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macumba
A popular dance music of Brazil, derived from the practices of the macumba religious cult.
Magnesic
Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; .
Male
Same as , a bag.
Manageable
Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; .
Manager
One who manages; a conductor or director; .
Manciple
A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court.
Mantel
The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides; especially, a shelf above the fireplace, and its supports. The shelf is called also a or .
mantis crab
Same as .
mantissa
The decimal part of a , as distinguished from the integral part, or .
Manurage
Cultivation.
Maplike
Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; .
Marchantiaceae
A natural family of liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli.
Mariposa lily
One of a genus () of tuliplike bulbous herbs with large, and often gaycolored, blossoms. Called also . Most of them are natives of California.
Marmoratum opus
A kind of hard finish for plasterwork, made of plaster of Paris and marble dust, and capable of taking a high polish.
Marrow
To fill with, or as with, marrow or fat; to glut.
masculine
Of the male sex; not female.
Mask shell
Any spiral marine shell of the genus , having a curiously twisted aperture.
Masted
Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; .
Mastitis
Inflammation of the breast.
Maul
A heavy wooden hammer or beetle.
Mazdean
Of or pertaining to , or , the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian.
Meander
A winding, crooked, or involved course; .
Meanly
Moderately.
Meatus
A natural passage or canal; . See of .
Medial
Of or pertaining to a mean or average; mean; .
-meister
A suffix denoting or , as in spin or hype.
Mellitic
Containing saccharine matter; marked by saccharine secretions; .
Mentomeckelian
Of or pertaining to the chin and lower jaw.
Mercenary
One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.
Merino
Of or pertaining to a variety of sheep with very fine wool, originally bred in Spain.
Merulidan
A bird of the Thrush family.
Mesobranchial
Of or pertaining to a region of the carapace of a crab covering the middle branchial region.
Mesogla
A thin gelatinous tissue separating the ectoderm and endoderm in certain clenterates.
Mesorectum
The fold of peritoneum, or mesentery, attached to the rectum.
Metabolite
A product of metabolism; a substance produced by metabolic action, as urea.
Metantimonate
A salt of metantimonic acid.
Meteorographic
Of or pertaining to meteorography.
Metheglin
A fermented beverage made of honey and water; mead.
Metrist
A maker of verses.
Mezquita
A mosque.
Mezzo
Mean; not extreme.
Microcrystalline
Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; .
Micrographic
Of or pertaining to micrography.
mil
an obsolete monetary unit of Cyprus equal in value to of a pound.
Millionary
Of or pertaining to millions; consisting of millions; .
Miniard
Migniard.
Minutely
Happening every minute; continuing; unceasing.
mirrored
Reflected in or as if in a mirror.
Misbestowal
The act of misbestowing.
Misquote
To quote erroneously or incorrectly.
Misremember
To mistake in remembering; not to remember correctly.
Misstatement
An incorrect statement.
Misturn
To turn amiss; to pervert.
Mitt
A mitten; also, a covering for the wrist and hand and not for the fingers, usually worn by women.
Mizzen
The hindmost of the fore and aft sails of a three-masted vessel; also, the spanker.
Modernizer
One who modernizes.
Modernly
In modern times.
Monatomic
Consisting of, or containing, one atom; .
Monitorship
The post or office of a monitor.
Monk
A man who retires from the ordinary temporal concerns of the world, and devotes himself to religion; one of a religious community of men inhabiting a monastery, and bound by vows to a life of chastity, obedience, and poverty.
Monochord
An instrument for experimenting upon the mathematical relations of musical sounds. It consists of a single string stretched between two bridges, one or both of which are movable, and which stand upon a graduated rule for the purpose of readily changing and measuring the length of the part of the string between them.
Monopetalous
Having only one petal, or the corolla in one piece, or composed of petals cohering so as to form a tube or bowl; gamopetalous.
Monotropa
A genus of parasitic or saprophytic plants including the Indian pipe and pine sap. The name alludes to the dropping end of the stem.
Moppet
A rag baby; a puppet made of cloth; hence, also, in fondness, a little girl, or a woman.
Morling
Mortling.
Morosaurus
An extinct genus of large herbivorous dinosaurs, found in Jurassic strata in America.
Moschatel
A plant of the genus (), the flowers of which are pale green, and have a faint musky smell. It is found in woods in all parts of Europe, and is called also and .
Mottoed
Bearing or having a motto; .
Mucky
Filthy with muck; miry; .
Muggard
Sullen; displeased.
Mull
A thin, soft kind of muslin.
Multilineal
Having many lines.
Mundil
A turban ornamented with an imitation of gold or silver embroidery.
Munificent
Very liberal in giving or bestowing; lavish; .
Murrion
A morion. See .
Muslim
See .
Muss
A state of confusion or disorder; -- prob. variant of , but influenced by , a scramble.
Mutuation
The act of borrowing or exchanging.
Mydaus
The teledu.
myrmecophytic
Of or pertaining to a myrmecophyte.