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1: Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles [syn: {mahjong}]

1: a member of the Siouan people formerly living in the Missouri river valley in northeastern Nebraska [syn: {Omaha}]

1: (Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families [syn: {Mahabharatam}, {Mahabharatum}]

1: (Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families [syn: {Mahabharata}, {Mahabharatum}]

1: (Hinduism) a sacred epic Sanskrit poem of India dealing in many episodes with the struggle between two rival families [syn: {Mahabharata}, {Mahabharatam}]

1: shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament [syn: {mahoe}, {maja...

1: United States singer who did much to popularize gospel music (1911-1972) [syn: {Jackson}]

1: United States naval officer and historian (1840-1914) [syn: {Alfred Thayer Mahan}]

1: a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja [syn: {maharajah}]

1: a great raja; a Hindu prince or king in India ranking above a raja [syn: {maharaja}]

1: a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja [syn: {maharani}]

1: a great rani; a princess in India or the wife of a maharaja [syn: {maharanee}]

1: a historical area in west-central India

1: (Hinduism) term of respect for a Brahmin sage

1: political and spiritual leader during India's struggle with Great Britain for home rule; an advocate of passive resistance (1869-1948) [syn: {Gandhi}, {Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi}]

1: a major school of Buddhism teaching social concern and universal salvation; China; Japan; Tibet; Nepal; Korea; Mongolia 2: one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search ...

1: one of two great schools of Buddhist doctrine emphasizing a common search for universal salvation especially through faith alone; the dominant religion of China and Tibet and Japan [syn: {Mahayana}...

1: an adherent of Mahayana Buddhism

1: African shrub having decumbent stems and slender yellow honey-scented flowers either solitary or in pairs [syn: {honey bell}, {honeybells}, {Hermannia verticillata}]

1: the region of northwest Africa comprising the Atlas Mountains and the coastlands of Morocco and Algeria and Tunisia [syn: {Maghreb}]

1: a member of the Algonquian people formerly living the Hudson valley and eastward to the Housatonic [syn: {Mohican}] 2: the Algonquian language spoken by the Mohican people [syn: {Mohican}]

1: the lean flesh of a saltwater fish found it warm waters (especially Hawaii) [syn: {dolphinfish}] 2: large slender food and game fish widely distributed in warm seas (especially around Hawaii) [syn:...

1: Chinese game played by 4 people with 144 tiles [syn: {Mah-Jongg}]

1: Austrian composer and conductor (1860-1911) [syn: {Gustav Mahler}]

1: a long stick that a painter uses to support the hand holding the brush [syn: {maulstick}]

1: shrubby tree widely distributed along tropical shores; yields a light tough wood used for canoe outriggers and a fiber used for cordage and caulk; often cultivated for ornament [syn: {majagua}, {ma...

1: wood of any of various mahogany trees; much used for cabinetwork and furniture 2: any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard y...

1: tropical trees and shrubs including many important timber and ornamental trees [syn: {Meliaceae}, {family Meliaceae}]

1: any of various tropical timber trees of the family Meliaceae especially the genus Swietinia valued for their hard yellowish- to reddish-brown wood that is readily worked and takes a high polish [sy...

1: the Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632) [syn: {Mohammed}, {Mohammad}, {Muhammad}, {Mahound}]

1: evergreen shrubs and small trees of North and Central America and Asia [syn: {genus Mahonia}]

1: ornamental evergreen shrub of Pacific coast of North America having dark green pinnate leaves and racemes of yellow flowers followed by blue-black berries [syn: {Oregon grape}, {Oregon holly grape}...

1: small shrub with gray-green leaves and yellow flowers followed by glaucous blue berries [syn: {Oregon grape}]

1: the Arab prophet who founded Islam (570-632) [syn: {Mohammed}, {Mohammad}, {Muhammad}, {Mahomet}]

1: the driver and keeper of an elephant

1: a member of a people of India living in Maharashtra [syn: {Maratha}]

1: an Indic language; the state language of Maharashtra in west central India; written in the Devanagari script [syn: {Marathi}]

1: Chinese ephedra yielding ephedrine [syn: {Ephedra sinica}]

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1: type genus of the Majidae; nearly cosmopolitan in distribution [syn: {Maja}, {genus Maja}, {genus Maia}]

1: sometimes placed in family Convallariaceae: false lily of the valley [syn: {genus Maianthemum}]

1: small white-flowered plant of western Europe to Japan [syn: {false lily of the valley}]

1: small two-leaved herb of the northern United States and parts of Canada having racemes of small fragrant white flowers [syn: {false lily of the valley}]

1: a female domestic [syn: {maidservant}, {housemaid}, {amah}] 2: an unmarried girl (especially a virgin) [syn: {maiden}]

1: an unmarried woman who attends the bride at a wedding [syn: {bridesmaid}]

1: serving to set in motion; "the magazine's inaugural issue"; "the initiative phase in the negotiations"; "an initiatory step toward a treaty"; "his first (or maiden) speech in Congress"; "the liner'...

1: an unmarried aunt

1: small widely branching Western plant with tiny blue-and-white flowers; British Columbia to Ontario and south to California and Colorado [syn: {Collinsia parviflora}]

1: a woman's surname before marriage

1: (cricket) an over in which no runs are scored [syn: {maiden}]

1: low-growing loosely mat-forming Eurasian pink with single crimson-eyed pale pink flowers [syn: {Dianthus deltoides}]

1: any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds [syn: {maidenhair fern}]

1: slow-growing procumbent evergreen shrublet of northern North America and Japan having white flowers and numerous white fleshy rough-hairy seeds [syn: {creeping snowberry}, {moxie plum}, {Gaultheria...

1: any of various small to large terrestrial ferns of the genus Adiantum having delicate palmately branched fronds [syn: {maidenhair}]

1: small rock-inhabiting fern of northern temperate zone and Hawaii with pinnate fronds [syn: {Asplenium trichomanes}]

1: deciduous dioecious Chinese tree having fan-shaped leaves and fleshy yellow seeds; exists almost exclusively in cultivation especially as an ornamental street tree [syn: {ginkgo}, {gingko}, {Ginkgo...

1: a fold of tissue that partly covers the entrance to the vagina of a virgin [syn: {hymen}, {virginal membrane}]

1: the childhood of a girl [syn: {girlhood}, {maidhood}]

1: befitting or characteristic of a maiden; "a maidenly blush" [syn: {maidenly}]

1: behavior befitting a young maiden