MPage 18
- English Word Mahometry Definition Mohammedanism.
- English Word Mahon stock Definition An annual cruciferous plant with reddish purple or white flowers (Malcolmia maritima). It is called in England Virginia stock, but the plant comes from the Mediterranean.
- English Word Mahone Definition A large Turkish ship.
- English Word Mahonia Definition The Oregon grape, a species of barberry (Berberis Aquifolium), often cultivated for its hollylike foliage.
- English Word Mahoohoo Definition The African white two-horned rhinoceros (Atelodus simus).
- English Word Mahori Definition One of the dark race inhabiting principally the islands of Eastern Polynesia. Also used adjectively.
- English Word Mahound Definition A contemptuous name for Mohammed; hence, an evil spirit; a devil.
- English Word Mahout Definition The keeper and driver of an elephant.
- English Word Mahovo Definition A device for saving power in stopping and starting a railroad car, by means of a heavy fly wheel.
- English Word Mahrati Definition The language of the Mahrattas; the language spoken in the Deccan and Concan.
- English Word Mahratta Definition One of a numerous people inhabiting the southwestern part of India. Also, the language of the Mahrattas; Mahrati. It is closely allied to Sanskrit.
- English Word Mahratta Definition Of or pertaining to the Mahrattas.
- English Word Mahumetan Definition Alt. of Mahumetanism
- English Word Mahumetanism Definition See Mohammedan, Mohammedanism.
- English Word Mahwa tree Definition An East Indian sapotaceous tree (Bassia latifolia, and also B. butyracea), whose timber is used for wagon wheels, and the flowers for food and in preparing an intoxicating drink. It is one of the butter trees. The oil, known as mahwa and yallah, is obtained from the kernels of the fruit.
- English Word Maia Definition A genus of spider crabs, including the common European species (Maia squinado).
- English Word Maia Definition A beautiful American bombycid moth (Eucronia maia).
- English Word Maian Definition Any spider crab of the genus Maia, or family Maiadae.
- English Word Maid Definition An unmarried woman; usually, a young unmarried woman; esp., a girl; a virgin; a maiden.
- English Word Maid Definition A man who has not had sexual intercourse.
- English Word Maid Definition A female servant.
- English Word Maid Definition The female of a ray or skate, esp. of the gray skate (Raia batis), and of the thornback (R. clavata).
- English Word Maid's hair Definition The yellow bedstraw (Galium verum).
- English Word Maiden Definition An unmarried woman; a girl or woman who has not experienced sexual intercourse; a virgin; a maid.
- English Word Maiden Definition A female servant.
- English Word Maiden Definition An instrument resembling the guillotine, formerly used in Scotland for beheading criminals.
- English Word Maiden Definition A machine for washing linen.
- English Word Maiden Definition Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidens; suitable to, or characteristic of, a virgin; as, maiden innocence.
- English Word Maiden Definition Never having been married; not having had sexual intercourse; virgin; -- said usually of the woman, but sometimes of the man; as, a maiden aunt.
- English Word Maiden Definition Fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused.