MPage 38
- English Word Making Definition Composition, or structure.
- English Word Making Definition a poem.
- English Word Making Definition That which establishes or places in a desirable state or condition; the material of which something may be made; as, early misfortune was the making of him.
- English Word Making Definition External appearance; from.
- English Word Making-iron Definition A tool somewhat like a chisel with a groove in it, used by calkers of ships to finish the seams after the oakum has been driven in.
- English Word Making-up Definition The act of bringing spirits to a certain degree of strength, called proof.
- English Word Making-up Definition The act of becoming reconciled or friendly.
- English Word Mal- Definition A prefix in composition denoting ill,or evil, F. male, adv., fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form male-, as in malediction, malevolent. See Malice.
- English Word Mala Definition Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law.
- English Word Mala Definition of Malum
- English Word Malabar Definition A region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea.
- English Word Malacatune Definition See Melocoton.
- English Word Malacca Definition A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula.
- English Word Malachite Definition Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.
- English Word Malacissant Definition Softening; relaxing.
- English Word Malacissation Definition The act of making soft or supple.
- English Word Malacobdella Definition A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.
- English Word Malacoderm Definition One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.
- English Word Malacolite Definition A variety of pyroxene.
- English Word Malacologist Definition One versed in the science of malacology.