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meta-
+ xylene.] (Chem.) That variety of xylene, or
dimethyl benzene, in which the two methyl groups occupy the meta
position with reference to each other. It is a colorless inflammable
liquid.

||Mé`ta`yage" (?), n. [F. See
Métayer.] A system of farming on halves.
[France & Italy]

||Mé`ta`yer" (F. ?; E. ?), n.
[F., fr. LL. medietarius, fr. L. medius middle, half.
See Mid, a.] One who cultivates land
for a share (usually one half) of its yield, receiving stock, tools,
and seed from the landlord. [France & Italy]
Milman.

||Met`a*zo"a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr.
&?; after + zo^,on an animal.] (Zoöl.)
Those animals in which the protoplasmic mass, constituting the
egg, is converted into a multitude of cells, which are metamorphosed
into the tissues of the body. A central cavity is commonly developed,
and the cells around it are at first arranged in two layers, -- the
ectoderm and endoderm. The group comprises nearly all
animals except the Protozoa.

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