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A warrior. [Obs.] Fuller.

Martyrdom. [R.] Fuller.

Belonging to males; appropriated to, or used by, males. [R.] "A masculine church." Fuller.

called also pepper tree. -- West Indian mastic (Bot.), a lofty tree (Bursera gummifera) full of gum resin in every part.

Full of mast; abounding in acorns, etc.

ids. Shak. Grave from her cradle, insomuch that she was a matron before she was a mother. Fuller.

Full of substance or matter; important. B. Jonson.

To bring to ripeness or maturity; to ripen. A tree may be maturated artificially. Fuller.

ed by growth and development for any function, action, or state, appropriate to its kind; full-grown; ripe. Now is love mature in ear. Tennison. How shall I meet, or how accost, the sage, Unskilled in speech, nor yet mature of age Pope.

The state or quality of being mature; ripeness; full development; as, the maturity of corn or of grass; maturity of judgment; the maturity of a plan.

A meadow. A mede All full of freshe flowers, white and reede. Chaucer. To fertile vales and dewy meads My weary, wandering steps he leads. Addison.

e quantity determined by measuring, especially in buying and selling; as, to give good or full measure.

A cloth of mixed colors. Fuller.

Full of mercy; having or exercising mercy; disposed to pity and spare offenders; unwilling to punish. The Lord, the Lord God, merciful and gracious. Ex. xxxiv. 6. Be merciful, great duke, to men of mold. Shak.

Sprightly or mercurial quality; spirit; mutability; fickleness. [Obs.] He was so full of mercury that he could not fix long in any friendship, or to any design. Bp. Burnet.

he like; culmination. I have touched the highest point of all my greatness, And from that full meridian of my glory I haste now to my setting. Shak.

Having mettle; high-spirited; ardent; full of fire. Addison.

Full of spirit; possessing constitutional ardor; fiery; as, a mettlesome horse. -- Met"tle*some*ly, adv. -- Met"tle*some*ness, n.

closure; a place of confinement or shelter; -- in the latter sense usually in the plural. Full many a fat partrich had he in mewe. Chaucer. Forthcoming from her darksome mew. Spenser. Violets in their secret mews. Wordsworth.

With a medium fullness of sound.