Metrist
(Me"trist) n. A maker of verses. Bale.

Spenser was no mere metrist, but a great composer.
Lowell.

Metritis
(||Me*tri"tis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. womb + -tis.] (Med.) Inflammation of the womb.

Metrochrome
(Met"ro*chrome) n. [Gr. + color.] An instrument for measuring colors.

Metrograph
(Met"ro*graph) n. [Gr. measure + -graph.] An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.

Metrological
(Met`ro*log"ic*al) a. [Cf. F. métrologique.] Of or pertaining to metrology.

Metrology
(Me*trol"o*gy) n. [Gr. measure + -métrologie.] The science of, or a system of, weights and measures; also, a treatise on the subject.

Metromania
(Met`ro*ma"ni*a) n. [Gr. measure + E. mania.] A mania for writing verses.

Metromaniac
(Met`ro*ma"ni*ac) n. One who has metromania.

Metrometer
(Me*trom"e*ter) n. [Gr. womb + -meter.] (Med.) An instrument for measuring the size of the womb. Knight.

Metronome
(Met"ro*nome) n. [Gr. measure + distribute, assign: cf. F. métronome, It. metronomo.] An instrument consisting of a short pendulum with a sliding weight. It is set in motion by clockwork, and serves to measure time in music.

Metronomy
(Me*tron"o*my) n. [See Metronome.] Measurement of time by an instrument.

Metronymic
(Met`ro*nym"ic) a. [Gr. mother + for name.] Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation.n. A metronymic appellation.

Metropole
(Met"ro*pole) n. [Cf. F. métropole. See Metropolis.] A metropolis. [Obs.] Holinshed.

Metropolis
(Me*trop"o*lis) n. [L. metropolis, Gr. prop., the mother city (in relation to colonies); mother + city. See Mother, and Police.]

1. The mother city; the chief city of a kingdom, state, or country.

[Edinburgh] gray metropolis of the North.
Tennyson.

2. (Eccl.) The seat, or see, of the metropolitan, or highest church dignitary.

The great metropolis and see of Rome.
Shak.

Metropolitan
(Met`ro*pol"i*tan) a. [L. metropolitanus: cf. F. métropolitain.]

1. Of or pertaining to the capital or principal city of a country; as, metropolitan luxury.

2. (Eccl.) Of, pertaining to, or designating, a metropolitan or the presiding bishop of a country or province, his office, or his dignity; as, metropolitan authority. "Bishops metropolitan." Sir T. More.

Metropolitan
(Met`ro*pol"i*tan), n. [LL. metropolitanus.]

1. The superior or presiding bishop of a country or province.

2. (Lat. Church.) An archbishop.


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