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Macrodactyl
One of a group of wading birds () having very long toes.
Macropodal
Having long or large feet, or a long stem.
macumba
A popular dance music of Brazil, derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult.
Madame
My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women.
Mae West
An inflatable life jacket, originally used as a personal flotation device by aviators downed at sea.
Magisterialness
The quality or state of being magisterial.
Magnetograph
An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.
Make
To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase .
Malayo-Polynesian
of or pertaining to Malayo-Polynesia.
Malaysian
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Malaysia or its people or their culture; .
Malison
Malediction; curse; execration.
Mallard
A drake; the male of .
Manducable
Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten.
Mangler
One who mangles or tears in cutting; one who mutilates any work in doing it.
Manicure
To care for (the hands and nails); to care for the hands and nails of; to do manicure work.
margin call
A demand by a broker that a customer deposit enough to bring his margin up to the minimum requirement; -- caused by the decline in market prices of a security or commodity purchased on margin{5}.
Marmoratum opus
A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.
Marriage
The act of marrying, or the state of being married; legal union of a man and a woman for life, as husband and wife; wedlock; matrimony.
Marroon
Same as 1st .
Martinet
The martin.
masculine
Of the male sex; not female.
Massacre
The killing of a considerable number of human beings under circumstances of atrocity or cruelty, or contrary to the usages of civilized people; .
Massage
A rubbing or kneading of the body, especially when performed as a hygienic or remedial measure.
Mastoiditis
Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.
Matagasse
A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also .
Materialization
The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
Maudlinism
A maudlin state.
Maunderer
One who maunders.
Maypop
The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American , an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.
Mechanograph
One of a number of copies of anything multiplied mechanically.
Meleagrine
Of or pertaining to the genus .
Mell
A mill.
Memorialize
To address or petition by a memorial; to present a memorial to; .
Menow
A minnow.
merbromine
A mercurial compound applied topically as an antiseptic; is the trademark.
Mere
A pool or lake.
Mesopodiale
One of the bones of either the carpus or tarsus.
Messianic
Of or relating to the Messiah; .
Metabolic
Of or pertaining to metamorphosis; pertaining to, or involving, change.
Metallurgy
The art of working metals, comprehending the whole process of separating them from other matters in the ore, smelting, refining, and parting them; sometimes, in a narrower sense, only the process of extracting metals from their ores.
Metanauplius
A larval crustacean in a stage following the nauplius, and having about seven pairs of appendages.
Metatheria
A subclass of pouched animals.
Metropolitanate
The see of a metropolitan bishop.
Mezzo-soprano
Having a medium compass between the soprano and contralto; -- said of the voice of a female singer.
Micaceous
Pertaining to, or containing, mica; splitting into lamin or leaves like mica.
microphonous
Serving to augment the intensity of weak sounds; microcoustic.
Midweek
The middle of the week. Also used adjectively.
Midwive
To midwife.
Mileage
An allowance for traveling expenses at a certain rate per mile.
Millifold
Thousandfold.
Minioning
Kind treatment.
Miquelet
An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.
Misexpression
Wrong expression.
Misform
To make in an ill form.
Misprofess
To make a false profession of.
Missal
Of or pertaining to the Mass, or to a missal or Mass book.
Missummation
Wrong summation.
Moan
To bewail audibly; to lament.
Moderate
Kept within due bounds; observing reasonable limits; not excessive, extreme, violent, or rigorous; limited; restrained
Mody
Fashionable.
Moir
Watered; having a watered or clouded appearance; -- as of silk or metals.
Momental
Lasting but a moment; brief.
Mon
The badge of a family, esp. of a family of the ancient feudal nobility. The most frequent form of the mon is circular, and it commonly consists of conventionalized forms from nature, flowers, birds, insects, the lightnings, the waves of the sea, or of geometrical symbolic figures; color is only a secondary character. It appears on lacquer and pottery, and embroidered on, or woven in, fabrics. The imperial chrysanthemum, the mon of the reigning family, is used as a national emblem. Formerly the mon of the shoguns of the Tokugawa family was so used.
Mongoloid
Resembling a Mongol or the Mongols; having race characteristics, such as color, hair, and features, like those of the Mongols.
Moodiness
The quality or state of being moody; specifically, liability to strange or violent moods.
mopus
A mope; a drone.
Morn
Without teeth, tongue, or claws; -- said of a lion represented heraldically.
Morrice
Dancing the morrice; dancing.
Mosaic
A surface decoration made by inlaying in patterns small pieces of variously colored glass, stone, or other material; -- called also .
msasa
Amall shrubby African tree () having compound leaves and racemes of small fragrant green flowers.
Mucedin
A yellowish white, amorphous, nitrogenous substance found in wheat, rye, etc., and resembling gluten; -- formerly called also .
Mullein
Any plant of the genus . They are tall herbs having coarse leaves, and large flowers in dense spikes. The common species, with densely woolly leaves, is .
Mullion
To furnish with mullions; to divide by mullions.
Multicuspid
Multicuspidate; -- said of teeth.
Municipalize
To bring under municipal oversight or control; .
Musculin
See .
Muse
One of the nine goddesses, daughters of Zeus and Mnemosyne, who presided over song and the different kinds of poetry, and also the arts and sciences; -- often used in the plural. At one time certain other goddesses were considered as muses.
Mush
Meal (esp. Indian meal) boiled in water; hasty pudding; supawn.
Myrtaceae
A natural family of trees and shrubs yielding fragrant oils, including the myrtles, eucalyptus, clove, allspice, and guava; the .
Mythologist
One versed in, or who writes on, mythology or myths.