malm 
The Malm of the Oerman geologlsts(whlch Is not the equiv- 
alent of the English malm rock) corresponds paleontologt- 
cally with tho Middle and Upper Oolite of England. The 
rock consists mostly of white limestone, with dolomitic 
and marly strata, and is in some places over 1.000 feet 
thick. 
3. pi. Bricks made of malm earth, or of the 
artificial malm prepared by mixing clay with 
chalk. 
For making the best quality of bricks, which are called 
>/utinix, an artificial substitute is obtained. 
C. T. Davit, Bricks and Tiles, p. 66. 
II. a. 1. Composed of malm or calcare- 
ous loam: as, malm lands. Gilbert While. 2f. 
Soft; mellow. Halliwell. 3. Peaceable ; quiet. 
[Prov. Eng.] [In the last two senses spelled 
maum."] Malm brick, a brick made of true or of arti- 
ficial malm, the latter of which consists of comminuted 
chalk and clay mixed with a little sand and with breeze, 
the last being composed of cinders, ashes, and fine coal. 
These bricks burn to a pale-brown color more or less in- 
clined to yellow. They are made in the neighborhood of 
London, and are also called malms. See malm. Malm 
rock, the local name of parts of the Upper Greensand, 
aa developed from Westerham west through Surrey, Hants, 
and Sussex. Also called malmstone. 
Near Westerham we find harder beds below, which rap- 
Idly acquire importance farther west, and become there 
the chief part of the formation [the Upper Greensaud]. 
These beds are known as nrestone and malm, rock, and 
there also occur smaller quantities of blue rag and chert. 
The firestone is a light-coloured calcareous sandstone 
much used for building. The malm rock much resembles 
it, but is slightly more chalky-looking. 
Topley, Geol. of the Weald, p. 153. 
malmt, maumt (mam, mam), v. t. [In the quot. 
spelled maum; < mtilm, maum, o. ; of. malmy, 2.] 
To handle with sticky hands ; " paw." [Low.] 
Don't be mourning and gauming a body so ! can't you 
keep your filthy hands to yourself? 
Swift, Polite Conversation, 11. (Dories.) 
malmag (mal'mag), n. [A native name (T).] 
The specter, Tarsius spectrum, a small lemuroid 
quadruped. See Tarsius. 
malmarsh (mal'marsh), n. Same as mallemuck. 
Moiitni/ii. 
malmignatte (mal-mi-nyat'), n. [Also malmi- 
gniatte.] A.spider,TheridionoTLatrodectusmal- 
mignattus, a small black species spotted with 
red. It Is one of a genus of spiders widely distributed in 
Europe, Africa, Asia, New Zealand, and the United States. 
Its venom is much more poisonous than that of any other 
animal, considering the diminutive size of the spider and 
the extremely minute quantity that will sometimes prove 
fatal. See katipo. 
maiming (mii'ming), n. [< malm + -ing.'] The 
preparation of artificial malm by mixing chalk 
and clay reduced to pulp, and allowing the mix- 
ture to consolidate by evaporation. 
malmockt (mal'mok), n. A variant of malle- 
IH itctc. 
malmsey (mam'zi, formerly malm'si), n. [For- 
merly malmsie, malmesie, malmasye; < ME. mal- 
vesie, malweysy = MD. malvaseye, D. malveey, 
malvazy, malvazier = G. Dan. malvasier = Sw. 
malnasir, < P. malvesie, malvoisie = Sp. malvasia, 
n/anasia = Pg. malvasia (ML. malvaticum), < It. 
uittlmxiti, a wine so called from Malrasia or Na- 
poli di Mtilvusia,< NGr. Movcufiaaia, a seaport on 
the southeastern coast of Laconia,Greece,contr. 
of povij i/iffaoia, ' single entrance ' : Gr. uuvri, fern, 
of pivot, single (see monad) ; eupaola, entrance, 
< eufiaivetv, enter, go in, < ev, in, + fiaiveiv, go.] 
If. A kind of grape. 
Upon that hyll is a cite called Malvasia, where first grew 
Malmaitye, and yet doth ; howbeit it groweth now [1506] 
more plenteously in Camdia and Mouena, and no where 
ellys. Sir R. Ouylforde, Pylgrymage, p. 12. 
Ther groweth the Voyne that ys callyd Maliffeysy and 
muskedell. Torkington, Diarie of Eng. Travell, p. 20. 
2. A wine, usually sweet, strong, and of high 
flavor, originally and still made in Greece, but 
now especially in the Canary and Madeira 
islands, and also in tho Azores and in Spain. 
The name is given somewhat loosely to such wines, and is 
used in combination, as Malmsey-Madeira. Compare mal- 
vasia. 
A Cask, through want of vse grow'n fusty. 
Makes with his stink the best Oreeke Malmsey musty. 
Sylvester, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, i. 3. 
By this hand, 
I love thee next to malmsey in a morning, 
Of all things transitory. 
Beau, and Fl., Captain, Iv. 2. 
malmstone (miim'ston), n. Same as malm 
rock (which see, under malm). 
Some varieties of the malmxtonrs which form part of 
the so-called Upper Greensand of Surrey, Hampshire, 
and Berkshire. Quart. Jour. Oeol. Soc., XLV. 400. 
malmy (ma'mi), a. [< malm + -v 1 .] 1. Con- 
sisting of, containing, or resembling malm: as, 
a malmy soil. 
The eastern portion forming the Vale of Petersfleld. and 
comprising only about 50,000 acres, rests on the Wealden 
3597 
formation, and Is a grey sandy loam provlnclally called 
malmy land, lying on a soft sand rock. 
Encyc. Brit., XI. 430. 
2. Clammy; sticky. [Prov. Eug.] 
malnutrition (mal-nu-trish'on), n. [< mat- + 
nutrition.] Imperfect nutrition ; defect of sus- 
tenance from imperfect assimilation of food. 
Conical cornea is more often met with among persons 
who have had diseases of malnutrition. 
Edinburgh Rev., CLXVIII. 510. 
Malnutrition of muscles Is a factor which ought not to 
be forgotten. SW. Amer., N. 8., LXI. 100. 
malodor, malodour (mal-6'dor), n. [Formerly 
also maleodor; < mal- + odor.] An offensive 
odor; a stench. 
Her breath, heavy with the malodor of nicotine, almost 
strangled him. The Century, XXIX. 881. 
malodorous (mal-6'dor-us), a. [< malodor + 
-ous.] Having a bad "or offensive odor, either 
literally or figuratively: as, a malodorous repu- 
tation. 
A pestilent maloiliirinu home of dirt and disease. 
The Century, XXVII. 326. 
malodorousness (mal-6'dor-us-nes), n. The 
quality or state of being malodorous, or offen- 
sive to smell. 
malomaxillary (ma-16-mak'si-la-ri), o. Same 
as malarimajcillary. H. Gray. 
malont. Contracted from me alone. Chaucer. 
Maloo climber. See Bauhinia. 
Malope (mal'6-pe), n. [NL. (Linnaeus, 1737), < 
L. malope, mallow.] 1. A genus of plants be- 
longing to the tribe Malveas, the mallow family, 
type of the subtribe Malopem, characterized 
by a style which is longitudinally stigmatose, 
and by having three distinct bracelets. They are 
annual herbs, with entire or three-parted leaves and pe- 
dunculate, usually showy, violet or rose-colored flowers. 
There are 3 species, which are confined to the Mediter- 
ranean region, and are often cultivated for the beauty of 
the large flowers. M. trifida. with flowers of rose-color or 
white, is sometimes called three-lotted malope. The other 
species are M. malacoides, mallow-like malope, and M. 
multiflora. 
2. II. c.] A plant of this genus. 
Malopeae (ma-16'pe-e), n.pl. [NL. (Endlicher, 
1836), < Malope + -ete.~\ A subtribe of malva- 
ceous plants belonging to the tribe Malvea?, 
and characterized by an indefinite number of 
carpels, irregularly grouped in a head, with soli- 
tary ascending ovules. It embraces 3 genera, 
of which Malope is the type, and 7 species. 
Malo-Bussian (ma-l6-rush'an), . [< Buss. 
Malorossiya, Little Russia (Malorossiiskii, Lit- 
tle-Russian), < malisii, in comp. malo-, adv. 
malo, little, + Rossiya, Russia: see Russian.] 
Little-Russian (which see, under Russian). 
malt 
nlferotis tubules, occur In the cortical substance of the 
kidney, and are about jL of an inch in diameter. They 
are formed of the expanded end of the tube Invaginated 
by the bunch of blood-vessels constituting the K'omerulus 
which thus are embraced In a double epithelial sac, ana 
the blood is separated from the lumen of the tubule by 
the vascular wall and the epi- 
thelium of the Inner layer of 
the capsule. There is reason to 
think that these bodies do most 
of the secretion of the water 
and less Important salts of the 
urine, the remainder of the 
work of secreting the urine be- 
ing done by the epithelial cells 
of the urinlferous tubules. 
Malpighian caeca or fila- 
ments. Same as Malpiyhian. 
tube*. Malplgnlan capsule. 
See Malpighian body. Mal- 
plghian corpuscle, (a) A Mul- 
pighhin body of the kidney. (6) 
A lymphola corpuscle of the 
capsule, a, with 
its contained glomerulus, fi, 
and the beginning; of the tu- 
bule, b, into which it open 
f, (t, epithelium in place ; f, 
epithelium of the tubule de- 
tached ; /, termination of re- 
nal artery ; f. beginning of 
renal vein ; h, theglomeniujs. 
(Magnified about 300 diame- 
ters.) 
sple'en." See corpuscle. Mal- 
plgnlan layer, the rcte mu- 
cosum ; the lowermost layer of 
the epidermis ; the stratum spi- 
uoBum. Also called rete Malpi- 
ghii. See skin. Malpighian 
pyramids, in anot., the pale- 
reddish conical masses forming 
the medullary part of the kidney, whose apices project into 
the calyces of the pelvis of the kidney, and are called pa- 
villa!. Malplgnlan tubes or vessels, certain appen- 
dages of the alimentary canal of Insects. They are caacal 
convoluted tubes, immediately behind the posterior aper- 
ture of the stomach, and are generally regarded as repre- 
senting the liver. See cut under Blattidtr. Malplgnlan 
tuft, the glomerulus, or vascular network or plexus, in a 
Malpighian body. 
Malpighieae (mal-pi-gi'e-e), n. pi. [NL. (A. 
P. de Candolle, 1824), < Malpignia + -ece.] A 
tribe of plants belonging to the natural order 
Malpighiacete, of which MalpigJiia is the type. 
It is characterized by having ten stamens, usually all per- 
fect, and often with appendaged anthers; by three styles, 
which are almost always distinct ; and by having carpels 
inserted on the flat receptacle, distinct or united in the 
fruit, and form ing fleshy or woody drupes with from one to 
three cells. 
malposition (mal-po-zish'on), n. [< mal- + po- 
sition.] A wrong position; a misplacement, 
as of a part of the body or of a fetus. 
Malpositions of the eye, such as squinting, are the result 
of too great contraction of one of the rectl muscles, usu- 
ally the internal. Le ConU, Sight, p. 20. 
malpractice (mal-prak'tis), n. [< mal- + prac- 
tice.] 1. Misbehavior; evil practice; practice 
contrary to established rules. 
Fanny was almost ready to tell flbs to screen her bro- 
ther's malpractices from her mamma. 
Thackeray, The Kickleburys on the Rhine. 
In Malo-Ru&rian, g is pronounced h, as aharod, a gar- 
den. Encyc. Brit., XXII. 149. 
Malpighia (mal-pig'i-a), n. [NL. (Plumier, 
1703), named after Marcello Malpighi.] A 
2. Specifically, bad professional treatment of 
disease, pregnancy, or bodily injury, from rep- 
rehensible ignorance or carelessness, or with 
criminal intent. 
malpractitioner (mal-prak-tish'on-er), n. [< 
mal- + practitioner, after malpractice.] A phy- 
sician who is guilty of malpractice. 
genus of dicotyledonous polypetalous plants, malpresentation (mal-pre-zen-ta'shon), n. [< 
type of the natural order Malpighiaceo! and the F. mal- + presentation.] In o6tef.,"abnormal 
tribe Malpighiea;, characterized by having an presentation in childbirth, as of a shoulder. 
entire 2- or 3-celled ovary, terminal free styles 
with obtuse stigmas, a calyx with from 6 to 10 
glands, and a drupaceous fruit with 3 crested 
seeds. They are trees or shrubs with opposite leaves, 
sometimes covered with stinging hairs, and red. white, 
or rose-colored flowers in axillary or terminal clusters. 
There are about 20 species, all natives of tropical Amer- 
ica. M. glabra is the Barbados cherry. M. urens is the cow- 
hage-cherry. 
Malpighiaceae (mal-pig-i-a'se-e), n. pi. [NL. 
(A. L. de Jussieu, 1789), < Malpighia + -acea;.] 
A natural order of dicotyledonous polypetalous 
plants belonging to the cohort Geraniales, typi- 
fied by the genus Malpiqhia. It is characterized 
. 
by a 5-parted calyx, some or all of the sepals usually with 
two glands, by having three carpels, which are either 
united or distinct, and by solitary ovules without albumen. 
The order embraces 52 genera and about 600 species, most 
numerous in the tropics. They are herbs or shrubs, often 
climbing, with leaves usually opposite and entire, and 
glandular on the stalk or under side, and yellow or red 
(rarely white or blue) flowers, commonly growing in termi- 
nal clusters. 
malpighiaceous (mal-pig-i-a'shius), a. [< Mal- 
otgktt + -aceous.] In bot., pertaining to or 
characteristic of plants of the order Alalpighia- 
ceai: specifically applied to hairs formed as in 
the genus Malpighia, which are attached by the 
middle, and lie parallel to the surface on which 
they grow. 
Malpighian (mal-pig'i-au), a. [< Malpialii (see 
def.) + -an.] Of or pertaining to Marcello 
Malpighi (1628-94), an Italian anatomist and 
physiologist: applied in anatomy to several 
structures discovered or particularly investi- 
gated by him, as follows __ Malplgnlan body, one 
of the glo'menili of the kidney surrounded by its capsule. 
These form the terminations of the branches of the uri- 
malpropriety (mal-pro-pri'e-ti), w. [= F. mal- 
proprete; as </(- and propriety.] Want of prop- 
er condition; slovenliness; dirtiness. [Rare.] 
The whole Interior had a harmonious ah* of sloth, stupid- 
ity, and malpropriety. E. Eggletton, The Graysons, xvii. 
malskert, r. i. [ME. malskren, malscren, mas- 
ken; < AS. "maUcran, in verbal n. malscrung 
(= OHG. mascrunc), fascination ; cf. OS. malsk, 
proud, = Goth, "malsks, foolish.] To wander. 
The ledez of that lyttel toon wern lopen out for drede, 
In-to that malicrande mere, marred bylyue. 
Alliterative Poems, (ed. Morris), li 991. 
He hade missed is mayne & malskrid a-houte. 
& how the werwolf wan him bl with a wilde hert. 
William qf Palerne (E. E. T. S.), 1. 416. 
raalstick (mal'stik), n. See maMstick. 
malstrom, n. See maelstrom. 
malt 1 (malt), n. and a. [Formerly also mault, 
So. maut; < ME. malt, < AS. mealt(= OS. malt 
= D. mout = MLG. molt, malt = OHG. MHG. 
G. jfcr = Icel. Dan. Sw. malt; cf. F. malt = 8p. 
Pg. It. malto, < Teut.), < meltan (pret. mealt), 
melt, dissolve: see melt.] I. n. 1. Grain in 
which, by partial germination, arrested at the 
proper stage by heat, the starch is converted 
into saccharine matter (grape-sugar), the un- 
fermented solution of the latter being the sweet- 
wort of the brewer. By the addition of hops, and the 
subsequent processes of cooling, fermentation, and clari- 
fication, the wort Is converted into porter, ale, or beer. 
The alcoholic fermentation of the wort without the ad- 
dition of hops, and distillation, yield crude whisky. Bar- 
ley is the grain most used for malting in the manufac- 
ture of beer ; but wheat, rye, and other grains are largely 
malted for whisky. Hurley yields about 92 per cent, of 
its weight of dried mult. 
