From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Male- \Male-\ (m[a^]l- or m[a^]l[-e]-). See {Mal-}.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Male \Male\ (m[=a]l), adjective [L. malus. See {Malice}.] Evil; wicked; bad. [Obs.] --Marston.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Male \Male\, noun Same as {Mail}, a bag. [Obs.] --Chaucer.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Male \Male\, adjective [F. m[^a]le, OF. masle, mascle, fr. L. masculus male, masculine, dim. of mas a male; possibly akin to E. man. Cf. {Masculine}, {Marry}, verb (used with an object)]
1. Of or pertaining to the sex that begets or procreates young, or (in a wider sense) to the sex that produces spermatozoa, by which the ova are fertilized; not female; as, male organs.
2. (Bot.) Capable of producing fertilization, but not of bearing fruit; -- said of stamens and antheridia, and of the plants, or parts of plants, which bear them.
3. Suitable to the male sex; characteristic or suggestive of a male; masculine; as, male courage.
4. Consisting of males; as, a male choir.
5. (Mech.) Adapted for entering another corresponding piece (the female piece) which is hollow and which it fits; as, a male gauge, for gauging the size or shape of a hole; a male screw, etc.
{Male fern} (Bot.), a fern of the genus {Aspidium} ({Aspidium Filixmas}), used in medicine as an anthelmintic, esp. against the tapeworm. {Aspidium marginale} in America, and {Aspidium athamanticum} in South Africa, are used as good substitutes for the male fern in medical practice. See {Female fern}, under {Female}.
{Male rhyme}, a rhyme in which only the last syllables agree, as laid, afraid, dismayed. See {Female rhyme}, under {Female}.
{Male screw} (Mech.), a screw having threads upon its exterior which enter the grooves upon the inside of a corresponding nut or female screw.
{Male thread}, the thread of a male screw.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
2. (Bot.) A plant bearing only staminate flowers.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Mal- \Mal-\ (m[a^]l-). A prefix in composition denoting ill, or evil, F. male, adverb, fr. malus, bad, ill. In some words it has the form {male-}, as in malediction, malevolent. See {Malice}.
Note: The form male- is chiefly used in cases where the e, either alone or with other letters, is pronounced as a separate syllable, as in malediction, malefactor, maleficent, etc. Where this is not the case, as in malfeasance or male-feasance, malformation or male-formation, etc., as also where the word to which it is prefixed commences with a vowel, as in maladministration, etc., the form mal is to be preferred, and is the one commonly employed.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
adjective
1: being the sex (of plant or animal) that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that perform the fertilizing function in generation; "a male infant"; "a male holly tree" [ant: {female}, {androgynous}]
2: for or composed of men or boys; "the male lead"; "masculine attire"
3: characteristic of a man; "a deep male voice"; "manly sports" [syn: {manful}, {manlike}, {manly}, {virile}]
noun
1: an animal that produces gametes (spermatozoa) that can fertilize female gametes (ova) [ant: {female}]
2: a person who belongs to the sex that cannot have babies [syn: {male person}] [ant: {female}]
3: the capital of Maldives in the center of the islands
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
21 Moby Thesaurus words for "male": andric, bull, gentleman, gentlemanlike, gentlemanly, he, him, his, hombre, homme, male being, male person, man, manful, manlike, manly, mannish, masculine, spear, uneffeminate, virile
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
MALE, noun A member of the unconsidered, or negligible sex. The male of the human race is commonly known (to the female) as Mere Man. The genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers.
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