Mezzanine
a low story between two higher ones, especially between the ground floor and the story above it.
MEZZOTINT (met'sō-), a process of engraving on copper or steel. The smooth plate is abraded with a roughened file-like tool, and myriads of tiny points are raised over the surface of the plate. These points catch and hold the ink, and an impression taken from a MICA plate in this condition would give a soft velvety mass of black without variety of light shade. A burnisher is next used to get rid of the raised points where half tones and lights are wanted. Sometimes where very brilliant lights are required, they are cut away so as to insure a smooth surface of copper. By means of this burnishing process, all gradations of light and shade are obtained from the white of the smooth copper to the black of the roughened plate. The process dates from about the middle of the 17th century.
MIAMI (mi-am'i), a river rising in Hardin co., O.; flowing a general S. W. and S. course through Logan, Shelby, Miami, Montgomery, Butler, and Hamilton counties, and entering the Ohio river at the extremity of the State. It is about 140 miles long. The Miami and Erie canal runs alongside the river between Piqua and Hamilton.