Mac
a prefix used extensively in Scotch names; as MacGregor, MacDonald, etc. It corresponds with son in surnames of Teutonic origin, Fitz in those of Romance origin, Ap or Ab in Welsh surnames, and O in Irish.
MACABER (ma-kä'bur) DANCE, or DANSE DES MORTS, a name given to a certain class of allegorical representations, illustrative of the universal power of death, dating from the 14th century, and long a favorite subject of painting and poetry, in which persons of all ranks and ages were represented as dancing together with the skeleton form of Death, which led them to the grave.
MACADAM MACARONI