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imperfection or weakness; esp., an unsound, unhealthy, or debilitated state; a disease; a malady; as, infirmity of body or mind. 'T is the infirmity of his age. Shak.

One of the islands of the Malay Archipelago belonging to the Netherlands.

The Himalayan now partridge.

Pertaining to, or in the region of, the malar, or cheek bone.

prominent stem, and with huge masts in one piece, used by the Chinese, Japanese, Siamese, Malays, etc., in navigating their waters.

A Malay dagger. See Creese.

A convulsive tic or hysteric neurosis prevalent among Malays, similar to or identical with miryachit and jumping disease, the person affected performing various involuntary actions and making rapid inarticulate ejaculations in imitation of the actions and words of another person.

r inhabitant of Madagascar, or Madecassee; the language of the natives of Madagascar. See Malagasy.

Maladministration.

Same as Malanders.

An evil. See Mala.

See Marmalade. [Obs.]

A West Indian food fish (Malacanthus plumieri) related to the tilefish.

States of Veracruz, Chiapas, Tabasco, Campeche, and Yucatan, together with a part of Guatemala and a part of Salvador. The Mayan peoples are dark, short, and brachycephallic, and at the time of the discovery had attained a higher grade of culture than any other American people. They cultivated a variety of crops, were…

A kind of peach having one side deep red, and the flesh yellow. [Written also malacatoon, malacotune.]

d somewhat amoboid, produced by segmentation of the schizonts of certain Sporozoa, as the malaria parasite.

n the air; air made noxious by the presence of such particles or germs; noxious effluvia; malaria.

Mineral cotton. See Mineral wool (below). -- Mineral green, a green carbonate of copper; malachite. -- Mineral kingdom (Nat. Sci.), that one of the three grand divisions of nature which embraces all inorganic objects, as distinguished from plants or animals. -- Mineral oil. See Naphtha, and Petroleum. -- Mineral pa…

One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

der Fumitory. -- Mountain goat. (Zoöl.) See Mazama. -- Mountain green. (Min.) (a) Green malachite, or carbonate of copper. (b) See Green earth, under Green, a. -- Mountain holly (Bot.), a branching shrub (Nemopanthes Canadensis), having smooth oblong leaves and red berries. It is found in the Northern United States.…