make-sport 
make-sportt (mak'sport), . [< make 1 , v., + 
ohj. mmrt.] A laughing-stock. 
My patience 
(Because I bear, anil bear, and carry all, 
And, as they gay, HIII willing to grouu under), 
Must be your Hulke-sport nmv. 
Fletcher, The Chances, 111. 1. 
make-Strifet (mak'strif ), . [< make 1 , i'., + obj. 
strij'i'.] Sanm as make-bate. Minsheu. 
make-up (mak'up). n. [< make up, verbal phr. 
under mtiki' 1 , c.] 1. The manner in which any- 
thing is made up, composed, or combined ; com- 
position of parts ; arrangement of details. 
(They) Indicate, by something in the pattern or make- 
up of their clothes, that they pay small regard to what 
their tailors tell them about the prevailing taste. 
//. Spencer, Universal Progress, p. 62. 
2. In printing, the disposition or arrangement 
of types into pages or columns, preparatory to 
imposition or to locking up. 3. The prepara- 
tion of an actor for impersonating the charac- 
ter assigned to him, including dress, painting 
and altering the appearance of the face, etc.; 
hence, any characteristic appearance regarded 
as analogous to an actor's make-up. 
The sort of professional make-up which penetrates skin, 
tones, and gestures, and defies all drapery. 
Oeorge Eliot, Daniel Deronda, iii. 
Mr. Somerset, who makes up badly for the part of the 
father unless It is, as it may be, very clever to suggest, 
by make-up, a character wholly artificial has the great 
and rare merit of playing with distinction, of playing with 
style. The Academy, July 6, 1889, p. 14. 
Make-up box, a box containing implements and mate- 
rials for making up the face to represent a part in a play, 
makeweight (mak'wat), . [< make 1 , v., + obj. 
teeii/ht.] 1. Something put in a scale to in- 
crease a weight already in it; hence, that 
which adds weight to something not sufficiently 
heavy ; a thing or person of little account made 
use of merely to make weight or to fill a gap. 
His fear of England makes him value us as a make- 
weight. Jefferson, Correspondence, II. 89. 
England, claiming to be an arbitrator, is really a make- 
weight. Stubbi, Medieval and Modern Hist., p. 243. 
2. An adulterant, such as sand in sugar, used 
to increase the weight of a commodity, 
maki (mak'i), n. [Malagasy.] A true lemur or 
macaco, such as the ring-tailed lemur, Lemur 
catta. Dwarf makis are species of the genus 
Chirogaleus. See cut under Chirogaleus. 
makimono (mak-i-mo'no), n. [Jap., < maki, 
stem of maku, wind, roll up, + mono, thing.] A 
roll, as of silk ; specifically, a Japanese picture 
or writing, generally of considerable length, 
that is kept rolled up, and not suspended as a 
kakemono. 
makinboy (mak'in-boi), n. [Corruption of Ir. 
makkinbioee, yellow parsnip.] The Irish spurge, 
Euphorbia Hiberna. 
making (ma'king), n. [< ME. makynge, < AS. 
macung, verbal n. of macian, make: see makel, 
.] 1. The act of forming, causing, or consti- 
tuting; workmanship; construction. 
Therefore I sey weplnge, ne makynge of sorowe, ne may 
vs not :i vnilr ; but wemen ahull wepe. 
Merlin (E. E. T. S.), II. 174. 
The Laws of the Church are most Favourable to the 
Church, because they were the Churches own making. 
Selden, Table-Talk, p. 35. 
Opinion in good men Is but knowledge in the making. 
Milton, Areopagitlca, p. 46. 
2. What has been made, especially at one time : 
as, a making of bread. 3f. Composition; struc- 
ture; make. 
And he also was of the fiercest makynye that eny man 
myght be as of his stature. Merlin (E. E. T. 3.), il. 181. 
4. Material from which anything maybe made ; 
anything capable of being developed into some- 
thing more advanced. 
This Bavarian king was the making of a fine man when 
he was young. The American, XII. 134. 
5f. Poetical composition ; poetry. 
The man hath served you of his konnynge, 
And forthred wel your law in his makiinge. 
Chaucer, Good Women, 1. 413. 
Poesy is his skill <>r craft of making; the very fiction it- 
self, the reason or form of the work. 
B. Jonson, Discoveries. 
6. Fortune; means or cause of success. 
A new author whose work has attracted notice that of 
Mr. Gladstone especially, which is said to be the making 
of a writer now-a-days. The American, XVII. 286. 
7. pi. In coal-mining, the slack and dirt made 
in holing, kirving, or undercutting the coal. 
making-felt (ma'king-felt), . In a cylinder 
paper-machine, the felt on which the web of 
pulp is taken from the making-cylinder at the 
point where this cylinder is borne upon by the 
couching-cyliuder. 
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making-iron (ma'king-i'ern), . A tool, some- 
what resembling a chisel with a groove in it, 
used by calkers of ships to finish the seams af- 
ter the oakum has been driven in. 
making-off (ma'king-6f), n. Seethe quotation. 
hiring and barreling blubber, termed making-off, was, 
and is now, conducted by the Dutch, English, and .Scotch 
whalemen. Fitheriei nj V. S., V. 11. 286. 
makwa (inak'wS), . [Chinese ; < ma, horse, 
+ A-KVJ, jacket.] A short outer jacket worn in 
China, chiefly in the northern provinces and 
territories. The makwa, like the "pigtail" or queue, 
was introduced by the Manchu Tatars shortly after they 
conquered China In 1643. 
malt (mal), . [F., < L. malum, evil, disease, 
neut. of malus, evil, bad : see wote 3 .] Evil ; dis- 
ease. 
Among the English it [a disorder in which blotches break 
out on the body) goes by the name of the Mal of Aleppo. 
Pococke, Description of the East, II. i. ' :.i 
Grand mal, epilepsy with severe convulsions, as distin- 
guished from petit mal. 
mal- (inal). [Formerly also male- (one syllable, 
distinguished from male-, in two syllables, in 
words of Latin form); < F. mal- = Sp. Pg. It. 
mal-, < L. male-, < male, adv., badly, < mains, 
bad : see male 3 , malice, etc. Cf . male-.'] A pre- 
fix of Latin origin, through French (equivalent 
to dys- or coco- of Greek origin), meaning ' bad,' 
and implying usually imperfection or deficiency, 
and often simply a negative, as in malodor, a bad 
odor, malfeasance, bad- or wrong-doing, malfor- 
mation, imperfect shape, maladroit, not adroit, 
malcontent, not content, etc. The prefix in this 
form occurs only in words taken from the 
French, or formed upon the analogies of such. 
mala. . Plural of malum. 
Malabar nut. See Justicia. 
Malabar catmint, nightshade, plum, rose, 
etc. See catmint, etc. 
malacatunet, n. Same as melocoton. 
Malacca bean, cane, etc. See bean, etc. 
malachite (mal'a-kit), n. [= F. malachite = 
Sp. malaquita: so called as resembling in color 
the petal of a mallow (cf . mauve, mallow-color) ; 
< L. malache (also moloche), < Gr. /iaMxn, a 
mallow: see mallow and -t'te 2 .] A basic car- 
bonate of copper having a beautiful green color, 
hence commonly called the green carbonate of 
copper. It occurs rarely in tufts of slender monocllnic 
crystals, more frequently massive with mammillary, sta- 
lactitic, or granular structure, often fibrous and radiated. 
The finest specimens come from the Siberian mines. It 
is also common in Cornwall and in South Australia, Ari- 
zona, etc. It takes a good polish, and is manufactured into 
ornamental articles. It is often called green malachite, in 
distinction from blue malachite, or azurite, which is a re- 
lated carbonate of copper containing less water, and which 
often passes by alteration Into the green carbonate. See 
azurite. Emerald malachite. Same as dioptase. 
malachite-green (mal'a-kit-gren), . i. The 
natural hydrated bicarbonate of copper. Also 
called mountain-green. 2. A fine green color, 
like that of handsome specimens of malachite. 
Malachra (ma-lak'ra), . [NL. (Linnceus, 
1789), erroneously for *Malacha.<. L. malache, 
mallow: see malachite, mallow.} A genus of 
plants belonging to the natural order Malvacea-, 
the mallow family, and the tribe Vreneai, it is 
characterized by the dense, involucrate heads of flowers, 
with small bracts irregularly scattered through the cluster 
(these bracts are, however, sometimes wanting). Five or 
six species are known, natives of the warmer parts of Asia, 
Africa, and America. They are hairy herbs with lobed or 
angled leaves, and yellow or white flowers in dense axillary 
or terminal heads, surrounded by an involucre of leafy 
bracts. West Indian species have been called wild okra. 
malacia (ma-la'si-R), n. [< Gr. /uoXoitrff, soft.] 
Morbid softness of any tissue : usually in com- 
position : as, myomalacia, osteomalacia. 
malacic (ma-las'ik), a. [< malacia + -ic.~} Per- 
taining to malacia, especially to osteomalacia. 
malacissantt (mal-a-sis'ant), a. [< L. mala- 
cissan(t-)s, ppr. of malactssare, < Gr. [tafami&iv, 
make soft, < /ua/l<ucof, soft.] Making soft or 
tender; relaxing. 
malacissationt (mal'a-si-sa'shon), n. [< L. 
malacissare, make soft .: see malacissant."} The 
act or process of making soft or supple. 
Let this bath, together with the emplastering and vnc- 
tlon (as before), be renewed every fifth day : this malacis 
so/von, or suppling of the body, to be continued for one 
whole month. Bacon, Hist. Life and Death. 
Malaclemmyidae (mal'a-kle-mi'i-de), . i>l. 
[NL., < Malacoclemmys + -4d(e.~\ A family of 
tortoises, typified by the genus Malaclemmys. 
It includes such species as the familiar diamond-backed 
terrapin of the United States, and several related forms 
from the Old World have been placed in it. Also Mala- 
Cficlniniiitiiiir. 
Malaclemmys (mal-a-klem'is), n. [NL., short 
for Malacwlenunyn.]' The typical genus of 
Malaconotinse 
Mulnclemmyida?, including the diamond-backed 
terrapin of the United States, M. palustrit. 
Also Mn/iK-oi'li ntmtfx. 
Malacobdella (mal'a-kob-del'a), n. [NL., < 
Gr. fia'/.aKof, soft, + fidt'fj.a, a leech : see Bdella.] 
A genus of worms, formerly supposed to be 
leeches, now considered to be parasitic nemer- 
teans, type of a family Malacobdellidce. M. 
grossa is a parasite found in the gills of various 
mollusks. 
Malacobdellidae (mal'a-kob-deri-dS), n. pi. 
[NL. , < Malacobdella + -te.] A family of para- 
sitic nemcrtean worms, typified by the genus 
Malacobdella. They have an external circular and an in- 
ternal longitudinal dermomuscular layer, nerve-trunks 
free from the muscular system and united together by an 
anal commissure, a simple intestine of several coils, a pos- 
terior sucker, no cephalic grooves, no spines on the, pro- 
boscis, and the sexes distinct. 
Malacoclemmys (mal'a-ko-klem'is), . [NL., 
< Gr. //aAa/ibf , soft, + iifaii/ivs, a tortoise : see 
<'ii in in i/.--. \ Same as Malaclemmys. 
malacoderm (mara-k6-drm), n. One of the 
Malacodermata or of the Malacodermi. 
Malacodermata (mal*a-ko-d6r'ma-tft), n. pi. 
[NL., neut. pi. of malacodermatus : seemalaco- 
dermatous.'] 1. The sea-anemones as an order 
of zoantharian Actinozoa. They are so called from 
their softness, corallum being absent or represented only 
by a few splcules which do not form a hard crust. These 
polyps are usually of large size, and Individual, rarely be- 
ing aggregated into a polypidom. The tentacles are nu- 
merous, simple, not pinnately fringed, not in groups of 
eight, and often in several series ; they sometimes num- 
ber about 600, developed in multiples of six. Some of 
these animals, as Ilyanthidce, are free-swimming, but most 
of them are sessile, adherent to rocks, etc., by a fleshy 
base, but able to creep about to some extent. The Zoan- 
thidce are aggregated by a common creeping-stem or stolon. 
2. In entom., a division of serricorn pentam- 
erous Coleoptera, corresponding to Latreille's 
Malacodermi. 3. In herpet., the naked rep- 
tiles, or amphibians : distinguished from Sclero- 
dermata. Also Malacoderma. 
malacodermatous (mal'a-ko-dfer'ma-tus), a* 
K NL. malacodermatus, < Gr. /m^nxof, soft, + 
Mpua(d(puaT-),skin: seederwia.] Soft-skinned; 
specifically, of or pertaining to the Malacoder- 
mata. 
Malacodermi (mal'a-ko-der'mi), . pi. [NL., 
< Gr. /ia/MKoc, soft, -r- fepfia, skin: see derma."} 
In Latreille's classification, the second section 
of serricorn pentamerous Coleoptera. it is com- 
posed of beetles having, for the most part, soft flexible 
bodies, like the glow-worm, the head received into the 
thorax or at least covered by it at the base, and the proster- 
tmni not produced in front and usually not pointed be- 
hind. The malacoderms were divided by Latrellle into 
five tribes, Cebrionitet, Lampyrides, Melyridea, Clerii, and 
Ptinidet. Although the term is literally inapplicable to 
a large number of the beetles so called, it is retained as 
one division of Serricornia, the other being SUrnoxi. 
Malacodennidae (mal"a-ko-der'mi-de), n. pi. 
[NL., < Malacodermi + -ida:.] A family of Mal- 
acodermi, containing beetles which are really 
soft-bodied, as the glow-worms. Also called 
iMmpyridce and Telephorida;. It corresponds 
to Latreille's second tribe, Lampyrides. 
malacoid (mal'a-koid), a. [< Gr. //a/l/coe)^c, of 
a soft nature, ? /Mt).an6f, soft, + clAof, form.] 
Soft in texture; soft-bodied; having a muci- 
laginous texture: applied to parts of plants, 
particularly the hyphie of certain fungi. 
malacolite (mal'a-ko-lit), n. [Prop, "malacho- 
lite, so called from its color (ef. malachite), < 
Gr. paMixt), a mallow,' + 2Mof, stone.] Diop- 
side; a lime-magnesia variety of pyroxene, of 
a pale greenish-white color. 
malacological (mal'a-ko-loj'i-kal), a. [< mala- 
colog-y + -teal."] Of or pertaining to malacol- 
ogy; conchological. 
malacologist (mal-a-koTo-jist), . [< malaeol- 
og-y + -is<.] One who is versed in malacology ; 
a student of mollusks. 
malacology (mal-a-kol'o-ii), n. [= F. malocolo- 
gie; < Gr. jOa/Uncof',' soft'(> fiaZdiua, soft-bodied 
animals without external shells or articulated 
bones: cf. mollusk), + -).oyia, < teyeiv, apeak: 
see -otow.] The science of the molluscous or 
soft-bodied animals; the knowledge of shell- 
fish. It is synonymous with conchology, but Implies that 
attention is paid to the soft parts, or anatomical structure 
of the animals, rather than to their shells. 
malacon (mal'a-kon), . [NL., < Gr. fia^.anif, 
soft.] In mineral., an altered and somewhat 
hydrated zircon, having a hardness inferior to 
that of the original mineral. 
Malaconotinae(mal''a-k6-no-ti'ne), n.pl. [NL., 
< Muluconotus + -inir.] A subfamily of Old 
World and chiefly African shrikes, of the family 
Laniida, named from the genus Malaconotvs. 
J. Cabanis, 1850. Also Malaconoti. 
