Name Report For First Name MERT:

MERT

First name MERT's origin is African. MERT means "lover of silence". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MERT below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of mert.(Brown names are of the same origin (African) with MERT and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)

Rhymes with MERT - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming MERT

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MERT AS A WHOLE:

mertise mertysa sumerton sumertun somerton merta mertys mertice mert-sekert merton

NAMES RHYMING WITH MERT (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ert) - Names That Ends with ert:

cuthbert sigebert radbert wilbert aubert robert rambert adelbert adalbert aethelbert ailbert albert auhert bert calbert calvert colbert colvert culbert dealbert delbert elbert englebert evert fitzgilbert giselbert guilbert herlbert hubert inglebert kuhlbert kulbert lambert odhert pert sebert sigenert tahbert talbert wilpert tabbert rupert odbert orbert hulbert seabert osbert hurlbert halbert gilbert filbert ewert ethelbert egbert edbert dalbert stewert eadbert ingelbert norbert herbert

Rhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (rt) - Names That Ends with rt:

meht-urt beircheart domingart everhart hart florismart raibeart taggart hobart baldhart stockhart alburt art bart bohort bort burkhart burt cort culbart curt eadburt eawart ewart gilburt gilibeirt gilleabart halbart halburt heort hulbart hurlbart kort kulbart kurt lambart odbart orbart osbart

NAMES RHYMING WITH MERT (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (mer) - Names That Begins with mer:

meranda mercede mercedes mercer merci mercia mercie mercilla mercina mercy meredith merestun merewo merewode merewood meri merial meridel meriel merla merle merlin merlion merlow merlyn merna merope merri merric merrick merrie merril merrilee merrill merritt merry merryl merryn mersc mervin mervyn merwyn meryl

Rhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (me) - Names That Begins with me:

mead meade meadghbh meadhbh meadhra meadow meagan mealcoluim meara mearr mecatl meccus meda medb medea medina medora medoro medr medredydd medrod medus medusa medwin medwine medwyn meeda meena megan megane megara megdn megedagik meghan mehadi mehdi mehemet mehetabel meheytabel mehitabelle mehitahelle mei-yin meika meilseoir meinhard meinke meino meinrad meinyard meir meira mejra meka mekhi mekledoodum mekonnen mel

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MERT:

First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 't':

maat maeret magahet mahault maneet manfrit margaret margeret margit margot margreet margret margrit mariet marit matt meleagant meskhenet millicent mirit mohamet moraunt morholt morit muadhnait mut

English Words Rhyming MERT

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MERT AS A WHOLE:

nemertesnoun (n.) A genus of nemertina.

nemertiannoun (a. & n.) Nemertean.

nemertidnoun (a. & n.) Nemertean.

nemertidanoun (n. pl.) Nemertina.

nemertinanoun (n. pl.) An order of helminths usually having a long, slender, smooth, often bright-colored body, covered with minute vibrating cilia; -- called also Nemertea, Nemertida, and Rhynchocoela.

schizonemerteanoun (n. pl.) A group of nemerteans comprising those having a deep slit along each side of the head. See Illust. in Appendix.

skimmertonnoun (n.) See Skimmington.

summertidenoun (n.) Summer time.

summertreenoun (n.) A summer. See 2d Summer.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MERT (According to last letters):


Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ert) - English Words That Ends with ert:


alertnoun (n.) An alarm from a real or threatened attack; a sudden attack; also, a bugle sound to give warning.
 adjective (a.) Watchful; vigilant; active in vigilance.
 adjective (a.) Brisk; nimble; moving with celerity.

apertadjective (a.) Open; evident; undisguised.
 adverb (adv.) Openly.

avertnoun (n.) To turn aside, or away; as, to avert the eyes from an object; to ward off, or prevent, the occurrence or effects of; as, how can the danger be averted? "To avert his ire."
 verb (v. i.) To turn away.

chertnoun (n.) An impure, massive, flintlike quartz or hornstone, of a dull color.

chetvertnoun (n.) A measure of grain equal to 0.7218 of an imperial quarter, or 5.95 Winchester bushels.

convertnoun (n.) A person who is converted from one opinion or practice to another; a person who is won over to, or heartily embraces, a creed, religious system, or party, in which he has not previously believed; especially, one who turns from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness, or from unbelief to Christianity.
 noun (n.) A lay friar or brother, permitted to enter a monastery for the service of the house, but without orders, and not allowed to sing in the choir.
 verb (v. t.) To cause to turn; to turn.
 verb (v. t.) To change or turn from one state or condition to another; to alter in form, substance, or quality; to transform; to transmute; as, to convert water into ice.
 verb (v. t.) To change or turn from one belief or course to another, as from one religion to another or from one party or sect to another.
 verb (v. t.) To produce the spiritual change called conversion in (any one); to turn from a bad life to a good one; to change the heart and moral character of (any one) from the controlling power of sin to that of holiness.
 verb (v. t.) To apply to any use by a diversion from the proper or intended use; to appropriate dishonestly or illegally.
 verb (v. t.) To exchange for some specified equivalent; as, to convert goods into money.
 verb (v. t.) To change (one proposition) into another, so that what was the subject of the first becomes the predicate of the second.
 verb (v. t.) To turn into another language; to translate.
 verb (v. i.) To be turned or changed in character or direction; to undergo a change, physically or morally.

covertadjective (a.) A place that covers and protects; a shelter; a defense.
 adjective (a.) One of the special feathers covering the bases of the quills of the wings and tail of a bird. See Illust. of Bird.
 verb (v. t.) Covered over; private; hid; secret; disguised.
 verb (v. t.) Sheltered; not open or exposed; retired; protected; as, a covert nook.
 verb (v. t.) Under cover, authority or protection; as, a feme covert, a married woman who is considered as being under the protection and control of her husband.

culvertnoun (n.) A transverse drain or waterway of masonry under a road, railroad, canal, etc.; a small bridge.

desertnoun (n.) That which is deserved; the reward or the punishment justly due; claim to recompense, usually in a good sense; right to reward; merit.
 noun (n.) A deserted or forsaken region; a barren tract incapable of supporting population, as the vast sand plains of Asia and Africa are destitute and vegetation.
 noun (n.) A tract, which may be capable of sustaining a population, but has been left unoccupied and uncultivated; a wilderness; a solitary place.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a desert; forsaken; without life or cultivation; unproductive; waste; barren; wild; desolate; solitary; as, they landed on a desert island.
 verb (v. t.) To leave (especially something which one should stay by and support); to leave in the lurch; to abandon; to forsake; -- implying blame, except sometimes when used of localities; as, to desert a friend, a principle, a cause, one's country.
 verb (v. t.) To abandon (the service) without leave; to forsake in violation of duty; to abscond from; as, to desert the army; to desert one's colors.
 verb (v. i.) To abandon a service without leave; to quit military service without permission, before the expiration of one's term; to abscond.

dessertnoun (n.) A service of pastry, fruits, or sweetmeats, at the close of a feast or entertainment; pastry, fruits, etc., forming the last course at dinner.

disconcertnoun (n.) Want of concert; disagreement.
 verb (v. t.) To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.
 verb (v. t.) To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.

discovertnoun (n.) An uncovered place or part.
 adjective (a.) Not covert; not within the bonds of matrimony; unmarried; -- applied either to a woman who has never married or to a widow.

disertadjective (a.) Eloquent.

encoubertnoun (n.) One of several species of armadillos of the genera Dasypus and Euphractus, having five toes both on the fore and hind feet.

expertnoun (n.) An expert or experienced person; one instructed by experience; one who has skill, experience, or extensive knowledge in his calling or in any special branch of learning.
 noun (n.) A specialist in a particular profession or department of science requiring for its mastery peculiar culture and erudition.
 noun (n.) A sworn appraiser.
 adjective (a.) Taught by use, practice, or experience, experienced; having facility of operation or performance from practice; knowing and ready from much practice; clever; skillful; as, an expert surgeon; expert in chess or archery.
 verb (v. t.) To experience.

exsertadjective (a.) Alt. of Exserted
 adjective (a.) To thrust out; to protrude; as, some worms are said to exsert the proboscis.

filbertnoun (n.) The fruit of the Corylus Avellana or hazel. It is an oval nut, containing a kernel that has a mild, farinaceous, oily taste, agreeable to the palate.

flobertnoun (n.) A small cartridge designed for target shooting; -- sometimes called ball cap.

gabertnoun (n.) A lighter, or vessel for inland navigation.

hertnoun (n.) A hart.

indesertnoun (n.) Ill desert.

inertadjective (a.) Destitute of the power of moving itself, or of active resistance to motion; as, matter is inert.
 adjective (a.) Indisposed to move or act; very slow to act; sluggish; dull; inactive; indolent; lifeless.
 adjective (a.) Not having or manifesting active properties; not affecting other substances when brought in contact with them; powerless for an expected or desired effect.

inexpertadjective (a.) Destitute of experience or of much experience.
 adjective (a.) Not expert; not skilled; destitute of knowledge or dexterity derived from practice.

invertnoun (n.) An inverted arch.
 adjective (a.) Subjected to the process of inversion; inverted; converted; as, invert sugar.
 verb (v. t.) To turn over; to put upside down; to upset; to place in a contrary order or direction; to reverse; as, to invert a cup, the order of words, rules of justice, etc.
 verb (v. t.) To change the position of; -- said of tones which form a chord, or parts which compose harmony.
 verb (v. t.) To divert; to convert to a wrong use.
 verb (v. t.) To convert; to reverse; to decompose by, or subject to, inversion. See Inversion, n., 10.
 verb (v. i.) To undergo inversion, as sugar.

lacertnoun (n.) A muscle of the human body.

malapertnoun (n.) A malapert person.
 adjective (a.) Bold; forward; impudent; saucy; pert.

misdesertnoun (n.) Ill desert.

overmalapertadjective (a.) Excessively malapert or impudent.

overtadjective (a.) Open to view; public; apparent; manifest.
 adjective (a.) Not covert; open; public; manifest; as, an overt act of treason.

peertadjective (a.) Same as Peart.

pertadjective (a.) Open; evident; apert.
 adjective (a.) Lively; brisk; sprightly; smart.
 adjective (a.) Indecorously free, or presuming; saucy; bold; impertinent.
 verb (v. i.) To behave with pertness.

pervertnoun (n.) One who has been perverted; one who has turned to error, especially in religion; -- opposed to convert. See the Synonym of Convert.
 verb (v. t.) To turnanother way; to divert.
 verb (v. t.) To turn from truth, rectitude, or propriety; to divert from a right use, end, or way; to lead astray; to corrupt; also, to misapply; to misinterpret designedly; as, to pervert one's words.
 verb (v. i.) To become perverted; to take the wrong course.

povertnoun (n.) Poverty.

preconcertnoun (n.) Something concerted or arranged beforehand; a previous agreement.
 verb (v. t.) To concert or arrange beforehand; to settle by previous agreement.

profertnoun (n.) The exhibition or production of a record or paper in open court, or an allegation that it is in court.

reconvertnoun (n.) A person who has been reconverted.
 verb (v. t.) To convert again.

revertnoun (n.) One who, or that which, reverts.
 verb (v. t.) To turn back, or to the contrary; to reverse.
 verb (v. t.) To throw back; to reflect; to reverberate.
 verb (v. t.) To change back. See Revert, v. i.
 verb (v. i.) To return; to come back.
 verb (v. i.) To return to the proprietor after the termination of a particular estate granted by him.
 verb (v. i.) To return, wholly or in part, towards some preexistent form; to take on the traits or characters of an ancestral type.
 verb (v. i.) To change back, as from a soluble to an insoluble state or the reverse; thus, phosphoric acid in certain fertilizers reverts.

robertnoun (n.) See Herb Robert, under Herb.

solertadjective (a.) Skillful; clever; crafty.

unexpertadjective (a.) Not expert; inexpert.

vertnoun (n.) Everything that grows, and bears a green leaf, within the forest; as, to preserve vert and venison is the duty of the verderer.
 noun (n.) The right or privilege of cutting growing wood.
 noun (n.) The color green, represented in a drawing or engraving by parallel lines sloping downward toward the right.

wertnoun (n.) A wart.
  () The second person singular, indicative and subjunctive moods, imperfect tense, of the verb be. It is formed from were, with the ending -t, after the analogy of wast. Now used only in solemn or poetic style.

woolertnoun (n.) The barn owl.

ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MERT (According to first letters):


Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mer) - Words That Begins with mer:


merchetnoun (n.) In old English and in Scots law, a fine paid to the lord of the soil by a tenant upon the marriage of one the tenant's daughters.

meraciousadjective (a.) Being without mixture or adulteration; hence, strong; racy.

mercableadjective (a.) Capable of being bought or sold.

mercantileadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to merchants, or the business of merchants; having to do with trade, or the buying and selling of commodities; commercial.

mercaptalnoun (n.) Any one of a series of compounds of mercaptans with aldehydes.

mercaptannoun (n.) Any one of series of compounds, hydrosulphides of alcohol radicals, in composition resembling the alcohols, but containing sulphur in place of oxygen, and hence called also the sulphur alcohols. In general, they are colorless liquids having a strong, repulsive, garlic odor. The name is specifically applied to ethyl mercaptan, C2H5SH. So called from its avidity for mercury, and other metals.

mercaptidenoun (n.) A compound of mercaptan formed by replacing its sulphur hydrogen by a metal; as, potassium mercaptide, C2H5SK.

mercatnoun (n.) Market; trade.

mercatantenoun (n.) A foreign trader.

mercaturenoun (n.) Commerce; traffic; trade.

mercenarianoun (n.) The quahog.

mercenariannoun (n.) A mercenary.

mercenarinessnoun (n.) The quality or state of being mercenary; venality.

mercenarynoun (n.) One who is hired; a hireling; especially, a soldier hired into foreign service.
 adjective (a.) Acting for reward; serving for pay; paid; hired; hireling; venal; as, mercenary soldiers.
 adjective (a.) Hence: Moved by considerations of pay or profit; greedy of gain; sordid; selfish.

mercernoun (n.) Originally, a dealer in any kind of goods or wares; now restricted to a dealer in textile fabrics, as silks or woolens.

mercershipnoun (n.) The business of a mercer.

mercerynoun (n.) The trade of mercers; the goods in which a mercer deals.

merchandisableadjective (a.) Such as can be used or transferred as merchandise.

merchandisenoun (n.) The objects of commerce; whatever is usually bought or sold in trade, or market, or by merchants; wares; goods; commodities.
 noun (n.) The act or business of trading; trade; traffic.
 verb (v. i.) To trade; to carry on commerce.
 verb (v. t.) To make merchandise of; to buy and sell.

merchandisingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merchandise

merchandisernoun (n.) A trader.

merchandrynoun (n.) Trade; commerce.

merchantnoun (n.) One who traffics on a large scale, especially with foreign countries; a trafficker; a trader.
 noun (n.) A trading vessel; a merchantman.
 noun (n.) One who keeps a store or shop for the sale of goods; a shopkeeper.
 adjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or employed in, trade or merchandise; as, the merchant service.
 verb (v. i.) To be a merchant; to trade.

merchantableadjective (a.) Fit for market; such as is usually sold in market, or such as will bring the ordinary price; as, merchantable wheat; sometimes, a technical designation for a particular kind or class.

merchantlyadjective (a.) Merchantlike; suitable to the character or business of a merchant.

merchantmannoun (n.) A merchant.
 noun (n.) A trading vessel; a ship employed in the transportation of goods, as, distinguished from a man-of-war.

merchantrynoun (n.) The body of merchants taken collectively; as, the merchantry of a country.
 noun (n.) The business of a merchant; merchandise.

merciableadjective (a.) Merciful.

mercifuladjective (a.) Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish.
 adjective (a.) Unwilling to give pain; compassionate.

mercilessadjective (a.) Destitute of mercy; cruel; unsparing; -- said of animate beings, and also, figuratively, of things; as, a merciless tyrant; merciless waves.

mercurammoniumnoun (n.) A radical regarded as derived from ammonium by the substitution of mercury for a portion of the hydrogen.

mercurialnoun (n.) A person having mercurial qualities.
 noun (n.) A preparation containing mercury.
 adjective (a.) Having the qualities fabled to belong to the god Mercury; swift; active; sprightly; fickle; volatile; changeable; as, a mercurial youth; a mercurial temperament.
 adjective (a.) Having the form or image of Mercury; -- applied to ancient guideposts.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Mercury as the god of trade; hence, money-making; crafty.
 adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to, or containing, mercury; as, mercurial preparations, barometer. See Mercury, 2.
 adjective (a.) Caused by the use of mercury; as, mercurial sore mouth.

mercurialistnoun (n.) One under the influence of Mercury; one resembling Mercury in character.
 noun (n.) A physician who uses much mercury, in any of its forms, in his practice.

mercurializingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurialize

mercuricadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury into which this element enters in its lowest proportion.

mercurificationnoun (n.) The process or operation of obtaining the mercury, in its fluid form, from mercuric minerals.
 noun (n.) The act or process of compounding, or the state of being compounded, with mercury.

mercurifyingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mercurify

mercurismnoun (n.) A communication of news; an announcement.

mercurousadjective (a.) Of, pertaining to, or derived from, mercury; containing mercury; -- said of those compounds of mercury in which it is present in its highest proportion.

mercurynoun (n.) A Latin god of commerce and gain; -- treated by the poets as identical with the Greek Hermes, messenger of the gods, conductor of souls to the lower world, and god of eloquence.
 noun (n.) A metallic element mostly obtained by reduction from cinnabar, one of its ores. It is a heavy, opaque, glistening liquid (commonly called quicksilver), and is used in barometers, thermometers, ect. Specific gravity 13.6. Symbol Hg (Hydrargyrum). Atomic weight 199.8. Mercury has a molecule which consists of only one atom. It was named by the alchemists after the god Mercury, and designated by his symbol, /.
 noun (n.) One of the planets of the solar system, being the one nearest the sun, from which its mean distance is about 36,000,000 miles. Its period is 88 days, and its diameter 3,000 miles.
 noun (n.) A carrier of tidings; a newsboy; a messenger; hence, also, a newspaper.
 noun (n.) Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness.
 noun (n.) A plant (Mercurialis annua), of the Spurge family, the leaves of which are sometimes used for spinach, in Europe.
 verb (v. t.) To wash with a preparation of mercury.

mercynoun (n.) Forbearance to inflict harm under circumstances of provocation, when one has the power to inflict it; compassionate treatment of an offender or adversary; clemency.
 noun (n.) Compassionate treatment of the unfortunate and helpless; sometimes, favor, beneficence.
 noun (n.) Disposition to exercise compassion or favor; pity; compassion; willingness to spare or to help.
 noun (n.) A blessing regarded as a manifestation of compassion or favor.

merdnoun (n.) Ordure; dung.

merenoun (n.) A pool or lake.
 noun (n.) A boundary.
 noun (n.) A mare.
 verb (v. t.) To divide, limit, or bound.
  (Superl.) Unmixed; pure; entire; absolute; unqualified.
  (Superl.) Only this, and nothing else; such, and no more; simple; bare; as, a mere boy; a mere form.

merenchymanoun (n.) Tissue composed of spheroidal cells.

meresmannoun (n.) An officer who ascertains meres or boundaries.

meresteadnoun (n.) The land within the boundaries of a farm; a farmstead or farm.

merestonenoun (n.) A stone designating a limit or boundary; a landmark.

meretriciousadjective (a.) Of or pertaining to prostitutes; having to do with harlots; lustful; as, meretricious traffic.
 adjective (a.) Resembling the arts of a harlot; alluring by false show; gaudily and deceitfully ornamental; tawdry; as, meretricious dress or ornaments.

mergansernoun (n.) Any bird of the genus Merganser, and allied genera. They are allied to the ducks, but have a sharply serrated bill.

mergingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Merge

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MERT:

English Words which starts with 'm' and ends with 't':

maatadjective (a.) Dejected; sorrowful; downcast.

machinistnoun (n.) A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
 noun (n.) One skilled in the use of machine tools.
 noun (n.) A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.

macilentadjective (a.) Lean; thin.

macrodontnoun (n.) A macrodont animal.
 adjective (a.) Having large teeth.

madderwortnoun (n.) A name proposed for any plant of the same natural order (Rubiaceae) as the madder.

madrigalistnoun (n.) A composer of madrigals.

madwortnoun (n.) A genus of cruciferous plants (Alyssum) with white or yellow flowers and rounded pods. A. maritimum is the commonly cultivated sweet alyssum, a fragrant white-flowered annual.

magazinistnoun (n.) One who edits or writes for a magazine.

maggotnoun (n.) The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.
 noun (n.) A whim; an odd fancy.

maghetnoun (n.) A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.

magnetnoun (n.) The loadstone; a species of iron ore (the ferrosoferric or magnetic ore, Fe3O4) which has the property of attracting iron and some of its ores, and, when freely suspended, of pointing to the poles; -- called also natural magnet.
 noun (n.) A bar or mass of steel or iron to which the peculiar properties of the loadstone have been imparted; -- called, in distinction from the loadstone, an artificial magnet.

magnetistnoun (n.) One versed in magnetism.

magnificatnoun (n.) The song of the Virgin Mary, Luke i. 46; -- so called because it commences with this word in the Vulgate.

magnificentadjective (a.) Doing grand things; admirable in action; displaying great power or opulence, especially in building, way of living, and munificence.
 adjective (a.) Grand in appearance; exhibiting grandeur or splendor; splendid' pompous.

magniloquentadjective (a.) Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent.

magotnoun (n.) The Barbary ape.

mahometistnoun (n.) A Mohammedan.

mahoutnoun (n.) The keeper and driver of an elephant.

maidservantnoun (n.) A female servant.

mainmastnoun (n.) The principal mast in a ship or other vessel.

mainsheetnoun (n.) One of the ropes by which the mainsail is hauled aft and trimmed.

majoratadjective (a.) The right of succession to property according to age; -- so termed in some of the countries of continental Europe.
 adjective (a.) Property, landed or funded, so attached to a title of honor as to descend with it.

makeshiftnoun (n.) That with which one makes shift; a temporary expedient.

makeweightnoun (n.) That which is thrown into a scale to make weight; something of little account added to supply a deficiency or fill a gap.

malacissantadjective (a.) Softening; relaxing.

malacologistnoun (n.) One versed in the science of malacology.

maladjustmentnoun (n.) A bad adjustment.

maladroitadjective (a.) Of a quality opposed to adroitness; clumsy; awkward; unskillful.

malcontentnoun (n.) One who discontented; especially, a discontented subject of a government; one who express his discontent by words or overt acts.
 adjective (a.) discontented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government.

malecontentadjective (a.) Malcontent.

maledicentadjective (a.) Speaking reproachfully; slanderous.

maledictadjective (a.) Accursed; abominable.

maleficentadjective (a.) Doing evil to others; harmful; mischievous.

maleficientadjective (a.) Doing evil, harm, or mischief.

maletnoun (n.) A little bag or budget.

malevolentadjective (a.) Wishing evil; disposed to injure others; rejoicing in another's misfortune.

malignantnoun (n.) A man of extrems enmity or evil intentions.
 noun (n.) One of the adherents of Charles L. or Charles LL.; -- so called by the opposite party.
 adjective (a.) Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious.
 adjective (a.) Characterized or caused by evil intentions; pernicious.
 adjective (a.) Tending to produce death; threatening a fatal issue; virulent; as, malignant diphtheria.

malletnoun (n.) 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.

mallowwortnoun (n.) Any plant of the order Malvaceae.

maltnoun (n.) Barley or other grain, steeped in water and dried in a kiln, thus forcing germination until the saccharine principle has been evolved. It is used in brewing and in the distillation of whisky.
 adjective (a.) Relating to, containing, or made with, malt.
 verb (v. t.) To make into malt; as, to malt barley.
 verb (v. i.) To become malt; also, to make grain into malt.

maltalentnoun (n.) Ill will; malice.

maltreamentnoun (n.) Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

mammalogistnoun (n.) One versed in mammalogy.

mammetnoun (n.) An idol; a puppet; a doll.

mammonistnoun (n.) A mammonite.

mammothreptnoun (n.) A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child.

manchetnoun (n.) Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread.

mandmentnoun (n.) Commandment.

manesheetnoun (n.) A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head.

mangonistnoun (n.) One who mangonizes.
 noun (n.) A slave dealer; also, a strumpet.

manicheistnoun (n.) Manichaean.

manifestadjective (a.) Evident to the senses, esp. to the sight; apparent; distinctly perceived; hence, obvious to the understanding; apparent to the mind; easily apprehensible; plain; not obscure or hidden.
 adjective (a.) Detected; convicted; -- with of.
 adjective (a.) A public declaration; an open statement; a manifesto. See Manifesto.
 adjective (a.) A list or invoice of a ship's cargo, containing a description by marks, numbers, etc., of each package of goods, to be exhibited at the customhouse.
 verb (v. t.) To show plainly; to make to appear distinctly, -- usually to the mind; to put beyond question or doubt; to display; to exhibit.
 verb (v. t.) To exhibit the manifests or prepared invoices of; to declare at the customhouse.

manihotnoun (n.) See Manioc.

manneristnoun (n.) One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism.

manrentnoun (n.) Homage or service rendered to a superior, as to a lord; vassalage.

manservantnoun (n.) A male servant.

manteletnoun (n.) A short cloak formerly worn by knights.
 noun (n.) A short cloak or mantle worn by women.
 noun (n.) A musket-proof shield of rope, wood, or metal, which is sometimes used for the protection of sappers or riflemen while attacking a fortress, or of gunners at embrasures; -- now commonly written mantlet.

mantletnoun (n.) See Mantelet.

mantologistnoun (n.) One who is skilled in mantology; a diviner.

manualistnoun (n.) One who works with the hands; an artificer.

manuducentnoun (n.) One who leads by the hand; a manuductor.

manurementnoun (n.) Cultivation.

manuscriptadjective (a.) Written with or by the hand; not printed; as, a manuscript volume.
 adjective (a.) A literary or musical composition written with the hand, as distinguished from a printed copy.
 adjective (a.) Writing, as opposed to print; as, the book exists only in manuscript.

maraboutnoun (n.) A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.

marcantantnoun (n.) A merchant.

marcescentadjective (a.) Withering without/ falling off; fading; decaying.

marchetnoun (n.) Alt. of Merchet

margentnoun (n.) A margin; border; brink; edge.
 verb (v. t.) To enter or note down upon the margin of a page; to margin.

marietnoun (n.) A kind of bellflower, Companula Trachelium, once called Viola Mariana; but it is not a violet.

mariputnoun (n.) A species of civet; the zoril.

marketnoun (n.) A meeting together of people, at a stated time and place, for the purpose of traffic (as in cattle, provisions, wares, etc.) by private purchase and sale, and not by auction; as, a market is held in the town every week.
 noun (n.) A public place (as an open space in a town) or a large building, where a market is held; a market place or market house; esp., a place where provisions are sold.
 noun (n.) An opportunity for selling anything; demand, as shown by price offered or obtainable; a town, region, or country, where the demand exists; as, to find a market for one's wares; there is no market for woolen cloths in that region; India is a market for English goods.
 noun (n.) Exchange, or purchase and sale; traffic; as, a dull market; a slow market.
 noun (n.) The price for which a thing is sold in a market; market price. Hence: Value; worth.
 noun (n.) The privelege granted to a town of having a public market.
 verb (v. i.) To deal in a market; to buy or sell; to make bargains for provisions or goods.
 verb (v. t.) To expose for sale in a market; to traffic in; to sell in a market, and in an extended sense, to sell in any manner; as, most of the farmes have marketed their crops.

marlpitnoun (n.) Apit where marl is dug.

marmaletnoun (n.) See Marmalade.

marmosetnoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of small South American monkeys of the genera Hapale and Midas, family Hapalidae. They have long soft fur, and a hairy, nonprehensile tail. They are often kept as pets. Called also squirrel monkey.

marmotnoun (n.) Any rodent of the genus Arctomys. The common European marmot (A. marmotta) is about the size of a rabbit, and inhabits the higher regions of the Alps and Pyrenees. The bobac is another European species. The common American species (A. monax) is the woodchuck.
 noun (n.) Any one of several species of ground squirrels or gophers of the genus Spermophilus; also, the prairie dog.

marmozetnoun (n.) See Marmoset.

marplotnoun (n.) One who, by his officious /nterference, mars or frustrates a design or plot.

marrotnoun (n.) The razor-billed auk. See Auk.
 noun (n.) The common guillemot.
 noun (n.) The puffin.

marrowfatnoun (n.) A rich but late variety of pea.

martnoun (n.) A market.
 noun (n.) A bargain.
 noun (n.) The god Mars.
 noun (n.) Battle; contest.
 verb (v. t.) To buy or sell in, or as in, a mart.
 verb (v. t.) To traffic.

martialistnoun (n.) A warrior.

martinetnoun (n.) In military language, a strict disciplinarian; in general, one who lays stress on a rigid adherence to the details of discipline, or to forms and fixed methods.
 noun (n.) The martin.

martletnoun (n.) The European house martin.
 noun (n.) A bird without beak or feet; -- generally assumed to represent a martin. As a mark of cadency it denotes the fourth son.

martyrologistnoun (n.) A writer of martyrology; an historian of martyrs.

mascotnoun (n.) Alt. of Mascotte

masoretnoun (n.) A Masorite.

masse shotnoun (n.) A stroke made with the cue held vertically.

massicotnoun (n.) Lead protoxide, PbO, obtained as a yellow amorphous powder, the fused and crystalline form of which is called litharge; lead ocher. It is used as a pigment.

massoretnoun (n.) Same as Masorite.

mastnoun (n.) The fruit of the oak and beech, or other forest trees; nuts; acorns.
 noun (n.) A pole, or long, strong, round piece of timber, or spar, set upright in a boat or vessel, to sustain the sails, yards, rigging, etc. A mast may also consist of several pieces of timber united by iron bands, or of a hollow pillar of iron or steel.
 noun (n.) The vertical post of a derrick or crane.
 noun (n.) A spar or strut to which tie wires or guys are attached for stiffening purposes.
 verb (v. t.) To furnish with a mast or masts; to put the masts of in position; as, to mast a ship.

masterwortnoun (n.) A tall and coarse European umbelliferous plant (Peucedanum Ostruthium, formerly Imperatoria).
 noun (n.) The Astrantia major, a European umbelliferous plant with a showy colored involucre.
 noun (n.) Improperly, the cow parsnip (Heracleum lanatum).

masticotnoun (n.) Massicot.

matnoun (n.) A name given by coppersmiths to an alloy of copper, tin, iron, etc., usually called white metal.
 noun (n.) A fabric of sedge, rushes, flags, husks, straw, hemp, or similar material, used for wiping and cleaning shoes at the door, for covering the floor of a hall or room, and for other purposes.
 noun (n.) Any similar fabric for various uses, as for covering plant houses, putting beneath dishes or lamps on a table, securing rigging from friction, and the like.
 noun (n.) Anything growing thickly, or closely interwoven, so as to resemble a mat in form or texture; as, a mat of weeds; a mat of hair.
 noun (n.) An ornamental border made of paper, pasterboard, metal, etc., put under the glass which covers a framed picture; as, the mat of a daguerreotype.
 adjective (a.) Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain.
 verb (v. t.) To cover or lay with mats.
 verb (v. t.) To twist, twine, or felt together; to interweave into, or like, a mat; to entangle.
 verb (v. i.) To grow thick together; to become interwoven or felted together like a mat.

materialistnoun (n.) One who denies the existence of spiritual substances or agents, and maintains that spiritual phenomena, so called, are the result of some peculiar organization of matter.
 noun (n.) One who holds to the existence of matter, as distinguished from the idealist, who denies it.

mattnoun (n.) See Matte.

maturantnoun (n.) A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.

maturescentadjective (a.) Approaching maturity.

maudlinwortnoun (n.) The oxeye daisy.

maumetnoun (n.) See Mawmet.

mauristnoun (n.) A member of the Congregation of Saint Maur, an offshoot of the Benedictines, originating in France in the early part of the seventeenth century. The Maurists have been distinguished for their interest in literature.