Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 8
Make (v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. [Archaic] -- Chaucer. Tennyson.
To solace him some time, as I do when I make. -- P. Plowman.
To make as if, or To make as though, To pretend that; to make show that; to make believe (see under Make, v. t.).
Joshua and all Israel made as if they were beaten before them, and fled. -- Josh. viii. 15.
My lord of London maketh as though he were greatly displeased with me. -- Latimer.
To make at, To go toward hastily, or in a hostile manner; to attack.
To make away with.
(a) To carry off.
(b) To transfer or alienate; hence, to spend; to dissipate.
(c) To kill; to destroy.
To make off, To go away suddenly.
To make out, To succeed; to manage oneself; to be able at last; to make shift; as, he made out to reconcile the contending parties; after the earthquake they made out all right.
(b) To engage in fond caresses; to hug and kiss; to neck; -- of courting couples or individuals (for individuals, used with with); as, they made out on a bench in the park; he was making out with the waitress in the kitchen [informal].
To make up, To become reconciled or friendly.
To make up for, To compensate for; to supply an equivalent for.
To make up to.
(a) To approach; as, a suspicious boat made up to us.
(b) To pay addresses to; to make love to.
To make up with, To become reconciled to. [Colloq.]
To make with, To concur or agree with. -- Hooker.
Make (n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form.
It our perfection of so frail a make As every plot can undermine and shake? -- Dryden.
On the make,
(a) Bent upon making great profits; greedy of gain. [Low, U. S.]
(b) Seeking higher social status or a higher employment position.
(c) Seeking a sexual partner; looking for sexual adventure.
Make (n.) A recognizable kind; "there's a new brand of hero in the movies now"; "what make of car is that?" [syn: brand, make].
Make (n.) The act of mixing cards haphazardly [syn: shuffle, shuffling, make].
Make (v.) Engage in; "make love, not war"; "make an effort"; "do research"; "do nothing"; "make revolution" [syn: make, do].
Make (v.) Give certain properties to something; "get someone mad"; "She made us look silly"; "He made a fool of himself at the meeting"; "Don't make this into a big deal"; "This invention will make you a millionaire"; "Make yourself clear" [syn: make, get].
Make (v.) Make or cause to be or to become; "make a mess in one's office"; "create a furor" [syn: make, create].
Make (v.) Cause to do; cause to act in a specified manner; "The ads induced me to buy a VCR"; "My children finally got me to buy a computer"; "My wife made me buy a new sofa" [syn: induce, stimulate, cause, have, get, make].
Make (v.) Give rise to; cause to happen or occur, not always intentionally; "cause a commotion"; "make a stir"; "cause an accident" [syn: cause, do, make].
Make (v.) Create or manufacture a man-made product; "We produce more cars than we can sell"; "The company has been making toys for two centuries" [syn: produce, make, create].
Make (v.) Make, formulate, or derive in the mind; "I draw a line here"; "draw a conclusion"; "draw parallels"; "make an estimate"; "What do you make of his remarks?" [syn: draw, make].
Make (v.) Compel or make somebody or something to act in a certain way; "People cannot be made to integrate just by passing a law!"; "Heat makes you sweat."
Make (v.) Create by artistic means; "create a poem"; "Schoenberg created twelve-tone music"; "Picasso created Cubism"; "Auden made verses" [syn: create, make].
Make (v.) Earn on some commercial or business transaction; earn as salary or wages; "How much do you make a month in your new job?"; "She earns a lot in her new job"; "this merger brought in lots of money"; "He clears $5,000 each month" [syn: gain, take in, clear, make, earn, realize, realise, pull in, bring in].
Make (v.) Create or design, often in a certain way; "Do my room in blue"; "I did this piece in wood to express my love for the forest" [syn: do, make] [ant: undo, unmake].
Make (v.) To compose or represent:"This wall forms the background of the stage setting"; "The branches made a roof"; "This makes a fine introduction" [syn: form, constitute, make].
Make (v.) Reach a goal, e.g., "make the first team"; "We made it!"; "She may not make the grade" [syn: reach, make, get to, progress to].
Make (v.) Be or be capable of being changed or made into; "He makes a great host"; "He will make a fine father."
Make (v.) Make by shaping or bringing together constituents; "make a dress"; "make a cake"; "make a wall of stones."
Make (v.) Perform or carry out; "make a decision"; "make a move"; "make advances"; "make a phone call."
Make (v.) Make by combining materials and parts; "this little pig made his house out of straw"; "Some eccentric constructed an electric brassiere warmer" [syn: construct, build, make].
Make (v.) Change from one form into another; "make water into wine"; "make lead into gold"; "make clay into bricks."
Make (v.) Act in a certain way so as to acquire; "make friends"; "make enemies."
Make (v.) Charge with a function; charge to be; "She was named Head of the Committee"; "She was made president of the club" [syn: name, nominate, make].
Make (v.) Achieve a point or goal; "Nicklaus had a 70"; "The Brazilian team got 4 goals"; "She made 29 points that day" [syn: have, get, make].
Make (v.) Reach a destination, either real or abstract; "We hit Detroit by noon"; "The water reached the doorstep"; "We barely made it to the finish line"; "I have to hit the MAC machine before the weekend starts" [syn: reach, make, attain, hit, arrive at, gain].
Make (v.) Institute, enact, or establish; "make laws" [syn: lay down, establish, make].
Make (v.) Carry out or commit; "make a mistake"; "commit a faux-pas."
Make (v.) Form by assembling individuals or constituents; "Make a quorum."
Make (v.) Organize or be responsible for; "hold a reception"; "have, throw, or make a party"; "give a course" [syn: hold, throw, have, make, give].
Make (v.) Put in order or neaten; "make the bed"; "make up a room" [syn: make, make up].
Make (v.) Head into a specified direction; "The escaped convict took to the hills"; "We made for the mountains" [syn: take, make].
Make (v.) Have a bowel movement; "The dog had made in the flower beds" [syn: stool, defecate, shit, take a shit, take a crap, ca-ca, crap, make].
Make (v.) Undergo fabrication or creation; "This wool makes into a nice sweater."
Make (v.) Be suitable for; "Wood makes good furniture."
Make (v.) Add up to; "four and four make eight."
Make (v.) Amount to; "This salary increase makes no difference to my standard of living."
Make (v.) Constitute the essence of; "Clothes make the man."
Make (v.) Apear to begin an activity; "He made to speak but said nothing in the end"; "She made as if to say hello to us."
Make (v.) Proceed along a path; "work one's way through the crowd"; "make one's way into the forest" [syn: make, work].
Make (v.) Reach in time; "We barely made the plane."
Make (v.) Gather and light the materials for; "make a fire."
Make (v.) Prepare for eating by applying heat; "Cook me dinner, please"; "can you make me an omelette?"; "fix breakfast for the guests, please" [syn: cook, fix, ready, make, prepare].
Make (v.) Induce to have sex; "Harry finally seduced Sally"; "Did you score last night?"; "Harry made Sally" [syn: seduce, score, make].
Make (v.) Assure the success of; "A good review by this critic will make your play!" [ant: break].
Make (v.) Represent fictitiously, as in a play, or pretend to be or act like; "She makes like an actress" [syn: make, pretend, make believe].
Make (v.) Consider as being; "It wasn't the problem some people made it."
Make (v.) Calculate as being; "I make the height about 100 feet."
Make (v.) Cause to be enjoyable or pleasurable; "make my day."
Make (v.) Favor the development of; "Practice makes the winner."
Make (v.) Develop into; "He will make a splendid father!"
Make (v.) Behave in a certain way; "make merry."
Make (v.) Eliminate urine; "Again, the cat had made on the expensive rug" [syn: make, urinate, piddle, puddle, micturate, piss, pee, pee-pee, make water, relieve oneself, take a leak, spend a penny, wee, wee-wee, pass water].
Make, () The Unix tool to automate the recompilation, linking etc. of programs, taking account of the interdependencies of modules and their modification times.
Make reads instructions from a "makefile" which specifies a set of targets to be built, the files they depend on and the commands to execute in order to produce them.
Most C systems come with a make. There is also one produce by GNU.
["Make - A Program for Maintaining Computer Programs", A.I. Feldman, TR No 57, Bell Labs Apr 1977]. (1995-01-05)
Maker, () This term is applied to one who makes a promissory note and promises to pay it when due. He who makes a bill of exchange is called the drawer, and frequently in common parlance and in books of Reports we find the word drawer inaccurately applied to the maker of a promissory note. See Promissory note.
Makebate (n.) One who excites contentions and quarrels. [Obs.]
Make-belief (n.) A feigning to believe; make believe. -- J. H. Newman.
Make-believe (n.) A feigning to believe, as in the play of children; a mere pretense; a fiction; an invention. "Childlike make-believe." -- Tylor.
To forswear self-delusion and make-believe. -- M. Arnold.
Make-believe (a.) Feigned; insincere. "Make-believe reverence." -- G. Eliot.
Make-believe (a.) Imaginary; as, the child had a make-believe friend to whom he often talked.
Make-believe (a.) Imagined as in a play; "the make-believe world of theater"; "play money"; "dangling their legs in the water to catch pretend fish" [syn: make-believe, pretend].
Make-believe (n.) Imaginative intellectual play [syn: pretense, pretence, make-believe].
Make-believe (n.) The enactment of a pretense; "it was just pretend" [syn: make-believe, pretend].
Maked (p. p.) Obs. Made. -- Chaucer.
Make-game (n.) An object of ridicule; a butt. -- Godwin.
Makeless (a.) Matchless. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Makeless (a.) Without a mate. -- Shak.
Make-peace (n.) A peacemaker. [R.] -- Shak.
Make-peace (n.) Someone who tries to bring peace [syn: conciliator, make-peace, pacifier, peacemaker, reconciler].
Maker (n.) One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator.
The universal Maker we may praise. -- Milton.
Maker (n.) (Law) The person who makes a promissory note.
Maker (n.) One who writes verses; a poet. [Obs.]
Note: "The Greeks named the poet poihth`s, which name, as the most excellent, hath gone through other languages. It cometh of this word poiei^n, make; wherein, I know not whether by luck or wisdom, we Englishmen have met well the Greeks in calling him a maker." -- Sir P. Sidney.
To meet one's maker, to die.
Maker (n.) A person who makes things [syn: maker, shaper].
Maker (n.) Terms referring to the Judeo-Christian God [syn: Godhead, Lord, Creator, Maker, Divine, God Almighty, Almighty, Jehovah].
Maker (n.) A business engaged in manufacturing some product [syn: manufacturer, maker, manufacturing business].
Makeshift (n.) 臨時代用品；權宜之計 [C] That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient, with implication of inferiority to the more usual object or means. -- James Mill.
I am not a model clergyman, only a decent makeshift. -- G. Eliot. makeup
Makeshift (a.) 臨時代用的；權宜的 [B] Done or made using whatever is available; "crossed the river on improvised bridges"; "the survivors used jury-rigged fishing gear"; "the rock served as a makeshift hammer" [syn: improvised, jury-rigged, makeshift].
Makeshift (n.) Something contrived to meet an urgent need or emergency [syn: makeshift, stopgap, make-do].
Make-up (n.) 補足；編造；組成 The way in which the parts of anything are put together.
The unthinking masses are necessarily teleological in their mental make-up. -- L. F. Ward.
Make-up (n.) The constituent parts of anything; as, the makeup of the new congress was predominantly conservative.
Make-up (n.) Cosmetics applied to the face, such as lipstick, facial power, or eye shadow.
Make-up (n.) The aggregate of cosmetics and costume worn by an actor.
Make-up (n.) The effect or appearance of the wearing of makeup (in senses 3 or 4); often, the way in which an actor is dressed, painted, etc., in personating a character; as, her makeup was very realistic.
Make-up (n.) An action that is taken to fulfill a requirement not accomplished at the expected time, such as a make-up examination; as, the student took his make-up on Saturday.
Make-up (n.) (Printing) The appearance of a page of a publication, specifically the type style of the text and the spatial
arrangement of the text, illustrations, advertising material etc., on the page.
Make-up (n.) (Printing) The art or process of arranging the portions of a printed publication on the pages for esthetic reasons or for optimal effect on the reader.
Make-up (n.) An event that is substituted for a previously cancelled event; "he missed the test and had to take a makeup"; "the two teams played a makeup one week later" [syn: makeup, make-up].
Make-up (n.) The way in which someone or something is composed [syn: constitution, composition, physical composition, makeup, make-up].
Make-up (n.) Cosmetics applied to the face to improve or change your appearance [syn: makeup, make-up, war paint].
Makeweight (n.) 添加物；填料；無關緊要的人 That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.
Makeweight (n.) Anything added to fill out a whole; "some of the items in the collection are mere makeweights" [syn: makeweight, filler].
Makeweight (n.) A weight added to the scale to reach a required weight.
Maki (n.) (Zool.) 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. [Obs.] -- Sir J. Davies.
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. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Making (n.) The act that results in something coming to be; "the devising of plans"; "the fashioning of pots and pans"; "the making of measurements"; "it was already in the making" [syn: devising, fashioning, making].
Making (n.) An attribute that must be met or complied with and that fits a person for something; "her qualifications for the job are excellent"; "one of the qualifications for admission is an academic degree"; "she has the makings of fine musician" [syn: qualification, making].
Making (n.) (Usually plural) The components needed for making or doing something; "the recipe listed all the makings for a chocolate cake".
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.
Note: The form male- is chiefly used in cases where the e, either alone or with other letters, is pronounced as a separate syllable, as in malediction, malefactor, maleficent, etc. Where this is not the case, as in malfeasance or male-feasance, malformation or male-formation, etc., as also where the word to which it is prefixed commences with a vowel, as in maladministration, etc., the form mal is to be preferred, and is the one commonly employed.
Compare: Malum
Malum (n.; pl. Mala.) [L.] An evil. See Mala.
Mala (n.) 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.
Malabar (n.) A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.
Malabar nut (Bot.), The seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.
Malabar, FL -- U.S. town in Florida
Population (2000): 2622
Housing Units (2000): 1177
Land area (2000): 10.630928 sq. miles (27.533975 sq. km)
Water area (2000): 2.581710 sq. miles (6.686597 sq. km)
Total area (2000): 13.212638 sq. miles (34.220572 sq. km)
FIPS code: 42625
Located within: Florida (FL), FIPS 12
Location: 27.994286 N, 80.581266 W
ZIP Codes (1990):
Note: some ZIP codes may be omitted esp. for suburbs.
Headwords:
Malabar, FL
Malabar
Malacatune (n.) See Melocoton.
Malacca (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
Malacca (n.) Stem of the rattan palm used for making canes and umbrella handles.
Malacca (n.) A cane made from the stem of a rattan palm [syn: malacca, malacca cane].
Malachite (n.) (Min.) Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
Note: Green malachite, or malachite proper, admits of a high polish, and is sometimes used for ornamental work. Blue malachite, or azurite, is a related species of a deep blue color.
Malachite green. See Emerald green, under Green, n.
Malachite (n.) A green or blue mineral used as an ore of copper and for making ornamental objects.
Malacissant (a.) Softening; relaxing. [Obs.]
Malacissation (n.) The act of making soft or supple. [Obs.] -- Bacon.
Malacobdella (n.) (Zool.) 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.) (Zool.) One of a tribe of beetles ({Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.
Malacolite (n.) (Min.) A variety of pyroxene.
Malacologist (n.) One versed in the science of malacology.
Malacologist (n.) A zoologist specializing in the study of mollusks.
Malacology (n.) The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.
Malacology (n.) The branch of zoology that studies the structure and behavior of mollusks.
Malacopoda (n. pl.) (Zool.) A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.
Note: They somewhat resemble myriapods, and have from seventeen to thirty-three pairs of short, imperfectly jointed legs, two pairs of simple jaws, and a pair of antennae. The trancheae are connected with numerous spiracles scattered over the surface of the body.
Peripatus is the only known genus. See Peripatus.
Malacopterygian (n.) (Zool.) One of the Malacopterygii.
Malacopterygian (n.) Any fish of the superorder Malacopterygii [syn: soft-finned fish, malacopterygian] [ant: acanthopterygian, spiny-finned fish].
Malacopterygii (n. pl.) (Zool.) 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.
Malacopterygii (n.) An extensive group of teleost fishes having fins supported by flexible cartilaginous rays [syn: Malacopterygii, superorder Malacopterygii].
Malacopterygious (a.) (Zool.) Belonging to the Malacopterygii.
Malacosteon (n.) (Med.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.
Malacostomous (a.) (Zool.) Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.
Malacostraca (n. pl.) (Zool.) A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.
Malacostraca (n.) Largest subclass of Crustacea including most of the well-known marine, freshwater, and terrestrial crustaceans: crabs; lobsters; shrimps; sow bugs; beach flies [syn: Malacostraca, subclass Malacostraca].
Malacostracan (n.) (Zool.) One of the Malacostraca.
Malacostracology (n.) That branch of zoological science which relates to the crustaceans; -- called also carcinology.
Compare: Carcinology
Carcinology (n.) (Zool.) The department of Zoology which treats of the Crustacea (lobsters, crabs, etc.); -- called also malacostracology and crustaceology.
Malacostracous (a.) (Zool.) Belonging to the Malacostraca.
Malacotoon (n.) (Bot.) See Melocoton.
Malacozoa (n. pl.) (Zool.) An extensive group of Invertebrata, including the Mollusca, Brachiopoda, and Bryozoa. Called also Malacozoaria.
Malacozoic (a.) (Zool.) Of or pertaining to the Malacozoa.
Maladdress (n.) Bad address; an awkward, tactless, or offensive way of accosting one or talking with one. -- W. D. Howells.
Maladjustment (n.) 失調；不適應環境；不平衡 A bad adjustment.
Maladjustment (n.) The condition of being unable to adapt properly to your environment with resulting emotional instability.
Maladministration (n.) 管理不善；弊政 Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]
Maladroit (a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful. -- Mal"a*droit`ly, adv. -- Mal`a*droit"ness, n.
Maladroit (a.) Not adroit; "a maladroit movement of his hand caused the car to swerve"; "a maladroit translation"; "maladroit propaganda" [ant: adroit].
Maladies (n. 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.
The maladies of the body may prove medicines to the mind. -- Buckminster.
Malady (n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder.
Love's a malady without a cure. -- Dryden.
Syn: Disorder; distemper; sickness; ailment; disease; illness. See Disease.
Malaga (n.) A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean. Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.
Malaga (n.) A port city and resort in Andalusia in southern Spain on the Mediterranean.
Malagash (n.) Same as Malagasy.
Malagasy (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Madagascar; also (sing.), the language.
Malaise (n.) (Med.) 不舒服；抑鬱；心神不安 An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
Malaise (n.) Physical discomfort (as mild sickness or depression) [syn: malaise, unease, uneasiness].
Malala Yousafzai (n.) 馬拉拉·優素福扎伊 Malala Yousafzai (Malālah Yūsafzay: Urdu: ملالہ یوسفزئی; Pashto: ملاله یوسفزۍ [məˈlaːlə jusəf ˈzəj];[1] born 12 July 1997) [1] [2] is a Pakistani activist for female education and the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. [3] She is known for human rights advocacy, especially education of women in her native Swat Valley in Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, northwest Pakistan, where the local Taliban had at times banned girls from attending school. Her advocacy has grown into an international movement.
Yousafzai was born in Mingora, Khyber Pakhtunkhwa, Pakistan. Her family came to run a chain of schools in the region. Considering Jinnah and Benazir Bhutto as her role models, she was particularly inspired by her father's thoughts and humanitarian work.[4] In early 2009, when she was 11–12, she wrote a blog under a pseudonym for the BBC Urdu detailing her life during the Taliban occupation of Swat. The following summer, journalist Adam B. Ellick made a New York Times documentary [2] about her life as the Pakistani military intervened in the region. She rose in prominence, giving interviews in print and on television, and she was nominated for the International Children's Peace Prize by activist Desmond Tutu.
Yousafzai was injured on 9 October 2012 by a Taliban gunman when he attempted to murder her. She remained unconscious and in critical condition at the Rawalpindi Institute of Cardiology, but later her condition improved enough for her to be sent to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham, UK. [5] The murder attempt sparked a national and international outpouring of support for Yousafzai. Deutsche Welle wrote in January 2013 that she may have become "the most famous teenager in the world." [6] Weeks after her murder attempt, a group of fifty leading Muslim clerics in Pakistan issued a fatwā against those who tried to kill her. [7]
Since recovering, Yousafzai became a prominent education activist. Based out of Birmingham, she founded the Malala Fund, a non-profit, [8] and in 2013 co-authored I am Malala, an international bestseller. [9] In 2015, Yousafzai was a subject of the Oscar-shortlisted documentary He Named Me Malala. The 2013, 2014 and 2015 issues of Time magazine featured her as one of the most Influential people globally. In 2012, she was the recipient of Pakistan's first National Youth Peace Prize and the 2013 Sakharov Prize. [10] In 2014, she was announced as the co-recipient of the 2014 Nobel Peace Prize, along with Kailash Satyarthi, for her struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education. Aged 17 at the time, she became the youngest-ever Nobel Prize laureate. [11] [12] [13] From 2013 to 2017, she was a pupil at the all-girls' Edgbaston High School in Birmingham. [14] In 2017, she was awarded honorary Canadian citizenship and became the youngest person to address the House of Commons of Canada. [15] In August 2017, she gained admission to Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford to study for a bachelor's degree in Philosophy, Politics and Economics (PPE). [16]
Malamate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of malamic acid.
Malambo (n.) [Pg.] A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton Malambo.
Malamethane (n.) (Chem.) A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
Malamic (a.) (Chem.) Of or pertaining an acid intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its salts.
Malamide (n.) (Chem.) The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.
Malamute (n.) 愛斯基摩狗；北極狗 Breed of sled dog developed in Alaska [syn: malamute, malemute, Alaskan malamute].
Malanders (n. pl.) (Far.) A scurfy eruption in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders. [Written also mallenders.]
Malapert (a.) 【古】不客氣的，魯莽無禮的 Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert. -- Shak.
Are you growing malapert! Will you force me to make use of my authority ? -- Dryden. -- Mal"a*pert`ly, adv. -- mal"a*pert`ness, n.
Malapert (n.) 【古】無禮的人；魯莽的人 A malapert person.
Malapertly (adv.) In a malapert manner.
Malapertness (n.) (Uncountable) (Obsolete) The condition of being malapert. [15 th -- 18 th c.]
Malapropism (n.) A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Malapropism (n.) The unintentional misuse of a word by confusion with one that sounds similar [syn: malapropism, malaprop].
Malapropos (a. & adv.) Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
Malapropos (adv.) At an inconvenient time; "he arrived inopportunely just as we sat down for dinner"; "she answered malapropos" [syn: inopportunely, malapropos] [ant: opportunely].
Malapropos (a.) Of an inappropriate or incorrectly applied nature [ant: apropos].
Malapterurus (n.) (Zool.) A genus of African siluroid fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under Electric. [Sometimes spelled Malopterurus.]
Malar (a.) (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone; jugal.
Malar (n.) (Anat.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit ; that arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek; also called the malar bone.
Syn: cheekbone, zygomatic bone, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum.
Malar (n.) The arch of bone beneath the eye that forms the prominence of the cheek [syn: cheekbone, zygomatic bone, zygomatic, malar, malar bone, jugal bone, os zygomaticum].
Malaria (n.) [U] 瘧疾；汙濁的空氣，瘴氣 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. [Archaic]
Note: The morbific agent in malaria is supposed by some to be a vegetable microbe or its spores, and by others to be a very minute animal blood parasite (an infusorian).
Malaria (n.) (Med.) A human disease caused by infection of red blood cells by a protozoan of the genus Plasmodium, giving rise to fever and chills and many other symptoms, characterized by their tendency to recur at definite and usually uniform intervals.
The protozoal infection is usually transmitted from another infected individual by the bite of an Anopheles mosquito. Malarian; Malarial
Malaria (n.) An infective disease caused by sporozoan parasites that are transmitted through the bite of an infected Anopheles mosquito; marked by paroxysms of chills and fever.
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.) （患）瘧疾的；（有）瘴氣的 Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.
Malarial fever (Med.), 【醫】瘧疾 A fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so (remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever. Malaria mosquito瘧蚊.
Malarkey (n.) 胡話；故意歪曲的話 Empty rhetoric or insincere or exaggerated talk; "that's a lot of wind"; "don't give me any of that jazz" [syn: wind, malarkey, malarky, idle words, jazz, nothingness].
Malarkey (n.) [U] 愚蠢行為；蠢話；廢話 Silly behavior or nonsense.
// I like the socializing but I can't be bothered with dressing up and all that malarkey.
Malashaganay (n.) [Indian name.] (Zool.) The fresh-water drumfish ({Haploidonotus grunniens).
Malassimilation (n.) (Physiol.) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.
Malassimilation (n.) (Physiol.) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.
Malate (n.) (Chem.) A salt of malic acid.
Malawi (n.) 馬拉威共和國（英語：Republic of Malawi），簡稱馬拉威，是一個位於非洲東南部的內陸國家，鄰接尚比亞、莫三比克及坦尚尼亞。國土位於南緯9°45'至17°16'、東經32°35'-35°24'之間。其首都里昂威位於馬拉威的中部。
Officially the Republic of Malawi, is a landlocked country in southeast Africa that was formerly known as Nyasaland. It is bordered by Zambia to the northwest, Tanzania to the northeast, and Mozambique on the east, south and west. Malawi is over 118,000 km2 (45,560 sq mi) with an estimated population of 18,091,575 (as at July 2016). Lake Malawi takes up about a third of Malawi's area. [11] Its capital is Lilongwe, which is also Malawi's largest city; the second largest is Blantyre, the third is Mzuzu and the fourth largest is its old capital Zomba. The name Malawi comes from the Maravi, an old name of the Nyanja people that inhabit the area. The country is also nicknamed "The Warm Heart of Africa" because of the friendliness of the people. [12]
Malawi (n.) A landlocked republic in southern central Africa; achieved independence from the United Kingdom in 1964 [syn: Malawi, Republic of Malawi, Nyasaland].
Malax (v. t.) Alt. of Malaxate.
Malaxate (v. t.) To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance. [R.]
Malaxation (n.) The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]
Malaxator (n.) One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]
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
Malay (a.) Alt. of Malayan.
Malayan (a.) Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country.
Malayan (n.) The Malay language.
Malay apple (Bot.), A myrtaceous tree ({Eugenia Malaccensis) common in India; also, its applelike fruit.
Malay (a.) Of or relating to or characteristic of the people or language of Malaysia and the northern Malay Peninsula and parts of the western Malay Archipelago; "Malay peoples"; "Malayan syllable structure" [syn: Malay, Malayan].
Malay (n.) A member of a people inhabiting the northern Malay Peninsula and Malaysia and parts of the western Malay Archipelago [syn: Malay, Malayan].
Malay (n.) A western subfamily of Western Malayo-Polynesian languages.
Malayalam (n.) The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil. -- Yule.
Malayalam (n.) A Dravidian language (closely related to Tamil) that is spoken in southwestern India.
Malbrouck (n.) [F.] (Zool.) 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. [Written also malecontent.]
The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. -- Milner.
Malcontent (n.) One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts. -- Spenser. -- Berkeley.
Malcontent (a.) Discontented as toward authority [syn: disaffected, ill-affected, malcontent, rebellious].
Malcontent (n.) A person who is discontented or disgusted.
Malcontented (a.) Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
Maldanian (n.) (Zool.) 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.