malagmat (malagma)

[= F. It. malagma, malagi malagma, cataplasm; a poultice. malaguetta pepper. Same as grains of para dise (which see, under grain1 ). malahack (mal-a-hak'), v. t. [Origin obscure.] See the quotation. Malahack: to cut up hastily or awkwardly. Lowell , Biglow Papers, 2d ser., Int. Malaic (mā-lā'ik), a. [ malaise (ma-lāz'), n. [F. malaise, uneasine , discomfort: see malease.] Uneasine ; discomfort; specifically, an indefinite feeling of uneasine , often a preliminary symptom of a serious malady. Mala is i an, a. See Malaysian. Malambo bark. See bark2. malanders, mallanders (mal'an-derz), n. pl. [Also mallenders, mallinders; sing.), blisters or pustules on the neck, esp. of horses.] In farriery, a dry scab or scurfy erup tion on the hock of a horse or at the bend of the knee; "sore places on the inside of the fore legs of a horse" ( Hall i well ). She has the mallanders , the scratches, the crown scab, and the quitter bone in the t'other leg. B. Jonson, Bartholomew Fair, ii. 1. [ malapert (mal'a-pert), a. and n. pert , malapert , over-ready, impudent, mal , badly, + apert , open, ready: see apert , and cf. pert.] I. a. Characterized by pertne or impudence; saucy; impudent; bold; forward. She was wis and loved hym nevere the la e, Al nere he malapert . Chaucer, Troilus, iii. 87. Untutor'd lad, thou art too malapert . Shak., 3 Hen. VI., v. 5. 32. He is bitterly censured by Mar in us Marcennus, a mala pert friar. Burton , Anat. of Mel., p. 454. II. n. A pert, saucy person. malapertly (mal'a-pert-li), adv . In a malapert manner; saucily; with saucily; with impudence. malapertne (mal'a-pert-nes), n. The character of being malapert; saucine ; impudent (mala-pert-nes), pertne or forwardne . malappropriate (mal-a-prō'pri-āt), v. t.; pret. and pp. malappropriated, ppr. malappropriat ing. [ She thrust the hearth-brush into the grates in mistake for the poker, and malappropriated several other articles E. Bronte , Wuthering Heights, xxxii. IMG:content-0122.png:[blocks in formation] 3591 fevers, the malarial poison produces various and often ill marked perversions of the general health, such as neuralgia, neuritis, anemia, digestive disturbances, and albuminuria. The anatomical effects of the malarial poison are enlargement of the spleen, sometimes exce ive, darkening of the skin, and the presence of a dark pigment in the blood, in amorphous ma es. There is found, moreover, in malarial blood a variety of peculiar living bodies which are supposed to be the various stages in the life-history of a single organism. This has been called the Plasmodium mafavorably lariæ. All by these quinned forms of to malaria degree are, as by a rule, the affected drugs, notably arsenic. malarial (ma-lā'ri-al), a. [ malapropos (mal-ap-ro-pō'), a. and adv . mal- + apropos : see apropos .] I. a. In appro- priate; out of place; inapt; unseasonable: as, a malapropos remark. .. are common sequels of mala Quain, Med. Dict., p. 916. Malarial fever. See fever1. malaria list (mā-la'ri-al-ist), n. [ rialist. four feet. Malapterurida . roid. malconformation lacca or of the Malay peninsula, or of the adjacent islands. The Malays -the name is said to mean the same thing as that of the Parthians, viz. emigrants. J. Hadley , E ays (1873), p. 20. 2. The language of the Malays. It is a dialect belonging to the Malayan branch of the MalayPolynesian family.-3. A variety of the domestic hen, having a tall and slender shape like that of the exhibition game, but larger, and and long legs and neck and a close, low tail. The shanks are yellow; the comb is flat or strawberry-shaped. In green-black lacing, while the cock resembles a dull-colored coloration the hen is chocolate or cinnamon-brown, with black-breasted red game-cock. The eggs are large and brown. II. a. Of or pertaining to the Malays or to their country. Also Malaic . - Malay apple, a small tree, Eugenia Malaccensis , or its fruit. This tree is found wild the Malayan, Polynesian, and Sandwich islands, and widely cultivated, in many varieties. The fruit is of good size, with the form of a quince, juicy, delicate-flavored, and of an apple-like scent. - Malay porcupine, a brush-tailed porcupine, Atherura fasciculata . - Malay one of the five principal divisions of mankind ac malarian (mā-lā'ri-an), a. [ A flat malarian world of reed and rush! Tennyson, Lover's Tale, iv. malar i maxillary (mā"lar-i-mak'si-lā-ri), a . [ malar is , malar, + maxillar is , maxillary.] Of or pertaining to the malar and the supramaxil- malomaxillary . lary bone: as, the malar i maxillary suture. Also malarious (ma-la'ri-us), a . [ malaria + -ous.] Characterized by or abounding with malaria; producing or communicating malarial disease: as, a malarious region or climate; a malarious state of the atmosphere. A fever alley or a malarious ditch. C. Kingsley, Life (1878), II. 370. malarious poison from the gases generated by swamps, or Attempts have been made, without succe , to separate from the air of malarious localities. Encyc. Brit., XV. 320. Electric Catfish ( Mal apter urus electric us). ing the family Malapterurida, with an adipose fin over the caudal region and no true dorsal fin; the electric fishes. M. electric us inhabits the Nile and other African rivers. malar (ma'lär), a. and n. [ foramina. See foramen. - Malar point. See craniom etry. II. n. A membrane bone or splint-bone of the side of the head of higher vertebrates, entering into the composition of the zygoma or zygomatic arch, which connects the upper jaw or other part of the face with the squamosal or other parts about the ear; the jugal or jugal bone. In most animals it is a long and slender horizontal bone, in man a short and stout quadrangular bone, the cheek-bone, forming the prominence of the cheek, entering into the composition of the orbit of the eye, and articulating not only with the temporal and superior maxillary, but also with the frontal and sphenoid.