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The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

the form of pale yellow friable flakes, coming from several trees and shrubs and used in medicine as a gentle laxative, as the secretion of Fraxinus Ornus, and F. rotundifolia, the manna ashes of Southern Europe.

lian shrub (Aristotelia Maqui). Its bark furnishes strings for musical instruments, and a medicinal wine is made from its berries.

A genus of bitter aromatic plants, sometimes used in medicine; hoarhound.

hæa ( A. officinalis) common in marshes near the seashore, and whose root is much used in medicine as a demulcent. -- Marsh marigold. (Bot.) See in the Vocabulary. -- Marsh pennywort (Bot.), any plant of the umbelliferous genus Hydrocotyle; low herbs with roundish leaves, growing in wet places; - - called also water…

A medicinal substance made into a cohesive, homogeneous lump, of consistency suitable for making pills; as, blue mass.

A medicine, or application, which promotes suppuration.

leaves, and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic. -- May beetle, May bug (Zoöl.), any one of numerous species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the winged state in May. They belong to Melolontha, and allied genera. Called also June bee…

A medicine supposed to expel black bile or choler. [Obs.]

A small European shrub (Daphne Mezereum), whose acrid bark is used in medicine.

That department of medical science which treats of miasma.

-- applied to persons and things; as, a mild disposition; a mild eye; a mild air; a mild medicine; a mild insanity. The rosy morn resigns her light And milder glory to the noon. Waller. Adore him as a mild and merciful Being. Rogers. Mild, or Low, steel, steel that has but little carbon in it and is not readily harden…

ration of the whey of milk. It is used in pellets and powder as a vehicle for homeopathic medicines, and as an article of diet. See Lactose.

A small European fern (Asplenium Ceterach) formerly used in medicine.

Sometimes, a liquid medicine containing very active substances, and which can only be administered by drops. Dunglison.

A kind of liquid medicine made up of many ingredients; esp., as opposed to solution, a liquid preparation in which the solid ingredients are not completely dissolved.

The acrid principle of Monesia, sometimes used as a medicine.

acy. [Poetic] -- Moon month, a lunar month. -- Moon trefoil (Bot.), a shrubby species of medic (Medicago arborea). See Medic. -- Moon year, a lunar year, consisting of lunar months, being sometimes twelve and sometimes thirteen.

A labiate herb (Leonurus Cardiaca), of a bitter taste, used popularly in medicine; lion's tail.

rowing in the West Indies, which affords a bitter tonic and astringent, sometimes used in medicine. -- Mountain dew, Scotch whisky, so called because often illicitly distilled among the mountains. [Humorous] -- Mountain ebony (Bot.), a small leguminous tree (Bauhinia variegata) of the East and West Indies; -- so calle…