MPage 4
- English Word Macedonianism Definition The doctrines of Macedonius.
- English Word Macer Definition A mace bearer; an officer of a court.
- English Word Macerate Definition To make lean; to cause to waste away.
- English Word Macerate Definition To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.
- English Word Macerate Definition To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.
- English Word Macerated Definition of Macerate
- English Word Macerater Definition One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.
- English Word Macerating Definition of Macerate
- English Word Maceration Definition The act or process of macerating.
- English Word Machaerodus Definition Alt. of Machairodus
- English Word Machairodus Definition A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.
- English Word Macher Definition One who marches.
- English Word Machete Definition A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.
- English Word Machiavelian Definition Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.
- English Word Machiavelian Definition One who adopts the principles of Machiavel; a cunning and unprincipled politician.
- English Word Machiavelianism Definition The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.
- English Word Machiavelism Definition Alt. of Machiavelianism
- English Word Machicolated Definition Having machicolations.
- English Word Machicolation Definition The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.
- English Word Machicolation Definition An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.
- English Word Machicoulis Definition Same as Machicolation.
- English Word Machinal Definition Of or pertaining to machines.
- English Word Machinate Definition To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.
- English Word Machinate Definition To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil.
- English Word Machinated Definition of Machinate
- English Word Machinating Definition of Machinate
- English Word Machination Definition That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.
- English Word Machination Definition The act of machinating.
- English Word Machinator Definition One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.
- English Word Machine Definition A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.