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Evils; wrongs; offenses against right and law. Mala in se Etym: [L.] (Law), offenses which are such from their own nature, at common law, irrespective of statute. -- Mala prohibita Etym: [L.] (Law), offenses prohibited by statute, as distinguished from mala in se, which are offenses at common law.

region in the western part of the Peninsula of India, between the mountains and the sea. Malabar nut (Bot.), the seed of an East Indian acanthaceous shrub, the Adhatoda Vasica, sometimes used medicinally.

See Melocoton.

A town and district upon the seacoast of the Malay Peninsula. Malacca cane (Bot.), a cane obtained from a species of palm of the genus Calamus (C. Scipionum), and of a brown color, often mottled. The plant is a native of Cochin China, Sumatra, and Malays.

Native hydrous carbonate of copper, usually occurring in green mammillary masses with concentric fibrous structure.

Softening; relaxing. [Obs.]

The act of making soft or supple. [Obs.] Bacon.

A genus of nemertean worms, parasitic in the gill cavity of clams and other bivalves. They have a large posterior sucker, like that of a leech. See Illust. of Bdellomorpha.

One of a tribe of beetles (Malacodermata), with a soft and flexible body, as the fireflies.

A variety of pyroxene.

One versed in the science of malacology.

The science which relates to the structure and habits of mollusks.

A class of air-breathing Arthropoda; -- called also Protracheata, and Onychophora.

One of the Malacopterygii.

losely jointed, and not spiny. It includes the carp, pike, salmon, shad, etc. Called also Malacopteri.

Belonging to the Malacopterygii.

A peculiar disease of the bones, in consequence of which they become softened and capable of being bent without breaking.

Having soft jaws without teeth, as certain fishes.

A subclass of Crustacea, including Arthrostraca and Thoracostraca, or all those higher than the Entomostraca.

One of the Malacostraca.