Loading earlier words…
Manualist

One who works with the hands; an artificer.

manually

By hand. In some contexts, contrasted with automatically.

Manubial

Belonging to spoils; taken in war.

Manubrial

Of or pertaining to a manubrium; shaped like a manubrium; handlelike.

Manucode

Any bird of the genus Manucodia, of Australia and New Guinea. They are related to the bird of paradise.

Manuducent

One who leads by the hand; a manuductor.

Manuductor

A conductor; an officer in the ancient church who gave the signal for the choir to sing, and who beat time with the hand, and regulated the music.

manufactured

Produced in a large-scale industrial operation. Contrasted with hand-made.

Manufacturing

Employed, or chiefly employed, in manufacture; as, a manufacturing community; a manufacturing town.

manul

A wild cat (Felis manul), having long, soft, light-colored fur. It is found in the mountains of Central Asia, and dwells among rocks.

Manumission

The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.

Manumit

To release from slavery; to liberate from personal bondage or servitude; to free, as a slave.

Manumotor

A small wheel carriage, so constructed that a person sitting in it may move it.

Manure

To cultivate by manual labor; to till; hence, to develop by culture.

manure

Any matter which makes land productive; a fertilizing substance. dung, the contents of stables and barnyards, decaying animal or vegetable substances, etc.

Manuring

The act of process of applying manure; also, the manure applied.

Manus

The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.

Manuscript

An original literary or musical composition written by the author, formerly with the hand, now usually by typewriter or word processor. It is contrasted with a printed copy.

Manway

A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through.

Manx

The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.

Manx cat

A breed of domestic cats having a rudimentary tail, containing only about three vertebrae. It is believed to have originated on the Isle of Man.

Manx shearwater

A small black-and-white oceanic bird (Puffinus puffinus, or Puffinus anglorum), common in the Eastern North Atlantic. Called also Manx petrel, Manx puffin. It is avariety of shearwater. It was formerly abundant in the Isle of Man.

Many

The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.

Many-minded

Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

Many-sided

Having many sides; -- said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.

Manyplies

The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

manzanilla

A kind of small roundish olive with a small freestone pit, a fine skin, and a peculiar bitterish flavor. Manzanillas are commonly pitted and stuffed with Spanish pimientos.

manzanita

A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to Arctostaphylos glauca and Arctostaphylos pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.

Mao

See Mao Tsetung.

Mao Zedong Mao Tsetung

The leader of the Chinese communist party and later of the People's Republic of China; b. 1893, d. 1976. Also referred to a simply Mao.

Maoism

A form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong.

Maori

One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand. Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.

maori hen

A flightless New Zealand rail of thievish disposition having short wings each with a spur used in fighting.

Map

To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business.

mapinguari

A supposed human-sized slothlike creature reported sighted by Indians in the Amazon rain forest.

Maple

A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. Acer saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red maple or swamp maple is Acer rubrum; the silver maple, Acer dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, Acer Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is Acer campestre, the sycamore maple is Acer Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is Acer platanoides.

maple family

The natural family of trees Aceraceae, including the maples.

maple-leaf begonia

A tuberous or semi-tuberous South African begonia (Begonia dregei) having shallowly lobed ovate leaves and small white flowers.

maple-leaved bayur

An Indian tree (Pterospermum acerifolium) having fragrant nocturnal white flowers and yielding a reddish wood used for planking; often grown as an ornamental or shade tree. Called also mayeng.

Maplike

Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.

mapmaking

The making of maps and charts; cartography.

mappery

The making, or study, of maps.

mapping

A function such that for every element of one set there is a unique element of another set. Same as map{4}.

Maqui

A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.

Maquis

A guerrilla fighter in the French underground in World War II.

Mar

A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.

Mara

The Patagonian cavy, a hare-like rodent (Dolichotis patagonum or Dolichotis Patagonicus) of the pampas of Argentina.

Marabou

A large black-and-white carrion-eating stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (Leptoptilus crumeniferus syn. Leptoptilos crumenifer), whose downy under-wing feathers are used to trim garments; called also marabout. The Asiatic species (Leptoptilos dubius, or Leptoptilos argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.

Marabout

A Muslim saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.

Marai

A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

Maranatha

/Our Lord cometh;/ -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, /May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes./ See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.

marang tree

A Philippine tree (Artocarpus odoratissima) similar to the breadfruit tree bearing edible fruit. Called also marang.

Maranta

A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea, the American arrowroot or obedience plant) arrowroot (arrowroot starch) is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.

Marantaceae

A natural family of tropical perennial herbs with usually starchy rhizomes, including the arrowroot; the arrowroot family.

marasca

The small bitter fruit of the marasca cherry tree from whose juice maraschino liqueur is made.

marasca cherry

A Dalmation bitter wild cherry tree (Prunus cerasus marasca) bearing fruit whose juice is made into maraschino liqueur.

Maraschino

A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

maraschino cherry

A cherry which is colored a deep red and sweetened by cooking in colored syrup, and flavored with maraschino. It is used as a garnish in deserts and cocktails.

Marasmius

A genus of chiefly small white-spored mushrooms, including the Marasmius oreades, the mushroon that grow in a fairy ring.

marasmus

A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.

marathon

A footrace of 26 miles 385 yards.

Marattia

The type genus of the Marattiaceae, consisting of ferns having the sporangia fused together in two rows.

Marattiaceae

The natural family of ferns coextensive with the order Marattiales, consisting of chiefly tropical eusporantiate ferns with gigantic fronds.

Marattiales

An order of lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae.

maraud

To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

Maraud

An excursion for plundering.

Marauder

A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.

Maravedi

A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.

maravilla

A wildflower (Mirabilis multiflora) having vibrant deep pink tubular evening-blooming flowers; found in sandy and desert areas from Southern California to Southern Colorado and into Mexico.

Marble

To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.

marble cake

A made of light and dark batter very lightly blended, so as to produce a variegated appearance resembling that of marble.

Marble-edged

Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.

Marbled

Made of, or faced with, marble.

Marbleize

To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.

Marbler

One who works upon marble or other stone.

marbles

A children's game played with marbles{3}, little balls made of a hard substance (as glass).

Marbling

The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.

Marbly

Containing, or resembling, marble.

Marbrinus

A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries.

Marc

A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.

Marcasite

A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites.

Marcato

In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction.

Marceline

A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.

Marcescent

Withering without falling off; fading; decaying.

March

The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.

March-mad

Extremely rash; foolhardy. See under March, the month.

marchand de vin

A sauce consisting of brown sauce with mushrooms and red wine or madeira.

Marchantia

The type genus of Marchantiaceae; liverworts that reproduce asexually by gemmae and have stalked antheridiophores.

Loading more words…