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A hypothetical radical derived from maleic acid.

Ill will; malice. [Obs.] Rom. of R. Spenser.

A person who steals or kidnaps a human being or beings.

See Maritime. [Obs.]

See Marmalade. [Obs.]

One who marshals.

ke; also, the sum so risked; -- metaphorically derived from the bifurcation of the martingale of a harness. [Cant] Thackeray.

A small medal.

A million ergs; a megerg.

Pertaining to, or in honor of, Cybele; as, the Megalesian games at Rome.

An optical apparatus in which pictures are viewed through a large lens with stereoptical effects. It is often combined with the stereoscope.

The smallest of the three orders of Fungi Imperfecti, including those with no asci nor pycnidia, but as a rule having the spores in cavities without special walls. They cause many of the plant diseases known as anthracnose.

One of the bones of either the carpus or tarsus.

The continuation of a trope in one word through a succession of significations, or the union of two or more tropes of a different kind in one word.

Exchange; replacement; substitution; metathesis. [R.]

Of or pertaining to a metalepsis.

Metaleptic. -- Met`a*lep"tic*al*ly, adv.

One of the bones of either the metacarpus or metatarsus.

A lunar calendar reckoning from the year of the hegira, 622 a. d. Thirty of its years constitute a cycle, of which the 2d, 5th, 7th, 10th, 13th, 16th, 18th, 21st, 24th, 26th, and 29th are leap years, having 355 days; the others are common, having 354 days. By the following tables any Mohammedan date may be changed into…

The largest of the three orders into which the Fungi Imperfecti are divided, including various forms.