Webster's Dictionary 1828

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MATURANT

MAT'URANT, noun [Latin maturo, from maturus, mature, ripe.]In pharmacy, a medicine or application to a tumor, which promotes suppuration.

785

MATURATE

MAT'URATE, verb transitive [Latin maturo, to hasten, from maturus, ripe.]To ripen; to hasten or promote suppuration.MAT'URATE, verb intransitive To become ripe; to suppurate, as...

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MATURATION

MATURA'TION, noun The process of ripening or coming to maturity; ripeness.1. The process of suppurating; suppuration; the forming of pus in tumors.

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MATURATIVE

MAT'URATIVE, adjective Ripening; conducing to ripeness.1. Conducing to suppuration, or the formation of matter in a tumor or abscess.

788

MATURE

MATU'RE, adjective [Latin maturus; meto.]1. Ripe; perfected by time or natural growth; as a man of mature age. We apply it to a young man of mature age. We apply it to a young m...

789

MATURED

MATU'RED, participle passive Ripened; advanced to perfection; prepared.

790

MATURELY

MATU'RELY, adverb With ripeness; completely.1. With full deliberation. A prince entering on war, ought, maturely to consider the state of his finances.2. Early; soon. [A Latinis...

791

MATURENESS

MATU'RENESS, noun Ripeness; a state of perfection or completeness; as the maturity of age or of judgment; the maturity of corn or of grass; the maturity of a plan or scheme.

792

MATURING

MATU'RING, participle present tense Ripening; being in or coming to a complete state.

793

MATURITY

MATU'RITYMAT'UTINALMAT'UTINE, adjective [Latin matutinus.] Pertaining to the morning.

794

MATWEED

MAT'WEED, noun A plant of the genus Lygeum.

795

MAUDLIN

MAUD'LIN, adjective [corrupted from Magdelen, who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.]Drunk; fuddled; approaching to intoxication; stupid.And the kind m...

796

MAUGER

MAU'GER, adverb In spite of; in opposition to; not withstanding; used only in burlesque.This, mauger all the world, will I keep safe.

797

MAUKIN

MAUKIN. [See Malkin.]

798

MAUL

MAUL, noun [Latin malleus. See Mall.]A heavy wooden hammer; written also mall.MAUL, verb transitive To beat and bruise with a heavy stick or cudgel; to wound in a coarse manner....

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MAUNCH

MAUNCH, noun A loose sleeve. [Not used.]

800

MAUND

MAUND, noun A handbasket; a word used in Scotland.MAUND

801

MAUNDER

MAUND'ER, verb transitive and i. To mutter; to murmur; to grumble; to beg.MAUND'ER, noun A beggar.

802

MAUNDERER

MAUND'ERER, noun A grumbler.

803

MAUNDERING

MAUND'ERING, noun Complaint.

804

MAUNDY-THURSDAY

MAUNDY-THURSDAY, noun The Thursday in passion week, or next before Good Friday.

805

MAUSOLEAN

MAUSOLE'AN, adjective Pertaining to a mausoleum; monumental.

806

MAUSOLEUM

MAUSOLE'UM, noun A magnificent tomb, or stately sepulchral monument.

807

MAUTHER

MAU'THER, noun A foolish young girl. [Not used.]

808

MAVIS

MA'VIS, noun A bird, a species of Turdus.

809

MAW

MAW, noun1. The stomach of brutes; applied to the stomach of human beings in contempt only.2. The craw of fowls.

810

MAWK

MAWK, noun A maggot; a slattern. [Not in use.]