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Mahumetanism
() See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.
Mahwa tree
() An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.
Maia
() A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).
Maia
() A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).
Maian
() Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.
Maid
() An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
Maid
() A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
Maid
() A female servant.
Maid
() The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).
Maiden
() An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
Maiden
() A female servant.
Maiden
() An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
Maiden
() A machine for washing linen.
Maiden
() Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
Maiden
() Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
Maiden
() Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.
Maiden
() Used of a fortress, signifying that it has never been captured, or violated.
Maiden
() To act coyly like a maiden; -- with it as an indefinite object.
Maidenhair
() A fern of the genus Adiantum (A. pedatum), having very slender graceful stalks. It is common in the United States, and is sometimes used in medicine. The name is also applied to other species of the same genus, as to the Venus-hair.
Maidenhead
() The state of being a maiden; maidenhood; virginity.
Maidenhead
() The state of being unused or uncontaminated; freshness; purity.
Maidenhead
() The hymen, or virginal membrane.
Maidenhood
() The state of being a maid or a virgin; virginity.
Maidenhood
() Newness; freshness; uncontaminated state.
Maidenlike
() Like a maiden; modest; coy.
Maidenliness
() The quality of being maidenly; the behavior that becomes a maid; modesty; gentleness.
Maidenly
() Like a maid; suiting a maid; maiden-like; gentle, modest, reserved.
Maidenly
() In a maidenlike manner.
Maidenship
() Maidenhood.
Maidhood
() Maidenhood.
Maidmarian
() The lady of the May games; one of the characters in a morris dance; a May queen. Afterward, a grotesque character personated in sports and buffoonery by a man in woman's clothes.
Maidmarian
() A kind of dance.
Maidpale
() Pale, like a sick girl.
Maidservant
() A female servant.
Maid's hair
() The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).
Maieutic
() Alt. of Maieutical
Maieutical
() Serving to assist childbirth.
Maieutical
() Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
Maieutics
() The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
Maiger
() The meagre.
Maigre
() Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.
Maihem
() See Maim, and Mayhem.
Maikel
() A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.
Maikong
() A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
Mail
() A spot.
Mail
() A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
Mail
() Rent; tribute.
Mail
() A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
Mail
() Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
Mail
() A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.