macaroon, makar on

[Fr., from Ital. macaroni -macaroni (q.v.).] 1. A kind of small sweet cake or sweet biscuit made of flour, almonds, eggs, and sugar. *2. A low, coarse fellow, a finical fellow, a mac a roon. "I sigh, and sweat, To hear this makar on talke, in vaine." Donne: Satires , sat. 4. Ma-cart-ney, s. (For etym. see compound.] Macartney-cock, s . Ornith.: Euplocomus ignitus , a gallinaceous bird, first described in the account of Lord Macartney's emba y to China. Length of adult male, about two feet. It has a general resemblance to the Impeyan-pheasant in its rich metallic coloring, but the middle of the back is brilliant orange; the tail bluish-green, orange, and white. Habitat, Sumatra and the adjacent islands. Ma-căs-sar, s. [See def.] The name of a district in the island of Celebes, in the Eastern Archipelago.