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To make lean; to cause to waste away. [Obs. or R.] Harvey.

One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.

The act or process of macerating.

A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called saber-toothed tigers.

A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes. J. Stevens.

Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.

The supposed principles of Machiavel, or practice in conformity to them; political artifice, intended to favor arbitrary power.

Having machicolations. "Machicolated turrets." C. Kingsley.

An opening between the corbels which support a projecting parapet, or in the floor of a gallery or the roof of a portal, shooting or dropping missiles upen assailants attacking the base of the walls. Also, the construction of such defenses, in general, when of this character. See Illusts. of Battlement and Castle.…

Same as Machicolation.

Of or pertaining to machines.

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

The act of machinating. Shak.

One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer. Glanvill. Sir W. Scott.

ected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts,…

One who or operates a machine; a machinist. [R.]

Machines, in general, or collectively.

Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.[Obs.] Dryden.

A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.

The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, or Mexicanus).