That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
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A lemur. See Lemur.
The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.
A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
Same as mako shark.
A powerful and fierce mackerel shark of the Atlantic and Pacific, of the family Lamidae.
A graceful deciduous shrub or small tree (Aristotelia serrata) having attractive foliage and small red berries that turn black at maturity and are used for making wine.
A type of reflecting telescope in which the aberration of the concave mirror is reduced by a meniscus lens.
Motion sickness experienced while traveling on water; seasickness.
Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.
The reddish or black juice or resin from certain trees of the genus Pterocarpus, used in medicine and tanning etc.
A natural family of short-headed marine fishes which are often brightly colored.
See Melocoton.
A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
A walking cane made from the stem of a species of palm of the genus Calamus (Calamus Scipionum), and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.
Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
Softening; relaxing.
The act of making soft or supple.
A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.
One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.
A variety of pyroxene.
One versed in the science of malacology.
The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.
A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.
One of the Malacopterygii.
An order of fishes in which the fin rays, except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins, are closely jointed, and not spiny. It includes the carp, pike, salmon, shad, etc. Called also Malacopteri.
Belonging to the Malacopterygii.
A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.
Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.
One of the Malacostraca.
That branch of Zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
Belonging to the Malacostraca.
See Melocoton.
An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.
Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa.
Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one.
A bad adjustment.
Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs.
Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.
Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.
Same as Malagasy.
A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.
Former name of the Republic of Madagascar, a nation in Africa occupying the island of Madagascar in the Indian Ocean east of Mozambique.
An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
A salt of malamic acid.
A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.
A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
Of or designating an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.
The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.
A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert. A malapert person.
A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric.
The species name of the electric catfish, a freshwater catfish of the Nile and tropical central Africa having an electric organ.
Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.
The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit; that arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek; also called the malar bone.
Same as malar, n.
Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
A mosquito that transmits the malaria parasite; it is most commonly the Anopheles mosquito.
Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.
The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).
Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food. An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.
A salt of malic acid.
The kwacha, the monetary unit of Malawi.
To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance.
The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters.
One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass.
A large genus of largely terrestrial orchids with one or a few plicate leaves and slender spikes or tiny mostly green flowers; it is cosmopolitan.
A North American orchid having a solitary leaf and flowers with threadlike petals.
One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
A group of islands in the Indian and Pacific Oceans between Asia and Australia.
a peninsula in Southeastern Asia occupied by parts of Malaysia and Thailand and Burma.
Formerly, an Asian country on Borneo and the Malay Peninsula, now part of Malaysia.
The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.
Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country. The Malay language.
A large inoffensive chiefly nocturnal ungulate (Tapirus indicus) of tropical America and Southeast Asia having a heavy body and fleshy snout.
of or pertaining to Malayo-Polynesia.
A country in Southeast Asia including the former nation of Malaya on the Malay Peninsula, and part of Borneo; sometimes still referred to as Malaya.
Of or pertaining to or characteristic of Malaysia or its people or their culture; as, Malaysian police cracked down hard on drug smugglers; Malaysian poetry.
A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).
A militant American black nationalist leader, also called Malcolm X; (1925-1965).
Any of various ornamental flowering plants of the genus Malcolmia.
See Malcolm Little.
A genus of plants usually found in coastal habitats; native from the Mediterranean to Afghanistan.
Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.
One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who expresses his discontent by words or overt acts.
Malcontent.
Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidae. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.
A group of about 2000 islands in the Indian ocean; also known as the Maldives.
A native or inhabitant of Maldives.
A battle in which the Danes defeated the East Saxons in 991; it is celebrated in an old English poem.
An animal of the male sex.
A deciduous much-branched shrub (Lyonia ligustrina) with dense downy panicles of small bell-shaped white flowers; also called swamp andromeda.
The body of an adult human male; -- a term used especially in art; as, Da Vinci was unexcelled in painting the male body.
Disparaging, patronizing, discriminatory or abusive speech or behavior by males toward females stemming from a belief that males are superior to females and females therefore worthy of less respect and inferior treatment. A form of sexism.
A man with a belief in the inferiority of women; one who believes in or practises male chavinism.
A fern of North America and Europe (Dryopteris filix-mas) whose rhizomes and stalks yield an oleoresin used to expel tapeworms. It is a member of the woodfern genus.
A Eurasian orchid (Orchis mascula) with showy pink or purple flowers in a loose spike.
An orgasm in a male animal accompanied by the ejaculation of semen.
The connecting end of the cord on an electrical device, having two or three pins, that is inserted into a matching socket to make an electrical connection.
See Malodor.
Having the spirit of a male; vigorous; courageous.
Maladministration.
A salt of maleic acid.
The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.
Malconformation.
Malcontent.
Evil speaking.
Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.
Accursed; abominable.
A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.
A crime; an offense; an evil deed.
An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
A female malefactor.
See Malfeasance.
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