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{ Mæg"bote`, Mag"bote` } (?),
n. [AS. m&aemacr;g kinsman +
bōt compensation.] (Anglo-Saxon Law)
Compensation for the injury done by slaying a kinsman.
Spelman.

Mael"strom (?), n. [Norw., a
whirlpool.] 1. A celebrated whirlpool on the
coast of Norway.

2. Also Fig. ; as, a maelstrom of
vice.

||Mæ"nad (?), n. [L.
Maenas, -adis, Gr. &?;, &?;, fr. &?; to rave.]
1. A Bacchante; a priestess or votary of
Bacchus.

2. A frantic or frenzied woman.

||Ma`es*to"so (?), a. & adv. [It.]
(Mus.) Majestic or majestically; -- a direction to
perform a passage or piece of music in a dignified manner.

Maes"tricht mon"i*tor (?). [So called from
Maestricht, a town in Holland.] (Paleon.) The
Mosasaurus Hofmanni. See Mosasaurus.


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