Old English | sp | English |
Mad | adj | Suffering from mental disease, crazy, loopy, loony, angry, mad at. |
Mad | phr | "As Mad as a Box of Frogs" - crazy, insane, demented. |
Mad | phr | "As Mad as All Hell" - demented, crazy, erratic, angry. |
Mad | phr | "As Mad as a Tin Full of Worms" - crazy, angry, raging, very irate. |
Mad | phr | "Drive Mad" - annoy, frustrate, irritate. 2. send someone mad or crazy. |
Mad | phr | "Have a Mad On" - to be angry. |
Mad | phr | "Like Mad" - in the manner of one who is mad; hence furiously, vigorously with excessive violence or enthusiasm. |
Mad | phr | "Mad as a Fish/Herring" - demented, crazy, erratic, angry. |
Mad | phr | "Mad as a Hatter" - of disputed origin, possibility from 'atter' (poison); alternatively from hat-makers suffering from Korsakof's syndrome to due to handling mercury-contaminated felt. 2. crazy, demented, erratic inn behavior. |
Mad | phr | "Mad as a Meat-axe" - crazy, angry, raging, very irate. |
Mad | phr | "Mad as a Snake" - crazy, angry, raging, very irate. |
Mad | phr | "Mad at" - angry, annoyed about something or somebody. |
Mad | phr | "Mad Dogs and Englishmen" - satirizing the unwillingness of English people to adopt the custom of taking a nap or siesta during the heat of the day in tropical climates. |
Mad | phr | "Mad For It" - exceedingly eager, or having a keen desire or appetite for something. |
Mad | phr | "Mad Keen" - with great eagerness; extremely eager. |
Mad | phr | "Mad On" - keenly or excessively interested or enthusiastic in somebody or something. |
Mad-blooded | adj | Genetically mad. 2. mad in the blood. 3. wild, furious, hot-headed, raging. |
Mad-brain | n | A scatter-brain |
Mad-brained | adj | A scatter-brained, mad-headed, hot-headed, loopy, crazy, uncontrolled. |
Mad-cow Sickness | n | The illness bovine encephalopathy. |
Madded | adj | Deprived of reason or intelligence, excited to fury, enraged. |
Madden | vb | To become mad, angry or furious. 2. to make mad; to drive one out of ones mind. 3. to excite to fury or frenzy or uncontrolled anger. |
Maddened | pp | Driven out of one's mind; excited to frenzy or uncontrolled anger, frenzy, irritability. |
Maddening | adj | extremely annoying, infuriating, exasperating, irritating, irkssome, bothersome, galling. |
Maddeningly | adv | In a maddening manner, madding. |
Madder | n | A herbaceous climbing plant, Rubia tinctorum yielding red dye. |
Madder | vb | To treat with dye or madder. |
Madderish | adj | Resembling the colour (red) of madder. |
Madder-lake | n | Red pigment. |
Madderwort | n | Aa herbaceous plant: Rubia tinctorium. 2. madder. |
Maddery | adj | Madderish. |
Madding | adv | Becoming madly, acting madly, frenzied. |
Madding | phr | "Far from the Madding Throng" - a conventional phrase denoting a secluded place removed from public notice. |
Maddingly | adv | In a madding manner. |
Maddish | adj | Having the manner or idea of a madman in behavior, appropriate to or befitting a madman. 2. somewhat mad. |
Maddle | vb | To be or becoming crazy, to be confused in the mind, to become dotingly fond of . 2. to craze, confuse the mind, bewilder. |
Mad dog | n | A person who acts violently, foolishly or irresponsibly. |
Mad-drunk | adj | Violently intoxicated. |
Maddy | adj | Somewhat mad. |
Made | n | A maggot, math, worm, grub. |
Made | adj | Created, fabricate, produced, put together. |
Made | phr | "A Made Man" - a man whose future has been made or assured. |
Made | phr | "A Self-made Man" - one having his/her success in life assured. |
Made | phr | "Be Made Of" - comprised of, consisting of, constituting. 2. including, containing, composed of. |
Made | phr | "Be Made for Something/Somebody" - ideally suited for somebody/something. |
Made | phr | "Have it Made" - to have accomplished all there is to do. 2. to have no further work or difficulty. 3. to achieve a life style characterized by good fortune and comfort. 4. be very successful. |
Made | phr | "Have it Made in the Shade" - in a condition characterized by comfort, success, easy living or general well-being. |
Made | phr | "Made For" - ideally suited for somebody/something. |
Made | phr | "Made Up" - with make-up or cosmetics applied. 2. put together; invented. |
Made | phr | "Self-made Man or Woman" - somebody who succeeds entirely through his/ her own efforts. |
Made | phr | "What One is Made of" - one's ability, or/and worth. |
Made-man | n | A successful man. 2. a man who has attained success. |
Made-road | n | A properly surfaced road of tarmac, concrete, etc. |
Made-up | adj | Artificial, fictitious, contrived. 2. completed, finished. |
Madful | adj | Mad. |
Mad-hardiness | n | Foolhardiness |
Mad Hatter | n | In earlier times, of a hat-maker acting strangely and erratically, due to an over-exposure of mercury once much used as in the production of hats. |
Mad-hardy | adj | Foolhardy. |
Mad-hearted | adj | Mad, crazy, erratic. |
Madhood | n | Madness |
Mad-house | n | Lunatic asylum, place for the detention of the criminally insane. |
Mad-keen | adj | Very enthusiastic and/or eager about someone or something. |
Madling | n | A mad creature, one who acts wildly or foolishly. |
Madly | adv | In a mad, foolish or insane madly. 2. passionately, fervently, extremely, somewhat excessively. |
Madman | n | A lunatic, maniac, nut-case. |
Madme | n | A mathen, a precious thing, treasure, valuable gift. |
Madmood | n | Folly. |
Madnep | n | Meadnep |
Madness | n | State or condition of being mad, insane, foolish. 2. madship. |
Madness | phr | "In Midsummer Madness" - foolish behaviour brought on by the heat. |
Mad sheep | n | An easy going person who suddenly and uncharacteristically erupts into anger ("a mouton enrage") |
Madstone | n | A stone supposed to have the power of allaying or curing madness or insanity caused by the bite of a wild animal or a rabid beast, such as a snake-bite or dog with rabies. |
Madwort | n | A herb of the genus, Alyssum; the trailing Catchweed: a plant(s) supposed to control or allay anger. |
Maegbote | n | Magbote: compensation for the harm done and pain suffered by slaying a kinsman. |
Maegth | n | Family, kin, mag, stock, folk. |
Maggot | n | Late 15c., probably an unexplained variant of Middle English maðek, from Old English maða "maggot, grub. From Middle English magot, magotte, probably Anglo-Norman alteration of maddock (“worm", "maggot”), originally a diminutive form of a base represented by Old English maþa. 2. the larva of an insect |
Maggot-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a maggot |
Maggotty | adj | Pertaining to a maggot |
Maid | n | A shortened form of maiden. 2. a girl or an unmarried, young woman. 3. a female servant or cleaner; lady-in-waiting, charwoman. 4. a virgin of either gender. |
Maid | phr | "Maid of all Work" - a servant made to do or help with all domestic duties. 2. a general drudge. |
Maid | phr | "Maid of God" - Joan of Arc. |
Maid | phr | "Stand On the Maid." -- to remain single. 2. a man who abstains from sexual intercourse. |
Maiden | n | A clothes' horse, a washerwoman's dolly. |
Maiden | n | (Now chiefly literary) a girl or an unmarried young woman. 2. female virgin. 3. (obsolete, dialectal) a man with no experience of sex, especially because of deliberate abstention. 4. a maidservant, lady-in-waiting, charwoman. 5. an unmarried woman, especially an older woman (rare). 6. a racehorse without any victory ('virgin record'). 7. (historical) a Scottish counterpart of the guillotine. 8. (obsolete) a machine for washing linen. 9. (cricket) being an over in which no runs are scored. |
Maiden | adj | Virgin. 2. (of a female, human or animal) without offspring. 2. like or befitting a (young, unmarried) maiden. 3. (figuratively) being a first occurrence or event. 4. fresh; innocent; unpolluted; pure; hitherto unused. 5. of a fortress, never having been captured or violated. |
Maiden | phr | "Maiden It" - act like a maiden, be coy. |
Maiden-child | n | Female child. |
Maiden-eyed | adj | Pure, clear, youthful. |
Maiden-fern | n | Adiantum, the walking fern or maidenhair fern, is a genus of about 200 species of ferns in the Vittarioideae subfamily of the family Pteridaceae. |
Maiden-flight | n | First flight of an aircraft or a passenger on a plane. |
Maiden-gem | n | Virginity, maidenhood. |
Maiden hair | n | The name of certain ferns having fine-hair-like stalks and delicate fronds, such as Capillus venerus. 2. the spleenwort, various plants of the genus, "Asplenium." |
Maiden-hair tree | n | A name for the gingko( whose leaves resemble those of the maidenhair fern in shape). |
Maidenhead | n | State or condition of a maiden, virgin or a young girl. 2. virginity. 3. hymen. |
Maidenhead | phr | "Lose One's Maidenhead" - lose one's virginity. |
Maiden-hued | adj | Pure of color. |
Maidenhood | n | The condition of being a maiden or a young girl. 2. time of life during which one is a maiden. |
Maidenish | adj | Resembling a maiden; characteristic of a maiden or woman, (often used in a deprecating sense.) |
Maiden lady | n | An unmarried woman (middle-aged or elderly.) |
Maidenless | adj | Without a maiden or maidens. |
Maiden-like | adv | Such as is like with maidens; befitting of a maiden; maidenly. |
Maidenliness | n | Quality of being a maiden, maidenly; behavior proper of a maiden. |
Maidenly | adv | Of or pertaining to a maiden, or to maidenhood. 2. of persons: resembling or in the form of a maiden in action or bearing. 3. characterized by the qualities of a maiden, e.g. gentleness, modesty. timidity. 4. in a maidenly manner. |
Maiden-man | n | A male virgin. |
Maiden-meek | n | Coy, shyly reserved, modest, gentle, quiet. |
Maiden-monger | n | A matchmaker or marriage agent who facilitates a meeting between couples, which may eventually lead to marriage. 2. a pimp, who as procures naive girls as novice whores (lambs). |
Maiden name | n | A marriage woman's original last name. 2. a woman's name when she was a maiden. 3. surname of a woman before she marriages. |
Maidenship | n | The personality of a maiden. 2. behavior proper to a maiden. |
Maiden speech | n | The first or maiden speech delivered by newly elected member of parliament. |
Maiden-thought | n | Keats's term for the stage of human development after "the infant or thoughtless chamber" (stage). 2. Time of innocence or untarnished hope. |
Maiden Town | n | One never captured by an enemy army. |
Maiden tree | n | One never lopped |
Maidenweed | n | Stinking camomile, peucedunum. |
Maidenwood | n | Usually applied to young ash trees, suggesting greater suppleness or elasticity. |
Maidenwort | n | Damong maria or monkey flower. |
Maidstone | n | From Old English medestan, meddestane from earlier mægdan stane (“the maidens' stone, the people's stone”). Ultimately from Old English mægden + stan or mægð + stan which are equivalent to maid(en) + stone. |
n | Late OE.:tax, tribute, rent. 2. often in combination, as 'borough-mail' (tax paid to the borough); 'house-mail' (rent); 'land-mail' (rent); silver-mail (rent, tax, tribute paid in money); 'mail-free' - (exempt from payment of rent). | |
Mailer | n | One who pays rent. 2. landlord. |
Mail-free | adj | Exempt from payment of tax, tribute, rent. |
Mailing | n | The act of paying a rent. |
Mailman | n | One who pays rent, tax, tribute. |
Mailroom | n | Room for rent. |
Main | n | Physical strength, force, or power, 'with might or main.' 2. of a thing; power, virtue, efficacy. 3. a host of men, military force. 3. "The Main" : the high sea, main sea, open sea or ocean. 4. a broad expanse, such as a continent. 5. the most important part of some business, subject, argument; etc.; chief matter, principal thing. 6. phrases: "upon the main" --- for the most part; in all essential points; chief or principal part; important or essential paint, as in the main of all. 6. object aimed at; end, purpose. 7. principal channel, duct for conveying water, electricity, sewage, gas along or through a city. 8. main or mains lands, demesne lands -- the farm attached to a mansion house, the farmhouse. |
Main | adj | Strong, vigorous, mighty; possessed of , manifesting or exerting great physical strength or force. 2. said of acts or activities which implies force or energy. 3. epithet of force, strength, sheer force. 3. of an army: great in number, numerous, powerful in arms. 4. of drink: potent, intoxicating. 5. voice or cry: loud. 6. of a storm: violent, raging. 6. of materials or things: great in bulk and dimension; of a large quantity or amount. 7. solid and of mass of earth, rock. 8. of land, country: continental, of mainland. 8. of an affair: highly important, momentous, with impact, consequential. 9. of a person: great, mighty in rank, power or position. |
Main | phr | "By Main Dint?" - By or with a powerful or strong blow. |
Main | phr | "By or With the Main Hand" - with a strong hand, forcibly. |
Main | phr | "In All One's Main" - With all one's power or might. |
Main | phr | "In the Main" - generally, usually; for most part. |
Main | phr | "The Main of All" - the chief part, essential part, important part. |
Main | phr | "Upon the Main"- for most part; in all essential points; mainly |
Main | phr | "With Might and Main" - with great power or force. 2. with all one's strength. |
Main | phr | "With Mood and Main" - with feeling and force. |
Main board | n | Computing: 'motherboard' - the primary circuit board of a personal computer., containing the circuitry for the central processing unit, keyboard, mouses and monitor, together with slots for other devices. |
Main drag | n | The main street of a town. |
Main frame | n | A large powerful computer with th capacity to process many tasks simultaneously, used by large corporations and organizations, when simultaneously sustained operation is essential and vital. |
Main-framelike | adj | Resembling or characteristic |
Mainful | adj | Powerful, mighty. |
Mainland | n | A principal body of land. 2. a continent as distinguished from an island. 3. A term used to denote a contiguous landmass or political territory relative to its politically associated but geographically remote outlying territories. It is variously used to refer to the continental (i.e. non-insular) part of a polity relative to its exclaves or oceanic islands; or to the largest or most politically, economically, and/or demographically significant island within an island nation. For example, continental Europe is often considered "the mainland" relative to the British Isles, while the island of Great Britain is considered "the mainland" relative to Northern Ireland and the many smaller islands that constitute the United Kingdom. |
Mainlander | n | A dweller on a mainland. |
Mainless | adj | Powerless, without force, of little might. 2. unimportant, minor in rank or position. 3. few in number, not numerous, not many. 4. small, little, tiny. |
Mainline | n | Principal or chief line of a railway, main route or road. 2. principal or important position, mainstream. 3. a large or principal vein into which drugs can be readily injected. |
Mainline | vb | To inject drugs into a chief vein. |
Mainline- believer | n | One who holds to an orthodox or widely-accepted beliefs, particularly in religious matters. |
Mainliner | n | One who injects drugs, particularly heroin, into a chief vein. |
Mainly | adv | With force. |
Main man | n | One's closest friend (African American Vernacular) |
Main mellow | n | A close friend or lover. |
Main pin | n | A kingbolt; the main bolt of a structure, esp. a bolt/pin in a motor vehicle that links the chassis to the axle, providing the steering pivot. |
Main road | n | A highway, especially between two towns. |
Mains | n | The domestic electrical power supply. 2. the pipes of a centralized water supply that transport the water to individual buildings. |
Main sail | n | The principal sail on the main mast. |
Main sea | n | The high sea. |
Main sheet | n | One of the ropes or sheets extending the main sail. |
Main span | n | The length of suspended roadway between the tower of a bridge. |
Mainspring | n | The chief motive power. 2. a principal spring in a piece of machinery. 3. the main incentive. |
Main stem | n | The main street. 2. the main line of a railway. 3. a preeminent person. |
Mainstream | n | The prevailing direction of opinion, fashion society' orthodoxy. |
Mainstreamer | n | A musician etc., who is the mainstream or chief influence of his profession. |
Mainstreet | n | The principal street of a city, town, esp. in the USA. (frequently use as a proper name). |
Mainstreet | adj | Symbol of mediocrity, parochialism or materialism in a small town. |
Mainstreeter | n | One who symbol of mediocrity, parochialism or materialism. 2. a politician who conducts and promotes his party's political message in the main street of towns. |
Mainstreeting | n | A political campaign, or sometimes other types of campaign, conducted by politicians or promoters in the main street of a city to ensure maximum exposure of their message. |
Main top | n | A platform at the head of the lower section of the main mast. |
Mainward | n | The main body of an army. |
Main word | n | Chief, head or important word' a lemma. |
Make | vb | To construct, build, create. 2. to produce. 3. to form, constitute. 4. to interpret. 5. to bring into success. 5. to cause to be. 6. to cause to do; force to do. 7. to indicate or suggest to be, or it is so. 8. to cover with bedclothes
9. to recognize, acknowledge worth of. 10. to earn, to gain (money) |
Make | n | Brand, type or kind; often paired with model. 2. how a thing is made; construction. 3. quantity produced, especially of materials. 4. (dated) the act or process of making something, especially in industrial manufacturing. 5. person's character, make-up, way or disposition. 6.(computing) a software utility for automatically building large applications, or an implementation of this utility. 7. recognition or identification, especially from police records or evidence. 8. (slang, usually in phrase " lay' or "easy make") past or future target of seduction of a female). (slang, in the military) promotion. 9. home-made or do-it-your-self project. |
Make | n | Mate (OE. gemaca); friend, buddy, companion. |
Make | phr | "All of Make the Same" - throughout |
Make | phr | "Be the Making Of" - bring out one's true cahracter or potential. |
Make | phr | "Have the Makings Of" - have the potential to be. |
Make | phr | "How Do You Make That Out" - by what process or logic do you come to that conclusion. |
Make | phr | "Kiss and Make Up" - to reconcile one's differences. |
Make | phr | "Make a Beginning" - begin, commence to do something; make a start. |
Make | phr | "Make a Bolt" - hurry to (catch a train)or get to an appointment. |
Make | phr | "Make a Book" - to arrange a series of bets, etc. |
Make | phr | "Make a Break (for it)" - abscond, depart, run away from, escape (from captivity), sneak away, flee. |
Make | phr | "Make After" - to go in pursuit of; go after, chase, pursue, follow. |
Make | phr | "Make Against" - to be unfavorable to. 2. to militate or tell against. 3. to make hostile movement towards. |
Make | phr | "Make a Beeline Towards" - hurry directly towards. |
Make | phr | "Make a Cat Laugh" - be especially comic, ludicrous or incongruous. |
Make | phr | "Make a Clean Brest of it" - confess fully; make full confession. |
Make | phr | "Make a Clean Sweep" - dispose of everything. |
Make | phr | "Make a Day of It' - spend all day doing something enjoyable. |
Make | phr | "Make a Deal with" - agree to terms for doing business. |
Make | phr | "Make a Friend of" - put oneself appear ridiculous through clumsy or thoughtless behavior. |
Make | phr | "Make a Go of" - make something succeed, as a realtionship or marriage. |
Make | phr | "Make a Good Death/End" - die with dignity, courage, pious resignation. |
Make | phr | "Make a Good Showing" - behave, perform or function creditably. 2. seem to be satisfactory etc in quality and amount. |
Make | phr | "Make a Living" - to earn enough income to support oneself and, if applicable one's family. |
Make | phr | "Make a Long Arm for" - stretch out to reach (an item, thing etc). |
Make | phr | "Make a Loss" - lose money in a financial dealings. |
Make | phr | "Make a Man of" - help to grow up, reach manhood. |
Make | phr | "Make a Match" - arrange or bring about a marriage. |
Make | phr | "Make a Meal of" - overdo something to excess. |
Make | phr | "Make a Mistake" - act wrongly or incorrectly. |
Make | phr | "Make a Name for Oneself" - earn a reputation in a particular field. 2. become famous or well-known. |
Make | phr | "Make an Ass Of" - to cause someone to seem foolish or stupid. |
Make | phr | "Make a Night of It" -spend all night doing something enjoyable. |
Make | phr | "Make a Pig's Ear of" - to do badly; make a mess of. |
Make | phr | "Make a Play for" - attempt to get a position; form a romantic relationship. |
Make | phr | "Make As If (as though) to Do (Something)" - to behave as if, feign; hence, to pretend that. |
Make | phr | "Make a Speech" - speak formally to an audience on a specific subject and/or a specific occasion. 2. speak to somebody as if one were speaking formally to an audience etc. |
Make | phr | "Make a Stand" - resist and not flee the enemy forces, or a physical attack. 2. (fig) adopt and make known a firm attitude against, or opposition to somebody or something. |
Make | phr | "Make a Start" - begin, commence to do something. |
Make | phr | "Make a Stick For One's Own Back" - make a decision that will have personal, adverse consequences. |
Make | phr | "Make a Stink" - complain bitterly, take assertive action in objecting to a problem. 2. to demand attention and or remedy for a problem. |
Make | phr | "Make At" - attack, move towards something/somebody as if to attack them. 2. to tend to the advancement of, or progress of, to further, aid. |
Make | phr | "Make Away (with)" - steal and hurry away with. 2. depart hastily. |
Make | phr | "Make Away With" - put to death. 2. put a person out of the way. 3. end a person's life. |
Make | phr | "Make Away with Oneself" - take one's own life; commit suicide; do away with oneself. |
Make | phr | "Make a Weekend of" - devote a long time to some activity or pursuit. |
Make | phr | "Make a Work" - to ensure the necessity for work to be done. 2. to give trouble. |
Make | phr | "Make Belief" - the abstract quality of making believe. |
Make | phr | "Make Believe" - pretend; unreal, play a game at. |
Make | phr | "Make Bold" - act with daring; to dare. |
Make | phr | "Make Care" - to be careful, anxious. |
Make | phr | "Make Do (with something)" - to manage to do (with what is available) especially, as an interim measure or substitute or is it is not adequate or satisfactory or desirable. |
Make | phr | "Make Ends Meet" - match expenses to income; live reasonably well without getting into debt. |
Make | phr | "Make Eyes at" - look at flirtatiously or coquettishly. |
Make | phr | "Make Fast" - fasten, tie up, secure, attach something securely. |
Make | phr | "Make Felt" - to perceive through the sense of touch, as the softness of skin. 2. perceive as a physical sensation, as a sharp needle. |
Make | phr | "Make Fight" - serve or take part in a military campaign. |
Make | phr | "Make for" - to operate in favour of; be favorable to. 2. aim at, make possible, to ensure. 3. to tend to the progress or advancement of, to further. 4. make or move towards, a particular place. 5. escape, run away, flee. rush towards in order to attack. 6. have an effect upon. |
Make | phr | "Make Forth" - to complete the preparation or equipping of. |
Make | phr | "Make Free of" - liberate; allow somebody full rights. 2. take liberties with. |
Make | phr | "Make Free with" - be over-familiar with somebody. 2. treat, use, somebody casually or presumptuously as if belonging to oneself. |
Make | phr | "Make Friends with" - get on pleasant, intimate terms with; become friendly with. |
Make | phr | "Make From" - shape, fashion from raw material. 2. fashion a garment. |
Make | phr | "Make Game of" - to jest; ridcule; make fun of. |
Make | phr | "Make Glad" - make happy. |
Make | phr | "Make Gladness" - make glee, mirth. |
Make | phr | "Make Glee" - make glad, mirth. |
Make | phr | "Make Good" - do well in life and work, contrasted with being unable to rise from the lowest social economic level, or with being an idler, rogue, criminal. 2. achieve a desired and acknowledged status financially, socially or professionally. |
Make | phr | "Make Good" - supply a need. 2. repair, restore or compensate for something. |
Make | phr | "Make Goodly" - give oneself airs. |
Make | phr | "Make Good One's Flight" - effect, complete, satisfactorily, an action or procedure (escape). |
Make | phr | "Make Good Time" - to arrive at a specified or previously announced destination more quickly than anticipated. |
Make | phr | "Make Great Play with" - (in a dramatic way, and especially in argument or debate), stress, emphasize, handle, play with. |
Make | phr | "Make Great Strides" - progress, develop, improve rapidly. |
Make | phr | "Make Grith" - in peace. |
Make | phr | "Make Hay of" - demolish, destroy, throw into confusion, |
Make | phr | "Make Hay while the Sun Shines" - to act while opportunity exists. 2. to take action while the situation is favorable. |
Make | phr | "Make Head or Tail Of" (usually negative cannot)- not understand at all. |
Make | phr | "Make Headway" - move forward in an intended course or direction. 2. progress satisfactorily; make progress. |
Make | phr | "Make Heard" - make one's position clearly known; speak one's mind, declare, make plain. |
Make | phr | "Make Heavy Weather of" - to roll and pitch, as a ship in a storm. 2. make a task seem more difficult than it really is. |
Make | phr | "Make a Hit with" - impress favorably; make an impression on. |
Make | phr | "Make Inroads" - absorb or consume a considerable amount or part of savings, capital, reserves etc. |
Make | phr | "Make Into" - fashion, shape, mould into. 2. cause to become.transform into. |
Make | phr | "Make It" - to succeed in crossing a great distance or specified distance, especially in time. 2. to achieve a desired object; to be successful. 3. to keep an appointment. 4. achieve sexual intercourse. |
Make | phr | "Make It Do, or Do Without" - if you don't have plenty of money, spend what you have wisely and frugally. |
Make | phr | "Make It One's Business" - be determined, or be careful, to do something necessary or desirable. |
Make | phr | "Make Itself Felt" - cause one/othersto be keenly aware of something. |
Make | phr | "Make It So" - cause something to happen, usually in a positive way. |
Make | phr | "Make It Through Something" - to survive, not die as a result of a accident or illness. 2. endure a difficult situation or problem in one's life. |
Make | phr | "Make It Up as We Go Along" - to improvise continuously as ond does something. 2. to do something without formal guidelines, notes etc. |
Make | phr | "Make It Up" - give to somebody in compensation, recompense for something he/she has missed or suffered. 2. remedy a negligence or failing. 3. settle one's differences. |
Make | phr | "Make Known" -to reveal, disclose, unveil, bring to light, tell, uncover, expose. |
Make | phr | "Make Light Of" - treat as slight or unimportant. |
Make | phr | "Make Like" - to pretend (to be); to behave like as if, to imitate. |
Make | phr | "Make Little of" - remain calm, give little attention to, dismiss as trivial or unimportant (in an understanding way). |
Make | phr | "Make Love Not War" - an anti-war slogan commonly associated with the American counterculture of the 1960s. It was used primarily by those who were opposed to the Vietnam War, but has been invoked in other anti-war contexts since. |
Make | phr | "Make Love to" - kiss and caress. 2. have sexual intercourse with. |
Make | phr | "Make Market" - to trade, buy, sell. 2. having dealings with. |
Make | phr | "Make Merry" - be lively, boisterous, in a social way - laughing, talking, singing, dancing, eating, drinking. |
Make | phr | "Make Mind" - to commemorate, record. |
Make | phr | "Make Mirth" - make glee, glad, merry. |
Make | phr | "Make Much of" - stress, fuss, emphasis or exaggerate something. |
Make | phr | "Make Neither Head nor Tail of" - not understand something. |
Make | phr | "Make No Bones Of" - not hesitate to do or say something. 2. act or speak about something frankly and vigorously. |
Make | phr | "Make No Mistake" - do not be mislead by appearances into believing something that subsequent events or further events or further information will show to be untrue or not the case. |
Make | phr | "Make Nothing Of (doing something)" - to find no difficulty in, or feel no scruples at or about. 2. overcome with ease some apparent difficult obstacle. |
Make | phr | "Make Of" - to esteem (well or ill). 2. understand (at all); understand; interpret; to a stated extent. 2. construct of; build of. |
Make | phr | "Make Off" - depart, decamp, leave in a hurry; escape, run away. |
Make | phr | "Make Off With" - to leave with something in one's possession; steal; appropriate.. |
Make | phr | "Make Old Bones" - live to an old age. |
Make | phr | "Make On" - make a certain profit as the result oof a business transaction. |
Make | phr | "Make One Of" - to take part in a combined action. 2. be present at a meeting, etc. 3. to assimilate to the company one joins. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Abode" - take up one's abode; make home or live with. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Bed and Lie on It" -face the consequences of one's actions. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Blood Seethe" - make one very angry. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Blood Cold" - frighten, make apprehensive. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Bow" - appear, be shown in public or before a particular audience , for the first time. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Day" - to render a day delightful; or redeem it from dullness, nowhere, or banality. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Farewells" - say goodbye to someone; see, visit people to say goodbye. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Flesh Creep" - cause one to feel fear, loathing, aversion, nervous anxiety. 2. give somebody the creeps. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Head Spin" - confuse one. |
Make | phr | "Make Oneself at Home" - be as cmfortable, relaxed as if one were in their own home. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Hair Stand on End" - fill with horror, dread. 2. become terrify or extremely scared. 3. make one's flesh creep. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Living For Oneself" - take care care of one's own life. 2. live independently; pay one's own way. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Mark" - become successful and well-known generally or in certain circles. 2. especially influence or contribute an art, a science, a sport. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Play for" - try by some special action to secure or capture something. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Soul" - to devote one's efforts to the saving of one's soul |
Make | phr | "Make One's Way " - to direct one's journey (or life) so as to pass by or through it. 2. go, or succeed. |
Make | phr | "Make One's Way Back/Along" - proceed, move along, back, across, etc. |
Make | phr | "Make One's way in the World" - progress in one's career . 2. make a success in one's work. |
Make | phr | "Make or Break (Someone)" - to cause either the complete success or the ruin of a person or thing. 2. resulting in great success or failure. 3. a crucial test leading either to a person or his/her failure, with no intermediary position.. |
Make | phr | "Make or Mar" - to make a success or complete failure, of an undertaking. |
Make | phr | "Make Out" - make progress, proceed, work out, discover get on with, prosper. 2. write, fill out, complete a cheque etc. 3. manage, cope, fare, comprehend, distinguish, understand. 4. claim, assert, maintain; establish by evidence. 5. identifying someone, usually and from a distance and slowly; see, discern. 6. engage in sexual activity. |
Make | phr | "Make Out Of" - to create something out of a material or substance. |
Make | phr | "Make Over" - to hand over (formally). 2. to transfer the possession of a thing from oneself to another; bequeath. 3. convert, change, transform, renovate. 4. |
Make | phr | "Make Play with" - use ostentatiously. |
Make | phr | "Make Quick Work of" - to accomplish a specific task easily and quickly. 2. to kill a specific person easily and quickly. |
Make | phr | "Make Ready - prepare; do what is necessary. |
Make | phr | "Make Right" - set sometimes right and make something right. 2. correct something; alter a situation to make it more fair. |
Make | phr | "Make Room for" - to make space or time for. 2. to make additional space into which something can be fitted. |
Make | phr | "Make Sail" - to set more sails. |
Make | phr | "Make Sheep Eyes At" - flirt; make appealing glances at. |
Make | phr | "Make Shift with" - use for lack of something better; make do with. |
Make | phr | "Make Short Work of" - to finish with somebody or something very quickly. |
Make | phr | "Make So Bold As" - dare, presume, embolden, take the liberty, or have the courage to do something. |
Make | phr | "Make Somebody's Blood Run Cold" - fig. to shock or horrify somebody. |
Make | phr | "Make Somebody's Day" - be an experience, occurrence, that makes one feel the day has been especially satisfying or significant. |
Make | phr | "Make Somebody's Heart Bleed" - make somebody's feel extreme sorrow or pity. |
Make | phr | "Make Somebody's Teeth Itch" - to bother or unsettle a person. 2. put on edge. |
Make | pr | "Make (Somebody) the Laughing Stock" - a thing or person make sport by all; a butt of ridicule. 2. an object of ridicule, someone who is publicly ridiculed, probably in the stocks. |
Make | phr | "Make Something Look New" - clean, mend, polish something that it looks as it did when new. |
Make | phr | "Make Something (Out) of It" - cause an argument or fight. |
Make | phr | "Make Something Out of Nothing" - to think or say that something is problem when it is not. |
Make | phr | "Make Something Out of Oneself" - to be successful on one's own iniative. |
Make | phr | "Make Something Stick" - prove, substantiate, validate or make effective, esp. something said about or against somebody/something. |
Make | phr | "Make Somebody Tired" - be or appear tiresome, exasperating, difficult to understand or deal with. |
Make | phr | "Make Something Up" - invent, lie, fabricate, fib. |
Make | phr | "Make Something Work" - cause something to work effectively. |
Make | phr | "Make That Out - (How)" - by what process or logic do you come to that conclusion. |
Make | phr | "Make the Best of" - do one best in difficult conditions, or with limited means. |
Make | phr | "Make the Best of One or Other Worlds" - combine the best aspects of different ways of life, philosophies. *see etymology of* |
Make | phr | "Make the Most of" - get as much from experience, etc as one can. 2. exploit something to its fullest. 3. take the best advantage of a situation. |
Make | phr | "Make the Running" - in a race, take the lead and set the pace which other competitors must maintain if they hope to win. 2.(fig) take the lead in a conversation, argument, course of action, forcing or encouraging others to follow and compete. |
Make | phr | "Make the Welkin Ring" - make a loud ring. 2. to celebrate or revel. |
Make | phr | "Make the Worst of" - fail, refuse, to mke any effort when faced with difficulties. |
Make | phr | "Make the Worst of Both* Worlds" - combine the worst features of two ways of life, philosophies. *see etymology of. |
Make | phr | "Make Things Worse" - worsen an already dangerous, undesirable or awkward situation or condition. |
Make | phr | "Make Time For" - to reserve a period of time to do something. 2. to travel at a faster than usual speed than. 3. to spend a time with a person in or in pursuit of a romantic relationship. |
Make | phr | "Make Time (with)" - to make advances to the opposite sex. |
Make | phr | "Make To" - to lend or contribute to. 2. to be favorable or conducive to, to go in support of. 3. to set to work. |
Make | phr | "Make to Death" - put to death; to make away; make out of the way. |
Make | phr | "Make Together" - to do something together (collectively). |
Make | phr | "Make Under" - to makeover in awhich the quality, flashness or value of something is downgraded |
Make | phr | "Make Understood" - make oneself understood or comprehended a language of which you have only a basic knowledge of. |
Make | phr | "Make Unto" - create, produce (something) in favor or respect of another. |
Make | phr | "Make Up" - to reconcile after a difference, dispute or quarrel; to become friends again. 2. replace; make good; redress, repay for one's past failures. 3. compose, invent, (possibly to deceive). 4. form, compose, invent, complete, constitute to full strength. 5. prepare by mixing ingredients together. 6. prepare one's body or face with cosmetics in order to look attractive. prepare one's body or face for a performance in a theatre or a film. 7. prepare a bed for a patient; prepare a bed for an unexpected guest. 8. put together food for a picnic basket. 9. make complete in strength, number, complement, required total. 10. make a road with a hard surface of bitumen etc to make it suitable for fast motor traffic. 11. add more fuel to the fire. |
Make | phr | "Make Up to" - compensate, supply a substitute for. 2. redress, repay somebody for past failures; make amends for. 3. make friendly advances. |
Make | phr | "Make Upon" - make at. |
Make | phr | "Make Up for Lost Time" - make a special effort to do something after beginning late. |
Make | phr | "Make Up From/Into" - shape, manufacture, form (a finished article) from raw material. 2. fashion a garment from material. |
Make | phr | "Make Up One's Mind" - to come to a decision or conclusion. |
Make | phr | "Make Up One's Mind For (to do something)" - to be reconciled to the thought of. 2. have one's mind made up for. |
Make | phr | "Make Up One's Mouth" - make a particular facial expression. |
Make | phr | "Make Up To" - to draw near to. 2. to make romantic advances towards. 3. go to great lengths to repair a damaged or fractured relationship. |
Make | phr | "Make Water" - to urinate. 2. Of a ship taking in water. |
Make | phr | "Make Waves" - cause difficulty or trouble. |
Make | phr | "Make Way (for)" - move aside; allow others to proceed. 2. achieve progress. |
Make | phr | "Make With" - to side with; have common cause with. 2. perform. proceed with. |
Make | phr | "On the Make" - intent on winning someone's affection. 2. seeking sexual pleasure. 3. improving, advancing, getting better. 4. intent on, or greedy, for profit or advancement. 5. make pecuniary gains. |
Make | phr | "That Makes Two Of Us" - so am I. |
Make | phr | "What Do You Make of It" - what is your opinion? |
Make | phr | "What Makes You Here" - what are you doing here. |
Make-a-do | n | A to-do, uproar, stir. 2. one who makes believe or pretense. |
Make-and-break | adj | A device for making and breaking an electrical circuit. |
Make-believe | n | Pretense, wishful thinking, daydreaming. |
Make-believe | adj | Pretended, unreal. |
Make-believer | n | One who pretends, lies, or fantasizes. |
Make-believing | n | The act or practice of lying, pretending, fantasizing. |
Make-do | n | One who resorts to make-shift or temporary expediency. |
Make-do | adj | Characterized by makeshift methods. 2. survive or sustain by the bare necessities. 3. temporary, makeshift, expediency. 4. use make-do methods. |
Makedom | n | Form, shape, esp.,elegant form, shapeliness, comeliness. |
Make-fast | n | An iron ring or other object to which a boat is made fast. |
Make-fire | n | An incendiary. |
Make-game | n | One who or that which furnishes material for amusement; hence, a laughing-stock, butt (of jokes or amusement). |
Make-god | n | A derisive term for a romish priest. |
Make-king | n | The maker of a king or the appointment of a person to a very senior position. |
Make-law | n | A law-giver. |
Makeless | adj | Matchless, without equal, peerless. 2. without a mate or friend. |
Make-mirth | adj | One who makes merriment, mirth and levity. |
Make-or-break | adj | Resulting in great success or failure |
Make-out | n | A major change in the use of something. 2. a major change in the appearance of something or someone. 3. a radical transformation. |
Make-out | adj | Of, or involving or suited to making out. |
Make-over | n | A major change in the use of something, or in the appearance of something or someone. 2. a radical transformation. |
Maker | n | A person who makes things. 2. a maker engaged in in a business manufacturing some product; a manufacturer. 3. "The Maker': the Judaeo-Christian God, the Maker of the Universe. 4. a poet; scop, skald, word-weaver.. |
Maker | sfx | One who makes or fabricates, as a glassmaker. |
Maker | phr | "Meet One's Maker" - to die. 2. die violently. |
Makeready | n | Final preparation and adjustments. |
Make-right | n | One who makes things right, corrects or rectifies. |
Maker-outer | n | (Slang) : a kisser; someone who makes out (kisses). |
Makership | n | The office of a maker or creator. |
Maker-upper | n | A person who makes something. 2. a packer of manufactured goods. |
Makeshift | adj | A temporary or improvised solution; an expedient. 2. a temporary substitute of an inferior kind; also (transfig). of a person. 3. of a person: roguish, shifty, cunning. |
Makeshiftness | n | Condition of being makeshift, temporary, improvised, inferior. 2. of the nature of, or character of being makeshift. |
Makeshift shrine | n | A temporary memorial, often with a white cross draped in or surrounded by flower tributes, erected on a roadside site where a friend or loved one has died as a result or a motor vehicle or an act of murder. |
Make-shifty | adj | Something developed as a temporary contrivance in any emergency. |
Make-span | n | In manufacturing, the time difference between the start and finish of a sequence of jobs or tasks. |
Make-talk | n | Something said for the sake of talking. 2. idle chatter. |
Makeunder | n | A makeover in which the quality, flashiness or value of something is downgraded. |
Make-up | n | The manner, character or temperament of a person. 2. the application by an actor of powder, lipstick, etc to one's, face, for a theatrical role. 3. cosmetics: lipstick, powder, blush for women. 4. a made-up story, invention or fiction. 5. compensation. 6. the balancing of a accounts at the end of period. 7. an arrangement or lay-out of a printed page, magazine etc. |
Make-way | n | An event or situation that leads to another. 2. a segue. |
Make-weight | n | Something put on the scales to make up the required weight. 2. that which is thrown into a scale to increase weight. 3. any person or thing made use of to fill up a deficiency. |
Make-work | n | Work or activity of little or no value devised mainly to keep someone busy |
Making | n | The process of producing something. 2. the essential qualities needed for something. 3. composition, structure, make. |
Making | adj | Productive, creative, prosperous. 2. causing, fabricating or constructing; workmanship; 3. that which contributes to improvement or success. a quantity of anything made at one time; a batch. 4. the ingredients or materials used in the making something. |
Making | sfx | Combining form act of causing or producing . 2. creating or causing to be. |
Making | phr | "Be the Making(s)Of" - to be the means or cause of progress or success. 2. bring out somebody's true character or potential. |
Making | phr | "Have the Makings of" - have the potential to be. |
Making | phr | "In the Making" - in the process of being made or becoming. |
Making-as-if | n | Pretense, lying, falsification, fantasy. |
Making-good | n | Thorough or careful use of resources. 2. |
Making-merry | n | Joy, mirth, fun. |
Making-ready | n | Preparation. |
Makings | n | The essential qualities needed for something; ingredients, component part or elements, mixture in a recipe. 2. paper and tobacco for rolling a cigarette. 3. earnings or profit. |
Making-up | n | Reconciliation. 2. dressing up. 3. disguise for impersonation. 4. completion; the balancing of accounts at the end of a certain period. 5. composition. 6. compounding. |
Mallow | n | A common wild plant, Malva. |
Mallow-wort | n | A plant of the N.O. Malvaceae. |
Mallum | n | A shire moot, meeting, discussion. 2. the hundred-court among the Franks, (by modern historians sometime used as the name of a common Germanic institution, and also attributed to the Anglo-Saxons.) |
Malm | n | A soft friable rock, consisting of a soft chalky material; used especially in making bricks. 2. the light loamy soil formed by the disintegration of this rock. |
Malm | vb | To be soft; friable. |
Malmstone | n | Chert, a rock similar to flint, used in building and paving. |
Malmy | adj | Resembling a stratum or vein of malmstone. 2. marble, a block or slab, etc. |
Malshave | n | A caterpillar. |
Malt | n | Malted grain (usu. barley) used in brewing and other purposes. 2. malt liquor, esp. malt whiskey. 3. short for 'malted milkshake' a milkshake with malted milk powder added for flavor. |
Malt | vb | To convert or make a cereal grain into malt. |
Malt | phr | "Soft Fire makes Sweet Malt" - an admonition to be gentle or merciful. |
Malt-dust | n | Malt refuse. |
Malted | adj | Made into malt. |
Malted milk | n | A milkshake containing malt and a flavor. |
Malten | vb | To undergo malting, to malt. |
Malter | n | A maltman, a malster. |
Malt-floor | n | A floor for drying malt. |
Malthouse | n | A building in which malt is prepared and stored. |
Malting | n | The action of process of making malt or converting into malt. |
Maltless | adj | Without malt; deficient in malt. |
Malt-loaf | n | A British snack made from malt with a sweet taste and a chewy texture like a haevy soft bread. |
Malt-mad | adj | Heavily intoxicated. |
Maltman | n | One employed in a malthouse. |
Maltness | n | The state or quality of being malty. |
Maltscot | n | Tax paid on the privilege of making malt. |
Maltshop | n | A malthouse. |
Malster | n | A maker of or dealer in malt. |
Maltworm | n | A tippler, a boozer, a sot. |
Malty | adj | Addicted to, affected by, or containing malt (in the form of malt liquor). 2. drunk (sl.). |
Man | n | An adult male human. 2. (collective) all human males collectively: mankind. 2. a human, a person of either gender, usually an adult. 3. (collective) all humans collectively: mankind, humankind, humanity. (sometimes capitalized as Man.) 4. (in anthropology, archaeology, paleontology) a member of the genus Homo, especially of the species Homo sapiens. 6.(obsolete) - a sentient being, whether human or supernatural. 7. an adult male who has, to an eminent degree, qualities considered masculine, such as strength, integrity, and devotion to family; a mens. 8. (uncountable, obsolete, uncommon) manliness; the quality or state of being manly. 9. a husband; lover; a boyfriend. 10. male enthusiast or devotee; a male who is very fond of or devoted to a specified kind of thing. 11. a person, usually male, who has duties or skills associated with a specified thing. (used as the last element of a compound.) person, usually male, who can fulfill one's requirements with regard to a specified matter. 12. male who belongs to a particular group: an employee, a student or alumnus, a representative, etc. 13. an adult male servant. (historical) 13. vassal; subject. 15. a term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste. 16. boy; human, male; the man, woman. |
Man | vb | To supply (something) with staff or crew (of either sex). 2. to take up position in order to operate (something). 3. to brace (oneself), to fortify or steel (oneself) in a manly way. 2. to wait on, attend to or escort. 3. ( obsolete) To accustom (a hawk or other bird) to the presence of men. |
Man | intj | An interjection used to place emphasis on something else: "Man, that was great'. |
Man | sfx | One who manufactures; one who is an expert in an area, as a businessman. |
Man | phr | "A Dirty Old Man" - an adult man - middle aged or elderly- who acts in a lewd or lechorous way. |
Man | phr | "A Man Among Men" - a man of high excellence; outstanding. |
Man | phr | "A Man's Life" - life and work that is suitable for (only) strong and active men. |
Man's man | n | "A Man's Man" - a man fond of masculine pursuits and masculine company, and less attracted to domesticity or the society of women. |
Man | phr | "A Marked Man" - someone who is very well for a misdeed. |
Man | phr | "As a Man" - in respect to a man's personal character, e.g. as distinguished from his achievements, abilities, skills, work and wealth, etc. |
Man | phr | "Be a Man" - act with strength, be brave, courageous, be independent. (in the following phrases used in the sense: 'individual male person'. |
Man | phr | "As One Man" - in unison, in agreement. |
Man | phr | "Be Man Enough" - be sufficiently man or strong in the situation. |
Man | phr | "Be One's Own Man" - to be in control or command of oneself. 2. to be in full control of one's senses, faculties or powers. 3. be free to act, be independent. 4. to approach every issue in a totally objective manner. |
Man | phr | "Between Man and Man" - matters or issues between persons. 2. interpersonal relationship in a broad senses. |
Man | phr | "Brotherhood of Man" - whole of human society. |
Man | phr | "Dead Man's School" - job opportunity provided by somebody's death or retirement. |
Man | phr | "Every Man/Woman and His/her Dog" - everybody. |
Man | phr | "Every (each) Man for Himself" - of a situation in which each person is occupied with his own safety or advancement. |
Man | phr | "Every Man, Woman and Child" - every living person. |
Man | phr | "He is Your Man" - he conforms to you ideals. |
Man | phr | "Hit a Man When He's Down" - add to the misfortune of somebody who is already unfortunate. |
Man | phr | "I'm Your Man" - a person who is needed or wanted. |
Man | phr | "Like a Man" - resembling a brave, resourceful person. |
Man | phr | "Make a Man of" - cause a youth to become resourceful. |
Man | phr | "Man About Town." - one constantly seen at public or private functions. |
Man | phr | "Man After One's Own Heart" - somebody etc of exactly the kind one likes best, because he etc matches an ideal. |
Man | phr | "Man alive! - an expression of surprise; astonishment. |
Man | phr | "Man and Man" - a matter between two men |
Man | phr | "Man and Wife" - a newly married couple. |
Man | phr | "Man at Arms" - a soldier, a feudal knight. |
Man | phr | "Man at the Top" - the head of an administration, or of a financial, industrial, or trading concerns of some size and complexity. 2. the top man or top dog. |
Man | phr | "Man Bites Dog" - a definition of what makes 'news' or is newsworthy. |
Man | phr | "Man by Man" - each man separately, to each man separately. 2. per man; individually. |
Man | phr | "Man for Man" - an assessment who is the better man (purely subjective and in various senses). |
Man | phr | "Man in Black" - a clergyman. |
Man | phr | "Man in the Middle" - an adversary that intercepts and often modifies communications. 2. one who is caught in the centre of opposing sides in an argument or controversy and is being pressured to support one side or the other. |
Man | phr | "Man/Woman in the Moon" - a fancied resemblance of a man (or a man's face). |
Man | phr | "Man In the Street" - ordinary, average people, especially when talking about their opinions and ideas. |
Man | phr | "Man is a Wolf to his fellow Man" - humankind prey on one another; man is a predator. |
Man | phr | "Man it Out" - to bear up manfully. |
Man | phr | "Man of Afterwit" - one whose after thoughts and retorts come to little or too late, as the mischief has been done. 2. one who lacks the skill of esprit de l'escalier. |
Man | phr | "Man Of All Work" - factotum, jack of all trades. |
Man | phr | "Man of Blood" - a murderer, genocidal maniac. |
Man | phr | "Man of Breeding" - somebody of high birth, an aristocrat. |
Man | phr | "Man of Deeds" - someone who acts first and thinks later. |
Man | phr | "Man of Feeling" - well-meaning, very noble person sensitive to the suffering of others. 2. a generous hearted person. |
Man | phr | "Man of Few Words" - a man who doesn't speak much. 2. a man who speaks only for a short time. |
Man | phr | "Man of Forewit - a person of insight and foresight. |
Man | phr | "Man of Glee - one who is happy, blissful, merry. |
Man | phr | "Man of God" - a person devoted to the service of god; a saint, a holy man, a prophet, an ecclesiastic; a clergyman. |
Man | phr | "Man of Healing" - Jesus. 2. a shaman, witch-doctor, faith-healer, medicine man. |
Man | phr | "Man/Woman of His/Her Day" - someone who is famous among his/her contemporaries. |
Man | phr | "Man/Woman of his Word" - someone who keeps promises and does as he/she says he/she will. |
Man | phr | "Man of Iron/Steel" - somebody with great strength of character. |
Man | phr | "Man of Means" - man of important and usually wealth. |
Man | phr | "Man of Mold - mortal man: man who become dust or mold again after death. |
Man | phr | "Man of Nothing to Do" - an idler, lay about. |
Man | phr | "Man Of One's Own Heart" - somebody exactly the kind one likes best , because he/she matches an ideal. |
Man | phr | "Man of One's Word" - one who sticks to her or her promises. |
Man | phr | "Man of Sin" - the Antichrist. |
Man | phr | "Man of Sorrows" - a name supposed to allude to the Messiah. |
Man | phr | "Man of Straw" - someone who is cowardly; weak-willed. 2. a man of small means. |
Man | phr | "Man of the Cloth" - a clergyman. |
Man | phr | "Man/Woman of the House" - the householder, esp. of a family home. |
Man | phr | "Man of the Old School" - somebody with traditional views. |
Man | phr | "Man/Woman of the World" - secular person. 2. a worldly-wise person. 3. a person well accustomed to the ways and dealings of men. 4. a sophisticated person. |
Man | phr | "Man of the Year" - somebody who has achieved fame or notoriety in a particular year. |
Man | phr | "Man of War" - a naval vessel armed for hostilities. 2. orig. a soldier. |
Man | phr | "Man of Wisdom" - in biblical sense a man in favor with God. 2. in a general sense: one who has the ability to think and act using knowledge, experience, common sense, and insight. |
Man | phr | "Man One Most Loves to Hate" - someone or somebody that one takes a positive pleasure in disliking, despising or criticizing. |
Man | phr | "Man Oneself" - to prepare or brace oneself, as for an ordeal. |
Man | phr | "Man or a Mouse" - brave, determined, as a man should be, or timid and evasive like a mouse. |
Man | phr | "Man's man" - a man who qualities are appreciated by other men. |
Man | phr | "Man's Meat" - women seduced ('food' for men). |
Man | phr | "Man to Man" - frank or candid discussion between men. 2. (honestly) on equal terms. |
Man | phr | "Man with an Axe" - the king of diamond in a deck of playing cards. |
Man | phr | "My Good Man" - a patronizing or impolite mode of address to a man. |
Man | phr | "My Man" - a person who can fulfill ones requirements, or with whom one has to do; specifically one's representative or envoy. |
Man | phr | "No Man's Land" - neutral ground between opposing forces or armies. |
Man | phr | "One's Own Man" - be totally independent. |
Man | phr | "One Own Man again" - to fully recover good health after a severe illness. |
Man | phr | "One's Right-hand Man" - trusted deputy or loyal aide or assistant. |
Man | phr | "The Brotherhood of Man" - whole of human society. |
Man | phr | "The Inner Man" - man's mind, soul, or nature. 2. jocular, in fun: the stomach or appetite of a man. |
Man | phr | "The Man" - slang phrase that may refer to government or some other authority. 2. any man or group in charge or in authority, a commanding officer, guard in a prison, a policeman, a boss. 3. the white ruling class (US Ebonics). 4. a dealer in drugs. 5. God. 6. self-praise to express one authority, 'I'm the Boss'. |
Man | phr | "The Man for Me" - one to whom I give my support, trust, love; often as an emphatic expression of approval. |
Man | phr | "The Outer Man" - the visible, external aspect of a person. |
Man | phr | "To a Man" -without exception, together, unanimously. |
Man | phr | 'Two Men and a Dog" - very few people. |
Man | phr | "May the Best Man Win" - I hope that the best person succeeds. |
Man | phr | "My Good Man" - impolite form of address made by somebody who regards himself/ herself as superior. |
Man | phr | "The Threefold Man" - according to the Jews, man consists of body, soul, and spirit. |
Man | phr | "The White Man's Burden" - colonial responsibilty. |
Man | phr | "You Can't Keep a Good Man Down" - a determined person will succeed. |
Man-about-town | n | A man who frequents night-clubs, theatres, restaurants, bars etc. 2. a sophisticate. |
Manath | n | Man oath. 2. false oath, perjury, --- modern form would be moan oath. |
Man-bane | n | An opprobrious name for tobacco and smoking, and its deleterious affect, often fatal, upon smokers. |
Man-born | adj | Born of man; human. |
Manbote | n | A sum paid under Old English law to the lord as a compensation for killing his vassal (man); also, similar compensation paid to the kin of a man murdered.. |
Man-box | n | Slang term for a coffin. |
Man-child | n | A male child. |
Man day | n | The amount of work that one person can do in one day, often considered to be the equivalent of eight man hours. |
Man-dealer | n | A slaver, slave-trader. |
Man deed | n | A wicked act or deed. |
Man-devil | n | Incubus. |
Mandom | n | The realm of the world of a man. |
Mandragora | n | The mandrake, especially a type of narcotic. |
Man-dream | n | Human joy, mirth; glee. |
Mane | n | The long hair along the top and sides of the neck of certain mammals, such as a horse, or a male lion. 2. a long thick growth of hair on a person's hair. |
Maneater | n | Cannibal, head-hunter. 2. a shark which attacks swimmers. 3. a tiger or any animals which attacks and kills humans. 4. a woman who treats men emotionally badly; a predatory woman. |
Man-eating | n | The act of man-eating in the various senses expressed in the noun 'maneater'. |
Maned | adj | Having a mane; having a long mane. |
Maned wolf | n | The largest canid of South America. |
Maneless | adj | Devoid of a mane; not having a mane. 2. slang: bald. |
Maneless | adj | The state or condition of not having a mane. 2. lacking or without a mane. |
Man-fearing | adj | Of animals that are fearful of man. 2. a woman meek and bashful in the presence of a man or men. |
Manfolk | n | Menfolk. |
Man friend | n | A male friend. 2. a male romantic partner. |
Manful | adj | Characterized by manly courage, resolution, bravery. 2. stately appearance; appearance befitting a man. 3. stout, bold. |
Manfully | adv | In a manful manner; in a manly way, resolutely, valiantly. |
Manfulness | n | In a manful state or condition: courage, bravery, boldness. |
Mang | vb | To mix, mung, mong, mingle. |
Manhandle | vb | To move something heavy by the force of a man or men; without the aid of a lever, pulleys, machinery or a tackle. 2. to control machinery,by means of one's own physical strength. 3.to physically jostle or strike a person; maltreat, mistreat, rough up. |
Man-hardy | adj | Brave, courageous, manly. |
Man-hater | n | A hater of mankind; misanthrope; also occasionally. a hater of the male sex. |
Man-hating | n | Misandry; a hater of the male sex. |
Manhead | n | State of being human. 2. condition of belonging to humanity. 3. human shape or form. 4. human nature. 5. quality of being human. 6. virility, manhood, courage, valor. 7. manly dignity; dignity of manhood. 8. homage. 9. humanity. humanness, kindness. |
Man-high | adj | A before Space Age U.S military project that took men in balloons to the middle layers of the stratisphere. |
Man hole | n | An opening through which a man may enter a sewer, drain, pit, tunnel etc. |
Manhood | n | State or condition of being human; human nature. 2. dignity of man. 3. state of being a man, as opposed to a child; as opposed to woman-hood. 4. qualities eminently becoming a man; manliness, courage, valor. 5. humanity, humanness. 6. homage. 7. men collectively. |
Manhunt | n | A hunt to recapture a person who has committed a crime or has escaped from prison. |
Man-hunter | n | Cannibal, man-eater, slave-dealer, brigand. 2. a woman, especially a widow or spinster. 2. an employment agency; a recruitment agency, |
Man-hunting | n | Organized searching for a criminal or an enemy. |
Manifold | adj | Various in kind, in quality,diverse. 2. many in number, numerous, multiple, multiple. 3. complicated. 4. exhibited at diverse times or in various ways. |
Manifold | vb | To make manifold, multiply. 2. to multiply or reproduce impressions of by a single operations. |
Manifoldly | adv | In a manifold manner or many-numbered ways. |
Manifoldness | n | Quality of being manifold, varied in character; multiplicity. 2. a general concept of magnitude. 3. diversity. |
Manifoldwise | adv | In various ways. |
Mankeen | adj | Of animals (rarely persons): inclined to attack men. 2. fierce, savage, wild. 2. of women: very fond of men 3. infuriated, furious, fierce, mad. |
Mankind | n | The human race, people, mankin. 2. human being generally. |
Manless | adj | Having no men, either in the sense of human beings or adult persons; without, folkless. 2. of a woman: lacking the company of men, having no husband or suitor. 3. unmanly, effeminate, inhuman. |
Manlessness | n | Cowardice. 2. of women: the state or condition of being without men; manless. |
Manlihead | n | The condition of being human, virility, courage, bravery. |
Manlihood | n | Virility, masculinity, machismo, vigor. 2. manliness. |
Manlike | adj | Resembling a human being in appearance or characteristics, an anthropoid. 2. (of a woman) having an appearance of, or qualities associated with men. 3. manly, belonging or proper to a man. |
Manlikely | adv | In the way of a man;or in a man like manner. |
Manlikeness | n | The quality or state of being like a man. 2. manfulness, courage, virility, baldness, strength. |
Manliness | n | Set of qualities, traits and abilities appropriate to man, similarity. 2. man-fullness, maleness, mannishness, manhood, manliness, masculinity, virility. |
Manling | n | A little man |
Manlock | n | A airlock through which pass workers into a chamber of compressed air, esp. in mines. |
Manly | adj | Having the character of a man. 2. having qualities befitting a man, courageous, resolute. |
Man-mad | adj | Of a woman: desirous of men. |
Man-made | adj | Not of natural origin. 2. prepared, fashioned or made artificially by man. 3. of textiles fibers made by man: synthetic. |
Man-mark | n | To mark an opposition closely. |
Man-midwife | n | A male midwife. |
Man-minded | adj | Having the mind of a man. |
Manned | adj | Operated by, performed by, or transporting a person; crewed; piloted. 2. operated by, performed by, or transporting a man |
Manning | n | The action of furnishing a ship with men. |
Mannish | n | Resembling or characteristic of a man in some aspect. 2. of a woman masculine in appearance or manner. |
Mannishly | adv | Of or relating to the manner of men. |
Mannishness | n | The condition of being mannish, manliness, or masculine. |
Man month | n | One person's working time fora month, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task. |
Man-of-God | n | A clergyman. 2. a saint. |
Man-of-law | n | Lawyer, solicitor, solon, counselor. |
Man of War | n | A warship, but referred to as 'she'. |
Man-of-the-Cloth | n | A clergyman. |
Man-of-the-world | adj | Secular person. |
Man-on-man | adj | Referring to a defensive paly where each player man-marks his opposing number. |
Man quell | n | Murder, killing, homicide.. |
Man-queller | n | Murderer, killer, slayer. |
Man-quelling | n | Homicide, murder. |
Manrede | n | Homage; note phrases: " to do or make manrede; to take, nim, or fang manrede." 2. vassals collectively: the men the lord can call upon in time of war, hence a supply of me for the purpose of war. 3. the position of a leader of fighting men; the conduct of an army. 4. carnal intercourse. |
Man-ridden | adj | Full of or oppressed by men |
Man rope | n | Each of the side ropes to a gangway or ladder of a ship. |
Man-selling | n | A slave-dealer; a slave-trader; a slaver. |
Man-shaped | adj | Resembling or like the shape of a man. |
Manship | n | Humanity, kindness, courtesy, civility. 2. position of honor or respect, dignity, worship, honor. 3. honor shown to a person: homage, respect, dignity. 3. manly spirit or conduct, gallantry, manliness, chivalry. 4. the characteristics of being a man' manliness, masculinity, manliness, manhood. 5. the human condition. |
Manship | vb | To denote skill in a subject or activity now so deployed to disconcert a rival or opponent. 2. used as a suffix in words such as "one-upmanship." |
Manship | sfx | A suffix denoting expertise, involvement, or special status in a particular field. |
Man-shy | adj | Of animals: fear of humans. 2. of a woman: shy in the company of men. |
Manslaught | n | Murder, homicide, manslaughter. |
Manslaughter | n | The killing or slaying of a person. 2. the unlawful killing of a man; either in negligence, incidental to the commission of some unlawful act, but without specific malice, or upon a sudden excitement of anger. |
Manslay | vb | To kill, murder, commit homicide. |
Manslayer | n | A killer, slayer, butcher. 2. one who kills or commits murder or manslaughter. 3. one who kills another person. 4. an executioner. |
Man's man | n | A man who is popular among men. |
Man's meat | n | "Food for men' (in an indecent sense): women who are seduced by men. |
Man's motherwort | n | Palma christi. |
Manspread | n | (Of a man) to splay one's legs open wide when sitting on public transport, thus occupying more than one seat. |
Manspreading | vb | The practice of men splaying their legs open wide when sitting on public transport, thus occupying more than one seat. |
Man's talk | n | A discussion between males as seen as inappropriate for female ears. Often it involves smutty jokes on discussions about sport. |
Man-stealing | n | The act or business of kidnapping human beings , esp. with a view to enslave them. |
Man-stopping | adj | Having force sufficient to stop a man's advance: said of a bullet. |
Manswear | vb | To swear falsely, perjure oneself. 2. to renounce on oath, forswear. |
Manswearing | n | Perjury, false swearing on oath. |
Mantle | n | (Fusion of OE. mentel and OF mantel, both from latin: cloak, towel, cloth) - foam that covers the surface of liquid. 2. the green vegetable coating on standing or stagnant water. ? |
Mantle | phr | The Mantle and the Maid" - a vow of chastity taken by a widow. |
Man-to-man | adj | Bluntly, candidly, directly, honestly, outright, forthright, plainly, unashamedly. |
Man-to-manness | n | The disposition of being candid, forthright or direct, etc. |
Manward(s) | adv | In relation to a man, pertaining to a man. 2. in the direction of a man. |
Man-whore | n | A male prostitute, gigolo, womanizer, libertine. |
Man-wickedness | n | The inhumanity of man to his fellow man. |
Man-wise | adj | The fashion or way of men. 2. in respect of a man. 3. concerning an individual men |
Man-witch | n | A male witch or warlock. |
Man-woman | n | A hermaphrodite, a mannish woman, one having the characteristics of both sexes, man-womanly. |
Man-womanly | adj | Having the characteristics of both sexes, or both man and woman. |
Manworth | n | The worth of man: nobleness, idealistically the way one treats and cares about others. 2. the monetary value of man himself. 3. man in an economic sense: his value as a wage-earner, consumer, spender. |
Manworthy | adj | The worthiness, goodness, nobleness of a man or men(collectively). 2. the humanity of man. |
Many | adj | OE. had a derivative "menige" that did not survive into ME. and though the modern use of many, though agreeing with the OE. form, was a new development which has not been found earlier than the C16th. |
Many | n | A collective mass of people. 2. an indefinite large number of people or things. 2. a multitude; a great aggregate; a mass of people; the generality; the common herd; considerable number. |
Many | prn | A collective mass of people. 2. a multitude, great aggregate, a mass of persons. 3. the generality, the common herd. 4. a considerable number. |
Many | phr | "A Few or One Too Many" - to much alcohol to drink. |
Many | phr | "A Good Many" - a large number. |
Many | phr | "A Great Many" - a large number. |
Many | phr | "As Many" - the same number of (six mistakes in as many lines) |
Many | phr | "As Many Again" - the same number additionally (sixty here and as many again). |
Many | phr | "Have One Too Many" - too many alcoholic drinks consumed. |
Many | phr | "Many a Long Day" - a very long period of time. |
Many | phr | "Many and Many" - (reduplication of many) a great amount; a lot or number of. |
Many | phr | "Many a Time" - many times, frequently. 2. many's the time. |
Many | phr | "Many a Time and Oft" - frequently. |
Many | phr | "Many and Many" - (reduplication of many) a great amount; a lot or number of. |
Many | phr | "Many are Called Few are Chosen" - although many persons may wish to qualify for entry into an elite or private group, only few will have the ability or good fortune to succeed. |
Many | phr | "Many Hands Make Light Work" - many helpers get a task completed more easily and quickly than one person working alone. |
Many | phr | "Many Men Many Minds" - there are as many opinions as there are men. |
Many | phr | "Many Moons Ago" - a long time ago, esp. referring to an earlier period of one's life. |
Many | phr | "Many Thanks to You" - an expression of gratitude, expressing greater gratitude than 'thank you' or 'thanks'. |
Many | phr | "Many's the Time" - frequently, often. |
Many | phr | "One Too Many for" - outwit, baffle. |
Many | phr | "The Many" - the multitude, the great body of people. 2. an indefinite large number of. |
Man-year | n | One person's working time for a year, or the equivalent, used as a measure of how much work or labor is required or consumed to perform some task. |
Manyfold | adj | Etymological identical with manifold, though rarely used in the same sense (= in the proportion of many to one.) |
Many-folds | n | The intestines (the tharms), from having many folds. |
Manyfull | adj | Abundant, plentiful, many in number. |
Many-headed | adj | Often applied derisively to people or the populace. |
Many-hede | n | A multitude; manyhood. |
Manyness | n | Plurality, many in number. |
Many-sided | adj | Multilateral, having many aspects, bearings, capabilities, possibilities. |
Many-sideness | n | Multilateral, having many sides, many possibilities. |
Many-where | adv | In many places. |
Maple | n | Any of the trees of the genus "Acer." 2. the common maple: "Acer campestre." |
Maple leaf | n | The emblem of Canada |
Maple-like | adj | Resembling a maple tree in some aspect of s one. |
Mar | n | Blemish, disfiguring mark, injury. |
Mar | vb | OE. to waste, squander (property) 2. to hamper, hinder, interfere with interruption or stoppage (person, event or thing.) 3. to spoil, impair with objective. 4. a material thing: to damage or render useless, to destroy or impair the quality of. 4. with immaterial object: to impair, fatally ruin. 5. to detract from the perfection or completeness of. 6. to become deteriorated, to spoil, to perish. 7. to harm, injure a person, to inflict destructive bodily harm upon; to mangle, disfigure. 8. to ruin, damage seriously (a person, his fortune.) 9. to ruin or damage morally, to spoil a child by indulgence. 10.to confuse, bewilder, perplex; to become bewildered or confused, . 11. to trouble, grieve, distress. 12. to err, go astray, falter. |
Mar | phr | "Make or Mar" - to make a success or complete failure, of an undertaking. |
Mar | phr | "To Mar All" - completely prevent successful business taking place. 2. to spoil all. |
March | n | Smallage or wild celery. |
March-day | n | A court held to try cases of infraction of border law. |
Marches | n | The OE mearc, a mark , border, as in Kent or Sussex marches. |
Marches | phr | "Riding the Marches" - beating the bounds of a parish. |
March-gate | n | A way across a frontier. 2. a border crossing. |
March-land | n | (Mearc-land) land comprising the marches or borders areas of a country. 2. the border territory, frontier land, the mark. |
March-man | n | An inhabitant of the marches or borders. |
Marchstone | n | A markstone: a stone set up to mark a boundary of an estate or area. |
Mardarse | n | A sulky, petulant, or grumpy person. Etymology OE: 'mar' & 'arse" |
Mare | n | The mother or dam of a horse. 2, a bricklayer's hod. |
Mare | n | A kind of goblin supposed to produce a nightmare by sitting on the chest of the sleeper. 2. the nightmare or elf-addle itself; the blues, melancholia. 3. a sphectre, hag. |
Mare | phr | "Away with the Mares" - off with the blue devils, goodbye to care. This mare is Incubus, called the nightmare. |
Mare | phr | "Shank's Mare' - one's own legs as a means of moving, walking etc. |
Mare | phr | "The Grey Mare Is The Better Horse" - the wife rules the husband. |
Mare | phr | "The Mares" - the blues, depression, melancholia. |
Mare | phr | Win the Mare or Lose the Halter" - all or nothing. |
Mare | phr | "Whose Mare is Dead" - what's the matter. |
Mare's-nest | n | (Horse's nest?) To imagine that one has found something wonderful, which in fact has no existence at all. Nb- "I have found a mare's nest." 2. an illusory discovery, esp. one that is much vaunted and displays foolish credulity. |
Mare's tail | n | A kind of cirrus cloud. 2. a waterfall. 3. a a marsh plant of the genus Hippuris. |
Mar-good | n | The state or condition where good or good intentions are prevent or spoiled by hypocrisy, dishonesty, betrayal, etc. 2. mar-right. |
Mark | n | A boundary, frontier, limit. 2. of immaterial things: a limit or precise boundary, line or point. 3. an object indicting a boundary, position etc., a visible mark or something marked. 4. a pillar, post, stone, fence to indicate a position of a boundary. 5. a stone or other monument set up or standing as a memorial or guide. 6. a standard or banner. 7. target for shooting or throwing at. 8 quarry of a hawk. 9. pit of the stomach (slang) 10. a boxer's object at which a blow is aimed. 11. a soft or easy mark. 12. a denomination or monetary unit of gold or silver. |
Mark | vb | To put a mark upon; to make recognizable by a mark. 2. to indicate in some way for later reference. 3. to take note of. 4. to blemish, scratch, or stain. 5. to indicate the correctness of and give a score to an essay, exam answers, etc. 6. to keep account of; to enumerate and register. 7. (in Australian Rules football) to catch the ball directly from a kick of 15 metres or more without having been touched in transit, resulting in a free kick. 8. (sports) to follow a player not in possession of the ball when defending, to prevent them receiving a pass easily. 9. (golf) to put a marker in the place of one's ball. 10. (singing) to sing softly, and perhaps an octave lower than usual, in order to protect one's voice during a rehearsal. |
Mark | phr | "A Marked Man" - one whose conduct is watched with hostile intent. 2. one who is kept in mind as an object for suspicion or vengeance. |
Mark | phr | "A Soft Mark" - a credulous person; a dope, dupe. |
Mark | phr | "Be First Off the Mark" - to start ahead of all others. |
Mark | phr | "Besides/Off the Mark" - off the point of discussion; pointless. |
Mark | phr | "Bless the Mark" - ejaculation of deprecation, irony scorn, derision, or irony or humorous surprize. |
Mark | phr | "First Off the Mark" - to be first to start or do something. 2. to behave proactively. |
Mark | phr | "Get Full Marks" - receive great praise. |
Mark | phr | "Get Off the Mark" - begin doing something quickly. |
Mark | phr | "Hit the Mark" - to be accurate, understand the most important issues involved. |
Mark | "phr | "Leave One's Mark on" - leave a lasting impression; especially to achieve apparent success. |
Mark | phr | "Make One's Mark" - distinguish oneself, leave an impression. |
Mark | phr | "Man of Mark" - an eminent person. |
Mark | phr | "Mark and Sweep " - (computing) a form of garbage collection in which every accessible object in memory is flagged, leaving unflagged only those that are no longer reachable and can thus be discarded. |
Mark | phr | "Mark Down" - to reduce the price of. 2. to write a memorandum about. 3. to subtract marks (points) for an error. 4. to write down. |
Mark | phr | "Mark Down" - choose, especially as deserving of censure or punishment. |
Mark | phr | "Mark for Life" - wound or injure somebody so severely that he/she is permanently scarred. |
Mark | phr | "Mark In" - add details to a document, sign, etc. |
Mark | phr | "Mark My Words" - listen to me, used in a statement one wishes to emphasize. |
Mark | phr | "Mark Off" - to separate by or as with a boundary, line, delineate. 2. to indicate as dealt with, as on a list; check off. |
Mark | phr | "Mark of Gold or silver" - a hallmark. |
Mark | phr | "Mark Out" - draw the internal dividing lines with a space, as windows on a drawing of a wall,etc. |
Mark | phr | "Mark Out (for)" - decide in advance that somebody will succeed. |
Mark | phr | "Mark Time" - to march in place, while still in step with the beat. 2. fig. to stop making progress or advancement, if only temporarily. |
Mark | phr | "Mark Up" - to increase the price of something before it's wholesale and retail phase. 2. increase the marks awarded to a student etc. 3, prepare a manuscript for a printer by making acorrections, inserting new material.to add coding to text so that it will display properly on a computer. |
Mark | phr | "Mark You"/"Mind You"" - all the same, even so. 2. let me remind you (and myself). 3. nevertheless; all / just the same. 4. at the same time. |
Mark | phr | "Miss the Mark" - be inaccurate, fail to understand the most important issues in a matter. |
Mark | phr | "Near the Mark" - risque, somewhat or bordering on obscene. |
Mark | phr | "Off the Mark" - having made a start. 2. inaccurate, wrong. |
Mark | phr | "Of Great Mark" - of great importance, very important. |
Mark | phr | "Of Little Mark" - of little importance. |
Mark | phr | "Of Some Mark" - of a person or thing: noteworthy, important, conspicuous. |
Mark | phr | "On Your Mark" - get ready to start (a race, exam,, etc). |
Mark | phr | "Overstep the Mark" - to go too far; overshoot the mark. 2. go beyond the bounds of good taste or behavior. 3. exceed what is required. |
Mark | phr | "Quick off the Mark" - fast to act or react. |
Mark | phr | "Short of the Mark" - fall short of the mark. 2. not to perform to expectation. |
Mark | phr | "Slow off the Mark" - slow to act or react. |
Mark | phr | "Soft Mark" - a person who is easily persuaded or deceived. 2. an easy mark, dupe, gormless person. |
Mark | phr | "The Marks of Gods" - (God's marks) : an apparition betokening an impending death. |
Mark | phr | "Toe the Mark" - line up abreast of others. 2. to fall in , do one's duty. 3. fulfill one's commitments. |
Mark | phr | "Under the Mark" - under par. 2. not up to the mark. 2. fig. below the reuired or minimal standard. |
Mark | phr | "Up to the Mark" - meeting the required or right standard. |
Mark | phr | "Wide of the Mark" - far from the target; inaccurate; wrong. 2. fig. inadequate, far from what is required or expected; wrong. |
Mark | phr | "Within the Mark" - meeting or near to the required standard. 2. a fixed or agreed standard. 3. prefixed; fig. representing a limit or total. 3. an approximate. |
Mark-down | n | A reduction in price of an article; a selling price which has been reduced. ( the opposite of mark-up) |
Marked | adj | Noticeable, noted, clear, decided, evident, apparent, distinct, pronounced. 2. having a visible mark. |
Markedly | adv | In a marked manner, distinctly, noticeably, conspicuously. |
Marked-man | n | One whose conduct is watched with hostile intent. 2. one who is kept in mind as an object for suspicion or vengeance. |
Markedness | n | The condition or quality or state of being marked. |
Marker | n | In linguistics a construction or form etc., distinguished or determined by a particular feature. 2. a markling: a word, affix, etc., which distinguishes or determines the class or function of the form, construction etc., with which it is used. |
Marker bed | n | In geology, a rock unit with a distinctive stratigraphic features which can be traced over a wide area. |
Markerless | adj | Without a marker. |
Market board | n | A white board. |
Market | n | (Old English borrowing) - a place where merchandise is exposed for sale, specifically, an open area or space, or a large building in a town or city, generally with stalls or designated positions occupied by different dealers, especially such a place for the sale of provisions ; also a market place or stead. 2. |
Market | vb | To make something a commercial product. 2. to take part in a commercial promotion, sale or distribution. 3. to deal at market. 4. to buy various goods, products at at market. |
Market | phr | "Be in the Market (for)" - have an interest in buying. |
Market | phr | "Bring to Market" - offer for sale. |
Market | phr | "Come Into/Onto the Market" - to be put up for sale, as a house. |
Market | phr | "Find a Market" - to be in demand. |
Market | phr | "Go to Market" - make an attempt at something. |
Market | phr | "In the Market for" - wish to buy. |
Market | phr | "Make a Market" - the degree to which an asset or security can be quickly bought. |
Market | phr | "Make Market" - to trade, buy, sell. 2. having dealings with. |
Market | phr | "Make One's Market" - to do dealing or bargaining. |
Market | phr | "On the Market." -- be readied and offered for sale; up for sale. |
Market | phr | "Put Into/Onto Market" - make a matter of bargain and sale. |
Market | phr | "Run Before One's Horse to Market": to count one's gain before the bargain is made or to count one's chickens before they are hatched." |
Market | phr | "The Market" - an economy of a State or country. 2. the global economy. 3. the customers, clients, consumers, spenders, collectively. 4. the stock market. |
Market bell | n | The bell rung to give notice that the buying and selling in a market has begun. |
Market day | n | A day when a market is open for business. 2. a fixed day on which weekly markets are held. |
Market-friendship | n | Friendship in business. |
Market-house | n | A building in which the market is held. |
Marketing | n | The action or process of advertising, promoting goods and services for sales. 2. the act of buying and selling in the market. |
Marketless | adj | A place without a market |
Market-like | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a market. |
Market-maker | n | A person or company taht undertakes a to quote at all times both a buying and selling price for a financial institution. |
Market-monger | n | One who trades his wares at a market. 2. one who engrosses the market. |
Market-ripe | adj | Not quite ripe; said of slightly unripe fruit picked to reach the market in salable condition. |
Market share | n | A percentage of some market held by a company. |
Marketstead | n | A market place |
Market-talk | n | Gossip, rumour, allegory. |
Market | adj | "Market-to-Market" - (finance, accounting) Assigning a value to an asset equal to the current market price of the asset or one calculated based on related standardised assets for which there is a market. |
Market town | n | A town that has traditional right to hold a regular market. |
Marketwide | adj | Through a market. |
Marketwide | adv | Through a market. |
Marking | n | The action of the verb 'the act of making a mark.' 2. the characteristic colouration and patterning of an animal. 3. a mark or an arrangement of marks; characteristic coloring. |
Marking knife | n | A joiner's setting-out knife. It is usually about 8ins long with a point at one end and a knife at the other. |
Markings | n | The pattern of coloration of a particular animal. |
Markless | adj | Without a mark or mark; impeccable. |
Markmoot | n | A (supposed) assembly of the inhabitants of the Moot (name in medieval Germany applied to a tract of land held in common by a village community, and sometimes applied to Anglo-Saxon society and times. |
Marksman | n | One skilled in hitting the mark, as with a rifle or other weapon. 2. sharpshooter, rifle expert. |
Marksmanship | n | The quality, art or function of shooter. |
Markstone | n | A boundary stone, a marker, monument. |
Mark-up | n | The amount added by a retailer to the cost of the price of goods to cover overhead charges and provide profit. 2. the raising of price. 3. |
Mark-white | n | The bulls-eye of a target. |
Markworthy | adj | Worthy of note, worthy-marked. |
Marmstone | n | Marble, a block or slab of marble. |
Marred | adj | Spoiled, changed, damaged, injured, impaired. |
Marredness | n | The state of being marred or spoiled. |
Mar-right | adj | Having no good, evil, ill-intended. |
Marrow | n | Soft vascular tissue in the central cavities of bone; bone-marrow. 2. the interior substance of anything; essence, pith. 3. as bone containing edible in |
Marrow | phr | "Chilled to the Marrow" - very cold. |
Marrow | phr | "Marrow Bone and Cleavers" -an unusual name for a hotel run by an ex-butcher. |
Marrow | phr | "Melt the Marrow" - (in the proverbial and hyperbole) - love was said to 'melt the marrow'. |
Marrow | phr | "The Marrows" - the knees (jocular). 2. the fists as weapons. 3. pugilists (collectively) |
Marrow | phr | "To the Marrow" - right through. |
Marrow-bone | n | A bone containing edible marrow. 2. jocularly -- the knees (or, 'the marrows'). 3. the piratical crossbones. |
Marrow-boneish | adj | REsembling or characteristic of marrow-bone. |
Marrow-boneless | adj | Destitute of marrow-bone. |
Marrow-boney | adj | Pertaining or resembling the marrow-bone. |
Marrowed | adj | (Lit, & fig.) full of marrow. |
Marrow-fat | n | A large, rich pea. |
Marrowiness | n | A pithy state or condition. 2. the truth, known through the fulfillment of a promise kept. |
Marrowish | adj | Of the nature or resembling marrow. |
Marrowy | adj | Full of marrow. 2. of the nature of marrow. |
Marsh | n | A low-lying, soft, wetland with vegetation covering it. 2. a fen, miry swamp, morass. 2. in Australia, a drained meadow. |
Marshal | n | OE. Mare & shalk: a servant, one who looks after horses. 2. an officer of the highest rank of the armed forces of some countries. 2. a federal or municipal law-enforcement officer. |
Marshal | vb | To assemble and arrange (a group of people, esp. troops) in order. |
Marshaler | n | One who assembles and arranges (a group of people, esp. troops) in order. |
Marshalling | n | The act of assembles and arranges (a group of people, esp. troops) in order. |
Marshalship | n | The position or role of a marshal. |
Marsh hen | n | The moor hen. |
Marshiness | n | The state or condition of being marshy. |
Marshland | phr | Marshy land, a fen or a bog. |
Marshlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a marsh. |
Marshmallow | n | ????A plant of the mallow family, "Althaea officinalis" growing in marshy places. 2. a sweetmeat formerly made from the root of this plant; now a confection made of starch, corn syrup and gelatin, coated with powdered sugar. |
Marshmallowy | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a marshmallow. 2. over-accommodating. 3. vacuous. |
Marshside | adj | Besides or situation beside a marsh. |
Marsh thistle | n | A biennial or perennial herb - Cirsium palustre. |
Marshwort | n | The umbelliferous plant "Helosciadum nodiflorous." |
Marshy | adj | Pertaining to or the nature of a marsh. 2. consisting of or containing marshes or marshland. |
Martyr | n | One who suffers from the sake of his principles and beliefs. 2. one who willingly dies rather than renounces his religious beliefs. |
Martyr | vb | To torture, persecute and torment another because of his religious beliefs. |
Martyr | phr | "Be a Martyr" - suffer because of. |
Martyr | phr | "Make a Martyr of" - to subject to hardship or inconvenience. |
Martyr | phr | "Make a Martyr of Oneself" - to make a real or pretended sacrifice of own self or interest, for the sake of gaining credit for. |
Martyr-death | n | Death through martyrdom. |
Martyrdom | n | The state of being a martyr. 2. the death of a martyr. 3. the death, sacrifice, suffering of a martyr on account of his or her adherence to a belief, faith or any cause. 4. affliction, torment, torture. 5. the state of one who has willingly died rather than renounce his religious beliefs |
Martyred | adj | To be martyred; die a martyr's death. |
Martyrer | n | One condemns another to be martyred. 2. one who puts a martyr to death. |
Martyr-fire | n | The fire of martyrdom (lit & fig.) |
Martyring | n | The act of putting a martyr to death. |
Martyrish | adj | Having the airs of a martyr. |
Martyr-like | adj | Characteristic of or resembling a martyr |
Martyrly | adv | To die in the manner of a martyr. |
Martyrship | n | The status of a martyr. |
Martyry | adj | Martyrdom; suffering the torment, torture and death of a martyr. |
Mary | n | The mother of Jesus. |
Marymass | n | The festival of the Virgin Mary. |
Mash | n | In brewing, malt mixed with hot water to form wort. 2. a mixture of boiled grains. 3. something reduced to a softy pulpy consistence, by heating or mixing or steeping in water. 4. a confused muddle, hash. 5. a state of being reduced by a soft mash. 6. in wine-making the crushed grapes before fermentation. 7. (slang) a person on whom one is "mashed" or completely infatuated. |
Mash | vb | To mix malt with hot water in brewing. 2. to brew ale, beer and some other alcoholic drinks. 3. to infuse tea. 4. to lixiviate. 5. to beat into a soft pulp or soft mass. 6. to pound or stomp one's way. 7. to admit of being crushed. 8. to reduce food to a homogenous mass. 9. to mix, mingle. |
Masher | n | One who or that which mashes. 2. a man who who persistently annoys women unaquainted with him , as by attempting familiarity. |
Mashwort | n | Wort, infused malt, mash fat. |
Maslin | n | A kind of brass. |
Mask | n | OE. a net |
Masker | vb | OE. malscrian: proud. 2. to bewilder, confuse, to be bewildered. |
Maskering | n | Bewilderment, confusion. |
Masking | n | Bewildering, confusing. 2. netting, ensnaring, trammeling. |
Mass | n | The eucharistic service. 2. the celebration of the Eucharistic. |
Mass-bell | n | A bell that calls person to mass. |
Mass-day | n | A feast day celebrating the mass. |
Mass-goer | n | One who goes to or attends mass. |
Mass-time | n | The time of commencement of the mass. |
Mast | n | Any large upright pole. 2. a pole of round timber or tubular iron, set upright in a sailing vessel to sustain the yard. 3. a large, upright pole. |
Mast | phr | "At Half Mast" - of trousers (loose, baggy and threatening to fall down). |
Mast | phr | "Before the Mast." serving as a common sailor on a navy ship, from the fact that common sailors were quartered before the foremast. |
Mast | n | The fruit of the oak, the beech and other trees, acorns. 2. fodder, feed. |
Mast | vb | To feed animals on mast; to fatten. 2. to feed oneself gluttonously |
Master | n | Late OE. (a borrowing from OF.) one having control or authority,' from Latin magister. 2. chief, head, director, teacher. |
Master | vb | To control, direct, lead. |
Master | phr | "Be the Master of" - to possess, have at one's disposal(now usually something immaterial thing). 2. to have 'the mastery' or thorough knowledge of. |
Master | phr | "Master of One's Own House" - in fact, as well as in name, the head of one's own household, who decisions must be accepted. |
Master | phr | "Master of Oneself" - have oneself under control. |
Master | phr | "Master of the Horse" - an official attached to the royal household in Britain. |
Master | phr | "One's Lord and Master" - one's husband. |
Master | phr | "The Master" - Christ. |
Master-at-Arms | n | A police officer on board a warship. |
Master-bedroom | n | A room in a house, in which the head of the house sleeps, |
Master-bough | n | The main or strongest bough of a tree. 2. (fig)a main, chief or strongest support or basic of something. |
Master-builder | n | A builder with a high level of training and qualification, who has charge and responsibility for construction of buildings, esp. houses. |
Mastercraft | n | A craft, trade or occupation building or creating the highest quality and best performing products. 2. politic dealing characteristic of a master. |
Mastercraftsman | n | A master of a specific trade or craft who may train and employ apprentices. 2. a craftsman, building, making or creating the highest quality and best performing products. |
Masterdom | n | Borrowed from Latin, the office of a master or teacher; the degree of master of divinity. 2. position of being master, dominion, rule, absolute command, supremacy. 3. victory in battle, power of control, masterful behavior. |
Mastered | adj | Tp reach a high level of competency in some field or pursuit. |
Masterer | n | One who masters or controls, directs something or someone. |
Masterful | adj | Having supreme skill and ability. |
Masterfully | adv | In a very skillful manner, imperiously. |
Masterfulness | n | Quality of being masterful. |
Masterhand | n | One skilled in his craft; an expert. 2. an expert. 3. great skill; expertness. |
Masterhood | n | State of being masterful. |
Masterhood | phr | Patronage. |
Master-key | n | A key designed to open a set of several locks; a passkey. |
Masterless | adj | Having no mastery of animals. 2. deprived of a controlling hand or influence. |
Masterlike | adj | Resembling or characteristic of a master, masterly. |
Masterliness | n | The quality of being masterly. |
Masterling | n | One who has the power of a master, conqueror, chief. |
Masterly | adv | with a masterly manner. |
Masterman | n | A chief, leader, the head of the family; a husband. 2. a person skilled in some craft or art. |
Mastermind | n | A person with an extraordinary intellect or skill, that is markedly superior to his or her peers. 2. a person responsible for the highest level of planning and execution of a major operation. 3. an organizer; an instigator. |
Mastermind | vb | To act in the role of a mastermind: control and organize.. |
Mastermindful | adj | Characteristic of a mastermind. |
Masterness | n | The state or quality of being or acting as a master. |
Mastership | n | The condition of being a masterful ruler; dominion, rule, ascendancy, control. 2. mastery; upper hand. 3. the authority of a master or teacher. 4. office, term, dignity of a master 5. a district of a master. 6. a school master. 7. skill and knowledge constituting a master. 9. mastery through knowledge. 10. a degree of a recognized universal. 11. a body of master workmen. |
Mastership | phr | Patronage, protection. |
Master-stroke | n | A very skillful and opportune act. 2. a mastery action or achievement. 3. an extremely skillful or effective action. 4. an outstanding and timely action. |
Master-wave | n | A huge wave powerful enough to knock an adult off their feet. |
Masterwork | n | A masterpiece. |
Masterworkman | n | A skilled workman, craftsman, or artist; also, a foreman or overseer over workmen. |
Masterwort | n | After German meisterwurz: "Peucedanum (Imperatoris ) Ostruthium. |
Mastery | adj | What masters, subdues or controls. |
Masthead | n | The top of a lower mast. 2. the head or top of a mast to which a flag is raised. 3. a sailor acting as the look-out at the masthead. 4. that section of a newspaper or other periodical, published in each edition, stating the ownership, officers and staff conducting it, the advertising, editorial and publishing offices. |
Masthead | vb | To raise to or display at the masthead as a flag. 2. to send to the masthead for punishment. |
Masty | adj | Producing mast. 2. of a swine: fattened. 3. burly, big-bodied |
Mat | n | A flat piece of coarse material used for wiping one’s feet, or as a decorative or protective floor covering. 2. small flat piece of material used to protect a surface from anything hot or rough; a coaster. 3. thickly tangled mess. 4. thick paper or paperboard border used to inset and center the contents of a frame. 5. thin layer of woven, non-woven, or knitted fiber that serves as reinforcement to a material. 6. (gaming) a material or component needed for a crafting recipe. |
Mat | vb | To tangle, entwine, knit together, weave a various kinds of fibre. |
Match | n | One of an associated pair; well-matched or accordant pair. 2. a husband or wife, a mate, consort, lover. 3. one equal in age, rank, status; having a match or equal. 4. an opponent, rival, antagonist, as in "meet one's match;" "more than a match for;" or "above one's match" 5. a suitable conjunction or pairing. 6. a matrimonial compact or alliance. 7. to make or arrange a match. 8. to bring about a marriage by influence or contrivance. |
Match | vb | To join one to another; to join in marriage. 2. to pair with view to fitness or suitability. 3. to be equal with. 4. meet in adversity, front. |
Match | phr | "Above One's Match" - of a partner or prospective partner above one's social level. 2. above one level or standard of skill and ability in a contest or competition. |
Match | phr | "Be a Match for Somebody" - be equal to in ability. |
Match | phr | "By Match" - in consequence of a marriage. |
Match | phr | "Find One's Match" - meet a person you consider suitable for marriage; find a compatible partner. 2. someone who, or something that is equal to or suitable for one in various senses. |
Match | phr | "Match Against/With" - set somebody or something in competition against; pit against. |
Match | phr | "Make a Match" - find one's partner. 2. bring about a marriage by influence or contrivance. |
Match | phr | "Match Made in Hell" - a marriage that is likely to be unhappy or abusive and unsuccessful because the two persons are very incompatible with each other. 2. a very unsuccessful or conflicting combination of two persons or things. |
Match | phr | "Match up" - fit together to form a pleasing ensemble, or a complete and intelligible whole. |
Match | phr | "Meet One's Match" - deal with somebody who is able, capable as oneself. |
Match | phr | "More than a Match for" - to be able to overcome or defeat; be better than. 2. a matching of adversity. |
Match | phr | "Needle Match" - a contest in which both contestants are eager to win. |
Match | phr | "Whole Shooting Match" - the whole lot. |
Match board | n | Thin board grooved and tongued at edges to fit into other board similarly cut. |
Match-broker | n | A matchmaker; match-monger, match monger, dating agent. |
Match day | n | The day of a sporting match. 2. the day graduating medical-school students find out where they will serve their residency. |
Matched | adj | A thing of a mutually suitable characteristic. 3. someone who, or something that is equal or suitable in various senses. 3. having a tongue on one edge and a groove on the other; said of boards. |
Matcher | n | A matchmaker, match-monger. 2. one who pairs with view to fitness and suitably. |
Matchless | adj | Unmarried, nubile, that is not a match or pair. 2. having no match, with an equal; peerless; without peer. |
Matchlessly | adv | In a matchless manner or degree. |
Matchlessness | n | State of being matchless. |
Matchmake | vb | To plot or contrive a marriage; to arrange a marriage; to be involved in matchmaking. |
Matchmaker | n | One who arranges marriages; a match-monger, matchmonger, matchbroker. |
Match-making | n | The action of bringing about or arranging a marriage. 2. one who professionally brings about or negotiates marriages. 3. one who schemes in arranging a marriage for political or financial reasons. |
Match-monger | n | A match-maker, match-broker, one who arranges marriages either as a culture norm or professionally. |
Match-play | n | In golf a form of competitive play in which the score is computed by totaling the number of holes won or lost by each side. |
Match winner | n | In a sport, a player who enables his or team to win matches. |
Match-winning | adj | That wins or causes matches to be won. |
Matchy-matchy | adj | Excessively color-coordinated. |
Math | n | A mowing, or that obtained by mowing, now rare except in 'aftermath'. |
Mathele | n | A talker, a gossiper, chatterer, a female chatterer. |
Mathom | n | From Old English māþum (“treasure, object of value, jewel, ornament, gift” . 2. a trinket, or piece of bric-brac, knic-knack, often used in regifting. |
Matlock | n | An instrument or tool, shaped like a pick-axe, used for loosening the soil in digging. |
Matted | adj | Tangled, entwined, knotted, woven. 2. covered with a mat as to protect. |
Mattedly | adv | In a matted manner. |
Matting | n | A mat. 2. a collection of ground covering. 3. a coarse fabric of a kind, used to make mats. |
Mattock | n | An instrument or tool, shaped like a pick-axe, used for loosening the soil in digging. |
Matty | adj | Matted. |
Maugh | n | OE. maegh: kinsman. 2. OE: boy, young man, knave. 3. a near male relative by marriage: a brother-in-law; son-in-law. |
Maund | adj | A wicker or other woven basket. 2. a basketful or a measure of capacity, varying from locality and commodity. Nb: " a hop-mound." -- a vessel used in breweries. |
Maw | n | The stomach. This word now signifies the stomach of birds and animals, but formerly meant that of a human being. 2. the cavity of the stomach (now used only in ludicrous sense). 3. the last of the four stomachs of a ruminant. 4. the belly, gullet. throat. 5. the womb, liver, the innermost recesses of the body. 6. (metaphorically): voracity, gluttony, appetite. 8. the honey making apparatus of a bee. 9. the crop of a bird. 10. " to chaw one's maw." -- to fret internally." |
Maw-bound | adj | In Cheshire, a phrase, meaning costiveness, constipation. |
Maw-gut | n | Duodenum. |
Maw-mother | n | A woman experiencing false conception, false pregnancy or moon-calf. |
Maw-motherness | n | The condition or state of a woman suffering from a false-pregnancy. |
Maw-seed | n | Poppy-seed. |
Maw-worm | n | A thread-worm found in the gut. |
May | vb | Verb used to express possibility, permission, contingency, concession, purpose, result. 2. wish or a prayer. 3. power, ability, to be able, now can. |
May | n | A son, boy, a male relative, kinsman. |
May | n. | A girl, a maiden, a sweetheart (from the A.S. Maeg). |
May | phr | "Be That As It May" - having taken into account. |
May | phr | "May as Well Do (Something)" - considering the circumstances, it is reasonable to do something. 2. no harm will come from doing something. |
May | phr | "May I Ask What?" - a rhetorical question, sometimes merely a formal accompaniment to a query, but often ironic, challenging or dismissive. |
May | phr | "May possibly, or probably, be or do something. |
May | phr | "May Well Be" - may possibly, or probably, be or do something. 2. could, might well be. |
May | phr | "One May as Well Be Hanged for a Sheep as a Lamb" - if the penalty for a more serious crime, offence, act of foolishness, etc is no greater that that for a less serious one, the one maty as well continuein one's criminal, foolish etc behavior. |
May | phr | "One May Well Ask" - one is reasonably, or entirely justified, in asking, wondering. |
Maybe | n | Something that is possibly true. 2. an answer that shows neither agreement nor disagreement. 3. a future event that may or may not happen. |
Maybe | adj | Possible, uncertain, |
Maybe | adv | Modifies a verb, indicating a lack of certainty. 2. possibly, perhaps true; mayhaps, might be. |
Maybe | phr | "And I Don't Mean Maybe" - I mean what I say. |
Maybe | phr | "That's as Maybe" - this maybe so. |
Mayfall | adv | Perhaps; what maybe a possibility; which are possibility to come; random, at random, randomly. |
Mayth | n | Family, kin, tribe, race. |
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