A sudden disturbance of the earth's magnetic field; caused by emission of particles from the sun.

A long thin plastic ribbon coated with iron oxide or other ferromagnetic material, used to record audio or video signals digital data in the form of small magnetized regions on the tape; it is a common digital data storage medium for computer information.

Same as magnetic declination.

Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.

By or as by, magnetism.

Quality of being magnetic.

One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.

Magneticalness.

The science of magnetism.

Producing or conducting magnetism.

The property, quality, or state, of being magnetic; the manifestation of the force in nature which is seen in a magnet. At one time it was believed to be separate from the electrical force, but it is now known to be intimately associated with electricity, as part of the phenomenon of electromagnetism.

One versed in magnetism.

An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron.

Capable of being magnetized.

The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized.

To communicate magnetic properties to; to make magnetic; as, to magnetize a needle.

A person subjected to the influence of animal magnetism.

One who, or that which, imparts magnetism.

A small electric generator with an armature rotating in a magnetic field, having a secondary winding that generates a high voltage, such as one used to generate a voltage sufficient to cause a spark to jump between the poles of a spark plug in an internal-combustion engine.

A prefix meaning pertaining to, produced by, or in some way connected with, magnetism.

Pertaining to, or characterized by, electricity by the action of magnets; as, magneto-electric induction.

Electricity evolved by the action of magnets.

An automatic instrument for registering, by photography or otherwise, the states and variations of any of the terrestrial magnetic elements.

The study of the interaction of magnetic fields with electrically conductive fluids, such as a plasma or a molten metal.

An instrument for measuring the intensity of magnetic forces; also, less frequently, an instrument for determining any of the terrestrial magnetic elements, as the dip and declination.

Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.

Pertaining to, or designating, a force producing magnetic flux, analogous to electromotive force, and equal to the magnetic flux multiplied by the magnetic reluctance.

The force that produces magnetic flux.

A voltaic series of two or more large plates, producing a great quantity of electricity of low tension, and hence adapted to the exhibition of electro-magnetic phenomena.

A unit of magnetic moment for a subatomic particle, atom, or molecule.

the magnetic field of a planet; the volume around the planet in which charged particles are subject more to the planet's magnetic field than to the solar magnetic field.

The treatment of disease by the application of magnets to the surface of the body.

a diode vacuum tube in which the flow of electrons from a central cathode to a cylindrical anode is controlled by crossed magnetic and electric fields; used mainly in microwave oscillators.

Such as can be magnified, or extolled.

Grand; splendid; illustrious; magnificent.

The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.

To magnify or extol.

The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

The act of doing what is magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent.

Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.

In a Magnificent manner.

A grandee or nobleman of Venice; -- so called in courtesy.

enlarged to an abnormal degree.

One who, or that which, magnifies.

To have the power of causing objects to appear larger than they really are; to increase the apparent dimensions of objects; as, some lenses magnify but little.

A single convex lens which magnifies the apparent dimensions of objects seen through it, and is used to produce an enlarged image.

The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

Magniloquent.

Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breadth, and thickness.

A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers.

The state of Mississippi; -- a nickname.

A natural family of plants, a subclass of the Magnoliidae; it includes the genera Liriodendron; Magnolia; Manglietia; and Michelia.

Pertaining to a natural order (Magnoliaceae) of trees of which the magnolia, the tulip tree, and the star anise are examples.

a group of families of trees and shrubs and herbs having well-developed perianths and apocarpous ovaries and generally regarded as the most primitive extant flowering plants; contains 36 families including Magnoliaceae and Ranunculaceae; sometimes classified as a superorder.

A class of flowering plants that produce seeds enclosed in an ovary; in some systems considered a class (Angiospermae) and in others a division (Magnoliophyta or Anthophyta).

A flowering plant.

A class of seed plants that produce an embryo with two cotyledons and net-veined leaves; divided into six (not always well distinguished) subclasses (or superorders): Magnoliidae and Hamamelidae (considered primitive); Caryophyllidae (an early and distinctive offshoot); and three more or less advanced groups: Dilleniidae; Rosidae; Asteridae.

A large wine bottle.

Having a larger charge than usual for a cartridge of the same caliber; -- of cartridges for handgun; as, a .44 magnum cartridge.

A rolling hitch similar to a clove hitch.

The Barbary ape.

A magpie.

Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail.

A South American stork (Euxenara maguari), having a forked tail.

Any of several species of Agave, such as the century plant (Agave Americana), a plant requiring many years to come to maturity and blossoming only once before dying; and the Agave atrovirens, a Mexican plant used especially for making pulque, the source of the colorless Mexican liquor mescal; and the cantala (Agave cantala), a Philippine plant yielding a hard fibre used in making coarse twine. See Agave.

a magician or sorcerer of ancient times.

Of or pertaining to the Magyars or their language; Hungarian.

A Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles.

A member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in Northeastern Nebraska; called also Omaha.

A celebrated sacred epic poem of the Hindus, written in Sanskrit. It is of great length, and is chiefly devoted to a history, in many episodes, of a civil war between two dynasties of ancient India.

A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are prepared.

A sovereign prince in India; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

A great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja.

An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

One of a class of sages, or /adepts,/ reputed to have knowledge and powers of a higher order than those of ordinary men.

See the note under mahatma.

a major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation, found in China; Japan; Tibet; Nepal; Korea; and Mongolia.

an adherent of Mahayana Buddhism.

Among Muslims, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Muslims, believe that he is yet to appear.

See Mahdism.

Belief in the coming of the Mahdi; fanatical devotion to the cause of the Mahdi or a pretender to that title.

Variant of Mohican.

either of two large slender food and game fish (Coryphaena equisetis or Coryphaena hippurus) of warm waters. They are highly esteemed as food fish, especially in Hawaii. See also dolphin{2}.

A long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush while painting. Same as Maul-stick.

A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage.

A large tree of the genus Swietenia (Swietenia Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

A South African lemur (Galago maholi), having very large ears.

Same as Mohammed.

See Mohammedan.

See Mohammedanism and Islam.

To convert to Islam, the religion of Mohammed; to Mohammedanize.

See Mohammedanism and Islam.

A Muslim.

Islam.

A large Turkish ship.

The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.

A genus of evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia.

The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).

One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.

A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil.

The keeper and driver of an elephant.

A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.

The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in the Deccan and Concan.

One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit. Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas.

A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.

See Mohammedan, Muslim, Mohammedanism.

A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado). A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).

Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.

An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.

In various parts of Asia, an open space, as for military exercises, or for a market place; an open grassy tract; an esplanade.

To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.

Literally, an aunt who has never been married. Figuratively, it is a term used as the prototype of a person who is broadly naive and not wise in worldly ways; as, he knows as much about programming as my maiden aunt.

A small widely branching Western wildflower (Collinsia parviflora) with tiny blue-and-white flowers; found from British Columbia to Ontaria and south to California and Colorado.

An over in which no runs are scored.

A low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink (Dianthus deltoides) with single crimson-eyed pale pink flowers.

A slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet (Gaultheria hispidula) of Northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough-hairy seeds.

See maidenhair.

Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having very slender graceful stalks and delicate palmately branched fronds, especially (Adiantum pedatum). It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.