MANE
First name MANE's origin is Irish. MANE means "great". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MANE below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of mane.(Brown names are of the same origin (Irish) with MANE and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming MANE
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MANE AS A WHOLE:
kimane jermane maneet manetteNAMES RHYMING WITH MANE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ane) - Names That Ends with ane:
berhane gayane agurtzane mafuane allyriane abarrane tzigane doane beltane bane konane duane pivane adriane aintzane alane ariane assane belakane christiane damiane darleane deane diane eliane gezane gloriane gorane ilane isane ivane jane jeane jehane jilliane joelliane jordane katriane kristiane levane liane liliane louisane luane mariane maryjane megane morgane nekane nimiane odiane oihane sarajane seyane tiane viviane zoelane aeccestane ahane ane beldane blane chane coltrane dane durane dwane farlane fontane haldane kane keane lane leane macfarlane maclane rane roane shane sloane thane yardane zane fane roxane gaetane maitane aelfdane orane warrane delaneRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (ne) - Names That Ends with ne:
ankine lucine yserone barkarne eguskine hanne jensine larine nielsineNAMES RHYMING WITH MANE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 3 Letters (man) - Names That Begins with man:
mana manaar manaba manal manar manara manasses manauia manawanui manda mandalyn mandar mandel mandi mandie mandisa mandy manfred manfri manfrid manfried manfrit mani manikah manisha maniya mankalita manley manly mann manneville mannie manning mannis mannix mannleah mannuss manny mano manoela manolito manolo manon mansfield mansi mansur mantel manton mantotohpa manu manuel manuela manuelo manus manute manville manya manzoRhyming Names According to First 2 Letters (ma) - Names That Begins with ma:
ma'isah ma'mun ma'n maahes maarouf maat mab mabbina mabel mabelle mabina mable mabon mabonagrain mabonaqain mabuz mabyn mac maca macadam macadhamh macaire macala macaladair macalister macalpin macalpine macandrew macario macartan macarthur macartur macaulay macauliffe macauslan macawi macayla macayle macbain macbean macbeth macbrideNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MANE:
First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'e':
mace macee macfie macie mackaylie mackenzie mackinzie mackynsie maclaine macquarrie macrae madale madalene madalyne maddalene maddie maddisynne maddy-rose madelaine madeleine madelene madeline madge madie madntyre madre mae maelee maelwine maerewine maethelwine maetthere maeve magaere magaskawee magdalene magee maggie magnilde mahpee maibe maible maidie maiele maile maille maiolaine maipe maire maisie maite maitilde makaela-marie makahlie makale makawee makenzie maldue maledysaunte malene malerie malleville mallorie malmuirie malone malvine mamie maolmuire maoltuile marce marceline marcelle marchelle mare maree margarethe margawse margerie marguerite mariamne marianne maribelle marie marie-joie marieanne mariele marielle mariette marilee marise marjolaine marlaine marlayne marleene marlene marlenne marlie marline marlise marloweEnglish Words Rhyming MANE
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MANE AS A WHOLE:
brahmaness | noun (n.) A Brahmani. |
diathermaneity | noun (n.) The property of transmitting radiant heat; the quality of being diathermous. |
germane | adjective (a.) Literally, near akin; hence, closely allied; appropriate or fitting; relevant. |
humane | adjective (a.) Pertaining to man; human. |
adjective (a.) Having the feelings and inclinations creditable to man; having a disposition to treat other human beings or animals with kindness; kind; benevolent. | |
adjective (a.) Humanizing; exalting; tending to refine. |
immane | adjective (a.) Very great; huge; vast; also, monstrous in character; inhuman; atrocious; fierce. |
immanence | noun (n.) Alt. of Immanency |
immanency | noun (n.) The condition or quality of being immanent; inherence; an indwelling. |
immanent | adjective (a.) Remaining within; inherent; indwelling; abiding; intrinsic; internal or subjective; hence, limited in activity, agency, or effect, to the subject or associated acts; -- opposed to emanant, transitory, transitive, or objective. |
impermanence | noun (n.) Alt. of Impermanency |
impermanency | noun (n.) lack of permanence. |
impermanent | adjective (a.) Not permanent. |
maneticness | noun (n.) Magneticalness. |
mane | noun (n.) The long and heavy hair growing on the upper side of, or about, the neck of some quadrupedal animals, as the horse, the lion, etc. See Illust. of Horse. |
maned | adjective (a.) Having a mane. |
manege | noun (n.) Art of horsemanship, or of training horses. |
noun (n.) A school for teaching horsemanship, and for training horses. |
maneh | noun (n.) A Hebrew weight for gold or silver, being one hundred shekels of gold and sixty shekels of silver. |
maneless | adjective (a.) Having no mane. |
manequin | noun (n.) An artist's model of wood or other material. |
manerial | adjective (a.) See Manorial. |
manes | noun (n. pl.) The benevolent spirits of the dead, especially of dead ancestors, regarded as family deities and protectors. |
manesheet | noun (n.) A covering placed over the upper part of a horse's head. |
maneuver | noun (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre |
noun (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvre | |
verb (v. t.) Alt. of Manoeuvre |
maneuvering | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manoeuvre |
maneuverer | noun (n.) Alt. of Manoeuvrer |
monomane | noun (n.) A monomaniac. |
quadrumane | noun (n.) One of the Quadrumana. |
noun (n.) One of the Quadrumana. |
pedimane | noun (n.) A pedimanous marsupial; an opossum. |
permanence | noun (n.) Alt. of Permanency |
permanency | noun (n.) The quality or state of being permanent; continuance in the same state or place; duration; fixedness; as, the permanence of institutions; the permanence of nature. |
permanent | adjective (a.) Continuing in the same state, or without any change that destroys form or character; remaining unaltered or unremoved; abiding; durable; fixed; stable; lasting; as, a permanent impression. |
remanence | adjective (a.) Alt. of Remanency |
remanency | adjective (a.) The state of being remanent; continuance; permanence. |
remanent | adjective (a.) That which remains; a remnant; a residue. |
adjective (a.) Remaining; residual. |
remanet | noun (n.) A case for trial which can not be tried during the term; a postponed case. |
romanesque | noun (n.) Romanesque style. |
adjective (a.) Somewhat resembling the Roman; -- applied sometimes to the debased style of the later Roman empire, but esp. to the more developed architecture prevailing from the 8th century to the 12th. | |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to romance or fable; fanciful. |
semopermanent | noun (n.) Half or partly permanent. |
trichomanes | noun (n.) Any fern of the genus Trichomanes. The fronds are very delicate and often translucent, and the sporangia are borne on threadlike receptacles rising from the middle of cup-shaped marginal involucres. Several species are common in conservatories; two are native in the United States. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MANE (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ane) - English Words That Ends with ane:
aeroplane | noun (n.) A flying machine, or a small plane for experiments on flying, which floats in the air only when propelled through it. |
noun (n.) A light rigid plane used in aerial navigation to oppose sudden upward or downward movement in the air, as in gliding machines; specif., such a plane slightly inclined and driven forward as a lifting device in some flying machines; hence, a flying machine using such a device. These machines are called monoplanes, biplanes, triplanes, or quadruplanes, according to the number of main supporting planes used in their constraction. Being heavier than air they depend for their levitation on motion imparted by one or more propellers actuated by a gasoline engine. They start from the ground by a run on small wheels or runners, and are guided by a steering apparatus consisting of horizontal and vertical movable planes. There are many varieties of form and construction, which in some cases are known by the names of their inventors. | |
() One unprovided with motive power. |
antemundane | adjective (a.) Being or occurring before the creation of the world. |
arcane | adjective (a.) Hidden; secret. |
avellane | adjective (a.) In the form of four unhusked filberts; as, an avellane cross. |
bane | noun (n.) That which destroys life, esp. poison of a deadly quality. |
noun (n.) Destruction; death. | |
noun (n.) Any cause of ruin, or lasting injury; harm; woe. | |
noun (n.) A disease in sheep, commonly termed the rot. | |
verb (v. t.) To be the bane of; to ruin. |
beltane | noun (n.) The first day of May (Old Style). |
noun (n.) A festival of the heathen Celts on the first day of May, in the observance of which great bonfires were kindled. It still exists in a modified form in some parts of Scotland and Ireland. |
bugbane | noun (n.) A perennial white-flowered herb of the order Ranunculaceae and genus Cimiciguga; bugwort. There are several species. |
butane | noun (n.) An inflammable gaseous hydrocarbon, C4H10, of the marsh gas, or paraffin, series. |
biplane | noun (n.) An aeroplane with two main supporting surfaces one above the other. |
adjective (a.) Having, or consisting of, two superposed planes, aerocurves, or the like; of or pertaining to a biplane; as, a biplane rudder. |
cane | noun (n.) A name given to several peculiar palms, species of Calamus and Daemanorops, having very long, smooth flexible stems, commonly called rattans. |
noun (n.) Any plant with long, hard, elastic stems, as reeds and bamboos of many kinds; also, the sugar cane. | |
noun (n.) Stems of other plants are sometimes called canes; as, the canes of a raspberry. | |
noun (n.) A walking stick; a staff; -- so called because originally made of one the species of cane. | |
noun (n.) A lance or dart made of cane. | |
noun (n.) A local European measure of length. See Canna. | |
verb (v. t.) To beat with a cane. | |
verb (v. t.) To make or furnish with cane or rattan; as, to cane chairs. |
capellane | noun (n.) The curate of a chapel; a chaplain. |
chicane | noun (n.) The use of artful subterfuge, designed to draw away attention from the merits of a case or question; -- specifically applied to legal proceedings; trickery; chicanery; caviling; sophistry. |
noun (n.) To use shifts, cavils, or artifices. | |
noun (n.) In bridge, the holding of a hand without trumps, or the hand itself. It counts as simple honors. |
chlormethane | noun (n.) A colorless gas, CH3Cl, of a sweet odor, easily condensed to a liquid; -- called also methyl chloride. |
chlorophane | noun (n.) A variety of fluor spar, which, when heated, gives a beautiful emerald green light. |
noun (n.) The yellowish green pigment in the inner segment of the cones of the retina. See Chromophane. |
chromophane | noun (n.) A general name for the several coloring matters, red, green, yellow, etc., present in the inner segments in the cones of the retina, held in solution by fats, and slowly decolorized by light; distinct from the photochemical pigments of the rods of the retina. |
chrysophane | noun (n.) A glucoside extracted from rhubarb as a bitter, yellow, crystalline powder, and yielding chrysophanic acid on decomposition. |
cismontane | adjective (a.) On this side of the mountains. See under Ultramontane. |
cispadane | adjective (a.) On the hither side of the river Po with reference to Rome; that is, on the south side. |
counterpane | noun (n.) A coverlet for a bed, -- originally stitched or woven in squares or figures. |
noun (n.) A duplicate part or copy of an indenture, deed, etc., corresponding with the original; -- now called counterpart. |
cowbane | noun (n.) A poisonous umbelliferous plant; in England, the Cicuta virosa; in the United States, the Cicuta maculata and the Archemora rigida. See Water hemlock. |
crane | noun (n.) A measure for fresh herrings, -- as many as will fill a barrel. |
noun (n.) A wading bird of the genus Grus, and allied genera, of various species, having a long, straight bill, and long legs and neck. | |
noun (n.) A machine for raising and lowering heavy weights, and, while holding them suspended, transporting them through a limited lateral distance. In one form it consists of a projecting arm or jib of timber or iron, a rotating post or base, and the necessary tackle, windlass, etc.; -- so called from a fancied similarity between its arm and the neck of a crane See Illust. of Derrick. | |
noun (n.) An iron arm with horizontal motion, attached to the side or back of a fireplace, for supporting kettles, etc., over a fire. | |
noun (n.) A siphon, or bent pipe, for drawing liquors out of a cask. | |
noun (n.) A forked post or projecting bracket to support spars, etc., -- generally used in pairs. See Crotch, 2. | |
noun (n.) Any arm which swings about a vertical axis at one end, used for supporting a suspended weight. | |
noun (n.) The American blue heron (Ardea herodias). | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to rise; to raise or lift, as by a crane; -- with up. | |
verb (v. t.) To stretch, as a crane stretches its neck; as, to crane the neck disdainfully. | |
verb (v. i.) to reach forward with head and neck, in order to see better; as, a hunter cranes forward before taking a leap. |
crepane | noun (n.) An injury in a horse's leg, caused by the shoe of one hind foot striking and cutting the other leg. It sometimes forms an ulcer. |
cymophane | noun (n.) See Chrysoberyl. |
dane | noun (n.) A native, or a naturalized inhabitant, of Denmark. |
decane | noun (n.) A liquid hydrocarbon, C10H22, of the paraffin series, including several isomeric modifications. |
diaphane | noun (n.) A woven silk stuff with transparent and colored figures; diaper work. |
dodecane | noun (n.) Any one of a group of thick oily hydrocarbons, C12H26, of the paraffin series. |
dogbane | noun (n.) A small genus of perennial herbaceous plants, with poisonous milky juice, bearing slender pods pods in pairs. |
dogvane | noun (n.) A small vane of bunting, feathers, or any other light material, carried at the masthead to indicate the direction of the wind. |
doorplane | noun (n.) A plane on a door, giving the name, and sometimes the employment, of the occupant. |
douane | noun (n.) A customhouse. |
eikosane | noun (n.) A solid hydrocarbon, C20H42, of the paraffine series, of artificial production, and also probably occurring in petroleum. |
elecampane | noun (n.) A large, coarse herb (Inula Helenium), with composite yellow flowers. The root, which has a pungent taste, is used as a tonic, and was formerly of much repute as a stomachic. |
noun (n.) A sweetmeat made from the root of the plant. |
endecane | noun (n.) One of the higher hydrocarbons of the paraffin series, C11H24, found as a constituent of petroleum. |
ethane | noun (n.) A gaseous hydrocarbon, C2H6, forming a constituent of ordinary illuminating gas. It is the second member of the paraffin series, and its most important derivatives are common alcohol, aldehyde, ether, and acetic acid. Called also dimethyl. |
extramundane | adjective (a.) Beyond the material world. |
fane | noun (n.) A temple; a place consecrated to religion; a church. |
noun (n.) A weathercock. |
filigrane | noun (n.) Filigree. |
fleabane | noun (n.) One of various plants, supposed to have efficacy in driving away fleas. They belong, for the most part, to the genera Conyza, Erigeron, and Pulicaria. |
flybane | noun (n.) A kind of catchfly of the genus Silene; also, a poisonous mushroom (Agaricus muscarius); fly agaric. |
fossane | noun (n.) A species of civet (Viverra fossa) resembling the genet. |
frangipane | noun (n.) A perfume of jasmine; frangipani. |
noun (n.) A species of pastry, containing cream and almonds. |
glaucophane | noun (n.) A mineral of a dark bluish color, related to amphibole. It is characteristic of certain crystalline rocks. |
grane | noun (v. & n.) See Groan. |
hecdecane | noun (n.) A white, semisolid, spermaceti-like hydrocarbon, C16H34, of the paraffin series, found dissolved as an important ingredient of kerosene, and so called because each molecule has sixteen atoms of carbon; -- called also hexadecane. |
henbane | noun (n.) A plant of the genus Hyoscyamus (H. niger). All parts of the plant are poisonous, and the leaves are used for the same purposes as belladonna. It is poisonous to domestic fowls; whence the name. Called also, stinking nightshade, from the fetid odor of the plant. See Hyoscyamus. |
hendecane | noun (n.) A hydrocarbon, C11H24, of the paraffin series; -- so called because it has eleven atoms of carbon in each molecule. Called also endecane, undecane. |
heptane | noun (n.) Any one of several isometric hydrocarbons, C7H16, of the paraffin series (nine are possible, four are known); -- so called because the molecule has seven carbon atoms. Specifically, a colorless liquid, found as a constituent of petroleum, in the tar oil of cannel coal, etc. |
hexadecane | noun (n.) See Hecdecane. |
hexane | noun (n.) Any one of five hydrocarbons, C6H14, of the paraffin series. They are colorless, volatile liquids, and are so called because the molecule has six carbon atoms. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MANE (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (man) - Words That Begins with man:
man | noun (n.) A human being; -- opposed tobeast. |
noun (n.) Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child. | |
noun (n.) The human race; mankind. | |
noun (n.) The male portion of the human race. | |
noun (n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind. | |
noun (n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject. | |
noun (n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose! | |
noun (n.) A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife. | |
noun (n.) One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun. | |
noun (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played. | |
verb (v. t.) To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify. | |
verb (v. t.) To tame, as a hawk. | |
verb (v. t.) To furnish with a servants. | |
verb (v. t.) To wait on as a manservant. |
manning | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Man |
manable | adjective (a.) Marriageable. |
manace | noun (n. & v.) Same as Menace. |
manacle | noun (n.) A handcuff; a shackle for the hand or wrist; -- usually in the plural. |
verb (v. t.) To put handcuffs or other fastening upon, for confining the hands; to shackle; to confine; to restrain from the use of the limbs or natural powers. |
manacling | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manacle |
manage | noun (n.) The handling or government of anything, but esp. of a horse; management; administration. See Manege. |
noun (n.) To have under control and direction; to conduct; to guide; to administer; to treat; to handle. | |
noun (n.) Hence: Esp., to guide by careful or delicate treatment; to wield with address; to make subservient by artful conduct; to bring around cunningly to one's plans. | |
noun (n.) To train in the manege, as a horse; to exercise in graceful or artful action. | |
noun (n.) To treat with care; to husband. | |
noun (n.) To bring about; to contrive. | |
verb (v. i.) To direct affairs; to carry on business or affairs; to administer. |
managing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Manage |
manageability | noun (n.) The state or quality of being manageable; manageableness. |
manageable | adjective (a.) Such as can be managed or used; suffering control; governable; tractable; subservient; as, a manageable horse. |
manageless | adjective (a.) Unmanageable. |
manager | noun (n.) One who manages; a conductor or director; as, the manager of a theater. |
noun (n.) A person who conducts business or household affairs with economy and frugality; a good economist. | |
noun (n.) A contriver; an intriguer. |
managerial | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to management or a manager; as, managerial qualities. |
managership | noun (n.) The office or position of a manager. |
managery | noun (n.) Management; manner of using; conduct; direction. |
noun (n.) Husbandry; economy; frugality. |
manakin | noun (n.) Any one of numerous small birds belonging to Pipra, Manacus, and other genera of the family Pipridae. They are mostly natives of Central and South America. some are bright-colored, and others have the wings and tail curiously ornamented. The name is sometimes applied to related birds of other families. |
noun (n.) A dwarf. See Manikin. |
manatee | noun (n.) Any species of Trichechus, a genus of sirenians; -- called alsosea cow. |
manation | noun (n.) The act of issuing or flowing out. |
manbote | noun (n.) A sum paid to a lord as a pecuniary compensation for killing his man (that is, his vassal, servant, or tenant). |
manca | noun (n.) See Mancus. |
manche | noun (n.) A sleeve. |
manchet | noun (n.) Fine white bread; a loaf of fine bread. |
manchineel | noun (n.) A euphorbiaceous tree (Hippomane Mancinella) of tropical America, having a poisonous and blistering milky juice, and poisonous acrid fruit somewhat resembling an apple. |
manchu | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Manchuria; also, the language spoken by the Manchus. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Manchuria or its inhabitants. |
mancipation | noun (n.) Slavery; involuntary servitude. |
manciple | noun (n.) A steward; a purveyor, particularly of a college or Inn of Court. |
mancus | noun (n.) An old Anglo Saxon coin both of gold and silver, and of variously estimated values. The silver mancus was equal to about one shilling of modern English money. |
mand | noun (n.) A demand. |
mandamus | noun (n.) A writ issued by a superior court and directed to some inferior tribunal, or to some corporation or person exercising authority, commanding the performance of some specified duty. |
mandarin | noun (n.) A Chinese public officer or nobleman; a civil or military official in China and Annam. |
noun (n.) A small orange, with easily separable rind. It is thought to be of Chinese origin, and is counted a distinct species (Citrus nobilis)mandarin orange; tangerine --. |
mandarinate | noun (n.) The collective body of officials or persons of rank in China. |
mandarinic | adjective (a.) Appropriate or peculiar to a mandarin. |
mandarining | noun (n.) The process of giving an orange color to goods formed of animal tissue, as silk or wool, not by coloring matter, but by producing a certain change in the fiber by the action of dilute nitric acid. |
mandarinism | noun (n.) A government mandarins; character or spirit of the mandarins. |
mandatary | noun (n.) One to whom a command or charge is given; hence, specifically, a person to whom the pope has, by his prerogative, given a mandate or order for his benefice. |
noun (n.) One who undertakes to discharge a specific business commission; a mandatory. |
mandate | noun (n.) An official or authoritative command; an order or injunction; a commission; a judicial precept. |
noun (n.) A rescript of the pope, commanding an ordinary collator to put the person therein named in possession of the first vacant benefice in his collation. | |
noun (n.) A contract by which one employs another to manage any business for him. By the Roman law, it must have been gratuitous. |
mandator | noun (n.) A director; one who gives a mandate or order. |
noun (n.) The person who employs another to perform a mandate. |
mandatory | noun (n.) Same as Mandatary. |
adjective (a.) Containing a command; preceptive; directory. |
mandelate | noun (n.) A salt of mandelic acid. |
mandelic | adjective (a.) Pertaining to an acid first obtained from benzoic aldehyde (oil of better almonds), as a white crystalline substance; -- called also phenyl glycolic acid. |
manderil | noun (n.) A mandrel. |
mandible | noun (n.) The bone, or principal bone, of the lower jaw; the inferior maxilla; -- also applied to either the upper or the lower jaw in the beak of birds. |
noun (n.) The anterior pair of mouth organs of insects, crustaceaus, and related animals, whether adapted for biting or not. See Illust. of Diptera. |
mandibular | noun (n.) The principal mandibular bone; the mandible. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to a mandible; like a mandible. |
mandibulate | noun (n.) An insect having mandibles. |
adjective (a.) Alt. of Mandibulated |
mandibulated | adjective (a.) Provided with mandibles adapted for biting, as many insects. |
mandibuliform | adjective (a.) Having the form of a mandible; -- said especially of the maxillae of an insect when hard and adapted for biting. |
mandibulohyoid | adjective (a.) Pertaining both to the mandibular and the hyoid arch, or situated between them. |
mandil | noun (n.) A loose outer garment worn the 16th and 17th centuries. |
mandilion | noun (n.) See Mandil. |
mandingos | noun (n. pl.) ; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MANE:
English Words which starts with 'm' and ends with 'e':
macaque | noun (n.) Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies. |
mace | noun (n.) A money of account in China equal to one tenth of a tael; also, a weight of 57.98 grains. |
noun (n.) A kind of spice; the aril which partly covers nutmegs. See Nutmeg. | |
noun (n.) A heavy staff or club of metal; a spiked club; -- used as weapon in war before the general use of firearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor. | |
noun (n.) A staff borne by, or carried before, a magistrate as an ensign of his authority. | |
noun (n.) An officer who carries a mace as an emblem of authority. | |
noun (n.) A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple. | |
noun (n.) A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand. |
machete | noun (n.) A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. |
machine | noun (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine. |
noun (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle. | |
noun (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another. | |
noun (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine. | |
noun (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends. | |
noun (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit. | |
verb (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine. |
mackle | noun (n.) Same Macule. |
verb (v. t. & i.) To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression. |
macle | noun (n.) Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite. |
noun (n.) A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance. | |
noun (n.) A twin crystal. |
macrodome | noun (n.) A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4. |
macrospore | noun (n.) One of the specially large spores of certain flowerless plants, as Selaginella, etc. |
macrotone | noun (n.) Same as Macron. |
macrozoospore | noun (n.) A large motile spore having four vibratile cilia; -- found in certain green algae. |
maculate | adjective (a.) Marked with spots or maculae; blotched; hence, defiled; impure; as, most maculate thoughts. |
verb (v.) To spot; to stain; to blur. |
maculature | noun (n.) Blotting paper. |
macule | noun (n.) A spot. |
noun (n.) A blur, or an appearance of a double impression, as when the paper slips a little; a mackle. | |
verb (v.) To blur; especially (Print.), to blur or double an impression from type. See Mackle. |
maculose | adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to spots upon a surface; spotted; maculate. |
madame | noun (n.) My lady; -- a French title formerly given to ladies of quality; now, in France, given to all married women. |
made | noun (n.) See Mad, n. |
adjective (a.) Artificially produced; pieced together; formed by filling in; as, made ground; a made mast, in distinction from one consisting of a single spar. | |
() imp. & p. p. of Make. | |
(imp. & p. p.) of Make |
madecassee | noun (n.) A native or inhabitant of Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar. See Malagasy. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Madagascar or its inhabitants. |
mademoiselle | noun (n.) A French title of courtesy given to a girl or an unmarried lady, equivalent to the English Miss. |
noun (n.) A marine food fish (Sciaena chrysura), of the Southern United States; -- called also yellowtail, and silver perch. |
madge | noun (n.) The barn owl. |
noun (n.) The magpie. |
madhouse | noun (n.) A house where insane persons are confined; an insane asylum; a bedlam. |
madrague | noun (n.) A large fish pound used for the capture of the tunny in the Mediterranean; also applied to the seines used for the same purpose. |
madrepore | noun (n.) Any coral of the genus Madrepora; formerly, often applied to any stony coral. |
madreporite | noun (n.) A fossil coral. |
noun (n.) The madreporic plate of echinoderms. |
maegbote | noun (n.) Alt. of Magbote |
magbote | noun (n.) Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman. |
noun (n.) See Maegbote. |
magazine | noun (n.) A receptacle in which anything is stored, especially military stores, as ammunition, arms, provisions, etc. |
noun (n.) The building or room in which the supply of powder is kept in a fortification or a ship. | |
noun (n.) A chamber in a gun for holding a number of cartridges to be fed automatically to the piece. | |
noun (n.) A pamphlet published periodically containing miscellaneous papers or compositions. | |
noun (n.) A country or district especially rich in natural products. | |
noun (n.) A city viewed as a marketing center. | |
noun (n.) A reservoir or supply chamber for a stove, battery, camera, typesetting machine, or other apparatus. | |
noun (n.) A store, or shop, where goods are kept for sale. | |
verb (v. t.) To store in, or as in, a magazine; to store up for use. |
mage | noun (n.) A magician. |
maggiore | adjective (a.) Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major. |
magistrate | noun (n.) A person clothed with power as a public civil officer; a public civil officer invested with the executive government, or some branch of it. |
magistrature | noun (n.) Magistracy. |
magnesite | noun (n.) Native magnesium carbonate occurring in white compact or granular masses, and also in rhombohedral crystals. |
magnetite | noun (n.) An oxide of iron (Fe3O4) occurring in isometric crystals, also massive, of a black color and metallic luster. It is readily attracted by a magnet and sometimes possesses polarity, being then called loadstone. It is an important iron ore. Called also magnetic iron. |
magnetizable | adjective (a.) Capable of magnetized. |
magnetizee | noun (n.) A person subjected to the influence of animal magnetism. |
magnifiable | adjective (a.) Such as can be magnified, or extolled. |
magnificence | noun (n.) The act of doing what magnificent; the state or quality of being magnificent. |
magniloquence | noun (n.) The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence. |
magnitude | noun (n.) Extent of dimensions; size; -- applied to things that have length, breath, and thickness. |
noun (n.) That which has one or more of the three dimensions, length, breadth, and thickness. | |
noun (n.) Anything of which greater or less can be predicated, as time, weight, force, and the like. | |
noun (n.) Greatness; grandeur. | |
noun (n.) Greatness, in reference to influence or effect; importance; as, an affair of magnitude. |
magpie | noun (n.) Any one of numerous species of the genus Pica and related genera, allied to the jays, but having a long graduated tail. |
mahoe | noun (n.) A name given to several malvaceous trees (species of Hibiscus, Ochroma, etc.), and to their strong fibrous inner bark, which is used for strings and cordage. |
mahone | noun (n.) A large Turkish ship. |
maidenlike | adjective (a.) Like a maiden; modest; coy. |
maidpale | adjective (a.) Pale, like a sick girl. |
maigre | adjective (a.) Belonging to a fast day or fast; as, a maigre day. |
mailable | adjective (a.) Admissible lawfully into the mail. |
maine | noun (n.) One of the New England States. |
mainpernable | adjective (a.) Capable of being admitted to give surety by mainpernors; able to be mainprised. |
mainprise | noun (n.) A writ directed to the sheriff, commanding him to take sureties, called mainpernors, for the prisoner's appearance, and to let him go at large. This writ is now obsolete. |
noun (n.) Deliverance of a prisoner on security for his appearance at a day. | |
verb (v. t.) To suffer to go at large, on his finding sureties, or mainpernors, for his appearance at a day; -- said of a prisoner. |
maintainable | adjective (a.) That maybe maintained. |
maintenance | noun (n.) The act of maintaining; sustenance; support; defense; vindication. |
noun (n.) That which maintains or supports; means of sustenance; supply of necessaries and conveniences. | |
noun (n.) An officious or unlawful intermeddling in a cause depending between others, by assisting either party with money or means to carry it on. See Champerty. |
maistre | noun (n.) Alt. of Maistry |
maistrie | noun (n.) Alt. of Maistry |
maize | noun (n.) A large species of American grass of the genus Zea (Z. Mays), widely cultivated as a forage and food plant; Indian corn. Also, its seed, growing on cobs, and used as food for men animals. |
majorate | noun (n.) The office or rank of a major. |
adjective (a.) To augment; to increase. |
majusculae | noun (n. pl.) Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier. |
majuscule | noun (n.) A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculae. |
makable | adjective (a.) Capable of being made. |
make | noun (n.) A companion; a mate; often, a husband or a wife. |
noun (n.) Structure, texture, constitution of parts; construction; shape; form. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to exist; to bring into being; to form; to produce; to frame; to fashion; to create. | |
verb (v. t.) To form of materials; to cause to exist in a certain form; to construct; to fabricate. | |
verb (v. t.) To produce, as something artificial, unnatural, or false; -- often with up; as, to make up a story. | |
verb (v. t.) To bring about; to bring forward; to be the cause or agent of; to effect, do, perform, or execute; -- often used with a noun to form a phrase equivalent to the simple verb that corresponds to such noun; as, to make complaint, for to complain; to make record of, for to record; to make abode, for to abide, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To execute with the requisite formalities; as, to make a bill, note, will, deed, etc. | |
verb (v. t.) To gain, as the result of one's efforts; to get, as profit; to make acquisition of; to have accrue or happen to one; as, to make a large profit; to make an error; to make a loss; to make money. | |
verb (v. t.) To find, as the result of calculation or computation; to ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day. | |
verb (v. t.) To put a desired or desirable condition; to cause to thrive. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to be or become; to put into a given state verb, or adjective; to constitute; as, to make known; to make public; to make fast. | |
verb (v. t.) To cause to appear to be; to constitute subjectively; to esteem, suppose, or represent. | |
verb (v. t.) To require; to constrain; to compel; to force; to cause; to occasion; -- followed by a noun or pronoun and infinitive. | |
verb (v. t.) To become; to be, or to be capable of being, changed or fashioned into; to do the part or office of; to furnish the material for; as, he will make a good musician; sweet cider makes sour vinegar; wool makes warm clothing. | |
verb (v. t.) To compose, as parts, ingredients, or materials; to constitute; to form; to amount to. | |
verb (v. t.) To be engaged or concerned in. | |
verb (v. t.) To reach; to attain; to arrive at or in sight of. | |
verb (v. i.) To act in a certain manner; to have to do; to manage; to interfere; to be active; -- often in the phrase to meddle or make. | |
verb (v. i.) To proceed; to tend; to move; to go; as, he made toward home; the tiger made at the sportsmen. | |
verb (v. i.) To tend; to contribute; to have effect; -- with for or against; as, it makes for his advantage. | |
verb (v. i.) To increase; to augment; to accrue. | |
verb (v. i.) To compose verses; to write poetry; to versify. |
makebate | noun (n.) One who excites contentions and quarrels. |
malacatune | noun (n.) See Melocoton. |
malachite | noun (n.) Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure. |
malacolite | noun (n.) A variety of pyroxene. |
malaise | noun (n.) An indefinite feeling of uneasiness, or of being sick or ill at ease. |
malamate | noun (n.) A salt of malamic acid. |
malamethane | noun (n.) A white crystalline substance forming the ethyl salt of malamic acid. |
malamide | noun (n.) The acid amide derived from malic acid, as a white crystalline substance metameric with asparagine. |
malate | noun (n.) A salt of malic acid. |
male | noun (n.) Same as Mail, a bag. |
noun (n.) An animal of the male sex. | |
noun (n.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers. | |
adjective (a.) Evil; wicked; bad. | |
verb (v. t.) 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. | |
verb (v. t.) 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. | |
verb (v. t.) Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage. | |
verb (v. t.) Consisting of males; as, a male choir. | |
verb (v. t.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc. |
maleate | noun (n.) A salt of maleic acid. |
malefeasance | noun (n.) See Malfeasance. |
malefice | noun (n.) An evil deed; artifice; enchantment. |
maleficence | noun (n.) Evil doing, esp. to others. |
maleficience | noun (n.) The doing of evil, harm, or mischief. |
malengine | noun (n.) Evil machination; guile; deceit. |
malepractice | noun (n.) See Malpractice. |
malevolence | noun (n.) The quality or state of being malevolent; evil disposition toward another; inclination to injure others; ill will. See Synonym of Malice. |
malfeasance | noun (n.) The doing of an act which a person ought not to do; evil conduct; an illegal deed. |
malice | noun (n.) Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil. |
noun (n.) Any wicked or mischievous intention of the mind; a depraved inclination to mischief; an intention to vex, annoy, or injure another person, or to do a wrongful act without just cause or cause or excuse; a wanton disregard of the rights or safety of others; willfulness. | |
verb (v. t.) To regard with extreme ill will. |
malignance | noun (n.) Alt. of Malignancy |
malleable | adjective (a.) Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. |
mallemoke | noun (n.) See Mollemoke. |
malonate | adjective (a.) At salt of malonic acid. |
malpractice | noun (n.) Evil practice; illegal or immoral conduct; practice contrary to established rules; specifically, the treatment of a case by a surgeon or physician in a manner which is contrary to accepted rules and productive of unfavorable results. |
maltese | noun (n. sing. & pl.) A native or inhabitant of Malta; the people of Malta. |
adjective (a.) Of or pertaining to Malta or to its inhabitants. |
maltine | noun (n.) The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt. |
maltose | noun (n.) A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power. |
malvesie | noun (n.) Malmsey wine. See Malmsey. |
mamaluke | noun (n.) Same as Mameluke. |
mameluke | noun (n.) One of a body of mounted soldiers recruited from slaves converted to Mohammedanism, who, during several centuries, had more or less control of the government of Egypt, until exterminated or dispersed by Mehemet Ali in 1811. |
mammee | noun (n.) A fruit tree of tropical America, belonging to the genus Mammea (M. Americana); also, its fruit. The latter is large, covered with a thick, tough ring, and contains a bright yellow pulp of a pleasant taste and fragrant scent. It is often called mammee apple. |
mammillate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Mammillated |
mammonite | noun (n.) One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. |
mammose | adjective (a.) Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped. |
mandlestone | noun (n.) Amygdaloid. |
mandoline | noun (n.) A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute. |
mandore | noun (n.) A kind of four-stringed lute. |
mandragorite | noun (n.) One who habitually intoxicates himself with a narcotic obtained from mandrake. |
mandrake | noun (n.) A low plant (Mandragora officinarum) of the Nightshade family, having a fleshy root, often forked, and supposed to resemble a man. It was therefore supposed to have animal life, and to cry out when pulled up. All parts of the plant are strongly narcotic. It is found in the Mediterranean region. |
noun (n.) The May apple (Podophyllum peltatum). See May apple under May, and Podophyllum. |
manducable | adjective (a.) Such as can be chewed; fit to be eaten. |
manoeuvre | noun (n.) Management; dexterous movement; specif., a military or naval evolution, movement, or change of position. |
noun (n.) Management with address or artful design; adroit proceeding; stratagem. | |
noun (n.) To perform a movement or movements in military or naval tactics; to make changes in position with reference to getting advantage in attack or defense. | |
noun (n.) To manage with address or art; to scheme. | |
noun (n. & v.) See Maneuver. | |
verb (v. t.) To change the positions of, as of troops of ships. |