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One who edits or writes for a magazine. [R.]

See Mægbote.

Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called magdala red, naphthalene red, etc.

A reformed prostitute.

A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.

A city of Saxony. Magdeburg centuries, Magdeburg hemispheres. See under Century, and Hemisphere.

A magician. [Archaic] Spenser. Tennyson.

Of or pertaining to, or named from, Magellan, the navigator. Magellenic clouds (Astron.), three conspicuous nebulæ near the south pole, resembling thin white clouds.

onze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from Magenta, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also fuchsine, roseïne, etc.

Worn; fretted; as, a magged brace. Ham. Nav. Encyc.

Greater, in respect to scales, intervals, etc., when used in opposition to minor; major. Moore (Encyc. of Music).

The footless larva of any fly. See Larval.

A magpie. [Obs.] Shak.

State of being maggoty.

Full of whims or fancies; maggoty.

Infested with maggots.

A name for daisies and camomiles of several kinds.

A caste of priests, philosophers, and magicians, among the ancient Persians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East. The inspired Magi from the Orient came. Sandys.

Of or pertaining to the Magi.

to produce effects by the assistance of supernatural beings, or departed spirits, or by a mastery of secret forces in nature attained by a study of occult science, including enchantment, conjuration, witchcraft, sorcery, necromancy, incantation, etc. An appearance made by some magic. Chaucer. Celestial magic, a suppose…