malt 
Some make the Egyptians first inuenters of Wine . . . 
and of Beere, to which end they first made Muu/t of Bar- 
ley for such places as wanted Grapes. 
Pwrchas, Pilgrimage, p. 582. 
The ale shall ne'er be brewin o' malt. 
The Enchanted King (Child's Ballads, III. 53). 
2. Liquor produced from malt, as ale, porter, 
or beer. 
Scho suld haif found me meil and malt. 
Johnie Armstrang (Child's Ballads, VI. 48). 
Blown malt malt dried in a kiln in which the heat is 
raised quickly to 100 F., and then lowered. It is so call- 
ed from its distended appearance. Encyc. Brit. Malt- 
cleaning machine, in a brewery, a form of grain-cleaner 
for freeing barley, previous to malting, from all extraneous 
substances, such as other grain, seeds of grass and weeds, 
dust, and foul matters; a cleaning and sorting machine. 
II. a. Pertaining to, containing, or made with 
malt Halt liquor, a general term for an alcoholic 
beverage produced merely by the fermentation of malt, 
as opposed to those obtained by the distillation of malt 
or mash. 
malt 1 (malt), v. [< mal ft, .] I. trans. To con- 
vert (grain) into malt. The steps in the process of 
malting are four: First, steeping in water from twenty- 
four to forty hours, by which the grain takes up from 10 
to 30 per cent, of water, swells, and begins to germinate. 
Second, couching, in which the steeped grain is piled in 
heaps on a floor, usually made of flagstones, and wherein 
the growth of the rootlets is aided by heat generated in the 
mass. Third, flooring, in which the germinating grain is 
spread upon a floor in charges called fetors, and stirred to 
expose it to air, and in which the growth of the rootlets 
is checked and the germination of the acrospires is car- 
ried to the desired limit. Fourth, drying, in which the 
germination is completely arrested by heat in a malt-kiln. 
The maltster decides, from the length and appearance of 
the acrospires as to when the conversion of the starch has 
been carried to the right limit The dried acrospires and 
the rootlets are broken oft by handling in the kiln, and 
are removed by sifting. The chemical changes eifected 
by the partial germination and subsequent treatment of 
the grain are chiefly the conversion of the azotized sub- 
stances into diastase, the conversion of the starch into 
grape-sugar by the action of the diastase, and the impart- 
ing of color and flavor to the malt in the kiln. The malt 
is either pale or dark in color, according to the degree of 
heat and the length of time it is exposed to heat in the 
kiln; and a peculiar flavor is derived from empyreumatic 
oil generated in the husk. 
II. intrans. 1. To become malt ; be con verted 
into malt. 
To house it green . . . will make it malt worse. 
Mortimer, Husbandry. 
2. To drink malt liquor. [Humorous or low.] 
She drank nothing lower than Curacoa, 
Maraschino, or pink Noyau, 
And on principle never malted. 
Hood, Miss Kilmansegg, Her Birth. 
Well, for my part, I malts. Marryat, Jacob Faithful. 
malt 2 t. An obsolete preterit of melt 1 . Chaucer. 
maltalentt (mal'ta-lent), n. [Also maletalent; 
< ME. maletalent, < OF. maltalent, ill-humor, 
anger; as mal- + talent.] Evil disposition or 
inclination; ill-will; resentment; displeasure; 
spleen. 
Wax he rody for shame, and loked on hym with mal- 
talent, and yef thei hadde be a-lone he wolde with hyra 
haue foughlen. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), iii. 586. 
As she that hadde it al to-rent, 
For angre and for maltalent. 
Bom. of the Rose, 1. 330. 
So forth he went 
With heavy look and lumpish pace, that plaine 
In him bewraid great grudge and maltalent. 
Spenser, F. Q., III. iv. 61. 
That is the lot of them that the Black Douglas bears 
maltalent against. Scott, Fair Maid of Perth, xii. 
maltalentivet, [ME. maletalentif, < OF. mal- 
talentif, < maltalent, ill humor, anger : see mal- 
talent.'} Angry; resentful. 
And [they! ronne to-geder wroth and maletalentif that 
oon a-gein that other, and that oon desiraunt of pris and 
honour, and that other covetouse to a-venge hys shame 
and his harme. Merlin (E. E. T. S.), ii. 3S8. 
malt-barn (malt'barn), . Same as malt-house. 
malt-drier (malt'drl"er), n. An apparatus for 
artificially drying malt in order to arrest the 
process of germination and the chemical change 
in the constituents of the grain. E. H. Knight. 
malt-dust (malt 'dust), . The refuse of malt 
after brewing ; spent malt. 
Malt-diist is an active manure frequently used as a top- 
dressing, especially for fruit trees in pots. 
Encyc. Brit., XII. 233. 
malter (mal'ter), n. Same as maltster. [Rare.] 
Maltese (mal-tes' or -teV ), a. and n. [< Malta (< 
L. Helita, Melite, Gr. Mt/U'n?) (see def.) + -ese."] 
I. ti. Pertaining to Malta, an island in the Med- 
iterranean, formerly belonging to the Knights 
Hospitalers or Knights of Malta (1530-1798), 
afterward to France, and since 1800 to Great 
Britain, or to the group of islands of which 
it is the chief. -Maltese cat, dog, stone, etc. See 
the nouns. Maltese cross. See cross of Malta, under 
cross*. 
3598 malulella 
II n. 1. A native or an inhabitant of the II. n. A follower of Malthus; a believer in 
island of Malta. 2. The language spoken by Malthusianism. 
the natives of Malta. Its chief element is a Malthusianism(mal-thu'si-an-izm),. [< Mal- 
corrupt form of Arabic mixed with Italian. thmian + -ism.] The theory of the relation of 
malt-extract (malt'eks'trakt), n. A concen- population to means of subsistence taught by 
trated unfermented infusion of malt. It is used Malthus. See Malthusian, a. 
in medicine in cases where it is desirable to maltine (mal'tin), n. [<malfl + -me*.] Ame- 
further the nutrition. dicinal preparation made by digesting sprout- 
malt-floor(malt'n6r),w. 1. A perforated iron or ing malt in water, expressing the solution, 
tile floor in the chamber of a malt-kiln, through precipitating with alcohol, and drying the 
which the heat ascends from the furnace below, precipitate, which is impure diastase, 
and dries the grain laid upon it. 2. A floor malting (mal'ting), n. [Verbal n. ot malt*, v.J 
on which grain is spread to undergo partial 1. The artificial production of germination in 
germination in the process of malting. 3. A grain for the purpose of converting its starch 
charge of grain spread on a floor of a malt-house into the greatest possible amount of sugar, as a 
to undergo partial germination. See malt and preparation for brewing, or the conversion by 
fermentation of this sugar into alcohol. 
Malting consists of four processes, steeping, couching, 
flooring, and kiln-drying. Encyc. Brit., IV. 267. 
2. A place where malting is carried on. [Rare 
and inaccurate.] 
The town also possesses brass foundries, maUinffs, lime- 
kilns, and brickyards. Encyc. Brit., XXIV. 506. 
malting. 
maltha (mal'tha), . [< L. maltha (see def.), 
< Gr. /id'/uSa, [ia)$i/, a mixture of wax and pitch 
used for calking ships.] A bituminous sub- 
stance midway in consistency between asphal- 
tum and petroleum. From its tarry appearance, it 
is sometimes called mineral tar; it is the brea of the Mex- 
ican Spanish. BytheRomans the word WMttAa was used ,..,,... 1 nhamhar in 
as the name of various cements, stuccos, and other prepa- malt-Kiln (malt kil), n. A 1 
rations of a similar kind employed for repairing cisterns, which malt is dried to check germination. Some 
roofs, etc., and of some of these what is now known as kilns are fitted with machinery for stirring the malt on the 
maltha, or some other form of bitumen, in all probability floor of the kiln, this mechanism being called amalt-turn- 
constituted a part. Asphaltum and maltha were also used er. A smaller apparatus with mechanical devices for stir- 
from the earliest times (as stated in Genesis with regard n n g the malt is commonly known as a malt-drier. 
to the building of the Tower of Babel) for the same pur- malt-mad (malt ' mad), a. Maddened with 
pose for which our common mortar is employed, namely , . , . *t jAtpj to drink 
to bind together stones and bricks. 
maltheH, [ML., < L. maltha : see maltha.] 
Mortar; cement. 
Convenient it is to knowe, of bathes 
. . . what mallhes hoote and colde 
Are able, ther as chynyng clifte or scathe is 
To make it hoole. 
Palladius, Husbondrie (E. E. T. S.), p. 41. 
Malthe 2 (mal'the), n. [NL., < Gr. /i6Mv or uak- 
6a, a fish so named, supposed by some to have . ... ,. , ... 
been the angler, Lophi.] A genus of pedicu- ""g^" 111 (malt mU) > TO 
late fishes, typical of the family Maltheida;; the 
bat-fishes. If. respertiUo inhabits tropical seas. iorms nam 
See cuts under bat-fish. _ crystals, is direcfly fermented by yeast, and is 
closely like dextrose in its properties. It is pro- 
duced {rom starch paste by the action of malt 
ATI implement for 
These English are so maltsmad, there's no meddling 
with 'em. Fletcher, Pilgrim, iii. 7. 
maltman (malt'man), n. ; pi. mailmen (-men). 
A maltster. Gascoigne, Steele Glas, 79. 
malt-master (malt'mas // ter), n. A master malt- 
ster. 
If the poor cannot reach the price, the maltmaster will. 
Re. T. Adams, Works, II. 246. (Doxies.) 
A mill for grinding 
Si 
. n. A fish of the family Maltheiaa. 
chialapUuresi^hLuperioraxillaofthepe,- 
toral nns, the anterior dorsal ray in a cavity 
through fingers set above and behind the hoe. 
. 
overhung by the anterior margin of the fore- maltreat (mal-tret'),t>. 1. [<mal-+ treat.] To 
head, the mouth subterminal or inferior, and 
the lower jaw generally received within the up- 
per ; the bat-fishes. It includes marine fishes 
of remarkable aspect, representing two sub- 
families, MaltheitKE and Halieutaiince. 
maltheiform (mal'the-i-f6rm), a. Resembling 
in form a fish of the genus Malthe. 
Maltheinae (mal-the-i'ne), . pi. [NL., < Mal- 
+ -hue.] A subfamily of Maltheidw, having 
treat ill ; abuse ; treat roughly, rudely, or with 
unkindness. 
Yorick indeed was never better served in his life ; but 
it was a little hard la maltreat him after, and plunder him 
after he was laid in his grave. 
Sterne, Tristram Shandy, ii. 17. 
maltreatment (mal-tret'ment), . [< maltreat- 
+ -ment.] The act of maltreating, or the con- 
(.e- T -<;. j A BUUIH.UIIIV ui JUUIUKHMC. unviug dition of being maltreated; ill treatment; ill 
the body divided into a cordiform disk and a usage ; abuse, 
stout caudal portion, the frontal region ele- malt-screen (malt'skren), . A machine for 
vated, and the snout more or less attenuated, freeing malt or barley from foreign matters. 
It includes a few American marine forms in- maltster (malt'ster),)i. ^TATZ. maltster; <malft 
habiting shallow water. 4- -ster.] A maker of or dealer in malt. Rarely 
maltheine (mal'the-in), a. and n. [< Malthe' 2 also malter. 
+ -iwe 1 .] I. a. Pertaining to the Maltheince, malt-surrogate (malt'sur'o-gat), n. Anysub- 
or having their characters. stitute, as corn, potatoes, rice, or potato-starch, 
H. . A bat-fish of the subfamily Maltheinre. used in the manufacture of beer in place of a 
maltheoid (mal'the-oid), a. and n. I. a. Hav- part of the malt required for the normal mann- 
ing the form or characters of the Maltheida;. facture. 
II. n. A fish of the family Maltheidce; a mal- malt-tea (malt'te), n. The liquid infusion 
theid. of the mash in brewing; water impregnated 
malt-horse (malt'hdrs), n. A horse employed 
in grinding malt by working a treadmill or 
winch; hence, a slow, heavy horse. 
Mome, malt-horse, capon, coxcomb, idiot, patch ! 
Shah., C. of E., iii. 1. 82. 
He ! why, he has no more judgment than a malt-horse. 
with the valuable part of the malt, leaving 
behind the husks or grains. See grainl, 6, and 
wort 2 . 
malt-turner (malt'ter'ner), n. A mechanical 
device for turning malt as it is heated in the 
kiln. See malt-kiln, and compare malt-rake. 
B. Jonson, Every Man in his Humour, i. 4. maltwormt (malt' werm), n. A person addicted 
malt-house (malt'hous), n. [< ME. malthotis, < to the use of malt liquor. 
AS. mealthiis, < mealt, malt, + hits, house.] 
house in which malt is made. 
Then doth she trowle to me the bowle, 
E'en as a mault-worme sholde. 
Malthusian (mal-thu'si-an), a. and n. [< Mal- B P- ^ Gammer Gurton's Needle, ii. (song). 
thus (see def.) + -jaw.] 1. a. Of or pertaining I am joined with . . . none of these mad, mustachio, 
to the Rev. T. R. Malthus (1766-1834), an Eng- Purple-hued malt-worms. Shalt., 1 Hen. IV., ii. 1. 83. 
lish economist, or to the doctrines set forth in malty (mal'ti), . [< rnaltl + -y l .~\ Pertain- 
his "Essay on the Principle of Population." ing to, composed of, or produced from malt. 
In this work he first made prominent the fact that popu- Backward and forward rush mysterious men with no 
lation unless hindered by positive checks, as wars, fam- name8 ^ wno fly about all those particular parts of the 
ines, etc., or by preventive checks, as social customs that COU ntry on which Doodle is ... throwing himself in an 
prevent early marriage, tends to increase at a higher auriferous and Malty shower. Dickens, Bleak House, xl. 
rate than the means of subsistence can, under the most 
favorable circumstances, be made to increase. Asarem- malulella (mal-u-lel'a), . ; pi. maliildla; (-e). 
edy he advocated the principle that society should aim [NL. (Packard, 1883), double dim. of L. 
^S^^^W^SSS^^ and 
improvident marriages, and by the practice of moral self- 
restraint. 
An appendix of the front edge 
t tne inner stipes ot the deutomala of a myna- 
pod. See deutomala. 
