MAB, noun In northern mythology, the queen of the imaginary beings called fairies.

1. A slattern.

MAB, verb intransitive To dress negligently.

MAC, in names of Scotch and Irish origin, signifies son. [See Maid.]

MACA'O, noun The name of a race of beautiful fowls of the parrot kind, under the genus Psittacus.

MACAW'-TREE, noun A species of palm tree.

MACARO'NI, noun [Gr. happy.]

1. A kind of biscuit made of flour, eggs, sugar and almonds, and dressed with butter and spices.

2. A sort of droll or fool, and hence, a fop; a fribble; a finical fellow.

MACARON'IC, adjective Pertaining to or like a macaroni; empty; trifling; vain; affected.

1. Consisting of a mixture or jumble of ill formed or ill connected words.

MACARON'IC, noun A kind of burlesque poetry, in which native words are made to end in Latin terminations, or Latin words are modernized.

MACAROON, the same as macaroni.

MACAU'CO, noun A name of several species of quadrupeds of the genus Lemur.

MACAW'

MAC'CABEES, noun The name of two apocryphal books in the Bible.

MAC'CABEES, n. The name of two apocryphal books in the Bible.

MAC'COBOY, noun A kind of snuff.

MACE, noun An ensign of authority borne before magistrates. Originally, the mace was a club or instrument of war, made of iron and much used by cavalry. It was in the shape of a coffee mill. Being no longer a weapon of war, its form is changed; it is made of silver or copper gilt, and ornamented with a crown, globe and cross.

A leaden mace

A heavy iron mace

MACE, noun [Latin macis.] A spice; the second coat which covers the nutmeg, a thin and membranaceous substance of an oleaginous nature and yellowish color, being in flakes divided into many ramifications; it is extremely fragrant and aromatic.

MAC'ERATE, verb transitive [Latin macero, from macer, thin, lean; maceo, to be thin or lean; Eng. meager, meek.]

1. To make lean; to wear away.

2. To mortify; to harass with corporeal hardships; to cause to pine or waste away.

Out of excessive zeal they macerate their bodies and impair their health.

3. To steep almost to solution; to soften and separate the parts of a substance by steeping it in a fluid, or by the digestive process. So we say, food is macerated in the stomach.

MAC'ERATED, participle passive Made thin or lean; steeped almost to solution.

MAC'ERATING, participle present tense Making lean; steeping almost to solution; softening.

MACERA'TION, noun The act or the process of making thin or lean by wearing away, or by mortification.

1. The act, process or operation of softening and almost dissolving by steeping in a fluid.

The saliva serves for the maceration and dissolution of the meat into chyle.

MACHIAVE'LIAN, adjective [from Machiavel, an Italian writer, secretary and historiographer to the republic of Florence.]

Pertaining to Machiavel, or denoting his principles; politically cunning; crafty; cunning in political management.

MACHIAVE'LIAN, noun One who adopts the principles of Machiavel.

MACH'IAVELISM, noun The principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political cunning and artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

MACHICOLA'TION, noun In old castles, the pouring of hot substances through apertures in the upper part of the gate assailants; or the apertures themselves.

MACH'INAL, adjective [See Machine.] Pertaining to machines.

MACH'INATE, verb transitive [Latin machinor.]

To plan; to contrive; to form a scheme.

MACH'INATED, participle passive Planned; contrived.

MACH'INATING, participle present tense Contriving; scheming.

MACHINA'TION, noun The act of planning or contriving a scheme for executing some purpose, particularly an evil purpose; an artful design formed with deliberation.

MACH'INATOR, noun One that forms a scheme, or who plots with evil designs.

MACHINE, noun [Latin machina.] An artificial work, simple or complicated, that serves to apply or regulate moving power, or to produce motion, so as to save time or force. The simple machines are the six mechanical powers, viz.; the lever, the pulley, the axis and wheel, the wedge, the screw, and the inclined plane. Complicated machines are such as combine two or more of these powers for the production of motion or force.

1. An engine; an instrument of force.

With inward arms the dire machine they load.

2. Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced into a poem to perform some exploit.

MACHINERY, noun A complicated work, or combination of mechanical powers in a work, designed to increase, regulate or apply motion and force; as the machinery of a watch or other chronometer.

1. Machines in general. The machinery of a cotton-mill is often moved by a single wheel.

2. In epic and dramatic poetry, superhuman beings introduced by the poet to solve difficulty, or perform some exploit which exceeds human power; or the word may signify the agency of such beings, as supposed deities, angels, demons and the like.

Nee Deus intersit, nisi dignus vindice nodus Incidit.

A deity is not to be introduced, unless a difficulty occurs that requires the intervention of a god.

The machinery of Milton's Paradise Lost, consists of numerous superhuman personages. Pope's Rape of the Lock is rendered very interesting by the machinery of sylphs.

MACHINING, adjective Denoting the machinery of a poem. [Not used.]

MACH'INIST, noun A constructor of machines and engines, or one well versed in the principles of machines.

MACIG'NO, noun A species of stone of two varieties, one of a grayish yellow color, the other of a bluish gray color.

MAC'ILENCY, noun [See Macilent.] Leanness.

MAC'ILENT, adjective [Latin macilentus, from macer, lean, thin. See Macerate.] Lean; thin; having little flesh.

MACK'EREL, noun [Latin macula, a spot; the spotted fish.]

A species of fish of the genus Scomber, an excellent table fish.

MACK'EREL, noun A pander or pimp.

Mackerel-gale, in Dryden, may mean a gate that ripples the surface of the sea, or one which is suitable for catching mackerel as this fish is caught with the bait in motion.

MAC'LE, noun A name given to chiastolite or hollow spar.

MACLU'RITE, noun A mineral of a brilliant pale green color, so called in honor of Maclure, the mineralogist.

MAC'ROCOSM, noun [Gr. great, and world.] The great world; the universe, or the visible system of worlds; opposed to microcosm, or the world of man.

MACROL'OGY, noun [Gr. great, and discourse.] Long and tedious talk; prolonged discourse without matter; superfluity of words.

MACTA'TION, noun [Latin macto, to kill.]

The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.

MAC'ULA, noun [Latin] A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or other luminous orb.

MAC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin maculo.] To spot; to stain.

MAC'ULATE

MAC'ULATED, adjective Spotted.

MACULA'TION, noun The act of spotting a spot; a stain.

MAC'ULE, noun A spot. [supra.] [Little used.]

MAD, adjective

1. Disordered in intellect; distracted; furious.

We must bind our passions in chains, lest like mad folks, they break their locks and bolts.

2. Proceeding from disordered intellect or expressing it; as a mad demeanor.

3. Enraged; furious; as a mad bull.

And being exceedingly mad against them, I persecuted them, even to strange cities. Acts 26:11.

4. Inflamed to excess with desire; excited with violent and unreasonable passion or appetite; infatuated; followed properly by after.

The world is running made after farce, the extremity of bad poetry.

'Mad upon their idols, ' would be better rendered, 'Mad after their idols.' Jeremiah 1:1.

5. Distracted with anxiety or trouble; extremely perplexed.

Thou shalt be mad for the sight of thine eyes--

Deuteronomy 28:34.

6. Infatuated with folly.

The spiritual man is mad Hosea 9.

7. Inflamed with anger; very angry. [This is a common and perhaps the most general sense of the word in America. It is thus used by Arbuthnot, and is perfectly proper.]

8. Proceeding from folly or infatuation.

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

MAD, verb transitive To make mad furious or angry.

MAD, verb intransitive To be mad furious or wild.

MAD'AM, noun An appellation or complimentary title given to married and elderly ladies, or chiefly to them.

MAD'APPLE, noun A plant of the genus Solanum.

MAD'BRAIN

MAD'BRAINED, adjective Disordered in mind; hot-headed; rash.

MAD'BRAINED, a. Disordered in mind; hot-headed; rash.

MAD'DEN, verb transitive mad'n. To make mad.

MAD'DEN, verb intransitive To become mad; to act as if mad.

They rave, recite and madden round the land.

MAD'DENED, participle passive Rendered mad.

MAD'DENING, participle present tense Making mad or angry.

MAD'DER, noun A plant of the genus Rubia, one species of which is much used in dyeing red. The root is used in medicine as an aperient and detergent, and is in great reputation as an emmenagogue. It is cultivated in France and Holland.

MAD'DING, participle present tense of mad. Raging; furious.

MADE, preterit tense and participle passive of make.

MADE, noun An earthworm. [But this is the Eng.moth.]

MADEFAC'TION, noun [Latin madefacio.] The act of making wet.

MAD'EFIED, participle passive Made wet.

MAD'EFY, verb transitive [Latin madefio.] To make wet or moist; to moisten. [Not much used.]

MAD'EFYING, participle present tense Making moist or wet.

MADEIRA, noun A rich wine made on the isle of madeira

MADEMOISELLE, noun A young woman, or the title given to one; miss; also, the puppet sent from the French metropolis to exhibit the prevailing fashions.

MAD'HEADED, noun Hot brained; rash.

MAD'HOUSE, noun A house where insane persons are confined for cure or for restraint.

MAD'ID, adjective [Latin madidus.] Wet; moist. [Not in use.]

MAD'LY, adverb [from mad.] Without reason or understanding; rashly; wildly.

1. With extreme folly or infatuated zeal or passion.

MAD'MAN, noun A man raving or furious with disordered intellect; a distracted man.

1. A man without understanding.

2. One inflamed with extravagant passion, and acting contrary to reason.

MAD'NESS, noun [from mad.] Distraction; a state of disordered reason or intellect, in which the patient raves or is furious.

There are degrees of madness as of folly.

1. Extreme folly; headstrong passion and rashness that act in opposition to reason; as the madness of a mob.

2. Wildness of passion; fury; rage; as the madness of despair.

MADO'NA

MADON'NA, noun A term of compellation equivalent to madam. It is given to the virgin Mary.

MADON'NA, n. A term of compellation equivalent to madam. It is given to the virgin Mary.

MAD'REPORE, noun A submarine substance of a stony hardness, resembling coral. It consists of carbonate of lime with some animal matter. It is of a white color, wrinkled on the surface, and full of cavities or cells, inhabited by a small animal. From a liquor discharged by this animal, the substance is said to be formed. Madrepores constitute a genus of polypiers, of variable forms, always garnished with radiated plates.

MAD'REPORITE, noun A name given to certain petrified bones found in Normandy, in France, belonging to a cetaceous fish or to a species of crocodile. These bones contain many little brown lines in zigzag, resembling entangled threads. They have none of the properties of madrepore.

MAD'REPORITE, noun A variety of limestone, so called on account of its occurring in radiated prismatic concretions resembling the stars of madrepores. When rubbed, it emits the smell of sulphurated hydrogen gas.

1. Fossil madrepore.

MADRIE'R, noun A thick plank armed with iron plates, with a cavity to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to any thing intended to be broken down; also, a plank used for supporting the earth in mines.

MAD'RIGAL, noun

1. A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing a certain number of free unequal verses, not confined to the scrupulous regularity of a sonnet or the subtilty of the epigram, but containing some tender and delicate, though simple thought, suitably expressed.

2. An elaborate vocal composition in five or six parts.

MAD'WORT, noun A plant of the genus Alyssum.

MAESTO'SO, an Italian word signifying majestic, a direction in music to play the part with grandeur and strength.

MAF'FLE, verb intransitive To stammer. [Not in use.]

MAGAZINE, noun

1. A store of arms, ammunition or provisions; or the building in which such store is deposited. It is usually a public store or storehouse.

2. In ships of war, a close room in the hold, where the gunpowder is kept. Large ships have usually two magazines.

3. A pamphlet periodically published, containing miscellaneous papers or compositions. The first publication of this kind in England, was the Gentleman's magazine which first appeared in 1731, under the name of Sylvanus Urban, by Edward Cave, and which is still continued.

MAGAZINER, noun One who writes for a magazine. [Little used.]

MAGE, noun A magician. [Not used.]

MAGEllanic clouds, whitish clouds, or appearances like clouds near the south pole, which revolve like the stars; so called from Magellan, the navigator. They are three in number.

MAG'GOT, noun

1. A worm or grub; particularly, the flyworm, from the egg of the large blue or green fly. This maggot changes into a fly.

2. A whim; an odd fancy.

MAG'GOTY, adjective Full of maggots.

MA'GI, noun plural [Latin] Wise men or philosophers of the East.

MA'GIAN, adjective [Latin magus.] Pertaining to the Magi, a sect of philosophers in Persia.

MA'GIAN, noun One of the sect of the Persian Magi, who hold that there are two principles, one that cause of good, the other of evil. The knowledge of these philosophers was deemed by the vulgar to be supernatural.

MA'GIANISM, noun The philosophy or doctrines of the Magi.

MAG'IC, noun [Latin magia; Gr. a philosopher among the Persians.]

1. The art or science of putting into action the power of spirits; or the science of producing wonderful effects by the aid of superhuman beings, or of departed spirits; sorcery; enchantment. [This art or science is now discarded.]

2. The secret operations of natural causes.

Natural magic the application of natural causes to passive subjects, by which surprising effects are produced.magic, attributes to spirits a kind of dominion over the planets, and to the planets an influence over men.

Superstitious or geotic magic consists in the invocation of devils or demons, and supposes some tacit or express agreement between them and human beings.

Magic square, a square figure, formed by a series of numbers in mathematical proportion, so disposed in parallel and equal ranks, as that the sums of each row or line taken perpendicularly, horizontally, or diagonally, are equal.

Magic lantern, a dioptric machine invented by Kircher, which, by means of a map in a dark room, exhibits images of objects in their distinct colors and proportions, with the appearance of life itself.

MAG'IC

MAG'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to magic; used in magic; as a magic wand; magic art.

1. Performed by magic, the agency of spirits, or by the invisible powers of nature; as magical effects.

MAG'ICALLY, adverb By the arts of magic; according to the rules or rites of magic; by enchantment.

MAGI'CIAN, noun One skilled in magic; one that practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress.

MAGISTE'RIAL, adjective [See Magistrate.] Pertaining to a master; such as suits a master; authoritative.

1. Proud; lofty; arrogant; imperious; domineering.

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

2. In chimistry, pertaining to magistery, which see.

MAGISTE'RIALLY, adverb With the air of a master; arrogantly; authoritatively.

MAGISTE'RIALNESS, noun The air and manner of a master; haughtiness; imperiousness; peremptoriness.

MAG'ISTERY, noun [Latin magisterium.] Among chimists, a precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; usually applied to particular kinds of precipitate, as that of bismuth, coal, crab's eyes, sulphur, etc.

MAG'ISTRACY, adjective [See Magistrate.] The office or dignity of a magistrate.

Duelling is not only an usurpation of the divine prerogative, but it is an insult upon magistracy

1. The body of magistrates.

MAG'ISTRAL, adjective Suiting a magistrate; authoritative.

MAG'ISTRAL, noun A sovereign medicine or remedy.

MAGISTRAL'ITY, noun Despotic authority in opinion.

MAG'ISTRALLY, adverb Authoritatively; with imperiousness.

MAG'ISTRATE, noun [Latin magistratus, from magister, master; magis, major, and ster, Teutonic steora, a director; steoran, to steer; the principal director.] A public civil officer, invested with the executive government of some branch of it. In this sense, a king is the highest or first magistrate as is the President of the United States. But the word is more particularly applied to subordinate officers, as governors, intendants, prefects, mayors, justices of the peace, and the like.

The magistrate must have his reverence; the laws their authority.

MAGISTRAT'IC, adjective Having the authority of a magistrate.

MAG'ISTRATURE, noun Magistracy. [Little used.]

MAGNA CHARTA, noun [Latin great charter.]

1. The great charter, so called obtained by the English barons from king John, adjective 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. A fundamental constitution which guarantees rights and privileges.

MAGNANIM'ITY, noun [Latin magnanimitas; magnus, great, and animus, mind.] Greatness of mind; that elevation or dignity of soul, which encounters danger and trouble with tranquillity and firmness, which raises the possessor above revenge, and makes him delight in acts of benevolence, which makes him disdain injustice and meanness, and prompts him to sacrifice personal ease, interest and safety for the accomplishment of useful and noble objects.

MAGNAN'IMOUS, adjective [Latin magnanimus.]

1. Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; brave; disinterested; as a magnanimous prince or general.

2. Dictated by magnanimity; exhibiting nobleness of soul; liberal and honorable; not selfish.

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

MAGNAN'IMOUSLY, adverb With greatness of mind; bravely; with dignity and elevation of sentiment.

MAGNE'SIA, noun s as z. [Gr. the lodestone.]

1. A primitive earth, having for its base a metallic substance, called magnesium. It is generally found in combination with other substances. It is absorbent and antacid, and moderately cathartic.

MAGNE'SIAN, adjective Pertaining to magnesia, or partaking of its qualities.

MAG'NESITE, noun Carbonated magnesia, or magnesia combined with silex. It occurs in amorphous masses, or in masses tuberous and spungiform; its color is yellowish gray, or white with spots, and dendritic delineations of blackish brown.

MAGNE'SIUM, noun The undecomposable base of magnesia.

MAG'NET, noun [Latin from Gr. Magnesia, in Asia Minor.] The lodestone; an ore of iron which has the peculiar properties of attracting metallic iron, of pointing to the poles, and of dipping or inclining downwards. These properties it communicates to iron by contact. A bar of iron to which these properties are imparted, is called an artificial magnet

MAGNET'IC

MAGNET'ICAL, adjective Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as a magnetic bar of iron, or a magnetic needle.

1. Attractive.

She that had all magnetic force along--

MAGNET'ICAL, a. Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as a magnetic bar of iron, or a magnetic needle.

MAGNET'ICALLY, adverb By means of magnetism; by the power of attraction.

MAGNET'ICALNESS, noun The quality of being magnetic.

MAGNET'ICS, noun The science or principles of magnetism.

MAGNETIF'EROUS, adjective Producing or conducting magnetism.

MAG'NETISM, noun That branch of science which treats of the properties of the magnet, the power of the lodestone, etc.

1. Power of attraction; as the magnetism of interest.

Animal magnetism a sympathy supposed to exist between the magnet and the human body, by means of which the magnet is said to be able to cure diseases; or a fluid supposed to exist throughout nature, and to be the medium of influence between celestial bodies, and the earth and human bodies.

MAG'NETIZE, verb transitive To communicate magnetic properties to any thing; as, to magnetize a needle.

Seven of Deslon's patients were magnetized at Dr. Franklin's house.

MAG'NETIZE, verb intransitive To acquire magnetic properties; to become magnetic. A bar of iron standing some time in an inclined position, will magnetize

MAG'NETIZED, participle passive Made magnetic.

MAG'NETIZING, participle present tense Imparting magnetism to.

MAG'NIFIABLE, adjective [See Magnify.] That may be magnified; worthy of being magnified or extolled.

MAGNIF'IC

MAGNIF'ICAL, adjective [Latin magnificus.] Grand; splendid; illustrious.

MAGNIF'ICAL, a. [L. magnificus.] Grand; splendid; illustrious.

MAGNIFICALLY, adverb In a magnificent manner.

MAGNIF'ICATE, verb transitive To magnify or extol. [Not used.]

MAGNIFICENCE, noun [Latin magnificentia.] Grandeur of appearance; greatness and splendor of show or state; as the magnificence of a palace or of a procession; the magnificence of a Roman triumph.

MAGNIF'ICENT, adjective Grand in appearance; splendid; pompous.

Man he made, and for him built

Magnificent this world.

1. Exhibiting grandeur.

MAGNIF'ICENTLY, adverb With splendor of appearance, or pomp of show. The minister was magnificently entertained at court.

1. With exalted sentiments. We can never conceive too magnificently of the Creator and his works.

MAGNIF'ICO, noun A grandee of Venice.

MAG'NIFIER, noun [from magnify.] One who magnifies; one who extols or exalts in praises.

1. A glass that magnifies; a convex lens which increases the apparent magnitude of bodies.

MAGNIFY, verb transitive [Latin magnifico; magnus, great, and facio, to make.]

1. To make great or greater; to increase the apparent dimensions of a body. A convex lens magnifies the bulk of a body to the eye.

2. To make great in representation; to extol; to exalt in description or praise. The embassador magnified the king and queen.

3. To extol; to exalt; to elevate; to raise in estimation.

Thee that day

Thy thunders magnified.

The Lord magnified Solomon exceedingly. 1 Chronicles 29:1.

To magnify one's self, to raise in pride and pretensions.

He shall magnify in his heart. Daniel 8:25.

MAG'NIFYING, participle present tense Enlarging apparent bulk or dimensions; extolling; exalting.

MAGNIL'OQUENCE, noun [Latin magnus, great, and loquens, speaking.]

A lofty manner of speaking; tumid, pompous words or style.

MAG'NITUDE, noun [Latin magnitudo.] Extent of dimensions or parts; bulk; size; applied to things that have length, breadth or thickness.

1. Greatness; grandeur.

With plain heroic magnitude of mind.

2. Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance. In affairs or magnitude disdain not to take counsel.

MAGNO'LIA, noun The laurel-leafed tulip tree, of several species.

MAG'PIE, noun [Latin pica, with mag.] A chattering bird of the genus Corvus.

MAG'UEY, adjective A species of aloe in Mexico, which furnished the natives with timber for their buildings. Its leaves were used for covering the roofs of their houses, and for paper, clothing and cordage.

The maguey is a species of the Genus Agave, and is now cultivated in Mexico, for the purpose of preparing from its leaves a spirituous liquor called pulque.

MAHOG'ANY, noun A tree of the genus Swietenia, growing in the tropical climates of America. The wood is of a reddish or brown color, very hard, and susceptible of a fine polish. Of this are made our most beautiful and durable pieces of cabinet furniture.

MAHOM'ETAN

MA'HOUND, noun Formerly a contemptuous name for Mohammed and the devil, etc.

MAID, noun A species of skate fish.

MA'IDEN, noun

1. An unmarried woman, or a young unmarried woman; a virgin.

2. A female servant.

3. It is used in composition, to express the feminine gender, as in maid-servant.

MA'IDEN, noun A maid; also, an instrument for beheading criminals, and another for washing linen.

MA'IDEN, adjective Pertaining to a young woman or virgin; as maiden charms.

1. Consisting of young women or virgins.

Amid the maiden throng.

2. Fresh; new; unused.

He fleshed his maiden sword.

MA'IDEN, verb intransitive To speak and act demurely or modestly.

MA'IDENHAIR, noun A plant of the genus Adiantum.

MA'IDENHOOD, noun

1. The state of being a maid or virgin; virginity.

The modest lore of maidenhood

2. Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state.

MA'IDENLIKE, adjective Like a maid; modest.

MA'IDENLINESS, noun The behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

MA'IDENLIP, noun A plant.

MA'IDENLY, adjective Like a maid; gentle; modest; reserved.

MA'IDENLY, adverb In a maidenlike manner.

MA'IDHOOD, noun Virginity.

MAIDMAR'IAN, noun A dance; so called from a buffoon dressed like a man.

MA'IDPALE, adjective Pale, like a sick girl.

MAIL, noun [Latin macula.]

1. A coat of steel net-work, formerly worn for defending the body against swords, poniards, etc. The mail was of two sorts, chain and plate mail; the former consisting of iron rings, each having four others inserted into it; the latter consisting of a number of small lamins of metal, laid over one another like the scales of a fish, and sewed down to a strong linen or leathern jacket.

2. Armor; that which defends the body.

We strip the lobster of his scarlet mail

We read also of shirts of mail and gloves of mail

3. In ships, a square machine composed of rings interwoven, like net-work, used for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.

4. A rent. Also, a spot.

MAIL, noun A bag for the conveyance of letters and papers, particularly letters conveyed from one post office to another, under public authority.

MAIL, verb transitive To put on a coat of mail or armor; to arm defensively.

1. To inclose in a wrapper and direct to a post office. We say, letters were mailed for Philadelphia.

MA'ILED, participle passive Covered with a mail or with armor; inclosed and directed, as letters in a bundle.

1. adjective Spotted; speckled.

MA'ILING, participle present tense Investing with a coat of mail; inclosing in a wrapper and directing to a post office.

MAIM, verb transitive

1. To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person less able to defend himself in fighting, or to annoy his adversary.

2. To deprive of a necessary part; to cripple; to disable.

You maim'd the jurisdiction of all bishops.

MAIM, noun [written in law-language, mayhem.]

1. The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, so as to render the sufferer less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

2. The privation of any necessary part; a crippling.

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

3. Injury; mischief.

4. Essential defect.

A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history. [Not used.]

MA'IMED, participle passive Crippled; disabled in limbs; lame.

MA'IMEDNESS, noun A state of being maimed.

MA'IMING, participle present tense Disabling by depriving of the use of a limb; crippling; rendering lame or defective.

MAIN, adjective [Latin magnus.]

1. Principal; chief; that which has most power in producing an effect, or which is mostly regarded in prospect; as the main branch or tributary stream of a river; the main timbers of an edifice; a main design; a main object.

Our main interest is to be as happy as we can, and as long as possible.

2. Mighty; vast; as the main abyss.

3. Important; powerful.

This young prince, with a train of young noblemen and gentlemen, not with any main army, came over to take possession of his patrimony.

MAIN, noun Strength; force; violent effort; as in the phrase, 'with might and main '

1. The gross; the bulk; the greater part.

The main of them may be reduced to language and an improvement in wisdom--

2. The ocean; the great sea, as distinguished from rivers, bays, sounds and the like.

He fell, and struggling in the main--

3. The continent, as distinguished from an isle. We arrived at Nantucket on Saturday, but did not reach the main till Monday. In this use of the word, land is omitted; main for main land.

4. A hamper.

5. A course; a duct.

For the main in the main for the most part; in the greatest part.

MAIN, noun [Latin manus, hand.] A hand at dice. We throw a merry main

And lucky mains make people wise. [Not used.]

1. A match at cock fighting.

MA'INLY, adverb Chiefly; principally.

He is mainly occupied with domestic concerns.

1. Greatly; to a great degree; mightily.

MA'INOR, noun [ Latin a manu, from the hand, or in the work.] The old law phrase, to be taken as a thief with the mainor signifies, to be taken in the very act of killing venison or stealing wood, or in preparing so to do; or it denotes the being taken with the thing stolen upon him.

MAINPERN'ABLE, adjective That may be admitted to give surety by mainpernors; that may be mainprized.

MAINPERN'OR, noun In law, a surety 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.

MA'INPRIZE, noun

1. In law, a writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. These sureties are called mainpernors.

2. Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day.

MA'INPRIZE, verb transitive To suffer a prisoner to go at large, on his finding sureties, mainpernors, for his appearance at a day.

MA'INSWEAR, verb intransitive To swear falsely; to perjure one's self.

MAINTA'IN, verb transitive [Latin manus and teneo.]

1. To hold, preserve or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present character or reputation.

2. To hold; to keep; not to lose or surrender; as, to maintain a place or post.

3. To continue; not to suffer to cease; as, to maintain a conversation.

4. To keep up; to uphold; to support the expense of; as, to maintain state or equipage.

What maintains one vice would bring up two children.

5. To support with food, clothing and other conveniences; as, to maintain a family by trade or labor.

6. To support by intellectual powers, or by force of reason; as, to maintain an argument.

7. To support; to defend; to vindicate; to justify; to prove to be just; as, to maintain one's right or cause.

8. To support by assertion or argument; to affirm.

In tragedy and satire, I maintain that this age and the last have excelled the ancients.

MAINTA'INABLE, adjective That may be maintained, supported, preserved or sustained.

1. That may be defended or kept by force or resistance; as, a military post is not maintainable

2. That may be defended by argument or just claim; vindicable; defensible.

MAINTA'INED, participle passive Kept in any state; preserved; upheld; supported; defended; vindicated.

MAINTA'INER, noun One who supports, preserves, sustains or vindicates.

MAINTA'INING, participle present tense Supporting; preserving; upholding; defending; vindicating.

MA'INTENANCE, noun Sustenance; sustentation; support by means of supplies of food, clothing and other conveniences; as, his labor contributed little to the maintenance of his family.

1. Means of support; that which supplies conveniences.

Those of better fortune not making learning their maintenance

2. Support; protection; defense; vindication; as the maintenance of right or just claims.

3. Continuance; security from failure or decline.

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

4. In law, an officious intermeddling in a suit in which the person has no interest, by assisting either party with money or means to prosecute or defend it. This is a punishable offense. But to assist a poor kinsman from compassion, is not maintenance

MAISTER, for master, is obsolete.

MAISTRESS, for mistress, is obsolete.

MAIZ, noun A plant of the genus Zea, the native corn of America, called Indian corn.

MA'JA, noun A bird of Cuba, of a beautiful yellow color, whose flesh is accounted a delicacy.

MAJES'TIC, adjective [from majesty.] August; having dignity of person or appearance; grand; princely. The prince was majestic in person and appearance.

In his face

Sat meekness, hightened with majestic grace.

1. Splendid; grand.

Get the start of this majestic world.

2. Elevated; lofty.

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

3. Stately; becoming majesty; as a majestic air or walk.

MAJES'TICAL, adjective Majestic. [Little used.]

MAJES'TICALLY, adverb With dignity; with grandeur; with a lofty air or appearance.

MAJ'ESTY, noun [Latin majestas, from the root of magis, major, more, greater.]

1. Greatness of appearance; dignity; grandeur; dignity of aspect or manner; the quality or state of a person or thing which inspires awe or reverence in the beholder; applied with peculiar propriety to God and his works.

Jehovah reigneth; he is clothed with majesty Psalms 93:1.

The voice of Jehovah is full of majesty Psalms 29:4.

It is applied to the dignity, pomp and splendor of earthly princes.

When he showed the riches of his glorious kingdom--the honor of his excellent majesty many days-- Esther 1:4.

2. Dignity; elevation of manner.

The first in loftiness of thought surpass'd,

The next in majesty--

3. A title of emperors, kings and queens; as most royal majesty; may it please your majesty In this sense, it admits of the plural; as, their majesties attended the concert.

MA'JOR, adjective [Latin] 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.

1. Greater in dignity.

My major vow lies here.

2. In music, an epithet applied to the modes in which the third is four semitones above the tonic or key-note, and to intervals consisting of four semitones.

Major and minor, in music, are applied to concords which differ from each other by a semitone.

Major tone, the difference between the fifth and fourth, and major semitone is the difference between the major fourth and the third. The major tone surpasses the minor by a comma.

MA'JOR, noun In military affairs, an officer next in rank above a captain, and below a lieutenant colonel; the lowest field officer.

1. The mayor of a town. [See Mayor.]

Aid-major, an officer appointed to act as major on certain occasions.

Brigade-major. [See Brigade.]

Drum-major, the first drummer in a regiment, who has authority over the other drummers.

Fife-major, the first or chief fifer.

Sergeant-major, a non-commissioned officer, subordinate to the adjutant.

MA'JOR, noun In law, a person of full age to manage his own concerns.

MAJOR, noun In logic, the first proposition of a regular syllogism, containing the principal term; 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.]

MAJORA'TION, noun Increase; enlargement. [Not used.]

MAJOR'ITY, noun

1. The greater number; more than half; as a majority of mankind; a majority of votes in Congress. A measure may be carried by a large or small majority

2. Full age; the age at which the laws of a country permit a young person to manage his own affairs. Henry III. had no sooner come to his majority than the barons raised war against him.

3. The office, rank or commission of a major.

4. The state of being greater.

It is not a plurality of parts, without majority of parts. [Little used.]

5. [Latin majores.] Ancestors; ancestry. [Not used.]

6. Chief rank. [Not used.]

MAKE, verb transitive preterit tense and participle passive made.

1. To compel; to constrain.

They should be made to rise at an early hour.

2. To form of materials; to fashion; to mold into shape; to cause to exist in a different form, or as a distinct thing.

He fashioned it with a graving tool, after he had made it a molten calf. Exodus 32:1.

God not only made, but created; not only made the work, but the materials.

3. To create; to cause to exist; to form from nothing. God made the materials of the earth and of all worlds.

4. To compose; to constitute as parts, materials or ingredients united in a whole. These several sums make the whole amount.

The heaven, the air, the earth, and boundless sea,

MAKE but one temple for the deity.

5. To form by art.

And art with her contending, doth aspire

T'excel the natural with made delights.

6. To produce or effect, as the agent.

Call for Sampson, that he may make us sport. Judges 16:25.

7. To produce, as the cause; to procure; to obtain. Good tillage is necessary to make good crops.

Wealth maketh many friends. Proverbs 19:1.

8. To do; to perform; to execute; as, to make a journey; to make a long voyage.

9. To cause to have any quality, as by change or alteration. Wealth may make a man proud; beauty may make a woman vain; a due sense of human weakness should make us humble.

10. To bring into any state or condition; to constitute.

See I have made thee a god to Pharaoh. Exodus 7:1.

Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? Exo 2.

11. To contract; to establish; as, to make friendship.

12. To keep; as, to make abode.

13. To raise to good fortune; to secure in riches or happiness; as when it is said, he is made for this world.

Who makes or ruins with a smile or frown.

14. To suffer.

He accuses Neptune unjustly, who makes shipwreck a second time.

15. To incur; as, to make a loss. [Improper.]

16. To commit; to do.

I will neither plead my age nor sickness in excuse of the faults which I made. [Little used.]

17. To intend or to do; to purpose to do.

Gomez, what mak'st thou here, with a whole brotherhood of city bailiffs? [Not used.]

We now say, what doest thou here?

18. To raise, as, profit; to gain; to collect; as, to make money in trade or by husbandry; to make an estate by steady industry.

19. To discover; to arrive in sight of; a seaman's phrase, They made the land at nine o'clock on the larboard bow, distant five leagues.

20. To reach; to arrive at; as, to make a port or harbor; a seaman's phrase.

21. To gain by advance; as, to make little way with a head wind; we made our way to the next village. This phrase often implies difficulty.

22. To provide; as, to make a dinner or entertainment.

23. To put or place; as, to make a difference between strict right and expedience.

24. To turn; to convert, as to use.

Whate'er they catch,

Their fury makes an instrument of war.

25. To represent. He is not the fool you make him, that is, as your representation exhibits him.

26. To constitute; to form. It is melancholy to think that sensual pleasure makes the happiness of a great part of mankind.

27. To induce; to cause. Self-confidence makes a man rely too much on his own strength and resources.

28. To put into a suitable or regular form for use; as, to make a bed.

29. To fabricate; to forge. He made the story himself.

30. To compose; to form and write; as, to make verses or an oration.

31. To cure; to dry and prepare for preservation; as, to make hay.

To make amends, to make good; to give adequate compensation; to replace the value or amount of loss.

To make account of, to esteem; to regard.

To make away, to kill; to destroy.

1. To make free with, to treat with freedom; to treat without ceremony.make good, to maintain, to defend.

I'll either die, or I'll make good the place.

1. To fulfill; to accomplish; as, to make good one's word, promise or engagement.

2. To make compensation for; to supply an equivalent; as, to make good a loss or damage.

To make light of, to consider as of no consequence; to treat with indifference or contempt.

They made light of it, and went their way. Matthew 22:44.

To make love,

To make suit, to court; to attempt to gain the favor or affection.

To make merry, to feast; to be joyful or jovial.

To make much of, to treat with fondness or esteem; to consider as of great value, or as giving great pleasure.

To make of, to understand. He knows not what to make of the news, that is, he does not well understand it; he knows not how to consider or view it.

1. To produce from; to effect.

I am astonished that those who have appeared against this paper, have made so very little of it.

2. To consider; to account; to esteem.

MAKEs she no more of me than of a slave?

To make over, to transfer the title of; to convey; to alienate. He made over his estate in trust or in fee.

To make out, to learn; to discover; to obtain a clear understanding of. I cannot make out the meaning or sense of this difficult passage. Antiquaries are not able to make out the inscription on this medal.

1. To prove; to evince; to establish by evidence or argument. The plaintiff, not being able to make out his case, withdrew the suit.

In the passages from divines, most of the reasonings which make out both my propositions are already suggested.

2. To furnish; to find or supply. He promised to pay, but was not able to make out the money or the whole sum.

To make sure of, to consider as certain.

1. To secure to one's possession; as, to make sure of the game.

To make up, to collect into a sum or mass; as, to make up the amount of rent; to make up a bundle or package.

1. To reconcile; to compose; as, to make up a difference or quarrel.

2. To repair; as, to make up a hedge. Ezekiel 13:18.

3. To supply what is wanting. A dollar is wanted to make up the stipulated sum.

4. To compose, as ingredients or parts.

Oh, he was all made up of love and charms!

The parties among us are made up of moderate whigs and presbyterians.

5. To shape; as, to make up a mass into pills.

6. To assume a particular form of features; as, to make up a face; whence, to make up a lip, is to pout.

7. To compensate; to make good; as, to make up a loss.

8. To settle; to adjust, or to arrange for settlement; as, to make up accounts.

9. To determine; to bring to a definite conclusion; as, to make up one's mind.

In seamen's language, to make sail, to increase the quantity of sail already extended.

To make sternway, to move with the stern foremost.

To make water, to leak.

To make words, to multiply words.

MAKE, verb intransitive To tend; to proceed; to move. He made towards home. The tiger made at the sportsman. Formerly authors used to make way, to make on, to make forth, to make about; but these phrases are obsolete. We now say, to make at, to make towards.

1. To contribute; to have effect. This argument makes nothing in his favor. He believes wrong to be right, and right to be wrong, when it makes for his advantage.

2. To rise; to flow toward land; as, the tide makes fast.

To make as if, to show; to appear; to carry appearance.

Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. Joshua 8:1.

To make away with, to kill; to destroy.

To make for, to move towards; to direct a course towards; as, we apprehended a tempest approaching, and made for a harbor.

1. To tend to advantage; to favor. A war between commercial nations makes for the interest of neutrals.

To make against, to tend to injury. This argument makes against his cause.

To make out, to succeed; to have success at last. He made out to reconcile the contending parties.

To make up, to approach. He made up to us with boldness.

To make up for, to compensate; to supply by an equivalent.

Have you a supply of friends to make up for those who are gone?

To make up with, to settle differences; to become friends.

To make with, to concur.

MAKE, noun Structure; texture; constitution of parts in a body. It may sometimes be synonymous with shape or form, but more properly, the word signifies the manner in which the parts of a body are united; as a man of slender make or feeble make

Is our perfection of so frail a make

As every plot can undermine and shake?

MAKE, noun [Eng. match; Latin par.] A companion; a mate.

MA'KEBATE, noun One who excites contention and quarrels.

MA'KELESS, adjective Matchless; without a mate.

MA'KEPEACE, noun A peace-maker; one that reconciles persons when are variance.

MA'KER, noun The Creator.

The universal maker we may praise.

1. One that makes, forms, shapes, or molds; a manufacturer; as a maker of watches, or of jewelry; a maker of cloth.

2. A poet.

MA'KEWEIGHT, noun That which is thrown into a scale to make weight.

MA'KI, noun An animal of the genus Lemur.

The ring-tailed maki is of the size of a cat.

The common name of a subdivision of the Linnean genus Lemur, including the macauco, the mongooz, and the vari.

MA'KING, participle present tense Forming; causing; compelling; creating; constituting.

MA'KING, noun The act of forming, causing or constituting.

1. Workmanship. This is cloth of your own making

2. Composition; structure.

3. A poem.

MAL, or MALE, as a previx, in composition, denotes ill or veil, Latin malus. [See Malady.]

MAL'ACHITE, noun [Gr. mallows, Latin malva, soft, so names from its resembling the color of the leaf of mallows.]

An oxyd of copper, combined with carbonic acid, found in solid masses of a beautiful green color. It consists of layers, in the form of nipples or needles converging towards a common center. It takes a good polish and is often manufactured into toys.

MAL'ACOLITE, noun [Gr. mallows, from its color.]

Another name for diopside, a variety of pyroxene.

MALACOPTERYG'EOUS, adjective [Gr. soft, a point or feather.]

Having bony rays of fins, not sharp or pointed at the extremity; as a fish.

MALACOS'TOMOUS, adjective [Gr. soft, and mouth.]

Having soft jaws without teeth; as a fish.

MALADMINISTRA'TION, noun [See Mal and Administer.] Bad management of public affairs; vicious or defective conduct in administration, or the performance of official duties, particularly of executive and ministerial duties, prescribed by law; as the maladministration of a king, or of any chief magistrate.

MAL'ADY, noun [Latin malum; Eng. mellow, Latin mollis.]

1. Any sickness or disease of the human body; any distemper from impaired, defective or morbid organic functions; more particularly, a lingering or deep seated disorder or indisposition. It may be applied to any animal body, but is, I believe, rarely or never applied to plants.

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

2. Defect or corruption of the heart; depravity; moral disorder or corruption of moral principles. Depravity of heart is a moral malady

3. Disorder of the understanding or mind.

MAL'AGA, noun A species of wine imported from malaga in Spain.

MALAN'DERS, noun A dry scab on the pastern of a horse.

MAL'APERT, adjective [mal and pert.] Saucy; quick, with impudence; sprightly, without respect or decency; bold; forward.

Are you growing malapert?

MAL'APERTLY, adverb Saucily; with impudence.

MAL'APERTNESS, noun Sauciness; impudent pertness or forwardness; sprightliness of reply without decency.

MALAPROPOS, adverb malap'ropo. Unsuitably.

MA'LAR, adjective [Latin mala, the cheek.] Pertaining to the cheek.

MAL'ATE, noun [Latin malum, an apple.] A salt formed by the malic acid, the acid of apples, combined with a base.

MAL'AXATE, verb transitive To soften; to knead to softness.

MALAXA'TION, noun The act of moistening and softening; or the forming of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [Little used.]

MALCONFORMA'TION, noun Ill form; disproportion of parts.

MAL'CONTENT, noun [mal and content.] A discontented subject of government; one who murmurs at the laws and administration, or who manifests his uneasiness by overt acts, as in sedition or insurrection.

MAL'CONTENT

MALCONTENT'ED, adjective Discontented with the laws or the administration of government; uneasy; dissatisfied with the government.

The famous malcontent earl of Leicester.

MALCONTENT'EDLY, adverb With discontent.

MALCONTENT'EDNESS, noun Discontentedness with the government; dissatisfaction; want of attachment to the government, manifested by overt acts.

MALE, adjective [Latin masculus, from mas, maris.]

1. Pertaining to the sex that procreates young, and applied to animals of all kinds; as a male child; a male beast, fish, or fowl.

2. Denoting the sex of a plant which produces the fecundating dust, or a flower or plant that bears the stamens only, without pistils.

3. Denoting the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding or female screw.

MALE, noun Among animals, one of the sex whose office is to beget young; a he-animal.

1. In botany, a plant of flower which produces stamens only, without pistils.

2. In mechanics, the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding part or female screw.

MALEDIC'ENCY, noun [Latin maledicentia; male and dico.]

Evil speaking; reproachful language; proneness to reproach. [Little used.]

MAL'EDICENT, adjective Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Little used.]

MALEDIC'TION, noun [Latin maledictio; male, evil, and dico, to speak.]

Evil speaking; denunciation of evil; a cursing; curse or execration.

MALEFAC'TION, noun [Latin male, evil, and facio, to do.]

A criminal deed; a crime; an offense against the laws. [Little used.]

MALEFAC'TOR, noun [supra.] One who commits a crime; one guilty of violating the laws, in such a manner as to subject him to public prosecution and punishment, particularly to capital punishment; a criminal.

MAL'EFICE, noun An evil deed; artifice; enchantment. [Not in use.]

MALEFI'CIATE, verb transitive To bewitch. [Not in use.]

MALEFICIA'TION, noun A bewitching. [Not in use.]

MALEFI'CIENCE, noun [Latin maleficientia.]

The doing of evil, harm or mischief.

MALEFI'CIENT, adjective Doing evil, harm or mischief.

MALEN'GINE, noun Guile; deceit. [Not in use.]

MAL'ET, noun A little bag or budget; a portmanteau. [Not used.]

MALEV'OLENCE, noun [Latin malevolentia; malum, evil, and volens, volo, to will.] Ill will, personal hatred; evil disposition towards another; enmity of heart; inclination to injure others. It expresses less than malignity.

MALEV'OLENT, adjective Having an evil disposition towards another or others; wishing evil to others; ill disposed, or disposed to injure others. A malevolent heart rejoices in the misfortunes of others.

1. Unfavorable; unpropitious; bringing calamity.

MALEV'OLENTLY, adverb With ill will or enmity; with the wish or design to injure.

MALEV'OLOUS, adjective Malevolent. [Not in use.]

MALFE'ASANCE, noun Evil doing; wrong; illegal deed.

MALFORMA'TION, noun [mal and formation.] Ill or wrong formation; irregular or anomalous formation or structure of parts.

MA'LIC, adjective [Latin malum, an apple.] Pertaining to apples; drawn from the juice of apples; as malic acid.

MAL'ICE, noun [Latin malitia, from malus, evil.] Extreme enmity of heart, or malevolence; a disposition to injure others without cause, from mere personal gratification or from a spirit of revenge; unprovoked malignity or spite.

--Nor set down aught in malice

MAL'ICE, verb transitive To regard with extreme ill will. [Not used.]

MALI'CIOUS, adjective Harboring ill will or enmity without provocation; malevolent in the extreme; malignant in heart.

I grant him bloody,

Sudden, malicious smacking of every sin

That has a name.

1. Proceeding from extreme hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as a malicious report.

MALI'CIOUSLY, adverb With malice; with extreme enmity or ill will; with deliberate intention to injure.

MALI'CIOUSNESS, noun The quality of being malicious; extreme enmity or disposition to injure; malignity.

MALIGN, adjective mali'ne. [Latin malignus, from malus, evil. See Malady.]

1. Having a very evil disposition towards others; harboring violent hatred or enmity; malicious; as malign spirits.

2. Unfavorable; pernicious; tending to injure; as a malign aspect of planets.

3. Malignant; pernicious; as a malign ulcer.

MALIGN, verb transitive To regard with envy or malice; to treat with extreme enmity; to injure maliciously.

The people practice mischief against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods and murdering them.

1. To traduce; to defame.

MALIGN, verb intransitive To entertain malice.

MALIG'NANCY, noun [See Malignant.] Extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as malignancy of heart.

1. Unfavorableness; unpropitiousness; as the malignancy of the aspect of planets.

The malignancy of my fate might distemper yours.

2. Virulence; tendency to mortification or to a fatal issue; as the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.

MALIG'NANT, adjective [Latin malignus, maligno, from malus, evil.]

1. Malicious; having extreme malevolence or enmity; as a malignant heart.

2. Unpropitious; exerting pernicious influence; as malignant start.

3. Virulent; as a malignant ulcer.

4. Dangerous to life; as a malignant fever.

5. Extremely heinous; as the malignant nature of sin.

MALIG'NANT, noun A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions. [Not used.]

MALIG'NANTLY, adverb Maliciously; with extreme malevolence.

1. With pernicious influence.

MALIGNER, noun One who regards or treats another with enmity; a traducer; a defamer.

MALIG'NITY, noun [Latin malignitas.] Extreme enmity, or evil dispositions of heart towards another; malice without provocation, or malevolence with baseness of heart; deep rooted spite.

1. Virulence; destructive tendency; as the malignity of an ulcer or disease.

2. Extreme evilness of nature; as the malignity of fraud.

3. Extreme sinfulness; enormity or heinousness; as the malignity of sin.

MALIGNLY, adverb With extreme ill will.

1. Unpropitiously; perniciously.

MAL'ISON, noun Malediction. [Not in use.]

MALKIN, noun maw'kin. A mop; also, a low maid-servant.

MALL, noun maul. [Latin malleus.]

1. A large heavy wooden beetle; an instrument for driving any thing with force.

2. A blow.

MALL, noun mal. A public walk; a level shaded walk.

MALL, verb transitive maul. To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.

MAL'LARD, noun A species of duck of the genus Anas.

MALLEABIL'ITY, noun [from malleable.] That quality of bodies which renders them susceptible of extension by beating. It is opposed to friability or brittleness.

MAL'LEABLE, adjective [Latin malleus. See Mall.] That may be drawn out and extended by beating; capable of extension by the hammer; a quality of metals, particularly of gold.

MAL'LEABLENESS, noun Malleability, which see.

MAL'LEATE, verb transitive To hammer; to draw into a plate or leaf by beating.

MALLEA'TION, noun The act of beating into a plate or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

MAL'LET, noun [Latin malleus.] A wooden hammer or instrument for beating, or for driving pins; particularly used in carpentry, for driving the chisel.

MALLOW, noun [Latin malva; Gr. soft; Eng. mellow.]

A plant of the genus Malva; so called form its emollient qualities.

Marsh-mallows, a plant of the genus Althaea.

MALM'SEY, noun [Latin vinum arvisium.] The name of a species of grape, and also of a kind of wine.

MALPRAC'TICE, noun [mal and practice.] Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules.

MALT, noun Barley steeped in water, fermented and dried in a kiln, and thus prepared for brewing into ale or beer.

MALT, verb transitive To make into malt; as, to malt barley.

MALT, verb intransitive To become malt

To house it green will make it malt worse.

MALT'-DRINK

MALT'-LIQUOR, noun A liquor prepared for drink by an infusion of malt; as beer, ale, porter, etc.

MAL'TALENT, noun Ill humor. [Not in use.]

MAL'THA, noun A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch; unctuous to the touch and exhaling a bituminous odor.

MALTMAN

MALTRE'AT, verb transitive [mal and treat.] To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly, rudely, or with unkindness.

MALTRE'AT, v.t. [mal and treat.] To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly, rudely, or with unkindness.

MALTRE'ATED, participle passive Ill treated; abused.

MALTRE'ATING, participle present tense Abusing; treating unkindly.

MALTRE'ATMENT, noun Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

MALTSTER, noun A man whose occupation is to make malt.

MALTWORM, noun [malt and worm.] A tipler.

MALVA'CEOUS, adjective [Latin malvaceus, from malva, mallows.]

Pertaining to mallows.

MALVERSA'TION, noun [Latin male, ill, and versor, to behave.]

Evil conduct; improper or wicked behavior; mean artifices, or fraudulent tricks.

MAM

MAM'ALUKE

MAM'ELUKE, noun The military force of Egypt consisted of soldiers called Mamelukes, who were originally mercenaries, but afterwards masters of the country. Their power has been recently annihilated by the present Pashaw of Egypt.

MAMM'A, noun [Latin mamma the breast or pap, and mother.]

A familiar word for mother, used by young children.

MAM'MAL, noun [Latin mamma, the breast.]

In zoology, an animal that suckles its young. [See Mammifer.]

MAMMA'LIAN, adjective Pertaining to the mammals.

MAMMAL'OGIST, noun One who treats of mammiferous animals.

MAMMAL'OGY, noun [Latin mamma, breast, and discourse.]

The science or doctrine of mammiferous animals. [See Mammifer.]

MAM'MARY, adjective [See Mamma.] Pertaining to the breasts or paps; as the mammary arteries and veins.

MAMMEE', noun A tree of the genus Mammea, of two species, both large evergreens produced in hot climates.

MAM'MET, noun A puppet; a figure dressed.

MAM'MIFER, noun [Latin mamma, the breast, and fero, to bear.]

An animal which has breasts for nourishing its young. The mammifers have a double system of circulation, red and warm blood; the fetus is nourished in the matrix by means of one or more placentas, and the young by milk secreted by the breasts.

MAMMIF'EROUS, adjective [supra.] Having breasts and nourishing the young by the milk secreted by them.

MAM'MIFORM, adjective [Latin mamma and form.]

Having the shape or form of paps.

MAM'MILLARY, adjective [Latin mamilla.] Pertaining to the paps; resembling a pap; an epithet applied to two small protuberances, like nipples, found under the fore ventricles of the brain, and to a process of the temporal bone.

1. In mineralogy, applied to minerals composed of convex concretions.

MAM'MILLATED, adjective Having small nipples, or little globes like nipples.

MAM'MOC, noun A shapeless piece. [Not used.]

MAM'MOC, verb transitive To tear in pieces. [Not used.]

MAM'MODIS, noun Coarse, plain India muslins.

MAM'MON, noun Riches; wealth; or the god of riches.

Ye cannot serve God and mammon Matthew 6:24.

MAM'MONIST, noun A person devoted to the acquisition of wealth; one whose affections are placed supremely on riches; a worldling.

MAM'MOTH, noun This name has been given to a hugh quadruped, now extinct, whose bones are found on both continents.

MAN, noun plural men. [Heb.species, kind, image, similitude.]

1. Mankind; the human race; the whole species of human beings; beings distinguished from all other animals by the powers of reason and speech, as well as by their shape and dignified aspect. 'Os homini sublime dedit.'

And God said, Let us make man in our image, , after our likeness, and let them have dominion--Genesis 1:26.

MAN that is born of a woman, is of few days and full of trouble. Job 14:1.

My spirit shall not always strive with man Genesis 6:3.

I will destroy man whom I have created. Genesis 6:3.

There hath no temptation taken you, but such as is common to man 1 Corinthians 10:13.

It is written, man shall not live by bread alone. Matthew 4:4.

There must be somewhere such a rank as man

Respecting man whatever wrong we call--

But vindicate the ways of God to man

The proper study of mankind is man

In the System of Nature, man is ranked as a distinct genus.

When opposed to woman, man sometimes denotes the male sex in general.

Woman has, in general, much stronger propensity than man to the discharge of parental duties.

2. A male individual of the human race, of adult growth or years.

The king is but a man as I am.

And the man dreams but what the boy believed.

3. A male of the human race; used often in compound words, or in the nature of an adjective; as a man-child; men-cooks; men-servants.

4. A servant, or an attendant of the male sex.

I and my man will presently go ride.

5. A word of familiar address.

We speak no treason, man

6. It sometimes bears the sense of a male adult of some uncommon qualifications; particularly, the sense of strength, vigor, bravery, virile powers, or magnanimity, as distinguished from the weakness, timidity or impotence of a boy, or from the narrow mindedness of low bred men.

I dare do all that may become a man

Will reckons he should not have been the man he is, had he not broke windows--

So in popular language, it is said, he is no man Play your part like a man He has not the spirit of a man

Thou art but a youth, and he a man of war from his youth. 1 Samuel 17:8.

7. An individual of the human species.

In matters of equity between man and man--

Under this phraseology, females may be comprehended. So a law restraining man or every man from a particular act, comprehends women and children, if of competent age to be the subjects of law.

8. man is sometimes opposed to boy or child, and sometimes to beast.

9. One who is master of his mental powers, or who conducts himself with his usual judgment. When a person has lost his senses, or acts without his usual judgment, we say, he is not his own man

10. It is sometimes used indefinitely, without reference to a particular individual; any person; one. This is as much as a man can desire.

A man in an instant, may discover the assertion to be impossible.

This word however is always used in the singular number, referring to an individual. In this respect it does not answer to the French on, nor to the use of man by our Saxon ancestors. In Saxon, man ofsloh, signifies, they slew; man sette ut, they set or fitted out. So in German, man sagt, may be rendered, one ways, it is said, they say, or people say. So in Danish, man siger, one says, it is said, they say.

11. In popular usage, a husband.

Every wife ought to answer for her man

12. A movable piece at chess or draughts.

13. In feudal law, a vassal, a liege subject or tenant.

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.

MAN of war, a ship or war; an armed ship.

MAN'ACLE, noun [Latin manica; from manus, the hand.] An instrument of iron for fastening the hands; hand-cuffs; shackles. It is generally used in the plural, manacles.

MAN'ACLE, verb transitive To put on hand-cuffs or other fastening for confining the hands.

1. To shackle; to confine; to restrain the use of the limbs or natural powers.

Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle him hand and foot?

MAN'ACLED, participle passive Hand-cuffed; shackled.

MAN'ACLING, participle present tense Confining the hands; shackling.

MAN'AGE, verb transitive

1. To conduct; to carry on; to direct the concerns of; as, to manage a farm; to manage the affairs of a family.

What wars I manage and what wreaths I gain.

2. To train or govern, as a horse.

They vault from hunters to the managed steed.

3. To govern; to control; to make tame or tractable; as, the buffalo is too refractory to be managed.

4. To wield; to move or use in the manner desired; to have under command.

Long tubes are cumbersome, and scarce to be easily managed.

5. To make subservient.

Antony managed him to his own views.

6. To husband; to treat with caution or sparingly.

The less he had to lose, the less he car'd

To manage lithesome life, when love was the reward.

7. To treat with caution or judgment; to govern with address.

It was much his interest to manage his protestant subjects.

MAN'AGE, verb intransitive To direct or conduct affairs; to carry on concerns or business.

Leave them to manage for thee.

MAN'AGE, noun Conduct; administration; as the manage of the state or kingdom.

1. Government; control, as of a horse, or the exercise of riding him.

2. Discipline; governance; direction.

3. Use; application or treatment.

Quicksilver will not endure the manage of the fire.

[This word is nearly obsolete in all its applications, unless in reference to horses. We now use management.]

MAN'AGEABLE, adjective Easy to be used or directed to its proper purpose; not difficult to be moved or wielded. Heavy cannon are not very manageable

1. Governable; tractable; that may be controlled; as a manageable horse.

2. That may be made subservient to one's views or designs.

MAN'AGEABLENESS, noun The quality of being easily used, or directed to its proper purpose; as the manageableness of an instrument.

1. Tractableness; the quality of being susceptible of government and control; easiness to be governed.

MAN'AGED, participle passive Conducted; carried on; trained by discipline; governed; controlled; wielded.

MAN'AGEMENT, noun Conduct; administration; manner of treating, directing or carrying on; as the management of a family or of a farm; the management of state affairs.

2. Cunning practice; conduct directed by art, design or prudence; contrivance.

Mark with what management their tribes divide.

3. Practice; transaction; dealing.

He had great management with ecclesiastics, in the view to be advanced to the pontificate.

4. Modulation; variation.

All directions as to the management of the voice, must be regarded as subsidiary to the expression of feeling.

MAN'AGER, noun One who has the conduct or direction of any thing; as the manager of a theater; the manager of a lottery, of a ball, etc.

A skilful manager of the rabble.

An artful manager that crept between--

1. A person who conducts business with economy and frugality; a good husband.

A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure.

MAN'AGERY, noun [from manage.] conduct; direction; administration.

1. Husbandry; economy; frugality.

2. Manner of using.

[Little used or obsolete in all its applications.]

MAN'AGING, participle present tense Conducting; regulating; directing; governing; wielding.

MAN'AKIN, noun The name of a beautiful race of birds found in warm climates.

MANA'TI

MANA'TION, noun [Latin manatio, from mano, to flow.]

The act of issuing or flowing out. [Little used.]

MANA'TION, n. [L.manatio, from mano, to flow.]

The act of issuing or flowing out. [Little used.]

MANA'TUS, noun The sea-cow, or fish-tailed walrus, an animal of the genus Trichechus, which grows to an enormous size; sometimes it is said, to the length twenty three feet. Of this animal there are two varieties, the australis, or lamentin, and borealis, or whale-tailed manati. It has fore feet palmated, and furnished with claws, but the hind part ends in a tail like that of a fish. The skin is of a dark color, the eyes small, and instead of teeth, the mouth is furnished with hard bones, extending the whole length of the jaws.

[There are eight grinders on each side in each jaw.] It never leaves the water, but frequents the mouths of rivers, feeding on grass that grows in the water.

MAN'CHET, noun A small loaf of fine bread. [Not used.]

MANCHINEE'L, noun [Latin mancanilla.] A tree of the genus Hippomane, growing in the West Indies to the size of a large oak. It abounds in an acrid, milky juice of a poisonous quality. It bears a fruit of the size of a pippin, which, when eaten, causes inflammation in the mouth and throat, pains in the stomach, etc. The wood is valuable for cabinet work.

MAN'CIPATE, verb transitive [Latin mancipo, from manceps, mancipium; manu capio, to take with the hand.] To enslave; to bind; to restrict. [Little used.]

MANCIPA'TION, noun Slavery; involuntary servitude. [Little used.]

MAN'CIPLE, noun [Latin manceps; manu capio, supra.]

A steward; an undertaker; a purveyor, particularly of a college.

MANDA'MUS, noun [Latin mando, to command; mandamus we command. The primary sense is to send.]

In law, a command or writ, issuing from the king's bench in England, and in America, from some of the higher courts, directed to any person, corporation, or inferior court, requiring them to do some act therein specified, which appertains to their office and duty; as to admit or restore a person to an office or franchise, or to an academical degree, or to deliver papers, annex a seal to a paper, etc.

MANDARIN, noun In China, a magistrate or governor of a province; also, the court language of China.

MAN'DATARY

MAN'DATE, noun [Latin mando, to command.]

1. A command; an order, precept or injunction; a commission.

This dream all powerful Juno sends; I bear

Her mighty mandates, and her words you hear.

2. In 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.

MAN'DATE, n. [L. mando, to command.]

MANDA'TOR, adjective [Latin] A director.

MAN'DATORY, adjective Containing a command; preceptive; directory.

MAN'DATORY, noun [Latin mando, to command.]

1. A person to whom the pope has by his prerogative given a mandate or order for his benefice.

2. One to whom a command or charge is given.

3. In law, one who undertakes, without a recompense, to do some act for another in respect to the thing bailed to him.

MAN'DIBLE, noun [Latin mando, to chew.] The jaw, the instrument of chewing; applied particularly to fowls.

MANDIB'ULAR, adjective Belonging to the jaw.

MAN'DIL, noun A sort of mantle. [Not in use.]

MANDIL'ION, noun [supra.] A soldier's coat; a loose garment.

MAN'DLESTONE, noun Kernel-stone; almond-stone, called also amygdaloid; a name given to stones or rocks which have kernels enveloped in paste.

MANDMENT, for commandment, is not in use.

MAN'DOLIN, noun A cithern or harp. [Not in use.]

MAN'DRAKE, noun [Latin mandragoras.] A plant of the genus Atropa, growing naturally in Spain, Italy and the Levant. It is a narcotic, and its fresh roots are a violent cathartic. Its effect in rendering barren women prolific is supposed to be imaginary.

MAN'DREL, noun An instrument for confining in the lathe the substance to be turned.

MAN'DRILL, noun A species of monkey.

MAN'DUCABLE, adjective That can be chewed; fit to be eaten.

MAN'DUCATE, verb transitive [Latin mando.] To chew.

MAN'DUCATED, participle passive Chewed.

MAN'DUCATING, participle present tense Chewing; grinding with the teeth.

MANDUCA'TION, noun The act of chewing or eating.

MANE, noun The hair growing on the upper side of the neck of a horse or other animal, usually hanging down on one side.

MAN'EATER, noun A human being that feeds on human flesh; a cannibal; an anthropophagite.

MA'NED, adjective Having a mane.

MAN'EGE, noun A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training

horses.

MANERIAL. [See Manorial.]

MA'NES, noun plural [Latin] The ghost, shade or soul of a deceased person; and among the ancient pagans, the infernal deities.

1. The remains of the dead.

Hail, O ye holy manes!

MANEU'VER, noun [Latin manus, the hand, and oeuvre, work, Latin opera.]

1. Management; dexterous movement, particularly in an army or navy; any evolution, movement or change of position among companies, battalions, regiments, ships, etc. for the purpose of distributing the forces in the best manner to meet the enemy.

2. Management with address or artful design.

MANEU'VER, verb intransitive To move or change positions among troops or ships, for the purpose of advantageous attack of defense; or in military exercise, for the purpose of discipline.

1. To manage with address or art.

MANEU'VER, verb transitive To change the positions of troops or ships.

MANEU'VERED, participle passive Moved in position.

MANEU'VERING, participle present tense Changing the position or order for advantageous attack or defense.

MAN'FUL, adjective [man and full.] Having the spirit of a man; bold; brave; courageous.

1. Noble; honorable.

MAN'FULLY, adverb Boldly; courageously; honorably.

MAN'FULNESS, noun Boldness; courageousness.

MAN'GABY, noun A monkey with naked eyelids; the white-eyed monkey.

MAN'GANESE, noun A metal of a dusky white, or whitish gray color, very hard and difficult to fuse. It never occurs as a natural product in a metallic state. The substance usually so called is an oxyd of manganese but not pure.

MANGANE'SIAN, adjective Pertaining to manganese; consisting of it or partaking of its qualities.

MANGANE'SIATE, noun A compound of manganesic acid, with a base.

MANGANE'SIC, adjective Obtained from manganese; as the manganesic acid.

[Manganic is ill formed.]

MANGANE'SIOUS, adjective manganesious acid is an acid with a minimum of oxygen.

MANG'CORN, noun A mixture of wheat and rye, or other species of grain. [Not used in America.]

MANGE, noun The scab or itch in cattle, dogs and other beasts.

MANGER, noun [Latin mando.]

1. A trough or box in which fodder is laid for cattle, or the place in which horses and cattle are fed.

2. In ships of war, a space across the deck, within the hawse-holes, separated from the after part of the deck, to prevent the water which enters the hawse-holes from running over the deck.

MANGINESS, noun [from mangy.] Scabbiness; infection of the mange.

MAN'GLE, verb transitive

1. To cut with a dull instrument and tear, or to tear in cutting; to cut in a bungling manner; applied chiefly to the cutting of flesh.

And seized with fear, forgot his mangled meat.

2. To curtail; to take by piece-meal.

MAN'GLE, noun [Latin mango.]

1. A rolling press or calendar for smoothing cloth.

2. A name of the mangrove, which see.

MAN'GLE, verb transitive To smooth cloth with a mangle; to calendar.

MAN'GLED, participle passive Torn in cutting; smoothed with a mangle.

MAN'GLER, noun One who tears in cutting; one who uses a mangle.

MAN'GLING, participle present tense Lacerating in the act of cutting; tearing.

MAN'GO, noun The fruit of the mango tree, a native of the East Indies, of the genus Mangifera. It is brought to us only when pickled. Hence mango is the green fruit of the tree pickled.

1. A green muskmelon pickled.

MAN'GONEL, noun An engine formerly used for throwing stones and battering walls.

MAN'GONISM, noun The art of setting off to advantage.

MAN'GONIZE, verb transitive To polish for setting off to advantage.

MAN'GOSTAN

MANGOSTEE'N, noun A tree of the East Indies, of the genus Garcinia, so called from Dr. Garcin, who described it. The tree grows to the highth of 18 feet, and bears fruit of the size of a crab apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

MANGOSTEE'N, n. A tree of the East Indies, of the genus Garcinia, so called from Dr. Garcin, who described it. The tree grows to the highth of 18 feet, and bears fruit of the size of a crab apple, the pulp of which is very delicious food.

MAN'GROVE, noun A tree of the East and West Indies, otherwise called mangle, and of the genus Rhizophora. One species, the black mangle, grows in waters on the sides of rivers. The red mangrove does not grow in water. Its wood is of a deep red color, compact and heavy. The soft part of the bark of the white mangrove is formed into ropes.

1. The name of a fish.

MANGY, adjective [from mange.] Scabby; infected with the mange.

MAN'HATER, noun [man and hate.] One who hates mankind; a misanthrope.

MAN'HOOD, noun [man and hood.] The state of one who is a man, of an adult male, or one who is advanced beyond puberty, boyhood or childhood; virility.

1. Virility; as opposed to womanhood.

2. Human nature; as the manhood of Christ.

3. The qualities of a man; courage; bravery; resolution. [Little used.]

MA'NIA, noun [Latin and Gr.] Madness.

MAN'IABLE, adjective Manageable; tractable. [Not in use.]

MA'NIAC, adjective [Latin maniacus.] Mad; raving with madness; raging with disordered intellect.

MA'NIAC, noun A madman; one raving with madness.

MANI'ACAL, adjective Affected with madness.

MANICHE'AN, adjective Pertaining to the Manichees.

MANICHE'AN', noun One of a sect in Persia, who maintained that there are two supreme principles, the one good, the other evil, which produce all the happiness and calamities of the world. The first principle, or light, they held to be the author of all good; the second, or darkness, the author of all evil. The founder of the sect was Manes.

MAN'ICHEISM, noun [supra.] The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained by the Manichees.

MAN'ICHORD

MAN'ICON, noun A species of nightshade.

MAN'ICON, n. A species of nightshade.

MANICORD'ON, noun A musical instrument in the form of a spinet, whose strings, like those of the clavichord, are covered with little pieces of cloth to deaden and soften their sounds; whence it is called the dumb spinet.

MAN'IFEST, adjective [Latin manifestus.]

1. Plain, open, clearly visible to the eye or obvious to the understanding; apparent; not obscure or difficult to be seen or understood. From the testimony, the truth we conceive to be manifest

Thus manifest to sight the god appeared.

That which may be known of God is manifest in them. Romans 1:19.

2. Detected; with of.

Calistho there stood manifest of shame. [Unusual.]

MAN'IFEST, noun An invoice of a cargo of goods, imported or laden for export, to be exhibited at the custom-house by the master of the vessel, or the owner or shipper.

MAN'IFEST

MANIFESTA'TION, noun The act of disclosing what is secret, unseen or obscure; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; the exhibition of any thing by clear evidence; display; as the manifestation of God's power in creation, or of his benevolence in redemption.

The secret manner in which acts of mercy ought to be performed, requires this public manifestation of them at the great day.

MAN'IFESTED, participle passive Made clear; disclosed; made apparent, obvious or evident.

MANIFEST'IBLE, adjective That may be made evident.

MAN'IFESTING, participle present tense Showing clearly; making evident; disclosing, displaying.

MAN'IFESTLY, adverb Clearly; evidently; plainly; in a manner to be clearly seen or understood.

MAN'IFESTNESS, noun Clearness to the sight or mind; obviousness.

MANIFESTO. [See Manifest.]

MANIFEST'O, noun [Latin manifestus, manifest.] A public declaration, usually of a prince or sovereign, showing his intentions, or proclaiming his opinions and motives; as a manifesto declaring the purpose of a prince to begin war, and explaining his motives. [Manifesto only is now used.]

MAN'IFEST, verb transitive [Latin manifesto ] To reveal; to make to appear; to show plainly; to make public; to disclose to the eye or to the understanding.

Nothing is hid, which shall not be manifested. Mark 4:1.

He that loveth me, shall be loved of my Father, and I will love him, and will manifest myself to him. John 4:1.

Thy life did manifest thou lov'dst me not.

1. To display; to exhibit more clearly to the view. The wisdom of God is manifested in the order and harmony of creation.

MAN'IFOLD, adjective [many and fold.] Of divers kinds; many in number; numerous; multiplied.

O Lord, how manifold are thy works! Psalms 104:24.

I know your manifold transgressions. Amos 5:12.

1. Exhibited or appearing at divers times or in various ways; applied to words in the singular number; as the manifold wisdom of God, or his manifold grace. Ephesians 3:10. 1 Peter 4:10.

MAN'IFOLDED, adjective Having many doublings or complications; as a manifolded shield. [Not used.]

MAN'IFOLDLY, adverb In a manifold manner; in many ways.

MAN'IFOLDNESS, noun Multiplicity.

MANIG'LIONS, noun In gunnery, two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance, after the German way of casting.

MA'NIHOC

MA'NIHOT, noun A plant of the genus Jatropha, or Cassada plant. It has palmated leaves, with entire lobes. Manioc is an acrid plant, but from its root is extracted a pleasant nourishing substance, called cassava. This is obtained by grating the root, and pressing out the juice, which is an acrid and noxious poison. The substance is then dried and baked, or roasted on a plate of hot iron.

MAN'IKIN, noun A little man.

MAN'IL

MANIL'LA, noun [Latin manus.] A ring or bracelet worn by persons in Africa.

MANIL'LA, n. [L. manus.] A ring or bracelet worn by persons in Africa.

MA'NIOC

MAN'IPLE, noun [Latin manipulus, a handful. Qu. Latin manus and the Teutonic full.]

1. A handful.

2. A small band of soldiers; a word applied only to Roman troops.

3. A fanon, or kind of ornament worn about the arm of a mass priest; or a garment worn by the Romish priests when they officiate.

MAN'IPLE, n. [L. manipulus, a handful. Qu.L. manus and the Teutonic full.]

MANIP'ULAR, adjective Pertaining to the maniple.

MANIPULA'TION, noun [Latin manipulus, supra.] In general, work by hand; manual operation; as in mining, the manner of digging ore; in chimistry, the operation of preparing substances for experiments; in pharmacy, the preparation of drugs.

MAN'KILLER, noun [man and kill.] One who slays a man.

MAN'KILLING, adjective Used to kill men.

MANKIND, noun [man and kind.] This word admits the accent either on the first or second syllable; the distinction of accent being inconsiderable.]

1. The race or species of human beings.

The proper study of mankind is man.

2. A male, or the males of the human race.

Thou shalt not lie with mankind as with womankind. Leviticus 18:22.

MANKIND, adjective Resembling man in form, not woman.

MAN'LESS, adjective [man and less.] Destitute of men; not manned; as a boat. [Little used.]

MAN'LIKE, adjective Having the proper qualities of a man.

1. Of man's nature.

MAN'LINESS, noun [from manly.] The qualities of a man; dignity; bravery; boldness.

MAN'LING, noun A little man.

MAN'LY, adjective [man and like.] Manlike; becoming a man; firm; brave; undaunted.

Serene and manly hardened to sustain

The load of life--

1. Dignified; noble; stately.

He moves with manly grace.

2. Pertaining to the adult age of man; as a manly voice.

3. Not boyish or womanish; as a manly stride.

MAN'NA, noun

1. A substance miraculously furnished as food for the Israelites in their journey through the wilderness of Arabia. Exodus 16:15.

Josephus, Ant.B.3.1. considers the Hebrew word man, to signify what. In conformity with this idea, the seventy translate the passage, Exodus 16:15:15. what is this? which rendering seems to accord with the following words, for they knew not what it was. And in the Encyclopedia, the translators are charged with making Moses fall into a plain contradiction. Art. manna But Christ and his apostles confirm the common version:'Not as your fathers ate manna and are dead.' John 6:58. Hebrews 9:4. And we have other evidence, that the present version is correct; for in the same chapter, Moses directed Aaron to 'take a pot and put a homer full of manna therein.' Now it would be strange language to say, put an homer full of what, or what is it. So also verse 35. 'The children of Israel ate manna forty years, etc.' In both verses, the Hebrew word is the same as in verse 15.

2. In the materia medica, the juice of a certain tree of the ash-kind, the Fraxinus ornus, or flowering ash a native of Sicily, Calabria, and other parts of the south of Europe. It is either naturally concreted, or exsiccated and purified by art. The best manna is in oblong pieces or flakes of a whitish or pale yellow color, light, friable, and somewhat transparent. It is a mild laxative.

MAN'NER, noun [Latin manus, the hand.]

1. Form; method; way of performing or executing.

Find thou the manner and the means prepare.

2. Custom; habitual practice.

Show them the manner of the king that shall reign over them. This will be the manner of the king. 1 Samuel 8:9.

Paul, as his manner was--Acts 17:2.

3. Sort; kind.

Ye tithe mint and rue, and all manner of herbs. Luke 11:42.

They shall say all manner of evil against you falsely--Matthew 5:11.

In this application, manner has the sense of a plural word; all sorts or kinds.

4. Certain degree or measure. It is in a manner done already.

The bread is in a manner common. 1 Samuel 21:5.

This use may also be sometimes defined by sort or fashion; as we say, a thing is done after a sort or fashion, that is, not well, fully or perfectly.

Augustinus does in a manner confess the charge.

5. Mien; cast of look; mode.

Air and manner are more expressive than words.

6. Peculiar way or carriage; distinct mode.

It can hardly be imagined how great a difference was in the humor, disposition and manner of the army under Essex and that under Waller.

A man's company may be known by his manner of expressing himself.

7. Way; mode; of things.

The temptations of prosperity insinuate themselves after a gentle, but very powerful manner

8. Way of service or worship.

The nations which thou hast removed and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner of the god of the land--2 Kings 7:1.

9. In painting, the particular habit of a painter in managing colors, lights and shades.

MAN'NER, verb transitive To instruct in manners.

MAN'NERISM, noun Adherence to the same manner; uniformity of manner.

MAN'NERIST, noun An artist who performs his work in one unvaried manner.

MAN'NERLINESS, noun The quality of being civil and respectful in behavior; civility; complaisance.

MAN'NERLY, adjective Decent in external deportment; civil; respectful; complaisant; not rude or vulgar.

What thou think'st meet and is most mannerly

MAN'NERLY, adverb With civility; respectfully; without rudeness.

MAN'NERS, noun plural Deportment; carriage; behavior; conduct; course of life; in a moral sense.

Evil communications corrupt good manners 1 Corinthians 15:33.

1. Ceremonious behavior; civility; decent and respectful deportment.

Shall we, in our applications to the great God, take that to be religion, which the common reason of mankind will not allow to be manners?

2. A bow or courtesy; as, make your manners; a popular use of the word.

MAN'NISH, adjective [from man.] Having the appearance of a man; bold; masculine; as a mannish countenance.

A woman impudent and mannish grown.

MANOM'ETER, noun [Gr. measure.] An instrument to measure or show the alterations in the rarity or density of the air.

MANOMET'RICAL, adjective Pertaining to the manometer; made by the manometer.

MAN'OR, noun [Latin maneo, to abide.] The land belonging to a lord or nobleman, or so much land as a lord or great personage formerly kept in his own hands for the use and subsistence of his family. In these days, a manor rather signifies the jurisdiction and royalty incorporeal, than the land or site; for a man may have a manor in gross, as the law terms it, that is, the right and interest of a court-baron, with the perquisites thereto belonging.

MANO'RIAL

MANE'RIAL, adjective Pertaining to a manor.

They have no civil liberty; their children belong not to them, but to their manorial lord.

MAN'PLEASER, noun [man and pleaser.] One who pleases men, or one who takes uncommon pains to gain the favor of men.

MAN'QUELLER, noun [man and quell.]

A mankiller; a manslayer; a murderer. [Not used.]

MANSE, noun mans. [Latin mansio, from maneo, to abide.]

1. A house or habitation; particularly, a parsonage house. A capital manse is the manor-house or lord's court.

2. A farm.

MAN'SERVANT, noun A male servant.

MAN'SION, noun [Latin mansio, from maneo, to dwell.]

1. Any place of residence; a house; a habitation.

Thy mansion wants thee, Adam, rise.

In my Father's house are many mansions. John 14:2.

2. The house of the lord of a manor.

3. Residence; above.

These poets near our princes sleep,

And in one grave their mansions keep.

MAN'SION, verb intransitive To dwell; to reside.

MAN'SIONARY, adjective Resident; residentiary; as mansionary canons.

MAN'SIONRY, noun A place of residence. [Not used.]

MAN'SLAUGHTER, noun [man and slaughter. See Slay.]

1. In a general sense, the killing of a man or of men; destruction of the human species; murder.

2. In law, the unlawful killing of a man without malice, express or implied. This may be voluntary, upon a sudden heat or excitement of anger; or involuntary, but in the commission of some unlawful act. manslaughter differs from murder in not proceeding from malice prepense or deliberate, which is essential to constitute murder. It differs from homicide excusable, being done in consequence of some unlawful act, whereas excusable homicide happens in consequence of misadventure.

MAN'SLAYER, noun One that has slain a human being. The Israelites had cities of refuge for manslayers.

MAN'STEALER, noun One who steals and sells men.

MAN'STEALING, noun The act of stealing a human being.

MAN'SUETE, adjective [Latin mansuetus.] Tame; gentle; not wild or ferocious. [Little used.]

MAN'SUETUDE, noun [Latin mansuetudo.] Tameness; mildness; gentleness.

MAN'TA, noun A flat fish that is very troublesome to pearlfishers.

MANTEL. [See Mantle.]

MAN'TELET

MANT'IGER, rather mantichor, or manticor, noun [Latin manticora, mantichora.] A large monkey or baboon.

MAN'TLE, noun [Gr. a cloke.]

1. A kind of cloke or loose garment to be worn over other garments.

The herald and children are clothed with mantles of satin.

2. A cover.

Well covered with the night's black mantle

3. A cover; that which conceals; as the mantle of charity.

MAN'TLE, verb transitive To cloke; to cover; to disguise.

So the rising senses

Begin to chase th'ignorant fumes, that mantle

Their clearer reason.

MAN'TLE, verb intransitive To expand; to spread.

The swan with arched neck

Between her white wings mantling, rows

Her state with oary feet.

1. To joy; to revel.

My frail fancy, fed with full delights,

Doth bathe in bliss, and mantleth most at ease.

2. To be expanded; to be spread or extended.

He gave the mantling vine to grow,

A trophy to his love.

3. To gather over and form a cover; to collect on the surface, as a covering.

There is a sort of men, whose visages

Do cream and mantle like a standing pond.

And the brain dances to the mantling bowl.

4. To rush to the face and cover it with a crimson color.

When mantling blood

Flow'd in his lovely cheeks.

[Fermentation cannot be deduced from mangling, otherwise than as a secondary sense.]

MANT'LET, noun [dim. of mantle.] A small cloke worn by women.

1. In fortification, a kind of movable parapet or penthouse, made of planks, nailed one over another to the highth of almost six feet, cased with tin and set on wheels. In a siege, this is driven before pioneers, to protect them from the enemy's small shot.

MANT'LING, noun In heraldry, the representation of a mantle, or the drapery of a coat of arms.

MAN'TO, noun A robe; a cloke.

MANTOL'OGY, noun [Gr. divination, and discourse.] The act or art of divination or prophesying. [Little used.]

MAN'TUA, noun A lady's gown.

MAN'UAL, adjective [Latin manualis, from manus, the hand.]

1. Performed by the hand; as manual labor or operation.

2. Used or made by the hand; as a deed under the king's sign manual

MAN'UAL, noun A small book, such as may be carried in the hand, or conveniently handled; as a manual of laws.

1. The service book of the Romish church.

Manual exercise, in the military art, the exercise by which soldiers are taught the use of their muskets and other arms.

MAN'UARY, adjective Done by the hand. [Not used.]

MANU'BIAL, adjective [Latin manubialis, from manubioe, spoils.]

Belonging to spoils; taken in war. [Little used.]

MANUDUC'TION, noun [Latin manus, hand, and ductio, a leading.]

Guidance by the hand.

MANUDUC'TOR, noun [Latin manus, hand, and ductor, a leader.]

An officer in the ancient church, who gave the signal for the choir to sing, who beat time and regulated the music.

MANUFAC'TORY, noun [See Manufacture.]

A house or place where goods are manufactured.

MANUFAC'TURAL, adjective Pertaining or relating to manufactures.

MANUFAC'TURE, noun [Latin manus, hand, and facio, to make.]

1. The operation of making cloth, wares, utensils, paper, books, and whatever is used by man; the operation of reducing raw materials of any kind into a form suitable for use, by the hands, by art or machinery.

2. Any thing made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art; as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, cabinet work, sadlery, and the like.

MANUFAC'TURE, verb transitive To make or fabricate from raw materials, by the hand, by art or machinery, and work into forms convenient for use; as, to manufacture cloth, nails, or glass.

1. To work raw materials into suitable forms for use; as, to manufacture wool, cotton, silk or iron.

MANUFAC'TURE, verb intransitive To be occupied in manufactures.

MANUFAC'TURED, participle passive Made form raw materials into forms for use.

MANUFAC'TURER, noun One who works raw materials into wares suitable for use.

1. One who employs workmen for manufacturing; the owner of a manufactory.

MANUFAC'TURING, participle present tense Making goods and wares from raw materials.

MANUMISE, for manumit, not used.

MANUMIS'SION, noun [Latin manumissio. See Manumit.]

The act of liberating a slave from bondage, and giving him freedom.

MAN'UMIT, verb transitive [Latin manumitto; manus, hand, and mitto, to send.]

To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave.

MAN'UMITTED, participle passive Released from slavery.

MAN'UMITTING, participle present tense Liberating from personal bondage.

MANU'RABLE, adjective [from manure.] That may be cultivated. This, though the original sense, is rarely or never used. The present sense of manure, would give the following signification.

1. That may be manured, or enriched by manure.

MANU'RAGE, noun Cultivation. [Not used.]

MANU'RANCE, noun Cultivation. [Not used.]

MANU'RE, verb transitive [Latin manus, hand, and ouvrer, to work, Latin operor.]

1. To cultivate by manual labor; to till.

[In this sense not now used.]

2. To apply to land any fertilizing matter, as dung, compost, ashes, lime, fish, or any vegetable or animal substance.

3. To fertilize; to enrich with nutritive substances.

The corps of half her senate

Manure the fields of Thessaly.

MANU'RE, noun Any matter which fertilizes land, as the contents of stables and barnyards, marl, ashes, fish, salt, and every kind of animal and vegetable substance applied to land, or capable of furnishing nutriment to plants.

MANU'RED, participle passive Dressed or overspread with a fertilizing substance.

MANU'REMENT, noun Cultivation; improvement. [Little used.]

MANU'RER, noun One that manures land.

MANU'RING, participle present tense Dressing or overspreading land with manure; fertilizing.

MANU'RING, noun A dressing or spread of manure on land.

MAN'USCRIPT, noun [Latin manu scriptum, written with the hand.]

A book or paper written with the hand or pen.

MAN'USCRIPT, adjective Written with the hand; not printed.

MANUTEN'ENCY, noun Maintenance. [Not in use.]

MANY, adjective men'ny.

1. Numerous; comprising a great number of individuals.

Thou shalt be a father of many nations. Genesis 17:4.

Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 1 Corinthians 1:26.

MANY are the afflictions of the righteous. Psalms 34:12.

It is often preceded by as or so, and followed by so, indicating an equal number.

As many books as you take, so many shall be charged to your account.

So many laws argue so many sins.

It is followed by as.

As many as were willing-hearted brought bracelets. Exodus 34:1.

It precedes an or a, before a noun in the singular number.

Full many a gem of purest ray serene.

2. In low language, preceded by too, it denotes powerful or much; as, they are too many for us.

MANY, noun men'ny. A multitude; a great number of individuals; the people.

O thou fond many

The vulgar and the many are fit only to be led or driven.

MANY, noun men'ny. A retinue of servants; household.

MAP, noun [Latin mappa, a cloth or towel, a Punic word.] A representation of the surface of the earth or of any part of it, drawn on paper or other material, exhibiting the lines of latitude and longitude, and the positions of countries, kingdoms, states, mountains, rivers, etc. A map of the earth, or of a large portion of it, comprehends a representation of land and water; but a representation of a continent or any portion of land only, is properly a map and a representation of the ocean only or any portion of it, is called a chart. We say, a map of England, of France, of Europe; but a chart of the Atlantic, of the Pacific, etc.

MAP, verb transitive To draw or delineate, as the figure of any portion of land.

MA'PLE

MAPLE-SU'GAR, noun Sugar obtained by evaporation from the juice of the rock maple

MAP'PERY, noun [from map.] The art of planning and designing maps.

M'AR, verb transitive [Latin marceo.]

1. To injure by cutting off a part, or by wounding and making defective; as, to mar a tree by incision.

I pray you, mar no more trees by writing songs in their barks.

Neither shalt thou mar the corners of thy beard. Leviticus 19:27.

2. To injure; to hurt; to impair the strength or purity of.

When brewers mar their malt with water.

3. To injure; to diminish; to interrupt.

But mirth is marred, and the good cheer is lost.

4. To injure; to deform; to disfigure.

Ire, envy and despair

Marr'd all his borrow'd visage.

His visage was so marred more than any man. Isaiah 52:1.

Moral evil alone mars the intellectual works of God.

[This word is not obsolete in America.]

MAR, in nightmar. [See Nightmar.]

M'AR, noun An injury.

1. A lake. [See Mere.]

MAR'ACAN, noun A species of parrot in Brazil.

MAR'ACOCK, noun A plant of the genus Passiflora.

MARANA'THA, noun The Lord comes or has come; a word used by the apostle Paul in expressing a curse. This word was used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, 'may the Lord come quickly to take vengeance on thee for thy crimes.'

MAR'ANON, noun The proper name of a river in South America, the largest in the world; most absurdly called Amazon.

MARAS'MUS, noun [Gr. to cause to pine or waste away.]

Atrophy; a wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption.

MARAUD', verb intransitive [Heb. to rebel; Latin cursus, curro.]

To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

MARAUD'ER, noun A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; usually applied to small parties of soldiers.

MARAUD'ING, participle present tense Roving in search of plunder.

MARAUD'ING, noun A roving for plunder; a plundering by invaders.

MARAVE'DI, noun A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mills American money, less than a farthing sterling.

M'ARBLE, noun [Latin marmor; Gr. white.]

1. The popular name of any species of calcarious stone or mineral, of a compact texture, and of a beautiful appearance, susceptible of a good polish. The varieties are numerous, and greatly diversified in color. marble is limestone, or a stone which may be calcined to lime, a carbonate of lime; but limestone is a more general name, comprehending the calcarious stones of an inferior texture, as well as those which admit a fine polish. marble is much used for statues, busts, pillars, chimney pieces, monuments, etc.

2. A little ball of marble or other stone, used by children in play.

3. A stone remarkable for some inscription or sculpture.

Arundel marbles,

Arundelian marbles, marble pieces with a chronicle of the city of Athens inscribed on them; presented to the university of Oxford, by Thomas, earl of Arundel.

M'ARBLE, adjective Made of marble; as a marble pillar.

1. Variegated in color; stained or veined like marble; as the marble cover of a book.

2. Hard; insensible; as a marble heart.

M'ARBLE, verb transitive To variegate in color; to cloud; to stain or vein like marble; as, to marble the cover of a book.

M'ARBLED, participle passive Diversified in color; veined like marble.

M'ARBLING, participle present tense Variegating in colors; clouding or veining like marble.

M'ARBLING, noun The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.

M'ARCASITE, noun A name which has been given to all sorts of minerals, to ores, pyrites, and semi-metals. It is now obsolete.

MARCASIT'IC, adjective Pertaining to marcasite; of the nature of marcasite.

MARCES'CENT, adjective [Latin marcescens, marcesco.]

Withering; fading; decaying.

MARCES'SIBLE, adjective That may wither; liable to decay.

M'ARCH, noun [Latin Mars, the god of war.]

The third month of the year.

M'ARCH, verb intransitive To border on; to be contiguous to.

M'ARCH, verb intransitive [Latin marceo]

1. To move by steps and in order, as soldiers; to move in a military manner. We say, the army marched, or the troops marched.

2. To walk in a grave, deliberate or stately manner.

Like thee, great son of Jove, like thee,

When clad in rising majesty,

Thou marchest down o'er Delos' hills.

M'ARCH, verb transitive To cause to move, as an army. Buonaparte marched an immense army to Moscow, but he did not march them back to France.

1. To cause to move in order or regular procession.

M'ARCH, noun

1. The walk or movement of soldiers in order, whether infantry or cavalry. The troops were fatigued with a long march

2. A grave, deliberate or solemn walk.

The long majestic march

3. A slow or laborious march

4. A signal to move; a particular beat of the drum.

5. Movement; progression; advance, as the march of reason; the march of mind.

M'ARCHER, noun The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.

M'ARCHES, noun plural Borders; limits; confines; as lord of the marches

M'ARCHING, participle present tense Moving or walking in order or in a stately manner.

M'ARCHING, noun Military movement; passage of troops.

M'ARCHIONESS, noun The wife or widow of a marquis; or a female having the rank and dignity of a marquis.

M'ARCHPANE, noun [Latin panis, bread.]

A kind of sweet bread or biscuit. [Not used.]

M'ARCID, adjective [Latin marcidus, from marceo, to pine.]

Pining; wasted away; lean; withered.

M'ARCOR, noun [Latin] The state of withering or wasting; leanness; waste of flesh. [Little used.]

MARE, noun The female of the horse, or equine genus of quadrupeds.

A kind or torpor or stagnation which seems to press the stomach in sleep; the incubus. [It is now used only in the compound, nightmare, which ought to be written nightmar.]

MAR'ECA, noun A species of duck in South America.

MARE'NA, noun A kind of fish somewhat like a pilchard.

M'ARESCHAL, noun m'arshal. The chief commander of an army.

M'ARGARATE, noun [Latin margarita, a pearl, from the Greek.]

In chimistry, a compound of margaric acid with a base.

MARGAR'IC, adjective [supra.] Pertaining to pearl. The margaric acid is obtained by digesting soap made of hog's lard and potash, in water. It appears in the form of pearly scales.

M'ARGARIN

M'ARGARINE, noun A peculiar pearl-like substance, extracted from hog's lard; called also margarite and margaric acid.

M`ARGARINE, n. A peculiar pearl-like substance, extracted from hog's lard; called also margarite and margaric acid.

M'ARGARITE, noun A pearl.

1. Margaric acid.

2. A mineral of a grayish white color found in Tyrol.

M'ARGAY, noun An American animal of the cat kind.

M'ARGIN, noun [Latin margo.]

1. A border; edge; brink; verge; as the margin of a river or lake.

2. The edge of the leaf or page of a book, left blank or filled with notes.

3. The edge of a wound.

4. In botany, the edge of a leaf.

M'ARGIN, verb transitive To furnish with a margin; to border.

1. To enter in the margin

M'ARGINAL, adjective Pertaining to a margin.

1. Written or printed in the margin; as a marginal note or gloss.

M'ARGINALLY, adverb In the margin of a book.

M'ARGINATED, adjective Having a margin.

M'ARGODE, noun A bluish gray stone, resembling clay in external appearance, but so hard as to cut spars and zeolites.

M'ARGOT, noun A fish of the perch kind, found in the waters of Carolina.

M'ARGRAVE, noun Originally, a lord or keeper of the marches or borders; now a title of nobility in Germany, etc.

MARGRA'VIATE, noun The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.

MAR'IETS, noun A kind of violet, [violae marianae.]

MARIG'ENOUS, adjective [Latin mare, the sea, and gigno, to produce.]

Produced in or by the sea.

MAR'IGOLD, noun A plant of the genus Calendula, bearing a yellow flower. There are several plants of different genera bearing this name; as the African marigold of the genus Tagetes; corn-marigold, of the genus Chrysanthemum; fig-marigold, of the genus Mesembryanthemum; marsh-marigold, of the genus Caltha.

MAR'IKIN, noun A species of monkey having a mane.

MAR'INATE, verb transitive To salt or pickle fish, and then preserve them in oil or vinegar. [Little used.]

MARINE, adjective [Latin marinus, from mare, the sea.]

1. Pertaining to the sea; as marine productions or bodies; marine shells.

2. Transacted at sea; done on the ocean; as a marine engagement.

3. Doing duty on the sea; as a marine officer; marine forces.

MARINE, noun A soldier that serves on board of a ship in naval engagements. In the plural, marines, a body of troops trained to do military service on board of ships.

1. The whole navy of a kingdom or state.

2. The whole economy of naval affairs, comprehending the building, rigging, equipping, navigating and management of ships of war in engagements.

MAR'INER, noun [Latin mare, the sea.] A seaman or sailor; one whose occupation is to assist in navigating ships.

MAR'IPUT, noun The zoril, an animal of the skunk tribe.

MAR'ISH, noun [Latin mare.] Low ground, wet or covered with water and coarse grass; a fen; a bog; a moor. It is now written marsh, which see.

MAR'ISH, adjective Morry; fenny; boggy.

MAR'ITAL, adjective [Latin maritus.] Pertaining to a husband.

MAR'ITIME, adjective [Latin maritimus, from mare, the sea.]

1. Relating or pertaining to the sea or ocean; as maritime affairs.

2. Performed on the sea; naval; as maritime service.

3. Bordering on the sea; as a maritime coast.

4. Situated near the sea; as maritime towns.

5. Having a navy and commerce by sea; as maritime powers.

Maritimal is not now used.

[Note. We never say, a maritime body, a maritime shell or production, a maritime officer or engagement, a maritime league. See Marine.]

M'ARJORAM, noun A plant of the genus Origanum, of several species. The sweet marjoram is peculiarly aromatic and fragrant, and much used in cookery. The Spanish marjoram is of the genus Urtica.

M'ARK, noun [Latin mercor, the primary sense of which is to go, to pass; Gr. to pass; Eng. fair, and fare.]

1. A visible line made by drawing one substance on another; as a mark made by chalk or charcoal, or a pen.

2. A line, groove or depression made by stamping or cutting; an incision; a channel or impression; as the mark of a chisel, of a stamp, of a rod or whip; the mark of the finger or foot.

3. Any note or sign of distinction.

The Lord set a mark upon Cain. Genesis 4:15.

4. Any visible effect of force or agency.

There are scarce any marks left of a subterraneous fire.

5. Any apparent or intelligible effect; proof, evidence.

The confusion of tongues was a mark of separation.

6. Notice taken.

The laws

Stand like the forfeits in a barber's shop,

As much for mock as mark

7. Any thing to which a missile weapon may be directed.

France was a fairer mark to shoot at than Ireland.

8. Any object used as a guide, or to which the mind may be directed. The dome of the State house in Boston is a good mark for seamen.

9. Any thing visible by which knowledge of something may be obtained; indication; as the marks of age in a horse. Civility is a mark of politeness or respect. Levity is a mark of weakness.

10. A character made by a person who cannot write his name, and intended as a substitute for it.

11. A weight of certain commodities, but particularly of gold and silver, used in several states of Europe; in Great Britain, a money of account, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence. In some countries, it is a coin.

12. A license of reprisals. [See Marque.]

M'ARK, verb transitive

1. To draw or make a visible line or character with any substance; as, to mark with chalk or with compasses.

2. To stamp; to impress; to make a visible impression, figure or indenture; as, to mark a sheep with a brand.

3. To make an incision; to lop off a part; to make any sign of distinction; as, to mark sheep or cattle by cuts in their ears.

4. To form a name or the initials of a name for distinction; as, to mark cloth; to mark a handkerchief.

5. To notice; to take particular observation of.

Mark them who cause divisions and offenses. Romans 16:17.

Mark the perfect man, and behold the upright, for the end of that man is peace. Psalms 37:37.

6. To heed; to regard.

To mark out, to notify, as by a mark; to point out; to designate. The ringleaders were marked out for seizure and punishment.

M'ARK, verb intransitive To note; to observe critically; to take particular notice; to remark.

Mark, I pray you, and see how this man seeketh mischief. l Kings 20.

M'ARKABLE, adjective Remarkable. [Not in use.]

M'ARKED, participle passive Impressed with any note or figure of distinction; noted; distinguished by some character.

M'ARKER, noun One who puts a mark on any thing.

1. One that notes or takes notice.

M'ARKET, noun [Latin mercatus, from mercor, to buy.]

1. A public place in a city or town, where provisions or cattle are exposed to sale; an appointed place for selling and buying at private sale, a distinguished from an auction.

2. A public building in which provisions are exposed to sale; a market-house.

3. Sale; the exchange of provisions or goods for money; purchase or rate of purchase and sale. The seller says he comes to a bad market when the buyer says he comes to a good market We say, the markets are low or high; by which we understand the price or rate of purchase. We say that commodities find a quick or ready market; markets are dull. We are not able to find a market for our goods or provisions.

4. Place of sale; as the British market; the American market

5. The privilege of keeping a public market

M'ARKET, verb intransitive To deal in market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.

M'ARKETABLE, noun That may be sold; salable.

1. Current in market; as marketable value.

M'ARKSMAN, noun [Mark and man.] One that is skillful to hit a mark; he that shoots well.

1. One who, not able to write, makes his mark instead of his name.

M'ARL, noun [Latin marga.] A species of calcarious earth, of different composition, being united with clay or fuller's earth. In a crude state, it effervesces with acids. It is found loose and friable, or more or less indurated. It possesses fertilizing properties and is much used for manure.

Marl is composed of carbonate of lime and clay in various proportions.

M'ARL, verb transitive To overspread or manure with marl

1. To fasten with marline.

MARLA'CEOUS, adjective Resembling marl; partaking of the qualities of marl.

M'ARLITE, noun A variety of marl.

MARLIT'IC, adjective Partaking of the qualities of marlite.

M'ARLPIT, noun A pit where marl is dug.

M'ARLY, adjective Consisting in or partaking of marl.

1. Resembling marl.

2. Abounding with marl.

M'ARMALADE, noun [Latin melo, mel.] The pulp of quinces boiled into a consistence with sugar, or a confection of plums, apricots, quinces, etc. boiled with sugar. In Scotland, it is made of Seville oranges and sugar only.

M'ARMALITE, noun [Gr. to shine.] A mineral of a pearly or metallic luster; a hydrate of magnesia.

MARMORA'CEOUS, adjective Pertaining to or like marble. [See Marmorean, the more legitimate word.]

M'ARMORATED, adjective [Latin marmor, marble.]

Covered with marble. [Little used.]

MARMORA'TION, noun A covering or incrusting with marble. [Little used.]

MARMO'REAN, adjective [Latin marmoreus.] Pertaining to marble.

1. Made of marble.

M'ARMOSE, noun An animal resembling the opossum, but less. Instead of a bag, this animal has two longitudinal folds near the thighs, which serve to inclose the young.

M'ARMOSET, noun A small monkey.

M'ARMOT, noun A quadruped of the genus Arctomys, allied to the murine tribe. It is about the size of the rabbit, and inhabits the higher region of the Alps and Pyrenees. The name is also given to other species of the genus. The woodchuck of North America is called the Maryland marmot

MAROON', noun A name given to free blacks living on the mountains in the West India isles.

MAROON', verb transitive To put a sailor a shore on a desolate isle, under pretense of his having committed some great crime.

M'ARQUE

M'ARK , noun Letters of marque are letters of reprisal; a license or extraordinary commission granted by a sovereign of one state to his subjects, to make reprisals at sea on the subjects of another, under pretense of indemnification for injuries received. marque is said to be from the same root as marches, limits, frontiers, and literally to denote a license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction on land, for the purpose of obtaining satisfaction for theft by seizing the property of the subjects of a foreign nation. I can give no better account of the origin of this word.

1. The ship commissioned for making reprisals.

M'ARQUETRY, noun Inlaid work; work inlaid with variegations of fine wood, shells, ivory and the like.

M'ARQUIS, noun A title of honor in Great Britain, next to that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and marquis is now a mere title conferred by patent.

M'ARQUIS, noun A marchioness.

M'ARQUISATE, noun The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis.

M'ARRER, noun [from mar.] One that mars, hurts or impairs.

MARRIABLE, for marriageable. [Not used.]

MAR'RIAGE, noun [Latin mas, maris.] The act of uniting a man and woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity, and for securing the maintenance and education of children.

Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled. Hebrews 13:4

1. A feast made on the occasion of a marriage

The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage for his son. Matthew 22:2.

2. In a scriptural sense, the union between Christ and his church by the covenant of grace. Revelation 19:7.

MAR'RIAGEABLE, adjective Of an age suitable for marriage; fit to be married. Young persons are marriageable at an earlier age in warm climates than in cold.

1. Capable of union.

MAR'RIED, participle passive [from marry.] United in wedlock.

1. adjective Conjugal; connubial; as the married state.

MAR'ROW, noun

1. A soft oleaginous substance contained in the cavities of animal bones.

2. The essence; the best part.

3. In the Scottish dialect, a companion; fellow; associate; match.

MAR'ROW, verb transitive To fill with marrow or with fat; to glut.

MAR'ROWFAT, noun A kind of rich pea.

MAR'ROWISH, adjective Of the nature of marrow.

MAR'ROWLESS, adjective Destitute of marrow.

MAR'ROWY, adjective Full of marrow; pithy.

MAR'RY, verb transitive [Latin mas, maris, a male; Latin vir, a husband, a lord or master.]

1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to join a man and woman for life, and constitute them man and wife according to the laws or customs of a nation. By the laws, ordained clergymen have a right to marry persons within certain limits prescribed.

Tell him he shall marry the couple himself.

2. To dispose of in wedlock.

Mecaenas told Augustus he must either marry his daughter Julia to Agrippa, or take away his life.

[In this sense, it is properly applicable to females only.]

3. To take for husband or wife. We say, a man marries a woman; or a woman marries a man. The first was the original sense, but both are now well authorized.

4. In Scripture, to unite in covenant, or in the closest connection.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah, for I am married to you. Jeremiah 3:1.

MAR'RY, verb intransitive To enter into the conjugal state; to unite as husband and wife; to take a husband or a wife.

If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry Matthew 19:9.

I will therefore that the younger women marry 1 Timothy 5:11.

MAR'RY, a term of asseveration, is said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the virgin Mary. It is obsolete.

M'ARS, noun In mythology, the god of war; in modern usage, a planet; and in the old chimistry, a term for iron.

M'ARSH, noun A tract of low land, usually or occasionally covered with water, or very wet and miry, and overgrown with coarse grass or with detached clumps of sedge; a fen. It differs from swamp, which is merely moist or spungy land, but often producing valuable crops of grass. Lowland occasionally overflowed by the tides, is called salt marsh

M'ARSHAL, noun

1. The chief officer of arms, whose duty it is to regulate combats in the lists.

2. One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession and the like.

3. A harbinger; a pursuivant; one who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment.

4. In France, the highest military officer. In other countries of Europe, a marshal is a military officer of high rank, and called field-marshal.

5. In America, a civil officer, appointed by the President and Senate of the United States, in each judicial district, answering to the sheriff of a county. His duty is to execute all precepts directed to him, issued under the authority of the United States.

6. An officer of any private society, appointed to regulate their ceremonies and execute their orders.

Earl marshal of England, the eighth officer of state; an honorary title, and personal, until made hereditary by Charles II, in the family of Howard. During a vacancy in the office of high constable, the earl marshal has jurisdiction in the court of chivalry.

Earl marshal of Scotland. This officer formerly had command of the cavalry, under the constable. This office was held by the family of Keith, but forfeited by rebellion in 1715.

Knight marshal or marshal of the king's house, formerly an officer who was to execute the commands of the lord steward, and have the custody of prisoners committed by the court of verge; hence, the name of a prison in Southwark.

Marshal of the king's bench, an officer who has the custody of the prison called the king's bench, in Southwark. He attends on the court and has the charge of the prisoners committed by them.

MA'RSHAL, verb transitive To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal an army; to marshal troops.

1. To lead, as a harbinger. [Not used.]

2. To dispose in due order the several parts of an escutcheon, or the coats of arms of distinct families.

M'ARSHALED, participle passive Arranged in due order.

M'ARSHALER, noun One who disposes in due order.

M'ARSHALING, participle present tense Arranging in due order.

M'ARSHALSEA, noun In England, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.

Court of marshalsea a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house, to administer justice between the king's domestic servants.

M'ARSHALSHIP, noun The office of a marshal.

M'ARSHY, adjective [from marsh.] Wet; boggy; fenny.

1. Produced in marshes; as a marshy weed.

M'ART, noun [from market.] A place of sale or traffick. It was formerly applied chiefly to markets and fairs in cities and towns, but it has now a more extensive application. We say, the United States are a principal mart for English goods; England and France are the marts of American cotton.

1. Bargain; purchase and sale. [Not used.]

M'ART, verb transitive To buy and sell; to traffick. [Not used.]

M'ARTAGON, noun A kind of lily.

M'ARTEL, verb transitive To strike.

MARTEN. [See Martin.]

M'ARTEN, noun An animal of the genus Mustela, or weasel kind, whose fur is used in making hats and muffs.

M'ARTIAL, adjective [Latin martialis; Mars, the god of war.]

1. Pertaining to war; suited to war; as martial equipage; martial music; a martial appearance.

2. Warlike; brave; given to war; as a martial nation or people.

3. Suited to battle; as a martial array.

4. Belonging to war, or to an army and navy; opposed to civil; as martial law; a court martial

5. Pertaining to Mars, or borrowing the properties of that planet.

The natures of the fixed start are esteemed martial or jovial, according to the colors by which they answer to those planets.

6. Having the properties if iron, called by the old chimists, Mars.

M'ARTIALISM, noun Bravery; martial exercises. [Not in use.]

M'ARTIALIST, noun A warrior; a fighter. [Not used.]

M'ARTIN, noun [Latin murus.] A bird of the genus Hirundo, which forms its nest in buildings. It was formerly written by some authors martlet.

M'ARTINET

M'ARTINETS, noun In ships, martinets are small lines fastened to the leech of a sail, to bring it close to the yard when the sail is furled.

M`ARTINETS, n. In ships, martinets are small lines fastened to the leech of a sail, to bring it close to the yard when the sail is furled.

M'ARTINGAL, noun

1. A strap or thong fastened to the girth under a horse's belly, and at the other end to the muss-roll, passing between the fore legs.

2. In ships, a rope extending from the jibboom, to the end of a bumpkin under the cap of the bowsprit.

M'ARTINMAS, noun [Martin and mass.] The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November.

M'ARTLET, noun [See Martin.] Martlets, in heraldry, are little birds represented without feed, used as a mark of distinction for younger brothers of a family, who are thus admonished that they are to trust for promotion to the wings of merit.

M'ARTLET, noun In military language, a strict disciplinarian; so called from an officer of that name.

M'ARTYR, noun [Gr. a witness.] One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel. Stephen was the first christian martyr

To be a martyr signifies only to witness the truth of Christ.

1. One who suffers death in defense of any cause. We say, a man dies a martyr to his political principles or to the cause of liberty.

M'ARTYR, verb transitive To put to death for adhering to what one believes to be the truth; to sacrifice one on account of his faith or profession.

1. To murder; to destroy.

M'ARTYRDOM, noun The death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of one's adherence to the faith of the gospel.

He intends to crown their innocence with the glory of martyrdom

M'ARTYRIZE, verb transitive To offer as a martyr. [Little used.]

MARTYROLOG'ICAL, adjective Registering or registered in a catalogue or martyrs.

MARTYROL'OGIST, noun A writer of martyrology, or an account of martyrs.

MARTYROL'OGY, noun [Gr. a witness, and discourse.] A history or account of martyrs with their sufferings; or a register of martyrs.

M'ARVEL, noun [Latin mirabilis, wonderful, from miror; demiror, mora, delay, and perhaps morior; Eng. demur, etc.]

1. A wonder; that which arrests the attention and causes a person to stand or gaze, or to pause. [This word is nearly obsolete, or at least little used in elegant writings.]

2. Wonder; admiration.

Marvel of Peru, a plant of the genus Mirabilis.

M'ARVEL, verb intransitive To wonder. It expresses less than astonish or amaze. [Nearly obsolete.]

M'ARVELING, participle present tense Wondering.

M'ARVELOUS, adjective

1. Wonderful; strange; exciting wonder or some degree of surprise.

This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Psalms 118:1.

2. Surpassing credit; incredible.

3. The marvelous in writings, is that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; opposed to probable.

4. Formerly used adverbially for wonderfully, exceedingly.

M'ARVELOUSLY, adverb Wonderfully; strangely; in a manner to excite wonder or surprise.

M'ARVELOUSNESS, noun Wonderfulness; strangeness.

M'ASCLE, noun m'asl. In heraldry, a lozenge, as it were perforated.

M'ASCULINE, adjective [Latin masculinus, from masculus, mas.]

1. Having the qualities of a man; strong; robust; as a masculine body.

2. Resembling man; coarse; opposed to delicate or soft; as masculine features.

3. Bold; brave; as a masculine spirit or courage.

4. In grammar, the masculine gender of words is that which expresses a male, or something analogous to it; or it is the gender appropriated to males, though not always expressing the male sex.

M'ASCULINELY, adverb Like a man.

M'ASCULINENESS, noun The quality or state of being manly; resemblance of man in qualities; as in coarseness of features, strength of body, boldness, etc.

MASH, noun [Latin mastico.]

1. A mixture or mass of ingredients, beaten or blended together in a promiscuous manner.

2. A mixture for a horse.

3. A mesh. [See Mesh, the more common orthography.]

MASH, verb transitive To beat into a confused mass.

1. To bruise; to crush by beating or pressure; as, to mash apples in a mill.

2. To mix malt and water together in brewing.

MASH'ED, participle passive Beat into a mass; bruised; crushed; mixed into a mash.

MASH'ING, participle present tense Beating into a mass; bruising; crushing.

MASH'Y, adjective Produced by crushing or bruising.

M'ASK, noun

1. A cover for the face; that which conceals the face, especially a cover with apertures for the eyes and mouth; a visor. A mask is designed to conceal the face from beholders, or to preserve the complexion from injury by exposure to the weather and the rays of the sun.

2. That which disguises; any pretense or subterfuge.

3. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, in which the company all wear masks; a masquerade.

4. A revel; a bustle; a piece of mummery.

This thought might lead through this world's vain mask

5. A dramatic performance written in a tragic style, without attention to rules or probability.

6. In architecture, a piece of sculpture representing some grotesque form, to fill and adorn vacant places, as in friezes, panels of doors, keys of arches, etc.

M'ASK, verb transitive To cover the face for concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.

1. To disguise; to cover; to hide.

Masking the business from the common eye.

M'ASK, verb intransitive To revel; to play the fool in masquerade.

1. To be disguised in any way.

M'ASKED, participle passive Having the face covered; concealed; disguised.

1. adjective In botany, personate.

M'ASKER, noun One that wears a mask; one that plays the fool at a masquerade.

M'ASKERY, noun The dress or disguise of a masker.

M'ASKING, participle present tense Covering with a mask; concealing.

MASLIN. [See Meslin.]

MA'SON, noun ma'sn.

1. A man whose occupation is to lay bricks and stones, or to construct the walls of buildings, chimneys and the like, which consist of bricks or stones.

2. A member of the fraternity of free masons.

MASON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the craft or mysteries of free masons.

MA'SONRY, noun

1. The art or occupation of a mason.

2. The work or performance of a mason; as when we say, the wall is good masonry

3. The craft of free masons.

MAS'ORA, noun [Heb.] A Hebrew work on the bible, by several Rabbins.

MASORET'IC, adjective [Heb. to deliver, whence masora, tradition, whence the Masorites, the adherents to the traditionary readings of the Scriptures.] Relating to the Masorites, who interpreted the Scriptures by tradition, and invented the Hebrew points to fix the true reading and pronunciation. Whence the vowel points are denominated masoretic

MAS'ORITE, noun One of the writers of the Masora.

MASQUERA'DE, noun

1. A nocturnal assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation and other diversions.

In courtly balls and midnight masquerades.

2. Disguise.

I came to visit thee in masquerade

3. A Spanish diversion on horseback.

MASQUERA'DE, verb intransitive To go in disguise.

1. To assemble in masks.

MASQUERA'DE, verb transitive To put in disguise.

MASQUERA'DER, noun A person wearing a mask; one disguised.

MASQUERA'DING, participle present tense Assembling in masks for diversion.

M'ASS, noun [Latin massa, a mass; Gr. to beat or pound.]

1. A lump; a body of matter concreted, collected or formed into a lump; applied to any solid body; as a mass of iron or lead; a mass of flesh; as mass of ice; a mass of dough.

2. A collective body of fluid matter. The ocean is a mass of water.

3. A heap; as a mass of earth.

4. A great quantity collected; as a mass of treasure.

5. Bulk; magnitude.

This army of such mass and charge.

6. An assemblage; a collection of particulars blended, confused or indistinct; as a mass of colors.

They lose their forms, and make a mass

Confused and black, if brought too near.

7. Gross body of things considered collectively; the body; the bulk; as the mass of people in a nation. A small portion of morbid matter may infect the whole mass of fluids in the body.

M'ASS, noun [Low Latin missa. The word signifies primarily leisure, cessation from labor, from the Latin missus, remissus, like the Latin ferioe; hence a feast or holiday.] The service of the Romish church; the office or prayers used at the celebration of the eucharist; the consecration of the bread and wine.

M'ASS, verb intransitive To celebrate mass [Not used.]

M'ASS, verb transitive To fill; to stuff; to strengthen. [Not used.]

MAS'SACER

MAS'SACRE, noun

1. The murder of an individual, or the slaughter of numbers of human beings, with circumstances of cruelty; the indiscriminate killing of human beings, without authority or necessity, and without forms civil or military. It differs from assassination, which is a private killing. It differs from carnage, which is rather the effect of slaughter than slaughter itself, and is applied to the authorized destruction of men in battle. Massacre is sometimes called butchery, from its resemblance to the killing of cattle. If a soldier kills a man in battle in his own defense, it is a lawful act; it is killing, and it is slaughter, but it is not a massacre. Whereas, if a soldier kills an enemy after he has surrendered, it is a massacre, a killing without necessity, often without authority, contrary to the usages of nations, and of course with cruelty. The practice of killing prisoners, even when authorized by the commander, is properly massacre; as the authority given proceeds from cruelty. We have all heard of the massacre of the protestants in France, in the reign of Charles IX. and frequent instances of barbarous massacre occur in the war between the Turks and Greeks.

2. Murder.

MAS'SACER

MAS'SACRE, verb transitive To murder human beings with circumstances of cruelty; to kill men with indiscriminate violence, without authority or necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher human beings.

MAS'SACRE, n.

MAS'SACRER, noun One who massacres. [A very bad word.]

M'ASSER, noun A priest who celebrates mass.

MAS'SETER, noun [Gr. to chew.] A muscle which raises the under jaw.

MAS'SICOT

M'ASSINESS

M'ASSIVE

M'ASSIVENESS, noun [See Massy, Massive.] The state of being massy; great weight or weight with bulk; ponderousness.

M`ASSINESS

M`ASSIVE

M'ASSY, adjective Heavy; weighty; ponderous; bulky and heavy; as a massy shield; a massy rock.

The yawning rocks in massy fragments fly.

M'ASSIVE, adjective In mineralogy, in mass; having a crystalline structure, but not a regular form. We say, a mineral occurs massive.

M'AST, noun A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards, sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, etc.

M'AST, noun The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]

M'ASTED, adjective Furnished with a mast or masts.

M'ASTER, noun [Latin magister, compounded of the root of magis, major, greater.]

1. A man who rules, governs or directs either men or business. A man who owns slaves is their master; he who has servants is their master; he who has apprentices is their master; he who has apprentices is their master as he has the government and direction of them. The man who superintends and directs any business, is master or master workman.

O thou my friend, my genius, come along,

Thou master of the poet and the song.

Nations that want protectors, will have masters.

2. A director, head, or chief manager; as the master of a feast.

3. The owner; proprietor; with the idea of governing. The master of a house may be the owner, or the occupant, who has a temporary right of governing it.

It would be believed that he rather took the horse for his subject, than his master

4. A lord; a ruler; one who has supreme dominion.

Caesar, the world's great master and his own.

5. A chief; a principal; as the master root of a plant.

One master passion swallows up the rest.

6. One who has possession, and the power of controlling or using at pleasure.

When I have made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas--

7. The commander of a merchant ship.

8. In ships of war, an officer who takes rank immediately after the lieutenants, and navigates the ship under the direction of the captain.

9. The director of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

In this sense the word is giving place to the more appropriate words teacher, instructor and preceptor; at least it is so in the United States.

10. One uncontrolled.

Let every man be master of his time.

11. An appellation of respect.

Master doctor, you have brought those drugs.

12. An appellation given to young men.

Where there are little masters and misses in a house--

13. A man eminently or perfectly skilled in any occupation, art or science. We say, a man is master of his business; a great master of music, of the flute or violin; a master of his subject, etc.

14. A title of dignity in colleges and universities; as master of Arts.

15. The chief of a society; as the Grand master of Malta, of free-masons, etc.

16. The director of ceremonies at public places, or on public occasions.

17. The president of a college.

Master in chancery, an assistant of the lord chancellor, chosen from among the barristers to sit in chancery, or at the rolls.

To be master of one's self, to have the command or control of one's own passions.

The word master has numerous applications, in all of which it has the sense of director, chief or superintendent.

As a title of respect given to adult persons, it is pronounced mister; a pronunciation which seems to have been derived from some of the northern dialects. [supra.]

M'ASTER, verb intransitive To conquer; to overpower; to subdue; to bring under control.

Obstinacy and willful neglect must be mastered, even though it costs blows.

Evil customs must be mastered by degrees.

1. To execute with skill.

I will not offer that which I cannot master

2. To rule; to govern.

--And rather father thee than master thee. [Not used.]

M'ASTER, verb intransitive To be skillful; to excel.

M'ASTERDOM, noun Dominion, rule. [Not used.]

M'ASTERFUL, adjective Having the skill of a master; also, imperious; arbitrary.

M'ASTERLESS, adjective Destitute of a master or owner.

1. Ungoverned; unsubdued.

M'ASTERLY, adjective Formed or executed with superior skill; suitable to a master; most excellent; skillful; as a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly stroke of policy.

1. Imperious.

M'ASTERLY, adverb With the skill of a master.

Thou dost speak masterly

'I think it very masterly written, ' in Swift, is improper or unusual.

M'ASTERSHIP, noun Dominion; rule; supreme power.

1. Superiority; preeminence.

Where noble youths for mastership should strive.

2. Chief work; master-piece. [Not used.]

3. Superior skill.

4. Title of respect; in irony.

How now, signor Launce, what new with your mastership

5. The office of president of a college, or other institution.

M'ASTERY, noun Dominion; power of governing or commanding.

If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops--Raleigh

1. Superiority in competition; preeminence.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1 Corinthians 9:25.

2. Victory in war.

It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, Exodus 32:18.

3. Eminent skill; superior dexterity.

He could attain to a mastery in all languages.

4. Attainment of eminent skill or power.

The learning and mastery of a tongue being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.--Locke

M'ASTFUL, adjective [from mast.] Abounding with mast, or fruit of oak, beech and other forest trees; as the mastful chestnut.

MAS'TIC

MAS'TICATE, verb transitive [Latin mastico.] To chew; to grind with the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; as, to masticate food.

MAS'TICATE, v.t. [L. mastico.] To chew; to grind with the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; as, to masticate food.

MAS'TICATED, participle passive Chewed.

MAS'TICATING, participle present tense Chewing; breaking into small pieces with the teeth.

MASTICA'TION, noun The act or operation of chewing solid food, breaking it into small pieces, and mixing it with saliva; thus preparing it for deglutition, and more easy digestion in the stomach.

Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion.

MAS'TICATORY, adjective Chewing; adapted to perform the office of chewing food.

MAS'TICATORY, noun A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.

MAS'TICH, noun [Latin mastiche.]

1. A resin exuding from the mastic-tree, a species of Pistacia, and obtained by incision. It is in white farinaceous tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic. It is used also as an ingredient in drying varnishes.

2. A kind of mortar or cement.

MAS'TICOT, noun Calcined white lead; yellow oxyd of lead. Lead exposed to the air while melting, is covered with a gray, dusky pellicle. This pellicle carefully taken off, is reduced by agitation to a greenish gray powder, inclining to yellow. This oxyd, separated from the grains of lead by sifting, and exposed to a more intense heat, sufficient to make it red hot, assumes a deep yellow color. In this state it is called massicot. Massicot, slowly heated by a moderate fire, takes a beautiful red color, and obtains the name of minium.

Massicot is sometimes used by painters, and it is used as a drier in the composition of ointments and plasters.

M'ASTIFF, noun plural mastiffs. Mastives is irregular. [Low Latin mastivus.] A large species of dog, remarkable for strength and courage. Strabo informs us that the mastiffs of Britain were trained for war, and used by the Gauls in battle.

M'ASTLESS, adjective Having no mast; as a vessel.

1. Bearing no mast; as a mastless oak or beech.

MASTLIN. [See Meslin.]

MAS'TODON, noun [Gr. mamilla, and tooth.] A genus of mammiferous animals resembling the elephant, now extinct, and known only by their fossil remains. It includes the noun American mammoth.

MAS'TOID, adjective [Gr. the nipple or breast, and form.]

Resembling the nipple or breast; as the mastoid muscle; the mastoid process.

MASTRESS, for mistress, is not used.

M'ASTY, adjective Full of mast; abounding with acorns, etc.

MAT, noun [Latin matta.]

1. A texture of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, or other material, to be laid on a floor for cleaning the boots and shoes of those who enter a house, and for other purposes.

2. A web of rope-yard, used in ships to secure the standing rigging from the friction of the yards, etc.

MAT, verb transitive To cover or lay with mats.

1. To twist together; to interweave like a mat; to entangle.

And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.

2. To press together; to lay flat; as matted grass.

MAT'ACHIN, noun An old dance.

MAT'ADORE, noun One of the three principal cards in the game of omber and quadrille, which are always two black aces and the deuce in spades and clubs, and the seven in hearts and diamonds.

MATCH, noun

1. Some very combustible substance used for catching fire from a spark, as hemp, flax, cotton, tow dipped in sulphur, or a species of dry wood, called vulgarly touch-wood.

2. A rope or cord made of hempen tow, composed of three strands slightly twisted, and again covered with tow and boiled in the lees of old wine. This when lighted at one end, retains fire and burns slowly till consumed. It is used in firing artillery, etc.

MATCH, noun

1. A person who is equal to another in strength or other quality; one able to cope with another.

Government--makes an innocent man of the lowest ranks a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.

2. One that suits or tallies with another; or any thing that equals another.

3. Union by marriage.

Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.

In popular language, it is applied to the engagement of lovers before marriage.

4. One to be married.

She inherited a fair fortune of her own--and was looked upon as the richest match in the west.

MATCH, noun [Gr. a battle, a fight.] A context; competition for victory; or a union of parties for contest; as in games or sports.

A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

MATCH, verb transitive To equal.

No settled senses of the world can match

The pleasure of that madness.

1. To show an equal.

No history or antiquity can match his policies and his conduct.

2. To oppose as equal; to set against as equal in contest.

Eternal might

To match with their inventions they presumed.

So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.

3. To suit; to make equal; to proportion.

Let poets match their subject to their strength--

--To match patterns and colors.

4. To marry; to give in marriage.

A senator of Rome, while Rome survived,

Would not have match'd his daughter with a king.

5. To purify vessels by burning a match in them.

MATCH, verb intransitive To be united in marriage.

I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep.

1. To suit; to correspond; to be of equal size, figure or quality; to tally. We say of a piece of cloth, it does not match with another.

MATCH'ABLE, adjective Equal; suitable; fit to be joined.

1. Correspondent. [Little used.]

MATCH'ED, participle passive Equaled; suited; placed in opposition; married.

MATCH'ING, participle present tense Equaling; suiting; setting in opposition; uniting in marriage.

MATCH'LESS, adjective Having no equal; as matchless impudence; a matchless queen; matchless love or charms.

MATCH'LESSLY, adverb In a manner or degree not to be equaled.

MATCH'LESSNESS, noun The state or quality of being without an equal.

MATCH'LOCK, noun Formerly, the lock of a musket which was fired by a match.

MATCH'MAKER, noun One who makes matches for burning.

1. One who contrives or effects a union by marriage.

MATE, noun

1. A companion; an associate; one who customarily associates with another. Young persons nearly of an age, and frequently associating, are called mates or playmates.

2. A husband or wife.

3. The male or female of animals which associate for propagation and the care of their young.

4. One that eats at the same table.

5. One that attends the same school; a school-mate.

6. An officer in a merchant ship or ship of war, whose duty is to assist the master or commander. In a merchant ship, the mate in the absence of the master, takes command of the ship. Large ships have a first, second, and third mate

In general, mate in compound words, denotes an assistant, and ranks next in subordination to the principal; as master's mate; surgeon's mate etc.

MATE, noun In chess, the state of the king so situated that he cannot escape.

MATE, verb transitive To match; to marry.

1. To equal; to be equal to.

For thus the mastful chestnut mates the skies.

2. To oppose; to equal.

--I i' th' way of loyalty and truth,

Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.

MATE, verb transitive To enervate; to subdue; to crush.

Audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. [Not used.]

MA'TELESS, adjective Having no mate or companion.

Materia Medica, a general name for every substance used in medicine.

1. An auxiliary branch of the science of medicine, which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.

MATE'RIAL, adjective [Latin materia, matter.]

1. Consisting of matter; not spiritual; as material substance; material bodies.

2. Important; momentous; more or less necessary; having influence or effect.

Hold them for catholics or heretics, it is not a thing very material in this question.

In the account of simple ideas, I shall set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.

So we say, a material point; a material fault or error; a material fact or consideration.

3. Not formal; substantial.

4. Furnishing materials; as material men.

MATE'RIAL, noun The substance or matter of which any thing is made; as, wool is the material of cloth; rags are the material of paper.

MATE'RIALISM, noun The doctrine of materialists; the opinion of those who maintain that the soul of man is not a spiritual substance distinct from matter, but that it is the result or effect or the organization of matter in the body.

The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.

MATE'RIALIST, noun One who denies the existence of spiritual substances, and maintains that the soul of man is the result of a particular organization of matter in the body.

MATERIAL'ITY, noun Material existence; corporeity; not spirituality.

1. Importance; as the materiality of facts.

MATE'RIALIZE, verb transitive To reduce to a state of matter; also, to regard as matter.

MATE'RIALLY, adverb In the state of matter.

1. Not formally; substantially.

An ill intention may spoil an act materially good.

2. In an important manner or degree; essentially. It materially concerns us to know the real motives of our actions.

MATE'RIATE

MATE'RIATED, . [Latin materiatus.] Consisting of matter. [Little used.]

MATE'RIATED, . [L. materiatus.] Consisting of matter. [Little used.]

MATERIA'TION, noun The act of forming matter. [Not used.]

MATERN'AL, adjective [Latin maternus, from mater, mother.] Motherly; pertaining to a mother; becoming a mother; as maternal love; maternal tenderness.

MATERN'ITY, noun The character or relation of a mother.

MAT'FELON, noun A plant of the genus Centaurea, knap-weed.

MATH, noun A mowing; as in aftermath.

MATHEMAT'IC

MATHEMAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin mathematicus.] Pertaining to mathematics; as mathematical knowledge; mathematical instruments.

1. According to the principles of mathematics; as mathematical exactness.

MATHEMAT'ICAL, a. [L. mathematicus.] Pertaining to mathematics; as mathematical knowledge; mathematical instruments.

MATHEMAT'ICALLY, adverb According to the laws or principles of mathematical science.

1. With mathematical certainty; demonstrably.

MATHEMATI'CIAN, noun One versed in mathematics.

MATHEMAT'ICS, noun [Latin mathematica, from Gr. to learn.] The science of quantity; the science which treats of magnitude and number, or of whatever can be measured or numbered. This science is divided into pure or speculative, which considers quantity abstractly, without relation to matter; and mixed, which treats of magnitude as subsisting in material bodies, and is consequently interwoven with physical considerations. It is the peculiar excellence of mathematics that its principles are demonstrable. Arithmetic, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and conic sections, are branches of mathematics

MATH'EMEG, noun A fish of the cod kind, inhabiting Hudson's bay.

MATH'ES, noun An herb.

MATH'ESIS, noun The doctrine of mathematics.

MAT'IN, adjective [Latin matutinus.] Pertaining to the morning; used in the morning; as a matin trumpet.

MAT'IN, noun Morning. [Not used.]

MAT'INS, noun Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.

The vigils are celebrated before them, and the nocturne and matins for the saints whose the relics are.

The winged choristers began

To chirp their matins

1. Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Romish church.

MAT'RASS, noun [Latin mitto.] A cucurbit; a chimical vessel in the shape of an egg, or with a tapering neck, open at the top, serving the purposes of digestion, evaporation, etc.

MAT'RESS, noun A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss or other soft material, and quilted.

MA'TRICE

MAT'RICIDAL, adjective Pertaining to matricide.

MAT'RICIDAL, a. Pertaining to matricide.

MAT'RICIDE, noun [Latin matricidium; mater, mother, and coedo, to slay.]

1. The killing or murder of a mother.

2. The killer or murderer of his mother.