Name Report For First Name MARDON:

MARDON

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

Rhymes with MARDON - Names & Words

First Names Rhyming MARDON

FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MARDON AS A WHOLE:

 

NAMES RHYMING WITH MARDON (According to last letters):

Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (ardon) - Names That Ends with ardon:

ardon vardon bardon

Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (rdon) - Names That Ends with rdon:

gordon jordon burdon jourdon

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

aedon sidon dudon celyddon glendon corydon korudon ladon laomedon poseidon sarpedon spyridon raidon beldon bredon brendon burhdon caedon condon creedon croydon don eldon feldon gradon haddon hadon haydon jadon jaedon jaidon jaydon lancdon langdon ogdon randon shandon weldon waldon seldon lyndon landon huntingdon brandon blagdon celidon odon sheldon elsdon kingdon meldon sandon seadon wildon adon braddon bradon braedon braydon raydon

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

afton carnation solon strephon cihuaton nijlon sokanon odion sion accalon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton zorion eburacon mabon bendision alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison histion kenton pierson preston ralston

NAMES RHYMING WITH MARDON (According to first letters):

Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (mardo) - Names That Begins with mardo:

Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (mard) - Names That Begins with mard:

mardel marden

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

mar mara marah maralah maralyn maram maranda marc marcail marcar marcas marce marceau marcel marcela marceline marcelino marcella marcelle marcellia marcello marcellus marcelus marchelle marchl marchland marchman marcia marco marcos marcsa marcus mare marea maree mareesa marek marelda marella maren marenka mareo marga margaret margareta margarethe margarid margarita margaux margawse margeaux margeret margerie margery margit margo margot margreet margret margrit margrith marguerite marhild marhilda marhildi maria mariabella mariadok mariah mariam mariama mariamne marian mariana mariane marianne mariano marib maribel maribella maribelle marica maricel maricela maricelia maricella marid maridith marie marie-joie marieanne mariel mariela mariele marielle mariet marietta mariette

NAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MARDON:

First Names which starts with 'ma' and ends with 'on':

machaon mackinnon macnaughton macon macpherson maddison madelon madison mahon mai-ron manon manton marion marlon marmion marston maryon mason masson matherson matheson matson mattison maysoon

First Names which starts with 'm' and ends with 'n':

ma'mun ma'n mabonagrain mabonaqain mabyn macalpin macartan macauslan macbain macbean macclennan macen macewen macgowan mackaillyn macklin macklyn maclachlan maclaren maclean macmillan macnachtan macqueen macsen madailein madalen madalyn madalynn maddalen maddalyn madden maddielynn madelynn madilynn madisen madisyn madolen maegan maeghan maeleachlainn maelynn maeveen magan magdalen maggie-lyn maialen maighdlin maimun mainchin mairin makaylyn makeen makin malin malvin malvyn malyn mandalyn mann maolmin maolruadhan marilyn marilynn marin marlan marleen marlin marlyn marlynn marnin marsden marsten martainn martin martyn marven

English Words Rhyming MARDON

ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MARDON AS A WHOLE:



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


Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (ardon) - English Words That Ends with ardon:


bombardonnoun (n.) Originally, a deep-toned instrument of the oboe or bassoon family; thence, a bass reed stop on the organ. The name bombardon is now given to a brass instrument, the lowest of the saxhorns, in tone resembling the ophicleide.

gardonnoun (n.) A European cyprinoid fish; the id.

lardonnoun (n.) Alt. of Lardoon


Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (rdon) - English Words That Ends with rdon:


bourdonnoun (n.) A pilgrim's staff.
 noun (n.) A drone bass, as in a bagpipe, or a hurdy-gurdy. See Burden (of a song.)
 noun (n.) A kind of organ stop.

burdonnoun (n.) A pilgrim's staff.

cordonnoun (n.) A cord or ribbon bestowed or borne as a badge of honor; a broad ribbon, usually worn after the manner of a baldric, constituting a mark of a very high grade in an honorary order. Cf. Grand cordon.
 noun (n.) The cord worn by a Franciscan friar.
 noun (n.) The coping of the scarp wall, which projects beyong the face of the wall a few inches.
 noun (n.) A line or series of sentinels, or of military posts, inclosing or guarding any place or thing.
 noun (n.) A rich and ornamental lace or string, used to secure a mantle in some costumes of state.

decachordonnoun (n.) An ancient Greek musical instrument of ten strings, resembling the harp.
 noun (n.) Something consisting of ten parts.

guerdonnoun (n.) A reward; requital; recompense; -- used in both a good and a bad sense.
 noun (n.) To give guerdon to; to reward; to be a recompense for.

jurdonnoun (n.) Jordan.

lycoperdonnoun (n.) A genus of fungi, remarkable for the great quantity of spores, forming a fine dust, which is thrown out like smoke when the plant is compressed or burst; puffball.


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


abaddonnoun (n.) The destroyer, or angel of the bottomless pit; -- the same as Apollyon and Asmodeus.
 noun (n.) Hell; the bottomless pit.

abandonnoun (n.) A complete giving up to natural impulses; freedom from artificial constraint; careless freedom or ease.
 verb (v. t.) To cast or drive out; to banish; to expel; to reject.
 verb (v. t.) To give up absolutely; to forsake entirely ; to renounce utterly; to relinquish all connection with or concern on; to desert, as a person to whom one owes allegiance or fidelity; to quit; to surrender.
 verb (v. t.) Reflexively: To give (one's self) up without attempt at self-control; to yield (one's self) unrestrainedly; -- often in a bad sense.
 verb (v. t.) To relinquish all claim to; -- used when an insured person gives up to underwriters all claim to the property covered by a policy, which may remain after loss or damage by a peril insured against.
 verb (v.) Abandonment; relinquishment.

achilles' tendonnoun (n.) The strong tendon formed of the united tendons of the large muscles in the calf of the leg, an inserted into the bone of the heel; -- so called from the mythological account of Achilles being held by the heel when dipped in the River Styx.

acotyledonnoun (n.) A plant which has no cotyledons, as the dodder and all flowerless plants.

anodonnoun (n.) A genus of fresh-water bivalves, having no teeth at the hinge.

bandonnoun (n.) Disposal; control; license.

boustrophedonnoun (n.) An ancient mode of writing, in alternate directions, one line from left to right, and the next from right to left (as fields are plowed), as in early Greek and Hittite.

calcedonnoun (n.) A foul vein, like chalcedony, in some precious stones.

celadonnoun (n.) A pale sea-green color; also, porcelain or fine pottery of this tint.

chelidonnoun (n.) The hollow at the flexure of the arm.

clarendonnoun (n.) A style of type having a narrow and heave face. It is made in all sizes.

corindonnoun (n.) See Corrundum.

coryphodonnoun (n.) A genus of extinct mammals from the eocene tertiary of Europe and America. Its species varied in size between the tapir and rhinoceros, and were allied to those animals, but had short, plantigrade, five-toed feet, like the elephant.

cotyledonnoun (n.) One of the patches of villi found in some forms of placenta.
 noun (n.) A leaf borne by the caulicle or radicle of an embryo; a seed leaf.

croydonnoun (n.) A kind of carriage like a gig, orig. of wicker-work.
 noun (n.) A kind of cotton sheeting; also, a calico.

dicotyledonnoun (n.) A plant whose seeds divide into two seed lobes, or cotyledons, in germinating.

diodonnoun (n.) A genus of spinose, plectognath fishes, having the teeth of each jaw united into a single beaklike plate. They are able to inflate the body by taking in air or water, and, hence, are called globefishes, swellfishes, etc. Called also porcupine fishes, and sea hedgehogs.
 noun (n.) A genus of whales.

diprotodonnoun (n.) An extinct Quaternary marsupial from Australia, about as large as the hippopotamus; -- so named because of its two large front teeth. See Illustration in Appendix.

donnoun (n.) Sir; Mr; Signior; -- a title in Spain, formerly given to noblemen and gentlemen only, but now common to all classes.
 noun (n.) A grand personage, or one making pretension to consequence; especially, the head of a college, or one of the fellows at the English universities.
 verb (v. t.) To put on; to dress in; to invest one's self with.

espadonnoun (n.) A long, heavy, two-handed and two-edged sword, formerly used by Spanish foot soldiers and by executioners.

euroclydonnoun (n.) A tempestuous northeast wind which blows in the Mediterranean. See Levanter.

fondonnoun (n.) A large copper vessel used for hot amalgamation.

formedonnoun (n.) A writ of right for a tenant in tail in case of a discontinuance of the estate tail. This writ has been abolished.

glyptodonnoun (n.) An extinct South American quaternary mammal, allied to the armadillos. It was as large as an ox, was covered with tessellated scales, and had fluted teeth.

hagdonnoun (n.) One of several species of sea birds of the genus Puffinus; esp., P. major, the greater shearwarter, and P. Stricklandi, the black hagdon or sooty shearwater; -- called also hagdown, haglin, and hag. See Shearwater.

hecatompedonnoun (n.) A name given to the old Parthenon at Athens, because measuring 100 Greek feet, probably in the width across the stylobate.

iguanodonnoun (n.) A genus of gigantic herbivorous dinosaurs having a birdlike pelvis and large hind legs with three-toed feet capable of supporting the entire body. Its teeth resemble those of the iguana, whence its name. Several species are known, mostly from the Wealden of England and Europe. See Illustration in Appendix.

labyrinthodonnoun (n.) A genus of very large fossil amphibians, of the Triassic period, having bony plates on the under side of the body. It is the type of the order Labyrinthodonta. Called also Mastodonsaurus.

leontodonnoun (n.) A genus of liguliflorous composite plants, including the fall dandelion (L. autumnale), and formerly the true dandelion; -- called also lion's tooth.

londonnoun (n.) The capital city of England.

mastodonnoun (n.) An extinct genus of mammals closely allied to the elephant, but having less complex molar teeth, and often a pair of lower, as well as upper, tusks, which are incisor teeth. The species were mostly larger than elephants, and their romains occur in nearly all parts of the world in deposits ranging from Miocene to late Quaternary time.

monocotyledonnoun (n.) A plant with only one cotyledon, or seed lobe.

mylodonnoun (n.) An extinct genus of large slothlike American edentates, allied to Megatherium.

myrmidonnoun (n.) One of a fierce tribe or troop who accompained Achilles, their king, to the Trojan war.
 noun (n.) A soldier or a subordinate civil officer who executes cruel orders of a superior without protest or pity; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc.

oreodonnoun (n.) A genus of extinct herbivorous mammals, abundant in the Tertiary formation of the Rocky Mountains. It is more or less related to the camel, hog, and deer.

parallelopipedonnoun (n.) A parallelopiped.

polycotyledonnoun (n.) A plant that has many, or more than two, cotyledons in the seed.

pteranodonnoun (n.) A genus of American Cretaceous pterodactyls destitute of teeth. Several species are known, some of which had an expanse of wings of twenty feet or more.

randonnoun (n.) Random.
 verb (v. i.) To go or stray at random.

sindonnoun (n.) A wrapper.
 noun (n.) A small rag or pledget introduced into the hole in the cranium made by a trephine.

siredonnoun (n.) The larval form of any salamander while it still has external gills; especially, one of those which, like the axolotl (Amblystoma Mexicanum), sometimes lay eggs while in this larval state, but which under more favorable conditions lose their gills and become normal salamanders. See also Axolotl.

skaddonnoun (n.) The larva of a bee.

smilodonnoun (n.) An extinct genus of saber-toothed tigers. See Mach/rodus.

solenodonnoun (n.) Either one of two species of singular West Indian insectivores, allied to the tenrec. One species (Solendon paradoxus), native of St. Domingo, is called also agouta; the other (S. Cubanus), found in Cuba, is called almique.

sphenodonnoun (n.) Same as Hatteria.

squalodonnoun (n.) A genus of fossil whales belonging to the Phocodontia; -- so called because their are serrated, like a shark's.

tendonnoun (n.) A tough insensible cord, bundle, or band of fibrous connective tissue uniting a muscle with some other part; a sinew.

tetradonnoun (n.) See Tetrodon.

tetrodonnoun (n.) Any one of numerous species of plectognath fishes belonging to Tetrodon and allied genera. Each jaw is furnished with two large, thick, beaklike, bony teeth.

toxodonnoun (n.) A gigantic extinct herbivorous mammal from South America, having teeth bent like a bow. It is the type of the order Toxodonta.

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


Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (mardo) - Words That Begins with mardo:



Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (mard) - Words That Begins with mard:


mardi grasnoun (n.) The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking.


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


marnoun (n.) A small lake. See Mere.
 noun (n.) A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.
 verb (v.) To make defective; to do injury to, esp. by cutting off or defacing a part; to impair; to disfigure; to deface.
 verb (v.) To spoil; to ruin.

marringnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mar

maranoun (n.) The principal or ruling evil spirit.
 noun (n.) A female demon who torments people in sleep by crouching on their chests or stomachs, or by causing terrifying visions.
 noun (n.) The Patagonian cavy (Dolichotis Patagonicus).

marabounoun (n.) A large stork of the genus Leptoptilos (formerly Ciconia), esp. the African species (L. crumenifer), which furnishes plumes worn as ornaments. The Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant.
 noun (n.) One having five eighths negro blood; the offspring of a mulatto and a griffe.
 noun (n.) A kind of thrown raw silk, nearly white naturally, but capable of being dyed without scouring; also, a thin fabric made from it, as for scarfs, which resembles the feathers of the marabou in delicacy, -- whence the name.

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

maracannoun (n.) A macaw.

marainoun (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

maranathanoun (n.) "Our Lord cometh;" -- an expression used by St. Paul at the conclusion of his first Epistle to the Corinthians (xvi. 22). This word has been used in anathematizing persons for great crimes; as much as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.

marantanoun (n.) A genus of endogenous plants found in tropical America, and some species also in India. They have tuberous roots containing a large amount of starch, and from one species (Maranta arundinacea) arrowroot is obtained. Many kinds are cultivated for ornament.

maraschinonoun (n.) A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

marasmusnoun (n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis.

maraudingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maraud

maraudnoun (n.) An excursion for plundering.
 verb (v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder.

maravedinoun (n.) A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.

marblenoun (n.) A massive, compact limestone; a variety of calcite, capable of being polished and used for architectural and ornamental purposes. The color varies from white to black, being sometimes yellow, red, and green, and frequently beautifully veined or clouded. The name is also given to other rocks of like use and appearance, as serpentine or verd antique marble, and less properly to polished porphyry, granite, etc.
 noun (n.) A thing made of, or resembling, marble, as a work of art, or record, in marble; or, in the plural, a collection of such works; as, the Arundel or Arundelian marbles; the Elgin marbles.
 noun (n.) A little ball of marble, or of some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.
 noun (n.) To stain or vein like marble; to variegate in color; as, to marble the edges of a book, or the surface of paper.
 adjective (a.) Made of, or resembling, marble; as, a marble mantel; marble paper.
 adjective (a.) Cold; hard; unfeeling; as, a marble breast or heart.

marblingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marble
 noun (n.) The art or practice of variegating in color, in imitation of marble.
 noun (n.) An intermixture of fat and lean in meat, giving it a marbled appearance.
 noun (n.) Distinct markings resembling the variegations of marble, as on birds and insects.

marbledadjective (a.) Made of, or faced with, marble.
 adjective (a.) Made to resemble marble; veined or spotted like marble.
 adjective (a.) Varied with irregular markings, or witch a confused blending of irregular spots and streaks.
  (imp. & p. p.) of Marble

marbleizingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marbleize

marblernoun (n.) One who works upon marble or other stone.
 noun (n.) One who colors or stains in imitation of marble.

marblyadjective (a.) Containing, or resembling, marble.

marbrinusnoun (n.) A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries.

marcnoun (n.) The refuse matter which remains after the pressure of fruit, particularly of grapes.
 noun (n.) A weight of various commodities, esp. of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
 noun (n.) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
 noun (n.) A German coin and money of account. See Mark.

marcantantnoun (n.) A merchant.

marcasitenoun (n.) A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites.

marcasiticadjective (a.) Alt. of Marcasitical

marcasiticaladjective (a.) Containing, or having the nature of, marcasite.

marcassinnoun (n.) A young wild boar.

marcatoadjective (a.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction.

marcelinenoun (n.) A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.

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

marcescibleadjective (a.) Li/ble to wither or decay.

marchnoun (n.) The third month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
 noun (n.) A territorial border or frontier; a region adjacent to a boundary line; a confine; -- used chiefly in the plural, and in English history applied especially to the border land on the frontiers between England and Scotland, and England and Wales.
 noun (n.) The act of marching; a movement of soldiers from one stopping place to another; military progress; advance of troops.
 noun (n.) Hence: Measured and regular advance or movement, like that of soldiers moving in order; stately or deliberate walk; steady onward movement.
 noun (n.) The distance passed over in marching; as, an hour's march; a march of twenty miles.
 noun (n.) A piece of music designed or fitted to accompany and guide the movement of troops; a piece of music in the march form.
 verb (v. i.) To border; to be contiguous; to lie side by side.
 verb (v. i.) To move with regular steps, as a soldier; to walk in a grave, deliberate, or stately manner; to advance steadily.
 verb (v. i.) To proceed by walking in a body or in military order; as, the German army marched into France.
 verb (v. t.) TO cause to move with regular steps in the manner of a soldier; to cause to move in military array, or in a body, as troops; to cause to advance in a steady, regular, or stately manner; to cause to go by peremptory command, or by force.

marchingnoun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of March
  () a. & n., fr. March, v.

marchernoun (n.) The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory.

marchetnoun (n.) Alt. of Merchet

marchionessnoun (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.

marchmannoun (n.) A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales.

marchpanenoun (n.) A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar.

marcianadjective (a.) Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold.

marcidadjective (a.) Pining; lean; withered.
 adjective (a.) Characterized by emaciation, as a fever.

marciditynoun (n.) The state or quality of being withered or lean.

marcionitenoun (n.) A follower of Marcion, a Gnostic of the second century, who adopted the Oriental notion of the two conflicting principles, and imagined that between them there existed a third power, neither wholly good nor evil, the Creator of the world and of man, and the God of the Jewish dispensation.

marcobrunnernoun (n.) A celebrated Rhine wine.

marcornoun (n.) A wasting away of flesh; decay.

marcosiannoun (n.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician.

marenoun (n.) The female of the horse and other equine quadrupeds.
 noun (n.) Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare.

mareisnoun (n.) A Marsh.

marenanoun (n.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus.

mareschalnoun (n.) A military officer of high rank; a marshal.

margaratenoun (n.) A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.

ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MARDON:

English Words which starts with 'ma' and ends with 'on':

macadamizationnoun (n.) The process or act of macadamizing.

macaroonnoun (n.) A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.
 noun (n.) A finical fellow, or macaroni.

macerationnoun (n.) The act or process of macerating.

machicolationnoun (n.) An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.
 noun (n.) The act of discharging missiles or pouring burning or melted substances upon assailants through such apertures.

machinationnoun (n.) The act of machinating.
 noun (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.

macronnoun (n.) A short, straight, horizontal mark [-], placed over vowels to denote that they are to be pronounced with a long sound; as, a, in dame; /, in s/am, etc.

mactationnoun (n.) The act of killing a victim for sacrifice.

maculationnoun (n.) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish.

madefactionnoun (n.) Alt. of Madefication

madeficationnoun (n.) The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet.

magdaleonnoun (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.

magnetizationnoun (n.) The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized.

magnificationnoun (n.) The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration.

majorationnoun (n.) Increase; enlargement.

makaronnoun (n.) See Macaroon, 2.

malacissationnoun (n.) The act of making soft or supple.

malacosteonnoun (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.

malacotoonnoun (n.) See Melocoton.

maladministrationnoun (n.) Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs.

malassimilationnoun (n.) Imperfect digestion of the several leading constituents of the food.
 noun (n.) An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.

malaxationnoun (n.) The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters.

malconformationnoun (n.) Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

maleconformationnoun (n.) Malconformation.

maledictionnoun (n.) A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction.

malefactionnoun (n.) A crime; an offense; an evil deed.

maleficiationnoun (n.) A bewitching.

maleformationnoun (n.) See Malformation.

malexecutionnoun (n.) Bad execution.

malformationnoun (n.) Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure.

malisonnoun (n.) Malediction; curse; execration.

malleationnoun (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

malnutritionnoun (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition.

malobservationnoun (n.) Erroneous observation.

malpositionnoun (n.) A wrong position.

malversationnoun (n.) Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.

mamelonnoun (n.) A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance.

mammonnoun (n.) Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified.

mammonizationnoun (n.) The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.

manationnoun (n.) The act of issuing or flowing out.

mancipationnoun (n.) Slavery; involuntary servitude.

mandilionnoun (n.) See Mandil.

manducationnoun (n.) The act of chewing.

manifestationnoun (n.) The act of manifesting or disclosing, or the state of being manifested; discovery to the eye or to the understanding; also, that which manifests; exhibition; display; revelation; as, the manifestation of God's power in creation.

maniglionnoun (n.) Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance.

manipulationnoun (n.) The act or process of manipulating, or the state of being manipulated; the act of handling work by hand; use of the hands, in an artistic or skillful manner, in science or art.
 noun (n.) The use of the hands in mesmeric operations.
 noun (n.) Artful management; as, the manipulation of political bodies; sometimes, a management or treatment for purposes of deception or fraud.

mansionnoun (n.) A dwelling place, -- whether a part or whole of a house or other shelter.
 noun (n.) The house of the lord of a manor; a manor house; hence: Any house of considerable size or pretension.
 noun (n.) A twelfth part of the heavens; a house. See 1st House, 8.
 noun (n.) The place in the heavens occupied each day by the moon in its monthly revolution.
 verb (v. i.) To dwell; to reside.

manuductionnoun (n.) Guidance by the hand.

manumissionnoun (n.) The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage.

marmorationnoun (n.) A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble.

maroonnoun (n.) In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.
 noun (n.) A brownish or dull red of any description, esp. of a scarlet cast rather than approaching crimson or purple.
 noun (n.) An explosive shell. See Marron, 3.
 adjective (a.) Having the color called maroon. See 4th Maroon.
 verb (v. t.) To put (a person) ashore on a desolate island or coast and leave him to his fate.

marronadjective (a.) A large chestnut.
 adjective (a.) A chestnut color; maroon.
 adjective (a.) A paper or pasteboard box or shell, wound about with strong twine, filled with an explosive, and ignited with a fuse, -- used to make a noise like a cannon.

marroonnoun (n. & a.) Same as 1st Maroon.

marsupionnoun (n.) Same as Marsupium.

martagonnoun (n.) A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia.

martyrizationnoun (n.) Act of martyrizing, or state of being martyrized; torture.

masonnoun (n.) One whose occupation is to build with stone or brick; also, one who prepares stone for building purposes.
 noun (n.) A member of the fraternity of Freemasons. See Freemason.
 verb (v. t.) To build stonework or brickwork about, under, in, over, etc.; to construct by masons; -- with a prepositional suffix; as, to mason up a well or terrace; to mason in a kettle or boiler.

masticationnoun (n.) The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food.

masturbationnoun (n.) Onanism; self-pollution.

materializationnoun (n.) The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized.

materiationnoun (n.) Act of forming matter.

matfelonnoun (n.) The knapweed (Centaurea nigra).

matriculationnoun (n.) The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated.

matronnoun (n.) A wife or a widow, especially, one who has borne children; a woman of staid or motherly manners.
 noun (n.) A housekeeper; esp., a woman who manages the domestic economy of a public instution; a head nurse in a hospital; as, the matron of a school or hospital.

maturationnoun (n.) The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter.

maximizationnoun (n.) The act or process of increasing to the highest degree.