Mam*mil"li*form (?), a. [Mammilla + -form.] Having the form of a
mammilla.
Mam"mil*loid (?), a. [Mammilla + -oid.] Like a mammilla or nipple;
mammilliform.
Mam"mock (?), n. [Ir. & Gael. mam a round hill + -ock.] A shapeless
piece; a fragment. [Obs.]
Mam"mock, v. t. To tear to pieces. [Obs.] Milton.
Mam"mo*dis (?), n. [F. mamoudis, fr. Hind. mahmd a muslin.] Coarse
plain India muslins.
Mam*mol"o*gy (?), n. [Mamma + -logy.] Mastology. See Mammalogy.
Mam"mon (?), n. [L. mammona, Gr. &?; riches, Syr. mam&?;n; cf. Heb.
matm&?;n a hiding place, subterranean storehouse, treasury, fr. tman to
hide.] Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.
Ye can not serve God and Mammon.
Matt. vi. 24.
Mam"mon*ish, a. Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or
the service of Mammon. Carlyle.
Mam"mon*ism (?), n. Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness.
Carlyle.
Mam"mon*ist, n. A mammonite.
Mam"mon*ite (?), n. One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the
service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.
Mam`mon*i*za"tion (?), n. The process of making mammonish; the state of
being under the influence of mammonism.
Mam"mon*ize (?), v. t. To make mammonish.
Mam*mose" (?), a. [L. mammosus having large breasts, mamma breast.]
(Bot.) Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.
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Mam"moth (?), n. [Russ. mâmont, mámant, fr. Tartar mamma the earth.
Certain Tartar races, the Tungooses and Yakoots, believed that the
mammoth worked its way in the earth like a mole.] (Zoöl.) An extinct,
hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains
of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last
of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.
Several specimens have been found in Siberia preserved entire, with the
flesh and hair remaining. They were imbedded in the ice cliffs at a
remote period, and became exposed by the melting of the ice.
Mam"moth (?), a. Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic;
as, a mammoth ox.
Mam"mo*thrept (?), n. [Gr. &?;; &?; grandmother + &?; to nourish.] A
child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.]
O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment.
B. Jonson.
Mam"my (?), n.; pl. Mammies (&?;). A child's name for mamma, mother.
||Mam"zer (?), n. [Heb. mámz&?;r.] A person born of relations between
||whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut.
||xxiii. 2 (Douay version).
Man (mn), n.; pl. Men (mn). [AS. mann, man, monn, mon; akin to OS., D.,
& OHG. man, G. mann, Icel. maðr, for mannr, Dan. Mand, Sw. man, Goth.
manna, Skr. manu, manus, and perh. to Skr. man to think, and E. mind.
√104. Cf. Minx a pert girl.] 1. A human being; -- opposed to
beast.
These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair
country, and wild beast many [a] one.
R. of Glouc.
The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth
to me.
Shak.
2. Especially: An adult male person; a grown- up male person, as
distinguished from a woman or a child.
When I became a man, I put away childish things.