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 M.

M (m). 1. 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.

The letter M came into English from the Greek, through the Latin, the
form of the Greek letter being further derived from the Phœnician, and
ultimately, it is believed, from the Egyptian. Etymologically M is
related to n, in lime, linden; emmet, ant; also to b.

M is readily followed by b and p. the position of the lips in the
formation of both letters being the same. The relation of b and m is
the same as that of d and t to n. and that of g and k to ng.

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

M, n. 1. (Print.) 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. [Written also em.]

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

M roof (Arch.), a kind of roof formed by the junction of two common
roofs with a valley between them, so that the section resembles the
letter M.

Ma (mä), n. [Cf. Mamma.] 1. A child's word for mother.

2. [Hind.] In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to
a woman; mother. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

||Ma, conj. [It.] (Mus.) But; -- used in cautionary phrases; as,
||"Vivace, ma non troppo presto" (i. e., lively, but not too quick).
||Moore (Encyc. of Music).

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

Maad (?), obs. p. p. of Make. Made. Chaucer.

Maa"lin (?), n. (Zoöl.) (a) The sparrow hawk. (b) The kestrel.

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

Ma"a*ra shell` (?). (Zoöl.) A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell
(Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used as an
ornament.

||Ma*ash"a (?), n. An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the
||weight of a rupee.

Maat (?), a. [See Mate, a.] Dejected; sorrowful; downcast. [Obs.] "So
piteous and so maat." Chaucer.

Mab (mb), n. [Cf. W. mad a male child, a boy.]

1. A slattern. [Prov. Eng.]

2. The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and
hence, sometimes, any fairy. Shak.

Mab"ble (?), v. t. To wrap up. [Obs.]

Mab"by (?), n. A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; --
used in the Barbadoes.

||Ma*bo"lo (?), n. (Bot.) 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 (?). [Gael., son.] A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying
son.

||Ma*ca"co (?), n. [Cf. Pg. macaco.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several species
||of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring- tailed
||lemur (L. catta).

||Ma*ca"cus (?), n. [NL., a word of African origin. Cf. Macaco,
||Macaque.] (Zoöl.) A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East
||Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows.

Mac*ad`am*i*za"tion (?), n. The process or act of macadamizing.

Mac*ad"am*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Macadamized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Macadamizing.] [From John Loudon McAdam, who introduced the process
into Great Britain in 1816.] To cover, as a road, or street, with
small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

Mac*ad"am road` (?). [See Macadamize.] A macadamized road.

Ma*ca"o (?), n. (Zoöl.) A macaw.

||Ma`caque" (?), n. [F. See Macacus.] (Zoöl.) Any one of several
||species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus,
||the moor macaque of the East Indies.

Mac`a*ran"ga 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.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Mac"a*rize, v. t. [Gr. &?; to bless.] To congratulate. [Oxford Univ.
Cant] Whately.

Mac`a*ro"ni (?), n.; pl. Macaronis (#), or Macaronies. [Prov. It.
macaroni, It. maccheroni, fr. Gr. &?; happiness, later, a funeral
feast, fr. &?; blessed, happy. Prob. so called because eaten at such
feasts in honor of the dead; cf. Gr. &?; blessed, i. e., dead. Cf.
Macaroon.] 1. Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat
flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.

A paste similarly prepared is largely used as food in Persia, India,
and China, but is not commonly made tubular like the Italian macaroni.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).

2. A medley; something droll or extravagant.

3. A sort of droll or fool. [Obs.] Addison.

4. A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of
about 1775. Goldsmith.

5. pl. (U. S. Hist.) The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in
the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform. W. Irving.

{ Mac`a*ro"ni*an (?), Mac`a*ron"ic (?), } a. [Cf. It. maccheronico, F.
macaronique.] 1. Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of
mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.

2. Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as,
macaronic poetry.

Mac`a*ron"ic (?), n. 1. A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a
jumble.

2. 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.

Mac`a*roon" (?), n. [F. macaron, It. maccherone. See Macaroni.] 1. A
small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.

2. A finical fellow, or macaroni. [Obs.]

Ma*cart"ney (?), n. [From Lord Macartney.] (Zoöl.) A fire-backed
pheasant. See Fireback.

Ma*cas`sar 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.

||Ma*cau"co (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small lemurs,
||as Lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size.

||Ma`ca*va"hu (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix
||torquatus), -- called also collared teetee.

Ma*caw" (?), n. [From the native name in the Antilles.] (Zoöl.) 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.

Macaw bush (Bot.), a West Indian name for a prickly kind of nightshade
(Solanum mammosum). -- Macaw palm, Macaw tree (Bot.), a tropical
American palm (Acrocomia fusiformis and other species) having a prickly
stem and pinnately divided leaves. Its nut yields a yellow butter, with
the perfume of violets, which is used in making violet soap. Called
also grugru palm.

Mac`ca*be"an (?), a. Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the
Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.

Mac"ca*bees (?), n. pl. 1. The name given in later times to the
Asmonæans, 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. Schaff-Herzog.

2. 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.

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{ Mac"ca*boy (?), Mac"co*boy (?), } n. [From a district in the Island
of Martinique where it is made: cf. F. macouba.] A kind of snuff.

Mac"co (?), n. A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century.
Thackeray.

Mace (?), n. [Jav. & Malay. ms, fr. Skr. msha a bean.] A money of
account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98
grains. S. W. Williams.

Mace (?), n. [F. macis, L. macis, macir, Gr. &?;; cf. Skr. makaranda
the nectar or honey of a flower, a fragrant mango.] (Bot.) A kind of
spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg.

Red mace is the aril of Myristica tingens, and white mace that of M.
Otoba, -- East Indian trees of the same genus with the nutmeg tree.

Mace, n. [OF. mace, F. masse, from (assumed) L. matea, of which the
dim. mateola a kind of mallet or beetle, is found.] 1. 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. Chaucer.

    Death with his mace petrific . . . smote.


Milton.

2. Hence: A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an
ensign of his authority. "Swayed the royal mace." Wordsworth.

3. An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority. Macaulay.

4. A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it
supple.

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

Mace bearer, an officer who carries a mace before persons in authority.

Mac`e*do"ni*an (?), a. [L. Macedonius, Gr. &?;.] (Geog.) Belonging, or
relating, to Macedonia. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.

Mac`e*do"ni*an, n. (Eccl. Hist.) 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.

Mac`e*do"ni*an*ism (?), n. The doctrines of Macedonius.

Ma"cer (?), n. [F. massier. See Mace staff.] A mace bearer; an officer
of a court. P. Plowman.

Mac"er*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Macerated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Macerating.] [L. maceratus, p. p. of macerare to make soft, weaken,
enervate; cf. Gr. &?; to knead.] 1. To make lean; to cause to waste
away. [Obs. or R.] Harvey.

2. To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
Baker.

3. 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.

Mac"er*a`ter (?), n. One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus
for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

Mac`er*a"tion (?), n. [L. maceratio: cf. F. macération.] The act or
process of macerating.

{ ||Ma*chæ"ro*dus (m*k"r*ds), ||Ma*chai"ro*dus (m*k"r*ds), } n. [NL.,
fr. Gr. ma`chaira dagger + 'odoy`s tooth.] (Paleon.) 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.

||Ma*che"te (m*ch"t), n. [Sp.] 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. J. Stevens.

Mach`i*a*vel"ian (?), a. [From Machiavel, an Italian writer, secretary
and historiographer to the republic of Florence.] Of or pertaining to
Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning;
characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

Mach`i*a*vel"ian, n. One who adopts the principles of Machiavel; a
cunning and unprincipled politician.

{ Mach"i*a*vel*ism (?), Mach`i*a*vel"ian*ism (?), } n. [Cf. F.
machiavélisme; It. machiavellismo.] The supposed principles of
Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice,
intended to favor arbitrary power.

Ma*chic"o*la`ted (?), a. [LL. machicolatus, p. p. of machicolare,
machicollare. See Machicolation.] Having machicolations. "Machicolated
turrets." C. Kingsley.

Mach`i*co*la"tion (?), n. [Cf. LL. machicolamentum, machacolladura, F.
mâchicolis, mâchecoulis; perh. fr. F. mèche match, combustible matter +
OF. coulis, couleis, flowing, fr. OF. & F. couler to flow. Cf. Match
for making fire, and Cullis.]

1. (Mil. Arch.) An opening between the corbels which support a
projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a
portal, for shooting or dropping missiles upon 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.

2. The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted
substances upon assailants through such apertures.

||Ma`chi`cou`lis" (?), n. [F. mâchicoulis.] (Mil. Arch.) Same as
||Machicolation.

Ma*chin"al (?), a. [L. machinalis: cf. F. machinal.] Of or pertaining
to machines.

Mach"i*nate (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Machinated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Machinating (?).] [L. machinatus, p. p. of machinari to devise, plot.
See Machine.] To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the
purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot. "How long will
you machinate!" Sandys.

Mach"i*nate (?), v. t. To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to
machinate evil.

Mach`i*na"tion (?), n. [L. machinatio: cf. F. machination.] 1. The act
of machinating. Shak.

2. That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an
artful design or plot.

    Devilish machinations come to naught.


Milton.

    His ingenious machinations had failed.


Macaulay.

Mach"i*na`tor (?), n. [L.] One who machinates, or forms a scheme with
evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.

Ma*chine" (m*shn"), n. [F., fr. L. machina machine, engine, device,
trick, Gr. &?;, from &?; means, expedient. Cf. Mechanic.] 1. 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.

The term machine is most commonly applied to such pieces of mechanism
as are used in the industrial arts, for mechanically shaping, dressing,
and combining materials for various purposes, as in the manufacture of
cloth, etc. Where the effect is chemical, or other than mechanical, the
contrivance is usually denominated an apparatus, not a machine; as, a
bleaching apparatus. Many large, powerful, or specially important
pieces of mechanism are called engines; as, a steam engine, fire
engine, graduating engine, etc. Although there is no well-settled
distinction between the terms engine and machine among practical men,
there is a tendency to restrict the application of the former to
contrivances in which the operating part is not distinct from the
motor.

2. Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the
Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. Dryden. Southey. Thackeray.

3. A person who acts mechanically or at the will of another.

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

    The whole machine of government ought not to bear upon the people
    with a weight so heavy and oppressive.


Landor.

5. A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more
leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. [Political Cant]

6. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to
perform some exploit. Addison.

Elementary machine, a name sometimes given to one of the simple
mechanical powers. See under Mechanical. -- Infernal machine. See under
Infernal. -- Machine gun.See under Gun. -- Machine screw, a screw or
bolt adapted for screwing into metal, in distinction from one which is
designed especially to be screwed into wood. -- Machine shop, a
workshop where machines are made, or where metal is shaped by cutting,
filing, turning, etc. -- Machine tool, a machine for cutting or shaping
wood, metal, etc., by means of a tool; especially, a machine, as a
lathe, planer, drilling machine, etc., designed for a more or less
general use in a machine shop, in distinction from a machine for
producing a special article as in manufacturing. -- Machine twist,
silken thread especially adapted for use in a sewing machine. --
Machine work, work done by a machine, in contradistinction to that done
by hand labor.

Ma*chine", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Machined (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Machining.] To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of
machinery; to print with a printing machine.

Ma*chin"er (?), n. One who or operates a machine; a machinist. [R.]

Ma*chin"er*y (?), n. [From Machine: cf. F. machinerie.] 1. Machines, in
general, or collectively.

2. The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the
machinery of a watch.

3. 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.

    The machinery, madam, is a term invented by the critics, to signify
    that part which the deities, angels, or demons, are made to act in
    a poem.


Pope.

4. 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.

    An indispensable part of the machinery of state.


Macaulay.

    The delicate inflexional machinery of the Aryan languages.


I. Taylor (The Alphabet).

Ma*chin"ing, a. Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or
used as a machine. [Obs.] Dryden.

Ma*chin"ist, n. [Cf. F. machiniste.] 1. A constrictor of machines and
engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

2. One skilled in the use of machine tools.

3. A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

Ma"cho (?), n. [Sp.] (Zoöl.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil
cephalus, or Mexicanus).

Mac"i*len*cy (?), n. [See Macilent.] Leanness. [Obs.] Sandys.

Mac"i*lent (?), a. [L. macilentus, fr. macies leanness, macere to be
lean.] Lean; thin. [Obs.] Bailey.

Mac"in*tosh (?), n. Same as Mackintosh.

Mack"er*el (?), n. [OF. maquerel, F. maquereau, fr. D. makelaar
mediator, agent, fr. makelen to act as agent.] A pimp; also, a bawd.
[Obs.] Halliwell.

Mack`er*el (?), n. [OF. maquerel, F. maquereau (LL. macarellus), prob.
for maclereau, fr. L. macula a spot, in allusion to the markings on the
fish. See Mail armor.] (Zoöl.) 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.

The common mackerel (Scomber scombrus), which inhabits both sides of
the North Atlantic, is one of the most important food fishes. It is
mottled with green and blue. The Spanish mackerel (Scomberomorus
maculatus), of the American coast, is covered with bright yellow
circular spots.

Bull mackerel, Chub mackerel. (Zoöl.) See under Chub. -- Frigate
mackerel. See under Frigate. -- Horse mackerel . See under Horse. --
Mackerel bird (Zoöl.), the wryneck; -- so called because it arrives in
England at the time when mackerel are in season. -- Mackerel cock
(Zoöl.), the Manx shearwater; -- so called because it precedes the
appearance of the mackerel on the east coast of Ireland. -- Mackerel
guide. (Zoöl.) See Garfish (a). -- Mackerel gull (Zoöl.) any one of
several species of gull which feed upon or follow mackerel, as the
kittiwake. -- Mackerel midge (Zoöl.), a very small oceanic gadoid fish
of the North Atlantic. It is about an inch and a half long and has four
barbels on the upper jaw. It is now considered the young of the genus
Onos, or Motella. -- Mackerel plow, an instrument for creasing the
sides of lean mackerel to improve their appearance. Knight. -- Mackerel
shark (Zoöl.), the porbeagle. -- Mackerel sky, or Mackerel-back sky, a
sky flecked with small white clouds; a cirro-cumulus. See Cloud.

    Mackerel sky and mare's-tails Make tall ships carry low sails.


Old Rhyme.

{ Mack"i*naw blan"ket (?), Mack"i*naw. }[From Mackinac, the State of
Michigan, where blankets and other stores were distributed to the
Indians.] A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of
the United States.

Mack"in*tosh (?), n. A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the
name of the inventor.

Mac"kle (?), n. [See Macle.] Same as Macule.

Mac"kle, v. t. & i. To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there
were a double impression.

Ma"cle (?), n. [L. macula a spot: cf. F. macle. Cf. Mackle, Mascle.]
(Min.) (a) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of
a cross section. See Chiastolite. (b) A crystal having a similar
tessellated appearance. (c) A twin crystal.

Ma"cled (?), a. 1. (Min.) (a) Marked like macle (chiastolite). (b)
Having a twin structure. See Twin, a.

2. See Mascled.

||Ma*clu"re*a (?), n. [NL. Named from William Maclure, the geologist.]
||(Paleon.) A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size,
||characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.

Ma*clu"rin (?), n. (Chem.) See Morintannic.

Mac"ra*me lace" (?). A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in
decorating furniture.

{ Mac`ren*ce*phal"ic (?), Mac`ren*ceph"a*lous (?), } a. [Macro +
encephalic, encephalous.] Having a large brain.

Mac"ro- (?). [Gr. makro`s, adj.] A combining form signifying long,
large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.

Mac`ro*bi*ot"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; long- lived; makro`s long + &?; life:
cf. F. macrobiotique.] Long-lived.  Dunglison.

Mac`ro*bi*ot"ics (?), n. (Physiol.) The art of prolonging life.

Mac`ro*ceph"a*lous (?), a. [Macro + Gr. kefalh` the head.] 1. Having a
large head.

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

Mac`ro-chem"is*try (?), n. [Macro-  + chemistry.] (Chem.) The science
which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of
substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro-chemistry.

||Mac`ro*chi"res (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. makro`s long + &?; hand.]
||(Zoöl.) A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds.
||So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.

Mac"ro*cosm (?), n. [Macro- + Gr. &?; the world: cf. F. macrocosme.]
The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; --
contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.

Mac`ro*cos"mic (?), a. Of or pertaining to the macrocosm. Tylor.

||Mac`ro*cys"tis (?), n. [NL. See Macro-, and Cyst.] (Bot.) An
||immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis
||pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.

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Mac`ro*dac"tyl (mk`r*dk"tl), n. [Gr. makroda`ktylos long-fingered;
makro`s long + da`ktylos finger: cf. F. macrodactyle.] (Zoöl.) One of a
group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes. [Written
also macrodactyle.]

{ Mac`ro*dac*tyl"ic (?), Mac`ro*dac"tyl*ous (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Having
long toes.

Mac`ro*di*ag"o*nal (?), n. [Macro-  + diagonal.] (Crystallog.) The
longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.

Mac"ro*dome (?), n. [Macro- + dome.] (Crystallog.) A dome parallel to
the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.

Mac"ro*dont, a. [Macro- + Gr. 'odoy`s, 'odo`ntos, a tooth.] (Zoöl.)
Having large teeth. -- n. A macrodont animal.

Mac"ro*far`ad (?), n. [Macro- + farad.] (Elec.) See Megafarad. [R.]

||Mac`ro*glos"si*a (?), n. [NL. See Macro-, and Glossa.] (Med.)
||Enlargement or hypertrophy of the tongue.

Mac`rog*nath"ic (?), a. [Macro- + gnathic.] (Anthropol.) Long-jawed.
Huxley.

Ma*crol"o*gy (?), n. [L. macrologia, Gr. &?;; &?; long + lo`gos
discourse: cf. F. macrologie.] Long and tedious talk without much
substance; superfluity of words.

Ma*crom"e*ter (?), n. [Macro- + -meter.] An instrument for determining
the size or distance of inaccessible objects by means of two reflectors
on a common sextant.

Ma"cron (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; long.] (Pron.) A short, straight,
horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be
pronounced with a long sound; as, , in dme; , in sam, etc.

Mac`ro*pet"al*ous (?), a. [Macro-  + petal.] (Bot.) Having long or
large petals.

Ma*croph"yl*lous (?), a. [Macro- + Gr. &?; a leaf.] (Bot.) Having long
or large leaves.

Mac`ro*pin"a*coid (?), n. [Macro-  + pinacoid.] (Crystallog.) One of
the two planes of an orthorhombic crystal which are parallel to the
vertical and longer lateral (macrodiagonal) axes.

Mac"ro*pod (?), n. [Macro- + -pod.] (Zoöl.) Any one of a group of
maioid crabs remarkable for the length of their legs; -- called also
spider crab.

Ma*crop"o*dal (?), a. Having long or large feet, or a long stem.

Mac`ro*po"di*an (?), n. A macropod.

Ma*crop"o*dous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having long legs or feet.

Mac"ro*prism (?), n. [Macro- + prism.] (Crystallog.) A prism of an
orthorhombic crystal between the macropinacoid and the unit prism; the
corresponding pyramids are called macropyramids.

||Ma*crop"te*res (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; long + &?; feather,
||wing.] (Zoöl.) A division of birds; the Longipennes.

Ma*crop"ter*ous (?), a. [See Macropteres.] (Zoöl.) Having long wings.

||Mac"ro*pus (?), n. [NL. See Macropod.] (Zoöl.) A genus of marsupials
||including the common kangaroo.

Mac`ro*pyr"a*mid (?), n. [Macro- + pyramid.] (Crystallog.) See
Macroprism.

{ Mac`ro*scop"ic (?), Mac`ro*scop"ic*al (?), } a. [Macro- + Gr. &?; to
view.] Visible to the unassisted eye; -- as opposed to microscopic. --
Mac`ro*scop"ic*al*ly, adv.

||Mac`ro*spo*ran"gi*um (?), n. [NL. See Macro-, and Sporangium.] (Bot.)
||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.

Mac"ro*spore (?), n. [Macro- + spore.] (Bot.) One of the specially
large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.

Mac`ro*spor"ic (?), a. (Bot.) Of or pertaining to macrospores.

Mac"ro*tone (?), n. [Gr. &?; stretched out. See Macro-, and Tone.]
(Pron.) Same as Macron.

Ma*cro"tous (?), a. [Macro- + Gr. o"y^s, gen. 'wto`s, the ear.] (Zoöl.)
Large-eared.

||Ma*crou"ra (?), n. pl., Ma*crou"ral (&?;), a., etc. (Zoöl.) Same as
||Macrura, Macrural, etc.

Mac`ro*zo"ö*spore (?), n. [Macro- + zoöspore.] (Bot.) A large motile
spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algæ.

||Ma*cru"ra (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; long + &?; tail.] (Zoöl.) A
||subdivision of decapod Crustacea, having the abdomen largely
||developed. It includes the lobster, prawn, shrimp, and many similar
||forms. Cf. Decapoda.

Ma*cru"ral (?), a. (Zoöl.) Same as Macrurous.

Ma*cru"ran (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Macrura.

Ma*cru"roid (?), a. [Macrura + -oid.] (Zoöl.) Like or pertaining to the
Macrura.

Ma*cru"rous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Macrura; having a
long tail.

Mac*ta"tion (?), n. [L. mactatio, fr. macture to slay, sacrifice.] The
act of killing a victim for sacrifice. [Obs.]

||Mac"tra (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; kneading trough, fr. &?; to knead.]
||(Zoöl.) 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.

||Mac"u*la (?), n.; pl. Maculæ (#). [L., spot, stain, blot. See Mail
||armor, and cf. Mackle, Macule.] 1. A spot, as on the skin, or on the
||surface of the sun or of some other luminous orb.

2. (Zoöl.) A rather large spot or blotch of color.

Mac"u*late (?), v. t. [L. maculatus, p. p. of maculare to spot. See
Macula, and cf. Macule, v.] To spot; to stain; to blur.

    Maculate the honor of their people.


Sir T. Elyot.

Mac"u*late (?), a. [L. maculatus, p. p.] Marked with spots or maculæ;
blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts. Shak.

Mac"u*la`ted (?), a. Having spots or blotches; maculate.

Mac"u*la"tion (?), n. [L. maculatio.] The act of spotting; a spot; a
blemish. Shak.

Mac"u*la*to*ry (?), a. Causing a spot or stain. T. Adams.

Mac"u*la*ture (?), n. Blotting paper. [Obs.]

Mac"ule (?), n. [F. macule. See Macula.] 1. A spot. [Obs.]

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

Mac"ule, v. t. [Cf. F. maculer. See Maculate, v.] To blur; especially
(Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle.

Mac"u*lose` (?), a. [L. maculosus.] Of or pertaining to spots upon a
surface; spotted; maculate.

Mad (?), obs. p. p. of Made. Chaucer.

Mad (?), a. [Compar. Madder (?); superl. Maddest (?).] [AS. gem&?;d,
gemd, mad; akin to OS. gem&?;d foolish, OHG. gameit, Icel. mei&?;a to
hurt, Goth. gamáids weak, broken. &?;.] 1. Disordered in intellect;
crazy; insane.

    I have heard my grandsire say full oft, Extremity of griefs would
    make men mad.


Shak.

2. 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.

    It is the land of graven images, and they are mad upon their idols.


Jer. 1. 88.

    And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them even unto
    strange cities.


Acts xxvi. 11.

3. Proceeding from, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction;
prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor."
Milton.

    Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace.


Franklin.

    The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled.


Jowett (Thucyd.).

4. Extravagant; immoderate. "Be mad and merry." Shak. "Fetching mad
bounds." Shak.

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

6. Angry; out of patience; vexed; as, to get mad at a person. [Colloq.]

7. Having impaired polarity; -- applied to a compass needle. [Colloq.]

Like mad, like a mad person; in a furious manner; as, to run like mad.
L'Estrange. -- To run mad. (a) To become wild with excitement. (b) To
run wildly about under the influence of hydrophobia; to become affected
with hydrophobia. -- To run mad after, to pursue under the influence of
infatuation or immoderate desire. "The world is running mad after
farce." Dryden.

Mad, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Madded; p. pr. & vb. n. Madding.] To make mad
or furious; to madden.

    Had I but seen thy picture in this plight, It would have madded me.


Shak.

Mad, v. i. To be mad; to go mad; to rave. See Madding. [Archaic]
Chaucer.

    Festus said with great voice, Paul thou maddest.


Wyclif (Acts).

Mad, n. [AS. ma&?;a; akin to D. & G. made, Goth. mapa, and prob. to E.
moth.] (Zoöl.) An earthworm. [Written also made.]

Mad"am (?), n.; pl. Madams, or Mesdames (#). [See Madame.] 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.

||Ma`dame" (?), n.; pl. Mesdames (#). [F., fr. ma my (L. mea) + dame
||dame. See Dame, and cf. Madonna.] My lady; -- a French title formerly
||given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married
||women. Chaucer.

Mad"-ap`ple (?), n. (Bot.) See Eggplant.

Mad"brain` (?), a. Hot-headed; rash. Shak. -- n. A rash or hot- headed
person.

Mad"brained` (?), a. Disordered in mind; hot-headed. Shak.

Mad"cap` (?), a. 1. Inclined to wild sports; delighting in rash,
absurd, or dangerous amusements. "The merry madcap lord." Shak.

2. Wild; reckless. "Madcap follies" Beau. & Fl.

Mad"cap`, n. A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent
person. Shak.

Mad"den (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maddened (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Maddening.] To make mad; to drive to madness; to craze; to excite
violently with passion; to make very angry; to enrage.

Mad"den, v. i. To become mad; to act as if mad.

    They rave, recite, and madden round the land.


Pope.

Mad"der (md"dr), n. [OE. mader, AS. mædere; akin to Icel. maðra.]
(Bot.) A plant of the genus 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.

Madder is sometimes used in forming pigments, as lakes, etc., which
receive their names from their colors; as. madder yellow.

Field madder, an annual European weed (Sherardia arvensis) resembling
madder. -- Indian madder , the East Indian Rubia cordifolia, used in
the East for dyeing; -- called also munjeet. -- Wild madder, Rubia
peregrina of Europe; also the Galium Mollugo, a kind of bedstraw.

Mad"der*wort` (?), n. (Bot.) A name proposed for any plant of the same
natural order (Rubiaceæ) as the madder.

Mad"ding (?), a. Affected with madness; raging; furious. --
Mad"ding*ly, adv. [Archaic]

    Far from the madding crowd's ignoble strife.


Gray.

    The madding wheels Of brazen chariots raged.


Milton.

Mad"dish (?), a. Somewhat mad. Beau. & Fl.

Made (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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.

Made up. (a) Complete; perfect. "A made up villain." Shak. (b) Falsely
devised; fabricated; as, a made up story. (c) Artificial; as, a made up
figure or complexion.

{ Mad"e*cass (?), Mad`e*cas"see (?), } n. A native or inhabitant of
Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar.
See Malagasy.

Mad`e*cas"see, a. Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants.

{ Mad`e*fac"tion (?), Mad`e*fi*ca"tion (?), } n. [L. madefacere to make
wet; madere to be wet + facere to make: cf. F. madéfaction.] The act of
madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. [R.]
Bacon.

Mad"e*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Madefied (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Madefying (?).] [Cf. F. madéfier, L. madefacere. See Madefaction.] To
make wet or moist. [R.]

Mad`e*gas"sy (?), n. & a. See Madecassee.

Ma*dei"ra (?), n. [Pg., the Island Madeira, properly, wood, fr. L.
materia stuff, wood. The island was so called because well wooded. See
Matter.] A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.

    A cup of Madeira, and a cold capon's leg.


Shak.

Madeira nut (Bot.), the European walnut; the nut of the Juglans regia.

||Ma`de*moi`selle" (?), n.; pl. Mesdemoiselles (#). [F., fr. ma my, f.
||of mon + demoiselle young lady. See Damsel.] 1. A French title of
||courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the
||English Miss. Goldsmith.

2. (Zoöl.) A marine food fish (Sciæna chrysura), of the Southern United
States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch.

Madge, n. [Cf. OF. & Prov. F. machette.] (Zoöl.) (a) The barn owl. (b)
The magpie.

Mad"-head`ed (?), a. Wild; crack- brained.

Mad"house` (?), n. A house where insane persons are confined; an insane
asylum; a bedlam.

||Ma"di*a (?), n. [NL., fr. Sp. madi, fr. Chilian madi, the native
||name.] (Bot.) 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.

Mad"id (?), a. [L. madidus, fr. madere to be wet.] Wet; moist; as, a
madid eye. [R.] Beaconsfield.

||Mad`is*te"ri*um (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?;.] (Surg.) An instrument to
||extract hairs.

||Mad"joun (?), n. [Hind., fr. Ar. ma'j&?;n.] An intoxicating
||confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindoos.
||[Written also majoun.]

Mad"ly (?), adv. [From Mad, a.] In a mad manner; without reason or
understanding; wildly.

Mad"man (?), n.; pl. Madmen (&?;). A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy
person.

    When a man mistakes his thoughts for person and things, he is mad.
    A madman is properly so defined.


Coleridge.

Mad"nep (?), n. (Bot.) The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium).

Mad"ness, n. [From Mad, a.] 1. The condition of being mad; insanity;
lunacy.

2. Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.

Syn. -- Insanity; distraction; derangement; craziness; lunacy; mania;
frenzy; franticness; rage; aberration; alienation; monomania. See
Insanity.

Ma*don"na (?), n. [It. madonna my lady. See Dame, Donna, and cf.
Madame, Monkey.] 1. 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. Shak.

2. [pl. Madonnas (nz).] A picture of the Virgin Mary (usually with the
babe).

    The Italian painters are noted for drawing the Madonnas by their
    own wives or mistresses.


Rymer.

||Ma"do*qua (?), n. (Zoöl.) A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus
||Saltiana), about the size of a hare.

||Ma`drague" (?), n. [R.] A large fish pound used for the capture of
||the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for
||the same purpose.

Ma"dre*perl (?), n. [It. madreperla.] Mother-of-pearl.

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||Mad`re*po"ra (md`r*p"r), n. [NL. See Madrepore.] (Zoöl.) A genus of
||reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred
||and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched. --
||Mad`re*po"ral (#), a.

||Mad`re*po*ra"ri*a (?), n. pl. [NL. See Madrepore.] (Zoöl.) An
||extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that
||produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa. -- Mad`re*po*ra"ri*an
||(#), a. & n.

Mad"re*pore (?), n. [F. madrepore, perh. fr. madré spotted, fr. OF.
madre, mazre, a kind of knotty wood with brown spots, fr. OHG. masar a
knot, grain, or vein in wood, a speck, G. maser + pore (see Pore); or
perh. F. madrépore is rather from It. madrepora, and this perh. fr. It.
madre mother (see Mother) + Gr. &?; a soft stone.] (Zoöl.) Any coral of
the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

{ Mad`re*po"ri*an (?), Mad`re*po"ric (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Resembling, or
pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.

Madreporic plate (Zoöl.), a perforated plate in echinoderms, through
which water is admitted to the ambulacral tubes; -- called also
madreporic tubercule.

Mad`re*po"ri*form (?), a. [Madrepore + -form.] (Zoöl.) Resembling a
madreporian coral in form or structure.

Mad"re*po*rite (?), n. [Cf. F. madréporite] 1. (Paleon.) A fossil
coral.

2. (Zoöl.) The madreporic plate of echinoderms.

Ma*drier" (?), n. [F., from Sp. madero, or Pg. madeiro, fr. Sp. madera
wood for building, timber, Pg. madeira, L. materia stuff, materials,
lumber. See Matter.] A thick plank, used for several mechanical
purposes; especially: (a) A plank to receive the mouth of a petard,
with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down. (b) A
plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.

Mad"ri*gal (md"r*gal), n. [It. madrigale, OIt. madriale, mandriale (cf.
LL. matriale); of uncertain origin, possibly fr. It mandra flock, L.
mandra stall, herd of cattle, Gr. ma`ndra fold, stable; hence,
madrigal, originally, a pastoral song.] 1. A little amorous poem,
sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate,
though simple, thought.

    Whose artful strains have oft delayed The huddling brook to hear
    his madrigal.


Milton.

2. (Mus.) 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.

Mad"ri*gal*er (?), n. A madrigalist.

Mad"ri*gal*ist, n. A composer of madrigals.

Mad`ri*le"ni*an (?), a. [Sp. Madrileño.] Of or pertaining to Madrid in
Spain, or to its inhabitants. -- n. A native or inhabitant of Madrid.

||Ma*dri"na (?), n. [Sp., prop., a godmother.] An animal (usually an
||old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack
||mules. [S. America]

Ma*dro"ña (?), n. [Sp. madroño.] (Bot.) 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 madroña apples.
[Written also madroño.]

Mad"wort` (?), n. (Bot.) 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.

{ Mæg"bote`, Mag"bote` } (?), n. [AS. mg kinsman + bt compensation.]
(Anglo-Saxon Law) Compensation for the injury done by slaying a
kinsman. Spelman.

Mael"strom (?), n. [Norw., a whirlpool.] 1. A celebrated whirlpool on
the coast of Norway.

2. Also Fig. ; as, a maelstrom of vice.

||Mæ"nad (?), n. [L. Maenas, -adis, Gr. &?;, &?;, fr. &?; to rave.] 1.
||A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

2. A frantic or frenzied woman.

||Ma`es*to"so (?), a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) Majestic or majestically; --
||a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified
||manner.

Maes"tricht mon"i*tor (?). [So called from Maestricht, a town in
Holland.] (Paleon.) The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.

||Ma*es"tro (?), n. [It., fr. L. magister. See Master.] A master in any
||art, especially in music; a composer.

Maf"fle (?), v. i. [Akin to OD. maffelen to stammer. Cf. Muffle to
mumble.] To stammer. [Obs.]

Maf"fler (?), n. A stammerer. [Obs.]

Mag`a*zine" (?), n. [F. magasin, It. magazzino, or Sp. magacen,
almagacen; all fr. Ar. makhzan, almakhzan, a storehouse, granary, or
cellar.]

1. A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military
stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. "Armories and magazines."
Milton.

2. The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a
fortification or a ship.

3. A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed
automatically to the piece.

4. A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or
compositions.

Magazine dress, clothing made chiefly of woolen, without anything
metallic about it, to be worn in a powder magazine. -- Magazine gun, a
portable firearm, as a rifle, with a chamber carrying cartridges which
are brought automatically into position for firing. -- Magazine stove,
a stove having a chamber for holding fuel which is supplied to the fire
by some self-feeding process, as in the common base-burner.

Mag`a*zine" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magazined (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Magazining.] To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

Mag`a*zin"er (?), n. One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.]
Goldsmith.

Mag`a*zin"ing, n. The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine.
[Colloq.] Byron.

Mag`a*zin"ist, n. One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.]

Mag"bote` (?), n. See Mægbote.

Mag"da*la (?), a. Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from
naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

Mag"da*len (?), n. [From Mary Magdalene, traditionally reported to have
been the repentant sinner forgiven by Christ. See Luke vii. 36.] A
reformed prostitute.

Mag*da"le*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; crumb of bread, fr. &?; to
knead.] (Med.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of
plaster.

Mag"de*burg (?), n. A city of Saxony.

Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and
Hemisphere.

Mage (?), n. [F. mage. See Magi.] A magician. [Archaic] Spenser.
Tennyson.

Mag`el*lan"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the
navigator.

Magellenic clouds (Astron.), three conspicuous nebulæ near the south
pole, resembling thin white clouds.

Ma*gen"ta (?), n. (Chem.) 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, roseïne, etc.

Magged (?), a. (Naut.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace. Ham. Nav.
Encyc.

||Mag`gio"re (?), a. [It., from L. major, compar. of magnus great. See
||Major.] (Mus.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when
||used in opposition to minor; major. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

Mag"got (?), n. [W. macai, pl. maceiod, magiod, a worn or grub; cf.
magu to bread.] 1. (Zoöl.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.

2. A whim; an odd fancy. Hudibras. Tennyson.

Mag"got*i*ness (?), n. State of being maggoty.

Mag"got*ish, a. Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Mag"got-pie` (?), n. A magpie. [Obs.] Shak.

Mag"got*y (?), a. 1. Infested with maggots.

2. Full of whims; capricious. Norris.

Ma"ghet (?), n. [Cf. Fl. maghet maid.] (Bot.) A name for daisies and
camomiles of several kinds.

||Ma"gi (?), n. pl. [L., pl. of Magus, Gr. &?;; of Per. origin. Cf.
||Mage, Magic.] A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among
||the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.

    The inspired Magi from the Orient came.


Sandys.

Ma"gi*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Magi.

Ma"gi*an, n. One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in
Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion. -- Ma"gi*an*ism (#),
n.

Mag"ic (?), n. [OE. magique, L. magice, Gr. &?; (sc. &?;), fr. &?;. See
Magic, a., and Magi.] 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.

    An appearance made by some magic.


Chaucer.

Celestial magic, a supposed supernatural power which gave to spirits a
kind of dominion over the planets, and to the planets an influence over
men. -- Natural magic, the art of employing the powers of nature to
produce effects apparently supernatural. -- Superstitious, or Geotic,
magic, the invocation of devils or demons, involving the supposition of
some tacit or express agreement between them and human beings.

Syn. -- Sorcery; witchcraft; necromancy; conjuration; enchantment.

{ Mag"ic (?), Mag"ic*al (?), } a. [L. magicus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?;: cf. F.
magique. See Magi.] 1. 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.

2. 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.

    The painter's magic skill.


Cowper.

Although with certain words magic is used more than magical, -- as,
magic circle, magic square, magic wand, -- we may in general say magic
or magical; as, a magic or magical effect; a magic or magical
influence, etc. But when the adjective is predicative, magical, and not
magic, is used; as, the effect was magical.

Magic circle, a series of concentric circles containing the numbers 12
to 75 in eight radii, and having somewhat similar properties to the
magic square. -- Magic humming bird (Zoöl.), a Mexican humming bird
(Iache magica) , having white downy thing tufts. -- Magic lantern. See
Lantern. -- Magic square, numbers so disposed in parallel and equal
rows in the form of a square, that each row, taken vertically,
horizontally, or diagonally, shall give the same sum, the same product,
or an harmonical series, according as the numbers taken are in
arithmetical, geometrical, or harmonical progression. -- Magic wand, a
wand used by a magician in performing feats of magic.

Mag"ic*al*ly (?), adv. In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by
magic.

Ma*gi"cian (?), n. [F. magicien. See Magic, n.] One skilled in magic;
one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a
sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

{ Ma*gilp" (?), Ma*gilph" (?), } n. (Paint.) See Megilp.

||Ma*gis"ter (?), n. [L. See Master.] 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.

Mag`is*te"ri*al (?), a. [L. magisterius magisterial. See Master.] 1. 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.

    When magisterial duties from his home Her father called.


Glover.

    We are not magisterial in opinions, nor, dictator-like, obtrude our
    notions on any man.


Sir T. Browne.

    Pretenses go a great way with men that take fair words and
    magisterial looks for current payment.


L'Estrange.

2. (Alchem. & Old Chem.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature
of, magistery. See Magistery, 2.

Syn. -- Authoritative; stately; august; pompous; dignified; lofty;
commanding; imperious; lordly; proud; haughty; domineering; despotic;
dogmatical; arrogant. -- Magisterial, Dogmatical, Arrogant. One who is
magisterial assumes the air of a master toward his pupils; one who is
dogmatical lays down his positions in a tone of authority or dictation;
one who is arrogant in sults others by an undue assumption of
superiority. Those who have long been teachers sometimes acquire,
unconsciously, a manner which borders too much on the magisterial, and
may be unjustly construed as dogmatical, or even arrogant.

Mag`is*te`ri*al"i*ty (?), n. Magisterialness; authoritativeness. [R.]
Fuller.

Mag`is*te"ri*al*ly (?), adv. In a magisterial manner.

Mag`is*te"ri*al*ness, n. The quality or state of being magisterial.

Mag"is*ter*y (?), n. [L. magisterium the office of a chief, president,
director, tutor. See Magistrate.] 1. Mastery; powerful medical
influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. [Obs.] Holland.

2. A magisterial injunction. [R.] Brougham.

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

Mag"is*tra*cy (?), n.; pl. Magistracies (#). [From Magistrate.] 1. The
office or dignity of a magistrate. Blackstone.

2. The collective body of magistrates.

Mag"is*tral (?), a. [L. magistralis: cf. F. magistral. See Magistrate.]
1. Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

2. Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence,
effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup. "Some magistral opiate."
Bacon.

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

Magistral line (Fort.), the guiding line, or outline, by which the form
of the work is determined. It is usually the crest line of the parapet
in fieldworks, or the top line of the escarp in permanent
fortifications.

Mag"is*tral, n. 1. (Med.) A sovereign medicine or remedy. [Obs.]
Burton.

2. (Fort.) A magistral line.

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

Mag`is*tral"i*ty (?), n.; pl. -ties (&?;). Magisterialness; arbitrary
dogmatism. Bacon.

Mag"is*tral*ly (?), adv. In a magistral manner. Abp. Bramhall.

Mag"is*trate (?), n. [L. magistratus, fr. magister master: cf. F.
magistrat. See Master.] A person clothed with power as a public civil
officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government,
or some branch of it. "All Christian rulers and magistrates." Book of
Com. Prayer.

    Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power
    of the state resides; others are subordinate.


Blackstone.

{ Mag`is*trat"ic (?), Mag`is*trat"ic*al (?), } a. Of, pertaining to, or
proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.
Jer. Taylor.

Mag"is*tra`ture (?), n. [Cf. F. magistrature.] Magistracy. [Obs.]

||Mag"ma (?), n. [L., fr. Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to squeeze, knead.] 1. Any
||crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin
||paste. Ure.

2. (Med.) (a) 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. (b) A
salve or confection of thick consistency. Dunglison.

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3. (Geol.) (a) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the
material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc. (b) The glassy
base of an eruptive rock.

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

||Mag"na Char"ta (?). [L., great charter.] 1. 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.

2. Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and
privileges.

Mag*nal"i*ty (?), n. [L. magnalis mighty, fr. magnus great.] A great
act or event; a great attainment. [Obs.] Sir T. Browne.

Mag`na*nim"i*ty (?), n. [F. magnanimité, L. magnanimitas.] 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.

Mag*nan"i*mous (?), a.[L. magnanimus; magnus great + animus mind. See
Magnate, and Animus.] 1. 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.

    Be magnanimous in the enterprise.


Shak.

    To give a kingdom hath been thought Greater and nobler done, and to
    lay down Far more magnanimous than to assume.


Milton.

2. Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not
selfish.

    Both strived for death; magnanimous debate.


Stirling.

    There is an indissoluble union between a magnanimous policy and the
    solid rewards of public prosperity and felicity.


Washington.

Mag*nan"i*mous*ly, adv. In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of
mind.

Mag"nase black` (?). (Paint.) A black pigment which dries rapidly when
mixed with oil, and is of intense body. Fairholt.

Mag"nate (?), [F. magnat, L. (pl.) magnates, magnati, fr. magnus great.
See Master.] 1. A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of
influence or distinction in any sphere. Macaulay.

2. 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.

Mag"nes (?), n. [L.] Magnet. [Obs.] Spenser.

Mag*ne"si*a (?; 277), n. [L. Magnesia, fem. of Magnesius of the country
Magnesia, Gr. h` Magnhsi`a li`qos a magnet. Cf. Magnet.] (Chem.) 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.

Magnesia alba [L.] (Med. Chem.), a bulky white amorphous substance,
consisting of a hydrous basic carbonate of magnesium, and used as a
mild cathartic.

Mag*ne"sian (?), a. Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing,
magnesia or magnesium.

Magnesian limestone. (Min.) See Dolomite.

Mag*ne"sic (?), a. (Chem.) Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as,
magnesic oxide.

Mag"ne*site (?), n. [Cf. F. magnésite.] (Min.) Native magnesium
carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in
rhombohedral crystals.

Mag*ne"si*um (?), n. [NL. & F. See Magnesia.] (Chem.) 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.

Magnesium sulphate. (Chem.) Same as Epsom salts.

Mag"net (mg"nt), n. [OE. magnete, OF. magnete, L. magnes, - etis, Gr.
Magnh^tis li`qos a magnet, metal that looked like silver, prop.,
Magnesian stone, fr. Gr. Magnhsi`a, a country in Thessaly. Cf.
Magnesia, Manganese.] 1. 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.

    Dinocrates began to make the arched roof of the temple of Arsinoë
    all of magnet, or this loadstone.


Holland.

    Two magnets, heaven and earth, allure to bliss, The larger
    loadstone that, the nearer this.


Dryden.

2. (Physics) 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.

An artificial magnet, produced by the action of a voltaic or electrical
battery, is called an electro-magnet.

Field magnet (Physics & Elec.), a magnet used for producing and
maintaining a magnetic field; -- used especially of the stationary or
exciting magnet of a dynamo or electromotor in distinction from that of
the moving portion or armature.

{ Mag*net"ic (?), Mag*net"ic*al (?), } a. [L. magneticus: cf. F.
magnétique.] 1. Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of
the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a
magnetic needle.

2. Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as,
the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.

3. Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the
magnetic metals.

4. Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and
to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.

    She that had all magnetic force alone.


Donne.

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

Magnetic amplitude, attraction, dip, induction, etc. See under
Amplitude, Attraction, etc. -- Magnetic battery, a combination of bar
or horseshoe magnets with the like poles adjacent, so as to act
together with great power. -- Magnetic compensator, a contrivance
connected with a ship's compass for compensating or neutralizing the
effect of the iron of the ship upon the needle. -- Magnetic curves,
curves indicating lines of magnetic force, as in the arrangement of
iron filings between the poles of a powerful magnet. -- Magnetic
elements. (a) (Chem. Physics) Those elements, as iron, nickel, cobalt,
chromium, manganese, etc., which are capable or becoming magnetic. (b)
(Physics) In respect to terrestrial magnetism, the declination,
inclination, and intensity. (c) See under Element. -- Magnetic equator,
the line around the equatorial parts of the earth at which there is no
dip, the dipping needle being horizontal. -- Magnetic field, or Field
of magnetic force, any space through which a magnet exerts its
influence. -- Magnetic fluid, the hypothetical fluid whose existence
was formerly assumed in the explanations of the phenomena of magnetism.
-- Magnetic iron, or Magnetic iron ore. (Min.) Same as Magnetite. --
Magnetic needle, a slender bar of steel, magnetized and suspended at
its center on a sharp-pointed pivot, or by a delicate fiber, so that it
may take freely the direction of the magnetic meridian. It constitutes
the essential part of a compass, such as the mariner's and the
surveyor's. -- Magnetic poles, the two points in the opposite polar
regions of the earth at which the direction of the dipping needle is
vertical. -- Magnetic pyrites. See Pyrrhotite. -- Magnetic storm
(Terrestrial Physics), a disturbance of the earth's magnetic force
characterized by great and sudden changes. -- Magnetic telegraph, a
telegraph acting by means of a magnet. See Telegraph.

Mag*net"ic (?), n. 1. A magnet. [Obs.]

    As the magnetic hardest iron draws.


Milton.

2. 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.

Mag*net"ic*al*ly, adv. By or as by, magnetism.

Mag*net"ic*al*ness, n. Quality of being magnetic.

Mag`ne*ti"cian (?), n. One versed in the science of magnetism; a
magnetist.

Mag*net"ic*ness, n. Magneticalness. [Obs.]

Mag*net"ics (?), n. The science of magnetism.

Mag`net*if"er*ous (?), a. [L. magnes, -etis + -ferous.] Producing or
conducting magnetism.

Mag"net*ism (?), n. [Cf. F. magnétisme.] The property, quality, or
state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature
which is seen in a magnet.

2. The science which treats of magnetic phenomena.

3. Power of attraction; power to excite the feelings and to gain the
affections. "By the magnetism of interest our affections are
irresistibly attracted." Glanvill.

Animal magnetism, a force, more or less analogous to magnetism, which,
it has been alleged, is produced in animal tissues, and passes from one
body to another with or without actual contact. The existence of such a
force, and its potentiality for the cure of disease, were asserted by
Mesmer in 1775. His theories and methods were afterwards called
mesmerism, a name which has been popularly applied to theories and
claims not put forward by Mesmer himself. See Mesmerism, Biology, Od,
Hypnotism. -- Terrestrial magnetism, the magnetic force exerted by the
earth, and recognized by its effect upon magnetized needles and bars.

Mag"net*ist, n. One versed in magnetism.

Mag"net*ite (?), n. (Min.) 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.

Mag"net*i`za*ble (?), a. Capable of being magnetized.

Mag`net*i*za"tion (?), n. The act of magnetizing, or the state of being
magnetized.

Mag"net*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magnetized (?); prep. & adv.
Magnetizing (?).] [Cf. F. magnétiser.] 1. To communicate magnetic
properties to; as, to magnetize a needle.

2. To attract as a magnet attracts, or like a magnet; to move; to
influence.

    Fascinated, magnetized, as it were, by his character.


Motley.

3. To bring under the influence of animal magnetism.

Mag`net*i*zee" (?), n. A person subjected to the influence of animal
magnetism. [R.]

Mag"net*i`zer (?), n. One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.

Mag"net*o- (?). [See Magnet.] A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced
by, or in some way connected with, magnetism.

{ Mag`net*o-e*lec"tric (?), Mag`net*o- e*lec"tric*al (?), } a.
(Physics) Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action
of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction.

Magneto-electric machine, a form of dynamo- electric machine in which
the field is maintained by permanent steel magnets instead of
electro-magnets.

Mag`net*o-e`lec*tric"i*ty (?), n. 1. Electricity evolved by the action
of magnets.

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

Mag*net"o*graph (?), n. [Magneto-  + -graph.] (Physics) An automatic
instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and
variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.

Mag`net*om"e*ter (?), n. [Magneto-  + -meter: cf. F. magnétomètre.]
(Physics) 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.

Mag`net*o*met"ric (?), a. Pertaining to, or employed in, the
measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer;
as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.

Mag`net*o*mo"tor (?), 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. [R.]

Mag`net*o*ther"a*py (?), n. (Med.) The treatment of disease by the
application of magnets to the surface of the body.

Mag"ni*fi`a*ble, a. [From Magnify.] Such as can be magnified, or
extolled.

{ Mag*nif"ic (?), Mag*nif"ic*al (?), } a. [L. magnificus; magnus great
+ facere to make: cf. F. magnifique. See Magnitude, Fact. and cf.
Magnificent.] Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent. [Obs.] 1
Chron. xxii. 5. "Thy magnific deeds." Milton. -- Mag*nif"ic*al*ly, adv.
[Obs.]

||Mag*nif"i*cat (?), n. [L., it magnifies.] The song of the Virgin
||Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in
||the Vulgate.

Mag*nif"i*cate (?), v. t. [L. magnificatus, p. p. of magnificare.] To
magnify or extol. [Obs.] Marston.

Mag`ni*fi*ca"tion (?), n. The act of magnifying; enlargement;
exaggeration. [R.]

Mag*nif"i*cence (?), n. [F. magnificence, L. magnificentia. See
Magnific.] The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality
of being magnificent. Acts xix. 27. "Then cometh magnificence."
Chaucer.

    And, for the heaven's wide circuit, let it speak The Maker's high
    magnificence, who built so spacious.


Milton.

    The noblest monuments of Roman magnificence.


Eustace.

Mag*nif"i*cent (?), a. [See Magnificence.] 1. Doing grand things;
admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in
building, way of living, and munificence.

    A prince is never so magnificent As when he's sparing to enrich a
    few With the injuries of many.


Massinger.

2. Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid;
pompous.

    When Rome's exalted beauties I descry Magnificent in piles of ruin
    lie.


Addison.

Syn. -- Glorious; majestic; sublime. See Grand.

Mag*nif"i*cent*ly, adv. In a Magnificent manner.

Mag*nif"i*co (?), n.; pl. Magnificoes (#). [It. See Magnific.] 1. A
grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy. Shak.

2. A rector of a German university.

Mag"ni*fi`er (?), n. One who, or that which, magnifies.

Mag"ni*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Magnified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Magnifying (?).] [OE. magnifien, F. magnifier, L. magnificare. See
Magnific.] 1. 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.

    The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . .
    be proportionately magnified.


Grew.

2. To increase the importance of; to augment the esteem or respect in
which one is held.

    On that day the Lord magnified Joshua in the sight of all Israel.


Joshua iv. 14.

3. To praise highly; to laud; to extol. [Archaic]

    O, magnify the Lord with me, and let us exalt his name together.


Ps. xxxiv. 3.

4. To exaggerate; as, to magnify a loss or a difficulty.

To magnify one's self (Script.), to exhibit pride and haughtiness; to
boast. -- To magnify one's self against (Script.), to oppose with
pride.

Mag"ni*fy, v. i. 1. 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.

2. To have effect; to be of importance or significance. [Cant & Obs.]
Spectator.

Magnifying glass, a lens which magnifies the apparent dimensions of
objects seen through it.

Mag*nil"o*quence (?), n. [L. magniloquentia.] The quality of being
magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Mag*nil"o*quent (?), a. [L. magnus great + loquens, -entis, p. pr. of
loqui to speak. See Magnitude, Loquacious.] Speaking pompously; using
swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. --
Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.

Mag*nil"o*quous (?), a. [L. magniloquus.] Magniloquent. [Obs.]

Mag"ni*tude (?), n. [L. magnitudo, from magnus great. See Master, and
cf. Maxim.] 1. Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that
have length, breadth, and thickness.

    Conceive those particles of bodies to be so disposed amongst
    themselves, that the intervals of empty spaces between them may be
    equal in magnitude to them all.


Sir I. Newton.

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

3. Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time,
weight, force, and the like.

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4. Greatness; grandeur. "With plain, heroic magnitude of mind." Milton.

5. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an
affair of magnitude.

    The magnitude of his designs.


Bp. Horsley.

Apparent magnitude (Opt.), the angular breadth of an object viewed as
measured by the angle which it subtends at the eye of the observer; --
called also apparent diameter. -- Magnitude of a star (Astron.), the
rank of a star with respect to brightness. About twenty very bright
stars are said to be of first magnitude, the stars of the sixth
magnitude being just visible to the naked eye. Telescopic stars are
classified down to the twelfth magnitude or lower. The scale of the
magnitudes is quite arbitrary, but by means of photometers, the
classification has been made to tenths of a magnitude.

Mag*no"li*a (?), n. [NL. Named after Pierre Magnol, professor of botany
at Montpellier, France, in the 17th century.] (Bot.) A genus of
American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented
whitish or reddish flowers.

Magnolia grandiflora has coriaceous shining leaves and very fragrant
blossoms. It is common from North Carolina to Florida and Texas, and is
one of the most magnificent trees of the American forest. The sweet bay
(M. glauca)is a small tree found sparingly as far north as Cape Ann.
Other American species are M. Umbrella, M. macrophylla, M. Fraseri, M.
acuminata, and M. cordata. M. conspicua and M. purpurea are cultivated
shrubs or trees from Eastern Asia. M. Campbellii, of India, has
rose-colored or crimson flowers.

Magnolia warbler (Zoöl.), a beautiful North American wood warbler
(Dendroica maculosa). The rump and under parts are bright yellow; the
breast and belly are spotted with black; the under tail coverts are
white; the crown is ash.

Mag*no`li*a"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Pertaining to a natural order
(Magnoliaceæ) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the
star anise are examples.

||Mag"num (?), n. [Neut. sing. of L. magnus great.] 1. A large wine
||bottle.

    They passed the magnum to one another freely.


Sir W. Scott.

2. (Anat.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal
bone.

Mag"ot (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The Barbary ape.

Mag"ot-pie` (?), n. A magpie. [Obs.] Shak.

Mag"pie (?), n. [OE. & Prov. E. magot pie, maggoty pie, fr. Mag,
Maggot, equiv. to Margaret, and fr. F. Marquerite, and common name of
the magpie. Marguerite is fr. L. margarita pearl, Gr. &?;, prob. of
Eastern origin. See Pie magpie, and cf. the analogous names Tomtit, and
Jackdaw.] (Zoöl.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and
related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

The common European magpie (Pica pica, or P. caudata) is a black and
white noisy and mischievous bird. It can be taught to speak. The
American magpie (P. Hudsonica) is very similar. The yellow-belled
magpie (P. Nuttalli) inhabits California. The blue magpie (Cyanopolius
Cooki) inhabits Spain. Other allied species are found in Asia. The
Tasmanian and Australian magpies are crow shrikes, as the white magpie
(Gymnorhina organicum), the black magpie (Strepera fuliginosa), and the
Australian magpie (Cracticus picatus).

Magpie lark (Zoöl.), a common Australian bird (Grallina picata),
conspicuously marked with black and white; -- called also little
magpie. -- Magpie moth (Zoöl.), a black and white European geometrid
moth (Abraxas grossulariata); the harlequin moth. Its larva feeds on
currant and gooseberry bushes.

||Ma`gua*ri" (?), n. [From native name: cf. Pg. magoari.] (Zoöl.) A
||South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail.

Mag"uey (?), n. [Sp. maguey, Mexican maguei and metl.] (Bot.) The
century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana). See Agave.

Mag"yar (mg"yär; Hung. md"yr), n. [Hung.] 1. (Ethnol.) One of the
dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.

2. The language of the Magyars.

||Ma"ha (?), n. (Zoöl.) A kind of baboon; the wanderoo.

{ ||Ma*ha*ba"ra*ta (?), ||Ma*ha*bha"ra*tam (?), } n. [Skr. mahbhrata.]
A celebrated epic poem of the Hindus. It is of great length, and is
chiefly devoted to the history of a civil war between two dynasties of
ancient India.

||Ma*ha"led (?), n.[Ar. mahled.] (Bot.) 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.

||Ma*ha*ra"jah (?), n. [Skr. mahrja; mahat great + rja king.] A
||sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of
||high rank.

||Ma`ha*rif" (?), n. (Zoöl.) An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri).
||Its face is striped with black and white.

||Ma*har"mah (?), n. A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part
||of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

Mah"di (?), n. [Ar., guide, leader.] 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.

The title has been taken by several persons in countries where
Mohammedanism prevails, -- notably by Mohammad Ahmed, who overran the
Egyptian Sudan, and in 1885 captured Khartum, his soldiers killing
General Gordon, an Englishman, who was then the Egyptian governor of
the region.

Mahl"-stick` (?), n. See Maul- stick.

Ma"hoe (?), n. (Bot.) 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.

Ma*hog"a*ny (?), n. [From the South American name.] 1. (Bot.) A large
tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

Several other trees, with wood more or less like mahogany, are called
by this name; as, African mahogany (Khaya Senegalensis), Australian
mahogany (Eucalyptus marginatus), Bastard mahogany (Batonia apetala of
the West Indies), Indian mahogany (Cedrela Toona of Bengal, and trees
of the genera Soymida and Chukrassia), Madeira mahogany (Persea
Indica), Mountain mahogany, the black or cherry birch (Betula lenta),
also the several species of Cercocarpus of California and the Rocky
Mountains.

2. 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.

3. A table made of mahogany wood. [Colloq.]

To be under the mahogany, to be so drunk as to have fallen under the
table. [Eng.] -- To put one's legs under some one's mahogany, to dine
with him. [Slang]

||Ma*ho"li (?), n. (Zoöl.) A South African lemur (Galago maholi),
||having very large ears. [Written also moholi.]

{ Ma*hom"ed*an (?), Ma*hom"et*an (?), } n. See Mohammedan.

Ma*hom"et*an*ism (?), n. See Mohammedanism.

Ma*hom"et*an*ize (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mahometanized (?); p. pr. &
vb. n. Mahometanizing (?).] To convert to the religion of Mohammed; to
Mohammedanize.

Ma*hom"et*ism (?), n. See Mohammedanism.

Ma*hom"et*ist, n. A Mohammedan. [R.]

Ma*hom"et*ry (?), n. Mohammedanism. [Obs.]

Ma*hone" (?), n. A large Turkish ship. Crabb.

Ma*ho"ni*a (?), n. [Named after Bernard McMahon.] (Bot.) The Oregon
grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated
for its hollylike foliage.

Ma*hon" stock` (?). (Bot.) 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.

||Ma*hoo"hoo (?), n. (Zoöl.) The African white two-horned rhinoceros
||(Atelodus simus).

Ma"ho*ri (?), n. [Native name. Cf. Maori.] (Ethnol.) One of the dark
race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used
adjectively.

Ma`hound (?), n. A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil
spirit; a devil. [Obs.]

    Who's this, my mahound cousin ?


Beau. & Fl.

||Ma*hout" (?), n. [Hind. mahwat, Skr. mahmtra; mahat great + mtr
||measure.] The keeper and driver of an elephant. [East Indies]

Ma*ho"vo (?), n. (Mach.) A device for saving power in stopping and
starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

Mah*rat"i (?), n. The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in
the Deccan and Concan. [Written also Marathi.]

Mah*rat"ta (?), n. [Hind. Marhat, Marhtt, the name of a famous Hindoo
race, from the old Skr. name Mah- rshtra.] One of a numerous people
inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the
Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. -- a. Of or
pertaining to the Mahrattas. [Written also Maratha.]

{ Ma*hu"met*an (?), Ma*hu"met*an*ism (?), n. } See Mohammedan,
Mohammedanism.

Mah"wa tree` (?). (Bot.) 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.

||Ma"i*a (?), n. [From L. Maia, a goddess.] (Zoöl.) (a) A genus of
||spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).
||(b) A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).

Ma"ian (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family
Maiadæ.

Maid (?), n. [Shortened from maiden. &?;. See Maiden.] 1. An unmarried
woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a
maiden.

    Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never borne thee son.


Shak.

    Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my
    people have forgotten me.


Jer. ii. 32.

2. A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [Obs.]

    Christ was a maid and shapen as a man.


Chaucer.

3. A female servant.

    Spinning amongst her maids.


Shak.

Maid is used either adjectively or in composition, signifying female,
as in maid child, maidservant.

4. (Zoöl.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia
batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata). [Prov. Eng.]

Fair maid. (Zoöl.) See under Fair, a. -- Maid of honor, a female
attendant of a queen or royal princess; -- usually of noble family, and
having to perform only nominal or honorary duties. -- Old maid. See
under Old.

Maid"en (?), n. [OE. maiden, meiden, AS. mægden, dim. of AS. mæg&?;,
fr. mago son, servant; akin to G. magd, mädchen, maid, OHG. magad,
Icel. mögr son, Goth. magus boy, child, magaps virgin, and perh. to
Zend. magu youth. Cf. Maid a virgin.] 1. An unmarried woman; a girl or
woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.

    She employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways,
    building of bridges, and endowing of maidens.


Carew.

    A maiden of our century, yet most meek.


Tennyson.

2. A female servant. [Obs.]

3. An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland
for beheading criminals. Wharton.

4. A machine for washing linen.

Maid"en, a. 1. Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable
to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. "Amid the
maiden throng." Addison.

    Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ?


Shak.

2. Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse;
virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a
maiden aunt. "A surprising old maiden lady." Thackeray.

3. Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. "Maiden
flowers." Shak.

    Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword.


Shak.

4. Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or
violated.  T. Warton. Macaulay.

Maiden assize (Eng. Law), an assize which there is no criminal
prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at
such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of
white gloves. Smart. -- Maiden name, the surname of a woman before her
marriage. -- Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink. -- Maiden plum (Bot.),
a West Indian tree (Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes. The
sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain. --
Maiden speech, the first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member
in a public body. -- Maiden tower, the tower most capable of resisting
an enemy.

Maid"en, v. t. To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite
object.

    For had I maiden'd it, as many use. Loath for to grant, but loather
    to refuse.


Bp. Hall.

Maid"en*hair` (?), n. (Bot.) 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.

Maiden grass, the smaller quaking grass. -- Maiden tree. See Ginkgo.

Maid"en*head (?), n. [See Maidenhood.] 1. The state of being a maiden;
maidenhood; virginity. Shak.

2. The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
[Obs.]

    The maidenhead of their credit.


Sir H. Wotton.

3. The hymen, or virginal membrane.

Maid"en*hood (?), n. [AS. mægdenhd. See Maid, and -hood.] 1. The state
of being a maid or a virgin; virginity. Shak.

2. Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state.

    The maidenhood Of thy fight.


Shak.

Maid"en*like` (?), a. Like a maiden; modest; coy.

Maid"en*li*ness (?), n. The quality of being maidenly; the behavior
that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

Maid"en*ly, a. Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle,
modest, reserved.

    Must you be blushing ? . . . What a maidenly man-at-arms are you
    become !


Shak.

Maid"en*ly, adv. In a maidenlike manner. "Maidenly demure." Skelton.

Maid"en*ship, n. Maidenhood. [Obs.] Fuller.

Maid"hood (?), n. [AS. mægðhd. See Maid, and -hood.] Maidenhood. Shak.

Maid`ma"ri*an (?), n. [Maid + Marian, relating to Mary, or the Virgin
Mary.] 1. 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.

2. A kind of dance. Sir W. Temple.

Maid"pale` (?), a. Pale, like a sick girl. Shak.

Maid"serv`ant (?), n. A female servant.

Maid's" hair` (?). (Bot.) The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).

{ Ma*ieu"tic (m*"tk), Ma*ieu"tic*al (-t*kal), } a. [Gr. maieytiko`s,
fr. mai^a midwife.] 1. Serving to assist childbirth. Cudworth.

2. Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of
thoughts or language. Payne.

Ma*ieu"tics (?), n. The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and
conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
Payne.

Mai"ger (?), n. (Zoöl.) The meagre.

Mai"gre (?), a. [F. See Meager.] Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a
maigre day. Walpole.

Maigre food (R. C. Ch.), food allowed to be eaten on fast days.

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Mai"hem (m"hm), n. See Maim, and Mayhem.

||Mai*kel" (mä*kl"), n. (Zoöl.) A South American carnivore of the genus
||Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer
||snout. The tail is not bushy.

||Mai*kong" (?), n. (Zoöl.) A South American wild dog (Canis
||cancrivorus); the crab- eating dog.

Mail (ml), n. A spot. [Obs.]

Mail, n. [F. maille, OF. also maaille, LL. medalia. See Medal.] 1. A
small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the
time of Henry V. [Obs.] [Written also maile, and maille.]

2. Rent; tribute. [Obs., except in certain compounds and phrases, as
blackmail, mails and duties, etc.]

Mail and duties (Scots Law), the rents of an estate, in whatever form
paid.

Mail, n. [OE. maile, maille, F. maille a ring of mail, mesh, network, a
coat of mail, fr. L. macula spot, a mesh of a net. Cf. Macle, Macula,
Mascle.] 1. A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was
used especially for defensive armor. Chaucer.

Chain mail, Coat of mail. See under Chain, and Coat.

2. Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.

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

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

    We . . . strip the lobster of his scarlet mail.


Gay.

Mail, v. t. 1. To arm with mail.

2. To pinion. [Obs.]

Mail, n. [OE. male bag, OF. male, F. malle bag, trunk, mail, OHG.
malaha, malha, wallet; akin to D. maal, male; cf. Gael. & Ir. mala, Gr.
molgo`s hide, skin.] 1. A bag; a wallet. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. The bag or bags with the letters, 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.

    There is a mail come in to-day, with letters dated Hague.


Tatler.

3. That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the
post office.

4. A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
[Obs.] Sir W. Scott.

Mail bag, a bag in which mailed matter is conveyed under public
authority. -- Mail boat, a boat that carries the mail. -- Mail catcher,
an iron rod, or other contrivance, attached to a railroad car for
catching a mail bag while the train is in motion. -- Mail guard, an
officer whose duty it is to guard the public mails. [Eng.] -- Mail
train, a railroad train carrying the mail.

Mail, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mailed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mailing.] 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. [U. S.]

In the United States to mail and to post are both in common use; as, to
mail or post a letter. In England post is the commoner usage.

Mail"a*ble (?), a. Admissible lawfully into the mail. [U.S.]

Mail"clad` (?), a. Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor. Sir W.
Scott.

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

Mailed, a. [See 1st Mail.] Spotted; speckled.

Mail"ing (?), n. [Scot., fr. mail tribute, rent. See 2d Mail.] A farm.
[Scot.] Sir W. Scott.

Mail"-shell` (?), n. (Zoöl.) A chiton.

Maim (mm), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maimed (mmd);p. pr. & vb. n. Maiming.]
[OE. maimen, OF. mahaignier, mehaignier, meshaignier, cf. It.
magagnare, LL. mahemiare, mahennare; perh. of Celtic origin; cf. Armor.
mac'haña to mutilate, mc'ha to crowd, press; or cf. OHG. mangn to lack,
perh. akin to E. mangle to lacerate. Cf. Mayhem.] 1. To deprive of the
use of a limb, so as to render a person in fighting less able either to
defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

    By the ancient law of England he that maimed any man whereby he
    lost any part of his body, was sentenced to lose the like part.


Blackstone.

2. To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.

    My late maimed limbs lack wonted might.


Spenser.

    You maimed the jurisdiction of all bishops.


Shak.

Syn. -- To mutilate; mangle; cripple.

Maim, n. [Written in law language maihem, and mayhem.] [OF. mehaing.
See Maim, v.] 1. 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.

2. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation;
injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.

    Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim
    than the use of it a blemish.


Hooker.

    A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of
    Parliament should not be recited.


Hayward.

Maim"ed*ly (?), adv. In a maimed manner.

Maim"ed*ness, n. State of being maimed. Bolton.

Main (?), n. [F. main hand, L. manus. See Manual.] 1. A hand or match
at dice. Prior. Thackeray.

2. A stake played for at dice. [Obs.] Shak.

3. The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given
limits, as in the game of hazard.

4. A match at cockfighting. "My lord would ride twenty miles . . . to
see a main fought." Thackeray.

5. A main-hamper. [Obs.] Ainsworth.

Main, n. [AS. mægen strength, power, force; akin to OHG. magan, Icel.
megin, and to E. may, v. &?;. See May, v.] 1. Strength; force; might;
violent effort. [Obs., except in certain phrases.]

    There were in this battle of most might and main.


R. of Gl.

    He 'gan advance, With huge force, and with importable main.


Spenser.

2. The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
[Obs., except in special uses.]

    Resolved to rest upon the title of Lancaster as the main, and to
    use the other two . . . but as supporters.


Bacon.

3. Specifically: (a) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay,
etc. ; the high sea; the ocean. "Struggling in the main." Dryden. (b)
The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland. "Invaded
the main of Spain." Bacon. (c) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished
from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a
reservoir; as, a fire main.

Forcing main, the delivery pipe of a pump. -- For the main, or In the
main, for the most part; in the greatest part. -- With might and main,
or With all one's might and main, with all one's strength; with violent
effort.

    With might and main they chased the murderous fox.


Dryden.

Main (?), a. [From Main strength, possibly influenced by OF. maine,
magne, great, L. magnus. Cf. Magnate.] 1. Very or extremely strong.
[Obs.]

    That current with main fury ran.


Daniel.

2. Vast; huge. [Obs.] "The main abyss." Milton.

3. Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer. [Obs.] "It's a man untruth."
Sir W. Scott.

4. Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.

    Our main interest is to be happy as we can.


Tillotson.

5. Important; necessary. [Obs.]

    That which thou aright Believest so main to our success, I bring.


Milton.

By main force, by mere force or sheer force; by violent effort; as, to
subdue insurrection by main force.

    That Maine which by main force Warwick did win.


Shak.

-- By main strength, by sheer strength; as, to lift a heavy weight by
main strength. -- Main beam (Steam Engine), working beam. -- Main boom
(Naut.), the boom which extends the foot of the mainsail in a fore and
aft vessel. -- Main brace. (a) (Mech.) The brace which resists the
chief strain. Cf. Counter brace. (b) (Naut.) The brace attached to the
main yard. -- Main center (Steam Engine), a shaft upon which a working
beam or side lever swings. -- Main chance. See under Chance. -- Main
couple (Arch.), the principal truss in a roof. -- Main deck (Naut.),
the deck next below the spar deck; the principal deck. -- Main keel
(Naut.), the principal or true keel of a vessel, as distinguished from
the false keel.

Syn. -- Principal; chief; leading; cardinal; capital.

Main, adv. [See Main, a.] Very; extremely; as, main heavy. "I'm main
dry." Foote. [Obs. or Low]

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

Maine law, any law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating
beverages, esp. one resembling that enacted in the State of Maine.

Main`-gauche" (mN`gsh"), n. [F., the left hand.] (Ancient Armor) 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"-ham`per (?), n. [F. main hand (see Main a hand at dice) + E.
hamper.] A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in
carrying grapes to the press.

Main"land` (?), n. The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to
island, or peninsula. Dryden.

    After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the
    mainland.


Hawthorne.

Main"ly (?), adv. [From main strong. See Main strength.] Very strongly;
mightily; to a great degree. [Obs.] Bacon. Shak.

Main"ly, adv. [From main principal, chief.] Principally; chiefly.

Main"mast` (?), n. (Naut.) The principal mast in a ship or other
vessel.

Main"or (?), n. [Anglo-Norm. meinoure, OF. manuevre. See Maneuver.] (O.
Eng. Law) A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

A thief was said to be "taken with the mainor," when he was taken with
the thing stolen upon him, that is, in his hands. Wharton. Bouvier.

Main"per*na*ble (?), a. [OF. main hand + pernable, for prenable, that
may be taken, pregnable. See Mainpernor.] (Law) Capable of being
admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.

Main"per*nor (?), n. [OF. main hand + pernor, for preneor, a taker, F.
preneur, fr. prendre to take.] (Law) A surety, under the old writ of
mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.

Mainpernors differ from bail in that a man's bail may imprison or
surrender him before the stipulated day of appearance; mainpernors can
do neither; they are bound to produce him to answer all charges
whatsoever. Blackstone.

Main"pin (?), n. (Vehicles) A kingbolt.

Main"prise (?), n. [F. main hand + prise a taking, fr. prendre, p. p.
pris to take, fr. L. prehendere, prehensum.] (Law) (a) 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. Wharton. (b) Deliverance of a prisoner on security for
his appearance at a day.

Main"prise, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mainprised (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Mainprising.] (Law) To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties,
or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.

Mains (mnz), n. [Scot. See Manse.] The farm attached to a mansion
house. [Scot.]

Main"sail` (mn"sl`), n. (Naut.) The principal sail in a ship or other
vessel.

    [They] hoised up the mainsail to the wind.


Acts xxvii. 40.

The mainsail of a ship is extended upon a yard attached to the
mainmast, and that of a sloop or schooner upon the boom.

Main"sheet` (?), n. (Naut.) One of the ropes by which the mainsail is
hauled aft and trimmed.

Main"spring` (?), 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.

Main"stay` (?), n. 1. (Naut.) The stay extending from the foot of the
foremast to the maintop.

2. Main support; principal dependence.

    The great mainstay of the Church.


Buckle.

Main"swear` (?), v. i. [AS. mnswerian to forswear; mn sin, crime +
swerian to swear.] To swear falsely. [Obs.] Blount.

Main*tain (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maintained (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Maintaining.] [OE. maintenen, F. maintenir, properly, to hold by the
hand; main hand (L. manus) + F. tenir to hold (L. tenere). See Manual,
and Tenable.] 1. 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.

2. To keep possession of; to hold and defend; not to surrender or
relinquish.

    God values . . . every one as he maintains his post.


Grew.

3. To continue; not to suffer to cease or fail.

    Maintain talk with the duke.


Shak.

4. To bear the expense of; to support; to keep up; to supply with what
is needed.

    Glad, by his labor, to maintain his life.


Stirling.

    What maintains one vice would bring up two children.


Franklin.

5. To affirm; to support or defend by argument.

    It is hard to maintain the truth, but much harder to be maintained
    by it.


South.

Syn. -- To assert; vindicate; allege. See Assert.

Main*tain"a*ble (?), a. That may be maintained.

Main*tain"er (?), n. One who maintains.

Main*tain"or (?), n. [OF. mainteneor, F. mainteneur.] (Crim. Law) One
who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others,
by furnishing money, etc., to either party. Bouvier. Wharton.

Main"te*nance (?), n. [OF. maintenance. See Maintain.] 1. The act of
maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

    Whatsoever is granted to the church for God's honor and the
    maintenance of his service, is granted to God.


South.

2. That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of
necessaries and conveniences.

    Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance.


Swift.

3. (Crim. Law) 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. Wharton.

Cap of maintenance. See under Cap.

Main"top` (?), n. (Naut.) The platform about the head of the mainmast
in square-rigged vessels.

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

Mai"oid (?), a. [Maia + - oid.] (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the genus
Maia, or family Maiadeæ.

Mais"ter (?), n. Master. [Obs.] Chaucer. Spenser.

Mais"ter, a. Principal; chief. [Obs.] Chaucer.

{ Mais"tre (?), Mais"trie, Mais"try (?) }, n. Mastery; superiority;
art. See Mastery. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mais"tress (?), n. Mistress. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Mai"thes (?), n. (Bot.) Same as Maghet.

Maize (?), n. [Sp. maiz. fr. mahiz or mahis, is the language of the
Island of Hayti.] (Bot.) 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 and
animals.

Maize eater (Zoöl.), a South American bird of the genus Pseudoleistes,
allied to the troupials. -- Maize yellow, a delicate pale yellow.

{ Maj`es*tat"ic (?), Maj`es*tat"*al (?), } a. Majestic. [Obs.] E.
Pocock. Dr. J. Scott.

Ma*jes"tic (?), a. [From Majesty.] Possessing or exhibiting majesty; of
august dignity, stateliness, or imposing grandeur; lofty; noble; grand.
"The majestic world." Shak. "Tethys' grave majestic pace." Milton.

    The least portions must be of the epic kind; all must be grave,
    majestic, and sublime.


Dryden.

Syn. -- August; splendid; grand; sublime; magnificent; imperial; regal;
pompous; stately; lofty; dignified; elevated.

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Ma*jes"tic*al (?), a. Majestic. Cowley.

    An older architecture, greater, cunninger, more majestical.


M. Arnold.

-- Ma*jes"tic*al*ly, adv. -- Ma*jes"tic*al*ness, n.

Ma*jes"tic*ness (?), n. The quality or state of being majestic.
Oldenburg.

Maj"es*ty (?), n.; pl. Majesties (#). [OE. magestee, F. majesté, L.
majestas, fr. an old compar. of magnus great. See Major, Master.] 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.

    The Lord reigneth; he is clothed with majesty.


Ps. xciii. 1.

    No sovereign has ever represented the majesty of a great state with
    more dignity and grace.


Macaulay.

2. 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.

    In all the public writs which he [Emperor Charles V.] now issued as
    King of Spain, he assumed the title of Majesty, and required it
    from his subjects as a mark of respect. Before that time all the
    monarchs of Europe were satisfied with the appellation of Highness
    or Grace.


Robertson.

3. Dignity; elevation of manner or style. Dryden.

Ma*jol"i*ca (?), n. [It.] A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and
showy decoration, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the
16th century.

The term is said to be derived from Majorca, which was an early seat of
this manufacture. Heyse.

Ma"jor (?), [L. major, compar. of magnus great: cf. F. majeur. Cf.
Master, Mayor, Magnitude, More, a.] 1. 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.

2. Of greater dignity; more important. Shak.

3. Of full legal age. [Obs.]

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

Major axis (Geom.), the greater axis. See Focus, n., 2. -- Major key
(Mus.), a key in which one and two, two and three, four and five, five
and six and seven, make major seconds, and three and four, and seven
and eight, make minor seconds. -- Major offense (Law), an offense of a
greater degree which contains a lesser offense, as murder and robbery
include assault. -- Major premise (Logic), that premise of a syllogism
which contains the major term. -- Major scale (Mus.), the natural
diatonic scale, which has semitones between the third and fourth, and
seventh and fourth, and seventh and eighth degrees; the scale of the
major mode, of which the third is major. See Scale, and Diatonic. --
Major second (Mus.), a second between whose tones is a difference in
pitch of a step. -- Major sixth (Mus.), a sixth of four steps and a
half step. In major keys the third and sixth from the key tone are
major. Major keys and intervals, as distinguished from minors, are more
cheerful. -- Major term (Logic), that term of a syllogism which forms
the predicate of the conclusion. -- Major third (Mus.), a third of two
steps.

Ma"jor, n. [F. major. See Major, a.] 1. (Mil.) An officer next in rank
above a captain and next below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field
officer.

2. (Law) A person of full age.

3. (Logic) 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].

In hypothetical syllogisms, the hypothetical premise is called the
major.

4. [LL. See Major.] A mayor. [Obs.] Bacon.

||Ma`jo`rat" (?), n. [F. majorat, LL. majoratus. See Major, a., and cf.
||Majorate.] 1. The right of succession to property according to age;
||-- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.

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

Ma"jor*ate (?), n. The office or rank of a major.

Ma"jor*ate (?), v. t. [LL. majorare to augment. See Major, a.] To
augment; to increase. [Obs.] Howell.

Ma`jor*a"tion (?), n. Increase; enlargement. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ma*jor"can (?), a. Of or pertaining to Majorca. -- n. A native or
inhabitant of Majorca.

Ma`jor-do"mo (?), n. [Sp. mayordomo, or It. maggiordomo; both fr. LL.
majordomus; L. major greater + domus house.] A man who has authority to
act, within certain limits, as master of the house; a steward; also, a
chief minister or officer.

Ma"jor gen"er*al (?). 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.

Ma*jor"i*ty (?), n.; pl. Majorities (#). [F. majorité. See Major.] 1.
The quality or condition of being major or greater; superiority.
Specifically: (a) The military rank of a major. (b) The condition of
being of full age, or authorized by law to manage one's own affairs.

2. The greater number; more than half; as, a majority of mankind; a
majority of the votes cast.

3. [Cf. L. majores.] Ancestors; ancestry. [Obs.]

4. 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.

To go over to, or To join, the majority, to die.

Ma"jor*ship (?), n. The office of major.

Maj"oun (?), n. See Madjoun.

||Ma*jus"cu*læ (?), n. pl. [L., fem. pl. fr. majusculus somewhat
||greater or great, dim. of major, majus. See Major.] (Palæography)
||Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and
||earlier.

Ma*jus"cule (?), n. [Cf. F. majuscule. See Majusculæ.] A capital
letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculæ.

Majuscule writing, writing composed wholly of capital letters,
especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the
sixth century.

Mak"a*ble (?), a. Capable of being made.

Mak"a*ron (?), n. See Macaroon, 2. [Obs.]

Make (?), n. [AS. maca, gemaca. See Match.] A companion; a mate; often,
a husband or a wife. [Obs.]

    For in this world no woman is Worthy to be my make.


Chaucer.

Make, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Made (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Making.] [OE.
maken, makien, AS. macian; akin to OS. mak&?;n, OFries. makia, D.
maken, G. machen, OHG. mahh&?;n to join, fit, prepare, make, Dan. mage.
Cf. Match an equal.] 1. To cause to exist; to bring into being; to
form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. Hence, in various
specific uses or applications: (a) To form of materials; to cause to
exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate.

    He . . . fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a
    molten calf.


Ex. xxxii. 4.

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

    And Art, with her contending, doth aspire To excel the natural with
    made delights.


Spenser.

(c) 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.

    Call for Samson, that he may make us sport.


Judg. xvi. 25.

    Wealth maketh many friends.


Prov. xix. 4.

    I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults
    which I have made.


Dryden.

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

    He accuseth Neptune unjustly who makes shipwreck a second time.


Bacon.

(f) 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. (h) To put in a desired or desirable condition; to cause to
thrive.

    Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.


Dryden.

2. 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.

    Who made thee a prince and a judge over us?


Ex. ii. 14.

    See, I have made thee a god to Pharaoh.


Ex. vii. 1.

When used reflexively with an adjective, the reflexive pronoun is often
omitted; as, to make merry; to make bold; to make free, etc.

3. To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem,
suppose, or represent.

    He is not that goose and ass that Valla would make him.


Baker.

4. To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to
occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive.

In the active voice the to of the infinitive is usually omitted.

    I will make them hear my words.


Deut. iv. 10.

    They should be made to rise at their early hour.


Locke.

5. 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.

    And old cloak makes a new jerkin.


Shak.

6. To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to
form; to amount to.

    The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea, Make but one
    temple for the Deity.


Waller.

7. To be engaged or concerned in. [Obs.]

    Gomez, what makest thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city
    bailiffs?


Dryden.

8. To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. "And make the
Libyan shores." Dryden.

    They that sail in the middle can make no land of either side.


Sir T. Browne.

To make a bed, to prepare a bed for being slept on, or to put it in
order. -- To make a card (Card Playing), to take a trick with it. -- To
make account. See under Account, n. -- To make account of, to esteem;
to regard. -- To make away. (a) To put out of the way; to kill; to
destroy. [Obs.]

    If a child were crooked or deformed in body or mind, they made him
    away.


Burton.

(b) To alienate; to transfer; to make over. [Obs.] Waller. -- To make
believe, to pretend; to feign; to simulate. -- To make bold, to take
the liberty; to venture. -- To make the cards (Card Playing), to
shuffle the pack. -- To make choice of, to take by way of preference;
to choose. -- To make danger, to make experiment. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl. --
To make default (Law), to fail to appear or answer. -- To make the
doors, to shut the door. [Obs.]

    Make the doors upon a woman's wit, and it will out at the casement.


Shak.

- To make free with. See under Free, a. -- To make good. See under
Good. -- To make head, to make headway. -- To make light of. See under
Light, a. -- To make little of. (a) To belittle. (b) To accomplish
easily. -- To make love to. See under Love, n. -- To make meat, to cure
meat in the open air. [Colloq. Western U. S.] -- To make merry, to
feast; to be joyful or jovial. -- To make much of, to treat with much
consideration,, attention, or fondness; to value highly. -- To make no
bones. See under Bone, n. -- To make no difference, to have no weight
or influence; to be a matter of indifference. -- To make no doubt, to
have no doubt. -- To make no matter, to have no weight or importance;
to make no difference. -- To make oath (Law), to swear, as to the truth
of something, in a prescribed form of law. -- To make of. (a) To
understand or think concerning; as, not to know what to make of the
news. (b) To pay attention to; to cherish; to esteem; to account.
"Makes she no more of me than of a slave." Dryden. -- To make one's law
(Old Law), to adduce proof to clear one's self of a charge. -- To make
out. (a) To find out; to discover; to decipher; as, to make out the
meaning of a letter. (b) To prove; to establish; as, the plaintiff was
unable to make out his case. (c) To make complete or exact; as, he was
not able to make out the money. -- To make over, to transfer the title
of; to convey; to alienate; as, he made over his estate in trust or in
fee. -- To make sail. (Naut.) (a) To increase the quantity of sail
already extended. (b) To set sail. -- To make shift, to manage by
expedients; as, they made shift to do without it. [Colloq.]. -- To make
sternway, to move with the stern foremost; to go or drift backward. --
To make strange, to act in an unfriendly manner or as if surprised; to
treat as strange; as, to make strange of a request or suggestion. -- To
make suit to, to endeavor to gain the favor of; to court. -- To make
sure. See under Sure. -- To make up. (a) To collect into a sum or mass;
as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package. (b)
To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel. (c)
To supply what is wanting in; to complete; as, a dollar is wanted to
make up the stipulated sum. (d) To compose, as from ingredients or
parts; to shape, prepare, or fabricate; as, to make up a mass into
pills; to make up a story.

    He was all made up of love and charms!


Addison.

(e) To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss. (f) To adjust,
or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts. (g) To dress and
paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. -- To make up a
face, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. -- To
make up one's mind, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. -- To
make water. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. -- To make way, or To
make one's way. (a) To make progress; to advance. (b) To open a
passage; to clear the way. -- To make words, to multiply words.

Make (?), v. i. 1. 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. [Obs.]

    A scurvy, jack-a-nape priest to meddle or make.


Shak.

2. To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the
tiger made at the sportsmen.

Formerly, authors used to make on, to make forth, to make about; but
these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make away, to
make for, to make off, to make toward, etc.

3. To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as,
it makes for his advantage. M. Arnold.

    Follow after the things which make for peace.


Rom. xiv. 19.

    Considerations infinite Do make against it.


Shak.

4. To increase; to augment; to accrue.

5. To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] Chaucer.
Tennyson.

    To solace him some time, as I do when I make.


P. Plowman.

To make as if, or To make as though, to pretend that; to make show
that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.).

    Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and
    fled.


Josh. viii. 15.

    My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with
    me.


Latimer.

-- To make at, to go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack.
-- To make away with. (a) To carry off. (b) To transfer or alienate;
hence, to spend; to dissipate. (c) To kill; to destroy. -- To make off,
to go away suddenly. -- To make out, to succeed; to be able at last; to
make shift; as, he made out to reconcile the contending parties. -- To
make up, to become reconciled or friendly. -- To make up for, to
compensate for; to supply an equivalent for. -- To make up to. (a) To
approach; as, a suspicious boat made up to us. (b) To pay addresses to;
to make love to. -- To make up with, to become reconciled to. [Colloq.]
-- To make with, to concur or agree with. Hooker.

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

    It our perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine
    and shake?


Dryden.

On the make,bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. [Low, U.
S.]

Make"bate` (?), n. [Make, v. + bate a quarrel.] One who excites
contentions and quarrels. [Obs.]

Make"-be*lief` (?), n. A feigning to believe; make believe. J. H.
Newman.

Make"-be*lieve` (?), n. A feigning to believe, as in the play of
children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike
make-believe." Tylor.

    To forswear self-delusion and make- believe.


M. Arnold.

Make"-be*lieve`, a. Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." G.
Eliot.

Mak"ed (?), obs. p. p. of Make. Made. Chaucer.

Make"-game` (?), n. An object of ridicule; a butt. Godwin.

Make"less, a. [See 1st Make, and cf. Matchless, Mateless.] 1.
Matchless. [Obs.] Chaucer.

2. Without a mate. Shak.

Make"-peace` (-ps`), n. A peacemaker. [R.] Shak.

Mak"er (mk"r), n. 1. One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer;
specifically, the Creator.

    The universal Maker we may praise.


Milton.

2. (Law) The person who makes a promissory note.

3. One who writes verses; a poet. [Obs.]

"The Greeks named the poet poihth`s, which name, as the most excellent,
hath gone through other languages. It cometh of this word poiei^n,
make; wherein, I know not whether by luck or wisdom, we Englishmen have
met well the Greeks in calling him a maker." Sir P. Sidney.

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Make"shift` (mk"shft`), n. That with which one makes shift; a temporary
expedient. James Mill.

    I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift.


G. Eliot.

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.

    The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental
    make-up.


L. F. Ward.

Make"weight` (&?;), n. That which is thrown into a scale to make
weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or
fill a gap.

||Ma"ki (?), n. [F., from native name.] (Zoöl.) A lemur. See Lemur.

Mak"ing (?), n. 1. 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.

2. Composition, or structure.

3. a poem. [Obs.] Sir J. Davies.

4. 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.

5. External appearance; from. [Obs.] Shak.

Mak"ing-i`ron (?), 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.

Mak"ing-up` (?), n. 1. The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree
of strength, called proof.

2. The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.

Mal- (ml-). 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.

The form male- is chiefly used in cases where the e, either alone or
with other letters, is pronounced as a separate syllable, as in
malediction, malefactor, maleficent, etc. Where this is not the case,
as in malfeasance or male-feasance, malformation or male-formation,
etc., as also where the word to which it is prefixed commences with a
vowel, as in maladministration, etc., the form mal is to be preferred,
and is the one commonly employed.

||Ma"la (?), n.; pl. of Malum. [L.] Evils; wrongs; offenses against
||right and law.

Mala in se [L.] (Law), offenses which are such from their own nature,
at common law, irrespective of statute. -- Mala prohibita [L.] (Law),
offenses prohibited by statute, as distinguished from mala in se, which
are offenses at common law.

Mal"a*bar` (?), n. A region in the western part of the Peninsula of
India, between the mountains and the sea.

Malabar nut (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the
Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.

Mal`a*ca*tune" (?), n. See Melocoton.

Ma*lac"ca (?), n. A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay
Peninsula.

Malacca cane (Bot.), a cane obtained from a species of palm of the
genus Calamus (C. Scipionum), and of a brown color, often mottled. The
plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.

Mal"a*chite (?), n. [Fr. Gr. &?; a mallow, from its resembling the
green color of the leaf of mallows: cf. F. malachite. Cf. Mallow.]
(Min.) Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green
mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is
sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or azurite, is a
related species of a deep blue color.

Malachite green. See Emerald green, under Green, n.

Mal`a*cis"sant (?), a. [See Malacissation.] Softening; relaxing. [Obs.]

Mal`a*cis*sa"tion (?), n. [L. malacissare to make soft, Gr. &?;.] The
act of making soft or supple. [Obs.] Bacon.

||Mal`a*cob*del"la (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; soft + &?; a leech.]
||(Zoöl.) 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.

Mal"a*co*derm (?), n. [Gr. &?; soft + &?; skin.] (Zoöl.) One of a tribe
of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the
fireflies.

Mal"a*co*lite (?), n. [Gr. &?; soft + -lite.] (Min.) A variety of
pyroxene.

Mal`a*col"o*gist (?), n. One versed in the science of malacology.

Mal`a*col"o*gy (?), n. [Gr. &?; soft + -logy: cf. F. malacologie.] The
science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.

||Mal`a*cop"o*da (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; soft + -poda.] (Zoöl.) A
||class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and
||Onychophora.

They somewhat resemble myriapods, and have from seventeen to
thirty-three pairs of short, imperfectly jointed legs, two pairs of
simple jaws, and a pair of antennæ. The trancheæ are connected with
numerous spiracles scattered over the surface of the body. Peripatus is
the only known genus. See Peripatus.

Mal`a*cop`ter*yg"i*an (?), n. [Cf. F. malacoptérygien.] (Zoöl.) One of
the Malacopterygii.

||Mal`a*cop`te*ryg"i*i (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; soft + &?; wing,
||fin, fr. &?; feather.] (Zoöl.) 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.

Mal`a*cop`ter*yg"i*ous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Malacopterygii.

Mal`a*cos"te*on (?), n. [NL., Gr. fr. &?; soft + &?; bone.] (Med.) A
peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become
softened and capable of being bent without breaking.

Mal`a*cos"to*mous (?), a. [Gr. &?; soft + &?; mouth.] (Zoöl.) Having
soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.

||Mal`a*cos"tra*ca (?), n. pl. [NL., from Gr. &?; soft + &?; shell of a
||testacean.] (Zoöl.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca
||and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.

Mal`a*cos"tra*can (?), n. (Zoöl.) One of the Malacostraca.

Mal`a*cos`tra*col"o*gy (?), n. [Malacostracan + -logy.] That branch of
zoölogical science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also
carcinology.

Mal`a*cos"tra*cous (?), a. (Zoöl.) Belonging to the Malacostraca.

Mal`a*co*toon" (?), n. (Bot.) See Melocoton.

||Mal`a*co*zo"a (?), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; soft + zo^,on an animal.]
||(Zoöl.) An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca,
||Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.

Mal`a*co*zo"ic (?), a. (Zoöl.) Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa.

Mal`ad*dress" (?), n. [Mal- + address.] Bad address; an awkward,
tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. W. D.
Howells.

Mal`ad*just"ment (?), n. [Mal- + adjustment.] A bad adjustment.

Mal`ad*min`is*tra"tion (?), n. [Mal-  + administration.] Bad
administration; bad management of any business, especially of public
affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]

Mal`a*droit" (?), a. [F. See Malice, and Adroit.] Of a quality opposed
to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful. -- Mal"a*droit`ly, adv. --
Mal`a*droit"ness, n.

Mal"a*dy (?), n.; pl. Maladies (#). [F. maladie, fr. malade ill, sick,
OF. also, malabde, fr. L. male habitus, i. e., ill-kept, not in good
condition. See Malice, and Habit.] 1. 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.

    The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind.


Buckminster.

2. A moral or mental defect or disorder.

    Love's a malady without a cure.


Dryden.

Syn. -- Disorder; distemper; sickness; ailment; disease; illness. See
Disease.

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

||Mal`a*gash" (?), n. Same as Malagasy.

Mal`a*gas"y (?), n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Madagascar; also
(sing.), the language.

||Ma`laise" (?), n. [F., fr. mal ill + aise ease.] (Med.) An indefinite
||feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.

Ma*lam"ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of malamic acid.

||Ma*lam"bo (?), n. [Pg.] A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine
||and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton
||Malambo.

Mal`am*eth"ane (?), n. [Malamic + ethane.] (Chem.) A white crystalline
substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.

Ma*lam"ic (?), a. [Malic + amic.] (Chem.) Of or designating an acid
intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its
salts.

Ma*lam"ide (?), n. [Malic + amide.] (Chem.) The acid amide derived from
malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.

Mal"an*ders (?), n. pl. [F. malandres, fr. L. malandria blisters or
pustules on the neck, especially in horses.] (Far.) A scurfy eruption
in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
[Written also mallenders.]

Mal"a*pert (?), a. [OF. malapert unskillful, ill-taught, ill-bred; mal
ill + apert open, adroit, intelligent, L. apertus, p. p. of aperire to
open. See Malice, and Aperient.] Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.
Shak. -- n. A malapert person.

    Are you growing malapert! Will you force me to make use of my
    authority ?


Dryden.

-- Mal"a*pert`ly, adv. -- Mal"a*pert`ness, n.

Mal"a*prop*ism (?), n. [From Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Sheridan's
drama, " The Rivals," who makes amusing blunders in her use of words.
See Malapropos.] A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

Mal*ap"ro*pos` (?), a. & adv. [F. mal à propos; mal evil + à propos to
the purpose.] Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

||Mal*ap`te*ru"rus (ml*p`t*r"rs), n. [NL., from Gr. malako`s soft +
||ptero`n wing + o'yra` tail.] (Zoöl.) A genus of African siluroid
||fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under
||Electric.

Ma"lar (?), a. [L. mala the cheek: cf. F. malaire.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone;
jugal.

Ma"lar (?), n. (Anat.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower
edge of the orbit.

Ma*la"ri*a (?), n. [It., contr. fr. malaaria bad air. See Malice, and
Air.] 1. 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.

The morbific agent in malaria is supposed by some to be a vegetable
microbe or its spores, and by others to be a very minute animal blood
parasite (an infusorian).

2. (Med.) 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.

{ Ma*la"ri*al (?), Ma*la"ri*an (?), Ma*la"ri*ous (?) }, a. Of or
pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.

Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized
by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms,
At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these
symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so
(remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever.

Ma`la*sha"ga*nay (?), n. [Indian name.] (Zoöl.) The fresh-water
drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

Mal`as*sim`i*la"tion (?), n. [Mal-  + assimilation.] (Physiol.) (a)
Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.
(b) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to
them by the blood.

Ma"late (?), n. [L. malum apple: cf. F. malate. See Malic.] (Chem.) A
salt of malic acid.

{ Ma"lax (?), Ma*lax"ate (?), } v. t. [L. malaxare, malaxatum, cf. Gr.
&?;, fr. &?; soft: cf. F. malaxer.] To soften by kneading or stirring
with some thinner substance. [R.]

Mal`ax*a"tion (?), n. [L. malaxatio: cf. F. malaxation.] The act of
softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of
ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]

Mal"ax*a`tor (?), n. One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine
for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]

Ma*lay" (?), n. One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the
Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

{ Ma*lay" (?), Ma*lay"an (?), } a. Of or pertaining to the Malays or
their country. -- n. The Malay language.

Malay apple (Bot.), a myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Malaccensis) common in
India; also, its applelike fruit.

Ma"la*ya"lam (?), n. The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian
languages, closely related to the Tamil. Yule.

||Mal"brouck (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) A West African arboreal monkey
||(Cercopithecus cynosurus).

Mal*con`for*ma"tion (?), n. [Mal-  + conformation.] Imperfect,
disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of
parts.

Mal"con*tent` (?), a. [F., fr. mal ill + content. See Malice, Content.]
discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the
government. [Written also malecontent.]

    The famous malcontent earl of Leicester.


Milner.

Mal"con*tent`, n. [F. malcontent.] One who discontented; especially, a
discontented subject of a government; one who expresses his discontent
by words or overt acts. Spenser. Berkeley.

Mal`con*tent"ed (?), a. Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. --
Mal`con*tent"ed*ness, n.

Mal*da"ni*an (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any species of marine annelids of the
genus Maldane, or family Maldanidæ. They have a slender, round body,
and make tubes in the sand or mud.

Male- (ml- or ml-). See Mal-.

Male (ml), a. [L. malus. See Malice.] Evil; wicked; bad. [Obs.]
Marston.

Male, n. Same as Mail, a bag. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Male, a. [F. mâle, OF. masle, mascle, fr. L. masculus male, masculine,
dim. of mas a male; possibly akin to E. man. Cf. Masculine, Marry, v.
t.] 1. 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.

2. (Bot.) 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.

3. Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male;
masculine; as, male courage.

4. Consisting of males; as, a male choir.

5. (Mech.) 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 berry (Bot.), a kind of coffee. See Pea berry. -- Male fern
(Bot.), a fern of the genus Aspidium (A. Filixmas), used in medicine as
an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium marginale in
America, and A. athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good
substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern,
under Female. -- Male rhyme, a rhyme in which only the last syllables
agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female. - -
Male screw (Mech.), a screw having threads upon its exterior which
enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female
screw. -- Male thread, the thread of a male screw.

Male, n. 1. An animal of the male sex.

2. (Bot.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.

Male`ad*min`is*tra"tion (ml`d*mn`s*tr"shn), n. Maladministration.

Ma*le"ate (?), n. A salt of maleic acid.

Male*branch"ism (?), 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.

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Male*con`for*ma"tion (?), n. Malconformation.

Male"con*tent` (?), a. Malcontent.

Mal`e*di"cen*cy (?), n. [L. maledicentia. See Maledicent.] Evil
speaking. [Obs.] Atterbury.

Mal`e*di"cent (?), a. [L. maledicens, p. pr. of maledicere to speak
ill; male ill + dicere to say, speak. See Malice, and Diction.]
Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

Mal"e*dict (?), a. [L. maledictus, p. p. of maledicere.] Accursed;
abominable. [R.]

Mal`e*dic"tion, n. [L. maledictio: cf. F. malédiction. See Maledicent.]
A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse
or execration; -- opposed to benediction.

    No malediction falls from his tongue.


Longfellow.

Syn. -- Cursing; curse; execration; imprecation; denunciation;
anathema. -- Malediction, Curse, Imprecation, Execration. Malediction
is the most general term, denoting bitter reproach, or wishes and
predictions of evil. Curse implies the desire or threat of evil,
declared upon oath or in the most solemn manner. Imprecation is
literally the praying down of evil upon a person. Execration is
literally a putting under the ban of excommunication, a curse which
excludes from the kingdom of God. In ordinary usage, the last three
words describe profane swearing, execration being the strongest.

Mal`e*fac"tion (?), n. [See Malefactor.] A crime; an offense; an evil
deed. [R.] Shak.

Mal`e*fac"tor (?), n. [L., fr. malefacere to do evil; male ill, evil +
facere to do. See Malice, and Fact.] 1. An evil doer; one who commits a
crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

2. One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal.
[Obs.] H. Brooke. Fuller.

Syn. -- Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.

Mal`e*fac"tress (?), n. A female malefactor. Hawthorne.

Male*fea"sance (?), n. See Malfeasance.

Ma*lef"ic (?), a. [L. maleficus: cf. F. maléfique. See Malefaction.]
Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful. [R.] Chaucer.

Mal"e*fice (?), n. [L. maleficium: cf. F. maléfice. See Malefactor.] An
evil deed; artifice; enchantment. [Obs.]

Ma*lef"i*cence (?), n. [L. maleficentia. Cf. Malfeasance.] Evil doing,
esp. to others.

Ma*lef"i*cent (?), a. [See Malefic.] Doing evil to others; harmful;
mischievous.

Mal`e*fi"cial (?), a. Injurious. Fuller.

Mal`e*fi"ci*ate (?), v. t. [LL. maleficiatus, p. p. of maleficiare to
bewitch, fr. L. maleficium. See Malefice.] To bewitch; to harm. [Obs.]
Burton.

Mal`e*fi`ci*a"tion (?), n. A bewitching. [Obs.]

Mal`e*fi"cience (?), n. [See Maleficence.] The doing of evil, harm, or
mischief.

Mal`e*fi"cient (?), a. [See Maleficent.] Doing evil, harm, or mischief.

Male`for*ma"tion (?), n. See Malformation.

Ma*le"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. maléique. See Malic.] (Chem.) Pertaining to,
or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric
acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

Ma*len"gine (?), n. [OF. malengin; L. malus bad, evil + ingenium
natural capacity. See Engine.] Evil machination; guile; deceit. [Obs.]
Gower.

Ma"le*o (?), n. [From its native name.] (Zoöl.) A bird of Celebes
(megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in
which to lay its eggs.

Male-o"dor (?), n. See Malodor.

Male*prac"tice (?), n. See Malpractice.

Male"-spir`it*ed (?), a. Having the spirit of a male; vigorous;
courageous. [R.] B. Jonson.

Mal"et (?), n. [F. mallette, dim. of malle. See Mail a bag.] A little
bag or budget. [Obs.] Shelton.

Male*treat" (?), v. t. See Maltreat.

Ma*lev"o*lence (?), n. [L. malevolentia. See Malevolent.] The quality
or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another;
inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

Ma*lev"o*lent (?), a. [L. malevolens, -entis; male ill + volens, p. pr.
of velle to be willing or disposed, to wish. See Malice, and
Voluntary.] Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in
another's misfortune.

Syn. -- Ill-disposed; envious; mischievous; evil-minded; spiteful;
malicious; malignant; rancorous.

Ma*lev"o*lent*ly, adv. In a malevolent manner.

Ma*lev"o*lous (?), a. [L. malevolus; fr. male ill + velle to be
disposed.] Malevolent. [Obs.] Bp. Warburton.

Mal*ex`e*cu"tion (?), n. [Mal- + execution.] Bad execution. D. Webster.

Ma*le"yl (?), n. [Maleic + - yl.] (Chem.) A hypothetical radical
derived from maleic acid.

Mal*fea"sance (?), n. [F. malfaisance, fr. malfaisant injurious, doing
ill; mal ill, evil + faisant doing, p. pr. of faire to do. See Malice,
Feasible, and cf. Maleficence.] (Law) The doing of an act which a
person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also
malefeasance.]

Mal`for*ma"tion (?), n. [Mal- + formation.] Ill formation; irregular or
anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.

Mal*gra"cious (?), a. [F. malgracieux.] Not graceful; displeasing.
[Obs.] Gower.

Mal"gre (?), prep. See Mauger.

Ma"lic (?), a. [L. malum an apple: cf. F. malique.] (Chem.) Pertaining
to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.

Malic acid, a hydroxy acid obtained as a substance which is sirupy or
crystallized with difficulty, and has a strong but pleasant sour taste.
It occurs in many fruits, as in green apples, currants, etc. It is
levorotatory or dextrorotatory according to the temperature and
concentration. An artificial variety is a derivative of succinic acid,
but has no action on polarized light, and thus malic acid is a
remarkable case of physical isomerism.

Mal"ice (ml"s), n. [F. malice, fr. L. malitia, from malus bad, ill,
evil, prob. orig., dirty, black; cf. Gr. me`las black, Skr. mala dirt.
Cf. Mauger.] 1. 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. "Nor set down aught in malice."
Shak.

    Envy, hatred, and malice are three distinct passions of the mind.


Ld. Holt.

2. (Law) 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 aforethought or prepense, malice previously and deliberately
entertained.

Syn. -- Spite; ill will; malevolence; grudge; pique; bitterness;
animosity; malignity; maliciousness; rancor; virulence. See Spite. --
Malevolence, Malignity, Malignancy. Malice is a stronger word than
malevolence, which may imply only a desire that evil may befall
another, while malice desires, and perhaps intends, to bring it about.
Malignity is intense and deepseated malice. It implies a natural
delight in hating and wronging others. One who is malignant must be
both malevolent and malicious; but a man may be malicious without being
malignant.

    Proud tyrants who maliciously destroy And ride o'er ruins with
    malignant joy.


Somerville.

    in some connections, malignity seems rather more pertinently
    applied to a radical depravity of nature, and malignancy to
    indications of this depravity, in temper and conduct in particular
    instances.


Cogan.

Mal"ice, v. t. To regard with extreme ill will. [Obs.]

Mal"i*cho (?), n. [Sp. malhecho; mal bad + hecho deed, L. factum. See
Fact.] Mischief. [Obs.] Shak.

Ma*li"cious (?), a. [Of. malicius, F. malicieux, fr. L. malitiosus. See
Malice.] 1. Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or
enmity.

    I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin
    That has a name.


Shak.

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

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

Malicious abandonment, the desertion of a wife or husband without just
cause. Burrill. -- Malicious mischief (Law), malicious injury to the
property of another; -- an offense at common law. Wharton. -- Malicious
prosecution or arrest (Law), a wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular
process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause.
Bouvier.

Syn. -- Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious; malevolent;
invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant; rancorous; malign.

-- Ma*li"cious*ly, adv. -- Ma*li"cious*ness, n.

Ma*lign" (?), a. [L. malignus, for maligenus, i. e., of a bad kind or
nature; malus bad + the root of genus birth, race, kind: cf. F. malin,
masc., maligne, fem. See Malice, Gender, and cf. Benign, Malignant.] 1.
Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity;
malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

    Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits.


Bacon.

2. Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a
malign aspect of planets.

3. Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] Bacon.

Ma*lign", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maligned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Maligning.]
[Cf. L. malignare. See Malign, a.] To treat with malice; to show hatred
toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.]

    The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against
    private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering
    them.


Spenser.

2. To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to
vilify; to asperse.

    To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be
    despised falling.


South.

Ma*lign", v. i. To entertain malice. [Obs.]

{ Ma*lig"nance (?), Ma*lig"nan*cy , } n. [See Malignant.] 1. The state
or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity;
malice; as, malignancy of heart.

2. Unfavorableness; evil nature.

    The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours.


Shak.

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

4. The state of being a malignant.

Syn. -- Malice; malevolence; malignity. See Malice.

Ma*lig"nant (?), a. [L. malignans, -antis, p. pr. of malignare,
malignari, to do or make maliciously. See Malign, and cf. Benignant.]
1. Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated
by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil;
malicious.

    A malignant and a turbaned Turk.


Shak.

2. Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. "Malignant
care." Macaulay.

    Some malignant power upon my life.


Shak.

    Something deleterious and malignant as his touch.


Hawthorne.

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

Malignant pustule (Med.), a very contagious disease, transmitted to man
from animals, characterized by the formation, at the point of reception
of the virus, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then
breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound
exhaustion and usually fatal. Called also charbon, and sometimes,
improperly, anthrax.

Ma*lig"nant (?), n. 1. A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.
Hooker.

2. (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles I. or Charles II.; --
so called by the opposite party.

Ma*lig"nant*ly, adv. In a malignant manner.

Ma*lign"er (?), n. One who maligns.

Ma*lig"ni*fy (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malignified (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Malignifying (?).] [L. malignus malign + -fy.] To make malign or
malignant. [R.] "A strong faith malignified." Southey.

Ma*lig"ni*ty (?), n. [F. malignité, L. malignitas.] 1. The state or
quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity;
malignancy; malice; spite.

2. Virulence; deadly quality.

    His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease.


Hayward.

3. Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness;
heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.]

Syn. -- See Malice.

Ma*lign"ly (?), adv. In a malign manner; with malignity.

Ma*lin"ger (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. MAlingered (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Malingering.] To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or
inability.

Ma*lin"ger*er (?), n. [F. malingre sickly, weakly, prob. from mal ill +
OF. heingre, haingre, thin, lean, infirm, fr. L. aeger.] 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.

Ma*lin"ger*y (?), n. The spirit or practices of a malingerer;
malingering.

Mal"i*son (?), n. [OF. maleicon, L. maledictio. See Malediction, and
cf. Benison.] Malediction; curse; execration. [Poetic]

    God's malison on his head who this gainsays.


Sir W. Scott.

Mal"kin (?), n. [Dim. of Maud, the proper name. Cf. Grimalkin.]
[Written also maukin.] 1. Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
Chaucer.

2. A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.

3. A scarecrow. [Prov. Eng.]

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

Mall (ml; 277), n. [Written also maul.] [OE. malle, F. mail, L.
malleus. Cf. Malleus.] 1. A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for
driving anything with force; a maul. Addison.

2. A heavy blow. [Obs.] Spenser.

3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
Cotton.

4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a
level shaded walk.

    Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with
    elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name
    of the City Mall.


Southey.

Mall (ml), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malled (mld); p. pr. & vb. n. Malling.]
[Cf. OF. mailler. See Mall beetle, and cf. Malleate.] To beat with a
mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.

Mall (ml), n. [LL. mallum a public assembly; cf. OHG. mahal assembly,
transaction; akin to AS. mæðel, meðel, assembly, mlan to speak, Goth.
maþl market place.] 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. Hence:
(a) A court of justice. (b) A place where justice is administered. (c)
A place where public meetings are held.

    Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased.


Milman.

Mal"lard (?), n. [F. malari,fr. mâle male + -art =-ard. See Male, a.,
and -ard.] 1. (Zoöl.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

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

Mal"le*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. [CF. F. malléabilité.] The quality or state
of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. Locke.

Mal"le*a*ble (?), a. [F. malléable, fr. LL. malleare to hammer. See
Malleate.] Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a
hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped
under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. -- Malleable
iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by
heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as
hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.

Mal"le*a*ble*ize (?), v. t. To make malleable.

Mal"le*a*ble*ness, n. Quality of being malleable.

Mal"le*al (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the malleus.

Mal"le*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malleated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Malleating (?).] [L. malleatus hammered, fr. malleus a hammer. See
Mall, v. t.] To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

Mal`le*a"tion (?), n. [LL. malleatio: cf. OF. malléation.] The act or
process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension
by beating.

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Mal"le*cho (?), n. Same as Malicho.

Mal*lee" bird` (?). (Zoöl.) [From native name.] The leipoa. See Leipoa.

{ Mal"le*mock (?), Mal"le*moke (?), } n. (Zoöl.) See Mollemoke.

Mal"len*ders (?), n. pl. (Far.) Same as Malanders.

Mal*le"o*lar (?), a. [See Malleolus.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the
malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.

||Mal*le"*o*lus (?), n.; pl. Malleoli (#). [L., dim. of malleus
||hammer.] 1. (Anat.) 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.

2. " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut
halfway through.

Mal"let (?), n. [F. maillet, dim. of mail. See Mall a beetle.] 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.

||Mal"le*us (?), n.; pl. Mallei (#). [L., hammer. See Mall a beetle.]
||1. (Anat.) 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.

2. (Zoöl.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera.
See Mastax.

3. (Zoöl.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.

||Mal*loph"a*ga (ml*lf"*g), n. pl. [NL., fr. Gr. mallo`s a lock of wool
||+ fagei^n to eat.] (Zoöl.) 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.

||Mal*lo"tus (?), n. [NL., fr Gr. &?; fleecy.] (Zoöl.) A genus of small
||Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus),
||is extensively used as bait for cod.

{ Mal"low (?), Mal"lows (?), } n. [OE. malwe, AS. mealwe, fr. L. malva,
akin to Gr. mala`chh; cf. mala`ssein to soften, malako`s soft. Named
either from its softening or relaxing properties, or from its soft
downy leaves. Cf. Mauve, Malachite.] (Bot.) A genus of plants (Malva)
having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.

The flowers of the common mallow (M. sylvestris) are used in medicine.
The dwarf mallow (M. rotundifolia) is a common weed, and its flattened,
dick-shaped fruits are called cheeses by children. Tree mallow (M.
Mauritiana and Lavatera arborea), musk mallow (M. moschata), rose
mallow or hollyhock, and curled mallow (M. crispa), are less commonly
seen.

Indian mallow. See Abutilon. -- Jew's mallow, a plant (Corchorus
olitorius) used as a pot herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria. -- Marsh
mallow. See under Marsh.

Mal"low*wort` (ml"l*wûrt), n. (Bot.) Any plant of the order Malvaceæ.

{ Malm (?), Malm"brick` (?), } n. [Cf. AS. mealm sand.] A kind of brick
of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

Mal"ma (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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.

||Mal"mag (?), n. [F., from native name in Madagascar.] (Zoöl.) The
||tarsius, or spectral lemur.

Malm"sey (?), n. [OE. malvesie, F. malvoisie, It. malvasia, malavagia,
fr. Malvasia, or Napoli di Malvasia, in the Morea.] A kind of sweet
wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc. Shak.

Mal`nu*tri"tion (?), n. [Mal- + nutrition.] (Physiol.) Faulty or
imperfect nutrition.

Mal*ob`ser*va"tion (?), n. [Mal- + observation.] Erroneous observation.
J. S Mill.

Mal*o"dor (?), n. An offensive odor. [1913 Webster]

Mal*o"dor*ous (?), a. Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. --
Mal*o"dor*ous*ness. n. Carlyle. [1913 Webster]

Mal"o*nate (?), a. (Chem.) A salt of malonic acid.

Ma*lon"ic (?), a. (Chem.) 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.

Mal"o*nyl (?), n. [Malonic + -yl.] (Chem.) A hydrocarbon radical,
CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.

||Mal*pi"ghi*a (?), n. [NL. See Malpighian.] (Bot.) 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.

Mal*pi`ghi*a"ceous (?), a. (Bot.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a
natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceæ), some of them
climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of
South American forests.

Mal*pi"ghi*an (?), a. (Anat.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by,
Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.

Malpighian capsules or corpuscles, the globular dilatations, containing
the glomeruli or Malpighian tufts, at the extremities of the urinary
tubules of the kidney. -- Malpighian corpuscles of the spleen, masses
of adenoid tissue connected with branches of the splenic artery.

Mal`po*si"tion (?), n. [Mal- + position.] A wrong position.

Mal*prac"tice (?), n. [Mal- + practice.] 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.
[Written also malepractice.]

Malt (?), n. [AS. mealt; akin to D. mout, G. malz, Icel., Sw., & Dan.
malt, and E. melt. &radic;108. See Melt.] 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.

Malt liquor, an alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared
by fermenting an infusion of malt. - - Malt dust, fine particles of
malt, or of the grain used in making malt; -- used as a fertilizer. "
Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the
grain." Sir H. Davy. -- Malt floor, a floor for drying malt. -- Malt
house, or Malthouse, a house in which malt is made. -- Malt kiln, a
heated chamber for drying malt.

Malt, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malted: p. pr. & vb. n. Malting.] To make
into malt; as, to malt barley.

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

Mal"ta*lent (?), n. [F. See Malice, and Talent.] Ill will; malice.
[Obs.] Rom. of R. Spenser.

Mal*tese" (?), a. Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants. --
n. sing. & pl. A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta.

Maltese cat (Zoöl.), a mouse- colored variety of the domestic cat. --
Maltese cross. See Illust. 5, of Cross. -- Maltese dog (Zoöl.), a breed
of small terriers, having long silky white hair. The breed originated
in Malta.

||Mal"tha (ml"th), n. [L., fr. Gr. ma`lqa.] 1. A variety of bitumen,
||viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling
||a bituminous odor.

2. Mortar. [Obs.] Holland.

Mal*thu"sian (?), a. Of or pertaining to the political economist, the
Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian
theories.

Malthus held that population tends to increase faster than its means of
subsistence can be made to do, and hence that the lower classes must
necessarily suffer more or less from lack of food, unless an increase
of population be checked by prudential restraint or otherwise.

Mal*thu"sian, n. A follower of Malthus.

Mal*thu"sian*ism (?), n. The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to
population.

{ Malt"in (?), Malt"ine (?), } n. (Physiol. Chem.) The fermentative
principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various
medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

Malt"ing (?), n. The process of making, or of becoming malt.

Malt"man (?), n.; pl. Maltmen (&?;). A man whose occupation is to make
malt.

Mal*ton"ic (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose;
specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid.
See Gluconic.

Malt"ose` (mlt"s`), n. [From Malt.] (Physiol. Chem.) A crystalline
sugar formed from starch by the action of diastase 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.

Mal*treat" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Maltreated; p. pr. & vb. n.
Maltreating.] [Mal- + treat: cf. F. maltraiter.] To treat ill; to
abuse; to treat roughly.

Mal*treat"ment (?), n.; [Cf. F. maltraitement.] Ill treatment; ill
usage; abuse.

Malt"ster (?), n. A maltman. Swift.

Malt"worm` (?), n. A tippler. [R.] Shak.

Malt"y (?), a. Containing, or like, malt. Dickens.

||Ma"lum (?), n.; pl. Mala (#). [L.] An evil. See Mala.

Mal*va"ceous (?), a. [L. malvaceus, from malva mallows. See Mallow.]
(Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants
(Malvaceæ), 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.

Mal`ver*sa"tion (?), n. [F., fr. malverser to be corrupt in office, fr.
L. male ill + versari to move about, to occupy one's self, vertere to
turn. See Malice, and Verse.] Evil conduct; fraudulent practices;
misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.

Mal"ve*sie (?), n. Malmsey wine. See Malmsey. " A jub of malvesye."
Chaucer.

Mam (mm), n. [Abbrev. fr. mamma.] Mamma.

Ma*ma" (?), n. See Mamma.

Mam"a*luke (?), n. Same as Mameluke.

||Mam"e*lon (?), n. [F.] A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or
||protuberance. Westmin. Rev.

||Mam`e*lu"co (?), n. [Pg.] A child born of a white father and Indian
||mother. [S. Amer.]

Mam"e*luke (?), n. [F. mamelouk, cf. Sp. mameluco, It. mammalucco; all
fr. Ar. maml&?;k a purchased slave or captive; lit., possessed or in
one's power, p. p. of malaka to possesses.] 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.

Mam"il*la`ted (?), a. See Mammillated.

Mam*ma" (?), n. [Reduplicated from the infantine word ma, influenced in
spelling by L. mamma.] Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity.
[Written also mama.]

    Tell tales papa and mamma.


Swift.

Mam"ma (?), n.; pl. Mammæ (#). [L. mamma breast.] (Anat.) A glandular
organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually
rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; udder; bag.

Mam"mal (?), n.; pl. Mammals (#). [L. mammalis belonging to the breast,
fr. mamma the breast or pap: cf. F. mammal.] (Zoöl.) One of the
Mammalia.

Age of mammals. See under Age, n., 8.

||Mam*ma"li*a (?), n. pl. [NL., from L. mammalis. See Mammal.] (Zoöl.)
||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.

Mammalia are divided into three subclasses; --

I. Placentalia. This subclass embraces all the higher orders, including
man. In these the fetus is attached to the uterus by a placenta.

II. Marsupialia. In these no placenta is formed, and the young, which
are born at an early state of development, are carried for a time
attached to the teats, and usually protected by a marsupial pouch. The
opossum, kangaroo, wombat, and koala are examples.

III. Monotremata. In this group, which includes the genera Echidna and
Ornithorhynchus, the female lays large eggs resembling those of a bird
or lizard, and the young, which are hatched like those of birds, are
nourished by a watery secretion from the imperfectly developed mammæ.

Mam*ma"li*an (?), a. Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.

Mam`ma*lif"er*ous (?), a. [Mammal + -ferous.] (Geol.) Containing
mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata.

Mam`ma*log"ic*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to mammalogy.

Mam*mal"o*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. mammalogiste.] One versed in mammalogy.

Mam*mal"o*gy (?), n. [Mamma breast + -logy: cf. f. mammalogie.] The
science which relates to mammals or the Mammalia. See Mammalia.

Mam"ma*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. mammaire.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the
mammæ or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

Mam*mee" (?), n. [Haytian mamey.] (Bot.) 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.

Mam"mer (?), v. i. [Cf. G. memme coward, poltroon.] To hesitate; to
mutter doubtfully. [Obs.]

Mam"met (?), n. [See Mawmet.] An idol; a puppet; a doll. [Obs.] Selden.
Shak.

Mam"met*ry (?), n. See Mawmetry. [Obs.]

Mam"mi*fer (?), n. [NL. See Mammiferous.] (Zoöl.) A mammal. See
Mammalia.

Mam*mif"er*ous (?), a. [Mamma breast + -ferous: cf. F. mammifère.]
Having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the Mammalia.

Mam"mi*form (?), a. [Mamma breast + -form: cf. F. mammiforme.] Having
the form of a mamma (breast) or mammæ.

||Mam*mil"la (?), n.; pl. Mammilæ (#). [L., dim. of mamma a breast.]
||(Anat.) The nipple.

Mam"mil*la*ry (?), a. [Cf. F. mammilaire. See Mammilla.] 1. Of or
pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a
mammilla; mammilloid.

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

{ Mam"mil*late (?), Mam"mil*la`ted (?), } a. [See Mammilla.] 1. Having
small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammæ.

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

Mam*mil"li*form (?), a. [Mammilla + -form.] Having the form of a
mammilla.

Mam"mil*loid (?), a. [Mammilla + -oid.] Like a mammilla or nipple;
mammilliform.

Mam"mock (?), n. [Ir. & Gael. mam a round hill + -ock.] A shapeless
piece; a fragment. [Obs.]

Mam"mock, v. t. To tear to pieces. [Obs.] Milton.

Mam"mo*dis (?), n. [F. mamoudis, fr. Hind. mahmd a muslin.] Coarse
plain India muslins.

Mam*mol"o*gy (?), n. [Mamma + -logy.] Mastology. See Mammalogy.

Mam"mon (?), n. [L. mammona, Gr. &?; riches, Syr. mam&?;n; cf. Heb.
matm&?;n a hiding place, subterranean storehouse, treasury, fr. tman to
hide.] Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.

    Ye can not serve God and Mammon.


Matt. vi. 24.

Mam"mon*ish, a. Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or
the service of Mammon. Carlyle.

Mam"mon*ism (?), n. Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.
Carlyle.

Mam"mon*ist, n. A mammonite.

Mam"mon*ite (?), n. One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the
service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.

Mam`mon*i*za"tion (?), n. The process of making mammonish; the state of
being under the influence of mammonism.

Mam"mon*ize (?), v. t. To make mammonish.

Mam*mose" (?), a. [L. mammosus having large breasts, mamma breast.]
(Bot.) Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.

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Mam"moth (?), n. [Russ. mâmont, mámant, fr. Tartar mamma the earth.
Certain Tartar races, the Tungooses and Yakoots, believed that the
mammoth worked its way in the earth like a mole.] (Zoöl.) 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.

Several specimens have been found in Siberia preserved entire, with the
flesh and hair remaining. They were imbedded in the ice cliffs at a
remote period, and became exposed by the melting of the ice.

Mam"moth (?), a. Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic;
as, a mammoth ox.

Mam"mo*thrept (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; grandmother + &?; to nourish.] A
child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.]

    O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment.


B. Jonson.

Mam"my (?), n.; pl. Mammies (&?;). A child's name for mamma, mother.

||Mam"zer (?), n. [Heb. mámz&?;r.] A person born of relations between
||whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut.
||xxiii. 2 (Douay version).

Man (mn), n.; pl. Men (mn). [AS. mann, man, monn, mon; akin to OS., D.,
& OHG. man, G. mann, Icel. maðr, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth.
manna, Skr. manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind.
&radic;104. Cf. Minx a pert girl.] 1. A human being; -- opposed to
beast.

    These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair
    country, and wild beast many [a] one.


R. of Glouc.

    The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth
    to me.


Shak.

2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown- up male person, as
distinguished from a woman or a child.

    When I became a man, I put away childish things.


I Cor. xiii. 11.

    Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man.


Dryden.

3. The human race; mankind.

    And God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness, and
    let them have dominion.


Gen. i. 26.

    The proper study of mankind is man.


Pope.

4. The male portion of the human race.

    Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the
    discharge of parental duties.


Cowper.

5. One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of
manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. Shak.

    This was the noblest Roman of them all . . . the elements So mixed
    in him that Nature might stand up And say to all the world "This
    was a man!"


Shak.

6. An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.

    Like master, like man.


Old Proverb.

    The vassal, or tenant, kneeling, ungirt, uncovered, and holding up
    his hands between those of his lord, professed that he did become
    his man from that day forth, of life, limb, and earthly honor.


Blackstone.

7. 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!

8. A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.

    I pronounce that they are man and wife.


Book of Com. Prayer.

    every wife ought to answer for her man.


Addison.

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

    A man can not make him laugh.


Shak.

    A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to
    show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship.


Addison.

10. One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts,
are played.

Man is often used as a prefix in composition, or as a separate
adjective, its sense being usually self-explaining; as, man child, man
eater or maneater, man- eating, man hater or manhater, man-hating,
manhunter, man-hunting, mankiller, man- killing, man midwife, man
pleaser, man servant, man-shaped, manslayer, manstealer, man-stealing,
manthief, man worship, etc.

Man is also used as a suffix to denote a person of the male sex having
a business which pertains to the thing spoken of in the qualifying part
of the compound; ashman, butterman, laundryman, lumberman, milkman,
fireman, showman, waterman, woodman. Where the combination is not
familiar, or where some specific meaning of the compound is to be
avoided, man is used as a separate substantive in the foregoing sense;
as, apple man, cloth man, coal man, hardware man, wood man (as
distinguished from woodman).

Man ape (Zoöl.), a anthropoid ape, as the gorilla. -- Man at arms, a
designation of the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries for a soldier
fully armed. -- Man engine, a mechanical lift for raising or lowering
people through considerable distances; specifically (Mining), a
contrivance by which miners ascend or descend in a shaft. It consists
of a series of landings in the shaft and an equal number of shelves on
a vertical rod which has an up and down motion equal to the distance
between the successive landings. A man steps from a landing to a shelf
and is lifted or lowered to the next landing, upon which he them steps,
and so on, traveling by successive stages. -- Man Friday, a person
wholly subservient to the will of another, like Robinson Crusoe's
servant Friday. -- Man of straw, a puppet; one who is controlled by
others; also, one who is not responsible pecuniarily. -- Man-of-the
earth (Bot.), a twining plant (Ipomœa pandurata) with leaves and
flowers much like those of the morning-glory, but having an immense
tuberous farinaceous root. -- Man of war. (a) A warrior; a soldier.
Shak. (b) (Naut.) See in the Vocabulary. -- To be one's own man, to
have command of one's self; not to be subject to another.

Man (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manned (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Manning.] 1.
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.

    See how the surly Warwick mans the wall !


Shak.

    They man their boats, and all their young men arm.


Waller.

2. To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to
fortify. "Theodosius having manned his soul with proper reflections."
Addison.

3. To tame, as a hawk. [R.] Shak.

4. To furnish with a servant or servants. [Obs.] Shak.

5. To wait on as a manservant. [Obs.] Shak.

In "Othello," V. ii. 270, the meaning is uncertain, being, perhaps: To
point, to aim, or to manage.

To man a yard (Naut.), to send men upon a yard, as for furling or
reefing a sail. -- To man the yards (Naut.), to station men on the
yards as a salute or mark of respect.

Man"a*ble (?), a. Marriageable. [Obs.]

Man"ace (?), n. & v. Same as Menace. [Obs.]

Man"a*cle (?), n. [OE. manicle, OF. manicle, F. manicle sort glove,
manacle, L. manicula a little hand, dim. of manus hand; cf. L. manica
sleeve, manacle, fr. manus. See Manual.] A handcuff; a shackle for the
hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural.

    Doctrine unto fools is as fetters on the feet, and like manacles on
    the right hand.


Ecclus. xxi. 19.

Man"a*cle, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manacled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Manacling
(?).] 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.

    Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle and shackle him hand
    and foot ?


Arbuthnot.

Man"age (?), n. [F. manège, It. maneggio, fr. maneggiare to manage, fr.
L. manushand. Perhaps somewhat influenced by F. ménage housekeeping,
OF. mesnage, akin to E. mansion. See Manual, and cf. Manege.] The
handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management;
administration. See Manege. [Obs.]

    Young men, in the conduct and manage of actions, embrace more than
    they can hold.


Bacon.

    Down, down I come; like glistering Phaëthon Wanting the manage of
    unruly jades.


Shak.

    The unlucky manage of this fatal brawl.


Shak.

This word, in its limited sense of management of a horse, has been
displaced by manege; in its more general meaning, by management.

Man"age (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Managed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Managing
(?).] [From Manage, n.] 1. To have under control and direction; to
conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle.

    Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed.


Sir I. Newton.

    What wars Imanage, and what wreaths I gain.


Prior.

2. 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.

    It was so much his interest to manage his Protestant subjects.


Addison.

    It was not her humor to manage those over whom she had gained an
    ascendant.


Bp. Hurd.

3. To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or
artful action.

4. To treat with care; to husband. Dryden.

5. To bring about; to contrive. Shak.

Syn. -- To direct; govern; control; wield; order; contrive; concert;
conduct; transact.

Man"age, v. i. To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to
administer.

    Leave them to manage for thee.


Dryden.

Man`age*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. The state or quality of being manageable;
manageableness.

Man"age*a*ble (?), a. Such as can be managed or used; suffering
control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse.

Syn. -- Governable; tractable; controllable; docile.

-- Man"age*a*ble*ness, n. -- Man"age*a*bly, adv.

Man"age*less, a. Unmanageable. [R.]

Man"age*ment (?), n. [From Manage, v.] 1. 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. "The
management of the voice." E. Porter.

2. Business dealing; negotiation; arrangement.

    He had great managements with ecclesiastics.


Addison.

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

    Mark with what management their tribes divide Some stick to you,
    and some to t'other side.


Dryden.

4. The collective body of those who manage or direct any enterprise or
interest; the board of managers.

Syn. -- Conduct; administration; government; direction; guidance; care;
charge; contrivance; intrigue.

Man"a*ger (?), n. 1. One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the
manager of a theater.

    A skillful manager of the rabble.


South.

2. A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and
frugality; a good economist.

    A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his
    treasure.


Sir W. Temple.

3. A contriver; an intriguer. Shak.

Man`a*ge"ri*al (?), a. Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as,
managerial qualities. "Managerial responsibility." C. Bronté.

Man"a*ger*ship (?), n. The office or position of a manager.

Man"age*ry (?), n. [Cf. OF. menagerie, mesnagerie. See Manage, n., and
cf. Menagerie.] 1. Management; manner of using; conduct; direction.

2. Husbandry; economy; frugality. Bp. Burnet.

Man"a*kin (?), n. [Cf. F. & G. manakin; prob. the native name.] (Zoöl.)
Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other
genera of the family Pipridæ. 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.

Man"a*kin, n. A dwarf. See Manikin. Shak.

Man`a*tee" (?), n. [Sp. manatí, from the native name in Hayti. Cf.
Lamantin.] (Zoöl.) Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; --
called also sea cow. [Written also manaty, manati.]

One species (Trichechus Senegalensis) inhabits the west coast of
Africa; another (T. Americanus) inhabits the east coast of South
America, and the West-Indies. The Florida manatee (T. latirostris) is
by some considered a distinct species, by others it is thought to be a
variety of T. Americanus. It sometimes becomes fifteen feet or more in
length, and lives both in fresh and salt water. It is hunted for its
oil and flesh.

Ma*na"tion (?), n.[L. manatio, fr. manare to flow.] The act of issuing
or flowing out. [Obs.]

Man"bote` (?), n. [AS. man man, vassal + bt recompense.] (Anglo-Saxon
Law) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his
man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). Spelman.

Man"ca (?), n. [LL.] See Mancus.

Manche (?), n. [Also maunch.] [F. manche, fr. L. manica. See Manacle.]
A sleeve. [Obs.]

Man"chet (?), n. Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. [Archaic]
Bacon. Tennyson.

Man`chi*neel" (?), n. [Sp. manzanillo, fr. manzana an apple, fr. L.
malum Matianum a kind of apple. So called from its apple-like fruit.]
(Bot.) A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical
America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous
acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple.

Bastard manchineel, a tree (Cameraria latifolia) of the East Indies,
having similar poisonous properties. Lindley.

Man*chu" (?), a. [Written also Manchoo, Mantchoo, etc.] Of or
pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants. -- n. A native or
inhabitant of Manchuria; also, the language spoken by the Manchus.

Man"ci*pate (?), v. t. [L. mancipatus, p. p. of mancipare to sell. Cf.
Emancipate.] To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Obs.] Sir M. Hale.

Man`ci*pa"tion (?), n. [L. mancipatio a transfer.] Slavery; involuntary
servitude. [Obs.] Johnson.

Man"ci*ple (?), n. [From OF. mancipe slave, servant (with l inserted,
as in participle), fr. L. mancipium. See Mancipate.] A steward; a
purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court. Chaucer.

Man*co"na bark` (?). See Sassy bark.

Man"cus (?), n. [AS.] 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.

-man`cy (?). [Gr. &?; divination: cf. F. -mancie.] A combining form
denoting divination; as, aleuromancy, chiromancy, necromancy, etc.

Mand (?), n. A demand. [Obs.] See Demand.

||Man*da"mus (?), n. [L., we command, fr. mandare to command.] (Law) 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.

Man`da*rin" (?), n. [Pg. mandarim, from Malay mantr minister of state,
prop. a Hind. word, fr. Skr. mantrin a counselor, manira a counsel, man
to think.] 1. A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military
official in China and Annam.

2. (Bot.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to
be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus
nobilis).

Mandarin duck (Zoöl.), a beautiful Asiatic duck (Dendronessa
galericulata), often domesticated, and regarded by the Chinese as an
emblem of conjugal affection. -- Mandarin language, the spoken or
colloquial language of educated people in China. -- Mandarin yellow
(Chem.), an artificial aniline dyestuff used for coloring silk and
wool, and regarded as a complex derivative of quinoline.

Man`da*rin"ate (?), n. The collective body of officials or persons of
rank in China. S. W. Williams.

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Man`da*rin"ic (?), a. Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin.

Man`da*rin"ing, n. (Dyeing) 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. Tomlinson.

Man`da*rin"ism (?), n. A government mandarins; character or spirit of
the mandarins. F. Lieder.

Man"da*ta*ry (?), n. [L. mandatarius, fr. mandatum a charge,
commission, order: cf. F. mandataire. See Mandate.] 1. 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. Ayliffe.

2. (Law) One who undertakes to discharge a specific business
commission; a mandatory. Wharton.

Man"date (?), n. [L. mandatum, fr. mandare to commit to one's charge,
order, orig., to put into one's hand; manus hand + dare to give: cf. F.
mandat. See Manual, Date a time, and cf. Commend, Maundy Thursday.] 1.
An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a
commission; a judicial precept.

    This dream all-powerful Juno; I bear Her mighty mandates, and her
    words you hear.


Dryden.

2. (Canon Law) 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.

3. (Scots Law) A contract by which one employs another to manage any
business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous.
Erskine.

||Man*da"tor (?), n. [L.] 1. A director; one who gives a mandate or
||order. Ayliffe.

2. (Rom. Law) The person who employs another to perform a mandate.
Bouvier.

Man"da*to*ry (?), a. [L. mandatorius.] Containing a command;
preceptive; directory.

Man"da*to*ry, n. Same as Mandatary.

Man"del*ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of mandelic acid.

Man*del"ic (?), a. [G. mandel almond.] (Chem.) Pertaining to an acid
first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a
white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid.

Man"der (?), v. t. & i. See Maunder.

Man"der*il (?), n. A mandrel.

Man"di*ble (?), n. [L. mandibula, mandibulum, fr. mandere to chew. Cf.
Manger.] 1. (Anat.) 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.

2. (Zoöl.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus,
and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of
Diptera.

Man*dib"u*lar (?), a. [Cf. F. mandibulaire.] Of or pertaining to a
mandible; like a mandible. -- n. The principal mandibular bone; the
mandible.

Mandibular arch (Anat.), the most anterior visceral arch, -- that in
which the mandible is developed.

{ Man*dib"u*late (?), Man*dib"u*la`ted (?), } a. (Zoöl.) Provided with
mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects.

Man*dib"u*late (?), n. (Zoöl.) An insect having mandibles.

Man`di*bu"li*form (?), a. (Zoöl.) Having the form of a mandible; --
said especially of the maxillæ of an insect when hard and adapted for
biting.

Man*dib`u*lo*hy"oid (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining both to the mandibular
and the hyoid arch, or situated between them.

Man"dil (mn"dl), n. [OF. mandil; cf. Sp. & Pg. mandil a coarse apron, a
haircloth; all from Ar. mandil tablecloth, handkerchief, mantle, fr.
LGr. mandh`lion, fr. L. mantile, mantele. See Mantle.] A loose outer
garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries.

Man*dil"ion (?), n. See Mandil. Chapman.

Man*din"gos (?), n. pl. sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and
powerful tribe of West African negroes.

{ Man"di*oc (?), ||Man`di*o"ca (?), } n. (Bot.) See Manioc.

Man"dle*stone` (?), n. [G. mandelstein almond stone.] (Min.)
Amygdaloid.

Mand"ment (?), n. Commandment. [Obs.]

{ Man"do*lin, Man"do*line } (?), n. [F. mandoline, It. mandolino, dim.
of mandola, fr. L. pandura. See Bandore.] (Mus.) A small and
beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.

Man"dore (?), n. [See Mandolin, and Bandore.] (Mus.) A kind of
four-stringed lute.

Man*drag"o*ra (?), n. [L., mandragoras the mandrake.] (Bot.) A genus of
plants; the mandrake. See Mandrake, 1.

Man*drag"o*rite (?), n. One who habitually intoxicates himself with a
narcotic obtained from mandrake.

Man"drake (mn"drk), n. [AS. mandragora, L. mandragoras, fr. Gr.
mandrago`ras: cf. F. mandragore.] 1. (Bot.) 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.

    And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living
    mortals, hearing them, run mad.


Shak.

The mandrake of Scripture was perhaps the same plant, but proof is
wanting.

2. (Bot.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under
May, and Podophyllum. [U.S.]

Man"drel (?), n. [F. mandrin, prob. through (assumed) LL. mamphurinum,
fr. L. mamphur a bow drill.] (Mach.) (a) 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. (b) The live spindle of a turning lathe; the
revolving arbor of a circular saw. It is usually driven by a pulley.
[Written also manderil.]

Mandrel lathe, a lathe with a stout spindle, adapted esp. for chucking,
as for forming hollow articles by turning or spinning.

Man"drill (-drl), n. [Cf. F. mandrille, Sp. mandril, It. mandrillo;
prob. the native name in Africa. Cf. Drill an ape.] (Zoöl.) A large
West African baboon (Cynocephalus, or Papio, mormon). The adult male
has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings,
conspicuously striped with blue and red.

Man"du*ca*ble (?), a. [Cf. F. manducable. See Manducate.] Such as can
be chewed; fit to be eaten. [R.]

    Any manducable creature.


Sir T. Herbert.

Man"du*cate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Manducated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Manducating (?).] [L. manducatus, p. p. of manducare to chew. See
Manger.] To masticate; to chew; to eat. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Man`du*ca"tion (?), n. [L. manducatio: cf. F. manducation.] The act of
chewing. [R.] Jer. Taylor.

Man"du*ca*to*ry (?), a. Pertaining to, or employed in, chewing.

||Man*du"cus (?), n. [L., fr. manducare to chew.] (Gr. & Rom. Antiq.) A
||grotesque mask, representing a person chewing or grimacing, worn in
||processions and by comic actors on the stage.

Mane (mn), n. [AS. manu; akin to OD. mane, D. maan, G. mähne, OHG.
mana, Icel. mön, Dan. & Sw. man, AS. mene necklace, Icel. men, L.
monile, Gr. &?;, &?;, Skr. many neck muscles. &radic;275.] 1. 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.

2. The hair growing on a person's head, especially hair that is long
and thick; -- usually used humorously. [jocose] [PJC]

Man"-eat`er (?), n. (Zoöl.) 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.

Maned seal (Zoöl.), the sea lion. -- Maned sheep (Zoöl.), the aoudad.

Ma*nege" (?; 277), n. [F. manège. See Manage, n.] 1. Art of
horsemanship, or of training horses.

2. A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses.
Chesterfield.

||Ma"neh (?), n. [Heb. mneh.] A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being
||one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver. Ezek. xlv.
||12.

Mane"less (?), a. Having no mane.

Maneless lion (Zoöl.), a variety of the lion having a short,
inconspicuous mane. It inhabits Arabia and adjacent countries.

Man"e*quin (?), n. [See Manikin.] An artist's model of wood or other
material.

Ma*ne"ri*al (?), a. See Manorial.

||Ma"nes (?), n. pl. [L.] (Rom. Antiq.) The benevolent spirits of the
||dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and
||protectors.

    Hail, O ye holy manes!


Dryden.

Mane"sheet` (?), n. A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's
head.

{ Ma*neu"ver, Ma*nœu"vre } (?), n. [F. manœuvre, OF. manuevre, LL.
manopera, lit., hand work, manual labor; L. manus hand + opera, fr.
opus work. See Manual, Operate, and cf. Mainor, Manure.]

1. Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval
evolution, movement, or change of position.

2. Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding;
stratagem.

{ Ma*neu"ver, Ma*nœu"vre, } v. i. [imp. & p. p. Maneuvered (#) or
Manœuvred; p. pr. & vb. n. Maneuvering (&?;), or Manœuvring (&?;).]
[Cf. F. manœuvrer. See Maneuver, n.] 1. 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.

2. To manage with address or art; to scheme.

{ Ma*neu"ver, Ma*nœu"vre, } v. t. To change the positions of, as of
troops of ships.

{ Ma*neu"ver*er (?), Ma*nœu"vrer (?), } n. One who maneuvers.

    This charming widow Beaumont is a nanœuvrer. We can't well make an
    English word of it.


Miss Edgeworth.

Man"ful (?), a. Showing manliness, or manly spirit; hence, brave,
courageous, resolute, noble. " Manful hardiness." Chaucer. --
Man"ful*ly, adv. -- Man"ful*ness, n.

Man"ga*bey (?), n. [So called by Buffon from Mangaby, in Madagascar,
where he erroneously supposed them be native.] (Zoöl.) Any one of
several African monkeys of the genus Cercocebus, as the sooty mangabey
(C. fuliginosus), which is sooty black. [Also written mangaby.]

Man"gan (?), n. See Mangonel.

Man"ga*nate (?), n. [Cf. F. manganate.] (Chem.) A salt of manganic
acid.

The manganates are usually green, and are well-known compounds, though
derived from a hypothetical acid.

Man`ga*ne"sate (?), n. (Chem.) A manganate. [Obs.]

Man`ga*nese" (?), n. [F. manganèse, It. manganese, sasso magnesio;
prob. corrupted from L. magnes, because of its resemblance to the
magnet. See Magnet, and cf. Magnesia.] (Chem.) 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.

An alloy of manganese with iron (called ferromanganese) is used to
increase the density and hardness of steel.

Black oxide of manganese, Manganese dioxide or peroxide, or Black
manganese (Chem.), a heavy black powder MnO2, occurring native as the
mineral pyrolusite, and valuable as a strong oxidizer; -- called also
familiarly manganese. It colors glass violet, and is used as a
decolorizer to remove the green tint of impure glass. -- Manganese
bronze, an alloy made by adding from one to two per cent of manganese
to the copper and zinc used in brass.

Man`ga*ne"sian (?), a. [Cf. F. manganésien.] (Chem.) Manganic. [R.]

Man`ga*ne"sic (?), a. [Cf. F. manganésique.] (Chem.) Manganic. [Obs.]

Man`ga*ne"sious (?), a. (Chem.) Manganous.

Man`ga*ne"si*um (?), n. [NL.] Manganese.

Man`ga*ne"sous (?), a. (Chem.) Manganous.

Man`gan"ic (?), a. [Cf. F. manganique.] (Chem.) Of, pertaining to
resembling, or containing, manganese; specif., designating compounds in
which manganese has a higher valence as contrasted with manganous
compounds. Cf. Manganous.

Manganic acid, an acid, H2MnO4, formed from manganese, analogous to
sulphuric acid.

Man`ga*nif"er*ous (?), a. [Manganese + -ferous.] Containing manganese.

Man"ga*nite (?), n. 1. (Min.) One of the oxides of manganese; -- called
also gray manganese ore. It occurs in brilliant steel-gray or iron-
black crystals, also massive.

2. (Chem.) A compound of manganese dioxide with a metallic oxide; so
called as though derived from the hypothetical manganous acid.

Man*ga"ni*um (?), n. [NL.] Manganese.

Man"ga*nous (?), a. (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, designating, those
compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as
contrasted with manganic compounds; as, manganous oxide.

Manganous acid, a hypothetical compound analogous to sulphurous acid,
and forming the so-called manganites.

Mang"corn` (?), n. [OE. mengen to mix. See Mingle, and Corn.] A mixture
of wheat and rye, or other species of grain. [Prov Eng.]

Mange (?), n. [See Mangy.] (Vet.) The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and
other beasts.

Mange insect (Zoöl.), any one of several species of small parasitic
mites, which burrow in the skin of cattle. horses, dogs, and other
animals, causing the mange. The mange insect of the horse (Psoroptes,
or Dermatodectes, equi), and that of cattle (Symbiotes, or
Dermatophagys, bovis) are the most important species. See Acarina.

Man"gel-wur`zel (?), n. [G., corrupted fr. mangoldwurzel; mangold beet
+ wurzel root.] (Bot.) 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. [Written also mangold- wurzel.]

Man"ger (?), n. [F. mangeoire, fr. manger to eat, fr. L. manducare, fr.
mandere to chew. Cf. Mandible, Manducate.] 1. A trough or open box in
which fodder is placed for horses or cattle to eat.

2. (Naut.) 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.

Man"gi*ly (?), adv. In a mangy manner; scabbily.

Man"gi*ness, n. [From Mangy.] The condition or quality of being mangy.

Man"gle (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Mangled (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Mangling
(?).] [A frequentative fr. OE. manken to main, AS. mancian, in
bemancian to mutilate, fr. L. mancus maimed; perh. akin to G. mangeln
to be wanting.] 1. 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.

    Mangled with ghastly wounds through plate and mail.


Milton.

2. To mutilate or injure, in making, doing, or performing; as, to
mangle a piece of music or a recitation.

    To mangle a play or a novel.


Swift.

Man"gle, n. [D. mangel, fr. OE. mangonel a machine for throwing stones,
LL. manganum, Gr. &?; a machine for defending fortifications, axis of a
pulley. Cf. Mangonel.] A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth,
as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure.

Mangle rack (Mach.), a contrivance for converting continuous circular
motion into reciprocating rectilinear motion, by means of a rack and
pinion, as in the mangle. The pinion is held to the rack by a groove in
such a manner that it passes alternately from one side of the rack to
the other, and thus gives motion to it in opposite directions,
according to the side in which its teeth are engaged. -- Mangle wheel,
a wheel in which the teeth, or pins, on its face, are interrupted on
one side, and the pinion, working in them, passes from inside to
outside of the teeth alternately, thus converting the continuous
circular motion of the pinion into a reciprocating circular motion of
the wheel.

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Man"gle (?), v. t. [Cf. D. mangelen. See Mangle, n.] To smooth with a
mangle, as damp linen or cloth.

Man"gler (?), n. [See 1st Mangle.] One who mangles or tears in cutting;
one who mutilates any work in doing it.

Man"gler, n. [See 3d Mangle.] One who smooths with a mangle.

Man"go (?), n.; pl. Mangoes (#). [Pg. manga, fr. Tamil mnky.] 1. 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.

2. A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.

Mango bird (Zoöl.), an oriole (Oriolus kundoo), native of India. --
Mango fish (Zoöl.), a fish of the Ganges (Polynemus risua), highly
esteemed for food. It has several long, slender filaments below the
pectoral fins. It appears about the same time with the mango fruit, in
April and May, whence the name. -- Mango tree (Bot.), an East Indian
tree of the genus Mangifera (M. Indica), related to the cashew and the
sumac. It grows to a large size, and produces the mango of commerce. It
is now cultivated in tropical America.

Man"gold*wur`zel (?), n. [G.] (Bot.) See Mangel-wurzel.

Man"go*nel (?), n. [OF. mangonel, LL. manganellus, manganum, fr. Gr.
&?; See Mangle, n.] A military engine formerly used for throwing stones
and javelins.

Man"go*nism (?), n. The art of mangonizing, or setting off to
advantage. [Obs.]

Man"go*nist (?), n. 1. One who mangonizes. [Obs.]

2. A slave dealer; also, a strumpet. [Obs.]

Man"go*nize (?), v. t. [L. mangonizare, fr. mango a dealer in slaves or
wares, to which he tries to give an appearance of greater value by
decking them out or furbishing them up.] To furbish up for sale; to set
off to advantage. [Obs. or R.] B. Jonson.

{ Man"go*steen (?), Man"go*stan (?), } n. [Malay mangusta, mangis.]
(Bot.) 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.

Man"grove (?), n. [Malay manggi- manggi.] 1. (Bot.) 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 aërial 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.

The fruit has a ruddy brown shell, and a delicate white pulp which is
sweet and eatable. The bark is astringent, and is used for tanning
leather. The black and the white mangrove (Avicennia nitida and A.
tomentosa) have much the same habit.

2. (Zoöl.) The mango fish.

||Mangue (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) The kusimanse.

Man"gy (?), a. [Compar. Mangier (?); superl. Mangiest.] [F. mangé, p.
p. of manger to eat. See Manger.] Infected with the mange; scabby.

Man*ha"den (?), n. See Menhaden.

Man"head (?), n. Manhood. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Man"hole` (?), n. A hole through which a man may descend or creep into
a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc., for cleaning or
repairing.

Man"hood, n. [Man- + - hood.] 1. The state of being man as a human
being, or man as distinguished from a child or a woman.

2. Manly quality; courage; bravery; resolution.

    I am ashamed That thou hast power to shake my manhood thus.


Shak.

Ma"ni*a (?), n. [L. mania, Gr. &?;, fr. &?; to rage; cf. OE. manie, F.
manie. Cf. Mind, n., Necromancy.] 1. Violent derangement of mind;
madness; insanity. Cf. Delirium.

2. Excessive or unreasonable desire; insane passion affecting one or
many people; as, the tulip mania.

Mania a potu [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens.

Syn. -- Insanity; derangement; madness; lunacy; alienation; aberration;
delirium; frenzy. See Insanity.

Man"i*a*ble (?), a. [F., fr. manier to manage, fr. L. manus hand.]
Manageable. [Obs.] Bacon.

Ma"ni*ac (?), a. [F. maniaque. See Mania.] Raving with madness; raging
with disordered intellect; affected with mania; mad.

Ma"ni*ac (?), n. A raving lunatic; a madman.

Ma*ni"a*cal (?), a. Affected with, or characterized by, madness;
maniac. -- Ma*ni"a*cal*ly, adv.

Man"i*cate (?), a. [L. manicatus sleeved, fr. manica a sleeve.] (Bot.)
Covered with hairs or pubescence so platted together and interwoven as
to form a mass easily removed.

{ Man`i*chæ"an (?), Man`i*che"an, Man"i*chee (?) }, n. [LL. Manichaeus:
cf. F. manichéen.] A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of
the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is
regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil.

    The Manichæans stand as representatives of dualism pushed to its
    utmost development.


Tylor.

{ Man`i*chæ"an, Man`i*che"an (?) }, a. Of or pertaining to the
Manichæans.

{ Man"i*chæ*ism, Man"i*che*ism (?) }, n. [Cf. F. manichéisme.] The
doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the
Manichæans.

Man"i*che*ist, n. [Cf. F. manichéiste.] Manichæan.

{ Man"i*chord (?), Man`i*chor"don (?), } [L. monochordon, Gr. &?;; --
so called because it orig. had only one string. See Monochord.] (Mus.)
The clavichord or clarichord; -- called also dumb spinet.

Man"i*cure (?), n. [F., fr. L. manus hand + curare to cure.] A person
who makes a business of taking care of people's hands, especially their
nails.

    [Men] who had taken good care of their hands by wearing gloves and
    availing themselves of the services of a manicure.


Pop. Sci. Monthly.

Ma"nid (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any species of the genus Manis, or family
Manidæ.

Ma`nie" (?), n. [F. See Mania.] Mania; insanity. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Man"i*fest (?), a. [F. manifeste, L. manifestus, lit., struck by the
hand, hence, palpable; manus hand + fendere (in comp.) to strike. See
Manual, and Defend.] 1. Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight;
apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding;
apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or
hidden.

    Neither is there any creature that is not manifest in his sight.


Heb. iv. 13.

    That which may be known of God is manifest in them.


Rom. i. 19.

    Thus manifest to sight the god appeare

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