Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 26
Maven (n.) (US informal) 專家，內行 A person with good knowledge or understanding of a subject.
Maverick (v. t.) To take a maverick. [Western U. S.]
Maverick (n.) 【美】未烙印的小牛（或其他牲口）；【口】不服從的人；持不同意見的人；【軍】AGM-65小牛飛彈 In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who neglected to brand his cattle.
Maverick (a.) 【美】未烙印的；【口】持不同意見的；特立獨行的 Independent in behavior or thought; "she led a somewhat irregular private life"; "maverick politicians" [syn: irregular, maverick, unorthodox].
Maverick (n.) Someone who exhibits great independence in thought and action [syn: maverick, rebel].
Maverick (n.) An unbranded range animal (especially a stray calf); belongs to the first person who puts a brand on it.
Maverick -- U.S. County in Texas
Population (2000): 47297
Housing Units (2000): 14889
Land area (2000): 1280.075258 sq. miles (3315.379558 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 11.664875 sq. miles (30.211885 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 1291.740133 sq. miles (3345.591443 sq. km)
Located within: Texas (TX), FIPS 48
Location: 28.742950 N, 100.387315 W
Headwords:
Maverick
Maverick, TX
Maverick County
Maverick County, TX
Maverick (n.) [C] 特立獨行的人，行為不合常規的人 A person who thinks and acts in an independent way, often behaving differently from the expected or usual way.
// A political maverick.
// He was considered as something of a maverick in the publishing world.
Mavis (n.) The European throstle or song thrush (Turdus musicus).
Maw (n.) A gull.
Maw (n.) A stomach; the receptacle into which food is taken by swallowing; in birds, the craw; -- now used only of the lower animals, exept humorously or in contempt.
Maw (n.) Appetite; inclination.
Maw (n.) An old game at cards.
Mawk (n.) A maggot.
Mawk (n.) A slattern; a mawks.
Mawkin (n.) See Malkin, and Maukin.
Mawkingly (adv.) Slatternly.
Mawkish (a.) Apt to cause satiety or loathing; nauseous; disgusting.
Mawkish (a.) Easily disgusted; squeamish; sentimentally fastidious.
Mawkishly (adv.) In a mawkish way.
Mawkishness (n.) The quality or state of being mawkish.
Mawks (n.) A slattern; a mawk.
Mawky (a.) Maggoty.
Mawmet (n.) A puppet; a doll; originally, an idol, because in the Middle Ages it was generally believed that the Mohammedans worshiped images representing Mohammed.
Mawmetry (n.) The religion of Mohammed; also, idolatry. See Mawmet.
Mawmish (a.) Nauseous.
Mawseed (n.) The seed of the opium poppy.
Mawworm (n.) Any intestinal worm found in the stomach, esp. the common round worm (Ascaris lumbricoides), and allied species.
Mawworm (n.) One of the larvae of botflies of horses; a bot.
Maxillae (n. pl. ) of Maxilla.
Maxilla (n.) The bone of either the upper or the under jaw.
Maxilla (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the upper jaw, the bone of the lower jaw being the mandible.
Maxilla (n.) One of the lower or outer jaws of arthropods.
Maxillar (a.) Alt. of Maxillary.
Maxillary (a.) Pertaining to either the upper or the lower jaw, but now usually applied to the upper jaw only.
Maxillary (n.) The principal maxillary bone; the maxilla.
Maxillary (n.) Of or pertaining to a maxilla.
Maxilliform (a.) Having the form, or structure, of a maxilla.
Maxilliped (n.) One of the mouth appendages of Crustacea, situated next behind the maxillae. Crabs have three pairs, but many of the lower Crustacea have but one pair of them. Called also jawfoot, and foot jaw.
Maxillo-mandibular (a.) Pertaining to the maxilla and mandible; as, the maxillo-mandibular nerve.
Maxillo-palatine (a.) Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.
Maxilloturbinal (a.) Pertaining to the maxillary and turbinal regions of the skull.
Maxilloturbinal (n.) The maxillo-turbinal, or inferior turbinate, bone.
Maxim (n.) An established principle or proposition; a condensed proposition of important practical truth; an axiom of practical wisdom; an adage; a proverb; an aphorism.
Maxim (n.) The longest note formerly used, equal to two longs, or four breves; a large.
Maximilian (n.) A gold coin of Bavaria, of the value of about 13s. 6d. sterling, or about three dollars and a quarter.
Maximization (n.) The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.
Maximize (v. t.) To increase to the highest degree.
Maxima (n. pl. ) of Maximum.
Maximum (n.) 最大量，最大數，最大限度 [C] [（+of）]；頂點；（法定的）最高極限；（公路行車的）最高速 [the S] [（+of）] The greatest quantity or value attainable in a given case; or, the greatest value attained by a quantity which first increases and then begins to decrease; the highest point or degree; -- opposed to minimum.
Good legislation is the art of conducting a nation to the maximum of happiness, and the minimum of misery. -- P. Colquhoun.
Maximum thermometer, A thermometer that registers the highest degree of temperature attained in a given time, or since its last adjustment.
Maximum thermometer, It is used to measure the maximum temperature within a period (usually daily). The most common maximum thermometer is the mercury-in-glass thermometer with a constriction in the bore below the lowest graduation. When temperature rises, the expansion force pushes the mercury through the constriction. When temperature falls after reaching the maximum value, mercury in the bulb contracts but the thread of mercury cannot fall back to the bulb due to the constriction. As a result, the mercury thread breaks at the constriction leaving the thread indicating the maximum temperature reached sine the last reset. In practice, the maximum thermometer rests horizontally inside a screen with bulb on left side.
Compare: Horizontally
Horizontally (adv.) 地平地；水平地 In a horizontal position or direction.
‘Labels are placed horizontally on the cases.’
Compare: Thermometer
Thermometer (n.) 溫度計，寒暑表 [C] An instrument for measuring and indicating temperature, typically one consisting of a narrow, hermetically sealed glass tube marked with graduations and having at one end a bulb containing mercury or alcohol which extends along the tube as it expands.
Compare: Hermetically
Hermetically (adv.) 密封地；嚴禁入內地；深奧地 In a way that is completely airtight.
‘Hermetically sealed windows help to keep out cold air.’
‘The stopper was hermetically closed.’
Hermetically (adv.) In a way that is insulated or protected from outside influences.
‘Hermetically sealed lives cut off from society.’
‘A hermetically closed society.’
Compare: Insulated
Insulated (a.) 被絕緣的；被隔熱的；Insulate的動詞過去式、過去分詞 Protected by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound.
‘An insulated loft.’
Insulated (a.) Covered in non-conducting material to prevent the passage of electricity.
‘Insulated wire.’
Compare: Insulate
Insulate (v.) [With object] [(+from/ against)] 隔離；使孤立；【物】使絕緣；使隔熱；使隔音 Protect (something) by interposing material that prevents the loss of heat or the intrusion of sound.
‘Insulate and draught-proof your home.’
‘The room was heavily insulated against all outside noise.’
Insulate (v.) [With object] Prevent the passage of electricity to or from (something) by covering it in non-conducting material.
‘The case is carefully insulated to prevent short circuits.’
Insulate (v.) [With object] Protect (someone or something) from unpleasant influences or experiences.
‘The service is insulated from outside pressures.’
Insulate (v.) [With object] [Archaic] Make (land) into an island.
‘The village was insulated by every flood of the river.’
Maximum (a.) 最大的；最多的；最高的；頂點的 [Z] [B] Greatest in quantity or highest in degree attainable or attained; as, a maximum consumption of fuel; maximum pressure; maximum heat.
Maximum (a.) The greatest or most complete or best possible; "maximal expansion"; "maximum pressure" [syn: maximal, maximum] [ant: minimal, minimum].
Maximum (n.) The largest possible quantity [syn: maximum, upper limit] [ant: lower limit, minimum].
Maximum (n.) The greatest possible degree; "he tried his utmost" [syn: utmost, uttermost, maximum, level best].
Maximum (n.) The point on a curve where the tangent changes from positive on the left to negative on the right [ant: minimum].
Might (imp.) of May.
May (v.) An auxiliary verb qualifyng the meaning of another verb, by expressing:
May (v.) (a) Ability, competency, or possibility; -- now oftener expressed by can.
How may a man, said he, with idle speech, Be won to spoil the castle of his health! -- Spenser.
For what he [the king] may do is of two kinds; what he may do as just, and what he may do as possible. -- Bacon.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen The saddest are these: "It might have been." -- Whittier.
May (v.) (b) Liberty; permission; allowance.
Thou mayst be no longer steward. -- Luke xvi. 2.
May (v.) (c) Contingency or liability; possibility or probability.
Though what he learns he speaks, and may advance Some general maxims, or be right by chance. -- Pope.
May (v.) (d) Modesty, courtesy, or concession, or a desire to soften a question or remark.
How old may Phillis be, you ask. -- Prior.
May (v.) (e) Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. "May you live happily." -- Dryden.
May be, & It may be, Are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, maybe, by chance, peradventure. See 1st Maybe.
May (n.) A maiden. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
May (n.) The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days. -- Chaucer.
May (n.) The early part or springtime of life.
His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. -- Shak.
May (n.) (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
The palm and may make country houses gay. -- Nash.
Plumes that mocked the may. -- Tennyson.
May (n.) The merrymaking of May Day. -- Tennyson.
Italian may (Bot.), A shrubby species of Spiraea ({Spiraea hypericifolia) with many clusters of small white flowers along the slender branches.
May apple (Bot.), The fruit of an American plant ({Podophyllum peltatum). Also, the plant itself (popularly called mandrake), which has two lobed leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic.
May beetle, May bug (Zool.), Any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to Melolontha, and allied genera. Called also June beetle.
May Day, The first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a garland, and by dancing about a May pole.
May dew, The morning dew of the first day of May, to which magical properties were attributed.
May flower (Bot.), A plant that flowers in May; also, its blossom. See Mayflower, in the vocabulary.
May fly (Zool.), Any species of Ephemera, and allied genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many species appear in May. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral.
May game, Any May-day sport.
May lady, The queen or lady of May, in old May games.
May lily (Bot.), The lily of the valley ({Convallaria majalis).
May pole. See Maypole in the Vocabulary.
May queen, A girl or young woman crowned queen in the sports of May Day.
May thorn, The hawthorn.
May (n.) The month following April and preceding June
May (n.) Thorny Eurasian shrub of small tree having dense clusters of white to scarlet flowers followed by deep red berries; established as an escape in eastern North America [syn: whitethorn, English hawthorn, may, Crataegus laevigata, Crataegus oxycantha].
May, OK -- U.S. town in Oklahoma
Population (2000): 33
Housing Units (2000): 27
Land area (2000): 0.179778 sq. miles (0.465622 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.000000 sq. miles (0.000000 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 0.179778 sq. miles (0.465622 sq. km)
FIPS code: 47000
Located within: Oklahoma (OK), FIPS 40
Location: 36.616536 N, 99.749363 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 73851
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
May, OK
May
Maya (n.) (Hindu Philos.) The name (in Vedantic philosphy) for the doctrine of the unreality of matter, called, in English, idealism; hence, nothingness; vanity; illusion.
Maya (n.) (Hindu Philos.) the Hindu goddess personifying the power that creates phenomena. -- [RHUD]
Maya (n.) (Hindu Philos.) the power to produce illusions. -- [RHUD]
Maya (prop. n.; pl. Maya or Mayas.) The Indian people occupying the area of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Maya peoples are dark, short, and brachycephalic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and palaces, and they possessed a superior calendar, and a developed system of hieroglyphic writing, with records said to go back to about 700 a. d.
Maya (prop. n.; pl. Maya or Mayas.) The language of the Mayas.
Maya (n.) A member of an American Indian people of Yucatan and Belize and Guatemala who had a culture (which reached its peak between AD 300 and 900) characterized by outstanding architecture and pottery and astronomy; "Mayans had a system of writing and an accurate calendar" [syn: Mayan, Maya].
Maya (n.) A family of American Indian languages spoken by Maya [syn: Maya, Mayan, Mayan language].
Maybe (adv.) Perhaps; possibly; peradventure.
Maybe the amorous count solicits her. -- Shak.
In a liberal and, maybe, somewhat reckless way. -- Tylor.
Maybe (a.) Possible; probable, but not sure. [R.]
Then add those maybe years thou hast to live. -- Driden.
Maybe (n.) Possibility; uncertainty. [R.]
What they offer is mere maybe and shift. -- Creech.
Maybe (adv.) By chance; "perhaps she will call tomorrow"; "we may possibly run into them at the concert"; "it may peradventure be thought that there never was such a time" [syn: possibly, perchance, perhaps, maybe, mayhap, peradventure].
Maybird (n.) (Zool.) The whimbrel; -- called also May fowl, May curlew, and May whaap.
Maybird (n.) (Zool.) The knot. [Southern U. S.]
Maybird (n.) (Zool.) The bobolink.
Maybloom (n.) (Bot.) The hawthorn.
Maybush (n.) (Bot.) The hawthorn.
Mayduke (n.) A large dark-red cherry of excellent quality.
Mayfish (n.) (Zool.) A common American minnow ({Fundulus majalis). See Minnow.
Mayflower (n.) (Bot.) In England, the hawthorn; in New England, the trailing arbutus (see Arbutus); also, the blossom of these plants.
Compare: Arbutus
Arbutus, Arbute (n.) The strawberry tree, a genus of evergreen shrubs, of the Heath family. It has a berry externally resembling the strawberry; the arbute tree.
Trailing arbutus (Bot.), A creeping or trailing plant of the Heath family ({Epig[ae]a repens), having white or usually rose-colored flowers with a delicate fragrance, growing in small axillary clusters, and appearing early in the spring; in New England known as mayflower; -- called also ground laurel. -- Gray.
Mayflower (n.) The ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from England to Massachusetts in 1620.
Mayflower (n.) Low-growing evergreen shrub of eastern North America with leathery leaves and clusters of fragrant pink or white flowers [syn: trailing arbutus, mayflower, Epigaea repens].
Mayflower, AR -- U.S. city in Arkansas
Population (2000): 1631
Housing Units (2000): 872
Land area (2000): 2.929154 sq. miles (7.586474 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 0.046602 sq. miles (0.120698 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 2.975756 sq. miles (7.707172 sq. km)
FIPS code: 44750
Located within: Arkansas (AR), FIPS 05
Location: 34.968118 N, 92.419603 W
ZIP Codes (1990): 72106
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Mayflower, AR
Mayflower
Mayhap (adv.) Perhaps; peradventure. [Prov. or Dialectic]
Compare: Maim
Maim (n.) [Written in law language maihem, and mayhem.] The privation of the use of a limb or member of the body, by which one is rendered less able to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
Maim (n.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
Surely there is more cause to fear lest the want there of be a maim than the use of it a blemish. -- Hooker.
A noble author esteems it to be a maim in history that the acts of Parliament should not be recited. -- Hayward.
Mayhem (n.) (Law) The maiming of a person by depriving him of the use of any of his members which are necessary for defense or protection. See Maim.
Mayhem (n.) Violent disorder, especially such as causes serious harm to persons or damage to property.
Mayhem (n.) The willful and unlawful crippling or mutilation of another person.
Mayhem (n.) Violent and needless disturbance [syn: havoc, mayhem].
Mayhem, () crimes. The act of unlawfully and violently depriving another of the use of such of his members as may render him less able in fighting either to defend himself or annoy his adversary; and therefore the cutting or disabling, or weakening a man's hand or finger, or striking out his eye or foretooth, or depriving him of those parts the loss of which abates his courage, are held to be mayhems. But cutting off the ear or nose or the like, are not held to be mayhems at common law. 4 Bl. Com. 205.
Mayhem, () These and other severe personal injuries are punished by the Coventry act, (q.v.) which has been re-enacted in several of the states; Ryan's Med. Jurispr. 191, Phil. ed. 1832; and by congress. Vide act of April 30, 1790, s. 13, 1 Story's Laws U. S. 85; act of March 3, 1825, s. 22, 3 Story's L. U. S. 2006.
Maying (n.) The celebrating of May Day. "He met her once a-Maying." -- Milton.
Mayonnaise (n.) [F.] A thick white sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency near to that of a gel, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce.
Mayonnaise (n.) Egg yolks and oil and vinegar [syn: mayonnaise, mayo].
Mayonnaise (n.) One of the sauces which serve the French in place of a state religion.
Mayonnaise (n.) A sauce compounded of raw yolks of eggs beaten up with olive oil to the consistency of a sirup, and seasoned with vinegar, pepper, salt, etc.; -- used in dressing salads, fish, etc. Also, a dish dressed with this sauce.
Mayor (n.) 市長，鎮長 [C] The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the major is chief judge. The post is usually elective, its holder chosen by the electorate of the entire city.
Mayor (n.) The head of a city government [syn: mayor, city manager].
Mayor (n.) [ C ] (B2) 市長 A person who is elected or chosen to lead the group who governs a town or city.
Mayoral (n.) The conductir of a mule team; also, a head shepherd.
Mayoral (a.) 市長的 Relating to the office of the mayor.
// Mayoral duties.
Mayorship (n.) 市長職位（或頭銜） The position or role of a mayor.
Mayoralty (n.) The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.
Mayoress (n.) The wife of a mayor.
Mayorship (n.) The office of a mayor.
Maypole (n.) A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.
Maypop (n.) The edible fruit of a passion flower, especially that of the North American Passiflora incarnata, an oval yellowish berry as large as a small apple.
Mayweed (n.) A composite plant (Anthemis Cotula), having a strong odor; dog's fennel. It is a native of Europe, now common by the roadsides in the United States.
Mayweed (n.) The feverfew.
Mazama (n.) Alt. of Mazame.
Mazame (n.) A goatlike antelope (Haplocerus montanus) which inhabits the Rocky Mountains, frequenting the highest parts; -- called also mountain goat.
Mazard (n.) A kind of small black cherry.
Mazard (n.) The jaw; the head or skull.
Mazard (v. t.) To knock on the head.
Mazarine (a.) Of or pertaining to Cardinal Mazarin, prime minister of France, 1643-1661.
Mazarine (n.) Mazarine blue.
Mazdean (a.) Of or pertaining to Ahura-Mazda, or Ormuzd, the beneficent deity in the Zoroastrian dualistic system; hence, Zoroastrian.
Mazdeism (n.) The Zoroastrian religion.
Maze (n.) A wild fancy; a confused notion.
Maze (n.) Confusion of thought; perplexity; uncertainty; state of bewilderment.
Maze (n.) A confusing and baffling network, as of paths or passages; an intricacy; a labyrinth.
Mazed (imp. & p. p.) of Maze.
Mazing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maze.
Maze (v. t.) To perplex greatly; to bewilder; to astonish and confuse; to amaze.
Maze (v. i.) To be bewildered.
Mazedness (n.) The condition of being mazed; confusion; astonishment.
Mazeful (a.) Mazy.
Mazer (n.) A large drinking bowl; -- originally made of maple.
Mazily (adv.) In a mazy manner.
Maziness (n.) The state or quality of being mazy.
Mazological (a.) Of or pertaining to mazology.
Mazologist (n.) One versed in mazology or mastology.
Mazology (n.) Same as Mastology.