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An American Dictionary of the English Language
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Springfield, Mass. · G. & C. Merriam · 1865
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Ma-lig'ni-fy, v. t. p. 805To make malign or malignant. [Rare.] Dreadful are the effects of a strong faith malignified. Southey.Ma-lig’ni-ty, n. p. 805The quality of being malign; extreme disposition to do evil; extreme malevolence; virulent enmity; malignancy; maliciousness. 2. Virulence; deadly quality. 3. Extreme evilness of nature; enormity…Ma-lign'ly, adv. p. 805In a malign manner; with extreme ill will. 2. Unpropitiously; perniciously.Ma-lin'ger, v. i. p. 805(Mil.) To feign illness or to protract disease, in order to avoid duty.Ma-lin'ger-er, n. p. 805(Mil.) A soldier who feigns himself sick.Ma-lin′ger-y, n. p. 805(Mil.) A feigning of illness, or protracting of disease, in order to escape duty.Măl'i-son, n. p. 805Malediction; curse; execration. God’s malison on his head who this gainsays. W. Scott.Mäl'kin, n. p. 805A mop; hence, a dirty drab. [Written also maukin.]Mall, n. p. 805A large, heavy, wooden beetle; an instrument for driving any thing with force; a maul. 2. A blow. [Obs.] Spenser.Mall, v. t. p. 805To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.Măll, n. p. 805A public walk; a level, shaded walk. Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall. Southey. 2. A…Măl'lard, n. p. 805A drake. 2. (Ornith.) The common duck (Anas boschas) in its wild state.Măl'le-a-bil'i-ty, n. p. 805The quality of being malleable, or susceptible of extension by beating;—opposed to friability and brittleness. Locke.Mäl'le-a-ble, a. p. 805Capable of being drawn out and extended by beating; capable of extension by the hammer; reducible to a laminated form by beating. Malleable iron, cast iron, which, by a peculiar process, has been…Măl'le-a-ble-ness, n. p. 805Malleability.Măl'le-āte, v. t. p. 805To hammer; to draw into a plate or leaf by beating.Măl'le-ā'tion, n. p. 805The act of beating into a plate or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.Măl'le-mōck, n. p. 805Māī'le-mōke, n. p. 805See MOLLEMORE.Māl'len-ders, n. pl. p. 805(Far.) See MALANDERS.Mal-lē'o-lar, a. p. 805(Anat.) Of, or pertaining to, the ankle.Mal-lē'o-lūs, n. p. 805(Anat.) One of the projections of the bones of the leg at the ankle joint.Māi'let, n. p. 805A wooden hammer or instrument for beating, or for driving pins; particularly used, in carpentry, for driving the chisel.Măl'le-ŭs, n. p. 805(Anat.) The outermost of the chain of bones in the ear. One of its processes, called the handle, is fastened to the membrane of the drum. 2. (Microscopical Zoöl.) The hammer-shaped jaw in a mouth of…Māi'lor-quīne', n. & a. p. 805(Geog.) The same as MAJORCAN.Mal-lō'tus, n. p. 805(Ichth.) A genus of small fishes found along the coast of Greenland; the capelan.Măl'lōw or Măl'lōws, n. p. 805(Bot.) A plant of the genus Malva (M. sylvestris and M. rotundifolia); — so called from its emollient qualities. Its fruit is a depressed disk, popularly called a cheese.Jew's mallow p. 805a plant, the Corchorus olitorius, used as a pot-herb by the Jews of Egypt and Syria.Mälm or Mälm'-brick, n. p. 805A kind of brick of a light brownish or yellowish color, composed of sand, clay, and pulverized chalk.Mälm'-rŏck, n. p. 805(Min.) A kind of firestone.Mālm’sey, n. p. 805A sort of grape; also, a kind of strong and sweet wine.Mal-ō'dor, n. p. 805An offensive odor.Mal-pĭg'hi-an, a. p. 805Pertaining to Malpighi.Malpighian bodies p. 805globular dilations in the kidney containing a plexus of vessels, called the Malpighian tuft, and giving rise to the urinary tubules. In them the secretion of urine is supposed to take place. They are…Măl'po-sĭ'tion, n. p. 805A wrong position.Mal-præ'tĭce, n. p. 805Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; especially, professional misconduct of a physician. [Written also male-practice.]Malt, n. p. 805Barley, or other grain, steeped in water till it germinates, and then dried in a kiln, thus evolving the saccharine principle. It is used in brewing.Malt, a. p. 805Pertaining to, containing, or made with, malt. Malt-drink, or malt-liquor, a liquor prepared for drink by an infusion of malt, as beer, ale, porter, &c.—Malt-dust, the grains or remains of malt.…Malt, v. t. p. 805To make into malt; as, to malt barley.Malt, v. i. p. 805To become malt. To house it green will make it malt worse. Mortimer.Măl'ta-lent, n. p. 805Ill-humor; ill-will; malice. [Obs.] Chaucer.Mal-tēse', n., sing. & pl. p. 805(Geog.) A native or inhabitant of Malta; in the plural, the people of Malta.Mal-tēse', a. p. 805Of, or pertaining to, Malta, or to its inhabitants.Mäl'thä, n. p. 805A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor. 2. Mortar. [Obs.] Holland.Malt'-hōrse, n. p. 805A horse employed in grinding malt; hence, a dull fellow.Mal-thū′/sian, a. p. 805Pertaining to Prof. Malthus, who taught that population, when unchecked, increases more rapidly than the means of subsistence can be made to increase, and hence, that hasty and early marriages should…Mal-thū'sian, n. p. 805A follower of Malthus.Malt'man, n. p. 805A man whose occupation is to make malt.Mal-trēat, v. t. p. 805To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly, rudely, or with unkindness. [Written also maltreat.]Mal-trēat'ment, n. p. 805Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.Malt'ster, n. p. 805A maltman.Malt'worm, n. p. 805A tippler. [Obs.] Shak.Mā'lum, n. p. 805An evil. Malum in se (Law), a thing that is in itself evil.—Malum prohibitum, a prohibited wrong; an act wrong because forbidden by law. Bouvier.Mäl'va, n. p. 805(Bot.) A genus of plants including many species, and found in almost all parts of the world; mallows.Mal-vā'ceoŭs, a. p. 805(Bot.) Pertaining to, or resembling, mallows;—a term designating a group of plants of which mallows is the type.Māl'vaise or Māl'va-sy, n. p. 805See MALVESIE.Măl/ver-sā'tion, n. p. 805Evil conduct; improper or wicked behavior; mean artifices or fraudulent tricks; corruption or extortion in office.Māl've-sie, n. p. 805Malmsey wine. See MALMSEY. [Written also Malvaise and Malvasy.] Halliwell.Mām, n. p. 805Mamma.Mām'a-lūke or Mām'e-lūke, n. p. 805One of the former mounted soldiery of Egypt, formed of Circassian slaves of the sultan; later, the actual or virtual masters of the country until their destruction by Mohammed Ali in 1811.