Index of English words, starting with "ma"

(1) - Machinate (v. t.) To contrive, as a plot; to plot; as, to machinate evil.
(2) - Machinate (v. i.) To plan; to contrive; esp., to form a scheme with the purpose of doing harm; to contrive artfully; to plot.

(1) - Machination (n.) That which is devised; a device; a hostile or treacherous scheme; an artful design or plot.
(2) - Machination (n.) The act of machinating.

(1) - Machinator (n.) One who machinates, or forms a scheme with evil designs; a plotter or artful schemer.

(1) - Machine (v. t.) To subject to the action of machinery; to effect by aid of machinery; to print with a printing machine.
(2) - Machine (n.) Supernatural agency in a poem, or a superhuman being introduced to perform some exploit.
(3) - Machine (n.) A political organization arranged and controlled by one or more leaders for selfish, private or partisan ends.
(4) - Machine (n.) A combination of persons acting together for a common purpose, with the agencies which they use; as, the social machine.
(5) - Machine (n.) A person who acts mechanically or at will of another.
(6) - Machine (n.) Any mechanical contrivance, as the wooden horse with which the Greeks entered Troy; a coach; a bicycle.
(7) - Machine (n.) In general, any combination of bodies so connected that their relative motions are constrained, and by means of which force and motion may be transmitted and modified, as a screw and its nut, or a lever arranged to turn about a fulcrum or a pulley about its pivot, etc.; especially, a construction, more or less complex, consisting of a combination of moving parts, or simple mechanical elements, as wheels, levers, cams, etc., with their supports and connecting framework, calculated to constitute a prime mover, or to receive force and motion from a prime mover or from another machine, and transmit, modify, and apply them to the production of some desired mechanical effect or work, as weaving by a loom, or the excitation of electricity by an electrical machine.