Glossary

(ma lə dap təd): Poorly suited or unsuited.

(ma mǝl): Any of a class of warm-blooded vertebrates that include human beings and all other animals that nourish their young with milk produced by mammary glands and have the skin usually more or less covered with hair.

(ma nij): (1) To look after and make decisions about; (2) to treat with care.

(ma nij mǝnt): The conducting or supervising of something.

(ma ni jür): A skilled person who directs or manages something.

(man dāt): To officially require something.

(mə ni pyə lāt): (1) To treat or operate with or as if with the hands or by mechanical means especially with skill; (2) to manage especially with intent to deceive.

(mə ni pyə lā shən): An action that moves or controls something by hand or by using a machine.

(man u fak chür): The making of goods or articles.

(man yə fak chə riŋ): The process of making wares by hand or by machinery especially when carried on systematically with division of labor.

(mə nu̇r or mə n(y)ü ər): Material that fertilizes land, especially bodily waste from birds and animals in stables and barnyards with or without litter.

(mə rēn): Of or relating to the sea.

(märsh): An area of soft wet land usually overgrown by grasses and sedges.

(mär sü pē əl): Any of an order of mammals (such as kangaroos and opossums) that have a pouch on the abdomen of the female containing the teats and serving to carry the young.

(mas): The amount of matter in an object. On a different planet, for example, an object’s weight will change, but its mass will be the same.

(mas mēd ē ə): Means of communication, such as newspapers, magazines, and online communication, that reach a wide variety of people.

(ma trə li nē əl): Relating to, based on, or tracing descent through the maternal (mother's) line.