Webster's Unabridged Dictionary - Letter M - Page 9
Male- () See Mal-.
Male (a.) Evil; wicked; bad. [Obs.] -- Marston.
Male (n.) Same as Mail, a bag. [Obs.] -- Chaucer.
Male (a.) Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.
Male (a.) (Bot.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.
Male (a.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.
Male (a.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir.
Male (a.) (Mech.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.
Male fern (Bot.), A fern of the genus Aspidium ({Aspidium Filixmas), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. Aspidium marginale in America, and Aspidium athamanticum in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See Female fern, under Female.
Male rhyme, A rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female.
Male screw (Mech.), A screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw.
Male thread, The thread of a male screw.
MALE. () Of the masculine sex; of the sex that begets young; the sex opposed to the female. Vide Gender; Man; Sex; Worthiest of blood.
MALE, (n.) A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
Male (n.) An animal of the male sex.
Male (n.) (Bot.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.
Maleadministration (n.) Maladministration.
Compare: Maladministration
Maladministration (n.) Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. [Written also maleadministration.]
Maleate (n.) A salt of maleic acid. Maleberry
Maleate (n.) A salt or ester of maleic acid; used as a nontricyclic antidepressant drug for psychomotor activation.
Malebranchism (n.) The philosophical system of Malebranche, an eminent French metaphysician. The fundamental doctrine of his system is that the mind can not have knowledge of anything external to itself except in its relation to God.
Maleconformation (n.) Malconformation.
Malecontent (a.) Malcontent.
Compare: Malcontent
Malcontent (a.) Discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government. [Written also malecontent.]
The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. -- Milner.
Maledicency (n.) Evil speaking. [Obs.] -- Atterbury.
Maledicent (a.) Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Obs.] -- Sir E. Sandys.
Maledict (a.) Accursed; abominable. [R.]
Maledict (a.) Under a curse [syn: accursed, accurst, maledict].
Maledict (v.) Wish harm upon; invoke evil upon; "The bad witch cursed the child" [syn: curse, beshrew, damn, bedamn, anathemize, anathemise, imprecate, maledict] [ant: bless].
Malediction (n.) 詛咒；壞話；憎惡 A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to {benediction}.
No malediction falls from his tongue. -- Longfellow.
Syn: Cursing; curse; execration; imprecation; denunciation; anathema.
Usage: Malediction, Curse, Imprecation, Execration. Malediction is the most general term, denoting bitter reproach, or wishes and predictions of evil. Curse implies the desire or threat of evil, declared upon oath or in the most solemn manner. Imprecation is literally the praying down of evil upon a person. Execration is literally a putting under the ban of excommunication, a curse which excludes from the kingdom of God. In ordinary usage, the last three words describe profane swearing, execration being the strongest.
Malediction (n.) The act of calling down a curse that invokes evil (and usually serves as an insult); "he suffered the imprecations of the mob" [syn: {imprecation}, {malediction}].
Malediction, () Eccl. law. A curse which was anciently annexed to donations of lands made to churches and religious houses, against those who should violate their rights.
Malefaction (n.) 罪行；壞事 A crime; an offense; an evil deed. [R.] -- Shak.
Malefactor (n.) An evil doer; one who commits a crime; one subject to public prosecution and punishment; a criminal.
Malefactor (n.) 罪人；壞人 One who does wrong by injuring another, although not a criminal. Opposite of benefactor. -- H. Brooke. -- Fuller. "Malefactors of great wealth."
Syn: Evil doer; criminal; culprit; felon; convict.
Malefactor (n.) Someone who has committed a crime or has been legally convicted of a crime [syn: {criminal}, {felon}, {crook}, {outlaw}, {malefactor}].
Malefactor, () He who bas been guilty of some crime; in another sense, one who has been convicted of having committed a crime.
Malefactor (n.) The chief factor in the progress of the human race.
Malefactress (n.) 女罪犯；作惡的女人； 壞女人 A female malefactor. -- Hawthorne.
Malefactress (n.) A woman who violates the law or does evil.
Malefeasance (n.) 違法行為，瀆職 See {Malfeasance}, Obsolete form of Malfeasance.
Compare: Malfeasance
Malfeasance (n.) (Law) 不正當，不法行為，壞事，瀆職 The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also {malefeasance}.]
Malfeasance (n.) Wrongful conduct by a public official.
Malfeasance, () Contracts, torts. The unjust performance of some act which the party had no right, or which he had contracted not to do. It differs from misfeasance, (q.v.) and nonfeasance. (q.v.) Vide 1 Chit. Pr. 9; 1 Chit. Pl. 134.
Malefic (a.) Doing mischief; causing harm or evil; nefarious; hurtful. [R.] -- Chaucer.
Malefic (a.) Having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil].
Malefice (n.) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment. [Obs.]
Maleficence (n.) Evil doing, esp. to others.
Maleficence (n.) Doing or causing evil [ant: beneficence].
Maleficence (n.) The quality or nature of being harmful or evil [syn: maleficence, mischief, balefulness] [ant: beneficence].
Maleficent (a.) Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.
Maleficent (a.) Harmful or evil in intent or effect [ant: beneficent].
Maleficial (a.) Injurious. -- Fuller.
Maleficiate (v. t.) To bewitch; to harm. [Obs.] -- Burton.
Maleficiation (n.) A bewitching. [Obs.]
Maleficience (n.) The doing of evil, harm, or mischief.
Maleficient (a.) Doing evil, harm, or mischief.
Maleformation (n.) See Malformation.
Maleic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or designating, an acid of the ethylene series, metameric with fumaric acid and obtained by heating malic acid.
Malengine (n.) Evil machination; guile; deceit. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Maleo (n.) (Zool.) A bird of Celebes ({megacephalon maleo), allied to the brush turkey. It makes mounds in which to lay its eggs.
Maleo (n.) Celebes megapode that lays eggs in holes in sandy beaches [syn: maleo, Macrocephalon maleo].
Male-odor (n.) See Malodor.
Malepractice (n.) See Malpractice.
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. [Written also malepractice.]
Male-spirited (a.) Having the spirit of a male; vigorous; courageous. [R.] -- B. Jonson.
Malet (n.) A little bag or budget. [Obs.] -- Shelton.
Maletreat (v. t.) See Maltreat.
Maltreat (v. t.) [imp. & p. p. Maltreated; p. pr. & vb. n. Maltreating.] 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].
Malevolence (n.) 惡意，狠毒 The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice.
Malevolence (n.) Wishing evil to others [syn: malevolence, malignity] [ant: benevolence].
Malevolence (n.) The quality of threatening evil [syn: malevolence, malevolency, malice].
Malevolent (a.) 有惡意的，壞心腸的 Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.
Syn: Ill-disposed; envious; mischievous; evil-minded; spiteful; malicious; malignant; rancorous.
Malevolent (a.) Wishing or appearing to wish evil to others; arising from intense ill will or hatred; "a gossipy malevolent old woman"; "failure made him malevolent toward those who were successful".
Malevolent (a.) Having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: malefic, malevolent, malign, evil].
Malevolently (adv.) 惡意地；傷害地 In a malevolent manner.
// She watched him malevolently.
Malevolently (adv.) In a malevolent manner; "she gossips malevolently" [ant: benevolently].
Malevolous (a.) Malevolent. [Obs.] -- Bp. Warburton.
Malexecution (n.) Bad execution. -- D. Webster.
Maleyl (n.) (Chem.) A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.
Malfeasance (n.) (Law) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. [Written also malefeasance.]
Malfeasance (n.) Wrongful conduct by a public official.
Malformation (n.) 畸形；殘廢Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure; -- often used of body parts such as limbs which do not develop properly during fetal maturation.
Malformation (n.) An affliction in which some part of the body is misshapen or malformed [syn: {deformity}, {malformation}, {misshapenness}].
Malformation (n.) Something abnormal or anomalous [syn: {malformation}, {miscreation}].
Malfunction (n.) 機能不全；故障；疾病 A failure to function normally.
Malfunction (v.) 發生故障；機能失常 Fail to function or function improperly; "the coffee maker malfunctioned" [syn: {malfunction}, {misfunction}] [ant: {function}, {go}, {operate}, {run}, {work}].
Malgracious (a.) Not graceful; displeasing. [Obs.] -- Gower.
Malgre (prep.) See Mauger.
Malic (a.) (Chem.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid.
Malic acid, (Chem.) A hydroxy acid ({HO.CO.CH2.CH(OH).CO.OH) obtained from unripe fruit (such as green apples, currants, tomatoes or cherries) as a substance which is sirupy or crystallized with difficulty, and has a strong but pleasant sour taste. It is levorotatory or dextrorotatory according to the temperature and concentration; the natural form is of L- conformation. A synthetic variety is a derivative of succinic acid, but as with most simple synthetic compounds, is a racemic mixture of isomers and thus has no rotatory action on polarized light.
Malice (n.) 惡意，蓄意，怨恨 Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil. "Nor set down aught in malice." -- Shak.
Envy, hatred, and malice are three distinct passions of the mind. -- Ld. Holt.
Malice (n.) (Law) Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness.
Malice aforethought or Malice prepense, Malice previously and deliberately entertained.
Syn: Spite; ill will; malevolence; grudge; pique; bitterness; animosity; malignity; maliciousness; rancor; virulence.
Usage: See Spite. -- Malevolence, Malignity, Malignancy. Malice is a stronger word than malevolence, which may imply only a desire that evil may befall another, while malice desires, and perhaps intends, to bring it about. Malignity is intense and deepseated malice. It implies a natural delight in hating and wronging others. One who is malignant must be both malevolent and malicious; but a man may be malicious without being malignant.
Proud tyrants who maliciously destroy And ride o'er ruins with malignant joy -- Somerville.
In some connections, malignity seems rather more pertinently applied to a radical depravity of nature, and malignancy to indications of this depravity, in temper and conduct in particular instances. -- Cogan.
Malice (v. t.) To regard with extreme ill will. [Obs.]
Malice (n.) Feeling a need to see others suffer [syn: malice, maliciousness, spite, spitefulness, venom].
Malice (n.) The quality of threatening evil [syn: malevolence, malevolency, malice].
Malice, () torts. The doing any act injurious to another without a just cause.
Malice, () This term, as applied to torts, does not necessarily mean that which must proceed from a spiteful, malignant, or revengeful disposition, but a conduct injurious to another, though proceeding from an ill-regulated mind not sufficiently cautious before it occasions an injury to another. 11 S. & R. 39, 40.
Malice, () Indeed in some cases it seems not to require any intention in order to make an act malicious. When a slander has been published, therefore, the proper question for the jury is, not whether the intention of the publication was to injure the plaintiff, but whether the tendency of the matter published, was so injurious. 10 B. & C. 472: S. C. 21 E. C. L. R. 117.
Malice, () Again, take the common case of an offensive trade, the melting of tallow for instance; such trade is not itself unlawful, but if carried on to the annoyance of the neighboring dwellings, it becomes unlawful with respect to them, and their inhabitants may maintain an action, and may charge the act of the defendant to be malicious. 3 B. & C. 584; S. C. 10 E. C. L. R. 179.
Malice, () crim. law. A wicked intention to do an injury. 4 Mason, R. 115, 505: 1 Gall. R. 524. It is not confined to the intention of doing an injury to any particular person, but extends to an evil design, a corrupt and wicked notion against some one at the time of committing the crime; as, if A intended to poison B, conceals a quantity of poison in an apple and puts it in the way of B, and C, against whom he had no ill will, and who, on the contrary, was his friend, happened to eat it, and die, A will be guilty of murdering C with malice aforethought. Bac. Max. Reg. 15; 2 Chit. Cr. Law, 727; 3 Chit. Cr. Law,. 1104.
Malice, () Malice is express or implied. It is express, when the party evinces an intention to commit the crime, as to kill a man; for example, modern duelling. 3 Bulst. 171. It is implied, when an officer of justice is killed in the discharge of his duty, or when death occurs in the prosecution of some unlawful design.
Malice, () It is a general rule that when a man commits an act, unaccompanied by any circumstance justifying its commission, the law presumes he has acted advisedly and with an intent to produce the consequences which have ensued. 3 M. & S. 15; Foster, 255; 1 Hale, P. C. 455; 1 East, P. C. 223 to 232, and 340; Russ. & Ry. 207; 1 Moody, C. C. 263; 4 Bl. Com. 198; 15 Vin. Ab. 506; Yelv. 105 a; Bac. Ab. Murder and Homicide, C 2. Malice aforethought is deliberate premeditation. Vide Aforethought.
Malice (n.) [ U ] 惡意，害人之心 The wish to harm or upset other people.
// There certainly wasn't any malice in her comments.
// (Formal) I bear him no malice (= do not want to harm or upset him).
With malice aforethought (Specialized) 蓄意犯罪；蓄意傷人 To illegally harm someone with malice aforethought is to have thought about it and planned it before acting.
Malicho (n.) Mischief. [Obs.] -- Shak.
Malicious (a.) 懷惡意的，惡毒的 Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity.
I grant him bloody, . . .
Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. -- Shak.
Malicious (a.) Proceeding from hatred or ill will; dictated by malice; as, a malicious report; malicious mischief.
Malicious (a.) (Law) With wicked or mischievous intentions or motives; wrongful and done intentionally without just cause or excuse; as, a malicious act.
Malicious abandonment, The desertion of a wife or husband without just cause. -- Burrill.
Malicious prosecution or Malicious arrest (Law), A wanton prosecution or arrest, by regular process in a civil or criminal proceeding, without probable cause. -- Bouvier.
Syn: Ill-disposed; evil-minded; mischievous; envious; malevolent; invidious; spiteful; bitter; malignant; rancorous; malign. -- Ma*li"cious*ly, adv. -- Ma*li"cious*ness, n.
Malicious (a.) Having the nature of or resulting from malice; "malicious gossip"; "took malicious pleasure in...watching me wince"- Rudyard Kipling [ant: {unmalicious}].
Malicious, () With bad, and unlawful motives; wicked.
Maliciously (adv.) 惡意地；心毒地 With malice; in a malicious manner; "she answered maliciously."
Malign (a.) 惡意的；邪惡的；有害的 Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to {benign}.
Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. -- Bacon.
Malign (a.) Unfavorable; unpropitious; pernicious; tending to injure; as, a malign aspect of planets.
Malign (a.) Malignant; as, a malign ulcer. [R.] -- Bacon.
Maligned (imp. & p. p.) of Malign
Maligning (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malign
Malign (v. t.) 誹謗，中傷 To treat with malice; to show hatred toward; to abuse; to wrong; to injure. [Obs.]
The people practice what mischiefs and villainies they will against private men, whom they malign by stealing their goods, or murdering them. -- Spenser.
Malign (v. t.) To speak great evil of; to traduce; to defame; to slander; to vilify; to asperse.
To be envied and shot at; to be maligned standing, and to be despised falling. -- South.
Malign (v. i.) To entertain malice. [Obs.] Malignance
Malign (a.) Evil or harmful in nature or influence; "prompted by malign motives"; "believed in witches and malign spirits"; "gave him a malign look"; "a malign lesion" [ant: {benign}, {benignant}].
Malign (a.) Having or exerting a malignant influence; "malevolent stars"; "a malefic force" [syn: {malefic}, {malevolent}, {malign}, {evil}].
Malign (v.) Speak unfavorably about; "She badmouths her husband everywhere" [syn: {badmouth}, {malign}, {traduce}, {drag through the mud}].
Malignance (n.) 惡意；（疾病）惡性 Alt. of Malignancy
Malignancy (n.) 惡意；（指腫瘤）惡性 The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.
Malignancy (n.) Unfavorableness; evil nature.
The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemner yours. -- Shak.
Malignancy (n.) (Med.) Virulence; tendency to a fatal issue; as, the malignancy of an ulcer or of a fever.
Malignancy (n.) Hence: (Med.) A cancerous tumor that is spreading beyond the point of origin.
Syn: malignant tumor, malignant neoplasm, metastatic tumor.
Malignancy (n.) The state of being a malignant.
Malignancy (n.) (Medicine) A malignant state; progressive and resistant to treatment and tending to cause death [syn: {malignancy}, {malignance}].
Malignancy (n.) Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn: {malignity}, {malignancy}, {malignance}] [ant: {benignancy}, {benignity}, {graciousness}].
Compare: Invasive
Invasive (a.) Tending to invade; characterized by invasion; aggressive. "Invasive war." -- Hoole.
Invasive (a.) (Med.) Tending to spread, especially tending to intrude into healthy tissue; -- used mostly of tumors.
Malignant (a.) 有惡意的，邪惡的；極有害的 Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
A malignant and a turbaned Turk. -- Shak.
Malignant (a.) Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious. "Malignant care." -- Macaulay.
Some malignant power upon my life. -- Shak.
Something deleterious and malignant as his touch. -- Hawthorne.
Malignant (a.) (Med.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.
{Malignant pustule} (Med.), A very contagious disease produced by infection of subcutaneous tissues with the bacterium {Bacillus anthracis}. It is transmitted to man from animals and is characterized by the formation, at the point of reception of the infection, of a vesicle or pustule which first enlarges and then breaks down into an unhealthy ulcer. It is marked by profound exhaustion and often fatal. The disease in animals is called {charbon}; in man it is called {cutaneous anthrax}, and formerly was sometimes called simply {anthrax}.
Malignant (n.) 不滿者 [C] A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions. -- Hooker.
Malignant (n.) (Eng. Hist.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
Malignant (a.) Dangerous to health; characterized by progressive and uncontrolled growth (especially of a tumor) [ant: {benign}]
Malignantly (adv.) 懷惡意 In a malignant manner.
Malignantly (adv.) In a malignant manner, as of a tumor that spreads.
Maligner (n.) One who maligns.
Maligner (n.) One who attacks the reputation of another by slander or libel [syn: defamer, maligner, slanderer, vilifier, libeler, backbiter, traducer].
Malignified (imp. & p. p.) of Malignify
Malignifying (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malignify
Malignify (v. t.) To make malign or malignant. [R.] "A strong faith malignified." -- Southey.
Malignity (n.) The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.
Malignity (n.) Virulence; deadly quality.
His physicians discerned an invincible malignity in his disease. -- Hayward.
Malignity (n.) Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.]
Syn: See Malice.
Malignity (n.) Wishing evil to others [syn: malevolence, malignity] [ant: benevolence].
Malignity (n.) Quality of being disposed to evil; intense ill will [syn: malignity, malignancy, malignance] [ant: benignancy, benignity, graciousness].
Malignly (adv.) In a malign manner; with malignity.
Malignly (adv.) In a malign and evil manner.
MAlingered (imp. & p. p.) of Malinger
Malingering (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Malinger
Malinger (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.
Malinger (v.) Avoid responsibilities and duties, e.g., by pretending to be ill [syn: malinger, skulk].
Malingerer (n.) In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.
Malingerer (n.) Someone shirking their duty by feigning illness or incapacity [syn: malingerer, skulker, shammer].
Malingery (n.) The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.
Malison (n.) Malediction; curse; execration. [Poetic]
God's malison on his head who this gainsays. -- Sir W. Scott.
Malkin (n.) Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern.
Malkin (n.) A mop made of clouts, used by the kitchen servant.
Malkin (n.) A scarecrow. [Prov. Eng.]
Malkin (n.) (Mil.) A mop or sponge attached to a jointed staff for swabbing out a cannon.
Mall (n.) A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. -- Addison.
Mall (n.) A heavy blow. [Obs.] -- Spenser.
Mall (n.) An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. -- Cotton.