Same as Mastoid.

Inflammation in the mastoid process of the temporal bone.

The natural history of Mammalia.

A primitive genus of termites, mostly extinct; sometimes considered the most primitive isopterans.

A natural family comprising primitive termites.

Mistress.

To achieve sexual gratification by stimulating one's own sexual organs, without the aid of a partner; -- typically to the point of orgasm.

The act of masturbating; sexual self-gratification; onanism.

Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat, as hair when wetted with a sticky substance; as, a long-haired cat whose fur is matted.

A warlike South African Kaffir tribe.

An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.

The three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutis tricinctus). See Illust. under Loricata.

The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights; a bullfighter; a toreador.

A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.

A large squirrel fish (Holocentrus ascensionis) of Florida and the West Indies.

The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.

A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.

To be united in marriage; to mate.

a box for holding matches. See first match, n.

A coarse cloth.

A coat made of match-cloth.

Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.

A board that has a groove cut into one edge and a tongue cut into the other so they fit tightly together (as in a floor); see match boarding.

A small folder of paper safety matches.

any of several plants of the genus Gutierrezia having tiny matchlike flowerheads.

One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.

a large heavy knife used in Central and South America as a weapon or for cutting vegetation; usually called machete.

having identical or closely similar appearance or properties; as, a pair of matching candlesticks.

An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.

One who makes matches for burning or kinding.

Busy in making or contriving marriages; as, a matchmaking woman.

wood in small pieces or splinters; as, the vessel was beaten to matchwood on the rocks.

To be or become a mate or mates, especially in sexual companionship; as, some birds mate for life; this bird will not mate with that one.

Brought together for sexual activity; bred; -- of animals.

A quilted ornamented dress fabric of silk or silk and wool.

Having no mate.

A stew, commonly of fish, flavored with wine, and served with a wine sauce containing onions, mushrooms, etc.

A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry.

Any unprofitable science.

See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.

To form from matter; to materialize.

The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets; called also philosophical materialism.

One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter. A believer in philosophical materialism.

Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism.

The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

To appear as a material form; to take substantial shape.

In the state of matter.

The state of being material.

See Materialist.

Consisting of matter.

Act of forming matter.

Those objects in a complex system which constitute the materials, or instruments employed, in distinction from the personnel, or men; for example, the buildings, libraries, and apparatus of a college, in distinction from its officers; -- used in a collective sense.

See Material.

Of or pertaining to a mother; becoming to a mother; motherly; as, maternal love; maternal tenderness.

showing maternal instincts; behaving as a mother should; motherly.

In a motherly manner.

The state of being a mother; motherhood.

Of or pertaining to childbirth or the period during which a woman is pregnant; as, maternity care; a maternity hospital.

The section of a hospital devoted to assisting women during childbirth and caring for them and their newborn infants until they are released to go home.

The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

A mowing, or that which is gathered by mowing; -- chiefly used in composition; as, an aftermath.

See Mathematical.

Of or pertaining to mathematics; according to mathematics; hence, theoretically precise; accurate; as, mathematical geography; mathematical instruments; mathematical exactness.

One versed in mathematics.

That science, or class of sciences, which treats of the exact relations existing between quantities or magnitudes, and of the methods by which, in accordance with these relations, quantities sought are deducible from other quantities known or supposed; the science of spatial and quantitative relations.

See Madder.

The mayweed. Cf. Maghet.

Learning; especially, mathematics.

See Trinitarian.

A Peruvian plant (Piperelongatum or Artanthe elongatum), allied to the pepper, the leaves of which are used as a styptic and astringent.

A fat herring with undeveloped roe.

Morning.

Of or pertaining to the morning, or to matins; used in the morning; matutinal.

Relating to the morning, or to matins; matutinal.

A reception, or a musical or dramatic entertainment, held in the daytime. See Soir/e.

A round-bottomed glass flask having a long neck; a bolthead.

See Matress.

The mother and ruler of a family or of her descendants; a ruler by maternal right.

Of or pertaining to a matriarch; governed by a matriarch or matriarchs; as, a matriarchal society.

The office or jurisdiction of a matriarch; a matriarchal form of government.

admission to a group (especially a college or university).

A genus of chiefly Old World strong-smelling weedy herbs; it comprises plants sometimes included in other genera, such as Tanacetum and Tripleurospermum.

See Matrix.

centered upon the mother.

Of or pertaining to matricide.

The murder of a mother by her son or daughter.

Matriculated. One who is matriculated.

The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.

The line of descent traced through the maternal side of the family; the mother's line of descent.

tracing descent through the female line.

Matrimony.

Of or pertaining to marriage; derived from marriage; connubial; nuptial; hymeneal; as, matrimonial rights or duties.

In a matrimonial manner.

Matrimonial.

The union of man and woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock.

One related on the mother's side.

A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.

The state of a matron.

Of or pertaining to a matron; suitable to an elderly lady or to a married woman; grave; motherly.

The state of being a matron.

To make a matron of; to make matronlike.

Like a matron; sedate; grave; matronly.

Advanced in years; elderly.

See Metronymic.

Formerly, in the British service, a gunner or a gunner's mate; one of the soldiers in a train of artillery, who assisted the gunners in loading, firing, and sponging the guns.

See Matte.

A shrike or butcher bird; -- written also matagasse.

A subterranean repository for wheat.

A partly reduced copper sulphide, obtained by alternately roasting and melting copper ore in separating the metal from associated iron ores, and called coarse metal, fine metal, etc., according to the grade of fineness. On the exterior it is dark brown or black, but on a fresh surface is yellow or bronzy in color.

Having a dull, lusterless surface finish; opposed to glossy or polished; as, a matte photograph; a proof coin with matte figures on a polished field.

Covered with a mat or mats; as, a matted floor.

To regard as important; to take account of; to care for.

Adhering to facts; not turning aside from absolute realities; not fanciful or imaginative; commonplace; dry.

A mountain in Italy and Switzerland, 14,690 feet high.

Not being, or having, matter; as, matterless spirits.

Generating or containing pus; purulent.

A small genus sometimes included in genus Onoclea; in some classifications both genera are placed in Polypodiaceae.

Saint Matthew, a disciple of Jesus; author of the first Gospel.

A genus of Old World plants grown as ornamentals.