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Of or pertaining to the Himalayas, the great mountain chain in Hindostan.

The red dusty hairs of the capsules of an East Indian tree (Mallotus Philippinensis) used for dyeing silk. It is violently emetic, and is used in the treatment of tapeworm. [Written also kameela.]

e, pear, apple, orange, etc., boiled with sugar, and brought to a jamlike consistence. Marmalade tree (Bot.), a sapotaceous tree (Lucuma mammosa) of the West Indies and Tropical America. It has large obovate leaves and an egg-shaped fruit from three to five inches long, containing a pleasant-flavored pulp and a single…

ch they lose their earthy material, and become soft, flexible, and distorted. Also called malacia.

Excessively malapert or impudent. [Obs.] Prynne.

A salt of pyromalic acid. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to both the temple and the region of the malar bone; as, the temporomalar nerve.

Pertaining to typhoid fever and malaria; as, typhomalarial fever, a form of fever having symptoms both of malarial and typhoid fever.

Disease; morbid symptom; malady; as, a pulmonary affection. Dunglison.

In a frenzied and reckless. To run amuck, to rush out in a state of frenzy, as the Malays sometimes do under the influence of "bhang," and attack every one that comes in the way; to assail recklessly and indiscriminately. Satire's my weapon, but I'm too discreet To run amuck, and tilt at all I meet. Pope.…

A genus of mosquitoes which are secondary hosts of the malaria parasites, and whose bite is the usual, if not the only, means of infecting human beings with malaria. Several species are found in the United States. They may be distinguished from the ordinary mosquitoes of the genus Culex by the long slender palpi, nearl…

Blue carbonate of copper; blue malachite.

A variety of paralysis, peculiar to India and the Malabar coast; -- considered by many to be the same as beriberi in chronic form.

An order of Nemertina, including the large leechlike worms (Malacobdella) often parasitic in clams.

A confection made of flour, sugar, marmalade, and eggs; a sweet biscuit.

ivated in tropical and warm temperate regions for its timber, and as a protection against malaria. The essential oil is beginning to be used in medicine. The timber is very useful. See Eucalyptus. -- Blue jack, Blue stone, blue vitriol; sulphate of copper. -- Blue jacket, a man-of war's man; a sailor wearing a naval…

or American commerce, being in great request by the Chinese. Called also Borneo camphor, Malay camphor, and camphol.

The Malay or Polynesian race; -- loosely so called.

The Malayan sun bear.

ral species, which destroys the buds of fruit trees; esp. Tmetocera ocellana and Eccopsis malana on the apple tree.