MPage 29
- English Word Maieutical Definition Fig. : Aiding, or tending to, the definition and interpretation of thoughts or language.
- English Word Maieutics Definition The art of giving birth (i. e., clearness and conviction) to ideas, which are conceived as struggling for birth.
- English Word Maiger Definition The meagre.
- English Word Maigre Definition Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day.
- English Word Maihem Definition See Maim, and Mayhem.
- English Word Maikel Definition A South American carnivore of the genus Conepatus, allied to the skunk, but larger, and having a longer snout. The tail is not bushy.
- English Word Maikong Definition A South American wild dog (Canis cancrivorus); the crab-eating dog.
- English Word Mail Definition A spot.
- English Word Mail Definition A small piece of money; especially, an English silver half-penny of the time of Henry V.
- English Word Mail Definition Rent; tribute.
- English Word Mail Definition A flexible fabric made of metal rings interlinked. It was used especially for defensive armor.
- English Word Mail Definition Hence generally, armor, or any defensive covering.
- English Word Mail Definition A contrivance of interlinked rings, for rubbing off the loose hemp on lines and white cordage.
- English Word Mail Definition Any hard protective covering of an animal, as the scales and plates of reptiles, shell of a lobster, etc.
- English Word Mail Definition To arm with mail.
- English Word Mail Definition To pinion.
- English Word Mail Definition A bag; a wallet.
- English Word Mail Definition The bag or bags with the letters, papers, papers, or other matter contained therein, conveyed under public authority from one post office to another; the whole system of appliances used by government in the conveyance and delivery of mail matter.
- English Word Mail Definition That which comes in the mail; letters, etc., received through the post office.
- English Word Mail Definition A trunk, box, or bag, in which clothing, etc., may be carried.