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Malling
() of Mall
Mall
() To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
Mall
() Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly.
Mall
() A court of justice.
Mall
() A place where justice is administered.
Mall
() A place where public meetings are held.
Mallard
() A drake; the male of Anas boschas.
Mallard
() A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also greenhead.
Malleability
() The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness.
Malleable
() Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
Malleableize
() To make malleable.
Malleableness
() Quality of being malleable.
Malleal
() Pertaining to the malleus.
Malleated
() of Malleate
Malleating
() of Malleate
Malleate
() To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Malleation
() The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
Mallecho
() Same as Malicho.
Mallee bird
() The leipoa. See Leipoa.
Mallemock
() Alt. of Mallemoke
Mallemoke
() See Mollemoke.
Mallenders
() Same as Malanders.
Malleolar
() Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
Malleoli
() of Malleolus
Malleolus
() A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.
Malleolus
() \" A layer, \" a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.
Mallet
() A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.
Mallei
() of Malleus
Malleus
() The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
Malleus
() One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
Malleus
() A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
Mallophaga
() An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.
Mallotus
() A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.
Mallow
() Alt. of Mallows
Mallows
() A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.
Mallowwort
() Any plant of the order Malvaceae.
Malm
() Alt. of Malmbrick
Malmbrick
() A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
Malma
() A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.
Malmag
() The tarsius, or spectral lemur.
Malmsey
() A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.
Malnutrition
() Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
Malobservation
() Erroneous observation.
Malodor
() An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.
Malonate
() At salt of malonic acid.
Malonic
() Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.
Malonyl
() A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.
Malpighia
() A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.
Malpighiaceous
() Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.
Malpighian
() Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.