Index of English words, starting with "ma"

(1) - Mammoth (a.) Resembling the mammoth in size; very large; gigantic; as, a mammoth ox.
(2) - Mammoth (n.) An extinct, hairy, maned elephant (Elephas primigenius), of enormous size, remains of which are found in the northern parts of both continents. The last of the race, in Europe, were coeval with prehistoric man.

(1) - Mammy (n.) A child's name for mamma, mother.

(1) - Man (v. t.) To wait on as a manservant.
(2) - Man (v. t.) To furnish with a servants.
(3) - Man (v. t.) To tame, as a hawk.
(4) - Man (v. t.) To furnish with strength for action; to prepare for efficiency; to fortify.
(5) - Man (v. t.) To supply with men; to furnish with a sufficient force or complement of men, as for management, service, defense, or the like; to guard; as, to man a ship, boat, or fort.
(6) - Man (n.) One of the piece with which certain games, as chess or draughts, are played.
(7) - Man (n.) One, or any one, indefinitely; -- a modified survival of the Saxon use of man, or mon, as an indefinite pronoun.
(8) - Man (n.) A married man; a husband; -- correlative to wife.
(9) - Man (n.) A term of familiar address often implying on the part of the speaker some degree of authority, impatience, or haste; as, Come, man, we 've no time to lose!
(10) - Man (n.) An adult male servant; also, a vassal; a subject.
(11) - Man (n.) One possessing in a high degree the distinctive qualities of manhood; one having manly excellence of any kind.
(12) - Man (n.) The male portion of the human race.
(13) - Man (n.) The human race; mankind.
(14) - Man (n.) Especially: An adult male person; a grown-up male person, as distinguished from a woman or a child.
(15) - Man (n.) A human being; -- opposed tobeast.