The act of playing on a lyre or harp.

A musician who plays on the harp or lyre; a composer of lyrical poetry.

A genus of plants including one of the skunk cabbages.

A small genus of tropical American trees and shrubs with pinnate leaves and flat straight pods.

a cosmopolitan genus of plants, including some of the loosestrifes, found in damp or swampy terrain having usually yellow flowers; they are inclined to be invasive.

An instrument for measuring the water that percolates through a certain depth of soil.

The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change.

Hydrophobia.

Terminating a disease; indicating the end of a disease.

Soft; flexible.

See Lithontriptic.

A fibrous and muscular band lying within the longitudinal axis of the tongue in many mammals, as the dog.

A quadrat, the face or top of which is a perfect square; also, the size of such a square in any given size of type, used as the unit of measurement for that type: 500 m's of pica would be a piece of matter whose length and breadth in pica m's multiplied together produce that number.

A semiautomatic rifle which was standard issue to infantrymen in the United States Army in the mid-20th century.

To increase the power of (a single-cylinder beam engine) by adding a small high-pressure cylinder with a piston acting on the beam between the center and the flywheel end, using high-pressure steam and working as a compound engine, -- a plan introduced by M'Naught, a Scottish engineer, in 1845.

The narrowest measure of the money supply, comprising the currency in circulation plus demand deposits or checking account balances.

A measure of the money supply broader than M1 but narrower than M3, comprising M1 plus net time deposits (other than large certificates of deposit).

A broad measure of the money supply, comprising M2 plus deposits at nonbanks such as savings and loan associations.

But; -- used in cautionary phrases; as, /Vivace, ma non troppo presto/ (i. e., lively, but not too quick).

Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull.

Made.

The sparrow hawk. The kestrel.

A trademark for an antacid.

An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee.

Dejected; sorrowful; downcast.

To wrap up.

A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.

A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

Shortened form of Macintosh, a brand name for a personal computer; as, the latest Mac has great new features.

Shortened form of mackintosh, a waterproof raincoat made of rubberized fabric.

portraying human injury or death in a way so as to inspiring shock or horror; gruesome; ghastly; as, macabre tortures conceived by madmen.

A genus of macaques including the rhesus monkey (Macaca mulatta), much used in laboratory biomedical research. Formerly called Macacus.

The rhesus monkey of South Asia; used in medical research.

An Indian macaque with a bonnetlike tuft of hair.

The Barbary ape, a tailless macaque of rocky cliffs and forests of Northwest Africa and Gibralter.

Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (Lemur catta).

A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies, now usually called Macaca. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows. See also Macaca.

The broken stone used in macadamized roadways.

any tree of the genus Macadamia, especially Macadamia ternifolia.

The hard-shelled nut of the Macadamia ternifolia, or the delicious edible nut without its shell; large quantities are produced in Hawaii and sold commercially.

The process or act of macadamizing.

To cover, as a road, or street, parking lot, playground, or other flat area, with macadam, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

paved with macadam{2}.

A tropical American feather palm (Acrocomia aculeata) having a swollen spiny trunk and edible nuts.

A territory in South China, on the Zhu Jiang river on the South China sea, formerly a territory of Portugal. Also, the capital city of this territory.

Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macaca (formerly Macacus), found in rocky regions of Asia and Africa; as, Macaca maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

a dance performed by dancers in a line, or several lines, consisting mainly of hand and arm movements; also, the name of the song to which the dance is usually performed. It became popular in 1996.

To congratulate.

Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of a wheat flour such as semolina, and used as an article of food; a form of Italian pasta.

A heap of things confusedly mixed together; a jumble.

Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.

A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds or coconut, and sugar.

A fire-backed pheasant. See Fireback.

A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; -- so called because originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same, of perfumed castor oil and olive oil. Cf. antimacassar.

Same as Macao, the territory.

Any one of several species of small lemurs, as Lemur murinus, which resembles a rat in size.

A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix torquatus), -- called also collared teetee.

Any parrot of the genus Ara, Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them found in Central and South America. They are large and have a very long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors are brilliant and strongly contrasted; they are among the largest and showiest of parrots. Different species names have been given to the same macaw, as for example the Hyacinthine macaw, which has been variously classified as Anodorhyncus hyacynthinus, Anodorhyncus maximiliani, and Macrocercus hyacynthinus.

Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean princes; Maccabean times.

A type of wheat (Triticum durum) with hard dark-colored kernels high in gluten and used for bread and pasta; grown especially in South Russia, North Africa, and North central North America.

A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century.

A kind of snuff.

A chemical preparation containing tear gas in a solvent, packaged in the form of a spray, and used to temporarily incapacitate people, such as rioters or criminals, by causing intense eye and skin irritation; also called chemical mace. It is designed to be a non-lethal weapon for defending against violent people.

an official who carries the mace of office before persons in authority.

A kind of mixed dish, as of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, mixed diced fruits or vegetables etc.; served hot or cold; a medley.

The ancient kingdom of Phillip II and Alexander the Great in the Southeastern Balkans that is now part of Greece, Bulgaria and the independent republic of Macedonia that was part of the former Yugoslavia.

One of a certain religious sect, followers of Macedonius, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.

The doctrines of Macedonius.

A mace bearer; an officer of a court.

To make lean; to cause to waste away.

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

The act or process of macerating.

Accompanied by or characterized by maceration.

The ratio of the speed of a moving body to the speed of sound.

A genus of wildflowers of Western North America.

A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.

A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.

One who adopts the principles of Machiavelli; a cunning and unprincipled politician.

The supposed principles of Machiavelli, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

Having machicolations.

Same as Machicolation.

A wingless insect living in dark moist places, as under tree trunks; they make erratic leaps when disturbed; called also jumping bristletail.

A natural family of insects including the jumping bristletails.

Of or pertaining to machines.

To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil.

The act of machinating.

One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

To subject to the action of machinery; to make, cut, shape, or modify with a machine; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.

A threaded hexagonal or square-headed bolt with a nut; it is tightened with a wrench and used to connect metal parts.

Same as machine language.

A fully automatic rapid-firing rifle, which continues to fire bullets repeatedly as long as the trigger is depressed; lighter versions may be carried in the hands, and heavier versions may be mounted on a tripod, vehicle, or other mount. The lighweight versions are sometimes called a submachine gun.

Occurring in rapid succession, like the firing of a machine gun; as, Tom was a persuasive speaker, with a smooth deep voice, polysyllabic vocabulary, and a machine-gun articulation that overwhelmed listeners.

A soldier who operates a machine gun.

a set of instructions{3} in a binary form that can be executed directly by the CPU of a computer without translation by a computer program.

A fully automatic pistol; a small submachine gun.

A type of screw used either with a nut or with a tapped hole; it has a slotted head which can be driven by a screwdriver.

A small business or a room within a business establishment where metal is cut and shaped etc., by machine tools.

A power-driven machine for cutting or shaping or finishing metals or other materials.

The translation of human language from one language to another by a computer; -- a branch of artificial intelligence.

same as automated.

behaving in an unthinking manner, like the functioning of a machine; as, machine-like fools.

made by a machine. Contrasted with handmade.

A programming language designed for use on a specific class of computers.

Readable by a machine; available on a data-storage medium in a binary format that can be rapidly converted by standard input devices into data in a computer memory; as, the CIDE dictionary is a machine-readable dictionary.

One who or operates a machine; a machinist{2}.

Machines, in general, or collectively.

Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.

A constructor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

A strong, and by some considered exaggerated, sense of manly pride, associated with an attitude that the proper expression of masculinity includes virility, courage, and an entitlement to dominate, especially over women.

an instrument for measuring the speed of an aircraft relative to the speed of sound.

The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, syn. Mugil Mexicanus).

Manly, especially with an assertive and domineering manner toward women.

A form of dark matter in distant outer space unobservable except by its gravitational effect, and believed to be at least part of the /missing matter/ which is unobservable as ordinary stars, but helps keep galaxies from flying apart; MACHOS are massive but compact objects such as neutron stars or brown dwarfs, which can be detected (with difficulty) by their effect in bending light from distant light sources, such as other galaxies. This can occur if by rare chance a MACHO passes in front of a more distant visible object, and the light from that object becomes temporarily amplified by the MACHO acting as a gravitational lens. Some MACHOs have been discovered in the halo of dark matter that surrounds our milky way. It is, however, questionable whether the amount of such matter is sufficient to explain the ability of galaxies to stay together in spite of rotation rates that would cause them to fly apart if the only matter present was that observable as visible stars.

Leanness.

Lean; thin.

Same as Mackintosh.

A mackintosh; -- a shortened form.

a Canadian river; flows into the Beaufort Sea.

Any species of the genus Scomber of the family Scombridae, and of several related genera. They are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are highly prized for food.