Dictionary: MAUL – MAW'MET

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MAUL, v.t.

To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner. Meek modern faith to murder, hack and maul. Pope.

MAUL'ED, pp.

Bruised with a heavy stick or cudgel.

MAUL'ING, ppr.

Beating with a cudgel.

MAUL'-STICK, n. [Ger. mahlen-stock.]

The stick used by painters to keep the hand steady in working.

MAUNCH, n. [Fr. manche.]

A loose sleeve. [Not used.] Herbert. [In heraldry, a sleeve. - E. H. B.]

MAUND, n. [Sax. mand; D. mand.]

  1. A hand-basket; a word used in Scotland.
  2. A Bengal weight of 100 pounds troy, or 82 avordupoise. Malcom.

MAUND, or MAUND'ER, v.t. [and v. i.]

To mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to beg. [Obs.]

MAUND'ER, n.

A beggar. [Obs.]

MAUND'ER-ER, n.

A grumbler. [Obs.]

MAUND'ER-ING, n.

Complaint. [Obs.]

MAUN'DRIL, n.

In coal mines, a pick with two shanks.

MAUN-DY-THURS'DAY, n. [supposed to be from Sax. Mand, a basket; because on that day princes used to give alms to the poor from their baskets; or from dies mandati, the day of command, on which day our Saviour gave his great mandate, that we should love one another. Lye. Johnson.]

The Thursday in Passion week, or next before Good Friday.

MAU-SO-LE'AN, a.

Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental. Burton.

MAU-SO-LE'UM, n. [L.; Fr. mausolée; from Mausolus, king of Caria, to whom Artemisin, his widow, erected a stately monument.]

A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.

MAU'THER, n.

A foolish young girl. [Not used.] B. Jonson.

MAUVAISE-HONTE, n. [Mauvaise honte; movas hont; Fr.]

Bashfulness; false modesty.

MA'VIS, n. [Fr. mauvis.]

A bird, a species of Turdus.

MAW, n. [Sax. maga; Sw. mage; D. maag; G. magen.]

  1. The stomach of brutes; applied to the stomach of human beings in contempt only.
  2. The craw of fowls. Arbuthnot.

MAWK, n.

A maggot; a slattern. [Not in use.]

MAWK'ING-LY, adv.

Slatternly; sluttishly. Bp. Taylor.

MAWK'ISH, a.

Apt to cause satiety or lothing. So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull. Pope.

MAWK'ISH-LY, adv.

In a mawkish way.

MAWK'ISH-NESS, n.

Aptness to cause lothing.

MAWK'Y, a.

Maggoty. [Local.] Grose.

MAW'MET, n. [from Mahomet.]

A puppet; anciently an idol. [Obs.] Wickliffe.