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.

A meadow.

Of or pertaining to a meadow; of the nature of a meadow; produced, growing, or living in, a meadow.

Any of various grasses that thrive in the presence of abundant moisture, especially those of the genus Poa, common in meadows, and of great value for hay and for pasture. See Grass.

Any species of Sturnella, a genus of North American songbirds allied to the starlings. The common species (Sturnella magna) has a yellow breast with a black crescent.

The name of several plants of the genus Spiraea, especially the white- or pink-flowered Spiraea salicifolia, a low European and American shrub, and the herbaceous Spiraea Ulmaria, which has fragrant white flowers in compound cymes.

Of or pertaining to meadows; resembling, or consisting of, meadow.

same as meager, 2. Opposite of ample.

A large European sciaenoid fish (Sciaena umbra or Sciaena aquila), having white bloodless flesh. It is valued as a food fish.

To make lean.

Poorly; thinly.

The state or quality of being meager; leanness; scantiness; barrenness.

A hook with a long handle.

The process of picking out the oakum from the seams of a vessel which is to be recalked.

To sprinkle with, or as with, meal.

Maize or Indian corn; -- the common name in South Africa.

The quality or state of being mealy.

A program that delivers hot meals to persons, such as the elderly or disabled, who are confined to their homes and unable to cook for themselves; also, the meals thus delivered. Such programs are usually conducted by governmental or charitable organizations.

The usual time of eating a meal.

Having the qualities of meal; resembling meal; soft, dry, and friable; easily reduced to a condition resembling meal; as, a mealy potato.

Any of several homopteran scale insects (as, Coccus adonidum, and related species of the families Pseudococcidae and Eriococcidae), that cover themselves with a white powderlike or cottony wax secretion. They are common plant-eating pests in hothouses and are also destructive of fruit trees.

Using soft words; not straightforward; plausible; affectedly or timidly delicate of speech; speaking deviously; unwilling to tell the truth in plain language. Opposite of frank or blunt.

That which is mean, or intermediate, between two extremes of place, time, or number; the middle point or place; middle rate or degree; mediocrity; medium; absence of extremes or excess; moderation; measure.

Of a mean spirit; petty; small-minded; base; groveling; -- of people.

To wind or turn in a course or passage; to be intricate.

Winding; having many turns.

A genus of corals with meandering grooves and ridges, including the brain corals.

Winding; flexuous.

That which is meant or intended; intent; purpose; aim; object; as, a mischievous meaning was apparent.

Having a meaning or purpose; having significance; as, a meaningful explanation; a meaningful discussion; a meaningful pause; to live a meaningful life. Opposite of meaningless.

the quality of having great meaning or value.

having no meaning; of no value; as, a meaningless endeavor; a meaningless life; a meaningless explanation. Opposite of meaningful.

In a mean manner; unworthily; basely; poorly; ungenerously.

The condition, or quality, of being mean; want of excellence; poorness; lowness; baseness; sordidness; stinginess.

imp. p. p. of Mean.

In the intervening time; during the interval.

A boundary. See Mere.

Five hundred; as, a mease of herrings.

Leprosy.

A tapeworm larva. See 2d Measles, 4.

Infected or spotted with measles, as pork.

Leprosy; also, a leper.

Infected with measles.

the quality of being measurable.

A standard of dimension; a fixed unit of quantity or extent; an extent or quantity in the fractions or multiples of which anything is estimated and stated; hence, a rule by which anything is adjusted or judged.

To make a measurement or measurements.

Regulated or determined by a standard; hence, equal; uniform; graduated; limited; moderated; as, he walked with measured steps; he expressed himself in no measured terms.

Without measure; unlimited; immeasurable.

The act or result of measuring; mensuration; as, measurement is required.

One who measures; one whose occupation or duty is to measure commondities in market.

Used in, or adapted for, ascertaining measurements, or dividing by measure.

To supply with food.

Of or pertaining to a meatus; resembling a meatus.

Fed; fattened.

A sweet liquor; mead.

Quality of being meaty.

Having no meat; without food.

A speculum for examining a natural passage, as the urethra.

An instrument for cutting into the urethra so as to enlarge its orifice.

A natural passage or canal; as, the external auditory meatus. See Illust. of Ear.

Abounding in meat.

See Mew, to cry as a cat.

See Mewl, and Miaul.

See 1st Measle.

Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing.

See Moebles.

A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc.

Of or pertaining to Mecca, in Arabia. A native or inhabitant of Mecca.

Having to do with the application of the laws of motion in the art of constructing or making things; of or pertaining to mechanics; mechanical; as, the mechanic arts.

A mechanic.

To cause to become mechanical.

In a mechanical manner.

The state or quality of being mechanical.

One skilled in the theory or construction of machines; a machinist.

Pertaining to, connected with, or dependent upon, both mechanics and chemistry; -- said especially of those sciences which treat of such phenomena as seem to depend on the laws both of mechanics and chemistry, as electricity and magnetism.