Heath's Modern Language Series: The Spanish American Reader Part 110

=mango=, _m._, mango-tree, or its fruit.

=manguito=, _m._, m.u.f.f.

=manija=, _f._, handle; ring or brace.

=manipulado, -a=, manipulated, handled.

=manipular=, to work, to handle.

=mano=, _f._, hand; =---- de=, coat _or_ coating of.

=manojo=, _m._, bundle; handful, bunch.

=manotear=, to gesticulate.

=manso, -a=, tame; gentle.

=manta=, _f._, blanket; cover.

=manto=, _m._, mantle, veil, cloak.

=manzano=, _m._, apple-tree.

=manoso, -a=, clever; possessed by a mania; obstinate; cunning.

=mapurito=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), skunk.

=maquina de escribir=, _f._, typewriter, writing machine.

=marana=, _f._, an impa.s.sable bramble patch.

=marco=, _m._, frame; doorcase, windowcase.

=marchante=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), customer, buyer.

=marchar=, to depart, to leave; to walk.

=marchitar=, to fade, to wither, to die.

=marchito, -a=, withered, faded, decayed.

=marea=, _f._, tide.

=maroma=, _f._, thick cord, rope, cable.

=marrullero, -a= (_Sp. A._), crooked, swindling; wheedler.

=marta=, _f._, marten.

=martin pescador=, _m._, kingfisher.

=mas=, more, most, plus; =no ---- que=, only; =a lo ----=, at most; =ni ---- ni menos=, exactly, neither more nor less; =a ---- tardar=, at latest; =a ---- y mayor=, greatly, highly, at best.

=masa=, _f._, dough; mortar; volume; (_Sp. A._) cake.

=mascabado, -a=, a raw, unrefined muscovado.

=mascara=, _f._, mask, disguise; masquerader.

=mascullar=, to mumble, to falter in speaking.

=mata=, _f._, small bush, dump of shrubs; underbrush.

=matadero=, _m._, slaughterhouse.

=matanza=, _f._, slaughtering.

=matarife=, _m._, slaughterman; butcher.

=mate=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), a beverage made with leaves from the =yerba mate= tree; the dried gourd in which the beverage is served. _See_ =bombilla=.

=materia=, _f._, matter, subject; =---- primera=, raw material.

=matero, -a=, a confirmed drinker of =mate=.

=matungo=, _m._, an old discarded horse.

=maturrango, -a=, a poor horseman.

=mayor=, _m._, elder, elderly; =---- de edad=, of age; =al por ----=, by wholesale.

=mayoral=, _m._, overseer; car conductor.

=mayorista=, _m._, wholesale dealer.

=mazacote=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), brown sugar.

=mazamorra=, _f._, porridge.

=mazorca=, _f._, ear of corn.

=mecanografo=, _m._, typist.

=mecedora=, _f._, rocking-chair; swinging.

=mecedura=, _f._, act of rocking.

=medida=, _f._, measure; =a ---- de= _or_ =que=, by degrees, in proportion to, at the same time as.