Mat"weed` (?), n. (Bot.) A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea
sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the
sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the
Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.
Mat"y (?), n. [Etymology uncertain.] A native house servant in India.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).
||Matz"oth (?), n. [Heb. matststh, pl. of matstsh unleavened.] A cake
||of unleavened bread eaten by the Jews at the feast of the Passover.
||Mau*ca"co (?), n. [From the native name.] (Zoöl.) A lemur; -- applied
||to several species, as the White-fronted, the ruffed, and the
||ring-tailed lemurs.
Maud (?), n. A gray plaid; -- used by shepherds in Scotland.
Mau"dle (?), v. t. To throw onto confusion or disorder; to render
maudlin. [Obs.]
Maud"lin (?), a. [From Maudlin, a contr. of Magdalen, OE. Maudeleyne,
who is drawn by painters with eyes swelled and red with weeping.] 1.
Tearful; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively
sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin
eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope. "Maudlin crowd."
Southey.