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The Supreme Being; Jehovah.

To make smooth or slippery; as, mucilaginous and saponaceous remedies lubricate the parts to which they are applied. S. Sharp. Supples, lubricates, and keeps in play, The various movements of this nice machine. Young.

That which is composed by night; that which is produced by meditation in retirement; hence (loosely) any literary composition. Thy lucubrations have been perused by several of our friends. Tatler.

s to make the vessel sail nearer the wind. To luff round, or To luff alee, to make the extreme of this movement, for the purpose of throwing the ship's head into the wind.

d in appearance somewhat resembles the lungs, for diseases of which it was once thought a remedy.

A group of Mammalia, including the marsupials and monotremes; - - so called because the corpus callosum is rudimentary.

rom, or indicating, madness; expressing distraction; prompted by infatuation, fury, or extreme rashness. "Mad demeanor." Milton. Mad wars destroy in one year the works of many years of peace. Franklin. The mad promise of Cleon was fulfilled. Jowett (Thucyd.).

Frenzy; ungovernable rage; extreme folly.

Mastery; powerful medical influence; renowned efficacy; a sovereign remedy. [Obs.] Holland.

A sovereign medicine or remedy. [Obs.] Burton.

l Christian rulers and magistrates." Book of Com. Prayer. Of magistrates some also are supreme, in whom the sovereign power of the state resides; others are subordinate. Blackstone.

Pertaining to, or employed in, the measurement of magnetic forces; obtained by means of a magnetometer; as, magnetometric instruments; magnetometric measurements.

Very or extremely strong. [Obs.] That current with main fury ran. Daniel.

o ascertain by enumeration; to find the number or amount of, by reckoning, weighing, measurement, and the like; as, he made the distance of; to travel over; as, the ship makes ten knots an hour; he made the distance in one day.

To regard with extreme ill will. [Obs.]

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.

Extreme evilness of nature or influence; perniciousness; heinousness; as, the malignity of fraud. [R.]

ny people; as, the tulip mania. Mania a potu Etym: [L.], madness from drinking; delirium tremens.

A mark or blemish made by bruising, scratching, or the like; a disfigurement.