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A sovereign prince in India; -- a title given also to other persons of high rank.

transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood corpuscles, growing at their expense, undergoing sporulation, and finally destroying the corpuscles, thus liberating in the blood plasma an immense number of small spores called merozo…

The principal or ruling evil spirit. E. Arnold.

e Asiatic species (L. dubius, or L. argala) is the adjutant. See Adjutant. [Written also marabu.]

A Mohammedan saint; especially, one who claims to work cures supernaturally.

A macaw.

A sacred inclosure or temple; -- so called by the islanders of the Pacific Ocean.

uch as to say, "May the Lord come quickly to take vengeance of thy crimes." See Anathema maranatha, under Anathema.

dia. 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.

A liqueur distilled from fermented cherry juice, and flavored with the pit of a variety of cherry which grows in Dalmatia.

out fever or apparent disease; a kind of consumption; atrophy; phthisis. Pining atrophy, Marasmus, and wide-wasting pestilence. Milton. Marasmus senilis Etym: [L.], progressive atrophy of the aged.

A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.…

To rove in quest of plunder; to make an excursion for booty; to plunder. "Marauding hosts." Milman.

A rover in quest of booty or plunder; a plunderer; one who pillages. De Quincey.

A small copper coin of Spain, equal to three mils American money, less than a farthing sterling. Also, an ancient Spanish gold coin.

A compound of the so-called margaric acid with a base.

One of the larger measures of electrical capacity, amounting to one million farads; a macrofarad.

A character which obeys Mendel's law in regard to its hereditary transmission.

Mesenteric.

The millionth part of a farad.