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a spring to close it. The cover is depressed by the lever. A portion at the point of the spoon is left uncovered to allow the exit of the medicine. Valved spoon. Me′di-um. A size of drawing and writing paper between demy and royal, measuring 22 1/4 × 17 1/4 inches, and weighing 20 to 34 pounds to the ream. Of printing-paper, 19 × 24 inches. Med′ley. （Fabric.) Cloth woven from wool dyed of various colors and spun. Technically, blue and black are excluded. First made in 1614. Meer′schaum. Meerschaum (foam of the sea), a superior species of white clay, chiefly consisting of silicate of magnesia, and dug mostly in the peninsula of Natoli, Asia Minor. It is sent to market in irregular blocks of different sizes, the latter fixing the price, which is much higher in proportion for large lumps than for small ones. The Turkish government owns the mine and stipulates the quotations according to the demand, which generally exceeds the supply. In manufacturing
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lly extended as trade and opulence increased, though the period of their first introduction is unknown. Several of the principal streets, among which was Holborn, were paved for the first time in 1417. Smithfield cattle-market was first paved in 1614. Blocks of wood set endways are a common pavement in Russia and Germany. Blocks of wood or stone inclosed in iron frames were in use in England thirty or forty years ago. In 1812, Loudon suggested laying cubic blocks on a foundation of flagrom one another, but upon a zigzag line; these holes are filled half full of mercury, and stopped at the orifice; and it was claimed that the wheel will then, if supported by an axis upon a couple of props, revolve of itself. Bishop Wilkins (b. 1614, d. 1672), in his Mathematical magic, tells of perpetual motion produced by chymical attractions caused by grinding mercury and some other substances together; in distilling and redistilling the mass until small atoms are produced, which, being pl