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may follow, but if meanwhile the host is bitten by a mosquito, the parasites develop into gametes in the stomach of the insect. These conjugate, the zygote thus produced divides, forming spores, and eventually sporozoites, which, penetrating to the salivary glands of the mosquito, may be introduced into a new host. The…

An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. Cotton.

One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.

A contrivance or maneuvering to catch game illegally.

some other hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

march. Knolles. To make a march, (Card Playing), to take all the tricks of a hand, in the game of euchre.

To keep account of; to enumerate and register; as, to mark the points in a game of billiards or cards.

One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.

In the game of quadrille or omber, the three principal trumps, the ace of spades being the first, the ace of clubs the third, and the second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one. When Lady Tricksey played a four, You took it with a matadore. Swift.

.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove, or prepared to be so fitted. -- Match game, a game arranged as a test of superiority. -- Match plane (Carp.), either of the two planes used to shape the edges of boards which are joined by grooving and tonguing. -- Match plate (Founding), a board or plate on the opp…

A kind of game at cards played by several persons. Matrimony vine (Bot.), a climbing thorny vine (Lycium barbarum) of the Potato family. Gray.

An old game at cards. Sir A. Weldon.

e mature flies of many species appear in May. See Ephemeral fly, under Ephemeral. -- May game, any May-day sport. -- May lady, the queen or lady of May, in old May games. -- May lily (Bot.), the lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis). -- May pole. See Maypole in the Vocabulary. -- May queen, a girl or young woma…

A million times, a million of; as, megameter, a million meters; megafarad, a million farads; megohm, a million ohms.

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

In the game of pinochle, to declare or announce for a score; as, to meld a sequence.

-- Merry men, followers; retainers. [Obs.] His merie men commanded he To make him bothe game and glee. Chaucer. -- To make merry, to be jovial; to indulge in hilarity; to feast with mirth. Judg. ix. 27.

In the game of three-card loo, an extra hand, dealt on the table, which may be substituted for the hand dealt to a player.

A variety of the game of poker in which the joker is used, and called mistigris or mistigri.

A favorite gambling game among Spaniards, played with dice or cards.