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A small and beautifully shaped instrument resembling the lute.

The quality or state of being manly.

The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale.

A thin silk fabric used for linings, etc., in ladies' dresses.

A small line composed of two strands a little twisted, used for winding around ropes and cables, to prevent their being weakened by fretting. Marline spike, Marling spike (Naut.), an iron tool tapering to a point, used to separate the strands of a rope in splicing and in marling. It has an eye in the thick end to which…

A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

Of the male sex; not female. Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons. Chaucer.

The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.

An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.

The quality or state of being mealy.

The state or quality of being melancholy. Hallywell.

itrogenous hydrocarbon obtained artificially (as by the action of cyanogen chloride on aniline) as a white, crystalline substance; -- called also diphenyl guanidin.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a metal; metallic; as, metalline properties.

A mineral of the feldspar group, like orthoclase or common feldspar in composition, but triclinic in form.

Crystalline on a fine, or microscopic, scale; consisting of fine crystals; as, the ground mass of certain porphyrics is microcrystalline.

icles of a miscellaneous kind, especially such as please the fancy of women. [Obs.] No milliner can so fit his customers with gloves. Shak.

The articles made or sold by milliners, as headdresses, hats or bonnets, laces, ribbons, and the like.

A stiff cotton fabric used by milliners for lining bonnets.

To cause to have a wrong inclination or tendency; to affect wrongly.