3. An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall.
Cotton.
4. A place where the game of mall was played. Hence: A public walk; a
level shaded walk.
Part of the area was laid out in gravel walks, and planted with
elms; and these convenient and frequented walks obtained the name
of the City Mall.
Southey.
Mall (ml), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malled (mld); p. pr. & vb. n. Malling.]
[Cf. OF. mailler. See Mall beetle, and cf. Malleate.] To beat with a
mall; to beat with something heavy; to bruise; to maul.
Mall (ml), n. [LL. mallum a public assembly; cf. OHG. mahal assembly,
transaction; akin to AS. mæðel, meðel, assembly, mlan to speak, Goth.
maþl market place.] Formerly, among Teutonic nations, a meeting of the
notables of a state for the transaction of public business, such
meeting being a modification of the ancient popular assembly. Hence:
(a) A court of justice. (b) A place where justice is administered. (c)
A place where public meetings are held.
Councils, which had been as frequent as diets or malls, ceased.
Milman.
Mal"lard (?), n. [F. malari,fr. mâle male + -art =-ard. See Male, a.,
and -ard.] 1. (Zoöl.) A drake; the male of Anas boschas.
2. (Zoöl.) A large wild duck (Anas boschas) inhabiting both America and
Europe. The domestic duck has descended from this species. Called also
greenhead.
Mal"le*a*bil"i*ty (?), n. [CF. F. malléabilité.] The quality or state
of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. Locke.
Mal"le*a*ble (?), a. [F. malléable, fr. LL. malleare to hammer. See
Malleate.] Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a
hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals.
Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped
under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. -- Malleable
iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by
heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as
hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon.
Mal"le*a*ble*ize (?), v. t. To make malleable.
Mal"le*a*ble*ness, n. Quality of being malleable.
Mal"le*al (?), a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the malleus.
Mal"le*ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Malleated (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Malleating (?).] [L. malleatus hammered, fr. malleus a hammer. See
Mall, v. t.] To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.
Mal`le*a"tion (?), n. [LL. malleatio: cf. OF. malléation.] The act or
process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension
by beating.
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Mal"le*cho (?), n. Same as Malicho.
Mal*lee" bird` (?). (Zoöl.) [From native name.] The leipoa. See Leipoa.
{ Mal"le*mock (?), Mal"le*moke (?), } n. (Zoöl.) See Mollemoke.
Mal"len*ders (?), n. pl. (Far.) Same as Malanders.
Mal*le"o*lar (?), a. [See Malleolus.] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the
malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.
||Mal*le"*o*lus (?), n.; pl. Malleoli (#). [L., dim. of malleus
||hammer.] 1. (Anat.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of
||the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the
||internal projection, that of the fibula the external.
2. " A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut
halfway through.
Mal"let (?), n. [F. maillet, dim. of mail. See Mall a beetle.] A small
maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel
or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in
playing croquet.
||Mal"le*us (?), n.; pl. Mallei (#). [L., hammer. See Mall a beetle.]
||1. (Anat.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles;
||the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long
||process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.
2. (Zoöl.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera.
See Mastax.