2. Essential, important, momentous, vital.
Material, n. Matter, substance, stuff.
Materially, ad. 1. Substantially, in substance, not in form merely.
2. Importantly, essentially, vitally.
Maternal, a. Motherly.
Matins, n. pl. Morning prayers, morning service.
Matrice, n. Mould (especially a mould in which printers' letters are cast, and a mould in which coin is cast), matrix.
Matrimonial, a. Connubial, nuptial, conjugial, hymeneal, bridal, conjugal.
Matrimony, n. Marriage, wedlock, nuptial state.
Matrix, n. [L.] Mould, matrice.
Matron, n. 1. Wife, married woman, mother of a family.
2. Elderly woman.
Matronal, a. Matron-like.
Matron-like, a.. Motherly, elderly, grave, sedate, matronal.
Matronly, a.. Motherly, elderly, grave, sedate, matronal.
Matted, a. Entangled, twisted together.
Matter, n. 1. Substance, body.
2. Stuff, material, raw material.
3. Topic, subject, question, subject-matter, matter in hand.
4. Affair, business, concern, thing, event, course of things.
5. Trouble, cause of distress.
6. Importance, consequence, import, moment.
7. Pus, purulence, purulent matter.
Matter, v. n. Signify, import, be of importance, be of consequence.
Matter-of-fact, n. Fact, reality, actuality.
Matter-of-fact, a. Practical, sensible, plain.
Mattock, n. Grub-axe, grubbing-hoe.
Maturate, v. n. Suppurate.
Maturation, n. Suppuration.
Mature, a. 1. Perfected by time, complete, perfect, ripe.
2. Prepared, ready, well-considered, well-digested.
Mature, v. a. 1. Ripen.
2. Perfect, bring to perfection, bring to maturity.
Mature, v. n. Become ripe.
Maturity, n. 1. Completion, ripeness.
2. Time of being due (said of a promissory note, &c.).
Maudlin, a. 1. Intoxicated, inebriated, fuddled, muddled, disguised, corned, tipsy, mellow, drunk, slewed, groggy, in liquor, half seas over.
2. Silly, weak, childish.
Maugre, prep. [Used only in burlesque.] Notwithstanding, in spite of, in defiance of.
Maul, n. [Written also Mall.] Beetle, heavy mallet.
Maul, v. a. [Written also Mall.] Beat, bruise.
Maunder, v. n. 1. Mutter (as a beggar,) grumble, murmur.
2. Talk incoherently.
Maunderer, n. Grumbler, murmurer.
Mausoleum, n. Sepulchral monument.
Mauvaise honte, [Fr.] Bashfulness, false modesty.
Maw, n. 1. Stomach (of animals).
2. Craw, crop, first stomach (of a bird).
Mawkish, a. Insipid, flat, vapid, tasteless, stale.
Maxim, n. Proverb, saying, saw, adage, aphorism, apothegm, dictum, by-word, sententious precept.
May-apple, n. Mandrake (Podophyllum peltatum).
Maybe, ad. Perhaps, possibly, haply, peradventure, it may be, as luck may have it.
May-beetle, Cockchafer, dor, dor-bug, tree-beetle, dor-beetle, dummador.
May-bug, Cockchafer, dor, dor-bug, tree-beetle, dor-beetle, dummador.
May-flower, n. 1. [England.] Hawthorn, whitethorn.
2. [New England.] Trailing arbutus (Epigæa repens).
Mayhap, ad. Perchance, perhaps, it may be, probably, belike, it may happen.
May-lily, n. Lily of the valley (Convallaria majalis).
Maze, n. 1. Labyrinth, meander, winding course.
2. Intricacy, perplexity, bewilderment, embarrassment, uncertainty.
Mazy, a. Labyrinthian, confused.
Mead, n. 1. Metheglin.
2. [Poetical.] Meadow.
Meadow, n. Mead, lea, grass land, sward land.
Meagre, a. [Written also Meager.] 1. Lean, thin, emaciated, spare, poor, lank, gaunt, skinny, fallen away.
2. Tame, feeble, jejune, vapid, bald, barren, dull, prosing, prosy.
Meal, n. 1. Repast, collation.
