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To frown; to look sullen. But sullen discontent sat lowering on her face. Dryden.

ears (1811-17) tried to prevent the use of labor-saving machinery by breaking it, burning factories, etc.; -- so called from Ned Lud, a half-witted man who some years previously had broken stocking frames. J. & H. Smith. H. Martineau.

The faculty or power of voluntarily producing light, as in the firefly and glowworm.

A fieldwork consisting of two faces, forming a salient angle, and two parallel flanks. See Bastion.

make great, or greater; to increase the dimensions of; to amplify; to enlarge, either in fact or in appearance; as, the microscope magnifies the object by a thousand diameters. The least error in a small quantity . . . will in a great one . . . be proportionately magnified. Grew.

An African antelope (Hippotragus Bakeri). Its face is striped with black and white.

A muslin wrapper for the head and the lower part of the face, worn by Turkish and Armenian women when they go abroad.

(g) To dress and paint for a part, as an actor; as, he was well made up. -- To make up a face, to distort the face as an expression of pain or derision. -- To make up one's mind, to reach a mental determination; to resolve. -- To make water. (a) (Naut.) To leak. (b) To urinate. -- To make way, or To make one's way.…

hich its teeth are engaged. -- Mangle wheel, a wheel in which the teeth, or pins, on its face, are interrupted on one side, and the pinion, working in them, passes from inside to outside of the teeth alternately, thus converting the continuous circular motion of the pinion into a reciprocating circular motion of the w…

Manufacture. [Obs.]

Having many faculties; versatile; many-sided.

Made of, or faced with, marble. [Obs.] "The marbled mansion." Shak.

nd changing skies. Bryant. As mad as a March Hare, an old English Saying derived from the fact that March is the rutting time of hares, when they are excitable and violent. Wright.

ling of stocks, wheat, etc. N. Biddle. Margin draft (Masonry), a smooth cut margin on the face of hammer-dressed ashlar, adjacent to the joints. -- Margin of a course (Arch.), that part of a course, as of slates or shingles, which is not covered by the course immediately above it. See 2d Gauge.

Limit or standard of action or fact; as, to be within the mark; to come up to the mark.

A perforated stone-faced runner for grinding.

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

n crab (Corystes cassivelaunus) with markings on the carapace somewhat resembling a human face. -- Masked pig (Zoöl.), a Japanese domestic hog (Sus pliciceps). Its face is deeply furrowed.

kill or power of a master; indicating or expressing power or mastery. His masterful, pale face. Mrs. Browning.

ent countries. Mastiff bat (Zoöl.) , any bat of the genus Molossus; so called because the face somewhat resembles that of a mastiff.