Maat Kheru
According to Maspus, the Egyptian name of the true intonation with which the dead must recite those magic incantations which would give them power in Amenti, the Egyptian Hades,
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Single-source entries: M (1)
These 14 listings are so strange that each appears in only one of the 7 encyclopedias we compared. They include such classics as Maat Kheru, Mabalacat, Mabie.
Mab
the name of a fairy celebrated by Shakespeare, and other English poets. The name has been variously derived; but the most probable derivation of it is from the Cymric mab, a child. According to Voss and others, Mab was 48 not the queen of the fairies, that dignity having been ascribed to her from a mistaken use of the old English word queen, or quean, which meant only a woman.
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Mabalacat
Philippine Islands. A town of Luzon, province of Pampango; is situated on the Manila-Dagupan railway, 16 miles N. of Bacolor. Pop. about 10,600.
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Mabie
HAMILTON WRIGHT, an American editor; born in Cold Spring, N. Y., Dec. 13, 1845. He was graduated at Williams College, practiced law for a time in New York City, and then entered journalism, becoming in 1879 associate editor of the "Christian Union" afterward the "Outlook." He supplemented the written word by much work on the lecture platform. He was also a very acceptable lecturer on literary subjects. He wrote "Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas"; "My Study Fire"; "Under the Trees and Elsewhere"; "Short Studies in Literature"; "Essays in Literary Interpretation"; "Essays on Nature and Culture"; "Essays on Books and Culture"; "Life of the Spirit"; "Shakespeare"; "Backgrounds of Literature" (1904); "American Ideals, Character and Life" (1913); "Japan To-day and To-morrow" (1914). He died in 1916.
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Mabie, Hamilton Wright
Hamilton Wright (1845-), an American editor and author. He was born at Cold Spring, New York . He was educated at Williams College and the Columbia Law School. For a time he practised law in New York, but in 1884 became a member of the editorial staff of The Christian Union. Mr. Mabie has written for periodicals, and has lectured on subjects connected with literature and education. At present he is responsible editor of The Outlook. Among his works may be mentioned Norse Stories Retold from the Eddas, Short Studies in Literature, Essays in Literary Interpretation, Nature and Culture, Books and Culture, Work and Culture, and Parables of Life.
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Mabinogion
mab-i-no'gi-on, as used commonly, the medieval fairy tales and romances of the Welsh. The word Mabinogion is a plural form of mabinogi. The fact that Mabinogi means literally "boy's story" has given rise to the idea that any old Welsh story may be included under this general title. As a matter of fact, the word mabinog was used technically to designate a youth who was under the instruction of a regular bard, but had not yet acquired the art of writing verse, and mabinogion was doubtless the collection of incidents and tales upon which the mabinog's instruction was based,--his "stock in trade" John Rhys calls it. Until toward the middle of the nineteenth century these Welsh tales were unavailable, except to those who understood the Welsh language. Although a spoken language, Welsh was neglected by the learned unless themselves natives of Wales. Both Southey and Scott had urged that the Welsh stories be translated into English. This work was done by Lady Charlotte Guest, 1838-49. A later and more convenient edition was published in 1877. It contains twelve tales.
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Macao
a settlement on the coast of China, on the W. part of the estuary of the Canton or Pearl river, Hong Kong being about 40 miles distant, on the opposite side of the same estuary; the trade, mostly transit, is in the hands of Chinese, opium being the most important article of commerce. Camoens, in exile, here composed his "Lusiad." Pop. about 80,000.
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Macaronic Verse
properly a kind of humorous poetry, in which, along with Latin, words of other languages are introduced with Latin inflections and construction; though the name is sometimes applied to verses which are merely a mixture of Latin and the unadulterated vernacular of the author.
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Macartney
GEORGE MACART- NEY, EARL OF, a British administrator and diplomatist; born in Lissanoure, Ireland, May 14, 1737. As envoy-extraordinary to Russia, he concluded (1767) a commercial treaty; from 1769 to 1772 he was Chief-secretary of Ireland; and from 1775 to 1779 governor of Grenada, W. I., but was compelled, after an honorable defense, to give up the island to Count D'Estaing, and was himself carried prisoner of war to France, though he soon contrived his exchange. The first diplomatic mission to China from Great Britain was headed by Macartney, now an Irish viscount, in 1792; before his return home he was made an Irish earl (March 1, 1794). After undertaking a confidential mission to Italy (1795- 1796), he went out as governor of the new colony of the Cape of Good Hope (1796); but ill-health compelled him to return home in November, 1798. He died in Chiswick, England, March 31, 1806.
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Macassar
or MAKASSAR, the extreme S. portion and a department in the residency of Celebes. Chief town and port, Macassar, on the W. coast of the S. peninsula; made a free port in 1846; pop. (1920) about 18,000. See CELEBES.
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Macassar Oil
an oil used for promoting and strengthening the growth of the hair, so named from having been originally brought from Macassar. The name is now commonly given to a prepared mixture of castor and olive oil.
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Macassar Strait
a body of water separating the islands of Borneo and Celebes. Its width varies from 75 to 140 miles and it is about 400 miles long.
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Macato
a town in the province of Cápiz on the island of Panay, Philippines. Pop. about 5,500.
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Macaw
the popular name for any member of the South American family Araidæ, and more strictly of the genus Ara (Brisson), or Macrocercus (Vieillot). The macaws are remarkable for their size and the beauty of their plumage. They are less docile than the true parrots, can rarely be taught to articulate more than a few words, and their cry is harsh and disagreable. The scarlet macaw, Ara macao, is a very handsom bird; the principal color is bright-red, with blue rump, vent, tail coverts, and quills, and greenish-blue and yellow wing coverts, tail, two-thirds of whole length blue and crimson. The red and blue macaw, A. aracanga, resembles the first species, but the middle of the wing coverts is bright yellow. The green macaw, A. militaris, has lively green plumage, lower back, upper tail, and wing coverts blue, the under surface orange-yellow. the last scion of the house, though he The blue and yellow macaw, A. ararauna, is one of the handsomest of the genus.
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