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A man whose occupation is to make malt.

Of, pertaining to, or derived from, maltose; specif., designating an acid called also gluconic or dextronic acid. See Gluconic.

A crystalline sugar formed from starch by the action of distance of malt, and the amylolytic ferment of saliva and pancreatic juice. It resembles dextrose, but rotates the plane of polarized light further to the right and possesses a lower cupric oxide reducing power.

To treat ill; to abuse; to treat roughly.

Ill treatment; ill usage; abuse.

A maltman. Swift.

A tippler. [R.] Shak.

Consisting, or like, malt. Dickens.

The office, or the term of office, of a mayor.

The usual time of eating a meal.

Any of several large groupers of warm seas, esp. the guasa (Epinephelus guaza), the red grouper (E. morio), the black grouper (E. nigritas), distinguished as Me"ro de lo al"to, and a species called also rock hind, distinguished as Me"ro ca*brol"la.

To alter wrongly; esp., to alter for the worse. Bp. Hall.

A basic sulphate of iron; -- so named from Monsel, a Frenchman.

Designating, or pertaining to, a group of modern economists who hold to the Malthusianism doctrine that permanent betterment of the general standard of living is impossible without decrease of competition by limitation of the number of births. -- Ne`o- Mal*thu"sian, Ne`o-Mal*thu"sian*ism, n.

The charge, office, court, or jurisdiction of an official. Ayliffe.

A salt of an oxyacid, as a sulphate.

quivocate; to shift; to dodge; to trifle. Romans, that have spoke the word, And will not palter. Shak. Who never sold the truth to serve the hour, Nor paltered with eternal God for power. Tennyson.

One who palters. Johnson.

Paltry; shabby; shabbily; paltrily. [Obs. or Prov. Eng.] "In palterly clothes." Pepys.

A kind of doublet; a jacket. [Obs.] Piers Plowman.