Vocabulary : Macaranga gum to Macassar oil
Macaranga gum : A gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (Macaranga Indica) that grows in the East Indies. It is used in taking impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine.Macarize : To congratulate.
Macaroni : Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste. ;; A medley; something droll or extravagant. ;; A sort of droll or fool. ;; A finical person; a fop; -- applied especially to English fops of about 1775. ;; The designation of a body of Maryland soldiers in the Revolutionary War, distinguished by a rich uniform.
Macaronian : Alt. of Macaronic
Macaronic : Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled. ;; Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry. ;; A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble. ;; 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.
