mausoleum 
Borne, full of years and honours, to a mausoleum sur- 
passing in magnificence any that Europe could show. 
Macaulay, Hist. Eng., xviii. 
maut (rniit), . A dialectal (Scotch) form of 
mall 1 . 
mauther (ma'THer), n. [Also mouther, mother, 
modder; perhaps a dial, use of motJter 1 . Cf. 
the cognate LG. medder, modder, modder, aunt, 
cousin, lit. mother.] A rustic girl; a gawky 
young woman; a wench. [Prov. Eng.] 
Away, you talk like a foolish mauther. 
B. Jonson, Alchemist, iv. 4. 
P. I am a mother that do want a service. 
Qu. O thou'rt a Norfolk woman (cry thee mercy) 
Where maids are mothers [mauthers], and mot/ten are 
maids. Brome, Eng. Moor, iii. 1. (Nares.) 
When once a giggling mauther you, 
And I a red-fac d chubby boy. 
Bloomjield, Rural Tales (1802), p. 5. (Karei.) 
" Cheer up, my pretty mauther .' " said Mr. Peggotty. 
Dickens, David Copperneld, xxxi. 
mauvaise honte (mo-vaz' ont' ). [F. : mauvaise, 
fern, of mauvaitt, bad (false); honte, shame.] 
False modesty; baslif ulness ; shyness. 
Nothing but strong excitement and a great occasion 
overcomes a certain reserve and mauvaise hoitte whicli I 
have in public speaking ; not a mauvaise honte which in 
the least confuses me or makes me hesitate for a word, 
but which keeps me from putting any fervor into my tone 
or my action. Macaulay, in Trevelyan, I. 217. 
mauvaises terres. See bad lands, under land 1 . 
mauvais sujet (mo-va' stt-zha'). [F.: mauvais, 
bad; sujet, subject, person.] A bad fellow; a 
"hard case." 
mauvaniline (mov-an'i-liu), . [< mauve + 
aniline.'] A coal-tar color (CigH^^^O) used 
in dyeing, prepared from the resinous residue 
from the arsenic-acid process of making ma- 
genta. It dyes silk and wool a fast violet. 
mauve (mov), . and a. [< F. mauve, mallow : 
see mallow.'] I. n. A reddish -purple dye ob- 
tained from aniline, the sulphate of the base 
mauvein; also, the color produced by it: so 
called from the resemblance of the color to the 
purple markings of the petals of mallows. It 
is now almost out of use. Also called Perkiu's 
purple, aniline violet, and aniline purple. 
II. a. Of the color of mauve: as, a mauve 
dress. 
In April [1787] the Queen [Marie Antoinette] bought 
four yards of ruban mauce, an item worth noting, since 
many persons imagine that mauve, as the name for a 
colour, is as modern as magenta. 
Fortnightly Rev., N. S., XIII. 287. 
mauvein, mauveine (mo'vin), . [< maure + 
-in 2 , -we 2 .] The base (CgyH^N^ of aniline 
purple or mauve: same as indisin. 
But it was not until 1856 that Perkin prepared mauveine, 
the first aniline dye, on a huge scale. 
Benedikt, Coal-tar Colours (trans.), p. 3. 
maver (ma'ver), n. and v. Same as marver. 
maverick (mav'er-ik), w. [So called from one 
Samuel Maverick, a Texan cattle-raiser, who, 
according to one account, relying upon the 
natural conformation of his cattle-range to 
prevent escape, neglected to brand his cattle, 
which, having on one occasion stampeded and 
scattered over the surrounding country, became 
confused with other unbranded cattle in that 
region, all such being presumed to be " Mav- 
erick's " ; whence the term maverick for all 
such unbranded animals in the cattle region.] 
1. On the great cattle-ranges of the United 
States, an animal found without an owner's 
brand, particularly a calf away from its dam, 
on which the finder puts his own or his em- 
ployer's brand ; or one of a number of such 
animals gathered in a general round-up or mus- 
ter of the herds of different owners feeding to- 
gether, which are distributed in a manner agreed 
upon. 
Unbranded animals are called mavericks, and when 
found on the round-up are either branded by the owner 
of the range on which they are, or else are sold for the 
benefit of the association. 
T. Roosevelt, The Century, XXXV. 507. 
Hence 2. Anything dishonestly obtained, as 
a saddle, mine, or piece of land. [Western 
maverick (mav'er-ik), c. t. [< maverick; w.] 
To seize or brand (an animal) as a maverick; 
hence, to take possession of without any legal 
claim ; appropriate dishonestly or illegally: as, 
to maverick a piece of land. [Western U. S.] 
mavis (ma'vis), n. [Also formerly or dial, ma- 
rixh ; < ME. mavis, mavys, marice, <, OF. mauvis, 
malms, F. mauvis^lso mauviette, dial, maiiriard 
= Sp. tualviz, malvis = It. nuiMecio, malri;:<>. 
dial, manizzo (ML. malritiim), a mavis ; prob. of 
Celtic origin : cf. Bret, mil fid, mill-id, milelniHiil. 
3666 
a mavis, Corn, melltuet, melhues, a lark.] The 
song-thrush or throstle, Turditx musicus, a well- 
known thrush common in most parts of Europe. 
It haunts gardens and woods near streams and meadows. 
Its song is sweet and has considerable compass ; it can 
be made to repeat musical airs, and in some instances to 
articulate words. This name, still common in Scotland, is 
now rare in England. See thrush. 
And bonny sang the macia 
Out o' the thorny brake. 
Lamkin (Child's Ballads, III. 99). 
The mini* is the sweetest bird 
Next to the nightingale. 
Cwrtewui Knight (Child's Ballads, VIII. 274). 
Big mavis, the mistle-thrush. [East Lothian, Scotland.] 
mavish (ma'vish), . An obsolete or dialectal 
form of mavis. 
" Like two young mavithes," Mr. Peggotty said. I knew 
this meant, in our local [Norfolk] dialect, like two young 
thrushes. Dickens, David Copperfleld, iii. 
mavis-skate (ma'vis-skat), . The largest Brit- 
ish ray, Raiu oxyrliyitcha, sometimes 8 feet long 
and broad. 
mavortial (ma-vor'shal), a. [< L. Mavors (Ma- 
i-(irt-), Mars: see Mars, martial.] Martial; war- 
like. 
Once I was guarded with mavortial bands. 
Locrine, iv. 1. (Encyc. Diet.) 
maw 1 (ma), n. [< ME. mate, maice, maghe, < 
AS. maga = D. maage, maay = MLG. mage, LG. 
mage, maay = OHG. mago, MHG. mage, G. ma- 
gen = Icel. magi = Sw. mage = Dan. mavc (cf. 
It. dial, magone, crop of birds, maguii, maw. < 
OHG.), maw, stomach: the native Teut. word 
for 'stomach.'] 1. The stomach: now used of 
human beings only in contempt, and rarely of 
animals. 
Eijte as hony is yuel to defye [digest] and engleynieth 
[cloyeth] the mawe. Piers Plowman (B), xv. 63. 
They shall give unto the priest the shoulder, and the 
two cheeks, and the maw. Deut. xviii. 3. 
Help us to save free conscience from the paw 
Of hireling wolves, whose gospel is their maw. 
Milton, To the Lord General Cromwell. 
2. The crop or craw of a fowl. 
Granivorous birds have the mechanism of a mill ; their 
man' is the hopper which holds and softens the grain, let- 
ting it down by degrees into the stomach. Arbuthnot. 
3. The sound or air-bladder of a fish. 
Isinglass or fish glue, in its raw state, is the "sound," 
maw, or swimming bladder of various kinds of fish. 
Workshop Receipts, 2d ser., p. 3o, r >. 
4f. Stomach; appetite; inclination. 
Unless you had more maw to do me good. Beau, and Fl. 
maw' 2 (ma), jr. A dialectal (Scotch) form of 
mow 1 . 
On the fifteenth day of May 
The meadows will not maw. 
Proud Lady Margaret (Child's Ballads, VIII. 86). 
maw 3 (ma), . A dialectal (Scotch) form of 
mew 1 . 
maw 4 t, [Origin obscure.] An old game at 
cards, played with a piquet pack of thirty-six 
cards by any number of persons from two to 
six. Halliwell. 
Methought Lucretia and I were at maw; a game, uncle, 
that you can well skill of. Chapman, May-Day, v. 2. 
Maw, 
My lord, you were best to try a set at. 
Ford, Love's Sacrifice, iii. 2. 
maw-boundt (ma ' bound), a. Costive ; consti- 
pated. 
mawk 1 (mak), n. [< ME. mawk, mauk, a contr. 
form of mathek, < Icel. madhkr = Dan. maddik 
= Norw. makk, a maggot; a dim. of the simple 
form which appears in AS. mathu = D. G. made, 
etc., a maggot : see mad?, made 2 . Cf. maddock.~] 
A maggot. [North. Eng. and Scotch.] 
mawk 2 (mak), . [Short for man-kin, malkin.'] 
A slattern. [Prov. Eng.] 
mawkin (ma'kin), . See malkin. 
mawkish (ma'kish), a. [< mawk 1 + -fs/t 1 .] If. 
Maggoty. [Not found in this literal sense. 
Compare mawky. 1.] Hence 2f. Loathsome; 
apt to cause loathing or nausea ; sickening. 
Like a faint traveller whose dusty mouth 
Grows dry with heat, and spits a mawkish froth. 
Addfeon, tr. of Virgil's Georgics, iv. 
3. Insipid; sickening; sickly: as, mawkish cham- 
pagne ; mawkish sentimentality. 
This state of man . . . 
Is not a situation of betweenity, 
As some word-coiners are disposed to call 't 
Meaning a mawkish as-it-were-ish state, 
Containing neither love nor hate. 
Wolcot, Peter Pindar, p. 2CX1. 
Flow, Welsted, flow! like thine inspirer, beer; 
Though stale, not ripe ; though thin, yet never clear ; 
So sweetly mawkish, and so smoothly dull ; 
Heady, not strong ; o'ernowing, though not full. 
Pope, Punciad. iii. 171. 
maxillary 
mawkishly (ma'kish-li), adc. In a mawkish 
way. 
mawkishness (ma'kish-nes), . 1. Mawkish, 
sickly, or sickening quality. 2. Sickly or 
qualmish sentimentality. 
The imagination of a boy is healthy, and the mature 
imagination of a man is healthy ; but there is a space of 
life between, in which the soul is in a ferment, the char- 
acter undecided, the way of life uncertain, the ambition 
thick-sighted; thence proceeds mawkishness. 
Keats, Endymion, Pref. 
inawks (maks), . A dialectal variant of maick z . 
mawky (ma'ki), a. [Also mauky; < mawk 1 + 
-y 1 . Cf. mawkish.] 1. Maggoty. [Prov. Eng.] 
2. Mawkish. 
Even John Dryden penned none but mawky plays, nor 
did Byron succeed at all as a dramatist. 
Jon Bee, Essay on Samuel Foote, p. xxiii. 
mawmt, An obsolete form of malm. 
mawmett, See manmet. 
mawmetryt, . See maumetry. 
mawmisht, a. See maumish. 
mawmouth (ma'mouth), n. The calico-, grass-, 
or strawberry-bass, Pomoxys sparoides, a cen- 
trarchoid fish. [Local, U. S.] 
mawn (man), n. A dialectal (Scotch) form of 
in ait nd 1 . 
mawp (map), n. [Cf. nope, alp 1 .'] The bull- 
finch of Europe, Pyrrhula vulgaris. See cut 
under bullfinch. [Prov. Eng.] 
maw-seed (rna'sed), . The seeds of the opium- 
poppy, Papai'er somniferum : so called from 
being used as food for cage-birds, especially 
when molting. 
mawskin (ma'skin), n. The stomach of a calf 
prepared for making cheese; rennet. [Prov. 
Eng.] 
maw-worm (ma'werrn), n. An intestinal worm 
which may be found in the stomach, as a pin- 
worm or threadworm, such as Oxyuris vermieu- 
laris. 
max (maks), n. [Said to be an abbr. of 'maxime, 
and orig. applied to gin of the best kind, < F. 
maxime, < L. maximus, greatest: see maximum.'] 
A kind of gin. 
Treat 
Boxers to max at the One Tun in Jermyn Street. 
Barham, Ingoldsby Legends. 
maxilla (mak-sil'S), . ; pi. maxilla! (-e). [L., 
the jaw-bone, jaw, dim. of "macsula (> mala, 
jaw), < / mac in macerare, soften, macerate, = 
Gr. i/ pan, fiay, in fiaaaeiv, knead, fiat^a. a kneaded 
mass: see wwws 2 , magma, etc.] In anat. and 
zool. : (a) A jaw or jaw-bone ; a maxillary bone ; 
especially, a bone of the upper jaw, as distin- 
guished from the mandible. When the term is ap- 
plied to Doth law-bones, they are distinguished as maxilla 
superior and maxilla inferior, the supramaxillary and in- 
framaxillary bones, (ft) Specifically, the supra- 
maxillary bone proper, as distinguished from 
the premaxillary or intermaxillary, which is of- 
ten fused therewith in the higher vertebrates. 
(c) In entom., as in insects and arachnidans, one 
of the second pair of gnathites ; either one, right 
and left, of the second or lower pair of horizontal 
jaws, next behind or below the mandibles. In 
the maxilla?, thus forming the under jaw of insects, may be 
distinguished several parts, as the basal joint or cardo, the 
footstalk or stipes, the palp-bearer or palpiger, and the 
blade or lacinia. See cuts under Hymenaptera, Insecta, and 
Brenthwi. (d) In Crustacea, the right or left one of 
either of the two pairs of gnathites which come 
next after the mandibles, between these and 
the maxillipeds. The maxilla? of a crustacean 
thus correspond to those of an insect, but there 
is an additional pair of them. Composite maxil- 
lae, dentate maxlllse, etc. See the adjectives. 
maxillar (mak'si-lar), a. Same as maxillary. 
Maxillaria (mak-si-la'ri-ii), n. [NL. (Ruiz 
and Pavon, 1794), so called in allusion to the 
resemblance between the lip and column and 
the jaws of an animal, < L. maxilla, the jaw.] A 
genus of orchids of the tribe Vandea:, type of the 
subtribe Maxillariece, characterized by an erect 
concave lip with erect lateral lobes and a fleshy 
column. They are epiphytes arising from psendobulbs, 
with usually one or two flat leaves which are coriaceous, 
thin, or slightly fleshy. The flowers are large or of medium 
size, often beautiful and fragrant. There are about 120 
species, natives of tropical America. 
Maxillariese (mak*si-la-ri'e-e), . pi. [NL. 
(Bentham and Hooker, 1883), < Maxillaria + 
-ete.~] A subtribe of the tribe Vandea; of the 
natural order Orchidea;, characterized by leaves 
that are not plaited and a column (or the part 
that bears the stamens and pistils) produced 
into a claw-like foot. It contains 9 genera, all 
American, and about 176 species. 
maxillary (mak'si-lfi-ri), a. and w. [< L. 
. of the jaw, < miijrillti, the jaw-bone, 
