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The system of Malthusian doctrines relating to population.

The fermentative principle of malt; malt diastase; also, a name given to various medicinal preparations made from or containing malt.

The process of making, or of becoming malt.

A man whose occupation is to make malt.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.

A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

A maltman. Swift.

A tippler. [R.] Shak.

Consisting, or like, malt. Dickens.

An evil. See Mala.

Pertaining to, or resembling, a natural order of plants (Malvaceæ), of which the mallow is the type. The cotton plant, hollyhock, and abutilon are of this order, and the baobab and the silk-cotton trees are now referred to it.

Evil conduct; fraudulent practices; misbehavior, corruption, or extortion in office.

Malmsey wine. See Malmsey. " A jub of malvesye." Chaucer.

Mamma.

See Mamma.

Same as Mameluke.

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

A child born of a white father and Indian mother. [S. Amer.]