Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.

The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.

To magnify or extol.

The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.

Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.

In a Magnificent manner.

A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy.

enlarged to an abnormal degree.

One who, or that which, magnifies.

To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.

A single convex lens which magnifies the apparent dimensions of objects seen through it, and is used to produce an enlarged image.

The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Magniloquent.

Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breadth, and thickness.

A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.

The state of Mississippi; -- a nickname.

A natural family of plants, a subclass of the Magnoliidae; it includes the genera Liriodendron; Magnolia; Manglietia; and Michelia.

Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceae) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.

a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder.

A class of flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta).

A flowering plant.

A class of seed plants that produce an embryo with two cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae.

A large wine bottle.

Having a larger charge than usual for a cartridge of the same caliber; -- of cartridges for handgun; as, a .44 magnum cartridge.

A great work of art or literature.

A rolling hitch similar to a clove hitch.

The Barbary ape.

A magpie.

Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail.

Any of several species of Agave, such as the century plant (Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and the Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for making pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal; and the cantala (Agave cantala), a Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine. See Agave.

a magician or sorcerer of ancient times.

Of or pertaining to the Magyars or their language; Hungarian.

A Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles.

A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in Northeastern Nebraska; called also Omaha.

A celebrated sacred epic poem of the Hindus, written in Sanskrit. It is of great length, and is chiefly devoted to a history, in many episodes, of a civil war between two dynasties of ancient India.

A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.

A sovereign prince in India; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

A great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja.

An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

One of a class of sages, or /adepts,/ reputed to have knowledge and powers of a higher order than those of ordinary men.

See the note under mahatma.

a major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation, found in China; Japan; Tibet; Nepal; Korea; and Mongolia.

an adherent of Mahayana Buddhism.

Among Muslims, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Muslims, believe that he is yet to appear.

See Mahdism.

Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title.

Variant of Mohican.

either of two large slender food and game fish (Coryphaena equisetis or Coryphaena hippurus) of warm waters. They are highly esteemed as food fish, especially in Hawaii. See also dolphin{2}.

A long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush while painting. Same as Maul-stick.

A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage.

A large tree of the genus Swietenia (Swietenia Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

A South African lemur (Galago maholi), having very large ears.

Same as Mohammed.

See Mohammedan.

See Mohammedanism and Islam.

To convert to Islam, the religion of Mohammed; to Mohammedanize.

A Muslim.

Islam.

A large Turkish ship.

The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.

A genus of evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia.

The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).

One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.

A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil.

The keeper and driver of an elephant.

A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in the Deccan and Concan.

One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas.

A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.

See Mohammedan, Muslim, Mohammedanism.

A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado). A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).

Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.

An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.

In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.

To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

Literally, an aunt who has never been married. Figuratively, it is a term used as the prototype of a person who is broadly naive and not wise in worldly ways; as, he knows as much about programming as my maiden aunt.

A small widely branching Western wildflower (Collinsia parviflora) with tiny blue-and-white flowers; found from British Columbia to Ontaria and south to California and Colorado.

An over in which no runs are scored.

A low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink (Dianthus deltoides) with single crimson-eyed pale pink flowers.

A slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet (Gaultheria hispidula) of Northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough-hairy seeds.

See maidenhair.

Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having very slender graceful stalks and delicate palmately branched fronds, especially (Adiantum pedatum). It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.

A small rock-inhabiting fern (Asplenium trichomanes) of the North temperate zone and Hawaii, having pinnate fronds.

A deciduous dioecious gymnospermous Chinese tree (Ginkgo biloba) having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds, also called the ginkgo; it exists almost exclusively in cultivation esp. as an ornamental street tree.

The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.

The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity.

Like a maiden; modest; coy.

The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

In a maidenlike manner.

Maidenhood.

Maidenhood.

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

Pale, like a sick girl.

A female servant.

A method of teaching by question and answer; it was used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students; -- called also the Socratic method

Serving to assist childbirth.

The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.

The meagre.

Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.

See Maim, and Mayhem.

A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.

A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.

To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.

A bag in which mailed matter is conveyed or shipped under public authority.

a boat that carries the mail.

A call of the names of those persons receiving mail for the purpose of transmitting mail to them; -- a technique used in the military services to deliver mail to enlisted personnel.

A railway car of special design used for the transportation and sorting of mail en route to its destination, and having employees of the post office inside to perform those functions.

A person who delivers the mail; -- also called a letter carrier. A male mail carrier is also called a mailman.

A clerk in a post office.

The use of the mails to defraud someone.

Same as mailbag.

A usually horizontal slot in a door through which mail can be delivered. It often has a hinged cover to keep the opening cloised when not in use.

A railroad train that carries mail.

The buying and selling of goods to be shipped from the vendor through the mail to the purchaser. Information about to be purchased may be found in catalogs, advertisements, on the web, etc., and purchase orders transmitted to the vendor by mail, telephone, or internet connection.

A chiton.

Admissible lawfully into the mail. Opposed to non-mailable. Dangerous items such as explosives, weapons, or corrosive chemicals are often classified by the postal authorities as non-mailable.