3. A walk where they formerly played with malls and balls. Moll is, in Islandick, an area or walk spread with shells. This the beau monde shall from the mail sur vey, Pope. To And hail with musick its propitious ray. To MALL. v. a. [from the noun.] beat or strike with a mall. MALLARD. n. s. [malart, French.] The drake of the wild duck. Antony claps on his sea wings like a doating mallard, Leaving the fight in height. Shakspeare. The birds that are most easy to be drawn are mallard, shoveler, and goose. Peacham. Arm your hook with the line, and cut so much of a brown mallard's feather as will make the wings. Walton's Angler. MALLEABILITY. n. s. [from malleable.] Quality of enduring the hammer; quality of spreading under the hammer. Supposing the nominal essence of gold to be a body of such a peculiar colour and weight, with the malleability and fusibility, the real essence is that constitution on which these qualities and their union depend. Locke. MALLEABLE. adj. [malleable, French; from malleus, Latin, a hammer.] Capable of being spread by beating: this is a quality possessed in the most eminent degree by gold, it being more ductile than any other metal; and is opposite to friability or brittleness. Quincy. Make it more strong for falls, though it come not to the degree to be malleable. Bacon. The heaten soldier proves most manful, Hudibras.. If the body is compact, and bends or vields inward to pression without any sliding of its parts, it is hard and elastick, returning to its figure with a force rising from the mutual attraction of its parts: if the parts slide one upon another, the body is malleable or soft. MAʼLLEABLENESS. n.s. [from malleable ] Quality of enduring the hammer; malleability; ductility. Newton. The bodies of most use that are sought for out of the earth are the metals, which are distinguished from other bodies by their weight, fusibility, and malleableness. Lucke. To MALLEATE. v. a. [from malleus, Lat.] To hammer; to forge or shape by the hammer. He first found out the art of melting and malleating metals, and making them useful for tools, Derbam. MA ́LLET. n. s. [maileus, Lat.] A wooden hammer. The vessel soddered up was warily struck with a wooden mallet, and thereby compressed. Boyle. Their left-hand does the calking iron guide, The rattling mallet with the right they lift. MAʼLLOWS. n. s. [malva, Latin; mælepe, Dryden. Saxon.] A plant. Shards or mallows for the pot, MALMSEY. n. s. 4. A sort of grape. a. A kind of wine. Dryden. Metheglin, wort, and malmsey. Shakspeare. MALT. n. s. [mealz, Saxon; mout, Dut.] Grain steeped in water and fermented, then dried on a kiln. Beer hath malt first infused in the liquor, and is afterwards boiled with the hop. Bacon. To MALT. V. n. 1. To make malt. To house it green it will mow-burn, which will make it malt worse. Mortimer. MA LTDRINK. n. s. [malt and drink.] All maltdrinks may be boiled into the consistence of a slimy syrup. Floger on the Humours. MALTDUST. n s. [malt and dust.] Malt-dust is an enricher of barren land, and a MALTFLOOR. n. s. [malt and floor.] A great improver of barley. Mortimer. floor to dry malt. Empty the corn from the cistern into the malt floor. Mortimer. MALTHORSE. n. s. [malt and horse.] It seems to have been, in Shakspeare's time, a term of reproach for a duil dolt. You peasant swain, you whorson, you maltborse drudge. Shakspeare. Mome, maltborse, capon, coxcomb, "idiot, Shakspeare. MALTMAN. ] n. s. [from malt.] One patch. MALTSTER.S who makes malt. Sir Arthur the maltster! how fine it will sound! Tom came home in the chariot by his lady's Swift. side; but he unfortunately taught her to drink brandy, of which she died; and Tom is now a journeyman malister. MALVA CEOUS adj. [malva, Latin.] ReSwift. lating to mallows. MALVERSATION. n. s. [French.] Bad shifts; mean artifices; wicked and fraudulent tricks. МАМ. n. s. [mamma, Latin: this MAMMA. word is said to be found for the compellation of mother in all languages; and is therefore supposed to be the first syllables that a child pronounces.] The fond word for mother. Poor Cupid sobbing scarce could speak; Indeed, mamma, I did not know ye; Alas! how easy my mistake, I took you for your likeness Cloe. Prior. Little masters and misses are great impediments to servants; the remedy is to bribe them, that they may not tell tales to papa and mamma. Swift. MAMME E tree. n. s. The mammee tree hath a rosaceous flower, which afterwards becomes an almost spherical fleshy fruit, containing two or three seeds inclosed in hard rough shells. Miller. MAMMET. n. s. [from mam or mamma.] A puppet, a figure dressed up. Hanmer. Kate; this is no world To play with mammets, and to tilt with lips. Shakspeare. MAMMIFORM. adj. [mammiforme, Fr. mamma and forma, Lat.] Having the shape of paps or dugs. MAMMILLARY. adj. [mammillaire, Fr. mammillaris, Lat.] Belonging to the paps or dugs. MAMMOCK. n. s. A shapeless piece. The ice was broken into large mammocks. James. Te MAMMOCK. v. a. [from the noun.] To tear; to break; to pull to pieces. I saw him run after a gilded butterfly; and he did so set his teeth, and did tear it! Oh, I warrant, how he mammockt it? Shakspeare. MAMMON. n. s. [Syriack.] Riches. MAN. . . [man, mon, Sax.] 1. Human being. The king is but a man as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me; the element shews to him as it doth to me, all his senses have but human conditions. Shakspeare. All the west bank of Nilus is possessed by an idolatrous man-eating nation. Brerewood. A creature of a more exalted kind Dryden. Nature in man capacious souls hath wrought, And given them voice expressive of their thought; In man the god descends, and joys to find The narrow image of his greater mind. Creech. A combination of the ideas of a certain figure, with the powers of motion and reasoning joined to substance, make the ordinary idea of a man. Locke. On human actions reason though you can, It may be reason, but it is not man. 2. Not a woman. Bring forth men children only! For thy undauntted mettle should compose Pope. Shakspeare. I had not so much of man in me,, But all my mother came into mine eyes, And gave me up to tears. Shakspears Every man child shall be circumcised. Genesis. Ceneus, a woman once, and once a man, But ending in the sex she first began. Dryden. A long time since the custom began, among people of quality, to keep men cooks of the French nation. Swift. 3. Not a boy. The nurse's legends, are for truths receiv'd, And the man dreams but what the boy believ'd. Dryden 4 A servant; an attendant; a depend ant. Now thanked be the great god Pan, Which thus preserves my loved life, Thanked be I that keep a man, Who ended hath this bloody strife: For if my man must praises have, What then must I that keep the knave? Sidney. My brother's servants Were then my fellows, now they are my men. Shakspeare. Such gentlemen as are his majesty's own sworn servants should be preferred to the charge of his majesty's ships; choice being made of men of valour and capacity, rather than to employ other men's men. Raleigh's Essays. I and my man will presently go Far as the Cornish mount. ride Corvley. By ten thousand of them a man shall not be able to advance one step in knowledge. Tillotson. Our thoughts will not be directed what objects to pursue, nor be taken off from those they have once fixed on; but run away with a man, in pursuit of those ideas they have in view. Locke. A man would expect to find some antiquities; but all they have to show of this nature is an old rostrum of a Roman ship. Addison. A man might make a pretty landscape of his own plantation. Addison. 7. One of uncommon qualifications. 12. When a person is not in his senses, we say, he is not his own man. Ainsw. 13. A moveable piece at chess or draughts. 14. MAN of war. A ship of war. A Flemish man of var lighted upon them, and overmastered them. Carew. To MAN. v. a. [from the noun.] Your ships are not well mann'd ; Shakspeare. Daniel. It hath been agreed, that either of them should send certain ships to sea well manned, and apparelled to fight. Hayward. Their ships go as long voyages as any, and are for their burdens as well manned. Raleigh. He had manned it with a great number of tall soldiers, more than for the proportion of the castle. Bacon. They man their boats, and all their young Waller. The Venetians could set out thirty men of men arm. war, a hundred gallies, and ten galeases; though Timoleon forced the Carthaginians out, though they had manned out a fleet of two hundred men of war. Arbuthnot. 2. To guard with men. See, how the surly Warwick mans the wall. The summons take of the same trumpet's To sally from one port, or man one publick 3. To fortify; to strengthen. Advise how war may be best upheld, Theodosius having manned his soul with proper reflections, exerted himself in the best manner he could to animate his penitent. 4. To tame a hawk. Addison. Another way I have to man my haggard, man or servant. Shakspeare. Is it thus you use this monarch, to manacle and shackle him hand and foot? Arbuthnot and Pope. To MANAGE. v. a. [menager, French.] 1. To conduct; to carry on. The fathers had managed the charge of idola- try against the heathens." 2. To train a horse to graceful action. Arbuthnot. This might have been prevented, Shaksp. For the rebels which stand out in Ireland, The plea of a good intention will serve to sanctify the worst actions: the proof of which is but too manifest from that scandalous doctrine of the jesuits concerning the direction of the intention, and likewise from the whole manage of the late rebellion. South. 2. Use; instrumentality. To think to make gold of quicksilver is not to be hoped; for quicksilver will not indure the manage of the fire. 3. Government of a horse. In thy slumbers I heard thee murmur tales of iron wars, Bacon. Speak terms of manage to the bounding steed. his Shakspeare. The horse you must draw in his career with 4. Discipline; governance. Peacham Whenever we take a strong bias, it is not out of a moral incapacity to do better, but for want of a careful manage and discipline to set us right at first. L'Estrange. MANAGEABLE. adj. [from manage.] The conditions of weapons and their improvement are, that they may serve in all weathers; and that the carriage may be light and manageable. Bacon. Very long tubes are, by reason of their length, apt to bend, and shake by bending so as to cause a continual trembling in the objects, whereas by contrivance the glasses are readily manageable. Newton. 2. Governable; tractable. MANAGEABLENESS. n. s. [from manageable.] 1. Accommodation to easy use. This disagreement may be imputed to the greater or less exactness or manageableness of the instruments employed. Boyle. 2. Tractableness; easiness to be governed. MANAGEMENT. n. s. [menag.ment, Fr.] 1. Conduct; administration. An ill argument introduced with deference, will procure more credit than the rrofoundest science with a rough, insolent, and noisy ma nagement. Locke. The wrong management of the earl of Godolphin was the only cause of the union. Swift. 2. Prudence; cunning practice. Mark with what management their tribes divide; Some stick to you, and some to t'other side. J. Practice; transaction; dealing. in the view of being advanced to the pontificate. Addison. MANAGER. 2.s. [from manage.] 1. One who has the conduct or direction of any thing. A skilful manager of the rabble, so long as they have but ears to hear, needs never enquire whether they have any understanding. South. The manager opens his sluice every night, and distributes the water into the town. Addison. An artful manager, that crept between His friend and shame, and was a kind of screen. Pope. 2. A man of frugality; a good husband. A prince of great aspiring thoughts; in the main, a manager of his treasure, and yet bountiful, from lus own motion, wherever he discerns Temple. merit. The most severe censor cannot but be pleased with the prodigality of Ovid's wit; though he could have wished, that the master of it had been a better manager. Dryden. MANAGERY. 7. S. [menagerie, French.] 1. Conduct; direction; administra.ion. They who most exactly describe that battle, give soill an account of any conduct or discretion in the managery of that affair, that posterity would receive little benefit in the most particular relation of it. Clarenden. 2. Husbandry; frugality. The court of Rome has, in other instances, so well attested its good managery, that it is not credible crowns are conferred gratis. Decay of Picty. 3. Manner of using. No expert general will bring a company of raw, untrained men into the field, but will, by little bloody skirmishes, instruct them in the manner of the fight, and teach them the ready of their weapons. managery Decay of Piety. MANATION. n. s įmanatio, Lat. The act of issuing from something else. MANCHE. n. s. [Fr.] A sleeve. MANCHET. n. s. [michet, Fr. Skinner.] A small loaf of fine bread. Take a small toast of manchet, dipped in oil of sweet almonds. Bacon. I love to entertain my friends with a frugal collation; a cup of wine, a dish of fruit, and a manchet. More's Dialogues. MANCHINE EL tree. n.s. [mancanilla, Lat.] The manchineel tree is a native of the West Indies, and grows to the size of an oak: its wood is of a beautiful grain, will polish well and last long, and is therefore much esteemed: in cutting down those trees, the juice of the bark must be burnt out before the work is begun; for it will raise blisters on the skin, and burn holes in linen; and if it should fly into the eyes of the labourers, they are in danger of losing their sight: the fruit is of the colour and size of the golden pippin; many Europeans have suffered and others lost their lives by eating it: the leaves abound with juice of the same nature; cattle never shelter themselves, and scarcely. will any vegetable grow under their shade; yet Miller. goats eat this fruit without injury. T MANCIPATE. v. a. [mancipo, Lat.] To enslave; to bind; to tie. Although the regular part of nature is seldom varied, yet the meteors, which are in themselves more unstable, and less mancipated to stated mo-" tions, are oftentimes employed to various ends. Hals MANCIPATION. n. s. [from mancipate.】 Slavery; involuntary obligation. MANCIPLE. n. 5. [manceps, Lat.] The steward of a community; the purveyor: it is particularly used of the purveyor of a college. Their manciple fell dangerously ill, Their steward sick, he robb'd them ten times more. Betterton's Miller of Trompington. MANDA MUS. n. s. [Latin.] A writ granted by the king, so called from the initial word. MANDARIN. n. s. A Chinese nobleman or magistrate. MANDATARY. n. s. [mandataire, Fr. from mando, Latin.] He to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, and proper right, given a mandate for his benefice. Ayliffe. MANDATE. . s. [mandatum, Latin.] 1. Command. Her force is not any where so apparent as in express mandates or prohibitions, especially upon advice and consultation going before. Hooker. The necessity of the times cast the power of the three estates upon himself, that his mandates should pass for laws, whereby he laid what taxes he pleased. Horvel's Voc. Forest. 2. Precept; charge; commission, sent or transmitted. Who knows, If the scarce-bearded Cæsar have not sent Shakspeare. Shakspeare. Your special mandate, for the state affairs MANDATOR. n. s. [Latin.] Director. A person is said to be a client to his advocare, but a master and mandator to his proctor. Ayliffe. MANDATORY. adj. [mandare, Lat.] Preceptive; directory. MANDIBLE. n. s. [mandibula, Latin.] The jaw; the instrument of manducation. He saith, only the crocodile moveth the upper jaw, as if the upper mandible did make an articulation with the cranium. MANDIBULAR. adj. [from mandibula, Lat.] Belonging to the jaw. MANDI LION. n. s. [mandiglione, Italian.] A soldier's coat. Skinner. A loose garment; a sleeveless jacket. Ainsworth. MANDRAKE. n. s. [mandragoras, Latin; mandragore, French.] A plant. The flower of the mandrake consists of one leaf in the shape of a bell, and is divided at the top into several parts; the root is said to bear a resemblance to the human form. The reports of tying a dog to this plant, in order to root it up, and prevent the certain death of the person who dares to attempt such a deed, and of the groans emitted by it when the violence is offered, are equally fabulous. Miller. Among other virtues, mandrake has been falsely celebrated for rendering barren women fruitful: it has a suporifick quality, and the ancients used it when they wanted a narcotick of the most powerful kind. Hill's Mat. Med. Would curses kill, as doth the mandrake's groan, I would invent as bitter searching terms Nor all the drowsyrups of the world, t And shrieks like mandrakes, torn out of the earth, That living mortals, hearing them, run mad. Shakspeare. Denne. Go, and catch a falling star, Get with child a mandrake root. MANDREL. n. s. [mandrin, Fr.] An instrument to hold in the lathe the substance to be turned. Mandrels are made with a long wooden shank, to fit stiff into a round hole that is made in the work that is to be turned; this mandrel is a shank, or pin-wandrel. Moxon. To MANDUCATE, V. a. [manduco, Lat.] To chew; to eat. MANDUCATION. n. s. [manducatio, Lat.] Eating. Manducation is the action of the lower jaw in chewing the food, and preparing it in the mouth before it is received into the stomach. Quincy. As he who is not a holy person does not feed upon Christ, it is apparent that our manducation must be spiritual, and therefore so must the food, and consequently it cannot be natural Taylor. MANE. n. s. [maene, Dutch.] The hair which hangs down on the neck of horses, or other animals. flesh. Dametas was tossed from the saddle to the mane of the horse, and thence to the ground. Sidney. A currie comb, maine comb, and whip for a jade. Tusser. The weak wanton Cupid Shall from your neck unloose his am'rous fold; And, like a dew-drop from the lion's mane, Be shook to air. Shakspeare. The horses breaking loose, ran up and down with their tails and manes on a light fire. Knolles. A lion shakes his dreadful mane, And angry grows. Waller. For quitting both their swords and reins, They grasp'd with all their strength the manes. Hudibras. MANEATER. n. s. [man and eat.] A cannibal; an anthropophagite; one that feeds upon human flesh. Woodward. MANGCO ́RN. n. s. [mengen, Dutch, to mingle.] Corn of several kinds mixed: as; wheat and rye. It is generally pronounced mung corn. MANGE. n. s. [mangeaison, Fr.] The itch or scab in cattle. The sheep died of the rot, and the swine of the mange. Ben Jonson Tell what crisis does divine The rot in sheep, or mange in swine? Hudibran MANGER. n. s. [mangeoire, Fr.] The place or vessel in which animals are fed with corn. A churlish cur got into a manger, and there lay growling to keep the horses from their provender. MA'NGINESS. n. s. [from mangy.] ScabL'Estrange. biness; infection with the mauge. To MA'NGLE. v. a. [mangelen, Dutch, to be wanting; mancus, Latin.] To lacerate; to cut or tear piecemeal; to butcher. Cassio, may you suspect Who they should be, that thus have mangled you? Shakspeare. Your dishonour Mangles true judgment, and bereaves the state Or that integrity which should become it. Shakspeare. Thoughts, my tormentors arm'd with deadly stings, Mangle my apprehensive tenderest parts, Exasperate, exulcerate, and raise Milton. Dire inflammation, which no cooling herb, Don Sebastian. The triple porter of the Stygian seat, With lolling tongue, lay fawning at thy feet, And, seiz'd with fear, forgot his mangled meat. Dryden. |