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.

Evil speaking.

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.

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.

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.

Malediction; curse; execration.

Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.

A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians; as, to gather near the Washington monument on the mall in Washington.

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness.

Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

To make malleable.

Quality of being malleable.

Pertaining to the malleus.

To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

Same as Malicho.

A dwarf Australian eucalypt with a number of thin stems springing from a thickened stock. The most common species are Eucalyptus dumosa and Eucalyptus Gracilis.

Same as mallee bird (Leipoa ocellata). See also Leipoa.

The adult female of the mallee fowl (Leipoa ocellata). See Leipoa.

See Mollemoke.

Same as Malanders.

Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.

A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.

A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.

The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.

A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.