MACHINATOR
MACH'INATOR, noun One that forms a scheme, or who plots with evil designs.
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American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.
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MACHINE
MACHINE, noun [Latin machina.] An artificial work, simple or complicated, that serves to apply or regulate moving power, or to produce motion, so as to save time or force. The s...
MACHINERY
MACHINERY, noun A complicated work, or combination of mechanical powers in a work, designed to increase, regulate or apply motion and force; as the machinery of a watch or other...
MACHINING
MACHINING, adjective Denoting the machinery of a poem. [Not used.]
MACHINIST
MACH'INIST, noun A constructor of machines and engines, or one well versed in the principles of machines.
MACIGNO
MACIG'NO, noun A species of stone of two varieties, one of a grayish yellow color, the other of a bluish gray color.
MACILENCY
MAC'ILENCY, noun [See Macilent.] Leanness.
MACILENT
MAC'ILENT, adjective [Latin macilentus, from macer, lean, thin. See Macerate.] Lean; thin; having little flesh.
MACKEREL
MACK'EREL, noun [Latin macula, a spot; the spotted fish.]A species of fish of the genus Scomber, an excellent table fish.MACK'EREL, noun A pander or pimp.Mackerel-gale, in Dryde...
MACKEREL-SKY
MACK'EREL-SKY, noun A sky streaked or marked like a mackerel.
MACLE
MAC'LE, noun A name given to chiastolite or hollow spar.
MACLURITE
MACLU'RITE, noun A mineral of a brilliant pale green color, so called in honor of Maclure, the mineralogist.
MACROCOSM
MAC'ROCOSM, noun [Gr. great, and world.] The great world; the universe, or the visible system of worlds; opposed to microcosm, or the world of man.
MACROLOGY
MACROL'OGY, noun [Gr. great, and discourse.] Long and tedious talk; prolonged discourse without matter; superfluity of words.
MACTATION
MACTA'TION, noun [Latin macto, to kill.]The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.
MACULA
MAC'ULA, noun [Latin] A spot, as on the skin, or on the surface of the sun or other luminous orb.
MACULATE
MAC'ULATE, verb transitive [Latin maculo.] To spot; to stain.MAC'ULATE
MACULATED
MAC'ULATED, adjective Spotted.
MACULATION
MACULA'TION, noun The act of spotting a spot; a stain.
MACULE
MAC'ULE, noun A spot. [supra.] [Little used.]
MAD
MAD, adjective1. Disordered in intellect; distracted; furious.We must bind our passions in chains, lest like mad folks, they break their locks and bolts.2. Proceeding from disor...
MAD-CAP
MAD-CAP, adjective [mad-caput or cap.]A violent, rash, hot-headed person; a madman.
MADAM
MAD'AM, noun An appellation or complimentary title given to married and elderly ladies, or chiefly to them.
MADAPPLE
MAD'APPLE, noun A plant of the genus Solanum.
MADBRAIN
MAD'BRAINMAD'BRAINED, adjective Disordered in mind; hot-headed; rash.
MADBRAINED
MAD'BRAINED, a. Disordered in mind; hot-headed; rash.
MADDEN
MAD'DEN, verb transitive mad'n. To make mad.MAD'DEN, verb intransitive To become mad; to act as if mad.They rave, recite and madden round the land.