Love's a malady without a cure.
Dryden.
Syn. -- Disorder; distemper; sickness; ailment; disease; illness. See
Disease.
Mal"a*ga (?), n. A city and a province of Spain, on the Mediterranean.
Hence, Malaga grapes, Malaga raisins, Malaga wines.
||Mal`a*gash" (?), n. Same as Malagasy.
Mal`a*gas"y (?), n. sing. & pl. A native or natives of Madagascar; also
(sing.), the language.
||Ma`laise" (?), n. [F., fr. mal ill + aise ease.] (Med.) An indefinite
||feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease.
Ma*lam"ate (?), n. (Chem.) A salt of malamic acid.
||Ma*lam"bo (?), n. [Pg.] A yellowish aromatic bark, used in medicine
||and perfumery, said to be from the South American shrub Croton
||Malambo.
Mal`am*eth"ane (?), n. [Malamic + ethane.] (Chem.) A white crystalline
substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid.
Ma*lam"ic (?), a. [Malic + amic.] (Chem.) Of or designating an acid
intermediate between malic acid and malamide, and known only by its
salts.
Ma*lam"ide (?), n. [Malic + amide.] (Chem.) The acid amide derived from
malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine.
Mal"an*ders (?), n. pl. [F. malandres, fr. L. malandria blisters or
pustules on the neck, especially in horses.] (Far.) A scurfy eruption
in the bend of the knee of the fore leg of a horse. See Sallenders.
[Written also mallenders.]
Mal"a*pert (?), a. [OF. malapert unskillful, ill-taught, ill-bred; mal
ill + apert open, adroit, intelligent, L. apertus, p. p. of aperire to
open. See Malice, and Aperient.] Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.
Shak. -- n. A malapert person.
Are you growing malapert! Will you force me to make use of my
authority ?
Dryden.
-- Mal"a*pert`ly, adv. -- Mal"a*pert`ness, n.
Mal"a*prop*ism (?), n. [From Mrs. Malaprop, a character in Sheridan's
drama, " The Rivals," who makes amusing blunders in her use of words.
See Malapropos.] A grotesque misuse of a word; a word so used.
Mal*ap"ro*pos` (?), a. & adv. [F. mal à propos; mal evil + à propos to
the purpose.] Unseasonable or unseasonably; unsuitable or unsuitably.
||Mal*ap`te*ru"rus (ml*p`t*r"rs), n. [NL., from Gr. malako`s soft +
||ptero`n wing + o'yra` tail.] (Zoöl.) A genus of African siluroid
||fishes, including the electric catfishes. See Electric cat, under
||Electric.
Ma"lar (?), a. [L. mala the cheek: cf. F. malaire.] (Anat.) Of or
pertaining to the region of the cheek bone, or to the malar bone;
jugal.
Ma"lar (?), n. (Anat.) The cheek bone, which forms a part of the lower
edge of the orbit.
Ma*la"ri*a (?), n. [It., contr. fr. malaaria bad air. See Malice, and
Air.] 1. Air infected with some noxious substance capable of
engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils,
as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.
The morbific agent in malaria is supposed by some to be a vegetable
microbe or its spores, and by others to be a very minute animal blood
parasite (an infusorian).
2. (Med.) A morbid condition produced by exhalations from decaying
vegetable matter in contact with moisture, giving rise to fever and
ague and many other symptoms characterized by their tendency to recur
at definite and usually uniform intervals.
{ Ma*la"ri*al (?), Ma*la"ri*an (?), Ma*la"ri*ous (?) }, a. Of or
pertaining, to or infected by, malaria.
Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized
by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms,
At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these
symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partially so
(remittent fever); fever and ague; chills and fever.
Ma`la*sha"ga*nay (?), n. [Indian name.] (Zoöl.) The fresh-water
drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).
Mal`as*sim`i*la"tion (?), n. [Mal- + assimilation.] (Physiol.) (a)
Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.
(b) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to
them by the blood.
Ma"late (?), n. [L. malum apple: cf. F. malate. See Malic.] (Chem.) A
salt of malic acid.
{ Ma"lax (?), Ma*lax"ate (?), } v. t. [L. malaxare, malaxatum, cf. Gr.
&?;, fr. &?; soft: cf. F. malaxer.] To soften by kneading or stirring
with some thinner substance. [R.]
Mal`ax*a"tion (?), n. [L. malaxatio: cf. F. malaxation.] The act of
softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of
ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]
Mal"ax*a`tor (?), n. One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine
for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]
Ma*lay" (?), n. One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the
Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.
{ Ma*lay" (?), Ma*lay"an (?), } a. Of or pertaining to the Malays or
their country. -- n. The Malay language.
Malay apple (Bot.), a myrtaceous tree (Eugenia Malaccensis) common in
India; also, its applelike fruit.
Ma"la*ya"lam (?), n. The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian
languages, closely related to the Tamil. Yule.
||Mal"brouck (?), n. [F.] (Zoöl.) A West African arboreal monkey
||(Cercopithecus cynosurus).
Mal*con`for*ma"tion (?), n. [Mal- + conformation.] Imperfect,
disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of
parts.
Mal"con*tent` (?), a. [F., fr. mal ill + content. See Malice, Content.]
discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the
government. [Written also malecontent.]
The famous malcontent earl of Leicester.
Milner.
Mal"con*tent`, n. [F. malcontent.] One who discontented; especially, a
discontented subject of a government; one who expresses his discontent
by words or overt acts. Spenser. Berkeley.
Mal`con*tent"ed (?), a. Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. --
Mal`con*tent"ed*ness, n.
Mal*da"ni*an (?), n. (Zoöl.) Any species of marine annelids of the
genus Maldane, or family Maldanidæ. They have a slender, round body,
and make tubes in the sand or mud.
Male- (ml- or ml-). See Mal-.
Male (ml), a. [L. malus. See Malice.] Evil; wicked; bad. [Obs.]
Marston.
Male, n. Same as Mail, a bag. [Obs.] Chaucer.
Male, a. [F. mâle, OF. masle, mascle, fr. L. masculus male, masculine,
dim. of mas a male; possibly akin to E. man. Cf. Masculine, Marry, v.
t.] 1. Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or
(in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the
ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.
2. (Bot.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit;
-- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of
plants, which bear them.
3. Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male;
masculine; as, male courage.