Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: MA-LA'RI-AL – MAL-E-FI'CIENT
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MA-LA'RI-AL, a.
Pertaining to malaria or subject to its influence. Forrey.
MALA'RI-OUS, a.
Infected by malaria; unhealthy.
MAL'ATE, n. [L. malum, an apple.]
A salt formed by the malic acid, the acid of apples, combined with a base. Chimistry.
MAL'AX-ATE, v.t. [Gr. μαλασσω.]
To soften; to knead to softness. [Not used.]
MAL-AX-A'TION, n.
The act of moistening and softening; or the forming of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [Little used.] Bailey.
Ill form; disproportion of parts. Tully.
MAL'CON-TENT, or MAL-CON-TENT'ED, a.
Discontented with the laws or the administration of government; uneasy; dissatisfied with the government. The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. Milner.
MAL'CON-TENT, n. [mal and content.]
A discontented subject of government; one who murmurs at the laws and administration, or who manifests his uneasiness by overt acts, as in sedition or insurrection.
MAL-CON-TENT'ED-LY, adv.
With discontent.
Discontentedness with the government; dissatisfaction; want of attachment to the government, manifested by overt acts. Spectator.
MALE, a. [Fr. male, for masle, from L. masculus, from mas, maris.]
- Pertaining to the sex that procreates young, and applied to animals of all kinds; as, a male child; a male beast, fish or fowl.
- Denoting the sex of a plant which produces the fecundating dust, or a flower or plant that bears the stamens only, without pistils.
- Denoting the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding or female screw.
MALE, n.
- Among animals, one of the sex whose office is to beget young; a he-animal.
- In botany, a plant or flower which produces stamens only, without pistils.
- In mechanics, the screw whose threads enter the grooves or channels of the corresponding part or female screw.
MAL-E-DIC'EN-CY, n. [L. maledicentia; male and dico.]
Evil speaking; reproachful language; proneness to reproach. [Little used.] Atterbury.
MAL'E-DI-CENT, a.
Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Little used.] Sandys.
MAL-E-DIC'TION, n. [L. maledictio; male, evil, and dico, to speak.]
Evil speaking; denunciation of evil; a cursing; curse or execration. Hooker.
MAL-E-FAC'TION, n. [L. male, evil, and facio, to do.]
A criminal deed; a crime; an offense against the laws. [Little used.] Shak.
MAL-E-FAC'TOR, n. [supra.]
One who commits a crime; one guilty of violating the laws, in such a manner as to subject him to public prosecution and punishment, particularly to capital punishment; a criminal. Dryden.
MA-LEF'IC, a.
Doing mischief.
MAL'E-FICE, n. [Fr. See Malefaction.]
an evil deed; artifice; enchantment. [Not in use.] Chaucer.
MAL-EF'I-CENCE, n.
The doing or producing of evil.
MAL-EF'I-CENT, a.
Doing evil. Hunter.
MAL-E-FI'CIATE, v.t.
To bewitch. [Not in use.] Burton.
A bewitching. [Not in use.]
MAL-E-FI'CIENCE, n. [L. maleficientia.]
The doing of evil, harm or mischief.
MAL-E-FI'CIENT, a.
Doing evil, harm or mischief. Burke.