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  • English Word Malleable Definition Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
  • English Word Malleableize Definition To make malleable.
  • English Word Malleableness Definition Quality of being malleable.
  • English Word Malleal Definition Pertaining to the malleus.
  • English Word Malleate Definition To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
  • English Word Malleated Definition of Malleate
  • English Word Malleating Definition of Malleate
  • English Word Malleation Definition The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.
  • English Word Mallecho Definition Same as Malicho.
  • English Word Malled Definition of Mall
  • English Word Mallee bird Definition The leipoa. See Leipoa.
  • English Word Mallei Definition of Malleus
  • English Word Mallemock Definition Alt. of Mallemoke
  • English Word Mallemoke Definition See Mollemoke.
  • English Word Mallenders Definition Same as Malanders.
  • English Word Malleolar Definition Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
  • English Word Malleoli Definition of Malleolus
  • English Word Malleolus Definition A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.
  • English Word Malleolus Definition " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.
  • English Word Mallet Definition A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.
  • English Word Malleus Definition The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
  • English Word Malleus Definition One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax.
  • English Word Malleus Definition A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell.
  • English Word Malling Definition of Mall
  • English Word Mallophaga Definition An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.
  • English Word Mallotus Definition A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.
  • English Word Mallow Definition Alt. of Mallows
  • English Word Mallows Definition A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.
  • English Word Mallowwort Definition Any plant of the order Malvaceae.
  • English Word Malm Definition Alt. of Malmbrick