1. Pertaining to, or like, macaroni (originally a dish of mixed food); hence, mixed; confused; jumbled.
2. Of or pertaining to the burlesque composition called macaronic; as, macaronic poetry.
Macaronic
(Mac`a*ron"ic) n.
1. A heap of thing confusedly mixed together; a jumble.
2. 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.
Macaroon
(Mac`a*roon") n. [F. macaron, It. maccherone. See Macaroni.]
1. A small cake, composed chiefly of the white of eggs, almonds, and sugar.
2. A finical fellow, or macaroni. [Obs.]
Macartney
(Ma*cart"ney) n. [From Lord Macartney.] (Zoöl.) A fire-backed pheasant. See Fireback.
Macassar oil
(Ma*cas`sar oil") A kind of oil formerly used in dressing the hair; — so called because
originally obtained from Macassar, a district of the Island of Celebes. Also, an imitation of the same,
of perfumed castor oil and olive oil.
Macauco
(||Ma*cau"co) n. (Zoöl.) Any one of several species of small lemurs, as Lemur murinus, which
resembles a rat in size.
Macavahu
(||Ma`ca*va"hu) n. (Zoöl.) A small Brazilian monkey (Callithrix torquatus), — called also collared
teetee.
Macaw
(Ma*caw") n. [From the native name in the Antilles.] (Zoöl.) Any parrot of the genus Sittace, or
Macrocercus. About eighteen species are known, all of them American. They are large and have a very
long tail, a strong hooked bill, and a naked space around the eyes. The voice is harsh, and the colors
are brilliant and strongly contrasted.
Macaw bush (Bot.), a West Indian name for a prickly kind of nightshade — Macaw palm, Macaw
tree (Bot.), a tropical American palm (Acrocomia fusiformis and other species) having a prickly stem
and pinnately divided leaves. Its nut yields a yellow butter, with the perfume of violets, which is used in
making violet soap. Called also grugru palm.
Maccabean
(Mac`ca*be"an) a. Of or pertaining to Judas Maccabeus or to the Maccabees; as, the Maccabean
princes; Maccabean times.
Maccabees
(Mac"ca*bees) n. pl.
1. The name given in later times to the Asmonæans, a family of Jewish patriots, who headed a religious
revolt in the reign of Antiochus IV., 168-161 B. C., which led to a period of freedom for Israel. Schaff-
Herzog.
2. The name of two ancient historical books, which give accounts of Jewish affairs in or about the time
of the Maccabean princes, and which are received as canonical books in the Roman Catholic Church,
but are included in the Apocrypha by Protestants. Also applied to three books, two of which are found in
some MSS. of the Septuagint.
Maccaboy
(Mac"ca*boy Mac"co*boy) n. [From a district in the Island of Martinique where it is made: cf.
F. macouba.] A kind of snuff.
