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Pertaining to, or obtained from, apples; as, malic acid. Malic acid, a hydroxy acid obtained as a substance which is sirupy or crystallized with difficulty, and has a strong but pleasant sour taste. It occurs in many fruits, as in green apples, currants, etc. It is levorotatory or dextrorotatory according to the temper…

Enmity of heart; malevolence; ill will; a spirit delighting in harm or misfortune to another; a disposition to injure another; a malignant design of evil. "Nor set down aught in malice." Shak. Envy, hatred, and malice are three distinct passions of the mind. Ld. Holt.

Mischief. [Obs.] Shak.

Indulging or exercising malice; harboring ill will or enmity. I grant him bloody, . . . Sudden, malicious, smacking of every sin That has a name. Shak.

Having an evil disposition toward others; harboring violent enmity; malevolent; malicious; spiteful; -- opposed to benign. Witchcraft may be by operation of malign spirits. Bacon.

The state or quality of being malignant; extreme malevolence; bitter enmity; malice; as, malignancy of heart.

Disposed to do harm, inflict suffering, or cause distress; actuated by extreme malevolence or enmity; virulently inimical; bent on evil; malicious. A malignant and a turbaned Turk. Shak.

In a malignant manner.

One who maligns.

To make malign or malignant. [R.] "A strong faith malignified." Southey.

The state or quality of being malignant; disposition to do evil; virulent enmity; malignancy; malice; spite.

In a malign manner; with malignity.

To act the part of a malingerer; to feign illness or inability.

In the army, a soldier who feigns himself sick, or who induces or protracts an illness, in order to avoid doing his duty; hence, in general, one who shirks his duty by pretending illness or inability.

The spirit or practices of a malingerer; malingering.

Malediction; curse; execration. [Poetic] God's malison on his head who this gainsays. Sir W. Scott.

Originally, a kitchenmaid; a slattern. Chaucer.

A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. Addison.

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. Locke.