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[Hind.] In Oriental countries, a respectful form of address given to a woman; mother. Balfour (Cyc. of India).

Madam; my lady; -- a colloquial contraction of madam often used in direct address, and sometimes as an appellation.

The common European gull (Larus canus); -- called also mar. See New, a gull.

Made. Chaucer.

The sparrow hawk.

A large, pearly, spiral, marine shell (Turbo margaritaceus), from the Pacific Islands. It is used as an ornament.

An East Indian coin, of about one tenth of the weight of a rupee.

Dejected; sorrowful; downcast. [Obs.] "So piteous and so maat." Chaucer.

The name of a female fairy, esp. the queen of the fairies; and hence, sometimes, any fairy. Shak.

To wrap up. [Obs.]

A spirituous liquor or drink distilled from potatoes; -- used in the Barbadoes.

A kind of persimmon tree (Diospyros discolor) from the Philippine Islands, now introduced into the East and West Indies. It bears an edible fruit as large as a quince.

A prefix, in names of Scotch origin, signifying son.

Any one of several species of lemurs, as the ruffed lemur (Lemur macaco), and the ring-tailed lemur (L. catta).

A genus of monkeys, found in Asia and the East Indies. They have short tails and prominent eyebrows.

A macadamized road.

The process or act of macadamizing.

To cover, as a road, or street, with small, broken stones, so as to form a smooth, hard, convex surface.

A macaw.

Any one of several species of short-tailed monkeys of the genus Macacus; as, M. maurus, the moor macaque of the East Indies.