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Crazy; mentally unsound. [Written also loony.] [Law, U.S.]

MADRONA; MADRONYA n.

A small evergreen tree or shrub (Arbutus Menziesii), of California, having a smooth bark, thick shining leaves, and edible red berries, which are often called madroña apples. [Written also madroño.]

MAHOGANY n. 3 definitions

A table made of mahogany wood. [Colloq.] To be under the mahogany, to be so drunk as to have fallen under the table. [Eng.] -- To put one's legs under some one's mahogany, to dine with him. [Slang]

A hydrocarbon radical, CH2.(CO)2, from malonic acid.

MANY a. 4 definitions

Consisting of a great number; numerous; not few. Thou shalt be a father of many nations. Gen. xvii. 4. Not many wise men after the flesh, not many mighty, not many noble, are called. 1 Cor. i. 26.

Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

MANY-SIDED a. 2 definitions

Having many sides; -- said of figures. Hence, presenting many questions or subjects for consideration; as, a many-sided topic.

The third division, or that between the reticulum, or honeycomb stomach, and the abomasum, or rennet stomach, in the stomach of ruminants; the omasum; the psalterium. So called from the numerous folds in its mucous membrane. See Illust of Ruminant.

MANYWAYS; MANYWISE adv.

In many different ways; variously.

MASTODYNIA; MASTODYNY n.

Pain occuring in the mamma or female breast, -- a form of neuralgia.

Any unprofitable science. [Obs.]

MATRIMONY n. 2 definitions

d woman as husband and wife; the nuptial state; marriage; wedlock. If either of you know any impediment, why ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer (Eng. Ed. )

See Metronymic.

An extinct quaternary mammal, of great size, allied to the sloth.

MEINE; MEINY n. 2 definitions

Company; band; army. [Obs.] Chaucer.

The hypothetical hydrocarbon radical CH, regarded as an essential residue of certain organic compounds.

METONYMIC; METONYMICAL a.

Used by way of metonymy. -- Met`o*nym"ic*al*ly, adv.

A trope in which one word is put for another that suggests it; as, we say, a man keeps a good table instead of good provisions; we read Virgil, that is, his poems; a man has a warm heart, that is, warm affections.

Derived from the name of one's mother, or other female ancestor; as, a metronymic name or appellation. -- A metronymic appellation.