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A large heavy wooden beetle; a mallet for driving anything with force; a maul. Addison.

A drake; the male of Anas boschas.

The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. Locke.

or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. -- Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several…

To make malleable.

Quality of being malleable.

Pertaining to the malleus.

To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf.

The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating.

Same as Malicho.

The leipoa. See Leipoa.

See Mollemoke.

Same as Malanders.

Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint.

A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external.

A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet.

The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far.

An extensive group of insects which are parasitic on birds and mammals, and feed on the feathers and hair; -- called also bird lice. See Bird louse, under Bird.

A genus of small Arctic fishes. One American species, the capelin (Mallotus villosus), is extensively used as bait for cod.

A genus of plants (Malva) having mucilaginous qualities. See Malvaceous.