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A stake played for at dice. [Obs.] Shak.

ale. -- Male rhyme, a rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See Female rhyme, under Female. -- Male screw (Mech.), a screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw. -- Male thread, the thread of a male screw.…

An old game played with malls or mallets and balls. See Pall-mall. Cotton.

" A layer, " a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through.

a husband; -- correlative to wife. I pronounce that they are man and wife. Book of Com. Prayer. every wife ought to answer for her man. Addison.

Having many folds, layers, or plates; as, a manifolded shield. [Obs.]

A killer of men; a manslayer. [Obs.] Carew.

forms, and for holding their stout anterior legs in a manner suggesting hands folded in prayer. The common American species is M. Carolina. Mantis shrimp. (Zoöl.) See Sguilla.

A prayer; an invocation; a religious formula; a charm. [India]

ther hard substance, used as a plaything by children; or, in the plural, a child's game played with marbles.

One who keeps account of a game played, as of billiards.

Fit to be offered for sale in a market; such as may be justly and lawfully sold; as, dacayemarketable.

clay, and sand, in very varivble proportions, and accordingly designated as calcareous, clayey, or sandy. See Greensand.

the face, used for disguise or protection; as, a dancer's mask; a fencer's mask; a ball player's mask.

e second being the deuce of a black trump or the seven of a red one. When Lady Tricksey played a four, You took it with a matadore. Swift.

Morning worship or service; morning prayers or songs. The winged choristers began To chirp their matins. Cleveland.

ye may not be lawfully joined together in matrimony, ye do now confessit. Book of Com. Prayer (Eng. Ed. )

Desire or wish, as in prayer, imprecation, benediction, and the like. "May you live happily." Dryden. May be, and It may be, are used as equivalent to possibly, perhaps, by chance, peradventure. See 1st Maybe.

exogenous wood, which pass from the pith to the bark. -- Medullary sheath (Anat.), the layer of white semifluid substance (myelin), between the primitive sheath and axis cylinder of a medullated nerve fiber.

ience; characterized by mildness or patience; as, a meek answer; a meek face. "Her meek prayer." Chaucer.