Mag"bote` (?), n. See Mægbote.
Mag"da*la (?), a. Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from
naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.
Mag"da*len (?), n. [From Mary Magdalene, traditionally reported to have
been the repentant sinner forgiven by Christ. See Luke vii. 36.] A
reformed prostitute.
Mag*da"le*on (?), n. [NL., fr. Gr. &?; crumb of bread, fr. &?; to
knead.] (Med.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of
plaster.
Mag"de*burg (?), n. A city of Saxony.
Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and
Hemisphere.
Mage (?), n. [F. mage. See Magi.] A magician. [Archaic] Spenser.
Tennyson.
Mag`el*lan"ic (?), a. Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the
navigator.
Magellenic clouds (Astron.), three conspicuous nebulæ near the south
pole, resembling thin white clouds.
Ma*gen"ta (?), n. (Chem.) An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous
substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a
shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in
allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was
discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.
Magged (?), a. (Naut.) Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace. Ham. Nav.
Encyc.
||Mag`gio"re (?), a. [It., from L. major, compar. of magnus great. See
||Major.] (Mus.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when
||used in opposition to minor; major. Moore (Encyc. of Music).
Mag"got (?), n. [W. macai, pl. maceiod, magiod, a worn or grub; cf.
magu to bread.] 1. (Zoöl.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.