Emily Dickinson Lexicon

MAL'IN-GER-ER, n. [Fr. malingre.]

In military language, a soldier who feigns himself sick.

MAL'IN-GER-Y, n.

Feigned sickness.

MAL'I-SON, n.

Malediction. [Not in use.] Chaucer.

MAL-KIN, n. [maw'kin.]

A mop; also, a low maid servant. Shak.

MALL, n.¹ [maul; Fr. mail; Sp. mallo; Port. malho; from L. malleus.]

1. A large heavy wooden beetle; an instrument for driving anything with force.
2. A blow. [Obs.] Spenser.

MALL, n.² [mal; Arm. mailh. Qu. from a play with mall and ball, or a beaten walk.]

A public walk; a level shaded walk. Allce d'arbes battue et bordie. Gregoire's Arm. Dict.

MALL, v.t. [maul.]

To beat with a mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise.

MAL'LARD, n.

A species of duck of the genus Anas. Pennant.

MAL-LE-A-BIL'I-TY, n. [from malleable.]

That quality of bodies which renders them susceptible of extension by beating. It is opposed to friability or brittleness. Locke.

MAL'LE-A-BLE, a. [Fr. from L. malleus. See Mall.]

That may be drawn out and extended by beating; capable of extension by the hammer; a quality of metals, particularly of gold. Newton.

MAL'LE-A-BLE-NESS, n.

Malleability, — which see.

MAL'LE-ATE, v.t.

To hammer; to draw into a plate or leaf by beating.

MAL'LE-A-TED, pp.

Hammered; drawn into a plate by beating.

MAL-LE-A'TION, n.

The act of beating into a plate or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

MALL'ED, pp.

Beaten with something heavy; bruised.

MAL'LET, n. [Fr. maillet; Russ. molot; Slav. mlat; L. malleus.]

A wooden hammer or instrument for beating, or for driving pins; particularly used in carpentry, for driving the chisel.

MALL'ING, ppr. [maul'ing.]

Bruising; beating with something heavy.

MAL-LOW, or MAL-LOWS, n. [Sax. malu, mealwe, malwe, Fr. mauve; L. Sp. and It. malva; Gr. μαλαχη, from μαλακος, soft, Eng. mellow; W. mall. See Malady.]

A plant of the genus Malva; so called from its emollient qualities. Marsh-mallows, a plant of the genus Althæa.

MALM'SEY, n. [Fr. malvoisie; It. malvosio; Sp. marvisia, from Malvasia, in Greece; L. vinum arvisium.]

The name of a sort of grape, and also of a kind of wine.

MAL-O'DOR, n.

An offensive odor.

MAL-PO-SI'TION, n.

A wrong position.

MAL-PRAC'TICE, n. [mal and practice.]

Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules.

MALT, n. [Sax. mealt; D. mout; G. malz; Sw. and Dan. malt. Qu. W. mall, soft.]

Barley steeped in water, fermented and dried in a kiln, and thus prepared for brewing into ale or beer.

MALT, v.i.

To become malt. To house it green will make it malt worse. Mortimer.

MALT, v.t.

To make into malt; as, to malt barley.