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  • English Word Malma Definition A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.
  • English Word Malmag Definition The tarsius, or spectral lemur.
  • English Word Malmbrick Definition A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.
  • English Word Malmsey Definition A kind of sweet wine from Crete, the Canary Islands, etc.
  • English Word Malnutrition Definition Faulty or imperfect nutrition.
  • English Word Malobservation Definition Erroneous observation.
  • English Word Malodor Definition An Offensive to the sense of smell; ill-smelling.
  • English Word Malonate Definition At salt of malonic acid.
  • English Word Malonic Definition Pertaining to, or designating, an acid produced artifically as a white crystalline substance, CH2.(CO2H)2, and so called because obtained by the oxidation of malic acid.
  • English Word Malonyl Definition A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.
  • English Word Malpighia Definition A genus of tropical American shrubs with opposite leaves and small white or reddish flowers. The drupes of Malpighia urens are eaten under the name of Barbadoes cherries.
  • English Word Malpighiaceous Definition Of, pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of tropical trees and shrubs (Malpighiaceae), some of them climbing plants, and their stems forming many of the curious lianes of South American forests.
  • English Word Malpighian Definition Of, pertaining to, or discovered by, Marcello Malpighi, an Italian anatomist of the 17th century.
  • English Word Malposition Definition A wrong position.
  • English Word Malpractice Definition Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results.
  • English Word Malt Definition Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.
  • English Word Malt Definition Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.
  • English Word Malt Definition To make into malt; as, to malt barley.
  • English Word Malt Definition To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.
  • English Word Maltalent Definition Ill will; malice.
  • English Word Malted Definition of Malt
  • English Word Maltese Definition Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants.
  • English Word Maltese Definition A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta.
  • English Word Maltha Definition A variety of bitumen, viscid and tenacious, like pitch, unctuous to the touch, and exhaling a bituminous odor.
  • English Word Maltha Definition Mortar.
  • English Word Malthusian Definition Of or pertaining to the political economist, the Rev. T. R. Malthus, or conforming to his views; as, Malthusian theories.
  • English Word Malthusianism Definition The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.
  • English Word Maltin Definition Alt. of Maltine
  • English Word Maltine Definition The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.
  • English Word Malting Definition of Malt