Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 4

Magazine (n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship.

Magazine (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece.

Magazine (n.) A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions.

Magazined (imp. & p. p.) of Magazine

Magazining (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Magazine

Magazine (v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use.

Magaziner (n.) One who edits or writes for a magazine.

Magazining (n.) The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine.

Magazinist (n.) One who edits or writes for a magazine.

Magbote (n.) See Maegbote.

Magdala (a.) Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

Magdalen (n.) A reformed prostitute.

Magdaleon (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.

Magdeburg (n.) A city of Saxony.

Mage (n.) A magician.

Magellanic (a.) Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator.

Magenta (n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseine, etc.

Magged (a.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace.

Maggiore (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major.

Maggot (n.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.

Maggot (n.) A whim; an odd fancy.

Maggotiness (n.) State of being maggoty.

Maggotish (a.) Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Maggot-pie (n.) A magpie.

Maggoty (a.) Infested with maggots.

Maggoty (a.) Full of whims; capricious.

Maghet (n.) A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.

Magi (n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East.

Magian (a.) Of or pertaining to the Magi.

Magian (n.) One of the Magi, or priests of the Zoroastrian religion in Persia; an adherent of the Zoroastrian religion.

Magic (a.) A comprehensive name for all of the pretended arts which claim to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc.

Magic (a.) Alt. of Magical

Magical (a.) Pertaining to the hidden wisdom supposed to be possessed by the Magi; relating to the occult powers of nature, and the producing of effects by their agency.

Magical (a.) Performed by, or proceeding from, occult and superhuman agencies; done by, or seemingly done by, enchantment or sorcery. Hence: Seemingly requiring more than human power; imposing or startling in performance; producing effects which seem supernatural or very extraordinary; having extraordinary properties; as, a magic lantern; a magic square or circle.

Magically (adv.) In a magical manner; by magic, or as if by magic.

Magician (n.) One skilled in magic; one who practices the black art; an enchanter; a necromancer; a sorcerer or sorceress; a conjurer.

Magilp (n.) Alt. of Magilph

Magilph (n.) See Megilp.

Magister (n.) Master; sir; -- a title of the Middle Ages, given to a person in authority, or to one having a license from a university to teach philosophy and the liberal arts.

Magisterial (a.) Of or pertaining to a master or magistrate, or one in authority; having the manner of a magister; official; commanding; authoritative. Hence: Overbearing; dictatorial; dogmatic.

Magisterial (a.) Pertaining to, produced by, or of the nature of, magistery. See Magistery, 2.

Magisteriality (n.) Magisterialness; authoritativeness.

Magisterially (adv.) In a magisterial manner.

Magisterialness (n.) The quality or state of being magisterial.

Magistery (n.) Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy.

Magistery (n.) A magisterial injunction.

Magistery (n.) A precipitate; a fine substance deposited by precipitation; -- applied in old chemistry to certain white precipitates from metallic solutions; as, magistery of bismuth.

Magistracies (pl. ) of Magistracy

Magistracy (n.) The office or dignity of a magistrate.

Magistracy (n.) The collective body of magistrates.

Magistral (a.) Pertaining to a master; magisterial; authoritative; dogmatic.

Magistral (a.) Commanded or prescribed by a magister, esp. by a doctor; hence, effectual; sovereign; as, a magistral sirup.

Magistral (a.) Formulated extemporaneously, or for a special case; -- opposed to officinal, and said of prescriptions and medicines.

Magistral (n.) A sovereign medicine or remedy.

Magistral (n.) A magistral line.

Magistral (n.) Powdered copper pyrites used in the amalgamation of ores of silver, as at the Spanish mines of Mexico and South America.

-ties (pl. ) of Magistrality

Magistrality (n.) Magisterialness; arbitrary dogmatism.

Magistrally (adv.) In a magistral manner.

Magistrate (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it.

Magistratic (a.) Alt. of Magistratical

Magistratical (a.) Of, pertaining to, or proceeding from, a magistrate; having the authority of a magistrate.

Magistrature (n.) Magistracy.

Magma (n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.

Magma (n.) A thick residuum obtained from certain substances after the fluid parts are expressed from them; the grounds which remain after treating a substance with any menstruum, as water or alcohol.

Magma (n.) A salve or confection of thick consistency.

Magma (n.) The molten matter within the earth, the source of the material of lava flows, dikes of eruptive rocks, etc.

Magma (n.) The glassy base of an eruptive rock.

Magma (n.) The amorphous or homogenous matrix or ground mass, as distinguished from well-defined crystals; as, the magma of porphyry.

Magna Charta () The great Charter, so called, obtained by the English barons from King John, A. D. 1215. This name is also given to the charter granted to the people of England in the ninth year of Henry III., and confirmed by Edward I.

Magna Charta () Hence, a fundamental constitution which guaranties rights and privileges.

Magnality (n.) A great act or event; a great attainment.

Magnanimity (n.) The quality of being magnanimous; greatness of mind; elevation or dignity of soul; that quality or combination of qualities, in character, which enables one to encounter danger and trouble with tranquility and firmness, to disdain injustice, meanness and revenge, and to act and sacrifice for noble objects.

Magnanimous (a.) Great of mind; elevated in soul or in sentiment; raised above what is low, mean, or ungenerous; of lofty and courageous spirit; as, a magnanimous character; a magnanimous conqueror.

Magnanimous (a.) Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul; honorable; noble; not selfish.

Magnanimously (adv.) In a magnanimous manner; with greatness of mind.

Magnase black () A black pigment which dries rapidly when mixed with oil, and is of intense body.

Magnate () A person of rank; a noble or grandee; a person of influence or distinction in any sphere.

Magnate () One of the nobility, or certain high officers of state belonging to the noble estate in the national representation of Hungary, and formerly of Poland.

Magnes (n.) Magnet.

Magnesia (n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium. It has a slightly alkaline reaction, and is used in medicine as a mild antacid laxative. See Magnesium.

Magnesian (a.) Pertaining to, characterized by, or containing, magnesia or magnesium.

Magnesic (a.) Pertaining to, or containing, magnesium; as, magnesic oxide.

Magnesite (n.) Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals.

Magnesium (n.) A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air. It burns, forming (the oxide) magnesia, with the production of a blinding light (the so-called magnesium light) which is used in signaling, in pyrotechny, or in photography where a strong actinic illuminant is required. Its compounds occur abundantly, as in dolomite, talc, meerschaum, etc. Symbol Mg. Atomic weight, 24.4. Specific gravity, 1.75.

Magnet (n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.

Magnet (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.

Magnetic (a.) Alt. of Magnetical

Magnetical (a.) Pertaining to the magnet; possessing the properties of the magnet, or corresponding properties; as, a magnetic bar of iron; a magnetic needle.

Magnetical (a.) Of or pertaining to, or characterized by, the earth's magnetism; as, the magnetic north; the magnetic meridian.

Magnetical (a.) Capable of becoming a magnet; susceptible to magnetism; as, the magnetic metals.

Magnetical (a.) Endowed with extraordinary personal power to excite the feelings and to win the affections; attractive; inducing attachment.

Magnetical (a.) Having, susceptible to, or induced by, animal magnetism, so called; as, a magnetic sleep. See Magnetism.

Magnetic (n.) A magnet.

Magnetic (n.) Any metal, as iron, nickel, cobalt, etc., which may receive, by any means, the properties of the loadstone, and which then, when suspended, fixes itself in the direction of a magnetic meridian.

Magnetically (adv.) By or as by, magnetism.

Magneticalness (n.) Quality of being magnetic.

Magnetician (n.) One versed in the science of magnetism; a magnetist.

Maneticness (n.) Magneticalness.

Magnetics (n.) The science of magnetism.

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