See Malformation.

Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series (maleic acid), metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.

An unsaturated dicarboxylic acid (HO.CO.CH=CH.CO.OH) of cis conformation, having various uses in the manufacture of artificial resins, the dyeing and finishing of wool, silk, and cotton, and also combined with certain drugs to make salts more soluble than the basic forms. The corresponding isomer having trans conformation, is identical in chemical formula, is called fumaric acid.

Evil machination; guile; deceit.

A bird of Celebes (megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.

See Malpractice.

A little bag or budget.

See Maltreat.

The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.

Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

In a malevolent manner.

Malevolent.

Bad execution.

A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.

The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed.

One guilty of malfeasance.

Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure; -- often used of body parts such as limbs which do not develop properly during fetal maturation.

Not graceful; displeasing.

See Mauger.

A small mustardlike plant (Stephanomeria malheurensis) of Oregon, belonging to the family Cruciferae; it is a threatened species.

The standard monetary unit in Mali and some other countries.

A native or inhabitant of Mali.

Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.

Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil.

To regard with extreme ill will.

Mischief.

Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.

Malicious and willful destructionof or injury to the property of others; -- it is an offense at common law.

Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign.

To entertain malice.

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; disposition toward evil; intense ill will; as, malignancy of heart.

Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.

A man of extreme enmity or evil intentions.

A chronic progressive anemia of older adults, thought to result from a lack of intrinsic factor (a substance secreted by the stomach that is responsible for the absorption of vitamin B-12); also called pernicious anemia.

Any of several malignant neoplasms (usually of the skin) consisting of melanocytes; called also melanoma. It is classed as a type of skin cancer.

Same as malignancy{4}.

Same as malignancy{4}.

In a malignant manner.

Assailed with contemptuous language.

One who maligns.

To make malign or malignant.

The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

In a malign manner; with malignity.

To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.

Malediction; curse; execration.

Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.

A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians; as, to gather near the Washington monument on the mall in Washington.

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness.

Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.

To make malleable.

Quality of being malleable.

Pertaining to the malleus.

To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

Same as Malicho.

A dwarf Australian eucalypt with a number of thin stems springing from a thickened stock. The most common species are Eucalyptus dumosa and Eucalyptus Gracilis.

Same as mallee bird (Leipoa ocellata). See also Leipoa.

See Mollemoke.

Same as Malanders.

Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.

A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.

A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.

The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.

A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.

The natural family Malvaceae, a dilleniid dicot family consisting of herbs and shrubs and some trees, and including the mallows, cotton, and okra.

A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.

Any plant of the order Malvaceae.

A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.

The tarsius, or spectral lemur.

A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.

Not getting adequate food; suffering from malnutrition; underfed.

Faulty or imperfect nutrition; inadequate or unbalanced food intake.

Erroneous observation.

An offensive odor.

Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.

The attribute of having a strong offensive smell.

A salt of malonic acid.

Pertaining to, or designating, a dicarboxylic acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.

A divalent diacyl radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.

A white crystalline acid derived from pyrimidine; it is used in preparing barbiturate drugs.

A Western Mediterranean annual (Malope trifida) having deep purple-red flowers subtended by three large cordate bracts.

A variant spelling of Malapterurus.

See Malopterurus electricus.

A genus having only one species; often included in the genus Rhus.

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream.

A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia glabra (formerly Malpighia urens) are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.

THe species name of the acerola, also called barbados cherry, a tropical American shrub bearing edible cherrylike acid red fruit.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.

Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.

The capsule that contains a glomerulus at the expanded end of a nephron; also called malpighian corpuscle and Malpighian capsule.

See malpighian body.

The innermost layer of the epidermis.

A tooth that has grown in a faulty position.

A wrong position.

Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.

To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.

An alcoholic drink made with malt.

Same as maltose.

A whiskey distilled in Scotland (esp. whiskey made from malted barley in a pot still); Scotch whisky.

A country on the island of Malta.

An infectious disease contracted from meat or milk products from infected domestic animals; called also brucellosis and undulant fever.

Ill will; malice.

An enzyme, /-D-glucosidase, which hydrolyzes maltose with production of glucose, and also hydrolyzes certain other /-D-glucosides.

Same as malted milk{1}.

A milkshake made with malt powder; also called simply a malted.

Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants. A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta.

A short-haired bluish-gray breed of the domestic cat.

A Eurasian garden perennial (Lychins chalcedonica) having scarlet flowers in dense terminal heads.

A breed of toy dog having a long straight silky white coat; also called a Maltese.

The monetary unit of Malta.

A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.

Thomas Robert Malthus, an English economist who argued that increases in population would outgrow increases in the means of subsistence (1766-1834).

A follower of Malthus.

Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence; Malthusianism. See Malthusian.

The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population. See Malthusian.