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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.

A heavy mallet, used to drive wedges, beat pavements, etc.

To reduce to prose. [R.] "To beprose all rhyme." Mallet.

op then must be blameless. 1 Tim. iii. 2. Blameless still of arts that polish to deprave. Mallet. We will be blameless of this thine oath. Josh. ii. 17.

ed in dressing, shaping, or working in timber, stone, metal, etc.; -- usually driven by a mallet or hammer. Cold chisel. See under Cold, a.

A heavy beetle or wooden mallet, used in paving, in sail lofts, etc. Commander in chief, the military title of the officer who has supreme command of the land or naval forces or the united forces of a nation or state; a generalissimo. The President is commander in chief of the army and navy of the United States.…

be a companion; fit for good fellowship; agreeable; sociable. "Each companionable guest." Mallett. "Companionable wit." Clarendon. -- Com*pan"ion*a*ble*ness, n. -- Com*pan"ion*a*bly, adv.

fancy. His wit's as thick as Tewksbury mustard; there's more conceit in him than is in a mallet. Shak.

to bring together; to join; to unite. [R.] Join pole to pole, consociate severed worlds. Mallet.

An open-air game in which two or more players endeavor to drive wooden balls, by means of mallets, through a series of hoops or arches set in the ground according to some pattern.

hungry Is. lviii. 7. And Rome deals out her blessings and her gold. Tickell. The nightly mallet deals resounding blows. Gay. Hissing through the skies, the feathery deaths were dealt. Dryden.

A kind of mallet for beating the bung stave of a cask to start the bung. Knight.

The mallet of the presiding officer in a legislative body, public assembly, court, masonic body, etc.

a set of flat metal bars, diatonically tuned, giving a bell-like tone when played with a mallet; a carillon.

; hideous; stern. [R.] In glided Margaret's grimly ghost, And stood at William's feet. D. Mallet.

The padded mallet of a piano, which strikes the wires, to produce the tones.

A knobbed mallet used by curriers in dressing leather to make it supple.

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

A game formerly common in England, in which a wooden ball was driven with a mallet through an elevated hoop or ring of iron. The name was also given to the mallet used, to the place where the game was played, and to the street, in London, still called Pall Mall. [Written also pail-mail and pell-mell.] Sir K. Digby. Eve…

. Milton. He was forced to ply in the streets as a porter. Addison. The heavy hammers and mallets plied. Longfellow.