GLOSSARY 421 



Macule A spot or blemish. 



Malanders Eruption on hock of horse. 



Maturity The state of being developed. 



Mediocre A middle quantity. 



Metamorphic Liable to variation or change; producing changes that go 



on in rocks. 



Microscopic Very small. 

 Minimum A portion so small as to be incapable of further division; an 



atom. 



Miscible Mixable. 

 Moldboard A curved plate of iron back of a plowshare. It turns over the 



earth in plowing. 



Mottler A brush used in mottling. 

 Mulch A covering of the soil with any loose material. 

 Mummies The embalmed bodies of human beings or sacred animals. 

 Muriade A chloride. 



Nasturtiums A plant (dwarf or climbing) of any one of several species of 



the genus Tropaeolum. 

 Neutralize To render ineffective. 

 Neutralizing Checking the action of an agent. 

 Nitrifying Combining or treating with nitrogen. 

 Nitrogenous Containing nitrogen. 

 Non-symboliotic Not mutual. 



Obesity Fatness ; corpulence. 

 Oblique Slant. 



Obviates Removes from the way or path. 

 Offal Waste meat. 



Omasium The small stomach of the cow. 

 Optimum Best or most favorable degree. 



Organic Showing animal or vegetable characteristics ; pertaining to or having 

 organs. 



Paddock Inclosed space 



Palatability State of being pleasing to the taste. 



Palatable Acceptable ; agreeable to the palate or taste. 



Palate Roof of mouth. 



Panicle A tuft on plants. 



Paroxysm A spasm or fit ; a convulsion. 



Parturition Act of bringing forth young. 



