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.

The religion of Mohammed; also, idolatry. See Mawmet.

Nauseous.

The seed of the opium poppy.

Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species. One of the larvae of botflies of horses; a bot.

The bone of either the upper or the under jaw. The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.

Having the form, or structure, of a maxilla.

One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw.

Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo-mandibular nerve.

Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.

Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull. The maxillo-turbinal, or inferior turbinate, bone.

A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.

Maximization.

The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.

To increase to the highest degree.

Making as great as possible; increasing tothe highest degree.

Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.

A cgs unit of magnetic flux, abbreviated Mx; it is equal to the magnetic flux passing through one sqaure centimeter which is normal to a magnetic field of one gauss.

The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.

North American herb (Podophyllum peltatum) with poisonous root stock and an edible though insipid egg-shaped yellowish fruit; called also wild mandrake.

the Indian people occupying the area of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Maya peoples are dark, short, and brachycephalic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and palaces, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d.

A small genus of delicate mossy bog plants having white or violet flowers.

Designating, or pertaining to, an American Indian linguistic stock occupying the Mexican States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of El Salvador. See 2nd Maya.

Possibility; uncertainty.

The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap. The knot. The bobolink.

The hawthorn.

The hawthorn.

A large dark-red cherry of excellent quality.

A common American minnow (Fundulus majalis). See Minnow.

In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.

Perhaps; peradventure.

The hawthorn tree (Crataegus aestivalis) of the Southern U. S. bearing a juicy acid scarlet fruit often used in jellies or preserves.

The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim.

The celebrating of May Day.

A thick white sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency near to that of a gel, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce.

The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief administrative officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge. The post is usually elective, its holder chosen by the electorate of the entire city.

The conductor of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.

Of or pertaining to a mayor; as, the mayoral limousine.

The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.

The wife of a mayor.

The office of a mayor.

A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.

The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.

A composite plant (Anthemis Cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States. The feverfew.

A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat.

To knock on the head.

A forcemeat entr/e.

Of or pertaining to Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian.

The Zoroastrian religion.

To be bewildered.

The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment.

Mazy.

A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple.

In a mazy manner.

The state or quality of being mazy.

Of or pertaining to mazology.

One versed in mazology or mastology.

Same as Mastology.

A Polish dance, or the music which accompanies it, usually in 3-4 or 3-8 measure, with a strong accent on the second beat.

Perplexed with turns and windings; winding; intricate; confusing; perplexing; embarrassing; as, mazy error.

Unscrupulously accusing people of disloyalty (as by saying they were Communists).

Mount McKinley, the highest peak in North America; 20,300 feet high; also called by the native name Denali.

Methylenedioxymethamphetamine, a drug designed to have the effects of amphetamines but originally synthesized to avoid the drug laws; it is now a controlled substance. It is informally called ecstasy. It is used by some abusively and illegally without a prescription.

The person speaking, regarded as an object; myself; a pronoun of the first person used as the objective and dative case of the pronoum I; as, he struck me; he gave me the money, or he gave the money to me; he got me a hat, or he got a hat for me.

To skulk; to cower. See Mich.

An uxorious, effeminate, or spiritless man.