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ance capable of engendering disease; esp., an unhealthy exhalation from certain soils, as marshy or wet lands, producing fevers; miasma.

Any of several minute protozoans of the genus Plasmodium (syn. Hæmatozoön) which in their adult condition live in the tissues of mosquitoes of the genus Anopheles (which see) and when transferred to the blood of man, by the bite of the mosquito, produce malaria. The young parasites, or sporozoites, enter the red blood…

Of or pertaining, to or infected by, malaria. Malarial fever (Med.), a fever produced by malaria, and characterized by the occurrence of chills, fever, and sweating in distinct paroxysms, At intervals of definite and often uniform duration, in which these symptoms are wholly absent (intermittent fever), or only partial…

The fresh-water drumfish (Haploidonotus grunniens).

An imperfect elaboration by the tissues of the materials brought to them by the blood.

A salt of malic acid.

To soften by kneading or stirring with some thinner substance. [R.]

The act of softening by mixing with a thinner substance; the formation of ingredients into a mass for pills or plasters. [R.]

One who, or that which, malaxates; esp., a machine for grinding, kneading, or stirring into a pasty or doughy mass. [R.]

One of a race of a brown or copper complexion in the Malay Peninsula and the western islands of the Indian Archipelago.

Of or pertaining to the Malays or their country. -- n.

The name given to one the cultivated Dravidian languages, closely related to the Tamil. Yule.

A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).

Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; ill form; disproportion of parts.

tented; uneasy; dissatisfied; especially, dissatisfied with the government. [Written also malecontent.] The famous malcontent earl of Leicester. Milner.

Malcontent. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ly, adv. -- Mal`con*tent"ed*ness, n.

Any species of marine annelids of the genus Maldane, or family Maldanidæ. They have a slender, round body, and make tubes in the sand or mud.

Evil; wicked; bad. [Obs.] Marston.

. See Mal-.

See Malodor.