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] 1. Pertaining to, or like,
macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused;
jumbled.

2. Of or pertaining to the burlesque
composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.

Mac`a*ron"ic (?), n. 1.
A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.

2. A kind of burlesque composition, in which
the vernacular words of one or more modern languages are intermixed
with genuine Latin words, and with hybrid formed by adding Latin
terminations to other roots.

Mac`a*roon" (?), n. [F. macaron,
It. maccherone. See Macaroni.] 1.
A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds,
and sugar.

2. A finical fellow, or macaroni.
[Obs.]

Ma*cart"ney (?), n. [From Lord
Macartney.] (Zoöl.) A fire-backed pheasant.
See Fireback.

Ma*cas`sar oil" (?). A kind of oil formerly used in
dressing the hair; -- so called because originally obtained from
Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes.

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