mag3 (mag)

[Also make, maik; origin obscure.] A halfpenny; in Scotland (with plural), a gratuity expected by servants. [Eng. and Scotch.] It can't be worth a mag to him. mænianum (mē-ni-a'num), n.; pl. mæniana (-nä). [L., a projecting balcony, orig. one in the Forum at Rome, erected under the censor C. Mænius, for the convenience of spectators of the gladiatorial combats; neut. of Man i an us , of Mænius, Mænius , the name of a Roman zine , 2. [Colloq.] gens.] In Rom . antiq ., a balcony or gallery for spectators at a public show. The name, originally applied to a balcony in the Forum, was extended to bal- conies in general, as to the galleries at the circular end of a circus, and to the ranges of seats above the podium in an IMG:content-0057.png:[blocks in formation] maelstrom (mal's trom), n. [An erroneous Mænoidea (mē-noi'dē-ē), n . pl . [NL., Mana spelling (sometimes erroneously explained as +-oideœ.] Same as Mænid a . Sir J. Richard- 'mill-stream'); prop. * malestrom or * malstrom ; son , 1836. formerly male strand (see quot.), quot.), simulating simulating Mænur a, n. An erroneous form of Menura . strand1 ; Norw.malstraum (little used) (=Dan. Mæsa (mē'sä), n . [NL. (P. Forskal, 1775), malström ), a great whirlpool in the sea, He [Osep Napea] reports of a Whirlpool between the Rost Islands and Lofoot call'd Male strand , which from ebb to half flood is heard to make such a terrible noise as shakes the Door-rings of Houses in those Islands ten mile off. Milton, Hist. Muscovia, maas, given as the Ar. name of one of the species.] A genus of dicotyledonous gamopetalous plants, belonging to the natural order Myrsineæ, type of the tribe Mæseæ, characterized by the two-bracted calyx, the imbricate corolla, and flowers growing in racemes. They are shrubs, with entire dentate or serrate leaves, often pellucid-dotted, small white five-parted flowers, and a small dry or fleshy fruit with many seeds and a persistent style. About 40 species are known, natives of tropical and subtropical Asia and Africa, Australia, and the islands of the Pacific. The genus furnishes some ornamental hothouse-plants. Mæseæ (mē'sē-ē), n. pl. [NL. (Alphonse de Candolle, 1837), Dickens , Bleak House, liv. IMG:content-0058.png:[blocks in formation]