Mastodynia (n.) Alt. of Mastodyny
Mastodyny (n.) Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia.
Mastoid (a.) Resembling the nipple or the breast; -- applied specifically to a process of the temporal bone behind the ear.
Mastoid (a.) Pertaining to, or in the region of, the mastoid process; mastoidal.
Mastoidal (a.) Same as Mastoid.
Mastology (n.) The natural history of Mammalia.
Mastress (n.) Mistress.
Masturbation (n.) Onanism; self-pollution.
Masty (a.) Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.
Masula boat () Same as Masoola boat.
Mat (n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
Mat (a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
Mat (n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
Mat (n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
Mat (n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.
Mat (n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
Matted (imp. & p. p.) of Mat
Matting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mat
Mat (v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
Mat (v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
Mat (v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.
Matachin (n.) An old dance with swords and bucklers; a sword dance.
Mataco (n.) The three-banded armadillo (Tolypeutis tricinctus). See Illust. under Loricata.
Matadore (n.) Alt. of Matador
Matador (n.) The killer; the man appointed to kill the bull in bullfights.
Matador (n.) In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one.
Matagasse (n.) A shrike or butcher bird; -- called also mattages.
Matamata (n.) The bearded tortoise (Chelys fimbriata) of South American rivers.
Matanza (n.) A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow.
Match (n.) Anything used for catching and retaining or communicating fire, made of some substance which takes fire readily, or remains burning some time; esp., a small strip or splint of wood dipped at one end in a substance which can be easily ignited by friction, as a preparation of phosphorus or chlorate of potassium.
Match (v.) A person or thing equal or similar to another; one able to mate or cope with another; an equal; a mate.
Match (v.) A bringing together of two parties suited to one another, as for a union, a trial of skill or force, a contest, or the like
Match (v.) A contest to try strength or skill, or to determine superiority; an emulous struggle.
Match (v.) A matrimonial union; a marriage.
Match (v.) An agreement, compact, etc.
Match (v.) A candidate for matrimony; one to be gained in marriage.
Match (v.) Equality of conditions in contest or competition.
Match (v.) Suitable combination or bringing together; that which corresponds or harmonizes with something else; as, the carpet and curtains are a match.
Match (v.) A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold.
Matched (imp. & p. p.) of Match
Matching (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Match
Match (v. t.) To be a mate or match for; to be able to complete with; to rival successfully; to equal.
Match (v. t.) To furnish with its match; to bring a match, or equal, against; to show an equal competitor to; to set something in competition with, or in opposition to, as equal.
Match (v. t.) To oppose as equal; to contend successfully against.
Match (v. t.) To make or procure the equal of, or that which is exactly similar to, or corresponds with; as, to match a vase or a horse; to match cloth.
Match (v. t.) To make equal, proportionate, or suitable; to adapt, fit, or suit (one thing to another).
Match (v. t.) To marry; to give in marriage.
Match (v. t.) To fit together, or make suitable for fitting together; specifically, to furnish with a tongue and a groove, at the edges; as, to match boards.
Match (v. i.) To be united in marriage; to mate.
Match (v. i.) To be of equal, or similar, size, figure, color, or quality; to tally; to suit; to correspond; as, these vases match.
Matchable (a.) Capable of being matched; comparable on equal conditions; adapted to being joined together; correspondent.
Match-cloth (n.) A coarse cloth.
Match-coat (n.) A coat made of match-cloth.
Matcher (n.) One who, or that which, matches; a matching machine. See under 3d Match.
Matchless (a.) Having no equal; unequaled.
Matchless (a.) Unlike each other; unequal; unsuited.
Matchlock (n.) An old form of gunlock containing a match for firing the priming; hence, a musket fired by means of a match.
Matchmaker (n.) One who makes matches for burning or kinding.
Matchmaker (n.) One who tries to bring about marriages.
Matchmaking (n.) The act or process of making matches for kindling or burning.
Matchmaking (n.) The act or process of trying to bring about a marriage for others.
Matchmaking (a.) Busy in making or contriving marriages; as, a matchmaking woman.
Mate (n.) The Paraguay tea, being the dried leaf of the Brazilian holly (Ilex Paraguensis). The infusion has a pleasant odor, with an agreeable bitter taste, and is much used for tea in South America.
Mate (n.) Same as Checkmate.
Mate (a.) See 2d Mat.
Mate (v. t.) To confuse; to confound.
Mate (v. t.) To checkmate.
Mate (n.) One who customarily associates with another; a companion; an associate; any object which is associated or combined with a similar object.
Mate (n.) Hence, specifically, a husband or wife; and among the lower animals, one of a pair associated for propagation and the care of their young.
Mate (n.) A suitable companion; a match; an equal.
Mate (n.) An officer in a merchant vessel ranking next below the captain. If there are more than one bearing the title, they are called, respectively, first mate, second mate, third mate, etc. In the navy, a subordinate officer or assistant; as, master's mate; surgeon's mate.
Mated (imp. & p. p.) of Mate
Mating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mate
Mate (v. t.) To match; to marry.
Mate (v. t.) To match one's self against; to oppose as equal; to compete with.
Mate (v. i.) 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.
Mateless (a.) Having no mate.
Matelote (n.) A dish of food composed of many kinds of fish.
Mateology (n.) A vain, unprofitable discourse or inquiry.
Mateotechny (n.) Any unprofitable science.
Mater (n.) See Alma mater, Dura mater, and Pia mater.
Material (a.) Consisting of matter; not spiritual; corporeal; physical; as, material substance or bodies.
Material (a.) Hence: Pertaining to, or affecting, the physical nature of man, as distinguished from the mental or moral nature; relating to the bodily wants, interests, and comforts.
Material (a.) Of solid or weighty character; not insubstantial; of cinsequence; not be dispensed with; important.
Material (a.) Pertaining to the matter, as opposed to the form, of a thing. See Matter.
Material (n.) The substance or matter of which anything is made or may be made.
Material (v. t.) To form from matter; to materialize.
Materialism (n.) The doctrine of materialists; materialistic views and tenets.
Materialism (n.) The tendency to give undue importance to material interests; devotion to the material nature and its wants.
Materialism (n.) Material substances in the aggregate; matter.
Materialist (n.) 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.
Materialist (n.) One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.
Materialistic (a.) Alt. of Materialistical
Materialistical (a.) Of or pertaining to materialism or materialists; of the nature of materialism.
Materiality (n.) The quality or state of being material; material existence; corporeity.
Materiality (n.) Importance; as, the materiality of facts.
Materialization (n.) The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.
Materialized (imp. & p. p.) of Materialize
Materializing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Materialize
Materialize (v. t.) To invest with material characteristics; to make perceptible to the senses; hence, to present to the mind through the medium of material objects.