Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAL'TA-LENT, n. [Old Fr.]

Ill humor. [Not in use.] Chaucer.

MALT'-DRINK, or MALT'-LI-QUOR, n.

A liquor prepared for drink by an infusion of malt; as beer, ale, porter, &c.

MALT'-DUST, n.

The grains or remains of malt. Malt-dust is an enricher of barren land. Mortimer.

MALT'-FLOOR, n.

A floor for drying malt. Mortimer.

MAL'THA, n.

A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch; unctuous to the touch and exhaling a bituminous odor. Cleaveland.

MALT'-HORSE, n.

A horse employed in grinding malt; hence, a dull fellow. Shak.

MALT'MAN, or MALT'STER, n.

A man whose occupation is to make malt. Swift.

MAL-TREAT, v.t. [mal and treat.]

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly, rudely, or with unkindness.

MAL-TREAT-ED, pp.

Ill treated; abused.

MAL-TREAT-ING, ppr.

Abusing; treating unkindly.

MAL-TREAT-MENT, n.

Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

MALT'WORM, n. [malt and worm.]

A tippler. Shak.

MALUM-IN-SE, n. [Malum in se; L.]

An evil in itself.

MALUM-PROHIBITUM, n. [Malum Prohibitum; L.]

That which is wrong because forbidden by law. Blackstone.

MAL-VA'CEOUS, a. [L. malvaceus, from malva, mallows.]

Pertaining to mallows; a term designating a group of plants of which mallows is the type.

MAL-VER-SA'TION, n. [L. male, ill, and versor, to behave.]

Evil conduct; improper or wicked behavior; mean artifices or fraudulent tricks. Burke.

MAM, or MAM-MA, n. [L. mamma, the breast or pap, and mother; W. mam; Arm. mamm; Ir. muime, a nurse; Antiq. Gr. μαμμη.]

A familiar word for mother, used by young children.

MAM'A-LUKE, n.

The military force of Egypt consisted of soldiers called Mamalukes, who were originally mercenaries, but afterward masters of the country. Their power has been recently annihilated by the present Pashaw of Egypt.

MAM'MAL, n. [plur. Mammalia. L. mamma, the breast.]

In zoology, an animal that suckles its young. [See Mammifer.] Good.

MAM-MA'LI-AN, a.

Pertaining to the mammals.

MAM-MAL'O-GIST, n.

One who treats of mammiferous animals.

MAM-MAL'OGY, n. [L. mamma, breast, and λογος, discourse.]

The science or doctrine of mammiferous animals. [See Mammifer.]

MAM'MA-RY, a. [See Mamma.]

Pertaining to the breasts or paps; as, the mammary arteries and veins.

MAM-MEE', n.

A tree of the genus Mammea, of two species, both large evergreens produced in hot climates. Encyc.

MAM'MER, v.i.

To hesitate. [Not in use.] Draut.