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The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]

One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]

One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country. -- n.

The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil. Yule.

, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single l…

A kind of wine exported from Marsala in Sicily.

Pertaining to the maxillary and palatine regions of the skull; as, the maxillo-palatine process of the maxilla. Also used as n.

A salt of mesoxalic acid.

A hypothetical radical derived from ammonium by the substitution of metallic atoms in place of hydrogen.

A division of Foraminifera including those that have only one chamber.

A foraminifer having but one chamber.

One-chambered.

Same as Vertebrata.

A dried astringent fruit much resembling a prune. It contains tannin, and was formerly used in medicine, but is now chiefly used in tanning and dyeing. Myrobolans are produced by various species of Terminalia of the East Indies, and of Spondias of South America.

A salt of naphthalic acid; a phthalate. [Obs.]

Connected with both the nose and the palate; as, the nasopalatine or incisor, canal connecting the mouth and the nasal chamber in some animals; the nasopalatine nerve.

A group of islands in the South Pacific Ocean. New Zealand flax. (a) (Bot.) A tall, liliaceous herb (Phormium tenax), having very long, sword-shaped, distichous leaves which furnish a fine, strong fiber very valuable for cordage and the like. (b) The fiber itself. -- New Zealand tea (Bot.), a myrtaceous shrub (Leptosp…

Indifference; carelessness; coolness.

Indifferent; careless; cool.