In Muslim countries, a fixed seat, common in dwellings and in public places.

The pharynx of a rotifer. It usually contains four horny pieces. The two central ones form the incus, against which the mallei, or lateral ones, work so as to crush the food. The lore of a bird.

Furnished with a mast or masts; -- chiefly in composition; as, a three-masted schooner.

To be skillful; to excel.

The senior petty officer of a ship, responsible for discipline aboard the ship.

Dominion; rule; command.

Learned thoroughly.

Inclined to play the master; domineering; imperious; arbitrary.

In a masterful manner; imperiously.

The state of being a master; hence, disposition to command or hector.

Destitute of a master or owner; ungoverned or ungovernable.

The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.

With the skill of a master.

Masterly.

Anything done or made with extraordinary skill; a capital performance; a chef-d'oeuvre; a supreme achievement.

The state or office of a master.

One of a class of poets which flourished in Nuremberg and some other cities of Germany in the 15th and 16th centuries. They bound themselves to observe certain arbitrary laws of rhythm.

A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria). The Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre. Improperly, the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum).

Abounding in mast; producing mast in abundance; as, the mastful forest; a mastful chestnut.

To cause to go to the masthead as a punishment.

A building in which vessels' masts are shaped, fitted, etc.

Capable of being masticated.

A part of a bridle, the slavering bit.

To grind or crush with, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.

One who masticates.

The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food.

One who masticates.

A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.

See Mastic.

A white, amorphous, tenacious substance resembling caoutchouc, and obtained as an insoluble residue of mastic.

Massicot.

A breed of large dogs noted for strength and courage. There are various strains, differing in form and color, and characteristic of different countries.

A phylum of protozoans the kingdom Protista, consisting mainly of free-living flagellated unicellular organisms, lacking photosynthetic capability. Some members are pathogenic in man.

One of the Mastigopoda.

Formerly considered identical to the Infusoria, now distinguished from that group, which has been reordered. See Mastigophora.

Any one of several large spiny-tailed lizards of the genus Uromastix. They inhabit Southern Asia and North Africa.

The act or process of putting a mast or masts into a vessel; also, the scientific principles which determine the position of masts, and the mechanical methods of placing them.

Inflammation of the breast.

Having no mast; as, a mastless vessel.

See Maslin.

An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their remains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.

A large extinct genus of labyrinthodonts, found in the European Triassic rocks.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions.

Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia.

Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear. Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.

Same as Mastoid.

Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

The natural history of Mammalia.

A primitive genus of termites, mostly extinct; sometimes considered the most primitive isopterans.

A natural family comprising primitive termites.

Mistress.

To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.

The act of masturbating; sexual self-gratification; onanism.

Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat, as hair when wetted with a sticky substance; as, a long-haired cat whose fur is matted.

A warlike South African Kaffir tribe.

An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

The three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutis tricinctus). See Illust. under Loricata.

The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights; a bullfighter; a toreador.

A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.

The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.

A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.

To be united in marriage; to mate.

a box for holding matches. See first match, n.

A coarse cloth.

A coat made of match-cloth.

Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.

A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor); see match boarding.

A small folder of paper safety matches.

any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny matchlike flowerheads.

One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.

a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation; usually called machete.

having identical or closely similar appearance or properties; as, a pair of matching candlesticks.

An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.

One who makes matches for burning or kinding.

Busy in making or contriving marriages; as, a matchmaking woman.

wood in small pieces or splinters; as, the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks.

To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.

Brought together for sexual activity; bred; -- of animals.

A quilted ornamented dress fabric of silk or silk and wool.

Having no mate.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry.

Any unprofitable science.

See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

To form from matter; to materialize.

The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets; called also philosophical materialism.

One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. A believer in philosophical materialism.

Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism.

The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.

In the state of matter.

The state of being material.

See Materialist.

Consisting of matter.

Act of forming matter.

Those objects in a complex system which constitute the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; for example, the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers; -- used in a collective sense.

See Material.

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

showing maternal instincts; behaving as a mother should; motherly.

In a motherly manner.

The state of being a mother; motherhood.

Of or pertaining to childbirth or the period during which a woman is pregnant; as, maternity care; a maternity hospital.

The section of a hospital devoted to assisting women during childbirth and caring for them and their newborn infants until they are released to go home.

having the relationship of friends or pals.

The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.

See Mathematical.

Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness.

One versed in mathematics.

That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.

See Madder.

The mayweed. Cf. Maghet.

Learning; especially, mathematics.

See Trinitarian.

A Peruvian plant (Piperelongatum or Artanthe elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.

A fat herring with undeveloped roe.

Morning.

Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.

Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.