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199 malentendu
mains froides, coeur chaud [Fr], cold hands, warm heart.
maintien [Fr], maintenance; preservation; also, behavior.
maintiens le droit [Fr], maintain the right.
maiores pennas nido [L], wings greater than the nest (i.e., soaring
above the position in which one was born): Horace.
maire [Fr], mayor.
mairie [Fr], mayoralty; town hall.
maison [Fr], house; residence; establishment; firm. —maison d'arrêt,
prison. —maison de campagne, country house (or seat). —maison
de chasse, shooting lodge (or box). —maison de force, jail; house of
correction. —maison de rendez-vous, house of assignation. —maison
de santé, private hospital or asylum; sanatorium. —maison de ville,
town house; city residence. —maison meublée (or garnie), furnished
house.
maître [Fr], master. —maître d'armes, fencing master. —maître de
danse, dancing master. —maître des hautes oeuvres, hangman: jocose.
—maître d'hotel, head steward; hotel keeper. —maître Jacques, jack
of all work; factotum.
maîtresse [Fr], mistress; sweetheart; also, teacher; landlady.
maîtrise [Fr], mastery; control. —maîtrise de soi-même, self-control.
maiusculae [L], large or capital letters, as in early Latin MSS.; majuscules;
uncials: paleog. Cf. MINUSCULAE.
makanan [Malay], dinner,
μακάριόν εστίν μάλλον διδόνοα ή λαμβάνειν [Gr; makárión estin mâllon
didónai hë lambánein], it is more blessed to give than to receive: Acts
xx. 35.
makimono (Jap], a scroll picture mounted on a roll, containing a series
of pictures arranged horizontally. Cf. KAKEMONO.
mal [Fr], evil; injury; misfortune; disease; sickness. —mal de dents,
toothache. —mal de mer, seasickness. —mal de tête, headache.
—mal du pays, homesickness; nostalgia.
malade [Fr], adj. sick; ill; unwell; diseased; n. sick person; invalid.
—malade imaginaire, imaginary invalid.
maladie [Fr], sickness; illness; disease. —maladie noir, hypochondria.
maladresse [Fr], awkwardness; tactless behavior; blunder.
mala fide [L], in bad faith; treacherously: opposite of bona fide.
mala fides [L], bad faith: opposite of bona fides.
malahini [Hawa], newcomer to Hawaii.
malaise [Fr], uneasiness; indisposition; vague, premonitory feeling of
discomfort.
mala praxis [NL], malpractice.
mal à propos [Fr], ill-timed; unseasonable; out of place.
malchik [Russ; pi. malchikee], boy.
mal entendu [Fr], ill-conceived; ill-managed; misunderstood.
malentendu [Fr], misunderstanding; misconception; mistake.