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Having small nipples, or small protuberances like nipples or mammæ.

Having the form of a mammilla.

Like a mammilla or nipple; mammilliform.

A shapeless piece; a fragment. [Obs.]

Coarse plain India muslins.

Mastology. See Mammalogy.

Riches; wealth; the god of riches; riches, personified. Ye can not serve God and Mammon. Matt. vi. 24.

Actuated or prompted by a devotion to money getting or the service of Mammon. Carlyle.

Devotion to the pursuit of wealth; worldliness. Carlyle.

A mammonite.

One devoted to the acquisition of wealth or the service of Mammon. C. Kingsley.

The process of making mammonish; the state of being under the influence of mammonism.

To make mammonish.

Having the form of the breast; breast-shaped.

An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.

A child brought up by its grandmother; a spoiled child. [R.] O, you are a more mammothrept in judgment. B. Jonson.

A child's name for mamma, mother.

A person born of relations between whom marriage was forbidden by the Mosaic law; a bastard. Deut. xxiii. 2 (Douay version).

A human being; -- opposed tobeast. These men went about wide, and man found they none, But fair country, and wild beast many [a] one. R. of Glouc. The king is but a man, as I am; the violet smells to him as it doth to me. Shak.

One who, or that which, has an appetite for human flesh; specifically, one of certain large sharks (esp. Carcharodon Rondeleti); also, a lion or a tiger which has acquired the habit of feeding upon human flesh.