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will. Artificial magnets are made of various forms, the most common being the bar shape. ing several thin magnetized bars side by side, and magnets is called a magnetic battery, and is more powerful than a solid bar of the same weight. A magnet imparted to it by sending a current of electricity through a coil of wire surrounding it. Itis then called an electro-magnet (See Dynamo.) Montpellier, died 1715.] The name of a tree, a native of North America, India, China, and encyclopedic dictionary Japan, now very widely cultivated, and much ad¬ flaUIow. mired on account of the beauty of its flowers and and foliage. Its Mag pie. [Afag, short form of Margaret and; external pie, from L. pica, a magpie.] A bird of the Crow MalrrUsey. tribe, distinguished from the true crows by its Greece.] small size, short wings, long tail, and variegated from plumage. It is noted for its cunning, is easily Malvasia, tamed, and may be taught to speak a few words. Halt, It feeds on snails, slugs, worms, frogs, rats, mice, in and the eggs and young of poultry; and when dried disturbed by any person or animal it keeps up a Starch continual chatter, from which comes the saying brewing to “ chatter like a magpie.” Magpies are com¬ riam'mals. mon in Europe and in the northern parts of vertebrate America. because Mahog any. The wood of a tree of the same formed name, a native of Central America and the West heart Indies. It is a beautiful tree, from 80 to ioo feet warm, high, the trunk being often 5 feet in circumfer¬ or ence. The wood is heavy, hard, close-grained, of a Man. reddish-brown color, and susceptible of a brilliant the polish. It is used in the making of furniture, walks and for the inside woodwork of railway cars, excels sometime solid, but more often as a veneer, or mind. thin layer glued on inferior wood. The wood and varies much in value according to the color and animals. beauty of its veins.. man Maidenhair. A species of fern, so called because the of its very fine hair-like fronds. The Maize or Indian Corn. An important grain of arms American origin, distinguished by the peculiar the arrangement of its large seeds on a long cylin¬ tasting. drical cob. It grows on a stalk resembling that a of the sugar cane, varying from 5 to 10 feet in part, height. Its cultivation is simple, and the returns and very large, its produce being greater than that of upper, any other grain. Corn-flour is extensively used stomach, as food. Maize meal is not well adapted for The making bread, but is sometimes mixed with of wheaten flour for that purpose. It is also used flarUakin. in the manufacture of starch. In some countries common the husks are used in of making paper and mat¬ their tre es, and in stuffing riaiichineeF. chairs and saddles. More grows than 2,000 million bushels noted of maize are grown in juice. the United States annu¬ arrows. ally, much of it being veined, used in fattening swine. MaUachite. A mineral MarUatee. of a dark and emerald mammals, green color; a carbonate found of copper, much used for Africa ornamental purposes. Manatee rial a/ria. [Ital. mala, Manganese'. WINE SKIN BOTTLES. bad; and flm, air.] A important poisonous condition of the air most powerful oxide, near marshes, producing certain kinds of low in fever. It is found to be due to a bacterial Nova microbe, probably largely di eminated by mos¬ much quitoes. largely MaFlet. [Fr. mail let.'] A wooden hammer for spiegel beating lead, etc., for driving wooden pins, or Han'go. for using with chisels. which L.ofC. of common things 99 A plant common throughout Europe in Britain, on waysides and heaps of rubbish. soft downy leaves are sometimes used to allay inflammation. [From Malvasia, in the south of The name of a sweet wine, or the grape which it is made; originally exported from but now made in other places. [AS. mealt.] Barley or other grain steeped water until it begins to germinate, and then to stop the growth, thus converting the of the grain into sugar. It is used in and distilling. [U. mamma.\ The highest cla of or backboned animals; so called they all feed their young with milk in their own bodies. In mammals the is divided into four chambers, the blood is and the skin has a covering of hair, wool, bristles. [AS. man.'] Man is the chief of mammals, superior of all animals, the only one which erect, and the only one which talks. He all other animals not only in body, but in This enables him to reason and to invent, to have power over the elements and lower The mind is seated in the brain, and has a much larger brain, in proportion to size of his body, than any other animal. human body is made up of the head, trunk, and legs. The head contains the brain and organs of hearing, seeing, smelling and The trunk is divided into two parts by partition called the diaphragm. The upper called the thorax or chest, contains the heart lungs; and the lower part, larger than the called the abdomen or belly, contains the intestines or bowels, liver, and kidneys. arms and legs are made up of a framework bones joined together by ligaments. The name applied to a race of birds in the tropical parts of South America, very small size, and noted for the beauty of plumage. [L. man can ill a.'] A tree which in the West Indies and tropical America, for its poisonous fruit and poisonous milky The Indians use it for poisoning their The wood is of fine quality, beautifully and highly valued for cabinet-work. A genus of marine, plant-eating known as cow whales or sea-cows, in the coast waters and river mouths of and South America. They include the and the Dugong. A metal closely allied to iron. The manganese ores are black oxide, brown and bog manganese. Large deposits exist Spain, Portugal, and the United States. In Scotia there is an ore very free from iron used in gla -making. Manganese is used in the Be emer proce and as iron. [Malay.] The fruit of the mango tree, grows in India and the East and West 675