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macadam
The broken stone used in macadamized roadways.
macumba
darling; -- an Irish term of address expressing affection.
Madcap
A person of wild behavior; an excitable, rash, violent person.
magnetic moment
The torque exerted on a magnet or dipole when it is placed in a magnetic field.
Mainpernable
Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.
Mainpernor
A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.
Mainpin
A kingbolt.
Male
Same as , a bag.
Malefeasance
See .
Malignant
A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.
mallee
A dwarf Australian eucalypt with a number of thin stems springing from a thickened stock. The most common species are and .
Malt
To make into malt; .
mammothrept
A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.
Manageable
Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; .
Manchu
Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants.
Manifestly
In a manifest manner; obviously; evidently; clearly.
manul
A wild cat (), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks.
mapping
A function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set.
Mara
The Patagonian cavy, a hare-like rodent ( or ) of the pampas of Argentina.
march equinox
The .
Mareschal
A military officer of high rank; a marshal.
Marketing
The act of selling or of purchasing in, or as in, a market.
Martyrize
To make a martyr of.
Masseterine
Masseteric.
Masterhood
The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector.
Masterliness
The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.
Mastless
Bearing no mast; .
Mastlin
See .
Matchmaking
The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
Mattages
A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also .
Matterhorn
A mountain in Italy and Switzerland, 14,690 feet high.
Maximization
The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.
Maximum
The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to .
McKinley
Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America; 20,300 feet high; also called by the native name .
Meal-mouthed
See .
Mechanograph
One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.
Meliphagan
Belonging to the genus .
Membered
Having limbs; -- chiefly used in composition.
Menopause
The period of natural cessation of menstruation. See , under .
Merchandise
The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
Metalbumin
A form of albumin found in ascitic and certain serous fluids. It is sometimes regarded as a mixture of albumin and mucin.
Metaldehyde
A white crystalline substance isomeric with, and obtained from, acetic aldehyde by polymerization, and reconvertible into the same.
Metathoracic
Of or pertaining to the metathorax.
Metemptosis
The suppression of a day in the calendar to prevent the date of the new moon being set a day too late, or the suppression of the bissextile day once in 134 years. The opposite to this is the , or the addition of a day every 330 years, and another every 2,400 years.
Meter
One who, or that which, metes or measures. See .
Microrganism
Any microscopic form of life; a form of life too small to be seen by the naked eye; -- particularly applied to bacteria, protozoa, yeasts, and similar organisms, esp. such are supposed to cause infectious diseases.
Mime
To mimic.
Mingler
One who mingles.
misaffect
To dislike.
Misapprehensively
By, or with, misapprehension.
Mispronounce
To pronounce incorrectly.
Misregard
Wrong understanding; misconstruction.
Moate
To void the excrement, as a bird; to mute.
Moderateness
The quality or state of being moderate; temperateness; moderation.
Moderator
One who, or that which, moderates, restrains, or pacifies.
Modiolar
Shaped like a bushel measure.
Moelline
An unguent for the hair.
Mohawk
One of a tribe of Indians who formed part of the Five Nations. They formerly inhabited the valley of the Mohawk River.
Monetize
To convert into money; to adopt as current money; .
Monocarpellary
Consisting of a single carpel, as the fruit of the pea, cherry, and almond.
Monogrammal
See .
Moonet
A little moon.
Moonlight
The light of the moon.
moon-splashed
splashed or covered patchily with moonlight; .
Morally
In a moral or ethical sense; according to the rules of morality.
Morass
A tract of soft, wet ground; a marsh; a fen.
moreland
Moorland.
Morrot
See .
Moslem
An adherent of Islam; a Mussulman; an orthodox Mohammedan.
Motion picture
A series of pictures on a strip of film, taken at regular intervals in rapid succession (now usually 24 frames per second for ordinary work) by a special camera, intended to capture the image of objects in motion.
Mountainet
A small mountain.
Mountant
Raised; high.
Moutan
The Chinese tree peony (), a shrub with large flowers of various colors.
mujik
A Russian peasant (especially prior to 1917).
Mulmul
A fine, soft muslin; mull.
Multiformity
The quality of being multiform; diversity of forms; variety of appearances in the same thing.
Multigenerous
Having many kinds.
Multinuclear
Containing many nuclei; .
Murder
The offense of killing a human being with malice prepense or aforethought, express or implied; intentional and unlawful homicide.
Musar
An itinerant player on the musette, an instrument formerly common in Europe.
Muscatel
Of, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes;
Muse
A gap or hole in a hedge, hence, wall, or the like, through which a wild animal is accustomed to pass; a muset.
mutual savings bank
a state-chartered savings bank owned by its depositors and managed by a board of trustees. Abbreviated .
Myroxylon
A genus of leguminous trees of tropical America, the different species of which yield balsamic products, among which are balsam of Peru, and balsam of Tolu. The species were formerly referred to .