English Language Dictionary

M () M, the thirteenth letter of the English alphabet, is a vocal consonant, and from the manner of its formation, is called the labio-nasal consonant. See Guide to Pronunciation, // 178-180, 242.

M () As a numeral, M stands for one thousand, both in English and Latin.

M (n.) A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.

M (n.) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy.

Ma (n.) A child's word for mother.

Ma (n.) In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother.

Ma (conj.) But; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, "Vivace, ma non troppo presto" (i. e., lively, but not too quick).

Maa (n.) The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull.

Maad (p. p.) Made.

Maalin (n.) The sparrow hawk.

Maalin (n.) The kestrel.

Ma'am (n.) Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

Maara shell () A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used as an ornament.

Maasha (n.) An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee.

Maat (a.) Dejected; sorrowful; downcast.

Mad (n.) A slattern.

Mad (n.) The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy.

Mabble (v. t.) To wrap up.

Mabby (n.) A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.

Mabolo (n.) A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

Mac () A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.

Macaco (n.) Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta).

Macacus (n.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows.

Macadamization (n.) The process or act of macadamizing.

Macadamized (imp. & p. p.) of Macadamize

Macadamizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Macadamize

Macadamize (v. t.) To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

Maoadam road () A macadamized road.

Macao (n.) A macaw.

Macaque (n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

Macaranga gum () A gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (Macaranga Indica) that grows in the East Indies. It is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine.

Macarize (v. t.) To congratulate.

Macaronis (pl. ) of Macaroni

Macaronies (pl. ) of Macaroni

Macaroni (n.) Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

Macaroni (n.) A medley; something droll or extravagant.

Macaroni (n.) A sort of droll or fool.

Macaroni (n.) A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775.

Macaroni (n.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.

Macaronian (a.) Alt. of Macaronic

Macaronic (a.) Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.

Macaronic (a.) Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.

Macaronic (n.) A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.

Macaronic (n.) A kind of burlesque composition, in which the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin terminations to other roots.

Macaroon (n.) A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

Macaroon (n.) A finical fellow, or macaroni.

Macartney (n.) A fire-backed pheasant. See Fireback.

Macassar oil () A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; -- so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil.

Macauco (n.) Any one of several species of small lemurs, as Lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size.

Macavahu (n.) A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix torquatus), -- called also collared teetee.

Macaw (n.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted.

Maccabean (a.) Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.

Maccabees (n. pl.) The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel.

Maccabees (n. pl.) The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.

Maccaboy (n.) Alt. of Maccoboy

Maccoboy (n.) A kind of snuff.

Macco (n.) A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century.

Mace (n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains.

Mace (n.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.

Mace (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor.

Mace (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority.

Mace (n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority.

Mace (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

Mace (n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.

Macedonian (a.) Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia.

Macedonian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.

Macedonian (n.) One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.

Macedonianism (n.) The doctrines of Macedonius.

Macer (n.) A mace bearer; an officer of a court.

Macerated (imp. & p. p.) of Macerate

Macerating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Macerate

Macerate (v. t.) To make lean; to cause to waste away.

Macerate (v. t.) To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.

Macerate (v. t.) To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.

Macerater (n.) One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

Maceration (n.) The act or process of macerating.

Machaerodus (n.) Alt. of Machairodus

Machairodus (n.) A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.

Machete (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.

Machiavelian (a.) Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

Machiavelian (n.) One who adopts the principles of Machiavel; a cunning and unprincipled politician.

Machiavelism (n.) Alt. of Machiavelianism

Machiavelianism (n.) The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

Machicolated (a.) Having machicolations.

Machicolation (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.

Machicolation (n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

Machicoulis (n.) Same as Machicolation.

Machinal (a.) Of or pertaining to machines.

Machinated (imp. & p. p.) of Machinate

Machinating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Machinate

Machinate (v. i.) To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.

Machinate (v. t.) To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil.

Machination (n.) The act of machinating.

Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

Machinator (n.) One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.

Machine (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.

Machine (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.

Machine (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.

Machine (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.

Machine (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.

Machined (imp. & p. p.) of Machine

Machining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Machine

Machine (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Machiner (n.) One who or operates a machine; a machinist.

Machinery (n.) Machines, in general, or collectively.

Machinery (n.) The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.

Machinery (n.) The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.

Machinery (n.) The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.

Machining (a.) Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.

Machinist (n.) A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

Machinist (n.) One skilled in the use of machine tools.

Machinist (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

Macho (n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).

Macilency (n.) Leanness.

Macilent (a.) Lean; thin.

Macintosh (n.) Same as Mackintosh.

Mackerel (n.) A pimp; also, a bawd.

Mackerel (n.) Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several related genera. They are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are highly prized for food.

Mackinaw blanket () Alt. of Mackinaw

Mackinaw () A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.

Mackintosh (n.) A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.

Mackle (n.) Same Macule.

Mackle (v. t. & i.) To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.

Macle (n.) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.

Macle (n.) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.

Macle (n.) A twin crystal.

Macled (a.) Marked like macle (chiastolite).

Macled (a.) Having a twin structure. See Twin, a.

Macled (a.) See Mascled.

Maclurea (n.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.

Maclurin (n.) See Morintannic.

Macrame lace () A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.

Macrencephalic (a.) Alt. of Macrencephalous

Macrencephalous (a.) Having a large brain.

Macro- () A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.

Macrobiotic (a.) Long-lived.

Macrobiotics (n.) The art of prolonging life.

Macrocephalous (a.) Having a large head.

Macrocephalous (a.) Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body.

Macro-chemistry (n.) The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro-chemistry.

Macrochires (n. pl.) A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.

Macrocosm (n.) The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.

Macrocosmic (a.) Of or pertaining to the macrocosm.

Macrocystis (n.) An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.

Macrodactyl (n.) One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes.

Macrodactylic (a.) Alt. of Macrodactylous

Macrodactylous (a.) Having long toes.

Macrodiagonal (n.) The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.

Macrodome (n.) A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.

Macrodont (a.) Having large teeth.

Macrodont (n.) A macrodont animal.

Macrofarad (n.) See Megafarad.

Macroglossia (n.) Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.

Macrognathic (a.) Long-jawed.

Macrology (n.) Long and tedious talk without much substance; superfluity of words.

Macrometer (n.) An instrument for determining the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors on a common sextant.

Macron (n.) A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; /, in s/am, etc.

Macropetalous (a.) Having long or large petals.

Macrophyllous (a.) Having long or large leaves.

Macropinacoid (n.) One of the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.

Macropod (n.) Any one of a group of maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also spider crab.

Macropodal (a.) Having long or large feet, or a long stem.

Macropodian (n.) A macropod.

Macropodous (a.) Having long legs or feet.

Macroprism (n.) A prism of an orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.

Macropteres (n. pl.) A division of birds; the Longipennes.

Macropterous (a.) Having long wings.

Macropus (n.) genus of marsupials including the common kangaroo.

Macropyramid (n.) See Macroprism.

Macroscopic (a.) Alt. of Macroscopical

Macroscopical (a.) Visible to the unassisted eye; -- as opposed to microscopic.

Macrosporangium (n.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores; -- opposed to microsporangium. Both are found in the genera Selaginella, Isoctes, and Marsilia, plants remotely allied to ferns.

Macrospore (n.) One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.

Macrosporic (a.) Of or pertaining to macrospores.

Macrotone (n.) Same as Macron.

Macrotous (a.) Large-eared.

Macroura (a.) Alt. of Macroural

Macroural (a.) Same as Macrura, Macrural, etc.

Macrozoospore (n.) A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algae.

Macrura (n. pl.) A subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar forms. Cf. Decapoda.

Macrural (a.) Same as Macrurous.

Macruran (n.) One of the Macrura.

Macruroid (a.) Like or pertaining to the Macrura.

Macrurous (a.) Of or pertaining to the Macrura; having a long tail.

Mactation (n.) The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.

Mactra (n.) Any marine bivalve shell of the genus Mactra, and allied genera. Many species are known. Some of them are used as food, as Mactra stultorum, of Europe. See Surf clam, under Surf.

Maculae (pl. ) of Macula

Macula (n.) A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.

Macula (n.) A rather large spot or blotch of color.

Maculate (v.) To spot; to stain; to blur.

Maculate (a.) Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts.

Maculated (a.) Having spots or blotches; maculate.

Maculation (n.) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.

Maculatory (a.) Causing a spot or stain.

Maculature (n.) Blotting paper.

Macule (n.) A spot.

Macule (n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle.

Macule (v.) To blur; especially (Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle.

Maculose (a.) Of or pertaining to spots upon a surface; spotted; maculate.

Mad () p. p. of Made.

Mad (superl.) Disordered in intellect; crazy; insane.

Mad (superl.) Excited beyond self-control or the restraint of reason; inflamed by violent or uncontrollable desire, passion, or appetite; as, to be mad with terror, lust, or hatred; mad against political reform.

Mad (superl.) Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness.

Mad (superl.) Extravagant; immoderate.

Mad (superl.) Furious with rage, terror, or disease; -- said of the lower animals; as, a mad bull; esp., having hydrophobia; rabid; as, a mad dog.

Mad (superl.) Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person.

Mad (superl.) Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle.

Madded (imp. & p. p.) of Mad

Madding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mad

Mad (v. t.) To make mad or furious; to madden.

Mad (v. i.) To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding.

Mad (n.) An earthworm.

Madams (pl. ) of Madam

Mesdames (pl. ) of Madam

Madam (n.) A gentlewoman; -- an appellation or courteous form of address given to a lady, especially an elderly or a married lady; -- much used in the address, at the beginning of a letter, to a woman. The corresponding word in addressing a man is Sir.

Mesdames (pl. ) of Madame

Madame (n.) My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women.

Mad-apple (n.) See Eggplant.

Madbrain (a.) Hot-headed; rash.

Madbrain (n.) A rash or hot-headed person.

Madbrained (a.) Disordered in mind; hot-headed.

Madcap (a.) Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash, absurd, or dangerous amusements.

Madcap (a.) Wild; reckless.

Madcap (n.) A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.

Maddened (imp. & p. p.) of Madden

Maddening (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Madden

Madden (v. t.) To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

Madden (v. i.) To become mad; to act as if mad.

Madder (n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine. It is cultivated in France and Holland. See Rubiaceous.

Madderwort (n.) A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder.

Madding (a.) Affected with madness; raging; furious.

Maddish (a.) Somewhat mad.

Made (n.) See Mad, n.

Made () imp. & p. p. of Make.

Made (a.) Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar.

Madecass (n.) Alt. of Madecassee

Madecassee (n.) A native or inhabitant of Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar. See Malagasy.

Madecassee (a.) Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants.

Madefaction (n.) Alt. of Madefication

Madefication (n.) The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet.

Madefied (imp. & p. p.) of Madefy

Madefying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Madefy

Madefy (v. t.) To make wet or moist.

Madegassy (n. & a.) See Madecassee.

Madeira (n.) A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.

Mesdemoiselles (pl. ) of Mademoiselle

Mademoiselle (n.) A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss.

Mademoiselle (n.) A marine food fish (Sciaena chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.

Madge (n.) The barn owl.

Madge (n.) The magpie.

Mad-headed (a.) Wild; crack-brained.

Madhouse (n.) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam.

Madia (n.) A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table.

Madid (a.) Wet; moist; as, a madid eye.

Madisterium (n.) An instrument to extract hairs.

Madjoun (n.) An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos.

Madly (a.) In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.

Madmen (pl. ) of Madman

Madman (n.) A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.

Madnep (n.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

Madness (a.) The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

Madness (a.) Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.

Madonna (n.) My lady; -- a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English.

Madonna (n.) A picture of the Virgin Mary (usually with the babe).

Madoqua (n.) A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare.

Madrague (n.) A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

Madreperl (n.) Mother-of-pearl.

Madrepora (n.) A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched.

Madreporaria (n. pl.) An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa.

Madrepore (n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

Madreporian (a.) Alt. of Madreporic

Madreporic (a.) Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.

Madreporiform (a.) Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.

Madreporite (n.) A fossil coral.

Madreporite (n.) The madreporic plate of echinoderms.

Madrier (n.) A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes

Madrier (n.) A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down.

Madrier (n.) A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.

Madrigal (n.) A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.

Madrigal (n.) An unaccompanied polyphonic song, in four, five, or more parts, set to secular words, but full of counterpoint and imitation, and adhering to the old church modes. Unlike the freer glee, it is best sung with several voices on a part. See Glee.

Madrigaler (n.) A madrigalist.

Madrigalist (n.) A composer of madrigals.

Madrilenian (a.) Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants.

Madrilenian (n.) A native or inhabitant of Madrid.

Madrina (n.) An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.

Madroöa (n.) A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroöa apples.

Madwort (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.

Maegbote (n.) Alt. of Magbote

Magbote (n.) Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.

Maelstrom (n.) A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.

Maelstrom (n.) Also Fig. ; as, a maelstrom of vice.

Maenad (n.) A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

Maenad (n.) A frantic or frenzied woman.

Maestoso (a. & adv.) Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

Maestricht monitor () The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.

Maestro (n.) A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.

Maffle (v. i.) To stammer.

Maffler (n.) A stammerer.

Magazine (n.) A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc.

Magazine (n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

Magazine (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

Magazine (n.) A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

Magazined (imp. & p. p.) of Magazine

Magazining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Magazine

Magazine (v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

Magaziner (n.) One who edits or writes for a magazine.

Magazining (n.) The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine.

Magazinist (n.) One who edits or writes for a magazine.

Magbote (n.) See Maegbote.

Magdala (a.) Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

Magdalen (n.) A reformed prostitute.

Magdaleon (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.

Magdeburg (n.) A city of Saxony.

Mage (n.) A magician.

Magellanic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator.

Magenta (n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.

Magged (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace.

Maggiore (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.

Maggot (n.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.

Maggot (n.) A whim; an odd fancy.

Maggotiness (n.) State of being maggoty.

Maggotish (a.) Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Maggot-pie (n.) A magpie.

Maggoty (a.) Infested with maggots.

Maggoty (a.) Full of whims; capricious.

Maghet (n.) A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.

Magi (n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.

Magian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Magi.

Magian (n.) One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion.

Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.

Magic (a.) Alt. of Magical

Magical (a.) Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.

Magical (a.) Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done by, or seemingly done by, enchantment or sorcery. Hence: Seemingly requiring more than human power; imposing or startling in performance; producing effects which seem supernatural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle.

Magically (adv.) In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.

Magician (n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

Magilp (n.) Alt. of Magilph

Magilph (n.) See Megilp.

Magister (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.

Magisterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.

Magisterial (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2.

Magisteriality (n.) Magisterialness; authoritativeness.

Magisterially (adv.) In a magisterial manner.

Magisterialness (n.) The quality or state of being magisterial.

Magistery (n.) Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.

Magistery (n.) A magisterial injunction.

Magistery (n.) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth.

Magistracies (pl. ) of Magistracy

Magistracy (n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate.

Magistracy (n.) The collective body of magistrates.

Magistral (a.) Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

Magistral (a.) Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.

Magistral (a.) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.

Magistral (n.) A sovereign medicine or remedy.

Magistral (n.) A magistral line.

Magistral (n.) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

-ties (pl. ) of Magistrality

Magistrality (n.) Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.

Magistrally (adv.) In a magistral manner.

Magistrate (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.

Magistratic (a.) Alt. of Magistratical

Magistratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.

Magistrature (n.) Magistracy.

Magma (n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.

Magma (n.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.

Magma (n.) A salve or confection of thick consistency.

Magma (n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

Magma (n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

Magma (n.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.

Magna Charta () The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.

Magna Charta () Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.

Magnality (n.) A great act or event; a great attainment.

Magnanimity (n.) The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.

Magnanimous (a.) Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.

Magnanimous (a.) Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish.

Magnanimously (adv.) In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.

Magnase black () A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body.

Magnate () A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.

Magnate () One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.

Magnes (n.) Magnet.

Magnesia (n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

Magnesian (a.) Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.

Magnesic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.

Magnesite (n.) Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

Magnesium (n.) A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75.

Magnet (n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.

Magnet (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.

Magnetic (a.) Alt. of Magnetical

Magnetical (a.) Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.

Magnetical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.

Magnetical (a.) Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals.

Magnetical (a.) Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.

Magnetical (a.) Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism.

Magnetic (n.) A magnet.

Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.

Magnetically (adv.) By or as by, magnetism.

Magneticalness (n.) Quality of being magnetic.

Magnetician (n.) One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.

Maneticness (n.) Magneticalness.

Magnetics (n.) The science of magnetism.

Magnetiferous (a.) Producing or conducting magnetism.

Magnetism (n.) The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet.

Magnetism (n.) The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.

Magnetism (n.) Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the affections.

Magnetist (n.) One versed in magnetism.

Magnetite (n.) An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron.

Magnetizable (a.) Capable of magnetized.

Magnetization (n.) The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized.

Magnetized (imp. & p. p.) of Magnetize

Magnetizing (prep. & adv.) of Magnetize

Magnetize (v. t.) To communicate magnetic properties to; as, to magnetize a needle.

Magnetize (v. t.) To attract as a magnet attracts, or like a magnet; to move; to influence.

Magnetize (v. t.) To bring under the influence of animal magnetism.

Magnetizee (n.) A person subjected to the influence of animal magnetism.

Magnetizer (n.) One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.

Magneto- () A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some way connected with, magnetism.

Magneto-electric (a.) Alt. of Magneto-electrical

Magneto-electrical (a.) Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction.

Magneto-electricity (n.) Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.

Magneto-electricity (n.) That branch of science which treats of the development of electricity by the action of magnets; -- the counterpart of electro-magnetism.

Magnetograph (n.) An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.

Magnetometer (n.) An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.

Magnetometric (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.

Magnetomotor (n.) A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.

Magnetotherapy (n.) The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.

Magnifiable (a.) Such as can be magnified, or extolled.

Magnific (a.) Alt. of Magnifical

Magnifical (a.) Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.

Magnificat (n.) The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.

Magnificate (v. t.) To magnify or extol.

Magnification (n.) The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

Magnificence (n.) The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.

Magnificent (a.) Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.

Magnificent (a.) Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous.

Magnificently (adv.) In a Magnificent manner.

Magnificoes (pl. ) of Magnifico

Magnifico (n.) A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy.

Magnifico (n.) A rector of a German university.

Magnifier (n.) One who, or that which, magnifies.

Magnified (imp. & p. p.) of Magnify

Magnifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Magnify

Magnify (v. t.) To make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters.

Magnify (v. t.) To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in which one is held.

Magnify (v. t.) To praise highly; to land; to extol.

Magnify (v. t.) To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.

Magnify (v. i.) To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.

Magnify (v. i.) To have effect; to be of importance or significance.

Magniloquence (n.) The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Magniloquent (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Magniloquous (a.) Magniloquent.

Magnitude (n.) Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness.

Magnitude (n.) That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness.

Magnitude (n.) Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like.

Magnitude (n.) Greatness; grandeur.

Magnitude (n.) Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude.

Magnolia (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.

Magnoliaceous (a.) Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceae) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.

Magnum (n.) A large wine bottle.

Magnum (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.

Magot (n.) The Barbary ape.

Magot-pie (n.) A magpie.

Magpie (n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

Maguari (n.) A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail.

Maguey (n.) The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.

Magyar (n.) One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.

Magyar (n.) The language of the Magyars.

Maha (n.) A kind of baboon; the wanderoo.

Mahabarata (n.) Alt. of Mahabharatam

Mahabharatam (n.) A celebrated epic poem of the Hindoos. It is of great length, and is chiefly devoted to the history of a civil war between two dynasties of ancient India.

Mahaled (n.) A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.

Maharajah (n.) A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

Maharif (n.) An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.

Maharmah (n.) A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

Mahdi (n.) Among Mohammedans, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Mohammedans, believe that he is yet to appear.

Mahl-stick (n.) See Maul-stick.

Mahoe (n.) A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage.

Mahogany (n.) A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

Mahogany (n.) The wood of the Swietenia Mahogoni. It is of a reddish brown color, beautifully veined, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. It is used in the manufacture of furniture.

Mahogany (n.) A table made of mahogany wood.

Maholi (n.) A South African lemur (Galago maholi), having very large ears.

Mahomedan (n.) Alt. of Mahometan

Mahometan (n.) See Mohammedan.

Mahometanism (n.) See Mohammedanism.

Mahometanized (imp. & p. p.) of Mahometanize

Mahometanizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mahometanize

Mahometanize (v. t.) To convert to the religion of Mohammed; to Mohammedanize.

Mahometism (n.) See Mohammedanism.

Mahometist (n.) A Mohammedan.

Mahometry (n.) Mohammedanism.

Mahone (n.) A large Turkish ship.

Mahonia (n.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.

Mahon stock () An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.

Mahoohoo (n.) The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).

Mahori (n.) One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.

Mahound (n.) A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil.

Mahout (n.) The keeper and driver of an elephant.

Mahovo (n.) A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

Mahrati (n.) The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in the Deccan and Concan.

Mahratta (n.) One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit.

Mahratta (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas.

Mahumetan (n.) Alt. of Mahumetanism

Mahumetanism (n.) See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.

Mahwa tree () An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.

Maia (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).

Maia (n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).

Maian (n.) Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.

Maid (n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.

Maid (n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse.

Maid (n.) A female servant.

Maid (n.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).

Maiden (n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

Maiden (n.) A female servant.

Maiden (n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.

Maiden (n.) A machine for washing linen.

Maiden (a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.

Maiden (a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.

Maiden (a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.

Maiden (a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.

Maiden (v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

Maidenhair (n.) A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.

Maidenhead (n.) The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.

Maidenhead (n.) The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.

Maidenhead (n.) The hymen, or virginal membrane.

Maidenhood (n.) The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity.

Maidenhood (n.) Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state.

Maidenlike (a.) Like a maiden; modest; coy.

Maidenliness (n.) The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

Maidenly (a.) Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.

Maidenly (adv.) In a maidenlike manner.

Maidenship (n.) Maidenhood.

Maidhood (n.) Maidenhood.

Maidmarian (n.) The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

Maidmarian (n.) A kind of dance.

Maidpale (a.) Pale, like a sick girl.

Maidservant (n.) A female servant.

Maid's hair () The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).

Maieutic (a.) Alt. of Maieutical

Maieutical (a.) Serving to assist childbirth.

Maieutical (a.) Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.

Maieutics (n.) The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.

Maiger (n.) The meagre.

Maigre (a.) Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.

Maihem (n.) See Maim, and Mayhem.

Maikel (n.) A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.

Maikong (n.) A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.

Mail (n.) A spot.

Mail (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.

Mail (n.) Rent; tribute.

Mail (n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.

Mail (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.

Mail (n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

Mail (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.

Mail (v. t.) To arm with mail.

Mail (v. t.) To pinion.

Mail (n.) A bag; a wallet.

Mail (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.

Mail (n.) That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.

Mail (n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.

Mailed (imp. & p. p.) of Mail

Mailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mail

Mail (v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.

Mailable (a.) Admissible lawfully into the mail.

Mailclad (a.) Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor.

Mailed (a.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.

Mailed (a.) Spotted; speckled.

Mailing (n.) A farm.

Mail-shell (n.) A chiton.

Maimed (imp. & p. p.) of Maim

Maiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maim

Maim (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

Maim (v. t.) To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.

Maim (v.) The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

Maim (v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

Maimedly (adv.) In a maimed manner.

Maimedness (n.) State of being maimed.

Main (n.) A hand or match at dice.

Main (n.) A stake played for at dice.

Main (n.) The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.

Main (n.) A match at cockfighting.

Main (n.) A main-hamper.

Main (v.) Strength; force; might; violent effort.

Main (v.) The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.

Main (v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.

Main (v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.

Main (v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.

Main (a.) Very or extremely strong.

Main (a.) Vast; huge.

Main (a.) Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.

Main (a.) Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.

Main (a.) Important; necessary.

Main (a.) Very; extremely; as, main heavy.

Maine (n.) One of the New England States.

Main-gauche (n.) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.

Main-hamper (n.) A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.

Mainland (n.) The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula.

Mainly (adv.) Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree.

Mainly (adv.) Principally; chiefly.

Mainmast (n.) The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.

Mainor (n.) A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

Mainpernable (a.) Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.

Mainpernor (n.) A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.

Mainpin (n.) A kingbolt.

Mainprise (n.) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete.

Mainprise (n.) Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day.

Mainprised (imp. & p. p.) of Mainprise

Mainprising (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mainprise

Mainprise (v. t.) To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.

Mains (n.) The farm attached to a mansion house.

Mainsail (n.) The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.

Mainsheet (n.) One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.

Mainspring (n.) The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. Hence: The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action.

Mainstay (n.) The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

Mainstay (n.) Main support; principal dependence.

Mainswear (v. i.) To swear falsely.

Maintained (imp. & p. p.) of Maintain

Maintaining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maintain

Maintain (v. t.) To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

Maintain (v. t.) To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or relinquish.

Maintain (v. t.) To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

Maintain (v. t.) To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what is needed.

Maintain (v. t.) To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

Maintainable (a.) That maybe maintained.

Maintainer (n.) One who maintains.

Maintainor (n.) One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.

Maintenance (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

Maintenance (n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences.

Maintenance (n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty.

Maintop (n.) The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

Main yard () The yard on which the mainsail is extended, supported by the mainmast.

Maioid (a.) Of or pertaining to the genus Maia, or family Maiadeae.

Maister (n.) Master.

Maister (a.) Principal; chief.

Maistre (n.) Alt. of Maistry

Maistrie (n.) Alt. of Maistry

Maistry (n.) Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery.

Maistress (n.) Mistress.

Maithes (n.) Same as Maghet.

Maize (n.) A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals.

Majestatic (a.) Alt. of Majestatal

Majestatal (a.) Majestic.

Majestic (a.) Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand.

Majestical (a.) Majestic.

Majesticness (n.) The quality or state of being majestic.

Majesties (pl. ) of Majesty

Majesty (n.) The dignity and authority of sovereign power; quality or state which inspires awe or reverence; grandeur; exalted dignity, whether proceeding from rank, character, or bearing; imposing loftiness; stateliness; -- usually applied to the rank and dignity of sovereigns.

Majesty (n.) Hence, used with the possessive pronoun, the title of an emperor, king or queen; -- in this sense taking a plural; as, their majesties attended the concert.

Majesty (n.) Dignity; elevation of manner or style.

Majolica (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century.

Major (a.) Greater in number, quantity, or extent; as, the major part of the assembly; the major part of the revenue; the major part of the territory.

Major (a.) Of greater dignity; more important.

Major (a.) Of full legal age.

Major (a.) Greater by a semitone, either in interval or in difference of pitch from another tone.

Major (a.) An officer next in rank above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

Major (a.) A person of full age.

Major (a.) That premise which contains the major term. It its the first proposition of a regular syllogism; as: No unholy person is qualified for happiness in heaven [the major]. Every man in his natural state is unholy [minor]. Therefore, no man in his natural state is qualified for happiness in heaven [conclusion or inference].

Major (a.) A mayor.

Majorat (a.) The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

Majorat (a.) Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.

Majorate (n.) The office or rank of a major.

Majorate (a.) To augment; to increase.

Majoration (n.) Increase; enlargement.

Majorcan (a.) Of or pertaining to Majorca.

Majorcan (n.) A native or inhabitant of Majorca.

Major-domo (n.) A man who has authority to act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a chief minister or officer.

Major general () An officer of the army holding a rank next above that of brigadier general and next below that of lieutenant general, and who usually commands a division or a corps.

Majorities (pl. ) of Majority

Majority (n.) The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.

Majority (n.) The military rank of a major.

Majority (n.) The condition of being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.

Majority (n.) The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a majority of the votes cast.

Majority (n.) Ancestors; ancestry.

Majority (n.) The amount or number by which one aggregate exceeds all other aggregates with which it is contrasted; especially, the number by which the votes for a successful candidate exceed those for all other candidates; as, he is elected by a majority of five hundred votes. See Plurality.

Majorship (n.) The office of major.

Majoun (n.) See Madjoun.

Majusculae (n. pl.) Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.

Majuscule (n.) A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculae.

Makable (a.) Capable of being made.

Makaron (n.) See Macaroon, 2.

Make (n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife.

Made (imp. & p. p.) of Make

Making (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Make

Make (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create.

Make (v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.

Make (v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story.

Make (v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc.

Make (v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc.

Make (v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money.

Make (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.

Make (v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive.

Make (v. t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast.

Make (v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent.

Make (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

Make (v. t.) To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing.

Make (v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to.

Make (v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in.

Make (v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of.

Make (v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make.

Make (v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen.

Make (v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage.

Make (v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue.

Make (v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.

Make (n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.

Makebate (n.) One who excites contentions and quarrels.

Make-belief (n.) A feigning to believe; make believe.

Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.

Make-believe (a.) Feigned; insincere.

Maked (p. p.) Made.

Make-game (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt.

Makeless (a.) Matchless.

Makeless (a.) Without a mate.

Make-peace (n.) A peacemaker.

Maker (n.) One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.

Maker (n.) The person who makes a promissory note.

Maker (n.) One who writes verses; a poet.

Makeshift (n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.

Make-up (n.) The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.

Makeweight (n.) That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

Maki (n.) A lemur. See Lemur.

Making (n.) The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.

Making (n.) Composition, or structure.

Making (n.) a poem.

Making (n.) That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.

Making (n.) External appearance; from.

Making-iron (n.) A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.

Making-up (n.) The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.

Making-up (n.) The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.

Mal- () A prefix in composition denoting ill,or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice.

Mala (n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.

Malabar (n.) A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.

Malacatune (n.) See Melocoton.

Malacca (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.

Malachite (n.) Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

Malacissant (a.) Softening; relaxing.

Malacissation (n.) The act of making soft or supple.

Malacobdella (n.) A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.

Malacoderm (n.) One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.

Malacolite (n.) A variety of pyroxene.

Malacologist (n.) One versed in the science of malacology.

Malacology (n.) The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.

Malacopoda (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.

Malacopterygian (n.) One of the Malacopterygii.

Malacopterygii (n. pl.) An order of fishes in which the fin rays, except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins, are closely jointed, and not spiny. It includes the carp, pike, salmon, shad, etc. Called also Malacopteri.

Malacopterygious (a.) Belonging to the Malacopterygii.

Malacosteon (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.

Malacostomous (a.) Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.

Malacostraca (n. pl.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.

Malacostracan (n.) One of the Malacostraca.

Malacostracology (n.) That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.

Malacostracous (a.) Belonging to the Malacostraca.

Malacotoon (n.) See Melocoton.

Malacozoa (n. pl.) An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.

Malacozoic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa.

Maladdress (n.) Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one.

Maladjustment (n.) A bad adjustment.

Maladministration (n.) Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs.

Maladroit (a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.

Maladies (pl. ) of Malady

Malady (n.) Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.

Malady (n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder.

Malaga (n.) A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.

Malagash (n.) Same as Malagasy.

Malagasy (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.

Malaise (n.) An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.

Malamate (n.) A salt of malamic acid.

Malambo (n.) A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.

Malamethane (n.) A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

Malamic (a.) Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.

Malamide (n.) The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

Malanders (n. pl.) A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.

Malapert (a.) Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.

Malapert (n.) A malapert person.

Malapropism (n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

Malapropos (a. & adv.) Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

Malapterurus (n.) A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric.

Malar (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.

Malar (n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.

Malaria (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

Malaria (n.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.

Malarial (a.) Alt. of Malarious

Malarian (a.) Alt. of Malarious

Malarious (a.) Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.

Malashaganay (n.) The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

Malassimilation (n.) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.

Malassimilation (n.) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.

Malate (n.) A salt of malic acid.

Malax (v. t.) Alt. of Malaxate

Malaxate (v. t.) To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance.

Malaxation (n.) The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters.

Malaxator (n.) One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass.

Malay (n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

Malay (a.) Alt. of Malayan

Malayan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country.

Malayan (n.) The Malay language.

Malayalam (n.) The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.

Malbrouck (n.) A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).

Malconformation (n.) Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

Malcontent (a.) discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.

Malcontent (n.) One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts.

Malcontented (a.) Malcontent.

Maldanian (n.) Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidae. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.

Male- () See Mal-.

Male (a.) Evil; wicked; bad.

Male (n.) Same as Mail, a bag.

Male (v. t.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.

Male (v. t.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.

Male (v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.

Male (v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir.

Male (v. t.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.

Male (n.) An animal of the male sex.

Male (n.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.

Naleadministration (n.) Maladministration.

Maleate (n.) A salt of maleic acid.

Malebranchism (n.) The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.

Maleconformation (n.) Malconformation.

Malecontent (a.) Malcontent.

Maledicency (n.) Evil speaking.

Maledicent (a.) Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.

Maledict (a.) Accursed; abominable.

Malediction (n.) A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.

Malefaction (n.) A crime; an offense; an evil deed.

Malefactor (n.) An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

Malefactor (n.) One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal.

Malefactress (n.) A female malefactor.

Malefeasance (n.) See Malfeasance.

Malefic (a.) Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful.

Malefice (n.) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.

Maleficence (n.) Evil doing, esp. to others.

Maleficent (a.) Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

Maleficial (a.) Injurious.

Maleficiate (v. t.) To bewitch; to harm.

Maleficiation (n.) A bewitching.

Maleficience (n.) The doing of evil, harm, or mischief.

Maleficient (a.) Doing evil, harm, or mischief.

Maleformation (n.) See Malformation.

Maleic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

Malengine (n.) Evil machination; guile; deceit.

Maleo (n.) A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.

Male-odor (n.) See Malodor.

Malepractice (n.) See Malpractice.

Male-spirited (a.) Having the spirit of a male; vigorous; courageous.

Malet (n.) A little bag or budget.

Maletreat (v. t.) See Maltreat.

Malevolence (n.) The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

Malevolent (a.) Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

Malevolently (adv.) In a malevolent manner.

Malevolous (a.) Malevolent.

Malexecution (n.) Bad execution.

Maleyl (n.) A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.

Malfeasance (n.) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.

Malformation (n.) Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.

Malgracious (a.) Not graceful; displeasing.

Malgre (prep.) See Mauger.

Malic (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.

Malice (n.) Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.

Malice (n.) Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.

Malice (v. t.) To regard with extreme ill will.

Malicho (n.) Mischief.

Malicious (a.) Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.

Malicious (a.) Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.

Malicious (a.) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act.

Malign (a.) Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

Malign (a.) Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.

Malign (a.) Malignant; as, a malign ulcer.

Maligned (imp. & p. p.) of Malign

Maligning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malign

Malign (a.) To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure.

Malign (a.) To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.

Malign (v. i.) To entertain malice.

Malignance (n.) Alt. of Malignancy

Malignancy (n.) The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

Malignancy (n.) Unfavorableness; evil nature.

Malignancy (n.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

Malignancy (n.) The state of being a malignant.

Malignant (a.) Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

Malignant (a.) Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.

Malignant (a.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.

Malignant (n.) A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.

Malignant (n.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.

Malignantly (adv.) In a malignant manner.

Maligner (n.) One who maligns.

Malignified (imp. & p. p.) of Malignify

Malignifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malignify

Malignify (v. t.) To make malign or malignant.

Malignity (n.) The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

Malignity (n.) Virulence; deadly quality.

Malignity (n.) Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud.

Malignly (adv.) In a malign manner; with malignity.

MAlingered (imp. & p. p.) of Malinger

Malingering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malinger

Malinger (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

Malingery (n.) The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.

Malison (n.) Malediction; curse; execration.

Malkin (n.) Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.

Malkin (n.) A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.

Malkin (n.) A scarecrow.

Malkin (n.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.

Mall (n.) A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul.

Mall (n.) A heavy blow.

Mall (n.) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.

Mall (n.) A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.

Malled (imp. & p. p.) of Mall

Malling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mall

Mall (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

Mall (n.) Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.

Mall (n.) A court of justice.

Mall (n.) A place where justice is administered.

Mall (n.) A place where public meetings are held.

Mallard (a.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

Mallard (a.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.

Malleability (n.) The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness.

Malleable (a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

Malleableize (v. t.) To make malleable.

Malleableness (n.) Quality of being malleable.

Malleal (a.) Pertaining to the malleus.

Malleated (imp. & p. p.) of Malleate

Malleating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malleate

Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

Mallecho (n.) Same as Malicho.

Mallee bird () The leipoa. See Leipoa.

Mallemock (n.) Alt. of Mallemoke

Mallemoke (n.) See Mollemoke.

Mallenders (n. pl.) Same as Malanders.

Malleolar (a.) Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.

Malleoli (pl. ) of Malleolus

Malleolus (n.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.

Malleolus (n.) " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.

Mallet (n.) A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.

Mallei (pl. ) of Malleus

Malleus (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

Malleus (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.

Malleus (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.

Mallophaga (n. pl.) An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.

Mallotus (n.) A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.

Mallow (n.) Alt. of Mallows

Mallows (n.) A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.

Mallowwort (n.) Any plant of the order Malvaceae.

Malm (n.) Alt. of Malmbrick

Malmbrick (n.) A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

Malma (n.) A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.

Malmag (n.) The tarsius, or spectral lemur.

Malmsey (n.) A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.

Malnutrition (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.

Malobservation (n.) Erroneous observation.

Malodor (n.) An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.

Malonate (a.) At salt of malonic acid.

Malonic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.

Malonyl (n.) A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.

Malpighia (n.) A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.

Malpighiaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.

Malpighian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.

Malposition (n.) A wrong position.

Malpractice (n.) Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.

Malt (n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.

Malt (a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.

Malted (imp. & p. p.) of Malt

Malting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malt

Malt (v. t.) To make into malt; as, to malt barley.

Malt (v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.

Maltalent (n.) Ill will; malice.

Maltese (a.) Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants.

Maltese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta.

Maltha (n.) A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

Maltha (n.) Mortar.

Malthusian (a.) Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.

Mathusian (n.) A follower of Malthus.

Malthusianism (n.) The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.

Maltin (n.) Alt. of Maltine

Maltine (n.) The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

Malting (n.) The process of making, or of becoming malt.

Maltmen (pl. ) of Maltman

Maltman (n.) A man whose occupation is to make malt.

Maltonic (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.

Maltose (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

Maltreated (imp. & p. p.) of Maltreat

Maltreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maltreat

Maltreat (v. t.) To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

Maltreament (n.) Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

Maltster (n.) A maltman.

Maltworm (n.) A tippler.

Malty (a.) Consisting, or like, malt.

Mala (pl. ) of Malum

Malum (n.) An evil. See Mala.

Malvaceous (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it.

Malversation (n.) Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.

Malvesie (n.) Malmsey wine. See Malmsey.

Mam (n.) Mamma.

Mama (n.) See Mamma.

Mamaluke (n.) Same as Mameluke.

Mamelon (n.) A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.

Mameluco (n.) A child born of a white father and Indian mother.

Mameluke (n.) One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.

Mamillated (a.) See Mammillated.

Mamma (n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.

Mammae (pl. ) of Mamma

Mamma (n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.

Mammals (pl. ) of Mammal

Mammal (n.) One of the Mammalia.

Mammalia (n. pl.) The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.

Mammalian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.

Mammaliferous (a.) Containing mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata.

Mammalogical (a.) Of or pertaining to mammalogy.

Mammalogist (n.) One versed in mammalogy.

Mammalogy (n.) The science which relates to mammals or the Mammalia. See Mammalia.

Mammary (a.) Of or pertaining to the mammae or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

Mammee (n.) A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana); also, its fruit. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.

Mammer (v. i.) To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully.

Mammet (n.) An idol; a puppet; a doll.

Mammetry (n.) See Mawmetry.

Mammifer (n.) A mammal. See Mammalia.

Mammiferous (a.) Having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the Mammalia.

Mammiform (a.) Having the form of a mamma (breast) or mammae.

Mammilae (pl. ) of Mammilla

Mammilla (n.) The nipple.

Mammillary (a.) Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.

Mammillary (a.) Composed of convex convex concretions, somewhat resembling the breasts in form; studded with small mammiform protuberances.

Mammillate (a.) Alt. of Mammillated

Mammillated (a.) Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammae.

Mammillated (a.) Bounded like a nipple; -- said of the apex of some shells.

Mammilliform (a.) Having the form of a mammilla.

Mammilloid (a.) Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.

Mammock (n.) A shapeless piece; a fragment.

Mammock (v. t.) To tear to pieces.

Mammodis (n.) Coarse plain India muslins.

Mammology (n.) Mastology. See Mammalogy.

Mammon (n.) Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.

Mammonish (a.) Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon.

Mammonism (n.) Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.

Mammonist (n.) A mammonite.

Mammonite (n.) One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon.

Mammonization (n.) The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.

Mammonize (v. t.) To make mammonish.

Mammose (a.) Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.

Mammoth (n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.

Mammoth (a.) Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

Mammothrept (n.) A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.

Mammies (pl. ) of Mammy

Mammy (n.) A child's name for mamma, mother.

Mamzer (n.) A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.

Men (pl. ) of Man

Man (n.) A human being; -- opposed tobeast.

Man (n.) Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.

Man (n.) The human race; mankind.

Man (n.) The male portion of the human race.

Man (n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.

Man (n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

Man (n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!

Man (n.) A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.

Man (n.) One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.

Man (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

Manned (imp. & p. p.) of Man

Manning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Man

Man (v. t.) To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.

Man (v. t.) To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.

Man (v. t.) To tame, as a hawk.

Man (v. t.) To furnish with a servants.

Man (v. t.) To wait on as a manservant.

Manable (a.) Marriageable.

Manace (n. & v.) Same as Menace.

Manacle (n.) A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.

Manacled (imp. & p. p.) of Manacle

Manacling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manacle

Manacle (v. t.) To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers.

Manage (n.) The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege.

Managed (imp. & p. p.) of Manage

Managing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manage

Manage (n.) To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

Manage (n.) Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans.

Manage (n.) To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action.

Manage (n.) To treat with care; to husband.

Manage (n.) To bring about; to contrive.

Manage (v. i.) To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer.

Manageability (n.) The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness.

Manageable (a.) Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.

Manageless (a.) Unmanageable.

Management (v.) The act or art of managing; the manner of treating, directing, carrying on, or using, for a purpose; conduct; administration; guidance; control; as, the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.

Management (v.) Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.

Management (v.) Judicious use of means to accomplish an end; conduct directed by art or address; skillful treatment; cunning practice; -- often in a bad sense.

Management (v.) The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or interest; the board of managers.

Manager (n.) One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater.

Manager (n.) A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist.

Manager (n.) A contriver; an intriguer.

Managerial (a.) Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities.

Managership (n.) The office or position of a manager.

Managery (n.) Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

Managery (n.) Husbandry; economy; frugality.

Manakin (n.) Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families.

Manakin (n.) A dwarf. See Manikin.

Manatee (n.) Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow.

Manation (n.) The act of issuing or flowing out.

Manbote (n.) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant).

Manca (n.) See Mancus.

Manche (n.) A sleeve.

Manchet (n.) Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.

Manchineel (n.) A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.

Manchu (a.) Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants.

Manchu (n.) A native or inhabitant of Manchuria; also, the language spoken by the Manchus.

Mancipate (v. t.) To enslave; to bind; to restrict.

Mancipation (n.) Slavery; involuntary servitude.

Manciple (n.) A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.

Mancona bark () See Sassy bark.

Mancus (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money.

-mancy () A combining form denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.

Mand (n.) A demand.

Mandamus (n.) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty.

Mandarin (n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam.

Mandarin (n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --.

Mandarinate (n.) The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China.

Mandarinic (a.) Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

Mandarining (n.) The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid.

Mandarinism (n.) A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins.

Mandatary (n.) One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice.

Mandatary (n.) One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory.

Mandate (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept.

Mandate (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation.

Mandate (n.) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.

Mandator (n.) A director; one who gives a mandate or order.

Mandator (n.) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.

Mandatory (a.) Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

Mandatory (n.) Same as Mandatary.

Mandelate (n.) A salt of mandelic acid.

Mandelic (a.) Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.

Mander (v. t. & i.) See Maunder.

Manderil (n.) A mandrel.

Mandible (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds.

Mandible (n.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera.

Mandibular (a.) Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible.

Mandibular (n.) The principal mandibular bone; the mandible.

Mandibulate (a.) Alt. of Mandibulated

Mandibulated (a.) Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.

Mandibulate (n.) An insect having mandibles.

Mandibuliform (a.) Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.

Mandibulohyoid (a.) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.

Mandil (n.) A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.

Mandilion (n.) See Mandil.

Mandingos (n. pl.) ; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.

Mandioc (n.) Alt. of Mandioca

Mandioca (n.) See Manioc.

Mandlestone (n.) Amygdaloid.

Mandment (n.) Commandment.

Mandolin (n.) Alt. of Mandoline

Mandoline (n.) A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.

Mandore (n.) A kind of four-stringed lute.

Mandragora (n.) A genus of plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

Mandragorite (n.) One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake.

Mandrake (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region.

Mandrake (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum.

Mandrel (n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.

Mandrel (n.) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.

Mandrill (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.

Manducable (a.) Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten.

Manducated (imp. & p. p.) of Manducate

Manducating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manducate

Manducate (v. t.) To masticate; to chew; to eat.

Manducation (n.) The act of chewing.

Manducatory (a.) Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

Manducus (n.) A grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in processions and by comic actors on the stage.

Mane (n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse.

Man-eater (n.) One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.

Maned (a.) Having a mane.

Manege (n.) Art of horsemanship, or of training horses.

Manege (n.) A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses.

Maneh (n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver.

Maneless (a.) Having no mane.

Manequin (n.) An artist's model of wood or other material.

Manerial (a.) See Manorial.

Manes (n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors.

Manesheet (n.) A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

Maneuver (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre

Manoeuvre (n.) Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position.

Manoeuvre (n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem.

Maneuvered (imp. & p. p.) of Manoeuvre

Manoeuvred () of Manoeuvre

Maneuvering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manoeuvre

Manoeuvring () of Manoeuvre

Maneuver (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre

Manoeuvre (n.) To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense.

Manoeuvre (n.) To manage with address or art; to scheme.

Maneuver (v. t.) Alt. of Manoeuvre

Manoeuvre (v. t.) To change the positions of, as of troops of ships.

Maneuverer (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvrer

Manoeuvrer (n.) One who maneuvers.

Manful (a.) Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave, courageous, resolute, noble.

Mamgabey (n.) Any one of several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey (C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black.

Mangan (n.) See Mangonel.

Manganate (n.) A salt of manganic acid.

Manganesate (n.) A manganate.

Manganese (n.) An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized. Its ores occur abundantly in nature as the minerals pyrolusite, manganite, etc. Symbol Mn. Atomic weight 54.8.

Manganesian (a.) Manganic.

Manganesic (a.) Manganic.

Manganesious (a.) Manganous.

Manganesium (n.) Manganese.

Manganesous (a.) Manganous.

Manganic (a.) Of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous compounds. Cf. Manganous.

Manganiferous (a.) Containing manganese.

Manganite (n.) One of the oxides of manganese; -- called also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-black crystals, also massive.

Manganite (n.) A compound of manganese dioxide with a metallic oxide; so called as though derived from the hypothetical manganous acid.

Manganium (n.) Manganese.

Manganous (a.) Of, pertaining to, designating, those compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with manganic compounds; as, manganous oxide.

Mangcorn (n.) A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain.

Mange (n.) The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.

Mangel-wurzel (n.) A kind of large field beet (B. macrorhiza), used as food for cattle, -- by some considered a mere variety of the ordinary beet. See Beet.

Manger (n.) A trough or open box in which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

Manger (n.) The fore part of the deck, having a bulkhead athwart ships high enough to prevent water which enters the hawse holes from running over it.

Mangily (adv.) In a mangy manner; scabbily.

Manginess (n.) The condition or quality of being mangy.

Mangled (imp. & p. p.) of Mangle

Mangling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mangle

Mangle (v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds; to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; to lacerate; to mutilate.

Mangle (v. t.) To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or pertaining; as, to mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

Mangle (n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

Mangle (n.) To smooth with a mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

Mangler (n.) One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.

Mangler (n.) One who smooths with a mangle.

Mangoes (pl. ) of Mango

Mango (n.) The fruit of the mango tree. It is rather larger than an apple, and of an ovoid shape. Some varieties are fleshy and luscious, and others tough and tasting of turpentine. The green fruit is pickled for market.

Mango (n.) A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.

Mangoldwurzel (n.) See Mangel-wurzel.

Mangonel (n.) A military engine formerly used for throwing stones and javelins.

Mangonism (n.) The art of mangonizing, or setting off to advantage.

Mangonist (n.) One who mangonizes.

Mangonist (n.) A slave dealer; also, a strumpet.

Mangonize (v. t.) To furbish up for sale; to set off to advantage.

Mangosteen (n.) Alt. of Mangostan

Mangostan (n.) A tree of the East Indies of the genus Garcinia (G. Mangostana). The tree grows to the height of eighteen feet, and bears fruit also called mangosteen, of the size of a small apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

Mangrove (n.) The name of one or two trees of the genus Rhizophora (R. Mangle, and R. mucronata, the last doubtfully distinct) inhabiting muddy shores of tropical regions, where they spread by emitting aerial roots, which fasten in the saline mire and eventually become new stems. The seeds also send down a strong root while yet attached to the parent plant.

Mangrove (n.) The mango fish.

Mangue (n.) The kusimanse.

Mangy (superl.) Infected with the mange; scabby.