Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 6
Mahumetan (n.) Alt. of Mahumetanism.
Mahumetanism (n.) See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.
Mahwa tree () (Bot.) An East Indian sapotaceous tree ({Bassia latifolia, and also Bassia butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.
Maia (n.) A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species ({Maia squinado).
Maia (n.) A beautiful American bombycid moth ({Eucronia maia).
Maia (n.) Type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: Maja, genus Maja, Maia, genus Maia].
Maian (n.) (Zool.) Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.
Maid (n.) An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
Would I had died a maid, And never seen thee, never borne thee son. -- Shak.
Can a maid forget her ornaments, or a bride her attire? Yet my people have forgotten me. -- Jer. ii. 32.
Maid (n.) A man who has not had sexual intercourse. [Obs.]
Christ was a maid and shapen as a man. -- Chaucer.
Maid (n.) A female servant.
Spinning amongst her maids. -- Shak.
Note: Maid is used either adjectively or in composition, signifying female, as in maid child, maidservant.
Maid (n.) (Zool.) The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate ({Raia batis), and of the thornback ({Raia clavata). [Prov. Eng.]
Fair maid. (Zool.) See under Fair, a.
Maid of honor, A female attendant of a queen or royal princess; -- usually of noble family, and having to perform only nominal or honorary duties.
Old maid. See under Old.
Maid (n.) A female domestic [syn: maid, maidservant, housemaid, amah].
Maid (n.) An unmarried girl (especially a virgin) [syn: maid, maiden].
Maiden (n.) An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
She
employed the residue of her life to repairing of highways, building of bridges,
and endowing of maidens. -- Carew.
A maiden of our century, yet most meek. -- Tennyson.
Maiden (n.) A female servant. [Obs.]
Maiden (n.) An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals. -- Wharton.
Maiden (n.) A machine for washing linen.
Maiden (a.) Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence. "Amid the maiden throng." -- Addison.
Have you no modesty, no maiden shame ? -- Shak.
Maiden (a.) Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt. "A surprising old maiden lady." -- Thackeray.
Maiden (a.) Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. "Maiden flowers." -- Shak.
Full bravely hast thou fleshed Thy maiden sword. -- Shak.
Maiden (a.) Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated. -- T. Warton. Macaulay.
Maiden assize (Eng. Law), An assize which there is no criminal prosecution; an assize which is unpolluted with blood. It was usual, at such an assize, for the sheriff to present the judge with a pair of white gloves. -- Smart.
Maiden name, The surname of a woman before her marriage.
Maiden pink. (Bot.) See under Pink.
Maiden plum (Bot.), A West Indian tree ({Comocladia integrifolia) with purplish drupes.
The sap of the tree is glutinous, and gives a persistent black stain.
Maiden speech, The first speech made by a person, esp. by a new member in a public body.
Maiden tower, The tower most capable of resisting an enemy.
Maiden voyage, The first regular service voyage of a ship.
Maiden (v. t.) To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
For had I maiden'd it, as many use.
Loath for to grant, but loather to refuse. -- Bp. Hall.
Maiden grass, The smaller quaking grass.
Maiden tree. See Ginkgo.
Maiden (a.) Serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner's maiden voyage" [syn: inaugural, initiative, initiatory, first, maiden].
Maiden (n.) An unmarried girl (especially a virgin) [syn: maid, maiden].
Maiden (n.) (Cricket) An over in which no runs are scored [syn: maiden over, maiden].
Maidenhair (n.) (Bot.) Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having very slender graceful stalks and delicate palmately branched fronds, especially ({Adiantum pedatum).It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.
Maidenhair (n.) Any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds [syn: maidenhair, maidenhair fern].
Maidenhead (n.) The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity. -- Shak.
Maidenhead (n.) The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity. [Obs.]
The maidenhead of their credit. -- Sir H. Wotton.
Maidenhead (n.) The hymen, or virginal membrane.
Maidenhead (n.) A fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: hymen, maidenhead, virginal membrane].
Maidenhood (n.) The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity. -- Shak.
Maidenhood (n.) Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state.
The maidenhood Of thy fight. -- Shak.
Maidenhood (n.) The childhood of a girl [syn: girlhood, maidenhood, maidhood].
Maidenlike (a.) Like a maiden; modest; coy.
Maidenliness (n.) The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
Maidenly (a.) Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.
Maidenly (adv.) In a maidenlike manner.
Maidenship (n.) Maidenhood.
Maidhood (n.) Maidenhood.
Maidmarian (n.) The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.
Maidmarian (n.) A kind of dance.
Maidpale (a.) Pale, like a sick girl.
Maidservant (n.) A female servant.
Maid's hair () The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).
Maieutic (a.) Alt. of Maieutical.
Maieutical (a.) Serving to assist childbirth.
Maieutical (a.) Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
Maieutics (n.) The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
Maiger (n.) The meagre.
Maigre (a.) Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.
Maihem (n.) See Maim, and Mayhem.
Maikel (n.) A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.
Maikong (n.) A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
Mail (n.) A spot.
Mail (n.) A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
Mail (n.) Rent; tribute.
Mail (n.) A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
Mail (n.) Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
Mail (n.) A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
Mail (n.) Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
Mail (v. t.) To arm with mail.
Mail (v. t.) To pinion.
Mail (n.) A bag; a wallet.
Mail (n.) The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.
Mail (n.) That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
Mail (n.) A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.
Mailed (imp. & p. p.) of Mail.
Mailing (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mail.
Mail (v. t.) To deliver into the custody of the postoffice officials, or place in a government letter box, for transmission by mail; to post; as, to mail a letter.
Mailable (a.) Admissible lawfully into the mail.
Mailclad (a.) Protected by a coat of mail; clad in armor.
Mailed (a.) Protected by an external coat, or covering, of scales or plates.
Mailed (a.) Spotted; speckled.
Mailing (n.) A farm.
Mail-shell (n.) A chiton.
Maimed (imp. & p. p.) of Maim.
Maiming (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maim.
Maim (v. t.) To deprive of the use of a limb, so as to render a person on fighting less able either to defend himself or to annoy his adversary.
Maim (v. t.) To mutilate; to cripple; to injure; to disable; to impair.
Maim (v.) 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 (v.) The privation of any necessary part; a crippling; mutilation; injury; deprivation of something essential. See Mayhem.
Maimedly (adv.) In a maimed manner.
Maimedness (n.) State of being maimed.
Main (n.) A hand or match at dice.
Main (n.) A stake played for at dice.
Main (n.) The largest throw in a match at dice; a throw at dice within given limits, as in the game of hazard.
Main (n.) A match at cockfighting.
Main (n.) A main-hamper.
Main (v.) Strength; force; might; violent effort.
Main (v.) The chief or principal part; the main or most important thing.
Main (v.) The great sea, as distinguished from an arm, bay, etc. ; the high sea; the ocean.
Main (v.) The continent, as distinguished from an island; the mainland.
Main (v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones; esp. (Engin.), a principal pipe leading to or from a reservoir; as, a fire main.
Main (a.) Very or extremely strong.
Main (a.) Vast; huge.
Main (a.) Unqualified; absolute; entire; sheer.
Main (a.) Principal; chief; first in size, rank, importance, etc.
Main (a.) Important; necessary.
Main (a.) Very; extremely; as, main heavy.
Main-gauche (n.) The dagger held in the left hand, while the rapier is held in the right; -- used to parry thrusts of the adversary's rapier.
Main-hamper (n.) A hamper to be carried in the hand; a hand basket used in carrying grapes to the press.
Mainland (n.) 大陸，本土 [the S] The continent; the principal land; -- opposed to island, or peninsula. -- Dryden.
After the two wayfarers had crossed from the peninsula to the mainland. -- Hawthorne.
Mainland (n.) The main land mass of a country or continent; as distinguished from an island or peninsula.
Mainly (adv.) Very strongly; mightily; to a great degree.
Mainly (adv.) Principally; chiefly.
Mainmast (n.) The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.
Mainor (n.) A thing stolen found on the person of the thief.
Mainpernable (a.) Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised.