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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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Mās'ti-gā'dor, n. p. 817See MASTICADOR.Mās'ti-gōph'er-ōus, a. p. 817Furnished with, or carrying, a whip or scourge. [Rare.] S. Smith.Măst'ing-house, n. p. 817A large building, with suitable mechanism overhanging the water, used for masting vessels.Mas-tī'tis, n. p. 817(Med.) Inflammation of the breast. Dunglison.Măst'less, a. p. 817Having no mast; as, a mastless vessel. 2. Bearing no mast; as, a mastless oak or beech.Măst’lin, n. p. 817See MASLIN.Măs'to-don, n. p. 817(Zoöl.) A mammal, resembling the elephant, but larger, and having tuberculate teeth, whence the name. The remains of mastodons are found in the temperate parts of both hemispheres. Skeleton of…Mās'to-dōn'tic, a. p. 818Pertaining to, or resembling, a mastodon; as, mastodontic dimensions. E. Everett.Mās'toid, n. p. 818(Anat.) A bone of the skull. See SKULL.Mās'toid, a. p. 818Resembling the nipple or breast; as, the mastoid process of the temporal bone.Mas-toid'e-al, a. p. 818(Anat.) Belonging or pertaining to the mastoid process.Mas-tŏl'o-gy, n. p. 818The natural history of animals which suckle their young; mazology.Mā'stress, n. p. 818Mistress. [Obs.] Chaucer.Măs'tur-bā'tion, n. p. 818Onanism; self pollution.Măst'y, a. p. 818Full of mast; abounding with acorns, &c. [Obs.]Māt, n. p. 818A texture of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, or other material, to be laid on a floor for wiping and cleaning the feet, and for other purposes. 2. Any similar fabric for various uses, as for…Māt, n. p. 818An alloy of copper, tin, iron, &c., usually called white metal;— so called by coppersmiths. [Written also matt.]Măt, v. t. p. 818To cover or lay with mats. Evelyn. 2. To twist together; to interweave like a mat; to entangle. And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair. Dryden.Măt, v. i. p. 818To grow thick together; to become interwoven like a mat. [Colloq.]Măt’a-chĭn, n. p. 818An old dance with swords and bucklers.Māt'a-co, n. p. 818(Zoöl.) An edentate animal of the genus Dasypus; a species of armadillo.Māt'a-dōre, n. p. 818One of the three principal cards in the game of omber and quadrille, which are always two black aces and the deuce in spades and clubs, and the seven in hearts and diamonds. 2. One who kills; the…Mātch, n. p. 818A thing used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or which, being lighted, remains burning a long time; especially, in modern usage, a…Mătch, n. p. 818A person or thing equal or similar to another in quality; one able to mate or cope with another on fair terms; an equal; a mate; a companion. Government . . . makes an innocent man of the lowest…Mātch, v. t. p. 818To be a mate or match for; to be able to compete with; to rival successfully; to equal. No settled senses of the world can match The pleasure of that madness. Shak. 2. To furnish with its match; to…Mătch, v. i. p. 818To be united in marriage; to mate. I hold it a sin to match in my kindred. Shak. Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep. Dryden. 2. To be of equal size, figure, or quality; to tally; to…Mātch'a-ble, a. p. 818Fit to be joined; suitable; equal. 2. Correspondent. [Rare.] Woodward.Mătch'a-ble-ness, n. p. 818The state or quality of being matchable; capability of being matched.Mātech'-elōth, n. p. 818A coarse kind of woolen cloth.Mătch'-cōat, n. p. 818A coat made of match-cloth.Mātch'er, n. p. 818One who matches.Mătch'less, a. p. 818Having no equal; unequaled; unrivaled. 2. Unequal; ill-adapted; unsuited. “With matchless ears deformed and distort.” Spenser.Mātch'less-ly, adv. p. 818In a manner or degree not to be equaled.Mātch'less-ness, n. p. 818The state or quality of being without an equal.Mătch'lŏck, n. p. 818The lock of a musket containing a match for firing it; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.Mātch'-māk'er, n. p. 818One who makes matches for burning. 2. One who contrives or effects a union by marriage.Mătch'-māk'ing, n. p. 818The act of making matches.Mătch'-māk'ing, a. p. 818Busy in making or contriving matches.Mātch'-plāne, n. p. 818(Carp.) Either of the two planes used to shape the edges of boards which are joined by grooving and tonguing.Mătch'-tŭb, n. p. 818A tub in which matches are kept near guns in war-vessels, provided with water to extinguish sparks that may fall from the burning match. Totten.Māte, n. p. 818One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate. 2. Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care…Mate, n. p. 818The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguariensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste. Johnston.Māte, n. p. 818(Chess.) The state of the king when so situated that he can not escape, and which ends the game; check-mate.Māte, v. t. p. 818To match; to marry. 2. To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with. It is worthy the observing, that there is no passion in the mind of man so weak but it mates and masters the…Māte, v. t. p. 818To enervate; to crush. [Obs.] Audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. Bacon.Māte'less, a. p. 818Having no mate or companion.Māt'e-lōte, n. p. 818A dish of food composed of many kinds of fish.Mā'te-ōl'o-gy, n. p. 818A vain discourse or inquiry. [Obs.]Mā'te-o-tēch'ny, n. p. 818Any unprofitable science. [Obs.]Mā'ter, n. p. 818(Anat.) One of the two membranes that cover the brain, and are distinguished from each other by the epithets dura and pia.Ma-tē'ri-a, n. p. 818Matter; substance. Materia medica. (Med.) (a.) Material or substance used in the composition of remedies; — a general term for all substances used as curative agents in medicine. (b.) That branch of…Ma-tē'ri-al, a. p. 818Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance; material bodies. “The material elements of the universe.” Whewell. 2. Hence, pertaining to, or affecting, the…Ma-tē'ri-al, n. p. 818The substance or matter of which any thing is made or to be made.Ma-tē'ri-al, v. t. p. 818To invest with matter; to form from matter; to materialize. [Obs.] Browne.Ma-tē'ri-al-ism, n. p. 818The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets. The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus. Buckminster. 2. The tendency to give undue…Ma-tē'ri-al-ist, n. p. 818One who denies the existence of spiritual substances, and maintains that the soul of man is the result of a particular organization of matter in the body.Ma-tē'ri-al-ist'ic or Ma-tē'ri-al-ist'ic-al, a. p. 818Pertaining or relating to materialism or materialists. But to me his very spiritualism seemed more matérialistic than his physics. Kingsley.Ma-tē'ri-āl'i-ty, n. p. 818The quality of being material; material existence; corporeity. 2. Importance; as, the materiality of facts.Ma-tē'ri-al-īze, v. t. p. 818To reduce to a state of matter; to regard as matter. 2. Hence, to consider or explain by the laws or principles which are appropriate to matter. 3. To cause to assume a character appropriate to…Ma-tē'ri-al-ly, adv. p. 818In the state of matter. 2. Not formally; in its essence; substantially. An ill intention may spoil an act materially good. Sooth. 3. In an important manner or degree; essentially; as, it materially…