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Macled
Marked like macle (chiastolite).
Magi
A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.
main street
A main thoroughfare, usually one in a small town having the largest concentration of retail businesses.
Mala
Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
maligned
Assailed with contemptuous language.
malodor
An offensive odor.
manila maguey
A hard fiber used in making coarse twine; from Philippine agave plants.
Manto
See .
Marasmius
A genus of chiefly small white-spored mushrooms, including the , the mushroon that grow in a .
Marcasite
A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites.
March-mad
Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under , the month.
Marined
Having the lower part of the body like a fish.
Marmose
A species of small opossum () ranging from Mexico to Brazil.
Masterful
Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary.
Mastless
Bearing no mast; .
Match
To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
Math
A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; .
Mausoleum
A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.
Meander
A winding, crooked, or involved course; .
Meandrian
Winding; having many turns.
megakaryocytic
Of or pertaining to a megakaryocyte.
melamine
A nitrogenous strongly basic chemical substance (), structurally , produced from several cyanogen compounds, and obtained as a white crystalline substance; -- formerly supposed to be produced by the decomposition of . Called also . It is used as one of the starting components (together with formaldehyde) in the preparation of melamine resins, including the commercially marketed (TM). It is solid at room temperature, and sublimes at temperatures approaching 250 C, decomposing at 345 C. Density 1.573.
Melancholy
Depressed in spirits; dejected; gloomy dismal.
Melisma
A piece of melody; a song or tune, -- as opposed to or musical declamation.
Membership
The state of being a member.
Mender
One who mends or repairs.
Merely
Purely; unmixedly; absolutely.
Merit
The quality or state of deserving well or ill; desert.
Merrymaking
The act of making merry; conviviality; merriment; jollity.
Mestino
See .
Metabolize
To change by a metabolic process. See .
Metagrammatism
Anagrammatism.
metaphosphoric
Pertaining to, or designating, a monobasic acid, , analogous to nitric acid, and, by heating phosphoric acid, obtained as a crystalline substance, commonly called . Compare the tribasic .
Mtier
Calling; vocation; business; trade.
Metrochrome
An instrument for measuring colors.
Metrograph
An instrument attached to a locomotive for recording its speed and the number and duration of its stops.
Mexican
Of or pertaining to Mexico or its people.
Mi
A syllable applied to the third tone of the scale of C, , to E, in European solmization, but to the third tone of any scale in the American system.
Mias
The orang-outang.
Midland
Being in the interior country; distant from the coast or seashore; .
Miliola
A genus of , having a porcelanous shell with several longitudinal chambers.
Millenary
The space of a thousand years; a millennium; also, a .
Milt
To impregnate (the roe of a fish) with milt.
minefield
a region in which explosive mines{4} have been placed, especially a region on land.
minginess
an extreme stinginess.
Ministral
Ministerial.
Misadvertence
Inadvertence.
Misboden
of .
Misdeed
An evil deed; a wicked action.
Mismark
To mark wrongly.
Mismeter
To give the wrong meter to, as to a line of verse.
Misogamy
Hatred of marriage.
Misprise
To mistake.
Missile
A weapon thrown or projected or intended to be projected, as a lance, an arrow, or a bullet.
mix-up
a mistake that results from taking one thing to be another.
Modulation
The act of modulating, or the state of being modulated; .
Monembryony
The condition of an ovule having but a single embryo.
Monocondyla
A group of vertebrates, including the birds and reptiles, or those that have only one occipital condyle; the Sauropsida.
Moon
To expose to the rays of the moon.
moorhen
A black gallinule () that inhabits ponds and lakes.
moot
See 1st .
Morainic
Of or pertaining to a moranie.
Mossy
Overgrown with moss; abounding with or edged with moss;
Mottled
Marked with spots of different colors; variegated; spotted; .
moustachio
A large bushy moustache.
Movie
A motion picture.
Mower
One who, or that which, mows; a mowing machine; .
Multiplicative
Tending to multiply; having the power to multiply, or incease numbers.
Murrelet
One of several species of sea birds of the genera and , inhabiting the North Pacific. They are closely related to the murres.
Murry
See .
Mutage
A process for checking the fermentation of the must of grapes.
Myaria
A division of bivalve mollusks of which the common clam () is the type.
Myotomy
The dissection, or that part of anatomy which treats of the dissection, of muscles.
Myriare
A measure of surface in the metric system containing ten thousand ares, or one million square meters. It is equal to about 247.1 acres.
Myriological
Of or relating to a myriologue.
Myronic
Pertaining to, or obtained from, mustard; -- used specifically to designate a glucoside called , found in mustard seed.
Myrtaceous
Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a large and important natural family of trees and shrubs ( of the order ), of which the myrtle () is the type. It includes the genera , , , and about seventy more.