a province of Asia, in the peninsula on this side the Ganges; bounded on the east by Tanjour and Marava, on the south-east by the sea, on the west by the Balagate mountains, which separate it from Malabar, and on the north by Visiapour and Carnate. The inhabitants are Gentoos, and of a thievish disposition. The commodities are rice, elephants teeth, and cotton cloth; of which last a good deal is made here, and very fine. At this place is a pearl fishery, which brings in a large sum annually.

MEANDER, in Ancient Geography, a celebrated river of Asia Minor, rising near Celene. It flows through Caria and Ionia into the Aegean sea between Miletus and Priene, after it has been increased by the waters of the Marsyas, Lycus, Eudon, Lethaeus, &c. It is celebrated among the poets for its windings, which amount to no less than 600, and from which all obliquities have received the name of meanders. It forms in its course, according to the observation of some travellers, the Greek letters ζ ξ ε & ω; and from its windings Daedalus is said to have had the first idea of his famous labyrinth.

MEATÆ, anciently a people of Britain, near Scro's wall, inhabiting the district now called Lauderdale, in Scotland.