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

A West African arboreal monkey (Cercopithecus cynosurus).

A spotted trout (Salvelinus malma), inhabiting Northern America, west of the Rocky Mountains; -- called also Dolly Varden trout, bull trout, red-spotted trout, and golet.

The rough surface of a congealed lava stream. [Southwestern U. S.]

A rounded hillock; a rounded elevation or protuberance. Westmin. Rev.

; sing. Mandingo. (Ethnol.) An extensive and powerful tribe of West African negroes.

a large West African baboon (Cynocephalus, or Papio, mormon). The adult male has, on the sides of the nose, large, naked, grooved swellings, conspicuously striped with blue and red.

A piece of copper of the shape of a horseshoe, used as money by certain tribes of the west coast of Africa. Simmonds.

A Sanskritic language of western India, prob. descended from the Maharastri Prakrit, spoken by the Marathas and neighboring peoples. It has an abundant literature dating from the 13th century. It has a book alphabet nearly the same as Devanagari and a cursive script translation between the Devanagari and the Gujarati.…

a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single large seed. The fruit is called marmalade, or natural marmalade…

In the West Indies and Guiana, a fugitive slave, or a free negro, living in the mountains.

), a small tree (Schinus Molle) with peppery red berries; -- called also pepper tree. -- West Indian mastic (Bot.), a lofty tree (Bursera gummifera) full of gum resin in every part.

A large squirrel fish (Holocentrus ascensionis) of Florida and the West Indies.

A West Indian food fish (Malacanthus plumieri) related to the tilefish.

A place where animals are slaughtered for their hides and tallow. [Western U. S.]

e with another; an equal; a mate. Government . . . makes an innocent man, though of the lowest rank, a match for the mightiest of his fellow subjects. Addison.

In the southwestern part of the united States, a bullock or heifer that has not been branded, and is unclaimed or wild; -- said to be from Maverick, the name of a cattle owner in Texas who naglected to brand his cattle.

leman, who, without owning any stock, gradually accumulates a herd by finding mavericks. [Western U. S.]

A rope of hair or of maguey fiber, for tying horses, etc. [Southwestern U. S.]

nd woolly crown in which the small pink flowers are half concealed. M. communis, from the West Indies, is often cultivated, and sometimes called Turk's cap. (b) The related genus Mamillaria, in which the stem is tubercled rather than ribbed, and the flowers sometimes large. See Illust. under Cactus.…