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The arrangement of an escutcheon to exhibit the alliances of the owner. Marshaling of assets (Law), the arranging or ranking of assets in due order of administration.

A small hammer used by marble workers and sculptors.

Of the male sex; not female. Thy masculine children, that is to say, thy sons. Chaucer.

The state or quality of being masculine; masculineness.

See Maslin.

A mixture of metals resembling brass.

The quality or state of being masterly; ability to control wisely or skillfully.

See Maslin.

; easily moved to tears; exciting to tears; excessively sentimental; weak and silly. "Maudlin eyes." Dryden. "Maudlin eloquence." Roscommon. "A maudlin poetess." Pope. "Maudlin crowd." Southey.

An aromatic composite herb, the costmary; also, the South European Achillea Ageratum, a kind of yarrow.

A maudlin state. Dickens.

The oxeye daisy.

A severe beating with a stick, cudgel, or the fist.

See Mauve aniline, under Mauve.

The quality or state of being mealy.

Falling in small drops; mistling; mizzing. [Obs.] Arbuthnot.

A kind of lace made at, or originating in, Mechlin, in Belgium.

Meddlesome. Macaulay.

In a meddling manner.

A variety of lignin or cellulose found in the medulla, or pith, of certain plants. Cf. Lignin, and Cellulose.