A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.

Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert. A malapert person.

A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.

Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.

A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric.

The species name of the electric catfish, a freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ.

Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.

The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit; that arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek; also called the malar bone.

Same as malar, n.

Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

A mosquito that transmits the malaria parasite; it is most commonly the Anopheles mosquito.

Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.

The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food. An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.

A salt of malic acid.

The kwacha, the monetary unit of Malawi.

To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance.

The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters.

One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass.

A large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; it is cosmopolitan.

A North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals.

One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia.

a peninsula in Southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Burma.

Formerly, an Asian country on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, now part of Malaysia.

The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.

Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country. The Malay language.

A large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate (Tapirus indicus) of tropical America and Southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout.

of or pertaining to Malayo-Polynesia.

A country in Southeast Asia including the former nation of Malaya on the Malay Peninsula, and part of Borneo; sometimes still referred to as Malaya.

Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Malaysia or its people or their culture; as, Malaysian police cracked down hard on drug smugglers; Malaysian poetry.

A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).

A militant American black nationalist leader, also called Malcolm X; (1925-1965).

Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia.

See Malcolm Little.

A genus of plants usually found in coastal habitats; native from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan.

Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.

One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who expresses his discontent by words or overt acts.

Malcontent.

Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidae. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.

A group of about 2000 islands in the Indian ocean; also known as the Maldives.

A native or inhabitant of Maldives.

A battle in which the Danes defeated the East Saxons in 991; it is celebrated in an old English poem.

An animal of the male sex.

A deciduous much-branched shrub (Lyonia ligustrina) with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers; also called swamp andromeda.

The body of an adult human male; -- a term used especially in art; as, Da Vinci was unexcelled in painting the male body.

Disparaging, patronizing, discriminatory or abusive speech or behavior by males toward females stemming from a belief that males are superior to females and females therefore worthy of less respect and inferior treatment. A form of sexism.

A man with a belief in the inferiority of women; one who believes in or practises male chavinism.

A fern of North America and Europe (Dryopteris filix-mas) whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms. It is a member of the woodfern genus.

A Eurasian orchid (Orchis mascula) with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike.

An orgasm in a male animal accompanied by the ejaculation of semen.

The connecting end of the cord on an electrical device, having two or three pins, that is inserted into a matching socket to make an electrical connection.

See Malodor.

Having the spirit of a male; vigorous; courageous.

Maladministration.

A salt of maleic acid.

The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.

Malconformation.

Malcontent.

Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.

Accursed; abominable.

A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.

A crime; an offense; an evil deed.

An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.

A female malefactor.

See Malfeasance.

Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful.

An evil deed; artifice; enchantment.

Evil doing, esp. to others.

Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

Injurious.

To bewitch; to harm.

A bewitching.

The doing of evil, harm, or mischief.

Doing evil, harm, or mischief.

See Malformation.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series (maleic acid), metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

An unsaturated dicarboxylic acid (HO.CO.CH=CH.CO.OH) of cis conformation, having various uses in the manufacture of artificial resins, the dyeing and finishing of wool, silk, and cotton, and also combined with certain drugs to make salts more soluble than the basic forms. The corresponding isomer having trans conformation, is identical in chemical formula, is called fumaric acid.

Evil machination; guile; deceit.

A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.

See Malpractice.

A little bag or budget.

See Maltreat.

The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

In a malevolent manner.

Malevolent.

Bad execution.

A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.

The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.

One guilty of malfeasance.

Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure; -- often used of body parts such as limbs which do not develop properly during fetal maturation.

Not graceful; displeasing.

See Mauger.

A small mustardlike plant (Stephanomeria malheurensis) of Oregon, belonging to the family Cruciferae; it is a threatened species.

The standard monetary unit in Mali and some other countries.

A native or inhabitant of Mali.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.

Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.

To regard with extreme ill will.

Mischief.

Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.

Malicious and willful destructionof or injury to the property of others; -- it is an offense at common law.

Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

To entertain malice.

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart.

Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.

A chronic progressive anemia of older adults, thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B-12); also called pernicious anemia.

Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes; called also melanoma. It is classed as a type of skin cancer.

Same as malignancy{4}.

Same as malignancy{4}.

In a malignant manner.

Assailed with contemptuous language.

One who maligns.

To make malign or malignant.

The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

In a malign manner; with malignity.

To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.