masculiflorous (mas kuliflorus)

[ Thi masculyn children: that is to seyn, thi sones. Chaucer , Boëthius, ii. prose 3. 3645 2. Having the distinguishing characteristics of the male sex among human beings, physical or mental; pertaining to a man or to men; of manlike quality: opposed to feminine: as, the masculine element of society; masculine spirit or courage. Seditious tumults and seditious fames differ no more but as brother and sister, masculine and feminine. mash IMG:content-0287.png:[graphic] Give her a spirit masculine and noble, Fit for yourselves to ask and me to offer. Beau. and Fl ., Thierry and Theodoret, iv. 1. Queen Anne, your mother, a lady of a great and mascu line mind. Sir H. Wotton, Panegyric on King Charles I., [Remains, p. 144. ( Latham .) which surrounds the petiole, and bears one or many loosely clustered flowers, which are of medium size, have very small petals, and are beautifully marked and colored. There are more than 125 species, growing in tropical America as far as Peru and Mexico; many are cultivated for the singularity and beauty of their flowers. M. Chimæra has been called the spectral - flowered orchid. Turn. N. A. Rev. , CXLIII. 339. 3. As applied derogatively to women, unwomanly; bold; bold; forward: as, her manners are coarse and masculine; she has a masculine air or stride.-4. Suitable for the male sex; adapted to or intended for the use of males: as, mascu line garments. But this my masculine usurp'd attire. Shak., T. N., v. 1. 257. A masculine church (women being interdicted the entrance thereof) to the memory of St. Augustine. Fuller . act eristics of that one of the so-called genders 5. In gram., belonging to or having the char in to which the nouns, etc., of some languages are divided which includes as its prominent part the names of male beings; having inflections or forms belonging to such words: as, a masculine noun; a masculine termination. See gender. By statute in England and many of the United States, words of the masculine gender used in the See maslin1 . masert, n. An obsolete form of mazer . maser-tree, n. See mazer - tree . mash1 (mash), n. [Formerly also mesh , whence by corruption me (see me 1); maske , masc , transposed * max (in comp. maxwyrt , mash-wort) = North Fries. mask, grains, mash, = MHG. meisch , mash, also mead, G. meisch, meische, maisch, mash (of malt), = Sw. mäsk , dial. mask = Dan. mask , grains, mash. The noun appears to be older than the verb, and to be connected with mix , AS. mis- cian (see mix ); but some confusion with other words seems to have taken place. Cf. mash1, v. Hence mish-mash.] 1. A mixture or ma general statutes include females unle the contrary in tent appear. Abbreviated m. and masc. 6. In bot., relating to stamens: same as male1, 2. - Masculine cesura. See cesura. - Masculine numbers, odd numbers. - Masculine rimes. Same as male rimes (which see, under malel, a.). - Masculine signs, in astrol., the first, third, fifth, etc., signs of the zodiac. = Syn. Male, Masculine, Mannish, Manly, Manful, Virile, Gentlemanly. (See comparison under feminine.) Male, matching female, applies to the whole sex among human beings and gender among animals, to the apparel of that sex, and, by figure, to certain things, as plants, rimes, cesuras, screws, joints. Masculine, matching feminine, applies to men and their attributes and to the first grammatical gender: a woman may wear male apparel and have a masculine walk, voice, manner, temperament. Mannish, not closely matching womanish, applies to that which is somewhat like man, as when a boy gets a mannish voice, and to that in woman which is too much like man to be womanly. (See quotations under mannish.) Manly, matching womanly, is the word into which have been gathered the highest conceptions of what is noble in man or worthy of his manhood, especially as opposed to that which is fawning or underhand. Manful expre es the stanchne , fearle ne , and energy of a man, as opposed to that which is weak, cowardly, or supine. Virile has lost much of its suggestion of the qualities of a man; it is generally used in expre ion of the notion of energy or strength. Gentlemanly has a cheaper sense, expre ing the practice merely external courtesies, but it is also a high word for the po e ion of a manly refinement both of nature and of manners. II. n. (a) In gram ., the masculine gender; ( b ) a word of this gender. masculinely (mas kū-lin-li), adv . In the masculine manner; like a man. [Rare.] Aurelia Tells me you've done most masculinely within, And played the orator. B. Jonson, Cat i line, iii. 3.