||Ma`es*to"so (?), a. & adv. [It.] (Mus.) Majestic or majestically; --
||a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified
||manner.
Maes"tricht mon"i*tor (?). [So called from Maestricht, a town in
Holland.] (Paleon.) The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.
||Ma*es"tro (?), n. [It., fr. L. magister. See Master.] A master in any
||art, especially in music; a composer.
Maf"fle (?), v. i. [Akin to OD. maffelen to stammer. Cf. Muffle to
mumble.] To stammer. [Obs.]