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like a nipple ; mammillary in form; resembling mammose (mam'os), o. [< L. mammosus, full- 
:i mammilla, Oiri-ii. breasted, < mamma, breast: see mamma 2 .] 
mammitis (ina-mi'tis), n. [< L. mamma, the Same as mammiform. [Karc.] 
In-cast, + -ills.] Inflammation of a mamma, mammoth (mam'oth), . and a. [= F. mnm- 
Also called ninstiti,-;. iimntli = Sp. niamut, nuimmath = G. mamuuilli, 
mammock (mam'ok), . [Origin obscure; the < Kuss. mninitiitu, a mammoth, so called by a 
term, -tick is dim.) as in hillock, Intmmock.] A. Russian named Ludloff in 169C, said to be < 
shapeless piece ; a chunk; afragment. [Obso- Tatar mamma, the earth, "because, the remains 
lote or prov. Eng.] of these animals being found embedded in the 
But while Protestants, to avoid the due labor of under- earth, the natives [Yakuts and Tungusians] be- 
indlng their own Religion, are content to lodg It in the Heved that they burrowed like moles" (Imp. 
east or rather in the Books of a Clergyman, and to take Dj ct ) ] j n. An extinct species of elephant, 
thence by scraps and 0UMMM00O, as lie dispenses it in , / J 
his Sundays Dole" they will alwavs be learning and never * '"'"" '"-<>." < -'- ~'-^ <- '- . 
knowing. Milton, Touching Hirelings, 
mammock (mam'ok), r. t. [Also mammock, 
miimmick; < mammock, n.] To tear in pieces; 
maul; mangle; mumble. 
He did so set his teeth nd tear It ; 0, I warrant, how 
he mammocked it ! Shalt., COT., L 8. 71. 
The obscene and surfeted Priest scruples not to pan 
and mammock the sacramentall bread as familiarly as his 
Tavern Bisket Milton, Reformation In Eng., i. 
mammodis (mam'o-dis), n. pi. [< Hind. maA- 
m udi, a kind of fine muslin. ] Cotton cloths from 
India: usually applied to the plain ones only. 
Also mahmoodis, mahmoudis, mahmudis. 
Mammon (mam'on), n. [In ME. Mammona : 
= F. Mammon = G. Mammon = Goth. Mammo- 
na = Kuss. Mamona, < LL. Mammon, Mammu- 
nas, Mammona, Mamona, < Gr. Ma/i/iuvaf, usual- 
ly Mafiuvdc, < Syr. (Chaldee) mdmond, riches. 
Cf. Heb. matmon, a hidden treasure, < tdmaii, 
hide.] 1. A Syriac word used once in the 
New Testament as a personification of riches 
and worldliness, or the god of this world ; hence, 
the spirit or deity of avarice ; cupidity person- 
ified. [A proper name in this sense, although 
printed without a capital in the English Bible 
(see second quotation).] 
And of Mammonaei moneye mad hym meny frendes. 
Fieri Plowman (C), xi. 87. 
No man can serve two masters. . . . Ye cannot serve 
God and mammon. Mat. vi. 24. 
Mammon, the least erected spirit that fell 
From heaven ; for ev'n in heaven his looks and thoughts 
Were always downward bent ; admiring more 
The riches of heaven's pavement, trodden gold, 
Than aught divine or holy. Hilton, P. L., i. 670. 
2. \_l.c.] Material wealth; worldly possessions. 
M'liniiiiiii is riches or aboundance of goods. 
Tyndale, Works, p. 233. 
If therefore ye have not been faithful in the unrighteous 
mammon, who will commit to your trust the true riches 1 
Luke xvl. 11. 
mammonish (mam'on-ish), a. [< Mammon + 
-is/i 1 .] Devoted to the service of Mammon or 
the pursuit of riches ; actuated by a spirit of 
mammonism or of money-getting. 
A great, black, devouring world, not Christian, but Mam- 
menish. Devilish. Carlyle. 
mammonism (mam'on-izm), n. [< Mammon 
+ -i.ym.] Devotion to the pursuit of material 
wealth; the spirit of worldliness; the service 
of Mammon. 
Alas ! if Hero-worship become Dilettantism, and all ex- 
destruction! Carlyle, Past and Present, ii. 16. (Dalies.) 
mammonist (mam'qn-ist), n. [< Mammon + 
-ist.] One who is devoted to the acquisition 
of material wealth ; one whose heart is set on 
riches above all else ; a worldling. 
The great mammonist would say, he is rich that can 
maintain an army. Up. Hall, The Righteous Mammon. 
mammpnistic (mam-o-nis'tik), a. [< Mammon- 
ist + -i'c. ] Of or pertaining to mammonism. 
The common mammimistic feeling of the enormous Im- 
portance of money. 
I nrimigenius. It Is nearly related to the ex- 
isting Indian elephant, having teeth of similar pattern, 
and is believed to have been the ancestor of this species ; 
but it was thickly covered with a shaggy coat of three 
kinds, long stiff bristles and long flexible hairs being 
mixed with a kind of wool. This warm covering enabled 
it to endure the rigor of winter in its native regions. The 
tusks were of great size and much curved. An entire mam- 
moth was discovered in 1799 by a Tungusian fisherman 
named Schumacher! , embedded In the ice on the banks of 
the river Lena in Siberia, in such complete preservation 
that its flesh was eaten by dogs, wolves, and bears. It 
was about 9 feet high and 16 feet long, with tusks 9 feet 
long measured along the curve. In later years the bones 
and tusks of the mammoth have been found abundantly 
in Siberia, and the fossil Ivory has been of great commer- 
cial value. This article had been known for many centu- 
ries before the dlscorery of the animal itself, and the mam- 
moth is now supposed to have ranged, before, during, and 
after the glacial epoch, over the greater part of the north- 
ern hemisphere. That It was contemporary with pre- 
historic man is shown by the discovery of a drawing of the 
animal scratched on a piece of its own ivory found in a 
cave In France. This species is more expressly known as 
the hairy mammoth. The name mammoth Is extended to 
other fossil elephants of the same genus or of the sub- 
family Elephantine*, but is not applicable to the masto- 
dons, of the subfamily Mattodontince. 
II. a. Of great comparative size, like a mam- 
moth; gigantic; colossal; immense: as, & mam- 
moth ox ; the mammoth tree of California (Se- 
quoia gigantea). 
A am in nini Ii race, invincible In might, 
Rapine and massacre their grim delight* 
Peril their element. 
Montgomery, Poems (ed. 1810), p. 46. 
Mammoth tree, Sequoia gigantea, of California, the lar- 
gest of coniferous trees. See big tree, under big. 
mammothreptt (mam'o-thrept), n. [< LL. mom- 
mothreptus, ' Gr. /ja/t/i66peirTO(, brought up by 
one's grandmother, < itafifia, a grandmother (see 
mama), + BpeirTof, verbal adj. of Tptyctv, nour- 
ish, bring up.] A child brought up by its grand- 
mother ;nence, a spoiled child ; a delicate nurs- 
ling. [Rare.] 
And for we are the Mammothrepts of Sinne, 
Crosse vs with Christ to weane our joys therein. 
Daviet, Holy Boode, p. IS. (Dames.) 
O, you are a mere maimnuthrept in judgment. 
B. Jonton, Cynthia's Revels, iv. 1. 
mammilla (mam'u-la), n. ; pi. mammilla; (-le). 
[NL., < L. mammilla, dim. of mamma, the 
breast: see mamma.] In zool., a small conical 
or cylindrical process; specifically, one of the 
processes or appendages forming the spinneret 
of a spider. Each of these Is pierced with a great num- 
ber of minute orifices, from which the viscid fluid forming 
the silk is emitted. 
mammy (mam'i), n.; pi. mammies (-iz). [Also 
ma HI m H-; a childish dim. of mama.] 1 . Mother ; 
mama : a childish word. 
An* aye she wrought her mammie'9 wark. 
An' aye she sang sae merrilie. 
Burnt, There was a Lass. 
Hence 2. In the southern United States, es- 
pecially during the existence of slavery, a col- 
ored female nurse ; a colored woman having the 
care of white children, who often continue to 
call her mammy after they are grown up. 
mammychug, . See mummychog. 
Geo. MacDonald, Warlock o' Olenwarlock, Ix. mamoodl (ma-mo'de), n. [< Ar. mahmfuli, < 
mammonite (mam 'cm-it), n. [< Mammon + mahmud, praised: see Mohammedan.'] A silver 
-iti'-.] [cup. or I.e.] A devotee of Mammon; coin weighing 36 grains, formerly current in 
a mammonist . Persia ; also, a Persian money of account. 
When a Mammonite mother kills her babe for a burial fee, mamoul (ma-mOl'), n._ [Ar. Hind, ma'mul, prac- 
And Tumour-Mammon grins on a pile of children's bones, 
Is it peace or war? better war ! Tennyson, Maud, i. 12. 
If he will desert his own class, if he will try to become 
a sham gentleman, a parasite, and, if he can, a Mammon- 
ite, the world will compliment him on his noble desire to 
tised, established.] Custom; precedent; estab- 
lished usage ; the common law most respected 
by all Orientals. 
To him [a Hindu] all this outer}' is but mamoul usage, 
custom and inittnoiil is to him as air. 
J. W. Palmer, The New and the Old, p. 284. 
"rise In life." Kingsley, Alton Locke, v. 
mammonization (mam'on-i-za'shon), n. [< 
m,mwi> + -utiin,.] The act or process of mampalon (mam'pa-lon), n. [Native name (T).] 
rendering mammonish or devoted to the pur- An aquatic otter-like vivemne tmAnptA Cy- 
suit of material wealth ; the state of being un- nogalebenneth of Borneo, with webbed planti- 
der the influence or actuated by the spirit of grade feet, short stout cylmdnc tail, and broad 
mammonism tumid muzzle with long stiff whiskers. The ani- 
/ ;, /. ,_.j mal is about 18 inches long, and represents in the family 
mammonize (mam on-iz), V. t., pret. ana pp. F<wrrja<B the san)e modification in adaptation to aquatic 
mammonized, ppr. niaiiimiiiiiziiti/. [< Miiiiimon ]jf t > thnt the otter shows in the family Mtisttlida. Also 
-t- -ize.] To render mammonish or devoted to written mamptlon. 
the pursuit of material wealth; actuate by a mamuquet, n. [< OF. mammtique (Cotgrave); 
spirit of mammonism. prob. for "manvque = It. manuche (Florio); of 
man 
E. Ind. origin, and prob. connected with manu- 
codiata, bird of Paradise: seemtiniii-niliii/a.] A 
fabulous Eastern bird, supposed to be an exag- 
geration of the bird of Paradise. 
Mammw/iie [.], a wingless bird, of an unknown begin- 
ning, and aftcT il>-:itli n<>i corrupting; she hath feet a hand 
long, and so light a body, so long feathers, that she Is con* 
tinually carried in the air, whereon ftlic feeds ; some call 
her the bird of i'aradice, but erroneously ; for that hath 
wings, and differs in other parts from this. Cotyraae. 
But note we now, towards the rich Moluques, 
Those passing strange and wondrous (birds) Mamuquet. 
None knowes their nest, none knowes the dam that breeds 
them. Sylveiter, tr. of Du Bartas's Weeks, I. 6. 
man (man), n.; pi. men (men). [Also dial, mon; 
< ME. man, man, pi. men, < AS. maw, mnti, mann, 
monn (pi. men, metm), also rarely manna, mon- 
na (pi. mannan, motman) = OS. man = OFries. 
man, mon = D. man = MLG. man, LG. mann = 
OHG. MHG. man, G. mann= Icel. madhr, also 
rarely nan(in comp. mann-: nom.orig.*mar) 
= Sw. man = Dan. mand = Goth, manna (man- 
nan-, mann-, man-), a man (L. vir), a human 
being, a person (L. homo), in the latter use be- 
coming in AS. man, mon, ME. man, men, me = D. 
men = OHG. MHG. G. man = 8w. Dan. man = 
Goth, manna, merely pronominal, 'one' (cf. F. 
on,'one,'< L.rtomo.aman), esp. with a negative 
(Goth. < manna =G.niemand, no one; Q.jemand, 
any one); Teut. stem in three forms, mann-, 
mannan-, and man-, as shown in Goth, and Icel. 
(the third form man- existing in Goth. gen. 
sing, and nom. and ace. pi. mans, and prob. 
also in Icel. man, neut., a bondman, bond- 
woman, girl); the earlier mann- being for 
*manw-,*manu- (cf. chin, < AS. ctn,*cinn = Goth. 
WMK=Gr. ytwt; win 2 , ult. < *mnw-=Gr.^.vt'c) 
= Skt. miiini, man (Manu, the mythical father 
of the human race (cf . OTeut. in L. form Jfan- 
nus, mentioned by Tacitus as a deity of the 
ancient Germans)), with deriv. mdnuslta, man. 
Cf. OBulg. ma*zhl (orig. "monzhi) = Bulg. muzh 
= Sloven, mozh = Serv. Bohem. muzh = Pol. 
mazh = Little Kuss. muzh = Kuss. muzhu, a man, 
husband (> Kuss. muzhikti, a peasant). Not 
found in Gr., nor in L., unless it be = L. mas 
(mar-), a male (if that stands for orig. *man), 
>ult. E. male 1 , masculine, marital, marry 1 , etc.: 
see these words. The ult. origin of the Teut. 
and Skt. word is unknown. It is usually ex- 
plained as lit. 'the thinker,' < -/man, think (> 
ult. E. mind 1 , mean 1 , L. men(t-)s, mind, > E. men- 
tal, etc.); but that primitive men should think 
of themselves as ' thinkers ' is quite incredible : 
that is a comparatively modern conception. 
Another derivation, referring to L. manere, re- 
main, dwell, is also improbable. It is not likely 
that any orig. significant term old enough to 
have become a general designation for ' man ' be- 
fore the Aryan dispersion would have retained 
its orig. significance. The E. man retains the 
senses of L. vir and homo; in D. G. Dan. the word 
cognate with E. man means rir, while a deriva- 
tive,D.G.menc, Dan. menneske, etc., means ho- 
mo: see mensk, mannish. The irreg. pi. of man is 
due to original - umlaut, the AS. pf. men, menn, 
being orig. *iann.,changed to "menni by umlaut, 
and then abbr. to menn, men by loss of the fi- 
nal vowel, the radical vowel, thus accidentally 
changed in the plural, coming to be significant 
of number. A similar change appears in feet, 
geese, mice, etc., pi. of foot, goose, mouse, etc.] 1. 
In zool., a featherless plantigrade biped mam- 
mal of the genus^fomo (which see); H. sapiens, a 
species of the family Hominida; or Anthropida', 
order Primates, class Mammalia, of which there 
are several geographical races or varieties. 
Blumenbach divided mankind into five varieties : (1) Cau- 
canan, having a white skin; (2) Mongolian, having an 
olive skin; (3) Ethiopian, having a black skin and black 
eyes; (4) American, having a dark skin more or less of a 
red tint ; (5) Malay, having a brown or tawny skin. Pro- 
fessor Huxley has divided man Into five groups Auitra- 
lioid, Negroid, Mongoloid, Xanthochroie, and Melanochroic ; 
and there are many other divisions, on linguistic or physi- 
cal grounds, or both, but none that has now general or wide 
acceptance. 
2f. A being, whether super- or infra-natural; 
a person. 
For God is holde a ryghtwys man. 
Liiteli Gette of Jtotn/n Hode (Child's Ballads, V. 86). 
Well said, i' faith, neighbour Verges : well, God's a good 
nun. Shot., Much Ado, iii. 5. 40. 
Exp. But was the devil a proper man, gossip? 
Mirth. As fine a gentleman of his inches as ever I saw 
trusted to the stage, or anywhere else. 
B. Jonton, Staple of News, I. i 
Do all we can, 
Death is a man 
That never spareth none. 
yuoted in Memoirt o/ P. P. 
