<B>malignancy, </B>noun, pl. <B>-cies.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>malignant quality or tendency. <BR> <I>Ex. The malignancy of my fate might perhaps distemper yours (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>(Medicine.) something malignant or diseased, such as a tumor. </DL>
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<B>malignant, </B>adjective, noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><I>adj. </I> <B>1. </B>very evil; very hateful; very malicious. <BR> <I>Ex. Events were fatally to prove ... that there are natures too malignant to be trusted or to be tamed (John L. Motley).</I> <DD><B> 2. </B>very harmful; having an evil influence. <BR> <I>Ex. Unless the next word ... Have some malignant power upon my life (Shakespeare).</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>very dangerous; causing or threatening to cause death. <BR> <I>Ex. A cancer is a malignant growth.</I> <DD><B> 4. </B>(Archaic.) disaffected; malcontent. <DD><I>noun </I> a malcontent. <BR> <I>Ex. The supporters of the Stuarts during the English Civil War were called malignants by their opponents.</I> adv. <B>malignantly.</B> </DL>
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<B>malignity, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ties.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>great malice; extreme hate or ill will. <BR> <I>Ex. lago's soliloquy, the motive-hunting of a motiveless malignity--how awful is it! (Samuel Taylor Coleridge).</I> (SYN) enmity. <DD><B> 2. </B>great harmfulness; dangerous quality; deadliness. <BR> <I>Ex. the malignity of cancer.</I> <DD><B> 3. </B>a malignant feeling or act. </DL>
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<B>malihini, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Hawaiian.) a newcomer or visitor. <BR> <I>Ex. lassitude creeps over the malihini (Time).</I> </DL>
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<B>malik, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a tribal chief in Pakistan. </DL>
<A NAME="malillumination">
<B>malillumination, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a condition that arises from overexposure to artificial light. <BR> <I>Ex. Any excess of artificial light (particularly from a TV) leads to a syndrome--malillumination (New Scientist).</I> </DL>
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<B>malines</B> or <B>maline, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B><B>=Mechlin lace.</B> <DD><B> 2. </B>a thin, stiff, silk net used especially in dressmaking and in making women's hats. </DL>
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<B>malinger, </B>intransitive verb.<DL COMPACT><DD> to pretend to be sick or injured in order to escape work or duty; shirk. <BR> <I>Ex. Hastie examined him; and ... knew not ... whether the man was sick or malingering (Robert Louis Stevenson).</I> noun <B>malingerer.</B> </DL>
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<B>Malinke, </B>noun, pl. <B>-ke</B> or <B>-ke,</B> <B>-kes</B> or <B>-kes.</B><DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a member of a black people of western Africa. <DD><B> 2. </B>their Mandingo language. Also, <B>Mandinka.</B> </DL>
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<B>malison, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> (Archaic.) a malediction; curse. </DL>
<B>mall</B> (1), noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>a shaded walk; public walk or promenade. <DD><B> 2a. </B>a central walk in a shopping center. <DD><B> b. </B>a shopping center, usually one enclosed in a large building. <DD><B> 3a. </B>the mallet used to strike the ball in the game of pall-mall. <DD><B> b. </B>the game pall-mall. <DD><B> c. </B>the alley on which the game is played. </DL>
<B>mallard, </B>noun, pl. <B>-lards</B> or (collectively) <B>-lard.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a wild duck found in Europe, northern Asia, and North America. The male has a greenish-black head and a white band around its neck. Many domestic ducks are descended from mallards. </DL>
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<B>mall doll,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a young woman who spends a great deal of time shopping in malls. <BR> <I>Ex. ... a comic romance about a mall doll who finds more to life than shopping (Peter Travers).</I> </DL>
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<B>malleability, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> malleable quality or condition. <BR> <I>Ex. Manganese increases the malleability of steel. (Figurative.) The Japanese, individually and socially, has a malleability which makes it possible for him to incorporate ... varied elements (Atlantic).</I> </DL>
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<B>malleable, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>that can be hammered or pressed in various shapes without being broken. Gold, silver, copper, and tin are malleable; they can be beaten into thin sheets. <DD><B> 2. </B>(Figurative.) adaptable; yielding. <BR> <I>Ex. A malleable person can adjust to changed plans. Human nature is often malleable ... where religious interests are concerned (John Lothrop Motley).</I> noun <B>malleableness.</B> </DL>
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<B>malleable cast iron,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> white cast iron made tough and malleable by long heating at a high temperature followed by slow cooling. </DL>
<B>mallee, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>any eucalyptus of several dwarf Australian kinds that sometimes form large areas of brushwood. <DD><B> 2. </B>such brushwood. </DL>
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<B>mallein, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a product of the glanders bacillus, used in the mallein test. </DL>
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<B>mallein test,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a test for glanders in which mallein is injected into the animal's eye. If the animal is diseased, inflammation of the eye covering occurs with a pussy discharge. </DL>
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<B>mallemuck, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> any one of various large sea birds, such as the fulmar or the albatross. </DL>
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<B>malleolar, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of or having to do with the malleolus. </DL>
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<B>malleolus, </B>noun, pl. <B>-li.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the bony part that sticks out on either side of the ankle. </DL>
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<B>mallet, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a kind of hammer with a head of wood or hard rubber, used to drive a chisel or other tool. Specially shaped mallets are used to play croquet and polo. Light mallets are used to play some musical instruments. </DL>
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<B>malleus, </B>noun, pl. <B>mallei.</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the outermost of the three small bones in the middle ear of mammals, shaped like a hammer. </DL>
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<B>malling, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>the practice of spending time shopping or socializing at a mall. <DD><B> 2. </B>the excessive construction of shopping malls. </DL>
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<B>mallow, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD><B> 1. </B>an ornamental plant with purple, pink, or white, five-petaled flowers, and hairy leaves and stems. <DD><B> 2. </B>any one of various other plants of the mallow family, such as the marsh mallow. </DL>
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<B>mallow family,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a group of dicotyledonous herbs, shrubs, and trees, most of which have sticky, gummy juice, and flowers shaped like those of the hollyhock. The family includes the mallow, hollyhock, cotton, okra, hibiscus, and althea. </DL>
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<B>mallow rose,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> any one of certain plants of the mallow family having rose-colored flowers. </DL>
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<B>mall rat,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a young person who spends time socializing at malls. <BR> <I>Ex. We're talking mall culture ... and the mall rats have names like Che (Salman Rushdie).</I> </DL>
<B>malmsey, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a strong, sweet wine, originally made in Greece. </DL>
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<B>malnourished, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> improperly nourished. <BR> <I>Ex. The malnourished American eats virtually no breakfast, has a light lunch and gorges on his evening meal (Science News Letter).</I> </DL>
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<B>malnutrition, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a poorly nourished condition. People suffer from malnutrition because of eating the wrong kinds of food as well as from lack of food. </DL>
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<B>malnutritioned, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> suffering from malnutrition; malnourished. </DL>
<A NAME="malocclusion">
<B>malocclusion, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> failure of teeth opposite each other in the upper and lower jaws to close or meet properly. </DL>
<A NAME="malodor">
<B>malodor, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a bad smell; stench. </DL>
<A NAME="malodorous">
<B>malodorous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> smelling bad. <BR> <I>Ex. A pestilent, malodorous home of dirt and disease (The Century).</I> (SYN) unsavory, fetid. adv. <B>malodorously.</B> noun <B>malodorousness.</B> </DL>
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<B>malonic acid,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a white, crystalline dicarboxylic acid readily decomposed by heat, derived from malic acid by oxidation. </DL>
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<B>malonic ester,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a colorless liquid used as a chemical intermediate. </DL>
<A NAME="maloti">
<B>maloti, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> plural of <B>loti.</B> </DL>
<A NAME="malpais">
<B>malpais, </B>noun.<DL COMPACT><DD> a volcanic rock characterized by a rough and jagged surface. </DL>
<A NAME="malpighiaceous">
<B>malpighiaceous, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> belonging to a family of dicotyledonous tropical trees and shrubs with yellow or red flowers, some of which are grown for ornament. </DL>
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<B>Malpighian, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> of, having to do with, or discovered by Marcello Malpighi (1628-1694), an Italian anatomist. </DL>
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<B>Malpighian body</B> or <B>corpuscle,</B> =renal corpuscle.</DL>
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<B>Malpighian layer,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> the deeper part of the epidermis, consisting of living cells which have not become hardened. </DL>
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<B>Malpighian tube,</B> <B>tubule,</B> or <B>vessel,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tubeshaped gland in insects and arachnids that is connected to the alimentary canal and serves as an excretory organ. </DL>
<A NAME="malpighiantuft">
<B>Malpighian tuft,</B><DL COMPACT><DD> a tuft of capillaries in the kidney. </DL>
<A NAME="malposed">
<B>malposed, </B>adjective.<DL COMPACT><DD> badly placed. <BR> <I>Ex. teeth malposed in the jaw (Lancet).</I> </DL>
