Meerut, an Indian town in the North-West Provinces, on the Nuddi, 40 m. NE. of Delhi; is capital of a district of the same name, and an Important military station; it is noted as the scene of the outbreak of the Mutiny in 1857.
Population (circa 1900) given as 119,000.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Meerschaum * Megaris