Emily Dickinson Lexicon
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.]
- A hand-basket; a word used in Scotland.
- 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.]
- The stomach of brutes; applied to the stomach of human beings in contempt only.
- 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.