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Malet

A little bag or budget.

Malevolence

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

Malevolent

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

Maleyl

A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.

Malfeasance

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

Malformation

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.

malheur wire lettuce

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

Mali franc

The standard monetary unit in Mali and some other countries.

Malian

A native or inhabitant of Mali.

Malic

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

malice

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.

Malice

To regard with extreme ill will.

Malicious

Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.

malicious mischief

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

malign

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

Malignancy Malignance

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

malignant

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

Malignant

A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.

malignant anemia

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.

malignant melanoma

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

maligned

Assailed with contemptuous language.

Malignity

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

Malignly

In a malign manner; with malignity.

Malinger

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

Malingerer

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.

Malingery

The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.

Malison

Malediction; curse; execration.

Malkin

Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.

Mall

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

Mallard

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

Malleability

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

Malleable

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

Malleate

To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

Malleation

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

mallee

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.

mallee fowl

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

mallee hen

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

Malleolar

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

Malleolus

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.

Mallet

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.

Malleus

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.

Mallophaga

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.

Mallotus

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

mallow family

The natural family Malvaceae, a dilleniid dicot family consisting of herbs and shrubs and some trees, and including the mallows, cotton, and okra.

Mallows Mallow

A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.

malma

A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.

Malmag

The tarsius, or spectral lemur.

Malmbrick Malm

A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

Malmsey

A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.

malnourished

Not getting adequate food; suffering from malnutrition; underfed.

malnutrition

Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food intake.

malodorous

Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.

Malonic

Pertaining to, or designating, a dicarboxylic acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.

Malonyl

A divalent diacyl radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.

malonylurea

A white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; it is used in preparing barbiturate drugs.

malope

A Western Mediterranean annual (Malope trifida) having deep purple-red flowers subtended by three large cordate bracts.

Malosma

A genus having only one species; often included in the genus Rhus.

Malpais

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream.

Malpighia

A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia glabra (formerly Malpighia urens) are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.

Malpighia glabra

THe species name of the acerola, also called barbados cherry, a tropical American shrub bearing edible cherrylike acid red fruit.

Malpighiaceous

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.

Malpighian

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.

malpighian body

The capsule that contains a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron; also called malpighian corpuscle and Malpighian capsule.

Malpractice

Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.

Malt

To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.

malt whisky malt whiskey

A whiskey distilled in Scotland (esp. whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still); Scotch whisky.

Malta

A country on the island of Malta.

malta fever

An infectious disease contracted from meat or milk products from infected domestic animals; called also brucellosis and undulant fever.

maltase

An enzyme, /-D-glucosidase, which hydrolyzes maltose with production of glucose, and also hydrolyzes certain other /-D-glucosides.

malted milk

A milkshake made with malt powder; also called simply a malted.

Maltese

Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta.

maltese cat

A short-haired bluish-gray breed of the domestic cat.

maltese cross

A Eurasian garden perennial (Lychins chalcedonica) having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads.

Maltese dog

A breed of toy dog having a long straight silky white coat; also called a Maltese.

Maltha

A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

Malthus

Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).

malthusian theory

Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence; Malthusianism. See Malthusian.

Malthusianism

The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population. See Malthusian.

Maltine Maltin

The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

Malting

The process of making, or of becoming malt.

Maltman

A man whose occupation is to make malt.

Maltonic

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.

Maltose

A crystalline disaccharide (C12H22O11) formed from starch by the action of diastase of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice; called also maltobiose and malt sugar. Chemically it is 4-O-/-D-glucopyranosyl-D-glucose. It rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right than does dextrose and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

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