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.

A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See Soir/e.

A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

See Matress.

The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch or matriarchs; as, a matriarchal society.

The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

admission to a group (especially a college or university).

A genus of chiefly Old World strong-smelling weedy herbs; it comprises plants sometimes included in other genera, such as Tanacetum and Tripleurospermum.

See Matrix.

centered upon the mother.

Of or pertaining to matricide.

The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

Matriculated. One who is matriculated.

The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.

The line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family; the mother's line of descent.

tracing descent through the female line.

Matrimony.

Of or pertaining to marriage; derived from marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as, matrimonial rights or duties.

In a matrimonial manner.

Matrimonial.

The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.

One related on the mother's side.

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.

The state of a matron.

Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

The state of being a matron.

To make a matron of; to make matronlike.

Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.

Advanced in years; elderly.

See Metronymic.

Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.

See Matte.

A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.

A subterranean repository for wheat.

A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.

Having a dull, lusterless surface finish; opposed to glossy or polished; as, a matte photograph; a proof coin with matte figures on a polished field.

Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.

To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

A mountain in Italy and Switzerland, 14,690 feet high.

Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.

Generating or containing pus; purulent.

A small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae.

Saint Matthew, a disciple of Jesus; author of the first Gospel.

A genus of Old World plants grown as ornamentals.

A dull, lusterless surface in certain of the arts, as gilding, metal work, glassmaking, etc.

An implement for digging and grubbing. The head has two long steel blades, one like an adz and the other like a narrow ax or the point of a pickax.

A person of congenitally abnormal mind bordering on insanity or degeneracy.

A kind of coarse punch with a rasplike face, used for making a rough surface on etching ground, or on the naked copper, the effect after biting being very similar to stippled lines.

An American clupeoid fish (Clupea mediocris), similar to the shad in habits and appearance, but smaller and less esteemed for food; -- called also hickory shad, tailor shad, fall herring, and shad herring.

A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.

To ripen; to become mature; specifically, to suppurate.

A remedy promoting maturation; a maturant.

To advance toward maturity; to become ripe; as, wine matures by age; the judgment matures by age and experience.

Fully grown.

In a mature manner; with ripeness; completely.

The process of maturing; coming to full development; becoming mature; maturation.

The state or quality of being mature; maturity.

One who brings to maturity.

Approaching maturity.

Approaching maturity; as, maturing fruits; maturing notes of hand.

Of or pertaining to the morning; early.

Matutinal.

Matutinal.

A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.

A native house servant in India.

A cake of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.

A lemur; -- applied to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the ring-tailed lemurs.

A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.

An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

To throw onto confusion or disorder; to render maudlin.

Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly.

A maudlin state.

The oxeye daisy.

To defy.

In spite of; in opposition to; notwithstanding.

See Malkin.

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner.

A stick used by painters as a rest for the hand while working.

The common mallow.

A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.

See Mawmet.

See Manche.

An East Indian weight, varying in different localities from 25 to about 82 pounds avoirdupois.

A beggar.

To beg.

One who maunders.

A pick with two prongs, to pry with.

The sacrament of the Lord's Supper.

Mangy.

See Moresque.

A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature.

A country on the island of Mauritius.

Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.

A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.

A girl; esp., a great, awkward girl; a wench.

See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.

A color of a delicate purple, violet, or lilac.

An artificial organic base, obtained by oxidizing a mixture of aniline and toluidine, and valuable for the dyestuffs it forms.

Mauve-colored.

To take a maverick.

The European throstle or song thrush (Turdus musicus).

My darling; -- an Irish term of endearment for a girl or woman.

An old game at cards.

See Malkin, and Maukin.

Slatternly.

Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; slightly nauseating; disgusting.

In a mawkish way.

The quality or state of being mawkish.

A slattern; a mawk.

Maggoty.

A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally but falsely believed that the Muslims worshiped images representing Mohammed.