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[L., chin.]
(Zoöl.) The front median plate of the labium in
insects. See Labium.

||Me*nu" (?), n. [F., slender, thin,
minute. See 4th Minute.] The details of a banquet; a bill
of fare.

Me"nuse (?), v. i. See
Amenuse. [Obs.]

Me*ow" (?), v. i. & n. See 6th and
7th Mew.

Meph`is*to*phe"li*an (? or ?), a.
Pertaining to, or resembling, the devil Mephistopheles, "a
crafty, scoffing, relentless fiend;" devilish; crafty.

{ Me*phit"ic (?), Me*phit"ic*al (?), }
a. [L. mephiticus, fr. mephitis
mephitis: cf. F. méphitique.] 1.
Tending to destroy life; poisonous; noxious; as, mephitic
exhalations; mephitic regions.

2. Offensive to the smell; as,
mephitic odors.

Mephitic air (Chem.), carbon dioxide;
-- so called because of its deadly suffocating power. See Carbonic
acid, under Carbonic.

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