Defn: Calling; vocation; business; trade.
Not only is it the business of no one to preach the truth but it is the métier of many to conceal it. A. R. Colquhoun.
METIF; METIVE
Mé`tif", n. m. Mé`tive", n. f.Etym: [F.]
Defn: See Métis.
METIS; METISSE
Mé`tis", n. m. Mé`tisse", n. f.Etym: [F.; akin to Sp. mestizo. See
Mestizo.]
1. The offspring of a white person and an American Indian.
2. The offspring of a white person and a quadroon; an octoroon. [Local, U. S.] Bartlett.
METOCHE Met"o*che, n. Etym: [NL., fr. Gr. (Arch.) (a) The space between two dentils. (b) The space between two triglyphs.
METOL
Me"tol, n. [G.; trade name, fr. meta- + kresol cresol.]
Defn: A whitish soluble powder used as a developer in photography.
Chemically, it is the sulphate of methyl-p-amino-m-cresol.