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2. Soften (by steeping), steep, soak, digest.

Maceration, n. 1. Mortification.

2. Softening, steeping, soaking.

Machiavelian, a. Artful, designing, insidious, sly, shrewd, astute, subtle, diplomatic, arch, intriguing, cunning, crafty, wily, crooked, tricky, deceitful.

Machiavelism, n. Duplicity, chicane, guile, chicanery, trickery, cunning, circumvention, deceit, deception, artifice, dissimulation, double-dealing, hocus-pocus.

Machination, n. Plot, complot, conspiracy, intrigue, cabal, stratagem, trick.

Machine, n. Engine, piece of mechanism.

Machinery, n. 1. Enginery, mechanism.

2. Supernatural agency (in poems).

Macrocosm, n. Universe, great world, wide world.

Maculate, a. Spotted.

Maculated, a. Spotted.

Mad, a. 1. Insane, crazy, crazed, distracted, lunatic, delirious, out of one's head.

2. Frantic, furious, enraged, raging, violent.

3. Angry, exasperated, provoked, incensed, in a passion.

Madcap, n. Hotspur, blood, wild fellow, hot-brained or hot-headed fellow.

Madden, v. a. Irritate, provoke, enrage, infuriate, exasperate, inflame, make mad, drive mad, turn one's head, lash into fury, make one's blood boil.

Madhouse, n. Bedlam, lunatic hospital, lunatic asylum, hospital for the insane.

Madman, n. Lunatic, maniac, bedlamite, insane person, crazy person.

Madness, n. 1. Insanity, derangement, craziness, lunacy, distraction, mania, mental aberration.

2. Frenzy, fury, rage.

Madrigal, n. Pastoral poem.

Magazine, n. 1. Warehouse, storehouse, entrepot.

2. Periodical pamphlet.

Maggot, n. 1. Grub.

2. Caprice, whim, crotchet, quirk, freak, vagary, humor, fancy, whimsey, wrinkle, odd fancy.

Maggoty, a. 1. Fly-blown, full of maggots.

2. Whimsical, crotchety, capricious, fantastic, fantastical, odd, strange.

Magic, n. Sorcery, necromancy, enchantment, the black art.

Magic, a. Necromantic.

Magical, a. Necromantic.

Magician, n. Sorcerer, enchanter, necromancer, conjurer.

Magilp, n. Gumption.

Magisterial, a. Domineering, lordly, imperious, proud, arrogant, lofty.

Magistrate, n. Officer (in civil service).

Magnanimity, n. Generosity, disinterestedness, high-mindedness, greatness or nobleness of mind, elevation of soul, chivalrous spirit.

Magnanimous, a. Noble, elevated, lofty, generous, disinterested, chivalrous, liberal, high-minded, great-souled.

Magnate, n. Noble, nobleman, grandee, man of rank, distinguished person.

Magnesite, n. Meerschaum, sea-foam, hydrous silicate of magnesia.

Magnet, n. 1. Loadstone, natural magnet.

2. Artificial magnet.

Magnetic, a. Attractive

Magnetical, a. Attractive

Magnetism, n. Power of attraction.

Magnetize, v. a. Make magnetic.

Magnificence, n. Grandeur, splendor, pomp, éclat, grand appearance.

Magnificent, a. Grand (in appearance), splendid, pompous, imposing, stately, superb.

Magnify, v. a. 1. Enlarge, augment, amplify, exaggerate, make great, increase the size of (to the eye).

2. Extol, exalt, elevate, celebrate, glorify, bless, laud, praise highly.

Magniloquence, n. Bombast, grandiloquence, turgidity, inflation, fustian, flourish, pompous language.

Magniloquent, a. Grandiloquent, bombastic, inflated, swelling, declamatory, turgid, pompous, stilted, high-flowing, highfalutin.

Magnitude, n. 1. Size, bulk, volume, extent, dimension, capacity.

2. Greatness, importance.

3. (Math.) Quantity.

Mahometan, n. Mohammedan, Mussulman.

Mahometanism, n. Mohammedanism, Islamism, Islam.

Maid, n. 1. Girl, lass, lassie, virgin, maiden, damsel, young lady.