malcontent ment(mal kon tent ment)

[Formerly also male contentment; They had long agone by vniuersall male - contentment of the people. procured a great distraction of the king's leeges heartes. Holinshed, Hist. Scotland, an. 1585. 3592 May virgins, when they come to mourn, Male incense burn. Herrick, Dirge of Jephthah's Daughter. Male order, in arch . , the Doric order: so styled because, according to the fancy of Vitruvius, its sturdy proportions were modeled after those of the male human form, the proportions of the more slender and rounded Ionic order after those of the female form. - Male rimes, rimes in which only the final syllables correspond, as disdain and complain. - Male screw, a screw of which the threads, carried about the exterior surface of a cylinder, correspond to and enter spiral grooves formed in the surface of a cylindrical hole and constituting a female screw. - Male system, in bot., the part of a plant which belongs to and includes the fecundating organs. =Syn. Manly, etc. See masculine. II. n. 1. One of the sex of human kind that begets young; a man or boy; by extension, and usually, one of the sex of any animal that begets young: opposed to female . In zoology the sign universally used for a male is (Mars), the sign: (Venus) signifying female. Your lamb shall be without blemish, a male of the first year. Ex. xii. 5. Bring forth men-children only! For thy undaunted mettle should compose Nothing but males . Shak ., Macbeth, i. 7. 74.