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MANDUCATE v.
To masticate; to chew; to eat. [R.] Jer. Taylor.
MANICATE a.
Covered with hairs or pubescence so platted together and interwoven as to form a mass easily removed.
MASTICATE v.
ith, or as with, the teeth and prepare for swallowing and digestion; to chew; as, to masticate food.
MASTICATER n.
One who masticates.
MECATE n.
A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc. [Southwestern U. S.]
MEDICATE v. 2 definitions
To tincture or impregnate with anything medicinal; to drug. "Medicated waters." Arbuthnot.
MENDICATE v.
To beg. [R.] Johnson.
METASILICATE n.
A salt of metasilicic acid.
MISEDUCATE v.
To educate in a wrong manner.
MISSIFICATE v.
To perform Mass. [Obs.] Milton.
MODIFICATE v.
To qualify. [Obs.] Bp. Pearson.
MUCATE n.
A salt of mucic acid.
MULTIPLICATE a.
Consisting of many, or of more than one; multiple; multifold. Multiplicate flower (Bot.), a flower that is double, or has an unusual number of petals in consequence of the abnormal multiplication of the parts of the floral whorls.
MULTISULCATE a.
Having many furrows.
MUNIFICATE v.
To enrich. [Obs.]
MURICATE; MURICATED a.
Formed with sharp points; full of sharp points or of pickles; covered, or roughened, as a surface, with sharp points or excrescences.
MUSCATEL a. 3 definitions
, pertaining to, or designating, or derived from, a muscat grapes or similar grapes; a muscatel grapes; muscatel wine, etc.
NIDIFICATE v.
To make a nest. Where are the fishes which nidificated in trees Lowell.
OBFUSCATE a. 2 definitions
Obfuscated; darkened; obscured. [Obs.] [Written also offuscate.] Sir. T. Elyot.
OBIMBRICATE a.
Imbricated, with the overlapping ends directed downward.
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