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

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.

In many different ways; variously.

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.

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.

See 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.

A form of communism developed in China by Mao Zedong.

An advocate of Maoism.

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.

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

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.

The raccoon.

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

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.

The natural family of trees Aceraceae, including the maples.

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

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.

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

A person who makes maps; a cartographer.

The making of maps and charts; cartography.

The making, or study, of maps.

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

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

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

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

A blundering preacher.

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

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.

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

A macaw.

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

/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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

A footrace of 26 miles 385 yards.

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

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

An order of lower ferns coextensive with the family Marattiaceae.

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

An excursion for plundering.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Made of, or faced with, marble.

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

A texture like that of marble.

One who works upon marble or other stone.

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

A hard marbled wood.

Containing, or resembling, marble.

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

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.

A merchant.

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

Containing, or having the nature of, marcasite.

A young wild boar.

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

A French novelist (1871-1922).

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

Withering without falling off; fading; decaying.

Liable to wither or decay.

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

The vernal equinox.

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

A warden of the marches; a marcher.

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

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

A natural family of liverworts with prostrate and usually dichotomously branched thalli.

An oder of liverworts with gametophyte differentiated internally.

The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.

a. n., fr. March, v.

The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.

A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.

A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. Called also marzipan.

Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold.

Pining; lean; withered.

The state or quality of being withered or lean.

A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.

An Asiatic wild sheep (Ovis poli) with exceptionally large horns; sometimes considered a variety of the argali: Ovis ammon poli.

A celebrated Rhine wine.

Designating, or pert. to, Marconi's system of wireless telegraphy; as, Marconi aerial, coherer, station, system, etc. [archaic]

A rig of triangular sails for a yacht.

The law that the maximum good signaling distance varies directly as the square of the height of the transmitting antenna.

same as radiogram; a wireless message.

The apparatus used in Marconi wireless telegraphy.

The theory or practice of Marconi's wireless telegraph system.

A wasting away of flesh; decay.

One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.

The last day of Carnival; the Tuesday before Ash Wednesday (the beginning of Lent and fasting); Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking; in the United States it is especially associated with New Orleans.

Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.

A navigable body of water to which all nations have equal access; the opposite of mare clausum.

The term used by the ancient Romans to refer to the Mediterranean Sea.

A supposed discovery which turns out to be a hoax; something grossly absurd.

A long streaky cloud, spreading out like a horse's tail, and believed to indicate rain; a cirrus cloud. See Cloud.

A Marsh.

A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.

A military officer of high rank; a marshal.

A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.

Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

A fatty substance, extracted from animal fats and certain vegetable oils, formerly supposed to be a definite compound of glycerin and margaric acid, but now known to be simply a mixture or combination of tristearin and tripalmitin.

A processed food product used as an inexpensive substitute for butter, made primarily from refined vegetable oils, sometimes including animal fats, and churned with skim milk to form a semisolid emulsion; also called oleomargarine; artificial butter.

Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl; pearly.

A pearl.

Margaric.

Producing pearls.

A hidrous potash mica related to muscovite.

The ketone of margaric acid.

Margaric; -- formerly designating a supposed acid.

To impregnate (wood) with a preservative solution of copper sulphate (often called Mar"ga*ry's flu"id (-r/z)).