Name Report For First Name MERTON:

MERTON

First name MERTON's origin is English. MERTON means "from the farm by the sea". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MERTON below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of merton.(Brown names are of the same origin (English) with MERTON and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with MERTON - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming MERTON

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MERTON AS A WHOLE:

sumerton somerton

NAMES RHYMING WITH MERTON (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (erton) - Names That Ends with erton:

everton leverton berton atherton egerton

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (rton) - Names That Ends with rton:

burton garton worton warton orton norton horton darton barton morton wharton

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ton) - Names That Ends with ton:

afton cihuaton antton txanton alston alton benton carelton fenton hamilton kenton preston ralston remington rexton sexton stanton weston anton biton euryton triton agoston ashton kerrington stayton wryeton aetheston aiston athelston beaton boynton branton braxton brayton bretton brighton britton bryceton bryston buinton carleton carlton charleston charlton chayton clayton clifton clinton clyffton crayton creighton criston crofton danton daxton dayton delton deston duston easton elliston elston eston fulaton hampton harrington helton houston hsmilton hughston huntington johnston keaton kingston knoton kolton langston layton lifton litton macnaughton marston nachton

NAMES RHYMING WITH MERTON (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (merto) - Names That Begins with merto:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (mert) - Names That Begins with mert:

mert mert-sekert merta mertice mertise mertys mertysa

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (mer) - Names That Begins with mer:

meranda mercede mercedes mercer merci mercia mercie mercilla mercina mercy meredith merestun merewo merewode merewood meri merial meridel meriel merla merle merlin merlion merlow merlyn merna merope merri merric merrick merrie merril merrilee merrill merritt merry merryl merryn mersc mervin mervyn merwyn meryl

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (me) - Names That Begins with me:

mead meade meadghbh meadhbh meadhra meadow meagan mealcoluim meara mearr mecatl meccus meda medb medea medina medora medoro medr medredydd medrod medus medusa medwin medwine medwyn meeda meena megan megane megara megdn megedagik meghan mehadi mehdi mehemet mehetabel meheytabel mehitabelle mehitahelle meht-urt mei-yin meika meilseoir meinhard meinke meino meinrad meinyard

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MERTON:

First Names which starts with 'me' and ends with 'on':

meldon melvon melyon

First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'n':

ma'mun ma'n mabon mabonagrain mabonaqain mabyn macalpin macartan macauslan macbain macbean macclennan macen macewen macgowan machaon mackaillyn mackinnon macklin macklyn maclachlan maclaren maclean macmillan macnachtan macon macpherson macqueen macsen madailein madalen madalyn madalynn maddalen maddalyn madden maddielynn maddison madelon madelynn madilynn madisen madison madisyn madolen maegan maeghan maeleachlainn maelynn maeveen magan magdalen maggie-lyn mahon mai-ron maialen maighdlin maimun mainchin mairin makaylyn makeen makin malin malvin malvyn malyn mandalyn mann manon manton maolmin maolruadhan maralyn marchman marden mardon maren marian marilyn marilynn marin marion marlan marleen marlin marlon marlyn marlynn marmion marnin marsden marsten martainn martin martyn marven

English Words Rhyming MERTON

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MERTON AS A WHOLE:

skimmertonnoun (n.) See Skimmington.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MERTON (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (erton) - English Words That Ends with erton:



Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rton) - English Words That Ends with rton:


bartonnoun (n.) The demesne lands of a manor; also, the manor itself.
 noun (n.) A farmyard.

burtonnoun (n.) A peculiar tackle, formed of two or more blocks, or pulleys, the weight being suspended to a hook block in the bight of the running part.

cartonnoun (n.) Pasteboard for paper boxes; also, a pasteboard box.


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ton) - English Words That Ends with ton:


actonnoun (n.) A stuffed jacket worn under the mail, or (later) a jacket plated with mail.

aketonnoun (n.) See Acton.

astrophytonnoun (n.) A genus of ophiurans having the arms much branched.

asyndetonnoun (n.) A figure which omits the connective; as, I came, I saw, I conquered. It stands opposed to polysyndeton.

badmintonnoun (n.) A game, similar to lawn tennis, played with shuttlecocks.
 noun (n.) A preparation of claret, spiced and sweetened.

barbitonnoun (n.) An ancient Greek instrument resembling a lyre.

bastonnoun (n.) A staff or cudgel.
 noun (n.) See Baton.
 noun (n.) An officer bearing a painted staff, who formerly was in attendance upon the king's court to take into custody persons committed by the court.

batonnoun (n.) A staff or truncheon, used for various purposes; as, the baton of a field marshal; the baton of a conductor in musical performances.
 noun (n.) An ordinary with its ends cut off, borne sinister as a mark of bastardy, and containing one fourth in breadth of the bend sinister; -- called also bastard bar. See Bend sinister.

battonnoun (n.) See Batten, and Baton.

betonnoun (n.) The French name for concrete; hence, concrete made after the French fashion.

bostonnoun (n.) A game at cards, played by four persons, with two packs of fifty-two cards each; -- said to be so called from Boston, Massachusetts, and to have been invented by officers of the French army in America during the Revolutionary war.

bretonnoun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Brittany, or Bretagne, in France; also, the ancient language of Brittany; Armorican.
 adjective (a.) Of or relating to Brittany, or Bretagne, in France.

britonnoun (n.) A native of Great Britain.
 adjective (a.) British.

buttonnoun (n.) A knob; a small ball; a small, roundish mass.
 noun (n.) A catch, of various forms and materials, used to fasten together the different parts of dress, by being attached to one part, and passing through a slit, called a buttonhole, in the other; -- used also for ornament.
 noun (n.) A bud; a germ of a plant.
 noun (n.) A piece of wood or metal, usually flat and elongated, turning on a nail or screw, to fasten something, as a door.
 noun (n.) A globule of metal remaining on an assay cupel or in a crucible, after fusion.
 noun (n.) To fasten with a button or buttons; to inclose or make secure with buttons; -- often followed by up.
 noun (n.) To dress or clothe.
 verb (v. i.) To be fastened by a button or buttons; as, the coat will not button.
  () Alt. of evil

cantonnoun (n.) A song or canto
 noun (n.) A small portion; a division; a compartment.
 noun (n.) A small community or clan.
 noun (n.) A small territorial district; esp. one of the twenty-two independent states which form the Swiss federal republic; in France, a subdivision of an arrondissement. See Arrondissement.
 noun (n.) A division of a shield occupying one third part of the chief, usually on the dexter side, formed by a perpendicular line from the top of the shield, meeting a horizontal line from the side.
 verb (v. i.) To divide into small parts or districts; to mark off or separate, as a distinct portion or division.
 verb (v. i.) To allot separate quarters to, as to different parts or divisions of an army or body of troops.

caxtonnoun (n.) Any book printed by William Caxton, the first English printer.

checklatonnoun (n.) Ciclatoun.
 noun (n.) Gilded leather.

chitonnoun (n.) An under garment among the ancient Greeks, nearly representing the modern shirt.
 noun (n.) One of a group of gastropod mollusks, with a shell composed of eight movable dorsal plates. See Polyplacophora.

cottonnoun (n.) A soft, downy substance, resembling fine wool, consisting of the unicellular twisted hairs which grow on the seeds of the cotton plant. Long-staple cotton has a fiber sometimes almost two inches long; short-staple, from two thirds of an inch to an inch and a half.
 noun (n.) The cotton plant. See Cotten plant, below.
 noun (n.) Cloth made of cotton.
 verb (v. i.) To rise with a regular nap, as cloth does.
 verb (v. i.) To go on prosperously; to succeed.
 verb (v. i.) To unite; to agree; to make friends; -- usually followed by with.
 verb (v. i.) To take a liking to; to stick to one as cotton; -- used with to.

crotonnoun (n.) A genus of euphorbiaceous plants belonging to tropical countries.

croutonnoun (n.) Bread cut in various forms, and fried lightly in butter or oil, to garnish hashes, etc.

dermoskeletonnoun (n.) See Exoskeleton.

emplectonnoun (n.) A kind of masonry in which the outer faces of the wall are ashlar, the space between being filled with broken stone and mortar. Cross layers of stone are interlaid as binders.

endoskeletonnoun (n.) The bony, cartilaginous, or other internal framework of an animal, as distinguished from the exoskeleton.

exoskeletonnoun (n.) The hardened parts of the external integument of an animal, including hair, feathers, nails, horns, scales, etc.,as well as the armor of armadillos and many reptiles, and the shells or hardened integument of numerous invertebrates; external skeleton; dermoskeleton.

feuilletonnoun (n.) A part of a French newspaper (usually the bottom of the page), devoted to light literature, criticism, etc.; also, the article or tale itself, thus printed.

frontonnoun (n.) Same as Frontal, 2.

gluttonnoun (n.) One who eats voraciously, or to excess; a gormandizer.
 noun (n.) Fig.: One who gluts himself.
 noun (n.) A carnivorous mammal (Gulo luscus), of the family Mustelidae, about the size of a large badger. It was formerly believed to be inordinately voracious, whence the name; the wolverene. It is a native of the northern parts of America, Europe, and Asia.
 adjective (a.) Gluttonous; greedy; gormandizing.
 verb (v. t. & i.) To glut; to eat voraciously.

hacquetonnoun (n.) Same as Acton.

haketonnoun (n.) Same as Acton.

homoioptotonnoun (n.) A figure in which the several parts of a sentence end with the same case, or inflection generally.

hyperbatonnoun (n.) A figurative construction, changing or inverting the natural order of words or clauses; as, "echoed the hills" for "the hills echoed."

indobritonnoun (n.) A person born in India, of mixed Indian and British blood; a half-caste.

jettonnoun (n.) A metal counter used in playing cards.

karyomitonnoun (n.) The reticular network of fine fibers, of which the nucleus of a cell is in part composed; -- in opposition to kytomiton, or the network in the body of the cell.

kingstonnoun (n.) Alt. of Kingstone

kytomitonnoun (n.) See Karyomiton.

kryptonnoun (n.) An inert gaseous element of the argon group, occurring in air to the extent of about one volume in a million. It was discovered by Ramsay and Travers in 1898. Liquefying point, -- 152¡ C.; symbol, Kr; atomic weight, 83.0.

latonnoun (n.) Alt. of Latoun

megaphytonnoun (n.) An extinct genus of tree ferns with large, two-ranked leaves, or fronds.

melocotonnoun (n.) Alt. of Melocotoon

meltonnoun (n.) A kind of stout woolen cloth with unfinished face and without raised nap. A commoner variety has a cotton warp.

montonnoun (n.) A heap of ore; a mass undergoing the process of amalgamation.

motonnoun (n.) A small plate covering the armpit in armor of the 14th century and later.

muttonnoun (n.) A sheep.
 noun (n.) The flesh of a sheep.
 noun (n.) A loose woman; a prostitute.

mirlitonnoun (n.) A kind of musical toy into which one sings, hums, or speaks, producing a coarse, reedy sound.

neuroskeletonnoun (n.) The deep-seated parts of the vertebrate skeleton which are relation with the nervous axis and locomation.

pantonnoun (n.) A horseshoe to correct a narrow, hoofbound heel.

phaetonnoun (n.) A four-wheeled carriage (with or without a top), open, or having no side pieces, in front of the seat. It is drawn by one or two horses.
 noun (n.) See Phaethon.
 noun (n.) A handsome American butterfly (Euphydryas, / Melitaea, Phaeton). The upper side of the wings is black, with orange-red spots and marginal crescents, and several rows of cream-colored spots; -- called also Baltimore.

phlogistonnoun (n.) The hypothetical principle of fire, or inflammability, regarded by Stahl as a chemical element.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MERTON (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (merto) - Words That Begins with merto:



Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (mert) - Words That Begins with mert:



Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mer) - Words That Begins with mer:


merchetnoun (n.) In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

meraciousadjective (a.) Being without mixture or adulteration; hence, strong; racy.

mercableadjective (a.) Capable of being bought or sold.

mercantileadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.

mercaptalnoun (n.) Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.

mercaptannoun (n.) Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.

mercaptidenoun (n.) A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.

mercatnoun (n.) Market; trade.

mercatantenoun (n.) A foreign trader.

mercaturenoun (n.) Commerce; traffic; trade.

mercenarianoun (n.) The quahog.

mercenariannoun (n.) A mercenary.

mercenarinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being mercenary; venality.

mercenarynoun (n.) One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.
 adjective (a.) Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
 adjective (a.) Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.

mercernoun (n.) Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.

mercershipnoun (n.) The business of a mercer.

mercerynoun (n.) The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.

merchandisableadjective (a.) Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.

merchandisenoun (n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
 noun (n.) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
 verb (v. i.) To trade; to carry on commerce.
 verb (v. t.) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

merchandisingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merchandise

merchandisernoun (n.) A trader.

merchandrynoun (n.) Trade; commerce.

merchantnoun (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
 noun (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.
 noun (n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
 adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
 verb (v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.

merchantableadjective (a.) Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

merchantlyadjective (a.) Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant.

merchantmannoun (n.) A merchant.
 noun (n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

merchantrynoun (n.) The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.
 noun (n.) The business of a merchant; merchandise.

merciableadjective (a.) Merciful.

mercifuladjective (a.) Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.
 adjective (a.) Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.

mercilessadjective (a.) Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.

mercurammoniumnoun (n.) A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.

mercurialnoun (n.) A person having mercurial qualities.
 noun (n.) A preparation containing mercury.
 adjective (a.) Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
 adjective (a.) Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2.
 adjective (a.) Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.

mercurialistnoun (n.) One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.
 noun (n.) A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice.

mercurializingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurialize

mercuricadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion.

mercurificationnoun (n.) The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
 noun (n.) The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury.

mercurifyingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurify

mercurismnoun (n.) A communication of news; an announcement.

mercurousadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.

mercurynoun (n.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
 noun (n.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
 noun (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
 noun (n.) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
 noun (n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
 noun (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
 verb (v. t.) To wash with a preparation of mercury.

mercynoun (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
 noun (n.) Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.
 noun (n.) Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
 noun (n.) A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.

merdnoun (n.) Ordure; dung.

merenoun (n.) A pool or lake.
 noun (n.) A boundary.
 noun (n.) A mare.
 verb (v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound.
  (Superl.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
  (Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.

merenchymanoun (n.) Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.

meresmannoun (n.) An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries.

meresteadnoun (n.) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm.

merestonenoun (n.) A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.

meretriciousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
 adjective (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.

mergansernoun (n.) Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill.

mergingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merge

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MERTON:

English Words which starts with 'me' and ends with 'on':

medallionnoun (n.) A large medal or memorial coin.
 noun (n.) A circular or oval (or, sometimes, square) tablet bearing a figure or figures represented in relief.

mediationadjective (a.) The act of mediating; action or relation of anything interposed; action as a necessary condition, means, or instrument; interposition; intervention.
 adjective (a.) Hence, specifically, agency between parties at variance, with a view to reconcile them; entreaty for another; intercession.

mediatizationnoun (n.) The act of mediatizing.

meditationnoun (n.) The act of meditating; close or continued thought; the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind; serious contemplation; reflection; musing.
 noun (n.) Thought; -- without regard to kind.

melicotoonnoun (n.) See Melocoton.

meliorationnoun (n.) The act or operation of meliorating, or the state of being meliorated; improvement.

mellificationnoun (n.) The making or production of honey.

melocotoonnoun (n.) A quince.
 noun (n.) A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow.

melodeonnoun (n.) A kind of small reed organ; -- a portable form of the seraphine.
 noun (n.) A music hall.

melonnoun (n.) The juicy fruit of certain cucurbitaceous plants, as the muskmelon, watermelon, and citron melon; also, the plant that produces the fruit.
 noun (n.) A large, ornamental, marine, univalve shell of the genus Melo.

memnonnoun (n.) A celebrated Egyptian statue near Thebes, said to have the property of emitting a harplike sound at sunrise.

menaionnoun (n.) A work of twelve volumes, each containing the offices in the Greek Church for a month; also, each volume of the same.

mendicationnoun (n.) The act or practice of begging; beggary; mendicancy.

menostationnoun (n.) Same as Menostasis.

menstruationnoun (n.) The discharge of the menses; also, the state or the period of menstruating.

mensurationnoun (n.) The act, process, or art, of measuring.
 noun (n.) That branch of applied geometry which gives rules for finding the length of lines, the areas of surfaces, or the volumes of solids, from certain simple data of lines and angles.

mentionnoun (n.) A speaking or notice of anything, -- usually in a brief or cursory manner. Used especially in the phrase to make mention of.
 verb (v. t.) To make mention of; to speak briefly of; to name.

merlonnoun (n.) One of the solid parts of a battlemented parapet; a battlement. See Illust. of Battlement.

merorganizationnoun (n.) Organization in part.

mersionnoun (n.) Immersion.

mesencephalonnoun (n.) The middle segment of the brain; the midbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to mesen. See Brain.

mesenteronnoun (n.) All that part of the alimentary canal which is developed from the primitive enteron and is lined with hypoblast. It is distinguished from the stomod/um, a part at the anterior end of the canal, including the cavity of the mouth, and the proctod/um, a part at the posterior end, which are formed by invagination and are lined with epiblast.

mesmerizationnoun (n.) The act of mesmerizing; the state of being mesmerized.

mesocephalonnoun (n.) The pons Varolii.

mesocolonnoun (n.) The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the colon.

mesonnoun (n.) The mesial plane dividing the body of an animal into similar right and left halves. The line in which it meets the dorsal surface has been called the dorsimeson, and the corresponding ventral edge the ventrimeson.

mesophryonnoun (n.) See Glabella.

metacromionnoun (n.) A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals.

metallizationnoun (n.) The act or process of metallizing.

metazoonnoun (n.) One of the Metazoa.

metencephalonnoun (n.) The posterior part of the brain, including the medulla; the afterbrain. Sometimes abbreviated to meten.

methodizationnoun (n.) The act or process of methodizing, or the state of being methodized.

metosteonnoun (n.) The postero-lateral ossification in the sternum of birds; also, the part resulting from such ossification.

metrificationnoun (n.) Composition in metrical form; versification.

mezereonnoun (n.) A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine.

melungeonnoun (n.) One of a mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives. In North Carolina the Croatan Indians, regarded as descended from Raleigh's lost colony of Croatan, formerly classed with negroes, are now legally recognized as distinct.