Maieutic, ma-yu -tik, a

delivering, as in child-birth; term applied to the probing method, by which So crates made people bring forth from themselves ] the truths they disputed and which he sought to teach them (Gr. obstetric). external covering of scales, .; spotted; speckled. mail mutilate;to cripple; to disable: s. a bruise; mutilation; a crippling; injury; mischief. portance; vast; sheer; mere: s. the chief part; the gro ; the bulk; the ocean; the mainland; amain pipe. Main chance, private advantage (L. magnus, great). Mainly,mane' -le,ad. chiefly; principally. a hamper (L. manus, a hand). main-sail rope [Naut.] and the forecastle [Naut.] taken with the mainor, to be taken in the very act of killing venison or stealing wood (manœuvre). fastens the main-sail [Naut.] state; tohold; to keep up; to continue; to support; to defend; to vindicate; to support by a ertion or argument: v.n. to affirm a position; to a ert (L. manus, the hand and tenco, to hold). supported, or defended. sustenance; support; continuance; defence; means of support; an officious intermeddling in a suit in which the person has no interest [Law]. Cap of of maintenance, a cap of dignity, formerly belonging to the rank of a duke. s. Maize, maze, s. Indian corn cultivated to serve as wheat. person or appearance; splendid; sublime; stately. má-jes'-te-kal-le, ad. in a majestical manner. Majesticalne , ma-jes'-te-kal-nes, s. state or manner of being majestic. ne ; dignity; elevation of manner; a title of emperors,kings, and queens (L. magus, greater). tent; an epithet applied to the modes in which the third is four semitones above the tonic or key-note, and to intervals consisting of four semitones [Mus.]; forming or containing the predicate of the conclusion of a syllogism [Logic]: s. an officer next in rank above a captain, and below a lieutenant-colonel; a person of full age (21 years) to manage his own concerns [Law]; that premise of a syllogism which contains the major term (L. greater). pertyaccording to age (Fr.) place of master of the house; a steward. who commands a division; the next in rank below a lieutenant-general a another; fullage, above twenty-one; the office, rank, or commi ion of a major.