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Machine
() Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
Machined
() of Machine
Machining
() of Machine
Machine
() To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
Machiner
() One who or operates a machine; a machinist.
Machinery
() Machines, in general, or collectively.
Machinery
() The working parts of a machine, engine, or instrument; as, the machinery of a watch.
Machinery
() The supernatural means by which the action of a poetic or fictitious work is carried on and brought to a catastrophe; in an extended sense, the contrivances by which the crises and conclusion of a fictitious narrative, in prose or verse, are effected.
Machinery
() The means and appliances by which anything is kept in action or a desired result is obtained; a complex system of parts adapted to a purpose.
Machining
() Of or pertaining to the machinery of a poem; acting or used as a machine.
Machinist
() A constrictor of machines and engines; one versed in the principles of machines.
Machinist
() One skilled in the use of machine tools.
Machinist
() A person employed to shift scenery in a theater.
Macho
() The striped mullet of California (Mugil cephalus, / Mexicanus).
Macilency
() Leanness.
Macilent
() Lean; thin.
Macintosh
() Same as Mackintosh.
Mackerel
() A pimp; also, a bawd.
Mackerel
() Any species of the genus Scomber, and of several related genera. They are finely formed and very active oceanic fishes. Most of them are highly prized for food.
Mackinaw blanket
() Alt. of Mackinaw
Mackinaw
() A thick blanket formerly in common use in the western part of the United States.
Mackintosh
() A waterproof outer garment; -- so called from the name of the inventor.
Mackle
() Same Macule.
Mackle
() To blur, or be blurred, in printing, as if there were a double impression.
Macle
() Chiastolite; -- so called from the tessellated appearance of a cross section. See Chiastolite.
Macle
() A crystal having a similar tessellated appearance.
Macle
() A twin crystal.
Macled
() Marked like macle (chiastolite).
Macled
() Having a twin structure. See Twin, a.
Macled
() See Mascled.
Maclurea
() A genus of spiral gastropod shells, often of large size, characteristic of the lower Silurian rocks.
Maclurin
() See Morintannic.
Macrame lace
() A coarse lace made of twine, used especially in decorating furniture.
Macrencephalic
() Alt. of Macrencephalous
Macrencephalous
() Having a large brain.
Macro-
() A combining form signifying long, large, great; as macrodiagonal, macrospore.
Macrobiotic
() Long-lived.
Macrobiotics
() The art of prolonging life.
Macrocephalous
() Having a large head.
Macrocephalous
() Having the cotyledons of a dicotyledonous embryo confluent, and forming a large mass compared with the rest of the body.
Macro-chemistry
() The science which treats of the chemical properties, actions or relations of substances in quantity; -- distinguished from micro-chemistry.
Macrochires
() A division of birds including the swifts and humming birds. So called from the length of the distal part of the wing.
Macrocosm
() The great world; that part of the universe which is exterior to man; -- contrasted with microcosm, or man. See Microcosm.
Macrocosmic
() Of or pertaining to the macrocosm.
Macrocystis
() An immensely long blackish seaweed of the Pacific (Macrocystis pyrifera), having numerous almond-shaped air vessels.
Macrodactyl
() One of a group of wading birds (Macrodactyli) having very long toes.
Macrodactylic
() Alt. of Macrodactylous
Macrodactylous
() Having long toes.
Macrodiagonal
() The longer of two diagonals, as of a rhombic prism. See Crystallization.
Macrodome
() A dome parallel to the longer lateral axis of an orthorhombic crystal. See Dome, n., 4.
