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cient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church, but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in some MSS. of the Septuagint.…

A kind of snuff.

A gambling game in vogue in the eighteenth century. Thackeray.

irearms, especially in the Middle Ages, for breaking metal armor. Chaucer. Death with his mace petrific . . . smote. Milton.

A kind of mixed dish, as of cooked vegetables with white sauce, sweet jelly with whole fruit, etc. Also, fig., a medley.

Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia. -- n.

The doctrines of Macedonius.

A mace bearer; an officer of a court. P. Plowman.

a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; as, to macerate animal or vegetable fiber.

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

The act or process of macerating.

A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.

A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

Having machicolations. "Machicolated turrets." C. Kingsley.

An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.…

Same as Machicolation.

Of or pertaining to machines.

scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot. "How long will you machinate!" Sandys.