See Madecassee.

A rich wine made on the Island of Madeira.

A small South American shrub (Solanum pseudocapsicum) cultivated as a houseplant for its abundant ornamental but poisonous red or yellow cherrylike fruit.

A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss.

The barn owl. The magpie.

An house or institution where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam; -- usually used in a deprecatory sense.

A genus of composite plants, of which one species (Madia sativa) is cultivated for the oil yielded from its seeds by pressure. This oil is sometimes used instead of olive oil for the table.

The vegetable oil obtained from the Madia sativa. See Madia and madia oil plant.

The Madia sativa, a South American herb with sticky glandular foliage, the source of madia oil. See Madia.

Wet; moist; as, a madid eye.

An instrument to extract hairs.

An intoxicating confection from the hemp plant; -- used by the Turks and Hindus.

In a mad manner; without reason or understanding; wildly.

A man who is mad; lunatic; a crazy person.

The masterwort (Peucedanum Ostruthium), a tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant.

The condition of being mad; insanity; lunacy.

My lady; -- a term of address in Italian formerly used as the equivalent of Madame, but for which Signora is now substituted. Sometimes introduced into English.

A lily (Lilium candidum) of the Eastern Mediterranean and Balkans with broad funnel-shaped white flowers.

A small Abyssinian antelope (Neotragus Saltiana), about the size of a hare.

A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose.

A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans.

Mother-of-pearl.

A genus of reef corals abundant in tropical seas. It includes than one hundred and fifty species, most of which are elegantly branched.

An extensive division of Anthozoa, including most of the species that produce stony corals. See Illust. of Anthozoa.

Any coral of the genus Madrepora, a group of corals having calcareous skeletons aggregations of which form reefs and islands; formerly, often applied to any stony coral.

Resembling, or pertaining to, the genus Madrepora.

Resembling a madreporian coral in form or structure.

A fossil coral.

A thick plank, used for several mechanical purposes A plank to receive the mouth of a petard, with which it is applied to anything intended to be broken down. A plank or beam used for supporting the earth in mines or fortifications.

A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought.

A madrigalist.

A composer of madrigals.

a tomato-flavored consomme, often served chilled.

Of or pertaining to Madrid in Spain, or to its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Madrid.

An animal (usually an old mare), wearing a bell and acting as the leader of a troop of pack mules.

A madrepore .

A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of Pacific North America, having a smooth bark, thick glossy leathery leaves, and edible orange-red berries, which are often called madro/a apples; the wood is used for furniture and the bark for tanning.

a woman lunatic.

A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. Alyssum maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.

An inflatable life jacket, originally used as a personal flotation device by aviators downed at sea.

A genus of brain corals.

A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway. any large or powerful whirlpool.

A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

A German men's chorus or singing club.

Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

A master in any art, especially in music; a composer or orchestra conductor.

A Chadic language spoken south of Lake Chad; called also Matakam.

to celebrate publicly with boisterous rejoicing and hilarious and extravagant behavior.

To stammer.

A stammerer.

A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods; called also the Sicilian Mafia.

A member of the mafia.

see maffia, maffioso.

Shortened form of magazine, the periodic paperback publication.

Same as magnetic tape.

A subfamily of Indic languages.

To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

A rack or stand for displaying magazines{4}.

One who edits or writes for a magazine.

The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine.

See Maegbote.

Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.

Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

A reformed prostitute.

A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.

A city of Saxony.

A magician.

Of or pertaining to, or named from, Ferdinand Magellan (1480-1521), the navigator.

Either of two conspicuous celestial nebulae near the south celestial pole, resembling thin white clouds, each of which is a galaxy{2} smaller than but separate from the Milky Way galaxy, and together they are the galactic formations nearest to our galaxy. They are not visible from the northern hemisphere, and are named after Ferdinand Magellan, who saw them in his expedition, which passed through the Strait of Magellan in South America, and one ship of which completed the first circumnavigation of the globe.

A hexagram{1a}, when used as the symbol of Judaism; called also Mogen David and Star of David. It is included on the flag of Israel

An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsin, fuchsine, roseine, etc.

Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace.

Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.

The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.

A magpie.

State of being maggoty.

Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Infested with maggots.

The eleventh month of the Hindu calendar.

A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.

A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.

One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion.

A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.

A drug or therapy or preventive that cures or prevents a disease, with only minimal side effects; as, there is no magic bullet against cancer.

An early form of slide projector.

A verbal formula considered to have magical force.

An feat of illusion performed by an illusionist, which appears magical to naive observers.

Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.

In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.

One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

See Megilp.

A line of fortifications built before World War II to protect France's eastern border.

Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.

Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.

Magisterialness; authoritativeness.

In a magisterial manner.

The quality or state of being magisterial.

Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.

The office or dignity of a magistrate.

A sovereign medicine or remedy.

Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.

In a magistral manner.

A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.

Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.

Magistracy.

Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.

A great nature goddess of ancient Phrygia in Asia Minor; the counterpart of the Greek Rhea and the Roman Ops.

A great act or event; a great attainment.

The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.

Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.

In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.

Magnet.

A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide (MgO), and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.

Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.

Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

A light silver-white metallic element of atomic number 12, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.305. Specific gravity, 1.75.

A slightly alkaline chemical substance, Mg(OH)2, the active principle in the antacid milk of magnesia, also used as a laxative.

Magnesia.

The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.