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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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