Part 6720

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Billiards)</fld> <def>A rod for playing billiards, having one end suited to resting on the table and pushed with one hand.</def>

<cs><col>Mace bearer</col>, <cd>an officer who carries a mace before person in authority.</cd></cs>

<h1>Macedonian</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Mac`e*do"ni*an</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>Macedonius</ets>, Gr. <?/.]</ety> <fld>(Geog.)</fld> <def>Belonging, or relating, to Macedonia.</def> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>A native or inhabitant of Macedonia.</def></def2>

<h1>Macedonian</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Mac`e*do"ni*an</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Eccl. Hist.)</fld> <def>One of a certain religious sect, followers of <i>Macedonius</i>, Bishop of Constantinople, in the fourth century, who held that the Holy Ghost was a creature, like the angels, and a servant of the Father and the Son.</def>

<h1>Macedonianism</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Mac`e*do"ni*an*ism</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The doctrines of Macedonius.</def>

<h1>Macer</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Ma"cer</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>massier</ets>. See <er>Mace</er> staff.]</ety> <def>A mace bearer; an officer of a court.</def>

<i>P. Plowman.</i>

<h1>Macerate</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Mac"er*ate</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Macerated</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Macerating</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[L. <ets>maceratus</ets>, p. p. of <ets>macerare</ets> to make soft, weaken, enervate; cf. Gr. <?/ to knead.]</ety> <p><b>1.</b> <def>To make lean; to cause to waste away.</def> <mark>[Obs. or R.]</mark>

<i>Harvey.</i>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To subdue the appetites of by poor and scanty diet; to mortify.</def>

<i>Baker.</i>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To soften by steeping in a liquid, with or without heat; to wear away or separate the parts of by steeping; <as>as, to <ex>macerate</ex> animal or vegetable fiber</as>.</def>

<h1>Macerater</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Mac"er*a`ter</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who, or that which, macerates; an apparatus for converting paper or fibrous matter into pulp.</def>

<h1>Maceration</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Mac`er*a"tion</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[L. <ets>maceratio</ets>: cf. F. <ets>mac\'82ration</ets>.]</ety> <def>The act or process of macerating.</def>

<h1>Mach\'91rodus, Machairodus</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw><hw>Ma*ch\'91"ro*dus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <hw>Ma*chai"ro*dus</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>,<hw> <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ dagger + <?/ tooth.]</ety> <fld>(Paleon.)</fld> <def>A genus of extinct mammals allied to the cats, and having in the upper jaw canine teeth of remarkable size and strength; -- hence called <i>saber-toothed tigers</i>.</def>

<h1>Machete</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Ma*che"te</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[Sp.]</ety> <def>A large heavy knife resembling a broadsword, often two or three feet in length, -- used by the inhabitants of Spanish America as a hatchet to cut their way through thickets, and for various other purposes.</def>

<i>J. Stevens.</i>

<h1>Machiavelian</h1> <Xpage=879>

<hw>Mach`i*a*vel"ian</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <ety>[From <ets>Machiavel</ets>, an Italian writer, secretary and historiographer to the republic of Florence.]</ety> <def>Of or pertaining to Machiavel, or to his supposed principles; politically cunning; characterized by duplicity or bad faith; crafty.</def>