madwort

[A corruption of Eng. madder wort.] IMG:content-0812.jpg:[blocks in formation] Geog.: A town of Holland, on the Maes. Maestricht-beds, s. pl. IMG:content-0813.png:[blocks in formation] 1. To play upon the magadis. 2. To play in octaves. 1. The bridge of a cithara. 2. A fret. măg-a-zine, *mag-a-zin, s . [Old Fr. magazin (Fr. magasin ), from Ital. magazzino =a storehouse, from Arab. makhzan (pl. makházin ) = a storehouse, a granary, a cellar; khazn =a laying-up in store; Sp. magacen , almagacen .] And their own darts shall pierce the prince and king." Pope : Homer's Ody ey xxii. 156. 2. A pamphlet or journal periodically published, and containing miscellaneous e ays or compos i- tions. ticable, and are lined with timber or with gabions, the ceiling being of timber or railway metals. The whole is covered with a sufficient thickne of earth to render the structure bomb-proof. Permanent magazines are usually constructed of brick, and and should be surrounded by an earthen mound, so that in case of explosion the tendency of the explo- sive force may be upward. "Here, throughout the siege, had been The Christians' chiefest magazine ." "Being magazined up in a diary might serve for mate- rials."-North: Examen , p. 222. B. In trans. To conduct or edit a magazine. "Urban or Sylvan, or whatever name Delight thee most, thou foremost in the fame Of magazining chiefs, whose rival page, Byrom: The Pa ive Participle's Petition . *măg-a-zin-er, s. [Eng. magazin (e); -er.] One who writes in or for a magazine. "If a magaziner be dull upon the Spanish war he soon has us up again with the ghost in Cock Lane."-Gold- smith: E ay 9. †măg-a-zîn-Ist, s. [Eng. magazin (e); -ist.] The same as MAGAZINER (q. v.). "The modern magazinist is a pitiable poetaster."- Măg-da-lạ, s. [See def.] "It can't be worth a mag to him."- Dickens : Bleak Mortimer Collins: Thoughts in my Garden, i. 102. House, ch. liv. IMG:content-0814.png:[blocks in formation] Medicine: 1. A pill. IMG:content-0815.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-0816.png:[blocks in formation] "The common saying that a whimsical person is maggoty, or has got maggots in his head, perhaps arose from the freaks the sheep have been observed to exhibit when infested by bots," -Kirby & Spence: Introd. to Entomol ogy , p. 85.