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.

A small rock-inhabiting fern (Asplenium trichomanes) of the North temperate zone and Hawaii, having pinnate fronds.

A deciduous dioecious gymnospermous Chinese tree (Ginkgo biloba) having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds, also called the ginkgo; it exists almost exclusively in cultivation esp. as an ornamental street tree.

The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.

The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity.

Like a maiden; modest; coy.

The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.

In a maidenlike manner.

Maidenhood.

Maidenhood.

The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.

Pale, like a sick girl.

A female servant.

A method of teaching by question and answer; it was used by Socrates to elicit truths from his students; -- called also the Socratic method

Serving to assist childbirth.

The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.

The meagre.

Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.

See Maim, and Mayhem.

A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.

A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.

To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.

A bag in which mailed matter is conveyed or shipped under public authority.

a boat that carries the mail.

A call of the names of those persons receiving mail for the purpose of transmitting mail to them; -- a technique used in the military services to deliver mail to enlisted personnel.

A railway car of special design used for the transportation and sorting of mail en route to its destination, and having employees of the post office inside to perform those functions.

A person who delivers the mail; -- also called a letter carrier. A male mail carrier is also called a mailman.

A clerk in a post office.

The use of the mails to defraud someone.

Same as mailbag.

A usually horizontal slot in a door through which mail can be delivered. It often has a hinged cover to keep the opening cloised when not in use.

A railroad train that carries mail.

The buying and selling of goods to be shipped from the vendor through the mail to the purchaser. Information about to be purchased may be found in catalogs, advertisements, on the web, etc., and purchase orders transmitted to the vendor by mail, telephone, or internet connection.

A chiton.

Admissible lawfully into the mail. Opposed to non-mailable. Dangerous items such as explosives, weapons, or corrosive chemicals are often classified by the postal authorities as non-mailable.

A public box for deposit of mail, where it is later picked up by the postal authority for delivery.

Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor.

Spotted; speckled.

A farm.

The act or process of sending materials through the mail.

The postal address where a maile can be addressed to a person or organization.

A list of names and addresses to which advertising, solicitations of money, or other materials material sent in large quantities is mailed; -- it is usually used by comercial or charitable organizations. Mailing lists are often sold by organizations to other organizations, and are frequently used for targeted mailing, i. e., mailing to groups of people who are more likely htan the general population to respond as desired to the message in the mail.

A man who delivers the mail. A male mail carrier.

A machine that sorts mail, according to the address.

The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.

In a maimed manner.

State of being maimed.

A hand or match at dice.

Very; extremely; as, main heavy.

The principal part of a meal.

The uppermost sheltered deck that runs the entire length of a large vessel.

The form of a word that heads a lexical entry and is alphabetized in a dictionary; also called entry word, headword, and lemma.

A file that is used as the authority in a given job and that is relatively permanent.

Ahe principal route of a transportation system, such as a railroad or bus line.

The memory in a computer that holds programs and data for rapid access during execution of a program; it usually hold the largest quantity of rapid-access storage in a computer; -- also called RAM (random access memory. It is contrasted to ROM, disk data storage, cache, registers and other forms of data storage.

The office that serves as the administrative center of an enterprise,

A major road for any form of motor transport.

The assembly of large rotating airfoils (blades) on a helicopter that produce the lift to support the helicopter in the air.

That region on a two-dimensional graph of luminosity versus temperature for stars (the Herzsprung-Russel diagram), which runs from high temperature and high luminosity to low temperature and low luminosity, in which most of the stars (plotted as points on the diagram) are found. A normal star such as the earth's sun will spend most of its time over billions of years within this region of temperature and luminosity, as it progressively converts more of its original hydrogen into heavier elements. After the hydrogen is consumed, a star may become a red giant or evolve into other types of star not within the main sequence region.

A main thoroughfare, usually one in a small town having the largest concentration of retail businesses.

The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.

A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.

the mast next above the mainmast.

a topsail set on the mainmast.

One of the New England States.

Any of several cold-water lobsters with large tender claws, caught from Maine to the Carolinas.

A large digital computer serving 100-400 users and occupying a special air-conditioned room. At any given point in development of computer technology, the mainframe will be faster, have large main memeory, and be more capable than a minicomputer, which will in turn be faster and more capable than a personal computer. The typical personal computer in 1999 is faster than a mainframe was in 1970.

The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula.

The People's Republic of China, also called Communist China, in distinction from Nationalist China, the government located on the island of Taiwan. Both governments claim to represent the entire people of China, but the People's republic is recognized as China by the United Nationss and most of its member states.

to inject (illegal drugs) into the vein; as, he preferred to mainline heroin rather than sniff coke.

Principally; chiefly.

The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.

A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.

Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.

A surety, under the old writ of mainprise, for a prisoner's appearance in court at a day.

A kingbolt.

To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner.

The source of electrical power in a building; the wiring system of a building.

The principal sail in a ship or other vessel.

One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.

The principal or most important spring in a piece of mechanism, especially the moving spring of a watch or clock or the spring in a gunlock which impels the hammer. The chief or most powerful motive; the efficient cause of action; as, the mainspring of action.

The stay extending from the foot of the foremast to the maintop.

TO place (a student) in regular school classes; -- used especially of mentally or physically handicapped children.

Placed in regular school classes; -- of the handicapped.

To swear falsely.

To hold or keep in any particular state or condition; to support; to sustain; to uphold; to keep up; not to suffer to fail or decline; as, to maintain a certain degree of heat in a furnace; to maintain a fence or a railroad; to maintain the digestive process or powers of the stomach; to maintain the fertility of soil; to maintain present reputation.

That may be maintained.

One who maintains.

One who, not being interested, maintains a cause depending between others, by furnishing money, etc., to either party.

The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication.

A worker, usually in an enterprise or apartment building, whose job is to repair damaged parts of a building or its fixtures, and sometimes to make improvements or other changes to the building.

Those persons in a business responsible for maintaining the physical plant in good condition.

The platform about the head of the mainmast in square-rigged vessels.

Of or pertaining to the genus Maia, or family Maiadeae.

Principal; chief.

Mistress.

Mastery; superiority; art. See Mastery.

Same as Maghet.

A headwaiter.

A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Zea Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn, commonly called corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men and animals.

A large European spider crab.

A shrubby tree (Hibiscus tiliaceus) widely distributed along tropical shores, which yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; it is often cultivated for ornament.