Manus (pl. ) of Manus
Manus (n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.
Manuscript (a.) Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.
Manuscript (a.) A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy.
Manuscript (a.) Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript.
Manuscriptal (a.) Manuscript.
Manutenency (n.) Maintenance.
Manway (n.) A small passageway, as in a mine, that a man may pass through.
Manx (a.) Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants; as, the Manx language.
Manx (n.) The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.
Many (n.) A retinue of servants; a household.
Many (a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few.
Many (a.) The populace; the common people; the majority of people, or of a community.
Many (a.) A large or considerable number.
Many-minded (a.) Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.
Manyplies (n.) The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.
Many-sided (a.) Having many sides; -- said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.
Many-sided (a.) Interested in, and having an aptitude for, many unlike pursuits or objects of attention; versatile.
Manyways (adv.) Alt. of Manywise
Manywise (adv.) In many different ways; variously.
Manzanita (n.) A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.
Maoris (pl. ) of Maori
Maori (n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand.
Maori (a.) Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.
Map (n.) A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.
Map (n.) Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map.
Mapped (imp. & p. p.) of Map
Mapping (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Map
Map (v. t.) To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business.
Mapach (n.) The raccoon.
Maple (n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
Maplike (a.) Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.
Mappery (n.) The making, or study, of maps.
Maqui (n.) A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.
Mar (n.) A small lake. See Mere.
Marred (imp. & p. p.) of Mar
Marring (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mar
Mar (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
Mar (v.) To spoil; to ruin.
Mar (n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
Mara (n.) The principal or ruling evil spirit.
Mara (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
Mara (n.) The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus).
Marabou (n.) A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.
Marabou (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
Marabout (n.) A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.
Maracan (n.) A macaw.
Marai (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.
Maranatha (n.) "Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.
Maranta (n.) A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.
Maraschino (n.) A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.
Marasmus (n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.
Marauded (imp. & p. p.) of Maraud
Marauding (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maraud
Maraud (v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.
Maraud (n.) An excursion for plundering.
Marauder (v.) A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages.
Maravedi (n.) A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.
Marble (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
Marble (n.) A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
Marble (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
Marble (a.) Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.
Marble (a.) Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.
Marbled (imp. & p. p.) of Marble
Marbling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marble
Marble (n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
Marbled (a.) Made of, or faced with, marble.
Marbled (a.) Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble.
Marbled (a.) Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.
Marble-edged (a.) Having the edge veined or spotted with different colors like marble, as a book.
Marbleized (imp. & p. p.) of Marbleize
Marbleizing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marbleize
Marbleize (v. t.) To stain or grain in imitation of marble; to cover with a surface resembling marble; as, to marbleize slate, wood, or iron.
Marbler (n.) One who works upon marble or other stone.
Marbler (n.) One who colors or stains in imitation of marble.
Marbling (n.) The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.
Marbling (n.) An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance.
Marbling (n.) Distinct markings resembling the variegations of marble, as on birds and insects.
Marbly (a.) Containing, or resembling, marble.
Marbrinus (n.) A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries.
Marc (n.) The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes.
Marc (n.) A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
Marc (n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
Marc (n.) A German coin and money of account. See Mark.
Marcantant (n.) A merchant.
Marcasite (n.) A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites.
Marcasitic (a.) Alt. of Marcasitical
Marcasitical (a.) Containing, or having the nature of, marcasite.
Marcassin (n.) A young wild boar.
Marcato (a.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction.
Marceline (n.) A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.
Marcescent (a.) Withering without/ falling off; fading; decaying.
Marcescible (a.) Li/ble to wither or decay.
March (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
March (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
March (v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
Marched (imp. & p. p.) of March
Marching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of March
March (v. i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
March (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.