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Variable in weather. "The day Changeful and many-weathered." Southey: Evening Rainbow. *man-y, s. [MEINY.] A retinue of servants; a body of followers or attendants. Mao-ri (ao as ow), s. & a. [Native word.] A. As subst .: A native inhabitant of New Zealand. B. As adj .: Of or pertaining to the native inhabitants of New Zealand. Maori-rat, s. Zool.: A murine rodent, a native of New Zealand; it is identical with the Black Rat ( Mus rattus ). *maor-mör (ao as a), s. [Gael. maer , maor =a royal steward; mor =great.] A royal steward of high dignity and power, placed by the King of Scotland over a province instead of a thanage, and exercising the office of royal deputy, enjoying a third part of its revenues. ma-ou-ti-a, subst. [Named after Emmanuel Le Maout.] Bot.: A genus of Urticacese. Maoutia puy a is a shrub with very white leaves, growing in the Him a lay as. It yields a strong fiber of good quality, used for making fishing-nets, net-bags, twine, and cloth. măp, *mappe, s. [Fr. mappemonde , from Lat. mappa mundi a map of the world; mappa =a napkin; Ital. map pam on do .] 1. Lit .: A representation of a portion of the earth's surface, or of a portion of the heavens upon a plane. There are, therefore, two kinds of maps, terrestial and celestial. Terrestrial maps are of two kinds, those which represent portions of land and water together, which are properly called maps, and those which represent portions of the ocean, only indicating the directions of currents, soundings, anchorages, rocks, shoals, buoys, lighthouses, .; these are called hydrographical maps or charts. A map of the earth, or of a portion of the earth, generally shows the physical features of the country, as rivers, mountains, lakes, ., the situation of towns, cities, ., relatively to each other, and by means of the lines of latitude and longitude relatively to every other point on the earth's surface. Maps are also prepared for special purposes, as geological, statistical, ethnological, or historical maps . It being impo ible to represent a spherical surface on a plane, so that the parts shall have to each other their proper relative positions, the representation is, in all cases, conventional. Various devices have been resorted to, each of sin, as; expect, Xenophon, exist. ph = f. IMG:content-0923.png:[blocks in formation] Min.: The same as CHIASTOLITE OF MACLE (q. v.). ma-rănt', s . [MARANTA.] Bot. (pl.): The name given by Lindley to the order Marantaceæ (q. v.). ma-răn-ta, s. [Named after B. Maranti, a Vene- tian physician and botanist, who died in 1554.] Bot.: Marant, the typical genus of the order Marantacese (q. v.). Maranta a rund in ace a , M. allouya , and M. nobilis furnish arrowroot in the West Indies, and M. ramosi ima in the East Indies. The split stems of M. dichotoma , a native of India and Burmah, are made into mats. măr-ăn-tā-çě-æ, s . pl . [Mod. Lat. marant (a); Lat. fem. pl. adj. suff.- aceœ .] from Lat. amarus bitter.] A small, black, wild variety of cherry, from which maraschino is dis- măr-as-chî'-nō, s. [Italian marasca = marasca (q. v.).) A delicate spirit or liquor distilled from cherries; the best is from Zara in Dalmatia. Bot.: A genus of fungi, akin to Agaric us. Some foreign species are finely colored. Marasmius ore- ades is the Champignon, which is eatable; M. scor- odonius is used as a condiment. ma-răş-mo-lite, s. [Gr. marasmos = decaying; suff.- lite ( Min .).] Min.: A blende (q. v.) partially decomposed, and containing some free sulphur. IMG:content-0924.png:[blocks in formation] for the most part the combats of the Centaurs and Lap i the, and the statues or fragments of statues which ornamented the tympana of the pediments of the Par the non, or Temple of Minerva. To these were added the frieze from the Temple of Nike Apteros, a series of casts from the Temple of These us, and the choragic monument of Lysicrates. B. As adjective: IMG:content-0925.png:[blocks in formation] Book bind .: A mode of ornamenting the edges of bound books. [MARBLE-PAPER.] marble-edged, a. Having the edges marbled, as a book, .