Make (v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify.
Make (n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
Makebate (n.) One who excites contentions and quarrels.
Make-belief (n.) A feigning to believe; make believe.
Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention.
Make-believe (a.) Feigned; insincere.
Maked (p. p.) Made.
Make-game (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt.
Makeless (a.) Matchless.
Makeless (a.) Without a mate.
Make-peace (n.) A peacemaker.
Maker (n.) One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.
Maker (n.) The person who makes a promissory note.
Maker (n.) One who writes verses; a poet.
Makeshift (n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.
Make-up (n.) The way in which the parts of anything are put together; often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character.
Makeweight (n.) That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
Maki (n.) A lemur. See Lemur.
Making (n.) The act of one who makes; workmanship; fabrication; construction; as, this is cloth of your own making; the making of peace or war was in his power.
Making (n.) Composition, or structure.
Making (n.) a poem.
Making (n.) That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.
Making (n.) External appearance; from.
Making-iron (n.) A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
Making-up (n.) The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
Making-up (n.) The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
Mal- () A prefix in composition denoting ill,or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice.
Mala (n.) Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
Malabar (n.) A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.
Malacatune (n.) See Melocoton.
Malacca (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
Malachite (n.) Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
Malacissant (a.) Softening; relaxing.
Malacissation (n.) The act of making soft or supple.
Malacobdella (n.) A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.
Malacoderm (n.) One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.
Malacolite (n.) A variety of pyroxene.
Malacologist (n.) One versed in the science of malacology.
Malacology (n.) The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.
Malacopoda (n. pl.) A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.
Malacopterygian (n.) One of the Malacopterygii.
Malacopterygii (n. pl.) An order of fishes in which the fin rays, except the anterior ray of the pectoral and dorsal fins, are closely jointed, and not spiny. It includes the carp, pike, salmon, shad, etc. Called also Malacopteri.
Malacopterygious (a.) Belonging to the Malacopterygii.
Malacosteon (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.
Malacostomous (a.) Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
Malacostraca (n. pl.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.
Malacostracan (n.) One of the Malacostraca.
Malacostracology (n.) That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
Malacostracous (a.) Belonging to the Malacostraca.
Malacotoon (n.) See Melocoton.
Malacozoa (n. pl.) An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.
Malacozoic (a.) Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa.
Maladdress (n.) Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one.
Maladjustment (n.) A bad adjustment.
Maladministration (n.) Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs.
Maladroit (a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.
Maladies (pl. ) of Malady
Malady (n.) Any disease of the human body; a distemper, disorder, or indisposition, proceeding from impaired, defective, or morbid organic functions; especially, a lingering or deep-seated disorder.
Malady (n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder.
Malaga (n.) A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.
Malagash (n.) Same as Malagasy.
Malagasy (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.
Malaise (n.) An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
Malamate (n.) A salt of malamic acid.
Malambo (n.) A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.
Malamethane (n.) A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
Malamic (a.) Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.
Malamide (n.) The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.
Malanders (n. pl.) A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
Malapert (a.) Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.
Malapert (n.) A malapert person.
Malapropism (n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Malapropos (a. & adv.) Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
Malapterurus (n.) A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric.
Malar (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.
Malar (n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.
Malaria (n.) Air infected with some noxious substance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
Malaria (n.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.
Malarial (a.) Alt. of Malarious
Malarian (a.) Alt. of Malarious
Malarious (a.) Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.
Malashaganay (n.) The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).
Malassimilation (n.) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.
Malassimilation (n.) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.
Malate (n.) A salt of malic acid.
Malax (v. t.) Alt. of Malaxate
Malaxate (v. t.) To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance.
Malaxation (n.) The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters.
Malaxator (n.) One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass.
Malay (n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
Malay (a.) Alt. of Malayan
Malayan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country.
Malayan (n.) The Malay language.
Malayalam (n.) The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil.
Malbrouck (n.) A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).
Malconformation (n.) Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.
Malcontent (a.) discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.
Malcontent (n.) One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts.
Malcontented (a.) Malcontent.
Maldanian (n.) Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidae. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.