<h1>Magazining</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mag`a*zin"ing</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>The act of editing, or writing for, a magazine.</def> <mark>[Colloq.]</mark>
<i>Byron.</i>
<h1>Magazinist</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mag`a*zin"ist</hw>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>One who edits or writes for a magazine.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>
<h1>Magbote</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mag"bote`</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>See <er>M\'91gbote</er>.</def>
<h1>Magdala</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mag"da*la</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Designating an orange-red dyestuff obtained from naphthylamine, and called <i>magdala red</i>, <i>naphthalene red</i>, etc.</def>
<h1>Magdalen</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mag"da*len</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[From Mary <ets>Magdalene</ets>, traditionally reported to have been the repentant sinner forgiven by Christ. See <ets>Luke</ets> vii. 36.]</ety> <def>A reformed prostitute.</def>
<h1>Magdaleon</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mag*da"le*on</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[NL., fr. Gr. <?/ crumb of bread, fr. <?/ to knead.]</ety> <fld>(Med.)</fld> <def>A medicine in the form of a roll, a esp. a roll of plaster.</def>
<h1>Magdeburg</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mag"de*burg</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>A city of Saxony.</def>
<cs><mcol><col>Magdeburg centuries</col>, <col>Magdeburg hemispheres</col></mcol>. <cd>See under <er>Century</er>, and <er>Hemisphere</er>.</cd></cs>
<h1>Mage</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mage</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <ety>[F. <ets>mage</ets>. See <er>Magi</er>.]</ety> <def>A magician.</def> <mark>[Archaic]</mark>
<i>Spenser. Tennyson.</i>
<h1>Magellanic</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Mag`el*lan"ic</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Of or pertaining to, or named from, <i>Magellan</i>, the navigator.</def>
<cs><col>Magellenic clouds</col> <fld>(Astron.)</fld>, <cd>three conspicuous nebul\'91 near the south pole, resembling thin white clouds.</cd></cs><-- they are smaller than the Milky Way galaxy, but separate from it, and thus are considered the galactic formations nearest to our galaxy, but not part of it. -->
<h1>Magenta</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Ma*gen"ta</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <fld>(Chem.)</fld> <def>An aniline dye obtained as an amorphous substance having a green bronze surface color, which dissolves to a shade of red; also, the color; -- so called from <i>Magenta</i>, in Italy, in allusion to the battle fought there about the time the dye was discovered. Called also <altname>fuchsine</altname>, <altname>rose\'8bne</altname>, etc.</def><-- now fuschin -->
<-- 2. n. the purpish-red color of magenta -->
<h1>Magged</h1> <Xpage=881>
<hw>Magged</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <fld>(Naut.)</fld> <def>Worn; fretted; <as>as, a <ex>magged</ex> brace</as>.</def>
<i>Ham. Nav. Encyc.</i>
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