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Long-windedness. American longiloquence in oratory. Fitzed. Hall.

several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.

The quality of being magniloquent; pompous discourse; grandiloquence.

Speaking pompously; using swelling discourse; bombastic; tumid in style; grandiloquent. -- Mag*nil"o*quent*ly, adv.

A killer of men; a manslayer. [Obs.] Carew.

urisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals. Letters of marque, Letters of marque and reprisal, a license or extraordinary commission granted by a government to a private person to fit out a privateer or armed ship to cruise at sea and make prize of the enemy's ships and merchandise. The…

A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank. [Written also markee.]

A marquis. Lady marquess, a marchioness. [Obs.] Shak.

Inlaid work; work inlaid with pieces of wood, shells, ivory, and the like, of several colors.

A mask; a masquerade.

mselves with dancing, conversation, or other diversions. In courtly balls and midnight masquerades. Pope.

One who masquerades; a person wearing a mask; one disguised.

See Moresque.

Speaking sweetly or harmoniously.

An irregular or partisan soldier; a bandit.

A wrong consequence; a false deduction.

A crystalline or frosted appearance produced by some acids on tin plate; also, the tin plate thus treated.

A kind of carpet having a short velvety pile.

The Moresque style of architecture or decoration. See Moorish architecture, under Moorish. [Written also mauresque.]

A Mohammedan church or place of religious worship. [Written also mosk.]