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Mediʹna

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(Economy, Latin medium, the golden mean.) Step-sister of Elissa and Perissa, but they could never agree upon any subject. (Spenser: Faërie Queene, book ii.)

Medina means in Arabic “city.” The city so called is “Medinat al Nabi” (city of the prophet).

 

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Entry taken from Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, edited by the Rev. E. Cobham Brewer, LL.D. and revised in 1895.

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Médard (St.)
Medea
Medea’s Kettle or Caldron
Medham [the keen]
Mediæval or Middle Ages
Median Apples
Median Stone (The)
Medicine
Medicinal Days
Medicinal Hours
Medina
Mediterranean (Key of the)
Medium (A)
Medora
Medoro (in Orlando Furioso)
Medusa
Meerschaum
Meg
Meg Dods
Meg Merrilies (in Sir W. Scott’s Guy Mannering)
Megarian School

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