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

Leanness.[Obs.] Sandys.

rsians; hence, any holy men or sages of the East. The inspired Magi from the Orient came. Sandys.

nlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. Grew.

enus Maldane, or family Maldanidæ. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.

Speaking reproachfully; slanderous. [Obs.] Sir E. Sandys.

A kind of brick of a light brown or yellowish color, made of sand, clay, and chalk.

Remarkable. [Obs.] Sandys.

A mixed earthy substance, consisting of carbonate of lime, clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.

A sandy calcareous straum, containing, or impregnated with, iron, and lying between the upper and lower Lias of England.

A coarse grass found on sandy beaches (Ammophila arundinacea). See Beach grass, under Beach.

ies of solitary bees of the genus Osmia. They construct curious nests of hardened mud and sand. -- Mason moth (Zoöl.), any moth whose larva constructs an earthen cocoon under the soil. -- Mason shell (Zoöl.), a marine univalve shell of the genus Phorus; -- so called because it cements other shells and pebbles upon it…

tively make one body or quantity, usually of considerable size; as, a mass of ore, metal, sand, or water. If it were not for these principles, the bodies of the earth, planets, comets, sun, and all things in them, would grow cold and freeze, and become inactive masses. Sir I. Newton. A deep mass of continual sea is slo…

t will, anything inanimate; as, to be master of one's time. Shak. Master of a hundred thousand drachms. Addison. We are masters of the sea. Jowett (Thucyd. ).

A perforated board, block of plaster, hardened sand, etc., in which a pattern is partly imbedded when a mold is made, for giving shape to the surfaces of separation between the parts of the mold. Match boarding (Carp.), boards fitted together with tongue and groove, or prepared to be so fitted. -- Match game, a game a…

A name of several maritime grasses, as the sea sand-reed (Ammophila arundinacea) which is used in Holland to bind the sand of the seacoast dikes (see Beach grass, under Beach); also, the Lygeum Spartum, a Mediterranean grass of similar habit.

ilurian, characterized by the formations known as the Oneida conglomerate, and the Medina sandstone. See the Chart of Geology.

In the metric system, one million meters, or one thousand kilometers.

Trade; commerce. [Obs.] Bp. Sanderson.

s appropriated to the use of the household. Cowell. Bouvier. They wedded her to sixty thousand pounds, To lands in Kent, and messuages in York. Tennyson.