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Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman. Spelman.

Also Fig. ; as, a maelstrom of vice.

A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of Bacchus.

Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

The Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.

A master in any art, especially in music; a composer.

Capital letters, as found in manuscripts of the sixth century and earlier.

Of or pertaining to the Manichæans.

A believer in the doctrines of Manes, a Persian of the third century A. D., who taught a dualism in which Light is regarded as the source of Good, and Darkness as the source of Evil. The Manichæans stand as representatives of dualism pushed to its utmost development. Tylor.

The doctrines taught, or system of principles maintained, by the Manichæans.

Of or relating to the Middle Ages; as, mediæval architecture. [Written also medieval.]

The method or spirit of the Middle Ages; devotion to the institutions and practices of the Middle Ages; a survival from the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalism.]

One who has a taste for, or is versed in, the history of the Middle Ages; one in sympathy with the spirit or forms of the Middle Ages. [Written also medievalist.]

In the manner of the Middle Ages; in accordance with mediævalism.

The people who lived in the Middle Ages. Ruskin.

A discharge from the bowels of black matter, consisting of altered blood.

A morbid condition in which the blood contains black pigment either floating freely or imbedded in the white blood corpuscles.

A family of fungi constituting the order Melanconiales. -- Mel`an*co`ni*a"ceous (#), a.

The fold of peritoneum attached to the cæcum. -- Mes`o*cæ"cal, a.

A stable crystalline compound obtained by the decomposition of hemoglobin. It is found in old blood stains.