Measure, &c., see Time. Measure, poetical, see Verse.
Melody or beauty of a sentence, words necessary to, rarely to be omitted.
Member, or clause, defined.
—Memb. and clause, generally used as synonymous, are discriminated
by some,
—Clause and phrase, confounded by some,
—Members, simple, of a sent., punct. of,
—complex, do., do.,
—Members of a sentence, arrangem. of, as affecting STRENGTH.
Metaphor, defined, —what commonly understood to be, —agreem. of pron. with antecedent in cases of.
Methinks, explanation of; the lexicographers on the word.
Metonymy, defined, —Meton., on what founded, —agreem. of pron. with its antecedent, in cases of.
Metres, more found in actual use, than those acknowledged in the ordinary schemes of prosody. Metre, see Verse.
Milton, MURR. proposed amendment of the "unintelligible" language of a
certain passage of, criticised,
—double solec. in a pass, of, noticed,
—his poem, L'Allegro, what its versificat.; what the management of
the orders of its verse,
—do., Il Penseroso, what its extent and construction.
Miss or Misses, Mr. or Messrs., what the proper applicat. of, when name and title are to be used together, in a plur. sense.
Mistaken, to be, irregularity of the verb; its import as applied to persons, and as applied to things.