MARMION
First name MARMION's origin is French. MARMION means "small one". You can find other first names and English words that rhymes with MARMION below. Ryhme list involves the matching sounds according to the first letters, last letters and first&last letters of marmion.(Brown names are of the same origin (French) with MARMION and Red names are first names with English/Anglo-Saxon origin)
First Names Rhyming MARMION
FIRST NAMES WHICH INCLUDES MARMİON AS A WHOLE:
NAMES RHYMING WITH MARMİON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Names According to Last 6 Letters (armion) - Names That Ends with armion:
Rhyming Names According to Last 5 Letters (rmion) - Names That Ends with rmion:
Rhyming Names According to Last 4 Letters (mion) - Names That Ends with mion:
endymion jamionRhyming Names According to Last 3 Letters (ion) - Names That Ends with ion:
carnation odion sion zorion bendision histion amphion arion deucalion echion hyperion iasion ion ixion kedalion ophion pygmalion adoracion anunciacion ascencion asuncion battzion caerlion charion concepcion consolacion encarnacion exaltacion marion adrion albion brion dairion davion devion dorion fabion faiion gurion jarion kevion lamarion lion merlion rion tavion travion trevion zion benzion dion pution eadaion clarion dillion einion orion tzion garion torionRhyming Names According to Last 2 Letters (on) - Names That Ends with on:
afton aedon solon strephon sidon cihuaton nijlon sokanon accalon dudon hebron pendragon antton erromon gotzon txanton celyddon eburacon mabon alston alton benton burton carelton fenton hamilton harrison kenton pierson preston ralston rawson remington rexton sexton stanton weston aymonNAMES RHYMING WITH MARMİON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Names According to First 6 Letters (marmio) - Names That Begins with marmio:
Rhyming Names According to First 5 Letters (marmi) - Names That Begins with marmi:
Rhyming Names According to First 4 Letters (marm) - Names That Begins with marm:
marmara marmeeRhyming 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 mardel marden mardon 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 marielleNAMES BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MARMİON:
First Names which starts with 'mar' and ends with 'ion':
First Names which starts with 'ma' and ends with 'on':
machaon mackinnon macnaughton macon macpherson maddison madelon madison mahon mai-ron manon manton marlon marston maryon mason masson matherson matheson matson mattison maysoonFirst 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 marvin marvynEnglish Words Rhyming MARMION
ENGLISH WORDS WHICH INCLUDES MARMİON AS A WHOLE:
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MARMİON (According to last letters):
Rhyming Words According to Last 6 Letters (armion) - English Words That Ends with armion:
Rhyming Words According to Last 5 Letters (rmion) - English Words That Ends with rmion:
Rhyming Words According to Last 4 Letters (mion) - English Words That Ends with mion:
acromion | noun (n.) The outer extremity of the shoulder blade. |
encomion | noun (n.) Encomium; panegyric. |
metacromion | noun (n.) A process projecting backward and downward from the acromion of the scapula of some mammals. |
prothalamion | noun (n.) Alt. of Prothalamium |
Rhyming Words According to Last 3 Letters (ion) - English Words That Ends with ion:
abacination | noun (n.) The act of abacinating. |
abaction | noun (n.) Stealing cattle on a large scale. |
abalienation | noun (n.) The act of abalienating; alienation; estrangement. |
abannation | noun (n.) Alt. of Abannition |
abannition | noun (n.) Banishment. |
abarticulation | noun (n.) Articulation, usually that kind of articulation which admits of free motion in the joint; diarthrosis. |
abbreviation | noun (n.) The act of shortening, or reducing. |
noun (n.) The result of abbreviating; an abridgment. | |
noun (n.) The form to which a word or phrase is reduced by contraction and omission; a letter or letters, standing for a word or phrase of which they are a part; as, Gen. for Genesis; U.S.A. for United States of America. | |
noun (n.) One dash, or more, through the stem of a note, dividing it respectively into quavers, semiquavers, or demi-semiquavers. |
abdication | noun (n.) The act of abdicating; the renunciation of a high office, dignity, or trust, by its holder; commonly the voluntary renunciation of sovereign power; as, abdication of the throne, government, power, authority. |
abduction | noun (n.) The act of abducing or abducting; a drawing apart; a carrying away. |
noun (n.) The movement which separates a limb or other part from the axis, or middle line, of the body. | |
noun (n.) The wrongful, and usually the forcible, carrying off of a human being; as, the abduction of a child, the abduction of an heiress. | |
noun (n.) A syllogism or form of argument in which the major is evident, but the minor is only probable. |
aberration | noun (n.) The act of wandering; deviation, especially from truth or moral rectitude, from the natural state, or from a type. |
noun (n.) A partial alienation of reason. | |
noun (n.) A small periodical change of position in the stars and other heavenly bodies, due to the combined effect of the motion of light and the motion of the observer; called annual aberration, when the observer's motion is that of the earth in its orbit, and daily or diurnal aberration, when of the earth on its axis; amounting when greatest, in the former case, to 20.4", and in the latter, to 0.3". Planetary aberration is that due to the motion of light and the motion of the planet relative to the earth. | |
noun (n.) The convergence to different foci, by a lens or mirror, of rays of light emanating from one and the same point, or the deviation of such rays from a single focus; called spherical aberration, when due to the spherical form of the lens or mirror, such form giving different foci for central and marginal rays; and chromatic aberration, when due to different refrangibilities of the colored rays of the spectrum, those of each color having a distinct focus. | |
noun (n.) The passage of blood or other fluid into parts not appropriate for it. | |
noun (n.) The producing of an unintended effect by the glancing of an instrument, as when a shot intended for A glances and strikes B. |
abevacuation | noun (n.) A partial evacuation. |
abirritation | noun (n.) A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia. |
abjection | noun (n.) The act of bringing down or humbling. |
noun (n.) The state of being rejected or cast out. | |
noun (n.) A low or downcast state; meanness of spirit; abasement; degradation. |
abjudication | noun (n.) Rejection by judicial sentence. |
abjuration | noun (n.) The act of abjuring or forswearing; a renunciation upon oath; as, abjuration of the realm, a sworn banishment, an oath taken to leave the country and never to return. |
noun (n.) A solemn recantation or renunciation; as, an abjuration of heresy. |
ablactation | noun (n.) The weaning of a child from the breast, or of young beasts from their dam. |
noun (n.) The process of grafting now called inarching, or grafting by approach. |
ablaqueation | noun (n.) The act or process of laying bare the roots of trees to expose them to the air and water. |
ablation | noun (n.) A carrying or taking away; removal. |
noun (n.) Extirpation. | |
noun (n.) Wearing away; superficial waste. |
ablegation | noun (n.) The act of sending abroad. |
abligurition | noun (n.) Prodigal expense for food. |
ablution | noun (n.) The act of washing or cleansing; specifically, the washing of the body, or some part of it, as a religious rite. |
noun (n.) The water used in cleansing. | |
noun (n.) A small quantity of wine and water, which is used to wash the priest's thumb and index finger after the communion, and which then, as perhaps containing portions of the consecrated elements, is drunk by the priest. |
abluvion | noun (n.) That which is washed off. |
abnegation | noun (n.) a denial; a renunciation. |
abnodation | noun (n.) The act of cutting away the knots of trees. |
abolition | noun (n.) The act of abolishing, or the state of being abolished; an annulling; abrogation; utter destruction; as, the abolition of slavery or the slave trade; the abolition of laws, decrees, ordinances, customs, taxes, debts, etc. |
abomination | noun (n.) The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination. |
noun (n.) That which is abominable; anything hateful, wicked, or shamefully vile; an object or state that excites disgust and hatred; a hateful or shameful vice; pollution. | |
noun (n.) A cause of pollution or wickedness. |
abortion | noun (n.) The act of giving premature birth; particularly, the expulsion of the human fetus prematurely, or before it is capable of sustaining life; miscarriage. |
noun (n.) The immature product of an untimely birth. | |
noun (n.) Arrest of development of any organ, so that it remains an imperfect formation or is absorbed. | |
noun (n.) Any fruit or produce that does not come to maturity, or anything which in its progress, before it is matured or perfect; a complete failure; as, his attempt proved an abortion. |
abrasion | noun (n.) The act of abrading, wearing, or rubbing off; the wearing away by friction; as, the abrasion of coins. |
noun (n.) The substance rubbed off. | |
noun (n.) A superficial excoriation, with loss of substance under the form of small shreds. |
abrenunciation | noun (n.) Absolute renunciation or repudiation. |
abreption | noun (n.) A snatching away. |
abrogation | noun (n.) The act of abrogating; repeal by authority. |
abruption | noun (n.) A sudden breaking off; a violent separation of bodies. |
abscession | noun (n.) A separating; removal; also, an abscess. |
abscision | noun (n.) See Abscission. |
abscission | noun (n.) The act or process of cutting off. |
noun (n.) The state of being cut off. | |
noun (n.) A figure of speech employed when a speaker having begun to say a thing stops abruptly: thus, "He is a man of so much honor and candor, and of such generosity -- but I need say no more." |
absentation | noun (n.) The act of absenting one's self. |
absolution | noun (n.) An absolving, or setting free from guilt, sin, or penalty; forgiveness of an offense. |
noun (n.) An acquittal, or sentence of a judge declaring and accused person innocent. | |
noun (n.) The exercise of priestly jurisdiction in the sacrament of penance, by which Catholics believe the sins of the truly penitent are forgiven. | |
noun (n.) An absolving from ecclesiastical penalties, -- for example, excommunication. | |
noun (n.) The form of words by which a penitent is absolved. | |
noun (n.) Delivery, in speech. |
absorbition | noun (n.) Absorption. |
absorption | noun (n.) The act or process of absorbing or sucking in anything, or of being absorbed and made to disappear; as, the absorption of bodies in a whirlpool, the absorption of a smaller tribe into a larger. |
noun (n.) An imbibing or reception by molecular or chemical action; as, the absorption of light, heat, electricity, etc. | |
noun (n.) In living organisms, the process by which the materials of growth and nutrition are absorbed and conveyed to the tissues and organs. | |
noun (n.) Entire engrossment or occupation of the mind; as, absorption in some employment. |
abstention | adjective (a.) The act of abstaining; a holding aloof. |
abstersion | noun (n.) Act of wiping clean; a cleansing; a purging. |
abstraction | adjective (a.) The act of abstracting, separating, or withdrawing, or the state of being withdrawn; withdrawal. |
adjective (a.) The act process of leaving out of consideration one or more properties of a complex object so as to attend to others; analysis. Thus, when the mind considers the form of a tree by itself, or the color of the leaves as separate from their size or figure, the act is called abstraction. So, also, when it considers whiteness, softness, virtue, existence, as separate from any particular objects. | |
adjective (a.) An idea or notion of an abstract, or theoretical nature; as, to fight for mere abstractions. | |
adjective (a.) A separation from worldly objects; a recluse life; as, a hermit's abstraction. | |
adjective (a.) Absence or absorption of mind; inattention to present objects. | |
adjective (a.) The taking surreptitiously for one's own use part of the property of another; purloining. | |
adjective (a.) A separation of volatile parts by the act of distillation. |
abstrusion | noun (n.) The act of thrusting away. |
absumption | noun (n.) Act of wasting away; a consuming; extinction. |
acceleration | noun (n.) The act of accelerating, or the state of being accelerated; increase of motion or action; as, a falling body moves toward the earth with an acceleration of velocity; -- opposed to retardation. |
accension | noun (n.) The act of kindling or the state of being kindled; ignition. |
accentuation | noun (n.) Act of accentuating; applications of accent. |
noun (n.) pitch or modulation of the voice in reciting portions of the liturgy. |
acceptation | noun (n.) Acceptance; reception; favorable reception or regard; state of being acceptable. |
noun (n.) The meaning in which a word or expression is understood, or generally received; as, term is to be used according to its usual acceptation. |
acceptilation | noun (n.) Gratuitous discharge; a release from debt or obligation without payment; free remission. |
acception | noun (n.) Acceptation; the received meaning. |
ENGLISH WORDS RHYMING WITH MARMİON (According to first letters):
Rhyming Words According to First 6 Letters (marmio) - Words That Begins with marmio:
Rhyming Words According to First 5 Letters (marmi) - Words That Begins with marmi:
Rhyming Words According to First 4 Letters (marm) - Words That Begins with marm:
marmalade | noun (n.) A preserve or confection made of the pulp of fruit, as the quince, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. |
marmalet | noun (n.) See Marmalade. |
marmatite | noun (n.) A ferruginous variety of shalerite or zinc blende, nearly black in color. |
marmolite | noun (n.) A thin, laminated variety of serpentine, usually of a pale green color. |
marmoraceous | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or like, marble. |
marmorate | adjective (a.) Alt. of Marmorated |
marmorated | adjective (a.) Variegated like marble; covered or overlaid with marble. |
marmoration | noun (n.) A covering or incrusting with marble; a casing of marble; a variegating so as to resemble marble. |
marmoreal | adjective (a.) Alt. of Marmorean |
marmorean | adjective (a.) Pertaining to, or resembling, marble; made of marble. |
marmorosis | noun (n.) The metamorphism of limestone, that is, its conversion into marble. |
marmose | noun (n.) A species of small opossum (Didelphus murina) ranging from Mexico to Brazil. |
marmoset | noun (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. |
marmot | noun (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. |
marmozet | noun (n.) See Marmoset. |
Rhyming Words According to First 3 Letters (mar) - Words That Begins with mar:
mar | noun (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. |
marring | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Mar |
mara | noun (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). |
marabou | noun (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. |
marabout | noun (n.) A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally. |
maracan | noun (n.) A macaw. |
marai | noun (n.) A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean. |
maranatha | noun (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. |
maranta | noun (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. |
maraschino | noun (n.) A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia. |
marasmus | noun (n.) A wasting of flesh without fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. |
marauding | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Maraud |
maraud | noun (n.) An excursion for plundering. |
verb (v. i.) To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. |
maravedi | noun (n.) A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin. |
marble | noun (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. |
marbling | noun (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. |
marbled | adjective (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 |
marbleizing | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Marbleize |
marbler | noun (n.) One who works upon marble or other stone. |
noun (n.) One who colors or stains in imitation of marble. |
marbly | adjective (a.) Containing, or resembling, marble. |
marbrinus | noun (n.) A cloth woven so as to imitate the appearance of marble; -- much used in the 15th and 16th centuries. |
marc | noun (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. |
marcantant | noun (n.) A merchant. |
marcasite | noun (n.) A sulphide of iron resembling pyrite or common iron pyrites in composition, but differing in form; white iron pyrites. |
marcasitic | adjective (a.) Alt. of Marcasitical |
marcasitical | adjective (a.) Containing, or having the nature of, marcasite. |
marcassin | noun (n.) A young wild boar. |
marcato | adjective (a.) In a marked emphatic manner; -- used adverbially as a direction. |
marceline | noun (n.) A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses. |
marcescent | adjective (a.) Withering without/ falling off; fading; decaying. |
marcescible | adjective (a.) Li/ble to wither or decay. |
march | noun (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. |
marching | noun (p. pr. & vb. n.) of March |
() a. & n., fr. March, v. |
marcher | noun (n.) The lord or officer who defended the marches or borders of a territory. |
marchet | noun (n.) Alt. of Merchet |
marchioness | noun (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. |
marchman | noun (n.) A person living in the marches between England and Scotland or Wales. |
marchpane | noun (n.) A kind of sweet bread or biscuit; a cake of pounded almonds and sugar. |
marcian | adjective (a.) Under the influence of Mars; courageous; bold. |
marcid | adjective (a.) Pining; lean; withered. |
adjective (a.) Characterized by emaciation, as a fever. |
marcidity | noun (n.) The state or quality of being withered or lean. |
marcionite | noun (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. |
marcobrunner | noun (n.) A celebrated Rhine wine. |
marcor | noun (n.) A wasting away of flesh; decay. |
marcosian | noun (n.) One of a Gnostic sect of the second century, so called from Marcus, an Egyptian, who was reputed to be a margician. |
mardi gras | noun (n.) The last day of Carnival; Shrove Tuesday; -- in some cities a great day of carnival and merrymaking. |
mare | noun (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. |
mareis | noun (n.) A Marsh. |
marena | noun (n.) A European whitefish of the genus Coregonus. |
mareschal | noun (n.) A military officer of high rank; a marshal. |
ENGLISH WORDS BOTH FIRST AND LAST LETTERS RHYMING WITH MARMİON:
English Words which starts with 'mar' and ends with 'ion':
marsupion | noun (n.) Same as Marsupium. |
martyrization | noun (n.) Act of martyrizing, or state of being martyrized; torture. |
English Words which starts with 'ma' and ends with 'on':
macadamization | noun (n.) The process or act of macadamizing. |
macaroon | noun (n.) A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar. |
noun (n.) A finical fellow, or macaroni. |
maceration | noun (n.) The act or process of macerating. |
machicolation | noun (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. |
machination | noun (n.) The act of machinating. |
noun (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot. |
macron | noun (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. |
mactation | noun (n.) The act of killing a victim for sacrifice. |
maculation | noun (n.) The act of spotting; a spot; a blemish. |
madefaction | noun (n.) Alt. of Madefication |
madefication | noun (n.) The act of madefying, or making wet; the state of that which is made wet. |
magdaleon | noun (n.) A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster. |
magnetization | noun (n.) The act of magnetizing, or the state of being magnetized. |
magnification | noun (n.) The act of magnifying; enlargement; exaggeration. |
majoration | noun (n.) Increase; enlargement. |
makaron | noun (n.) See Macaroon, 2. |
malacissation | noun (n.) The act of making soft or supple. |
malacosteon | noun (n.) A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking. |
malacotoon | noun (n.) See Melocoton. |
maladministration | noun (n.) Bad administration; bad management of any business, especially of public affairs. |
malassimilation | noun (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. |
malaxation | noun (n.) The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. |
malconformation | noun (n.) Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts. |
maleconformation | noun (n.) Malconformation. |
malediction | noun (n.) A proclaiming of evil against some one; a cursing; imprecation; a curse or execration; -- opposed to benediction. |
malefaction | noun (n.) A crime; an offense; an evil deed. |
maleficiation | noun (n.) A bewitching. |
maleformation | noun (n.) See Malformation. |
malexecution | noun (n.) Bad execution. |
malformation | noun (n.) Ill formation; irregular or anomalous formation; abnormal or wrong conformation or structure. |
malison | noun (n.) Malediction; curse; execration. |
malleation | noun (n.) The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating. |
malnutrition | noun (n.) Faulty or imperfect nutrition. |
malobservation | noun (n.) Erroneous observation. |
malposition | noun (n.) A wrong position. |
malversation | noun (n.) Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office. |
mamelon | noun (n.) A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. |
mammon | noun (n.) Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. |
mammonization | noun (n.) The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism. |
manation | noun (n.) The act of issuing or flowing out. |
mancipation | noun (n.) Slavery; involuntary servitude. |
mandilion | noun (n.) See Mandil. |
manducation | noun (n.) The act of chewing. |
manifestation | noun (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. |
maniglion | noun (n.) Either one of two handles on the back of a piece of ordnance. |
manipulation | noun (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. |
mansion | noun (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. |
manuduction | noun (n.) Guidance by the hand. |
manumission | noun (n.) The act of manumitting, or of liberating a slave from bondage. |
maroon | noun (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. |
marron | adjective (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. |
marroon | noun (n. & a.) Same as 1st Maroon. |
martagon | noun (n.) A lily (Lilium Martagon) with purplish red flowers, found in Europe and Asia. |
mason | noun (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. |
mastication | noun (n.) The act or operation of masticating; chewing, as of food. |
mastodon | noun (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. |
masturbation | noun (n.) Onanism; self-pollution. |
materialization | noun (n.) The act of materializing, or the state of being materialized. |
materiation | noun (n.) Act of forming matter. |
matfelon | noun (n.) The knapweed (Centaurea nigra). |
matriculation | noun (n.) The act or process of matriculating; the state of being matriculated. |
matron | noun (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. |
maturation | noun (n.) The process of bringing, or of coming, to maturity; hence, specifically, the process of suppurating perfectly; the formation of pus or matter. |
maximization | noun (n.) The act or process of increasing to the highest degree. |