Marmot – Matriculation

Marmot

M'ARMOT, noun A quadruped of the genus Arctomys, allied to the murine tribe. It is about the size of the rabbit, and inhabits the higher region of the Alps and Pyrenees. The name is also given to other species of the genus. The woodchuck of North America is called the Maryland marmot

Maroon

MAROON', noun A name given to free blacks living on the mountains in the West India isles.

MAROON', verb transitive To put a sailor a shore on a desolate isle, under pretense of his having committed some great crime.

Marque

M'ARQUE

M'ARK , noun Letters of marque are letters of reprisal; a license or extraordinary commission granted by a sovereign of one state to his subjects, to make reprisals at sea on the subjects of another, under pretense of indemnification for injuries received. marque is said to be from the same root as marches, limits, frontiers, and literally to denote a license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction on land, for the purpose of obtaining satisfaction for theft by seizing the property of the subjects of a foreign nation. I can give no better account of the origin of this word.

1. The ship commissioned for making reprisals.

Marquetry

M'ARQUETRY, noun Inlaid work; work inlaid with variegations of fine wood, shells, ivory and the like.

Marquis

M'ARQUIS, noun A title of honor in Great Britain, next to that of duke. Originally, the marquis was an officer whose duty was to guard the marches or frontiers of the kingdom. The office has ceased, and marquis is now a mere title conferred by patent.

M'ARQUIS, noun A marchioness.

Marquisate

M'ARQUISATE, noun The seigniory, dignity, or lordship of a marquis.

Marrer

M'ARRER, noun [from mar.] One that mars, hurts or impairs.

Marriable

MARRIABLE, for marriageable. [Not used.]

Marriage

MAR'RIAGE, noun [Latin mas, maris.] The act of uniting a man and woman for life; wedlock; the legal union of a man and woman for life. marriage is a contract both civil and religious, by which the parties engage to live together in mutual affection and fidelity, till death shall separate them. marriage was instituted by God himself for the purpose of preventing the promiscuous intercourse of the sexes, for promoting domestic felicity, and for securing the maintenance and education of children.

Marriage is honorable in all and the bed undefiled. Hebrews 13:4

1. A feast made on the occasion of a marriage

The kingdom of heaven is like a certain king, who made a marriage for his son. Matthew 22:2.

2. In a scriptural sense, the union between Christ and his church by the covenant of grace. Revelation 19:7.

Marriage-Articles

MAR'RIAGE-ARTICLES, noun Contract or agreement on which a marriage is founded.

Marriageable

MAR'RIAGEABLE, adjective Of an age suitable for marriage; fit to be married. Young persons are marriageable at an earlier age in warm climates than in cold.

1. Capable of union.

Married

MAR'RIED, participle passive [from marry.] United in wedlock.

1. adjective Conjugal; connubial; as the married state.

Marrow

MAR'ROW, noun

1. A soft oleaginous substance contained in the cavities of animal bones.

2. The essence; the best part.

3. In the Scottish dialect, a companion; fellow; associate; match.

MAR'ROW, verb transitive To fill with marrow or with fat; to glut.

Marrow-Bone

MAR'ROW-BONE, noun A bone containing marrow, or boiled for its marrow.

1. The bone of the knee; in ludicrous language.

Marrowfat

MAR'ROWFAT, noun A kind of rich pea.

Marrowish

MAR'ROWISH, adjective Of the nature of marrow.

Marrowless

MAR'ROWLESS, adjective Destitute of marrow.

Marrowy

MAR'ROWY, adjective Full of marrow; pithy.

Marry

MAR'RY, verb transitive [Latin mas, maris, a male; Latin vir, a husband, a lord or master.]

1. To unite in wedlock or matrimony; to join a man and woman for life, and constitute them man and wife according to the laws or customs of a nation. By the laws, ordained clergymen have a right to marry persons within certain limits prescribed.

Tell him he shall marry the couple himself.

2. To dispose of in wedlock.

Mecaenas told Augustus he must either marry his daughter Julia to Agrippa, or take away his life.

[In this sense, it is properly applicable to females only.]

3. To take for husband or wife. We say, a man marries a woman; or a woman marries a man. The first was the original sense, but both are now well authorized.

4. In Scripture, to unite in covenant, or in the closest connection.

Turn, O backsliding children, saith Jehovah, for I am married to you. Jeremiah 3:1.

MAR'RY, verb intransitive To enter into the conjugal state; to unite as husband and wife; to take a husband or a wife.

If the case of the man be so with his wife, it is not good to marry Matthew 19:9.

I will therefore that the younger women marry 1 Timothy 5:11.

MAR'RY, a term of asseveration, is said to have been derived from the practice of swearing by the virgin Mary. It is obsolete.

Mars

M'ARS, noun In mythology, the god of war; in modern usage, a planet; and in the old chimistry, a term for iron.

Marsh

M'ARSH, noun A tract of low land, usually or occasionally covered with water, or very wet and miry, and overgrown with coarse grass or with detached clumps of sedge; a fen. It differs from swamp, which is merely moist or spungy land, but often producing valuable crops of grass. Lowland occasionally overflowed by the tides, is called salt marsh

Marsh-Elder

M'ARSH-EL'DER, noun The gelder rose, a species of Viburnum.

Marsh-Mallow

M'ARSH-MAL'LOW, noun A plant of the genus Althaea.

Marsh-Marigold

M'ARSH-MAR'IGOLD, noun A plant of the genus Caltha.

Marsh-Rocket

M'ARSH-ROCK'ET, noun A species of water cresses.

Marshal

M'ARSHAL, noun

1. The chief officer of arms, whose duty it is to regulate combats in the lists.

2. One who regulates rank and order at a feast or any other assembly, directs the order of procession and the like.

3. A harbinger; a pursuivant; one who goes before a prince to declare his coming and provide entertainment.

4. In France, the highest military officer. In other countries of Europe, a marshal is a military officer of high rank, and called field-marshal.

5. In America, a civil officer, appointed by the President and Senate of the United States, in each judicial district, answering to the sheriff of a county. His duty is to execute all precepts directed to him, issued under the authority of the United States.

6. An officer of any private society, appointed to regulate their ceremonies and execute their orders.

Earl marshal of England, the eighth officer of state; an honorary title, and personal, until made hereditary by Charles II, in the family of Howard. During a vacancy in the office of high constable, the earl marshal has jurisdiction in the court of chivalry.

Earl marshal of Scotland. This officer formerly had command of the cavalry, under the constable. This office was held by the family of Keith, but forfeited by rebellion in 1715.

Knight marshal or marshal of the king's house, formerly an officer who was to execute the commands of the lord steward, and have the custody of prisoners committed by the court of verge; hence, the name of a prison in Southwark.

Marshal of the king's bench, an officer who has the custody of the prison called the king's bench, in Southwark. He attends on the court and has the charge of the prisoners committed by them.

MA'RSHAL, verb transitive To dispose in order; to arrange in a suitable manner; as, to marshal an army; to marshal troops.

1. To lead, as a harbinger. [Not used.]

2. To dispose in due order the several parts of an escutcheon, or the coats of arms of distinct families.

Marshaled

M'ARSHALED, participle passive Arranged in due order.

Marshaler

M'ARSHALER, noun One who disposes in due order.

Marshaling

M'ARSHALING, participle present tense Arranging in due order.

Marshalsea

M'ARSHALSEA, noun In England, the prison in Southwark, belonging to the marshal of the king's household.

Court of marshalsea a court formerly held before the steward and marshal of the king's house, to administer justice between the king's domestic servants.

Marshalship

M'ARSHALSHIP, noun The office of a marshal.

Marshy

M'ARSHY, adjective [from marsh.] Wet; boggy; fenny.

1. Produced in marshes; as a marshy weed.

Mart

M'ART, noun [from market.] A place of sale or traffick. It was formerly applied chiefly to markets and fairs in cities and towns, but it has now a more extensive application. We say, the United States are a principal mart for English goods; England and France are the marts of American cotton.

1. Bargain; purchase and sale. [Not used.]

M'ART, verb transitive To buy and sell; to traffick. [Not used.]

Martagon

M'ARTAGON, noun A kind of lily.

Martel

M'ARTEL, verb transitive To strike.

Marten

MARTEN. [See Martin.]

M'ARTEN, noun An animal of the genus Mustela, or weasel kind, whose fur is used in making hats and muffs.

Martial

M'ARTIAL, adjective [Latin martialis; Mars, the god of war.]

1. Pertaining to war; suited to war; as martial equipage; martial music; a martial appearance.

2. Warlike; brave; given to war; as a martial nation or people.

3. Suited to battle; as a martial array.

4. Belonging to war, or to an army and navy; opposed to civil; as martial law; a court martial

5. Pertaining to Mars, or borrowing the properties of that planet.

The natures of the fixed start are esteemed martial or jovial, according to the colors by which they answer to those planets.

6. Having the properties if iron, called by the old chimists, Mars.

Martialism

M'ARTIALISM, noun Bravery; martial exercises. [Not in use.]

Martialist

M'ARTIALIST, noun A warrior; a fighter. [Not used.]

Martin

M'ARTIN, noun [Latin murus.] A bird of the genus Hirundo, which forms its nest in buildings. It was formerly written by some authors martlet.

Martinet

M'ARTINET

M'ARTINETS, noun In ships, martinets are small lines fastened to the leech of a sail, to bring it close to the yard when the sail is furled.

Martinets

M`ARTINETS, n. In ships, martinets are small lines fastened to the leech of a sail, to bring it close to the yard when the sail is furled.

Martingal

M'ARTINGAL, noun

1. A strap or thong fastened to the girth under a horse's belly, and at the other end to the muss-roll, passing between the fore legs.

2. In ships, a rope extending from the jibboom, to the end of a bumpkin under the cap of the bowsprit.

Martinmas

M'ARTINMAS, noun [Martin and mass.] The feast of St. Martin, the eleventh of November.

M'ARTLET, noun [See Martin.] Martlets, in heraldry, are little birds represented without feed, used as a mark of distinction for younger brothers of a family, who are thus admonished that they are to trust for promotion to the wings of merit.

Martlet

M'ARTLET, noun In military language, a strict disciplinarian; so called from an officer of that name.

Martyr

M'ARTYR, noun [Gr. a witness.] One who, by his death, bears witness to the truth of the gospel. Stephen was the first christian martyr

To be a martyr signifies only to witness the truth of Christ.

1. One who suffers death in defense of any cause. We say, a man dies a martyr to his political principles or to the cause of liberty.

M'ARTYR, verb transitive To put to death for adhering to what one believes to be the truth; to sacrifice one on account of his faith or profession.

1. To murder; to destroy.

Martyrdom

M'ARTYRDOM, noun The death of a martyr; the suffering of death on account of one's adherence to the faith of the gospel.

He intends to crown their innocence with the glory of martyrdom

Martyrize

M'ARTYRIZE, verb transitive To offer as a martyr. [Little used.]

Martyrological

MARTYROLOG'ICAL, adjective Registering or registered in a catalogue or martyrs.

Martyrologist

MARTYROL'OGIST, noun A writer of martyrology, or an account of martyrs.

Martyrology

MARTYROL'OGY, noun [Gr. a witness, and discourse.] A history or account of martyrs with their sufferings; or a register of martyrs.

Marvel

M'ARVEL, noun [Latin mirabilis, wonderful, from miror; demiror, mora, delay, and perhaps morior; Eng. demur, etc.]

1. A wonder; that which arrests the attention and causes a person to stand or gaze, or to pause. [This word is nearly obsolete, or at least little used in elegant writings.]

2. Wonder; admiration.

Marvel of Peru, a plant of the genus Mirabilis.

M'ARVEL, verb intransitive To wonder. It expresses less than astonish or amaze. [Nearly obsolete.]

Marveling

M'ARVELING, participle present tense Wondering.

Marvelous

M'ARVELOUS, adjective

1. Wonderful; strange; exciting wonder or some degree of surprise.

This is the Lord's doing; it is marvelous in our eyes. Psalms 118:1.

2. Surpassing credit; incredible.

3. The marvelous in writings, is that which exceeds natural power, or is preternatural; opposed to probable.

4. Formerly used adverbially for wonderfully, exceedingly.

Marvelously

M'ARVELOUSLY, adverb Wonderfully; strangely; in a manner to excite wonder or surprise.

Marvelousness

M'ARVELOUSNESS, noun Wonderfulness; strangeness.

Mary-Bud

MA'RY-BUD, noun The marigold.

Mascle

M'ASCLE, noun m'asl. In heraldry, a lozenge, as it were perforated.

Masculine

M'ASCULINE, adjective [Latin masculinus, from masculus, mas.]

1. Having the qualities of a man; strong; robust; as a masculine body.

2. Resembling man; coarse; opposed to delicate or soft; as masculine features.

3. Bold; brave; as a masculine spirit or courage.

4. In grammar, the masculine gender of words is that which expresses a male, or something analogous to it; or it is the gender appropriated to males, though not always expressing the male sex.

Masculinely

M'ASCULINELY, adverb Like a man.

Masculineness

M'ASCULINENESS, noun The quality or state of being manly; resemblance of man in qualities; as in coarseness of features, strength of body, boldness, etc.

Mash

MASH, noun [Latin mastico.]

1. A mixture or mass of ingredients, beaten or blended together in a promiscuous manner.

2. A mixture for a horse.

3. A mesh. [See Mesh, the more common orthography.]

MASH, verb transitive To beat into a confused mass.

1. To bruise; to crush by beating or pressure; as, to mash apples in a mill.

2. To mix malt and water together in brewing.

Mashed

MASH'ED, participle passive Beat into a mass; bruised; crushed; mixed into a mash.

Mashing

MASH'ING, participle present tense Beating into a mass; bruising; crushing.

Mashing-Tub

MASH'ING-TUB, noun A tub for containing the mash in breweries.

Mashy

MASH'Y, adjective Produced by crushing or bruising.

Mask

M'ASK, noun

1. A cover for the face; that which conceals the face, especially a cover with apertures for the eyes and mouth; a visor. A mask is designed to conceal the face from beholders, or to preserve the complexion from injury by exposure to the weather and the rays of the sun.

2. That which disguises; any pretense or subterfuge.

3. A festive entertainment of dancing or other diversions, in which the company all wear masks; a masquerade.

4. A revel; a bustle; a piece of mummery.

This thought might lead through this world's vain mask

5. A dramatic performance written in a tragic style, without attention to rules or probability.

6. In architecture, a piece of sculpture representing some grotesque form, to fill and adorn vacant places, as in friezes, panels of doors, keys of arches, etc.

M'ASK, verb transitive To cover the face for concealment or defense against injury; to conceal with a mask or visor.

1. To disguise; to cover; to hide.

Masking the business from the common eye.

M'ASK, verb intransitive To revel; to play the fool in masquerade.

1. To be disguised in any way.

Mask-House

M'ASK-HOUSE, noun A place for masquerades.

Masked

M'ASKED, participle passive Having the face covered; concealed; disguised.

1. adjective In botany, personate.

Masker

M'ASKER, noun One that wears a mask; one that plays the fool at a masquerade.

Maskery

M'ASKERY, noun The dress or disguise of a masker.

Masking

M'ASKING, participle present tense Covering with a mask; concealing.

Maslin

MASLIN. [See Meslin.]

Mason

MA'SON, noun ma'sn.

1. A man whose occupation is to lay bricks and stones, or to construct the walls of buildings, chimneys and the like, which consist of bricks or stones.

2. A member of the fraternity of free masons.

Masonic

MASON'IC, adjective Pertaining to the craft or mysteries of free masons.

Masonry

MA'SONRY, noun

1. The art or occupation of a mason.

2. The work or performance of a mason; as when we say, the wall is good masonry

3. The craft of free masons.

Masora

MAS'ORA, noun [Heb.] A Hebrew work on the bible, by several Rabbins.

Masoretic

MASORET'IC, adjective [Heb. to deliver, whence masora, tradition, whence the Masorites, the adherents to the traditionary readings of the Scriptures.] Relating to the Masorites, who interpreted the Scriptures by tradition, and invented the Hebrew points to fix the true reading and pronunciation. Whence the vowel points are denominated masoretic

Masorite

MAS'ORITE, noun One of the writers of the Masora.

Masquerade

MASQUERA'DE, noun

1. A nocturnal assembly of persons wearing masks, and amusing themselves with dancing, conversation and other diversions.

In courtly balls and midnight masquerades.

2. Disguise.

I came to visit thee in masquerade

3. A Spanish diversion on horseback.

MASQUERA'DE, verb intransitive To go in disguise.

1. To assemble in masks.

MASQUERA'DE, verb transitive To put in disguise.

Masquerader

MASQUERA'DER, noun A person wearing a mask; one disguised.

Masquerading

MASQUERA'DING, participle present tense Assembling in masks for diversion.

Mass

M'ASS, noun [Latin massa, a mass; Gr. to beat or pound.]

1. A lump; a body of matter concreted, collected or formed into a lump; applied to any solid body; as a mass of iron or lead; a mass of flesh; as mass of ice; a mass of dough.

2. A collective body of fluid matter. The ocean is a mass of water.

3. A heap; as a mass of earth.

4. A great quantity collected; as a mass of treasure.

5. Bulk; magnitude.

This army of such mass and charge.

6. An assemblage; a collection of particulars blended, confused or indistinct; as a mass of colors.

They lose their forms, and make a mass

Confused and black, if brought too near.

7. Gross body of things considered collectively; the body; the bulk; as the mass of people in a nation. A small portion of morbid matter may infect the whole mass of fluids in the body.

M'ASS, noun [Low Latin missa. The word signifies primarily leisure, cessation from labor, from the Latin missus, remissus, like the Latin ferioe; hence a feast or holiday.] The service of the Romish church; the office or prayers used at the celebration of the eucharist; the consecration of the bread and wine.

M'ASS, verb intransitive To celebrate mass [Not used.]

M'ASS, verb transitive To fill; to stuff; to strengthen. [Not used.]

Massacer

MAS'SACER

MAS'SACRE, noun

1. The murder of an individual, or the slaughter of numbers of human beings, with circumstances of cruelty; the indiscriminate killing of human beings, without authority or necessity, and without forms civil or military. It differs from assassination, which is a private killing. It differs from carnage, which is rather the effect of slaughter than slaughter itself, and is applied to the authorized destruction of men in battle. Massacre is sometimes called butchery, from its resemblance to the killing of cattle. If a soldier kills a man in battle in his own defense, it is a lawful act; it is killing, and it is slaughter, but it is not a massacre. Whereas, if a soldier kills an enemy after he has surrendered, it is a massacre, a killing without necessity, often without authority, contrary to the usages of nations, and of course with cruelty. The practice of killing prisoners, even when authorized by the commander, is properly massacre; as the authority given proceeds from cruelty. We have all heard of the massacre of the protestants in France, in the reign of Charles IX. and frequent instances of barbarous massacre occur in the war between the Turks and Greeks.

2. Murder.

MAS'SACER

MAS'SACRE, verb transitive To murder human beings with circumstances of cruelty; to kill men with indiscriminate violence, without authority or necessity, and contrary to the usages of nations; to butcher human beings.

Massacre

MAS'SACRE, n. 1. The murder of an individual, or the slaughter of numbers of human beings, with circumstances of cruelty; the indiscriminate killing of human beings, without authority or necessity, and without forms civil or military. It differs from assassination, which is a private killing. It differs from carnage, which is rather the effect of slaughter than slaughter itself, and is applied to the authorized destruction of men in battle. Massacre is sometimes called butchery, from its resemblance to the killing of cattle. If a soldier kills a man in battle in his own defense, it is a lawful act; it is killing, and it is slaughter, but it is not a massacre. Whereas, if a soldier kills an enemy after he has surrendered, it is a massacre, a killing without necessity, often without authority, contrary to the usages of nations, and of course with cruelty. The practice of killing prisoners, even when authorized by the commander, is properly massacre; as the authority given proceeds from cruelty. We have all heard of the massacre of the protestants in France, in the reign of Charles IX. and frequent instances of barbarous massacre occur in the war between the Turks and Greeks.2. Murder.

Massacrer

MAS'SACRER, noun One who massacres. [A very bad word.]

Masser

M'ASSER, noun A priest who celebrates mass.

Masseter

MAS'SETER, noun [Gr. to chew.] A muscle which raises the under jaw.

Massicot

MAS'SICOT

M'ASSINESS

M'ASSIVE

M'ASSIVENESS, noun [See Massy, Massive.] The state of being massy; great weight or weight with bulk; ponderousness.

Massiness

M`ASSINESS

Massive

M`ASSIVE

Massy

M'ASSY, adjective Heavy; weighty; ponderous; bulky and heavy; as a massy shield; a massy rock.

The yawning rocks in massy fragments fly.

M'ASSIVE, adjective In mineralogy, in mass; having a crystalline structure, but not a regular form. We say, a mineral occurs massive.

Mast

M'AST, noun A long, round piece of timber, elevated or designed to be raised perpendicularly or nearly so, on the keel of a ship or other vessel, to which the yards, sails and rigging are attached, and by which they are supported. A mast is a single stick, formed from the trunk of a tree, or it consists of many pieces of timber united by iron bands. Masts are of several kinds, as the main-mast, fore-mast, mizzen-mast, top-mast, top-gallant-mast, etc.

M'AST, noun The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns. [It has no plural.]

Masted

M'ASTED, adjective Furnished with a mast or masts.

Master

M'ASTER, noun [Latin magister, compounded of the root of magis, major, greater.]

1. A man who rules, governs or directs either men or business. A man who owns slaves is their master; he who has servants is their master; he who has apprentices is their master; he who has apprentices is their master as he has the government and direction of them. The man who superintends and directs any business, is master or master workman.

O thou my friend, my genius, come along,

Thou master of the poet and the song.

Nations that want protectors, will have masters.

2. A director, head, or chief manager; as the master of a feast.

3. The owner; proprietor; with the idea of governing. The master of a house may be the owner, or the occupant, who has a temporary right of governing it.

It would be believed that he rather took the horse for his subject, than his master

4. A lord; a ruler; one who has supreme dominion.

Caesar, the world's great master and his own.

5. A chief; a principal; as the master root of a plant.

One master passion swallows up the rest.

6. One who has possession, and the power of controlling or using at pleasure.

When I have made myself master of a hundred thousand drachmas--

7. The commander of a merchant ship.

8. In ships of war, an officer who takes rank immediately after the lieutenants, and navigates the ship under the direction of the captain.

9. The director of a school; a teacher; an instructor.

In this sense the word is giving place to the more appropriate words teacher, instructor and preceptor; at least it is so in the United States.

10. One uncontrolled.

Let every man be master of his time.

11. An appellation of respect.

Master doctor, you have brought those drugs.

12. An appellation given to young men.

Where there are little masters and misses in a house--

13. A man eminently or perfectly skilled in any occupation, art or science. We say, a man is master of his business; a great master of music, of the flute or violin; a master of his subject, etc.

14. A title of dignity in colleges and universities; as master of Arts.

15. The chief of a society; as the Grand master of Malta, of free-masons, etc.

16. The director of ceremonies at public places, or on public occasions.

17. The president of a college.

Master in chancery, an assistant of the lord chancellor, chosen from among the barristers to sit in chancery, or at the rolls.

To be master of one's self, to have the command or control of one's own passions.

The word master has numerous applications, in all of which it has the sense of director, chief or superintendent.

As a title of respect given to adult persons, it is pronounced mister; a pronunciation which seems to have been derived from some of the northern dialects. [supra.]

M'ASTER, verb intransitive To conquer; to overpower; to subdue; to bring under control.

Obstinacy and willful neglect must be mastered, even though it costs blows.

Evil customs must be mastered by degrees.

1. To execute with skill.

I will not offer that which I cannot master

2. To rule; to govern.

--And rather father thee than master thee. [Not used.]

M'ASTER, verb intransitive To be skillful; to excel.

Master-Hand

M'ASTER-HAND, noun The hand of a man eminently skillful.

Master-Jest

M'ASTER-JEST, noun Principal jest.

Master-Key

M'ASTER-KEY, noun The key that opens many locks, the subordinate keys of which open only one each.

Master-Lode

M'ASTER-LODE, noun In mining, the principal vein of ore.

Master-Piece

M'ASTER-PIECE, noun A capital performance; any thing done or made with superior or extraordinary skill.

This wondrous master-piece I fain would see.

1. Chief excellence or talent.

Dissimulation was his master-piece

Master-Sinew

M'ASTER-SINEW, noun A large sinew that surrounds the hough of a horse, and divides it from the bone by a hollow place, where the wind-galls are usually seated.

Master-String

M'ASTER-STRING, noun Principal string.

Master-Stroke

M'ASTER-STROKE, noun Capital performance.

Master-Tooth

M'ASTER-TOOTH, noun A principal tooth.

Master-Touch

M'ASTER-TOUCH, noun Principal performance.

Master-Work

M'ASTER-WORK, noun Principal performance.

Master-Wort

M'ASTER-WORT, noun A plant of the genus Imperatoria.

Masterdom

M'ASTERDOM, noun Dominion, rule. [Not used.]

Masterful

M'ASTERFUL, adjective Having the skill of a master; also, imperious; arbitrary.

Masterless

M'ASTERLESS, adjective Destitute of a master or owner.

1. Ungoverned; unsubdued.

Masterly

M'ASTERLY, adjective Formed or executed with superior skill; suitable to a master; most excellent; skillful; as a masterly design; a masterly performance; a masterly stroke of policy.

1. Imperious.

M'ASTERLY, adverb With the skill of a master.

Thou dost speak masterly

'I think it very masterly written, ' in Swift, is improper or unusual.

Mastership

M'ASTERSHIP, noun Dominion; rule; supreme power.

1. Superiority; preeminence.

Where noble youths for mastership should strive.

2. Chief work; master-piece. [Not used.]

3. Superior skill.

4. Title of respect; in irony.

How now, signor Launce, what new with your mastership

5. The office of president of a college, or other institution.

Mastery

M'ASTERY, noun Dominion; power of governing or commanding.

If divided by mountains, they will fight for the mastery of the passages of the tops--Raleigh

1. Superiority in competition; preeminence.

Every man that striveth for the mastery is temperate in all things. 1 Corinthians 9:25.

2. Victory in war.

It is not the voice of them that shout for mastery, Exodus 32:18.

3. Eminent skill; superior dexterity.

He could attain to a mastery in all languages.

4. Attainment of eminent skill or power.

The learning and mastery of a tongue being unpleasant in itself, should not be cumbered with other difficulties.--Locke

Mastful

M'ASTFUL, adjective [from mast.] Abounding with mast, or fruit of oak, beech and other forest trees; as the mastful chestnut.

Mastic

MAS'TIC

MAS'TICATE, verb transitive [Latin mastico.] To chew; to grind with the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; as, to masticate food.

Masticate

MAS'TICATE, v.t. [L. mastico.] To chew; to grind with the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; as, to masticate food.

Masticated

MAS'TICATED, participle passive Chewed.

Masticating

MAS'TICATING, participle present tense Chewing; breaking into small pieces with the teeth.

Mastication

MASTICA'TION, noun The act or operation of chewing solid food, breaking it into small pieces, and mixing it with saliva; thus preparing it for deglutition, and more easy digestion in the stomach.

Mastication is a necessary preparation of solid aliment, without which there can be no good digestion.

Masticatory

MAS'TICATORY, adjective Chewing; adapted to perform the office of chewing food.

MAS'TICATORY, noun A substance to be chewed to increase the saliva.

Mastich

MAS'TICH, noun [Latin mastiche.]

1. A resin exuding from the mastic-tree, a species of Pistacia, and obtained by incision. It is in white farinaceous tears, of a faint smell, and is used as an astringent and an aromatic. It is used also as an ingredient in drying varnishes.

2. A kind of mortar or cement.

Masticot

MAS'TICOT, noun Calcined white lead; yellow oxyd of lead. Lead exposed to the air while melting, is covered with a gray, dusky pellicle. This pellicle carefully taken off, is reduced by agitation to a greenish gray powder, inclining to yellow. This oxyd, separated from the grains of lead by sifting, and exposed to a more intense heat, sufficient to make it red hot, assumes a deep yellow color. In this state it is called massicot. Massicot, slowly heated by a moderate fire, takes a beautiful red color, and obtains the name of minium.

Massicot is sometimes used by painters, and it is used as a drier in the composition of ointments and plasters.

Mastiff

M'ASTIFF, noun plural mastiffs. Mastives is irregular. [Low Latin mastivus.] A large species of dog, remarkable for strength and courage. Strabo informs us that the mastiffs of Britain were trained for war, and used by the Gauls in battle.

Mastless

M'ASTLESS, adjective Having no mast; as a vessel.

1. Bearing no mast; as a mastless oak or beech.

Mastlin

MASTLIN. [See Meslin.]

Mastodon

MAS'TODON, noun [Gr. mamilla, and tooth.] A genus of mammiferous animals resembling the elephant, now extinct, and known only by their fossil remains. It includes the noun American mammoth.

Mastoid

MAS'TOID, adjective [Gr. the nipple or breast, and form.]

Resembling the nipple or breast; as the mastoid muscle; the mastoid process.

Mastress

MASTRESS, for mistress, is not used.

Masty

M'ASTY, adjective Full of mast; abounding with acorns, etc.

Mat

MAT, noun [Latin matta.]

1. A texture of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, or other material, to be laid on a floor for cleaning the boots and shoes of those who enter a house, and for other purposes.

2. A web of rope-yard, used in ships to secure the standing rigging from the friction of the yards, etc.

MAT, verb transitive To cover or lay with mats.

1. To twist together; to interweave like a mat; to entangle.

And o'er his eyebrows hung his matted hair.

2. To press together; to lay flat; as matted grass.

Matachin

MAT'ACHIN, noun An old dance.

Matadore

MAT'ADORE, noun One of the three principal cards in the game of omber and quadrille, which are always two black aces and the deuce in spades and clubs, and the seven in hearts and diamonds.

Match

MATCH, noun

1. Some very combustible substance used for catching fire from a spark, as hemp, flax, cotton, tow dipped in sulphur, or a species of dry wood, called vulgarly touch-wood.

2. A rope or cord made of hempen tow, composed of three strands slightly twisted, and again covered with tow and boiled in the lees of old wine. This when lighted at one end, retains fire and burns slowly till consumed. It is used in firing artillery, etc.

MATCH, noun

1. A person who is equal to another in strength or other quality; one able to cope with another.

Government--makes an innocent man of the lowest ranks a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects.

2. One that suits or tallies with another; or any thing that equals another.

3. Union by marriage.

Love doth seldom suffer itself to be confined by other matches than those of its own making.

In popular language, it is applied to the engagement of lovers before marriage.

4. One to be married.

She inherited a fair fortune of her own--and was looked upon as the richest match in the west.

MATCH, noun [Gr. a battle, a fight.] A context; competition for victory; or a union of parties for contest; as in games or sports.

A solemn match was made; he lost the prize.

MATCH, verb transitive To equal.

No settled senses of the world can match

The pleasure of that madness.

1. To show an equal.

No history or antiquity can match his policies and his conduct.

2. To oppose as equal; to set against as equal in contest.

Eternal might

To match with their inventions they presumed.

So easy, and of his thunder made a scorn.

3. To suit; to make equal; to proportion.

Let poets match their subject to their strength--

--To match patterns and colors.

4. To marry; to give in marriage.

A senator of Rome, while Rome survived,

Would not have match'd his daughter with a king.

5. To purify vessels by burning a match in them.

MATCH, verb intransitive To be united in marriage.

I hold it a sin to match in my kindred.

Let tigers match with hinds, and wolves with sheep.

1. To suit; to correspond; to be of equal size, figure or quality; to tally. We say of a piece of cloth, it does not match with another.

Matchable

MATCH'ABLE, adjective Equal; suitable; fit to be joined.

1. Correspondent. [Little used.]

Matched

MATCH'ED, participle passive Equaled; suited; placed in opposition; married.

Matching

MATCH'ING, participle present tense Equaling; suiting; setting in opposition; uniting in marriage.

Matchless

MATCH'LESS, adjective Having no equal; as matchless impudence; a matchless queen; matchless love or charms.

Matchlessly

MATCH'LESSLY, adverb In a manner or degree not to be equaled.

Matchlessness

MATCH'LESSNESS, noun The state or quality of being without an equal.

Matchlock

MATCH'LOCK, noun Formerly, the lock of a musket which was fired by a match.

Matchmaker

MATCH'MAKER, noun One who makes matches for burning.

1. One who contrives or effects a union by marriage.

Mate

MATE, noun

1. A companion; an associate; one who customarily associates with another. Young persons nearly of an age, and frequently associating, are called mates or playmates.

2. A husband or wife.

3. The male or female of animals which associate for propagation and the care of their young.

4. One that eats at the same table.

5. One that attends the same school; a school-mate.

6. An officer in a merchant ship or ship of war, whose duty is to assist the master or commander. In a merchant ship, the mate in the absence of the master, takes command of the ship. Large ships have a first, second, and third mate

In general, mate in compound words, denotes an assistant, and ranks next in subordination to the principal; as master's mate; surgeon's mate etc.

MATE, noun In chess, the state of the king so situated that he cannot escape.

MATE, verb transitive To match; to marry.

1. To equal; to be equal to.

For thus the mastful chestnut mates the skies.

2. To oppose; to equal.

--I i' th' way of loyalty and truth,

Dare mate a sounder man than Surrey can be.

MATE, verb transitive To enervate; to subdue; to crush.

Audacity doth almost bind and mate the weaker sort of minds. [Not used.]

Mateless

MA'TELESS, adjective Having no mate or companion.

Materia Medica, a general name for every substance used in medicine.

1. An auxiliary branch of the science of medicine, which treats of the nature and properties of all the substances that are employed for the cure of diseases.

Material

MATE'RIAL, adjective [Latin materia, matter.]

1. Consisting of matter; not spiritual; as material substance; material bodies.

2. Important; momentous; more or less necessary; having influence or effect.

Hold them for catholics or heretics, it is not a thing very material in this question.

In the account of simple ideas, I shall set down only such as are most material to our present purpose.

So we say, a material point; a material fault or error; a material fact or consideration.

3. Not formal; substantial.

4. Furnishing materials; as material men.

MATE'RIAL, noun The substance or matter of which any thing is made; as, wool is the material of cloth; rags are the material of paper.

Materialism

MATE'RIALISM, noun The doctrine of materialists; the opinion of those who maintain that the soul of man is not a spiritual substance distinct from matter, but that it is the result or effect or the organization of matter in the body.

The irregular fears of a future state had been supplanted by the materialism of Epicurus.

Materialist

MATE'RIALIST, noun One who denies the existence of spiritual substances, and maintains that the soul of man is the result of a particular organization of matter in the body.

Materiality

MATERIAL'ITY, noun Material existence; corporeity; not spirituality.

1. Importance; as the materiality of facts.

Materialize

MATE'RIALIZE, verb transitive To reduce to a state of matter; also, to regard as matter.

Materially

MATE'RIALLY, adverb In the state of matter.

1. Not formally; substantially.

An ill intention may spoil an act materially good.

2. In an important manner or degree; essentially. It materially concerns us to know the real motives of our actions.

Materiate

MATE'RIATE

MATE'RIATED, . [Latin materiatus.] Consisting of matter. [Little used.]

Materiated

MATE'RIATED, . [L. materiatus.] Consisting of matter. [Little used.]

Materiation

MATERIA'TION, noun The act of forming matter. [Not used.]

Maternal

MATERN'AL, adjective [Latin maternus, from mater, mother.] Motherly; pertaining to a mother; becoming a mother; as maternal love; maternal tenderness.

Maternity

MATERN'ITY, noun The character or relation of a mother.

Matfelon

MAT'FELON, noun A plant of the genus Centaurea, knap-weed.

Math

MATH, noun A mowing; as in aftermath.

Mathematic

MATHEMAT'IC

MATHEMAT'ICAL, adjective [Latin mathematicus.] Pertaining to mathematics; as mathematical knowledge; mathematical instruments.

1. According to the principles of mathematics; as mathematical exactness.

Mathematical

MATHEMAT'ICAL, a. [L. mathematicus.] Pertaining to mathematics; as mathematical knowledge; mathematical instruments. 1. According to the principles of mathematics; as mathematical exactness.

Mathematically

MATHEMAT'ICALLY, adverb According to the laws or principles of mathematical science.

1. With mathematical certainty; demonstrably.

Mathematician

MATHEMATI'CIAN, noun One versed in mathematics.

Mathematics

MATHEMAT'ICS, noun [Latin mathematica, from Gr. to learn.] The science of quantity; the science which treats of magnitude and number, or of whatever can be measured or numbered. This science is divided into pure or speculative, which considers quantity abstractly, without relation to matter; and mixed, which treats of magnitude as subsisting in material bodies, and is consequently interwoven with physical considerations. It is the peculiar excellence of mathematics that its principles are demonstrable. Arithmetic, geometry, algebra, trigonometry, and conic sections, are branches of mathematics

Mathemeg

MATH'EMEG, noun A fish of the cod kind, inhabiting Hudson's bay.

Mathes

MATH'ES, noun An herb.

Mathesis

MATH'ESIS, noun The doctrine of mathematics.

Matin

MAT'IN, adjective [Latin matutinus.] Pertaining to the morning; used in the morning; as a matin trumpet.

MAT'IN, noun Morning. [Not used.]

Matins

MAT'INS, noun Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs.

The vigils are celebrated before them, and the nocturne and matins for the saints whose the relics are.

The winged choristers began

To chirp their matins

1. Time of morning service; the first canonical hour in the Romish church.

Matrass

MAT'RASS, noun [Latin mitto.] A cucurbit; a chimical vessel in the shape of an egg, or with a tapering neck, open at the top, serving the purposes of digestion, evaporation, etc.

Matress

MAT'RESS, noun A quilted bed; a bed stuffed with hair, moss or other soft material, and quilted.

Matrice

MA'TRICE

MAT'RICIDAL, adjective Pertaining to matricide.

Matricidal

MAT'RICIDAL, a. Pertaining to matricide.

Matricide

MAT'RICIDE, noun [Latin matricidium; mater, mother, and coedo, to slay.]

1. The killing or murder of a mother.

2. The killer or murderer of his mother.

Matriculate

MATRIC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin matricula, a roll or register, from matrix.]

To enter or admit to membership in a body or society, particularly in a college or university, by enrolling the name in a register.

MATRIC'ULATE, noun One enrolled in a register, and thus admitted to membership in a society.

Matriculation

MATRICULA'TION, noun The act of registering a name and admitting to membership.