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Mag"yar (măg"yär; Hung.
m&obreve;d"y&obreve;r), n. [Hung.]
1. (Ethnol.) One of the dominant people
of Hungary, allied to the Finns; a Hungarian.

2. The language of the Magyars.

||Ma"ha (?), n. (Zoöl.)
A kind of baboon; the wanderoo.

{ ||Ma*ha*ba"ra*ta (?), ||Ma*ha*bha"ra*tam (?),
} n. [Skr. mahābhārata.] A
celebrated epic poem of the Hindus. It is of great length, and is
chiefly devoted to the history of a civil war between two dynasties
of ancient India.

||Ma*ha"led (?), n.[Ar. mahled.]
(Bot.) A cherry tree (Prunus Mahaleb) of Southern
Europe. The wood is prized by cabinetmakers, the twigs are used for
pipe stems, the flowers and leaves yield a perfume, and from the
fruit a violet dye and a fermented liquor (like kirschwasser) are
prepared.


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