The attribute of having a strong offensive smell.

A salt of malonic acid.

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.

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

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

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

A variant spelling of Malapterurus.

See Malopterurus electricus.

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

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream.

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.

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

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.

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

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

See malpighian body.

The innermost layer of the epidermis.

A tooth that has grown in a faulty position.

A wrong position.

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.

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

An alcoholic drink made with malt.

Same as maltose.

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

A country on the island of Malta.

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

Ill will; malice.

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

Same as malted milk{1}.

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

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

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

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

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

The monetary unit of Malta.

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

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

A follower of Malthus.

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

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

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

The process of making, or of becoming malt.

A man whose occupation is to make malt.

Maltose; malt sugar.

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

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.

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

Cruel or inhumane treatment; ill usage; abuse.

A maltman.

A tippler.

Containing, or like, malt.

An evil. See Mala.

A genus of herbs and subshrubs including the mallows.

The species name of the common mallow, an annual Old World plant with clusters of pink or white flowers; naturalized in U.S..

The species name of the tall mallow, an erect or decumbent Old World perennial with axillary clusters of rosy-purple flowers; introduced into the U. S.

A natural family of herbs and shrubs and some trees, including the mallows, cotton, and okra; the mallow family.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural family of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this family. It was formerly classified as an order, and included the baobab and the silk-cotton trees. The baobab and silk-cotton trees are now placed in the family Bombacaceae, which is included with the Malvaceae in the order Malvales.

A natural order of plants including the families Malvaceae, Bombacaceae, Elaeocarpaceae, Sterculiaceae, and Tiliaceae.

A sweet grape used to make malmsey wine.

A genus of mallows characterized by red and yellow flowers often placed in other genera.

Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.

Malmsey wine. See Malmsey.

Mamma.

See Mamma.

A boy excessively attached to his mother; a boy lacking the usual masculine interests; also spelled mamma's boy.

Same as Mameluke.

A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.

A child born of a white father and Indian mother.

One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Muslimism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.

See Mammillated.

A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; udder; bag.

One of the Mammalia.

The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.

Of or pertaining to the Mammalia or mammals.

Containing mammalian remains; -- said of certain strata.

Of or pertaining to mammalogy.

One versed in mammalogy.

The science which relates to mammals or the Mammalia. See Mammalia.

Of or pertaining to the mammae or breasts; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

The milk-secreting organ of female mammals.

A genus of American and Asiatic trees having edible one-seeded fruit.

The speciaes name for the mammee tree.

A tropical American tree (Mammea americana) having edible fruit (the mammee apple) with a leathery rind.

A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (Mammea Americana); also, its fruit, called the mammee apple. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple.

To hesitate; to mutter doubtfully.

An idol; a puppet; a doll.

See Mawmetry.

A mammal. See Mammalia.

Having breasts; of, pertaining to, or derived from, the Mammalia.

Having the form of a mamma (breast) or mammae.

The nipple.

Of or pertaining to the mammilla, or nipple, or to the breast; resembling a mammilla; mammilloid.

Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammae.

Having the form of a mammilla.

Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.

To tear to pieces.

Coarse plain India muslins.

Mastology. See Mammalogy.

Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.

Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon.

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.

A mammonite.

One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon.

The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.

To make mammonish.

Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.

Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.

A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.

An extinct genus comprising the mammoths.

The species name for the woolly mammoth, a very hairy mammoth common in colder portions of the Northern hemisphere.

An extinct natural family of mammals, comprising the mastodons.

A child's name for mamma, mother.

A tropical American tree (Melicocca bijuga, or Melicocca bijugatus) bearing a small edible fruit with green leathery skin and sweet juicy translucent pulp.

A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard.

To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.

A man and woman who are married to each other; a married couple.

A person who contributes to the fulfillment of a need or furtherance of an effort or purpose; a devoted assistant.

An average person; as, the views of the man in the street.

A single individual person; as, every man jack of them.

A person who prefers to act rather than contemplate and gets things accomplished quickly an efficiently.