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One of the New England States. Maine law, any law prohibiting the manufacture and sale of intoxicating beverages, esp. one resembling that enacted in the State of Maine.

Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.

A capital letter; especially, one used in ancient manuscripts. See Majusculæ. Majuscule writing, writing composed wholly of capital letters, especially the style which prevailed in Europe from the third to the sixth century.

One who makes, forms, or molds; a manufacturer; specifically, the Creator. The universal Maker we may praise. Milton.

les; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

tal inserted in the work to shape it, or to hold it, as in a lathe, during the process of manufacture; an arbor.

To overspread or manure with marl; as, to marl a field.

eather, India rubber, or similar tough substances, into fine pieces, in some processes of manufacture.

Written manuscript, or anything to be set in type; copy; also, type set up and ready to be used, or which has been used, in printing. Dead matter (Print.), type which has been used, or which is not to be used, in printing, and is ready for distribution. -- Live matter (Print.), type set up, but not yet printed from.…

re than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were expert in the manufacture and dyeing of cotton fabrics, used cacao as a medium of exchange, and were workers of gold, silver, and copper. Their architecture comprised elaborately carved temples and places, and they possessed a superior calendar…

water. It is a hydrous silicate of magnesia, and is obtained chiefly in Asia Minor. It is manufacturd into tobacco pipes, cigar holders, etc. Also called sepiolite.

substances, which are fitted either for excretion or for some special purpose, as in the manufacture of the digestive ferments. Hence, metabolism may be either constructive (anabolism), or destructive (katabolism).

The production and working or manufacture of metals. [R.] R. Park.

A common name for various machines which produce a manufactured product, or change the form of a raw material by the continuous repetition of some simple action; as, a sawmill; a stamping mill, etc.

Same as Manul.

or vermilion; also, to decorate with letters, or the like, painted red, as the page of a manuscript. T. Wharton.

Originally, a painting in colors such as those in mediæval manuscripts; in modern times, any very small painting, especially a portrait.

The little finger; the fifth digit, or that corresponding to it, in either the manus or pes.

to a gentle and continued heat in the air. It is used as a cement, as a paint, and in the manufacture of flint glass. Called also red lead.

A small Roman letter which is neither capital nor uncial; a manuscript written in such letters. -- a.