.

-ment (?), [F. -ment, L. -mentum.] A
suffix denoting that which does a thing; an act or
process; the result of an act or process;
state or condition; as, aliment, that which
nourishes, ornament, increment; fragment, piece
broken, segment; abridgment, act of abridging,
imprisonment, movement, adjournment;
amazement, state of being amazed,
astonishment.

Ment (?), p. p. of
Menge.

||Men"ta*gra (?), n. [NL., fr. L.
mentum chin + Gr. &?; a catching.] (Med.)
Sycosis.

Men"tal (?), a. [L. mentum the
chin.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the chin; genian; as,
the mental nerve; the mental region.

Men"tal, n. (Zoöl.) A
plate or scale covering the mentum or chin of a fish or
reptile.

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