MAJO'RITY, _s._ the state of being greater; the greater number; the office of a major MALE'VOLENCE, _s._ ill-will; inclination to hurt others MA'LICE, _s._ hatred; enmity; desire of hurting MALI'CIOUS, _a._ desirous of hurting; with wicked design MALI'GNANT, _a._ envious; malicious; mischievous MALI'GNITY, _s._ ill-will; enmity MA'NDIBLE, _s._ a jaw MA'NKIND, _s._ the race or species of human beings MA'NNER, _s._ form; method; way; mode; sort MANUFA'CTORY, _s._ a place where a manufacture is carried on MANOEUVRE, _s._ a stratagem; a trick MARA'UDER, _s._ a soldier that roves in quest of plunder MA'RGIN, _s._ the brink; the edge MA'RINER, _s._ a seaman MA'RITIME, _a._ that which relates to the sea MA'RSHAL, _v.a._ arrange; rank in order MA'RTYR, _s._ one who by his death bears witness to the truth MA'RVELLOUS, _a._ wonderful; strange; astonishing MA'SONRY, _s._ the craft or performance of a mason MA'SSACRE, _s._ butchery; murder MA'SSIVE, _a._ heavy; weighty; ponderous; bulky; continuous MA'STERPIECE, _s._ chief excellence MATE'RIAL, _a._ consisting of matter; not spiritual; important MATHEMA'TICS, _s._ that science which contemplates whatever is capable of being numbered or measured MA'XIM, _s._ general principle; leading truth ME'ASURE, _s._ that by which anything is measured; proportion; quantity; time; degree MECHA'NIC, _s._ a workman MECHA'NICAL, _a._ constructed by the laws of mechanics ME'DAL, _s._ a piece of metal stamped in honour of some remarkable performance MEDI'CINAL, _a._ having the power of healing; belonging to physic MEDITA'TION, _s._ deep thought; contemplation ME'DIUM, _s._ the centre point between two extremes ME'LANCHOLY, _a._ gloomy; dismal; sorrowful ME'LLOW, _a._ soft with ripeness; soft; unctuous MELO'DIOUS, _a._ musical; harmonious ME'MBRANE, _s._ a web of several sorts of fibres, interwoven for the wrapping up some parts; the fibres give them an elasticity, whereby they can contract and closely grasp the parts they contain MEMBRA'NOUS, _a._ consisting of membranes ME'MOIR, _s._ an account of anything ME'MORABLE, _a._ worthy of memory; not to be forgotten ME'MORY, _s._ the power of retaining or recollecting things past; recollection MENA'GERIE, _s._ a place for keeping foreign birds and other curious animals ME'NTION, _v.a._ to express in words or in writing ME'RCHANDISE, _s._ commerce; traffic; wares; anything to be bought or sold ME'RCHANTMAN, _s._ a ship of trade META'LLIC, _a._ partaking of metal; consisting of metal ME'TEOR, _s._ any body in the air or sky that is of a transitory nature ME'TRICAL, _a._ pertaining to metre or numbers; consisting of verses METROPO'LITAN, _a._ belonging to a metropolis MI'CROSCOPE, _s._ an optical instrument, contrived to give to the eye a large appearance of many objects which could not otherwise be seen