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Lovable
  • (a.) Having qualities that excite, or are fitted to excite, love

    Lovage
  • (n.) An umbelliferous plant (Levisticum officinale), sometimes used in medicine as an aromatic stimulant

    Love
  • (n.) A climbing species of Clematis (C. Vitalba).
  • (v. i.) To have the feeling of love

    Loving
  • (a.) Affectionate.

    Low
  • (adv.) In a low mean condition
  • (n.) A hill
  • (superl.) Beneath the usual or remunerative rate or amount, or the ordinary value
  • (v. i.) To burn
  • (v. t.) To depress

    Lowborn
  • (a.) Born in a low condition or rank

    Lowboy
  • (n.) A chest of drawers not more than four feet high

    Lowbred
  • (a.) Bred, or like one bred, in a low condition of life

    Lower
  • (a.) Compar. of Low, a.
  • (n.) A frowning
  • (v. i.) To be dark, gloomy, and threatening, as clouds

    Lowing
  • (n.) The calling sound made by cows and other bovine animals.

    Lowland
  • (n.) Land which is low with respect to the neighboring country

    Lowly
  • (a.) Having a low esteem of one's own worth
  • (adv.) In a low condition

    Loxodromic
  • (a.) Pertaining to sailing on rhumb lines

    Loyal
  • (a.) Faithful to law

    Lozenge
  • (n.) A diamond-shaped figure usually with the upper and lower angles slightly acute, borne upon a shield or escutcheon

    Lubber
  • (n.) A heavy, clumsy, or awkward fellow

    Lubricant
  • (a.) Lubricating.
  • (n.) That which lubricates

    Lubricate
  • (v. t.) To apply a lubricant to, as oil or tallow.

    Lubricator
  • (n.) A contrivance, as an oil cup, for supplying a lubricant to machinery.

    Lubricity
  • (n.) Lasciviousness

    Lubricous
  • (a.) Lubric.

    Lucarne
  • (n.) A dormer window.

    Lucent
  • (a.) Shining

    Lucid
  • (n.) Bright with the radiance of intellect

    Lucifer
  • (n.) A genus of free-swimming macruran Crustacea, having a slender body and long appendages.

    Luck
  • (n.) That which happens to a person

    Lucrative
  • (a.) Greedy of gain.

    Lucre
  • (n.) Gain in money or goods

    Lucubration
  • (n.) That which is composed by night

    Luculent
  • (a.) Bright

    Luddite
  • (n.) One of a number of riotous persons in England, who for six years (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc

    Ludicrous
  • (a.) Adapted to excite laughter, without scorn or contempt

    Lues
  • (n.) Disease, especially of a contagious kind.

    Luff
  • (n.) The act of sailing a ship close to the wind.
  • (v. i.) To turn the head of a vessel toward the wind

    Lug
  • (n.) A measure of length, being 16/ feet
  • (v. i.) To move slowly and heavily.

    Luggage
  • (n.) That which is lugged

    Lugger
  • (n.) An Indian falcon (Falco jugger), similar to the European lanner and the American prairie falcon

    Lugsail
  • (n.) A square sail bent upon a yard that hangs obliquely to the mast and is raised or lowered with the sail

    Lugubrious
  • (a.) Mournful

    Lugworm
  • (n.) A large marine annelid (Arenicola marina) having a row of tufted gills along each side of the back

    Luke
  • (a.) Moderately warm

    Lull
  • (n.) A temporary cessation of storm or confusion.
  • (v. i.) To become gradually calm
  • (v. t.) To cause to rest by soothing influences

    lullaby
  • (v. t.) A song to quiet babes or lull them to sleep

    Lumbago
  • (n.) A rheumatic pain in the loins and the small of the back.

    Lumber
  • (b. t.) To fill or encumber with lumber
  • (n.) A pawnbroker's shop, or room for storing articles put in pawn
  • (v. i.) To cut logs in the forest, or prepare timber for market.

    Lumen
  • (n.) An opening, space, or cavity, esp. a tubular cavity

    Luminary
  • (n.) Any body that gives light, especially one of the heavenly bodies.

    Luminescence
  • (n.) Any emission of light not ascribable directly to incandescence, and therefore occurring at low temperatures, as in phosphorescence and fluorescence or other luminous radiation resulting from vital processes, chemical action, friction, solution, or the influence of light or of ultraviolet or cathode rays, etc

    Luminiferous
  • (a.) Producing light

    Luminosity
  • (n.) The quality or state of being luminous

    Luminous
  • (a.) Enlightened

    Lummox
  • (n.) A fat, ungainly, stupid person

    Lump
  • (n.) A mass or aggregation of things.
  • (v. i.) To get along with as one can, although displeased

    Luna
  • (n.) Silver.

    Lunch
  • (n.) A luncheon
  • (v. i.) To take luncheon.

    Lune
  • (n.) A figure in the form of a crescent, bounded by two intersecting arcs of circles.

    Lung
  • (n.) An organ for aerial respiration

    Lunisolar
  • (a.) Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon

    Lupine
  • (n.) A leguminous plant of the genus Lupinus, especially L. albus, the seeds of which have been used for food from ancient times

    Lupulin
  • (n.) A bitter principle extracted from hops.

    Lupus
  • (n.) A cutaneous disease occurring under two distinct forms.

    Lurch
  • (n.) A double score in cribbage for the winner when his adversary has been left in the lurch.
  • (v. i.) To dodge
  • (v. t.) To leave in the lurch

    Lure
  • (n.) A contrivance somewhat resembling a bird, and often baited with raw meat
  • (v. i.) To recall a hawk or other animal.

    Lurid
  • (a.) Having a brown color tonged with red, as of flame seen through smoke.

    Lurk
  • (v. i.) To keep out of sight.

    Luscious
  • (a.) Cloying

    Lush
  • (a.) Full of juice or succulence.
  • (n.) Liquor, esp. intoxicating liquor

    Lust
  • (n.) Hence: Virility

    Lute
  • (n.) A cement of clay or other tenacious infusible substance for sealing joints in apparatus, or the mouths of vessels or tubes, or for coating the bodies of retorts, etc
  • (v. i.) To sound, as a lute. Piers Plowman. Keats.
  • (v. t.) To close or seal with lute

    Lutheran
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Luther
  • (n.) One who accepts or adheres to the doctrines of Luther or the Lutheran Church.

    Lutist
  • (n.) One who plays on a lute.

    Lux
  • (v. t.) To put out of joint

    Luxate
  • (a.) Luxated.
  • (v. t.) To displace, or remove from its proper place, as a joint

    Luxuriant
  • (a.) Exuberant in growth

    Luxuriate
  • (v. i.) To feed or live luxuriously

    Luxurious
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to luxury

    Luxury
  • (n.) A free indulgence in costly food, dress, furniture, or anything expensive which gratifies the appetites or tastes

    Lycanthrope
  • (n.) A human being fabled to have been changed into a wolf

    Lycanthropy
  • (n.) A kind of erratic melancholy, in which the patient imagines himself a wolf, and imitates the actions of that animal

    Lyceum
  • (n.) A higher school, in Europe, which prepares youths for the university.

    Lycopodium
  • (n.) A genus of mosslike plants, the type of the order Lycopodiaceae

    Lyddite
  • (n.) A high explosive consisting principally of picric acid, used as a shell explosive in the British service

    Lydian
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Lydia, a country of Asia Minor, or to its inhabitants

    Lye
  • (n.) A falsehood.

    Lymph
  • (n.) A fibrinous material exuded from the blood vessels in inflammation. In the process of healing it is either absorbed, or is converted into connective tissue binding the inflamed surfaces together

    Lynch
  • (v. t.) To inflict punishment upon, especially death, without the forms of law, as when a mob captures and hangs a suspected person

    Lynx
  • (n.) Any one of several species of feline animals of the genus Felis, and subgenus Lynx. They have a short tail, and usually a pencil of hair on the tip of the ears

    Lyonnaise
  • (a.) Applied to boiled potatoes cut into small pieces and heated in oil or butter. They are usually flavored with onion and parsley

    Lyra
  • (n.) A northern constellation, the Harp, containing a white star of the first magnitude, called Alpha Lyrae, or Vega

    Lyre
  • (n.) A stringed instrument of music

    Lyric
  • (n.) A composer of lyric poems.

    Lyrist
  • (n.) A musician who plays on the harp or lyre

    Lysis
  • (n.) The resolution or favorable termination of a disease, coming on gradually and not marked by abrupt change

    M
  • (n.) A brand or stigma, having the shape of an M, formerly impressed on one convicted of manslaughter and admitted to the benefit of clergy

    Ma
  • (conj.) But
  • (n.) A child's word for mother.

    Maat
  • (a.) Dejected

    Macaco
  • (n.) Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L

    Macadamize
  • (v. t.) To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface

    Macaque
  • (n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus

    Macaroni
  • (n.) A finical person

    Macaroon
  • (n.) A finical fellow, or macaroni.

    Macaw
  • (n.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American

    Maccabees
  • (n. pl.) The name given later times to the Asmonaeans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV

    Mace
  • (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal

    Machete
  • (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length

    Machicolation
  • (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls

    Machinate
  • (v. i.) To plan
  • (v. t.) To contrive, as a plot

    Machination
  • (n.) That which is devised

    Machine
  • (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use
  • (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery

    Machinist
  • (n.) A constrictor of machines and engines

    Macho
  • (n.) The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).

    Mackerel
  • (n.) Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several related genera. They are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes

    Mackintosh
  • (n.) A waterproof outer garment

    Mackle
  • (n.) Same Macule.
  • (v. t. & i.) To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.

    Macle
  • (n.) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.

    Macrobiotics
  • (n.) The art of prolonging life.

    Macrocosm
  • (n.) The great world

    Macrograph
  • (n.) A picture of an object as seen by the naked eye (that is, unmagnified)

    Macron
  • (n.) A short, straight, horizontal mark

    Macrosporangium
  • (n.) A sporangium or conceptacle containing only large spores

    Macrospore
  • (n.) One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc.

    Macula
  • (n.) A rather large spot or blotch of color.

    Macule
  • (n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little
  • (v.) To blur

    Mad
  • (n.) An earthworm.
  • (superl.) Angry
  • (v. i.) To be mad
  • (v. t.) To make mad or furious

    Madam
  • (n.) A gentlewoman

    Madcap
  • (a.) Inclined to wild sports
  • (n.) A person of wild behavior

    Madden
  • (v. i.) To become mad
  • (v. t.) To make mad

    Madder
  • (n.) A plant of the Rubia (R. tinctorum). The root is much used in dyeing red, and formerly was used in medicine

    Madding
  • (a.) Affected with madness

    Made
  • (a.) Artificially produced
  • (imp. & p. p.) of Make

    Madly
  • (a.) In a mad manner

    Madonna
  • (n.) A picture of the Virgin Mary (usually with the babe).

    Madras
  • (n.) A large silk-and-cotton kerchief, usually of bright colors, such as those often used by negroes for turbans

    Madrepore
  • (n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora

    Madreporite
  • (n.) A fossil coral.

    Madrigal
  • (n.) A little amorous poem, sometimes called a pastoral poem, containing some tender and delicate, though simple, thought

    Madwort
  • (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual

    Maelstrom
  • (n.) A celebrated whirlpool on the coast of Norway.

    Maenad
  • (n.) A Bacchante

    Maestoso
  • (a. & adv.) Majestic or majestically

    Maestro
  • (n.) A master in any art, especially in music

    Mafia
  • (n.) A secret society which organized in Sicily as a political organization, but is now widespread among Italians, and is used to further or protect private interests, reputedly by illegal methods

    Mafioso
  • (n.) A member of the maffia.

    Magazine
  • (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece
  • (v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine

    Magenta
  • (n.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red

    Maggiore
  • (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor

    Maggot
  • (n.) A whim

    Magi
  • (n. pl.) A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians

    Magma
  • (n.) Any crude mixture of mineral or organic matters in the state of a thin paste.

    Magnanimity
  • (n.) The quality of being magnanimous

    Magnanimous
  • (a.) Dictated by or exhibiting nobleness of soul

    Magnesia
  • (n.) A light earthy white substance, consisting of magnesium oxide, and obtained by heating magnesium hydrate or carbonate, or by burning magnesium

    Magnesite
  • (n.) Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals

    Magnesium
  • (n.) A light silver-white metallic element, malleable and ductile, quite permanent in dry air but tarnishing in moist air

    Magnet
  • (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted

    Magnificat
  • (n.) The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46

    Magnificence
  • (n.) The act of doing what magnificent

    Magnificent
  • (a.) Doing grand things

    Magnifico
  • (n.) A grandee or nobleman of Venice

    Magnify
  • (v. i.) To have effect
  • (v. t.) To exaggerate

    Magniloquent
  • (a.) Speaking pompously

    Magnitude
  • (n.) Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like

    Magnolia
  • (n.) A genus of American and Asiatic trees, with aromatic bark and large sweet-scented whitish or reddish flowers

    Magnum
  • (n.) A bone of the carpus at the base of the third metacarpal bone.

    Magot
  • (n.) The Barbary ape.

    Magpie
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail

    Maguey
  • (n.) The century plant, a species of Agave (A. Americana).

    Magyar
  • (n.) One of the dominant people of Hungary, allied to the Finns

    Maharajah
  • (n.) A sovereign prince in India

    Mahatma
  • (n.) One of a class of sages, or "adepts," reputed to have knowledge and powers of a higher order than those of ordinary men

    Mahdi
  • (n.) Among Mohammedans, the last imam or leader of the faithful. The Sunni, the largest sect of the Mohammedans, believe that he is yet to appear

    Mahogany
  • (n.) A large tree of the genus Swietenia (S. Mahogoni), found in tropical America.

    Mahonia
  • (n.) The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage

    Mahout
  • (n.) The keeper and driver of an elephant.

    Mahratta
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas.
  • (n.) A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples

    Maid
  • (n.) A female servant.

    Maigre
  • (a.) Belonging to a fast day or fast

    Mail
  • (n.) A bag
  • (v. t.) To arm with mail.

    Maim
  • (v.) The privation of any necessary part
  • (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

    Main
  • (a.) Important
  • (n.) A hand or match at dice.
  • (v.) principal duct or pipe, as distinguished from lesser ones

    Maize
  • (n.) A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant

    Majestic
  • (a.) Possessing or exhibiting majesty

    Majesty
  • (n.) Dignity

    Majolica
  • (n.) A kind of pottery, with opaque glazing and showy, which reached its greatest perfection in Italy in the 16th century

    Major
  • (a.) A mayor.

    Majuscule
  • (n.) A capital letter

    Make
  • (n.) A companion
  • (v. i.) To act in a certain manner
  • (v. t.) To become

    Making
  • (n.) a poem.

    Malacca
  • (n.) A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.

    Malachite
  • (n.) Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure

    Malacology
  • (n.) The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.

    Malacostracan
  • (n.) One of the Malacostraca.

    Maladministration
  • (n.) Bad administration

    Maladroit
  • (a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness

    Malady
  • (n.) A moral or mental defect or disorder.

    Malagasy
  • (n. sing. & pl.) A native or natives of Madagascar

    Malaise
  • (n.) An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.

    Malapert
  • (a.) Bold
  • (n.) A malapert person.

    Malapropism
  • (n.) A grotesque misuse of a word

    Malapropos
  • (a. & adv.) Unseasonable or unseasonably

    Malar
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone
  • (n.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower edge of the orbit.

    Malate
  • (n.) A salt of malic acid.

    Malay
  • (n.) One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago

    Malcontent
  • (a.) discontented
  • (n.) One who discontented

    Male
  • (a.) Evil
  • (n.) An animal of the male sex.
  • (v. t.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits

    Malfeasance
  • (n.) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do

    Malformation
  • (n.) Ill formation

    Malic
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples

    Malign
  • (a.) Having an evil disposition toward others
  • (v. i.) To entertain malice.

    Malinger
  • (v. i.) To act the part of a malingerer

    Malison
  • (n.) Malediction

    Mall
  • (n.) A court of justice.
  • (v. t.) To beat with a mall

    Malmsey
  • (n.) A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.

    Malnutrition
  • (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.

    Malposition
  • (n.) A wrong position.

    Malpractice
  • (n.) Evil practice

    Malt
  • (a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.
  • (n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved
  • (v. i.) To become malt
  • (v. t.) To make into malt

    Malversation
  • (n.) Evil conduct

    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

    Mamma
  • (n.) A glandular organ for secreting milk, characteristic of all mammals, but usually rudimentary in the male

    Mammee
  • (n.) A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana)

    Mammiferous
  • (a.) Having breasts

    Mammilla
  • (n.) The nipple.

    Mammon
  • (n.) Riches

    Mammoth
  • (a.) Resembling the mammoth in size
  • (n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents

    Mammy
  • (n.) A child's name for mamma, mother.

    Man
  • (n.) A human being
  • (v. t.) To furnish with a servants.

    Manacle
  • (n.) A handcuff
  • (v. t.) To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands

    Manage
  • (n.) Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment
  • (v. i.) To direct affairs

    Manakin
  • (n.) A dwarf.

    Manatee
  • (n.) Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians

    Manchineel
  • (n.) A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple

    Manchu
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants.
  • (n.) A native or inhabitant of Manchuria

    Mandamus
  • (n.) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty

    Mandarin
  • (n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman

    Mandatary
  • (n.) One to whom a command or charge is given

    Mandate
  • (n.) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous

    Mandatory
  • (a.) Containing a command

    Mandible
  • (n.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not

    Mandragora
  • (n.) A genus of plants

    Mandrake
  • (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man

    Mandrel
  • (n.) A bar of metal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture

    Mandrill
  • (n.) a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, / Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red

    Mane
  • (n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc

    Manful
  • (a.) Showing manliness, or manly spirit

    Manganate
  • (n.) A salt of manganic acid.

    Manganese
  • (n.) An element obtained by reduction of its oxide, as a hard, grayish white metal, fusible with difficulty, but easily oxidized

    Manganic
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to resembling, or containing, manganese

    Manganite
  • (n.) A compound of manganese dioxide with a metallic oxide

    Manganous
  • (a.) Of, pertaining to, designating, those compounds of manganese in which the element has a lower valence as contrasted with manganic compounds

    Mange
  • (n.) The scab or itch in cattle, dogs, and other beasts.

    Mangle
  • (n.) A machine for smoothing linen or cotton cloth, as sheets, tablecloths, napkins, and clothing, by roller pressure
  • (v. t.) To cut or bruise with repeated blows or strokes, making a ragged or torn wound, or covering with wounds

    Mango
  • (n.) A green muskmelon stuffed and pickled.

    Mangrove
  • (n.) The mango fish.

    Mangy
  • (superl.) Infected with the mange

    Manhandle
  • (v. t.) To handle roughly

    Manhole
  • (n.) A hole through which a man may descend or creep into a drain, sewer, steam boiler, parts of machinery, etc

    Manhood
  • (n.) Manly quality

    Mania
  • (n.) Excessive or unreasonable desire

    Manic
  • (a.) Of or pert. to, or characterized by, mania, or excitement.

    Manifest
  • (a.) A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse
  • (v. t.) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of

    Manifold
  • (a.) Exhibited at divers times or in various ways
  • (n.) A copy of a writing made by the manifold process.
  • (v. t.) To take copies of by the process of manifold writing

    Manioc
  • (n.) The tropical plants (Manihot utilissima, and M. Aipi), from which cassava and tapioca are prepared

    Maniple
  • (a.) A division of the Roman army numbering sixty men exclusive of officers, any small body of soldiers

    Manipular
  • (a.) Manipulatory

    Manipulate
  • (v. i.) To use the hands in dexterous operations
  • (v. t.) To control the action of, by management

    Manipulative
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to manipulation

    Mankind
  • (a.) Manlike
  • (n.) Human feelings

    Manly
  • (adv.) In a manly manner
  • (superl.) Having qualities becoming to a man

    Manna
  • (n.) A name given to lichens of the genus Lecanora, sometimes blown into heaps in the deserts of Arabia and Africa, and gathered and used as food

    Manner
  • (n.) Carriage

    Mannitol
  • (n.) The technical name of mannite.

    Mano
  • (n.) The muller, or crushing and grinding stone, used in grinding corn on a metate.

    Manse
  • (n.) A dwelling house, generally with land attached.

    Mansion
  • (n.) A dwelling place
  • (v. i.) To dwell

    Manslaughter
  • (n.) The slaying of a human being

    Mansuetude
  • (n.) Tameness

    Mantel
  • (n.) The finish around a fireplace, covering the chimney-breast in front and sometimes on both sides

    Mantic
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to divination, or to the condition of one inspired, or supposed to be inspired, by a deity

    Mantilla
  • (n.) A kind of veil, covering the head and falling down upon the shoulders

    Mantis
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of voracious orthopterous insects of the genus Mantis, and allied genera

    Mantle
  • (n.) A loose garment to be worn over other garments
  • (v. i.) To gather, assume, or take on, a covering, as froth, scum, etc.
  • (v. t.) To cover or envelop, as with a mantle

    Mantling
  • (n.) The representation of a mantle, or the drapery behind and around a coat of arms:—called also lambrequin

    Mantra
  • (n.) A prayer

    Mantua
  • (n.) A superior kind of rich silk formerly exported from Mantua in Italy.

    Manual
  • (a.) A keyboard of an organ or harmonium for the fingers, as distinguished from the pedals

    Manubrium
  • (n.) A handlelike process or part

    Manufactory
  • (a.) Pertaining to manufacturing.
  • (n.) A building or place where anything is manufactured

    Manufacture
  • (n.) Anything made from raw materials by the hand, by machinery, or by art, as cloths, iron utensils, shoes, machinery, saddlery, etc
  • (v. i.) To be employed in manufacturing something.
  • (v. t.) To make (wares or other products) by hand, by machinery, or by other agency

    Manumit
  • (v. t.) To release from slavery

    Manure
  • (n.) Any matter which makes land productive
  • (v. t.) To apply manure to

    Manus
  • (n.) The distal segment of the fore limb, including the carpus and fore foot or hand.

    Manx
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Isle of Man, or its inhabitants
  • (n.) The language of the inhabitants of the Isle of Man, a dialect of the Celtic.

    Many
  • (a.) A large or considerable number.
  • (a. / pron.) Consisting of a great number
  • (n.) A retinue of servants

    Manzanilla
  • (n.) A kind of small roundish olive with a small freestone pit, a fine skin, and a peculiar bitterish flavor

    Maori
  • (a.) Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.
  • (n.) One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand

    Map
  • (n.) Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts
  • (v. t.) To represent by a map

    Maple
  • (n.) A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation

    Mar
  • (n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like
  • (v.) To make defective

    Mara
  • (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions

    Marble
  • (a.) Cold
  • (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children

    Marbling
  • (n.) An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance.

    Marc
  • (n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.

    Mardi gras
  • (n.) The last day of Carnival

    Mare
  • (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep

    Margaric
  • (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, pearl

    Margarine
  • (n.) Artificial butter

    Margaritic
  • (a.) Margaric.

    Margay
  • (n.) An American wild cat (Felis tigrina), ranging from Mexico to Brazil. It is spotted with black

    Margent
  • (n.) A margin
  • (v. t.) To enter or note down upon the margin of a page

    Margin
  • (n.) A border
  • (v. t.) To enter in the margin of a page.

    Margrave
  • (n.) Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.

    Margraviate
  • (n.) The territory or jurisdiction of a margrave.

    Margravine
  • (n.) The wife of a margrave.

    Marguerite
  • (n.) The daisy (Bellis perennis). The name is often applied also to the ox-eye daisy and to the China aster

    Marian
  • (a.) Pertaining to the Virgin Mary, or sometimes to Mary, Queen of England, daughter of Henry VIII

    Marigold
  • (n.) A name for several plants with golden yellow blossoms, especially the Calendula officinalis (see Calendula), and the cultivated species of Tagetes

    Marimba
  • (n.) A musical istrument of percussion, consisting of bars yielding musical tones when struck.

    Marinade
  • (n.) A brine or pickle containing wine and spices, for enriching the flavor of meat and fish.

    Marinate
  • (v. t.) To salt or pickle, as fish, and then preserve in oil or vinegar

    Marine
  • (a.) A picture representing some marine subject.

    Mariolatry
  • (n.) The worship of the Virgin Mary.

    Marionette
  • (n.) A puppet moved by strings, as in a puppet show.

    Marital
  • (v.) Of or pertaining to a husband

    Maritime
  • (a.) Bordering on, or situated near, the ocean

    Marjoram
  • (n.) A genus of mintlike plants (Origanum) comprising about twenty-five species. The sweet marjoram (O

    Mark
  • (n.) A character (usually a cross) made as a substitute for a signature by one who can not write.
  • (v. i.) To take particular notice
  • (v. t.) To be a mark upon

    Marl
  • (n.) A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy
  • (v. t.) To cover, as part of a rope, with marline, marking a pecular hitch at each turn to prevent unwinding

    Marmalade
  • (n.) A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc

    Marmoset
  • (n.) Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidae

    Marmot
  • (n.) Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus

    Maronite
  • (n.) One of a body of nominal Christians, who speak the Arabic language, and reside on Mount Lebanon and in different parts of Syria

    Maroon
  • (a.) Having the color called maroon.
  • (n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple
  • (v. t.) To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.

    Marque
  • (n.) A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals

    Marquis
  • (n.) A nobleman in England, France, and Germany, of a rank next below that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom

    Marriage
  • (n.) In bezique, penuchle, and similar games at cards, the combination of a king and queen of the same suit
  • (v. t.) A feast made on the occasion of a marriage.

    Marrow
  • (n.) One of a pair
  • (v. t.) To fill with, or as with, marrow of fat

    Marry
  • (interj.) Indeed ! in truth !—a term of asseveration said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the Virgin Mary
  • (v. i.) To enter into the conjugal or connubial state
  • (v. t.) Figuratively, to unite in the closest and most endearing relation.

    Mars
  • (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, the fourth in order from the sun, or the next beyond the earth, having a diameter of about 4,200 miles, a period of 687 days, and a mean distance of 141,000,000 miles

    Mart
  • (n.) A bargain.
  • (v. t.) To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart.

    Marvel
  • (n.) That which causes wonder
  • (v. i.) To be struck with surprise, astonishment, or wonder
  • (v. t.) To cause to marvel, or be surprised


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