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- English Word Many-minded Definition Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.
- English Word Many-sided Definition Having many sides; -- said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.
- English Word Many-sided Definition Interested in, and having an aptitude for, many unlike pursuits or objects of attention; versatile.
- English Word Manyplies Definition The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.
- English Word Manyways Definition Alt. of Manywise
- English Word Manywise Definition In many different ways; variously.
- English Word Manzanita Definition A name given to several species of Arctostaphylos, but mostly to A. glauca and A. pungens, shrubs of California, Oregon, etc., with reddish smooth bark, ovate or oval coriaceous evergreen leaves, and bearing clusters of red berries, which are said to be a favorite food of the grizzly bear.
- English Word Maoadam road Definition A macadamized road.
- English Word Maori Definition One of the aboriginal inhabitants of New Zealand; also, the original language of New Zealand.
- English Word Maori Definition Of or pertaining to the Maoris or to their language.
- English Word Maoris Definition of Maori
- English Word Map Definition A representation of the surface of the earth, or of some portion of it, showing the relative position of the parts represented; -- usually on a flat surface. Also, such a representation of the celestial sphere, or of some part of it.
- English Word Map Definition Anything which represents graphically a succession of events, states, or acts; as, an historical map.
- English Word Map Definition To represent by a map; -- often with out; as, to survey and map, or map out, a county. Hence, figuratively: To represent or indicate systematically and clearly; to sketch; to plan; as, to map, or map out, a journey; to map out business.
- English Word Mapach Definition The raccoon.
- English Word Maple Definition A tree of the genus Acer, including about fifty species. A. saccharinum is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is A. rubrum; the silver maple, A. dasycarpum, having fruit wooly when young; the striped maple, A. Pennsylvanium, called also moosewood. The common maple of Europe is A. campestre, the sycamore maple is A. Pseudo-platanus, and the Norway maple is A. platanoides.
- English Word Maplike Definition Having or consisting of lines resembling a map; as, the maplike figures in which certain lichens grow.
- English Word Mapped Definition of Map
- English Word Mappery Definition The making, or study, of maps.
- English Word Mapping Definition of Map
- English Word Maqui Definition A Chilian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.
- English Word Mar Definition A small lake. See Mere.
- English Word Mar Definition To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
- English Word Mar Definition To spoil; to ruin.
- English Word Mar Definition A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
- English Word Mar-text Definition A blundering preacher.
- English Word Mara Definition The principal or ruling evil spirit.
- English Word Mara Definition A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
- English Word Mara Definition The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus).
- English Word Marabou Definition A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.