Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 10
Mall (n.) A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a level shaded walk.
Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name of the City Mall. -- Southey.
Malled (imp. & p. p.) of Mall.
Malling (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mall.
Mall (v. t.) To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
Mall (n.) Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence:
Mall (n.) A court of justice.
Mall (n.) A place where justice is administered.
Mall (n.) A place where public meetings are held.
Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased. -- Milman.
Mall (n.) A public access area containing a promenade for pedestrians; as, to gather near the Washington monument on the mall in Washington.
Mall (n.) The paved or grassy strip between two roadways.
Mall (n.) A shopping area with multiple shops and a concourse for predominantly or exclusively pedestrian use; in cities the concourse is usually a city street which may be temporarily or permamently closed to motor vehicles; in suburban areas, a mall is often located on a convenient highway, may be large, contained in one building or in multiple buildings connected by (usually covered) walkways. Also called shopping mall.
Maul (n.) [See Mall a hammer.] A heavy wooden hammer or beetle. [Written also mall.]
Mall (n.) A public area set aside as a pedestrian walk [syn: promenade, mall].
Mall (n.) Mercantile establishment consisting of a carefully landscaped complex of shops representing leading merchandisers; usually includes restaurants and a convenient parking area; a modern version of the traditional marketplace; "a good plaza should have a movie house"; "they spent their weekends at the local malls" [syn :plaza, mall, center, shopping mall, shopping center, shopping centre].
Mall, () A collection of web documents featuring commercial products and services, usually served by one particualr Internet access provider.
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Mallacoota (n.) 馬拉庫塔（Mallacoota）是澳大利亞維多利亞州東吉普斯蘭（East Gippsland）地區的一個小鎮。在2016年的人口普查中，馬拉庫塔的人口為1,063。在節假日，特別是復活節和聖誕節，人口增加了大約8,000。它是維多利亞州東海岸與新南威爾斯州接壤之前的最後一個官方城鎮。 Is a small town in the East Gippsland region of Victoria, Australia. At the 2016 census, Mallacoota had a population of 1,063. At holiday times, particularly Easter and Christmas, the population increases by about 8,000. It is the last official township on Victoria's east coast before the border with New South Wales. Mallacoota has a regional airport (Mallacoota Airport) YMCO (XMC) consisting of a gravel runway for light planes and an asphalt runway for commercial planes flying from Melbourne. [2]
It is a popular holiday spot for boating, fishing, walking the wilderness coast, swimming, birdwatching, and surfing. The Mallacoota Arts Council runs events throughout each year. Mallacoota Inlet is one of the main villages along the wilderness coast walk from NSW to Victoria, Australia.
Mallard (a.) (Zool.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.
Mallard (a.) (Zool.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.
Malleability (n.) 可展性，可鍛性，順從 The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. -- Locke.
Malleability (n.) The property of being physically malleable; the property of something that can be worked or hammered or shaped without breaking [syn: malleability, plasticity] [ant: unmalleability].
Malleable (a.) Capable of being
extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; --
applied to metals.
Malleable (a.) Capable of being influenced to behave as desired;
tractable; -- used mostly of children.
Malleable iron, Iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron.
Malleable iron castings, Articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.
Malleable (a.) 具延展性的；易變形的 A malleable substance is easily changed into a new shape.
// Lead and tin are malleable metals.
Malleable (a.) 易受外界影響的；可塑的；易被控制的 Easily influenced, trained, or controlled.
// He had an actor's typically malleable features.
// Europe saw its colonies as a source of raw material and a malleable workforce.
Malleableize (v. t.) To make malleable.
Malleableness (n.) Quality of being malleable.
Malleal (a.) Pertaining to the malleus.
Malleated (imp. & p. p.) of Malleate.
Malleating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malleate.
Malleate (v. t.) To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Malleation (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
Mallecho (n.) Same as Malicho.
Mallee bird () The leipoa. See Leipoa.
Mallemock (n.) Alt. of Mallemoke.
Mallemoke (n.) See Mollemoke.
Mallenders (n. pl.) Same as Malanders.
Malleolar (a.) Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
Malleoli (n. pl. ) of Malleolus
Malleolus (n.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.
Malleolus (n.) " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.
Mallet (n.) A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.
Mallei (n. pl. ) of Malleus.
Malleus (n.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
Malleus (n.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
Malleus (n.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
Mallophaga (n. pl.) An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.
Mallotus (n.) A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.
Mallow (n.) Alt. of Mallows
Mallows (n.) 錦葵屬植物 A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.
Mallowwort (n.) Any plant of the order Malvaceae.
Malm (n.) Alt. of Malmbrick.
Malmbrick (n.) A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
Malma (n.) A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.
Malmag (n.) The tarsius, or spectral lemur.
Malmsey (n.) A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.
Malnutrition (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
Malobservation (n.) Erroneous observation.
Malodor (n.) 惡臭 An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.
Malodor (n.) An offensive odor.
Malodor (n.) A distinctive odor that is offensively unpleasant [syn: malodor, malodour, stench, stink, reek, fetor, foetor, mephitis].
Malodorous (a.) 有惡臭的；令人極為反感的 Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling. -- mal*o"dor*ous*ness. n. -- Carlyle.
Malodorous (a.) Having an unpleasant smell [syn: malodorous, malodourous, unpleasant-smelling, ill-smelling, stinky] [ant: fragrant].
Malonate (a.) At salt of malonic acid.
Malonic (a.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.
Malonyl (n.) A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.
Malpighia (n.) A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.
Malpighiaceous (a.) Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.
Malpighian (a.) Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
Malposition (n.) A wrong position.
Malpractice (n.) Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
Malted (imp. & p. p.) of Malt.
Malting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malt.
Malt (v. t.) To make into malt; as, to malt barley.
Malt (v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt. -- Mortimer.
Malt (n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.
Malt (a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.
Malt liquor, An alcoholic liquor, as beer, ale, porter, etc., prepared by fermenting an infusion of malt.
Malt dust, Fine particles of malt, or of the grain used in making malt; -- used as a fertilizer. " Malt dust consists chiefly of the infant radicle separated from the grain." -- Sir H. Davy.
Malt floor, A floor for drying malt.
Malt house, or Malthouse, A house in which malt is made.
Malt kiln, A heated chamber for drying malt.
Malt (n.) A milkshake made with malt powder [syn: malted, malt, malted milk].
Malt (n.) A lager of high alcohol content; by law it is considered too alcoholic to be sold as lager or beer [syn: malt, malt liquor].
Malt (n.) A cereal grain (usually barley) that is kiln-dried after having been germinated by soaking in water; used especially in brewing and distilling.
Malt (v.) Treat with malt or malt extract; "malt beer."
Malt (v.) Turn into malt, become malt.
Malt (v.) Convert grain into malt.
Malt (v.) Convert into malt.
Maltalent (n.) Ill will; malice. [Obs.] -- Rom. of R. -- Spenser.
Maltese dog (n.) (Zool.) A breed of toy dog having a long straight silky white coat; also called a Maltese.
Maltese (a.) Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants.
Maltese (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta.
Maltese cross. See Illust. 5, of Cross.
Maltese dog (Zool.), A breed of small terriers, having long silky white hair. The breed originated in Malta.
Maltese (a.) Of or relating to the island or republic of Malta or its inhabitants; "Maltese customs officers."
Maltese (n.) A native or inhabitant of Malta.
Maltese (n.) The national language of the Republic of Malta; a Semitic language derived from Arabic but with many loan words from Italian, Spanish, and Norman-French [syn: Maltese, Maltese language, Malti].
Maltese (n.) A term applied indiscriminately in the United States to any short-haired bluish-grey cat [syn: Maltese, Maltese cat].
Maltese (n.) Breed of toy dogs having a long straight silky white coat [syn: Maltese dog, Maltese terrier, Maltese].
Maltha (n.) A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.
Maltha (n.) Mortar. [Obs.] --Holland.
Maltha (n.) A thick black tar intermediate between petroleum and asphalt [syn: maltha, mineral tar].
Malthusian (n.) 馬爾薩斯主義者 A follower of Malthus.
Malthusian (a.) 馬爾薩斯主義的 Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories. See Malthus.
Note: Malthus held that population tends to increase faster than its means of subsistence can be made to do, and hence that the lower classes must necessarily suffer more or less from lack of food, unless an increase of population be checked by prudential restraint or otherwise. The steadily increasing capacity of world economic systems and food production has proven this theory to be at least premature, since economic production has increased notably faster than population since the time of Malthus. The general notion that there is an ultimate limit on the ability of mankind to continue increasing food and goods in proportion to population is still held by many people, especially environmentalists, some of whom who feel that the chief limiting factor will be the inability to dispose of the waste products of industry, leading to a steady degradation of the environment in the absence of population limitation. However, even those that believe this differ widely in their estimates of when this limit will be reached.
Malthusianism (n.) 馬爾薩斯人口論 The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population. See Malthusian.
Malthusianism (n.) Malthus' theory that population increase would outpace increases in the means of subsistence [syn: Malthusianism, Malthusian theory].
Maltin (n.) Alt. of Maltine.
Maltine (n.) 麥芽製品 The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.
Malting (n.) The process of making, or of becoming malt.
Maltmen (n. pl. ) of Maltman.
Maltman (n.) 麥芽製造人 A man whose occupation is to make malt.
Maltonic (a.) (Chem.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.
Maltose (n.) (Biochem.) A crystalline disaccharide ({C12H22O11) formed from starch by the action of diastase of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice; called also maltobiose and malt sugar. Chemically it is 4-O-[alpha]-D-glucopyranosyl-D-glucose. It rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right than does dextrose and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.
Maltose (n.) A white crystalline sugar formed during the digestion of starches [syn: maltose, malt sugar].
Maltreated (imp. & p. p.) of Maltreat.
Maltreating (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maltreat.
Maltreat (v. t.) 虐待；粗暴對待；誤用；濫用 To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.
Maltreat (v.) Treat badly; "This boss abuses his workers"; "She is always stepping on others to get ahead" [syn: mistreat, maltreat, abuse, ill-use, step, ill-treat].
Maltreatment (n.) 虐待；粗暴對待； 誤用；濫用 Cruel or inhumane treatment; ill usage; abuse.
Syn: ill-treatment.
Maltreatment (n.) Cruel or inhumane treatment; "the child showed signs of physical abuse" [syn: maltreatment, ill-treatment, ill-usage, abuse].
Maltster (n.) 麥芽製造人 A maltman. -- Swift.
Maltworm (n.) A tippler. [R.] -- Shak.
Malty (a.) Consisting, or like, malt. -- Dickens.
Mala (n. pl. ) of Malum.
Malum (n.) [L.] An evil. See Mala.
Mala (n. pl. of Malum) [L.] Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
Mala in se [L.] (Law), Offenses which are such from their own nature, at common law, irrespective of statute.
Mala prohibita [L.] (Law), Offenses prohibited by statute, as distinguished from mala in se, which are offenses at common law.
Malvaceae (n.) 錦葵科 A natural family of herbs and shrubs and some trees, including the mallows, cotton, and okra; the {mallow family}.
Syn: Family Malvaceae, mallow family.
Malvaceae (n.) Hrbs and shrubs and some trees: mallows; cotton; okra [syn: {Malvaceae}, {family Malvaceae}, {mallow family}].
Malvaceous (a.) 錦葵屬的 Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceae), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it.
Malversation (n.) Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.
Malversation (n.) Misconduct in public office.
Malversation, French law. This word is applied to all punishable faults committed in the exercise of an office, such as corruptions, exactions, extortions and larceny. Merl. Repert. h.t.
Malvesie (n.) Malmsey wine. See Malmsey. " A jub of malvesye." -- Chaucer.
Mam (n.) Mamma.
Mam (n.) A member of a Mayan people of southwestern Guatemala.
Mam (n.) A Mayan language spoken by the Mam.
MAM, () Multi Access Module.
Compare: Ninhursag
Ninhursag (prop. n.) (Sumerian mythology) The great mother goddess in Sumerian mythology, worshipped also as Aruru and Mama and Nintu.
Syn: Ninkhursag, Ninkharsag.
Mamma (n.) Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity. [Written also mama.]
Tell tales papa and mamma. -- Swift.
Mama (n.) See Mamma.
Mama (n.) Informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy].
Mama (n.) A name under which Ninkhursag was worshipped.
Mamaluke (n.) Same as Mameluke.
Mameluke (n.) One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.
Mamelon (n.) [F.] A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. -- Westmin. Rev.
Mameluco (n.) [Pg.] A child born of a white father and Indian mother. [S. Amer.]
Mameluke (n.) One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811.
Mamillated (a.) See Mammillated.
Mamma (n.) （兒語）媽媽 [C] Mother; -- word of tenderness and familiarity. [Written also mama.]
Tell tales papa and mamma. -- Swift.
Mammae (n. pl. ) of Mamma.
Mamma (n.) (Anat.) 乳房 A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male; a mammary gland; a breast; under; bag.
Mamma (n.) Informal terms for a mother [syn: ma, mama, mamma, mom, momma, mommy, mammy, mum, mummy].
Mamma (n.) Milk-secreting organ of female mammals [syn: mammary gland, mamma].
Mammals (n. pl. ) of Mammal.
Mammal (n.) (Zool.) 哺乳動物 One of the Mammalia.
Age of mammals. See under Age, n., 8.
Mammal (n.) 哺乳動物 [C] Any warm-blooded vertebrate having the skin more or less covered with hair; young are born alive except for the small subclass of monotremes and nourished with milk [syn: mammal, mammalian].
Mammalia (n. pl.) (Zool.) 哺乳類 The highest class of Vertebrata. The young are nourished for a time by milk, or an analogous fluid, secreted by the mammary glands of the mother.
Note: Mammalia are divided into three subclasses;
I. Placentalia. This subclass embraces all the higher orders, including man. In these the fetus is attached to the uterus by a placenta.
II. Marsupialia. In these no placenta is formed, and the young, which are born at an early state of development, are carried for a time attached to the teats, and usually protected by a marsupial pouch. The opossum, kangaroo, wombat, and koala are examples.
III. Monotremata. In this group, which includes the genera Echidna and Ornithorhynchus, the female lays large eggs resembling those of a bird or lizard, and the young, which are hatched like those of birds, are nourished by a watery secretion from the imperfectly developed mammae.
Mammalia (n.) Warm-blooded vertebrates characterized by mammary glands in the female [syn: Mammalia, class Mammalia].
Mammalia (n. pl.) A family of vertebrate animals whose females in a state of nature suckle their young, but when civilized and enlightened put them out to nurse, or use the bottle.