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   maple
         n 1: wood of any of various maple trees; especially the hard
               close-grained wood of the sugar maple; used especially for
               furniture and flooring
         2: any of numerous trees or shrubs of the genus Acer bearing
            winged seeds in pairs; north temperate zone

English Dictionary: mobile by the DICT Development Group
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
May apple
n
  1. edible but insipid fruit of the May apple plant
  2. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit
    Synonym(s): mayapple, May apple, wild mandrake, Podophyllum peltatum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mayapple
n
  1. North American herb with poisonous root stock and edible though insipid fruit
    Synonym(s): mayapple, May apple, wild mandrake, Podophyllum peltatum
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mayfly
n
  1. slender insect with delicate membranous wings having an aquatic larval stage and terrestrial adult stage usually lasting less than two days
    Synonym(s): mayfly, dayfly, shadfly
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
maypole
n
  1. a vertical pole or post decorated with streamers that can be held by dancers celebrating May Day
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
mobile
adj
  1. migratory; "a restless mobile society"; "the nomadic habits of the Bedouins"; "believed the profession of a peregrine typist would have a happy future"; "wandering tribes"
    Synonym(s): mobile, nomadic, peregrine, roving, wandering
  2. moving or capable of moving readily (especially from place to place); "a mobile missile system"; "the tongue is...the most mobile articulator"
    Antonym(s): immobile
  3. having transportation available
  4. capable of changing quickly from one state or condition to another; "a highly mobile face"
  5. affording change (especially in social status); "Britain is not a truly fluid society"; "upwardly mobile"
    Synonym(s): fluid, mobile
n
  1. a river in southwestern Alabama; flows into Mobile Bay
    Synonym(s): Mobile, Mobile River
  2. a port in southwestern Alabama on Mobile Bay
  3. sculpture suspended in midair whose delicately balanced parts can be set in motion by air currents
    Antonym(s): stabile
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
Mobula
n
  1. type genus of the Mobulidae
    Synonym(s): Mobula, genus Mobula
From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
muffle
n
  1. a kiln with an inner chamber for firing things at a low temperature
v
  1. conceal or hide; "smother a yawn"; "muffle one's anger"; "strangle a yawn"
    Synonym(s): smother, stifle, strangle, muffle, repress
  2. deaden (a sound or noise), especially by wrapping
    Synonym(s): muffle, mute, dull, damp, dampen, tone down
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mabble \Mab"ble\, v. t.
      To wrap up. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maffle \Maf"fle\, v. i. [Akin to OD. maffelen to stammer. Cf.
      {Muffle} to mumble.]
      To stammer. [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maple \Ma"ple\, n. [AS. mapolder, mapulder, mapol; akin to Icel.
      m[94]purr; cf. OHG. mazzaltra, mazzoltra, G. massholder.]
      (Bot.)
      A tree of the genus {Acer}, including about fifty species.
      {A. saccharinum} is the rock maple, or sugar maple, from the
      sap of which sugar is made, in the United States, in great
      quantities, by evaporation; the red or swamp maple is {A.
      rubrum}; the silver maple, {A. dasycarpum}, having fruit
      wooly when young; the striped maple, {A. Pennsylvanium},
      called also {moosewood}. The common maple of Europe is {A.
      campestre}, the sycamore maple is {A. Pseudo-platanus}, and
      the Norway maple is {A. platanoides}.
  
      Note: Maple is much used adjectively, or as the first part of
               a compound; as, maple tree, maple leaf, etc.
  
      {Bird's-eye maple}, {Curled maple}, varieties of the wood of
            the rock maple, in which a beautiful lustrous grain is
            produced by the sinuous course of the fibers.
  
      {Maple honey}, {Maple molasses}, [or] {Maple sirup}, maple
            sap boiled to the consistency of molasses.
  
      {Maple sugar}, sugar obtained from the sap of the sugar maple
            by evaporation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the
      goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of
      Mercury by Jupiter.]
      1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
            --Chaucer.
  
      2. The early part or springtime of life.
  
                     His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak.
  
      3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from
            their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
  
                     The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash.
  
                     Plumes that micked the may.               --Tennyson.
  
      4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson.
  
      {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S.
            hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers
            along the slender branches.
  
      {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant
            ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself
            (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves,
            and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The
            root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic.
           
  
      {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous
            species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the
            winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and
            allied genera. Called also {June beetle}.
  
      {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic
            parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a
            garland, and by dancing about a May pole.
  
      {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which
            magical properties were attributed.
  
      {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its
            blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary.
  
      {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied
            genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many
            species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under
            {Ephemeral}.
  
      {May game}, any May-day sport.
  
      {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games.
  
      {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria
            majalis}).
  
      {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary.
  
      {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the
            sports of May Day.
  
      {May thorn}, the hawthorn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the
      goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of
      Mercury by Jupiter.]
      1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
            --Chaucer.
  
      2. The early part or springtime of life.
  
                     His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak.
  
      3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from
            their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
  
                     The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash.
  
                     Plumes that micked the may.               --Tennyson.
  
      4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson.
  
      {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S.
            hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers
            along the slender branches.
  
      {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant
            ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself
            (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves,
            and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The
            root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic.
           
  
      {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous
            species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the
            winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and
            allied genera. Called also {June beetle}.
  
      {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic
            parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a
            garland, and by dancing about a May pole.
  
      {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which
            magical properties were attributed.
  
      {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its
            blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary.
  
      {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied
            genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many
            species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under
            {Ephemeral}.
  
      {May game}, any May-day sport.
  
      {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games.
  
      {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria
            majalis}).
  
      {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary.
  
      {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the
            sports of May Day.
  
      {May thorn}, the hawthorn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Ephemeral \E*phem"er*al\, a.
      1. Beginning and ending in a day; existing only, or no longer
            than, a day; diurnal; as, an ephemeral flower.
  
      2. Short-lived; existing or continuing for a short time only.
            [bd]Ephemeral popularity.[b8] --V. Knox.
  
                     Sentences not of ephemeral, but of eternal,
                     efficacy.                                          --Sir J.
                                                                              Stephen.
  
      {Ephemeral fly} (Zo[94]l.), one of a group of neuropterous
            insects, belonging to the genus {Ephemera} and many allied
            genera, which live in the adult or winged state only for a
            short time. The larv[91] are aquatic; -- called also {day
            fly} and {May fly}.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maybird \May"bird`\, n. (Zo[94]l.)
      (a) The whimbrel; -- called also {May fowl}, {May curlew},
            and {May whaap}.
      (b) The knot. [Southern U. S.]
      (c) The bobolink.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   May \May\, n. [F. Mai, L. Maius; so named in honor of the
      goddess Maia (Gr. [?]), daughter of Atlas and mother of
      Mercury by Jupiter.]
      1. The fifth month of the year, containing thirty-one days.
            --Chaucer.
  
      2. The early part or springtime of life.
  
                     His May of youth, and bloom of lustihood. --Shak.
  
      3. (Bot.) The flowers of the hawthorn; -- so called from
            their time of blossoming; also, the hawthorn.
  
                     The palm and may make country houses gay. --Nash.
  
                     Plumes that micked the may.               --Tennyson.
  
      4. The merrymaking of May Day. --Tennyson.
  
      {Italian may} (Bot.), a shrubby species of {Spir[91]a} ({S.
            hypericifolia}) with many clusters of small white flowers
            along the slender branches.
  
      {May apple} (Bot.), the fruit of an American plant
            ({Podophyllum peltatum}). Also, the plant itself
            (popularly called {mandrake}), which has two lobed leaves,
            and bears a single egg-shaped fruit at the forking. The
            root and leaves, used in medicine, are powerfully drastic.
           
  
      {May beetle}, {May bug} (Zo[94]l.), any one of numerous
            species of large lamellicorn beetles that appear in the
            winged state in May. They belong to {Melolontha}, and
            allied genera. Called also {June beetle}.
  
      {May Day}, the first day of May; -- celebrated in the rustic
            parts of England by the crowning of a May queen with a
            garland, and by dancing about a May pole.
  
      {May dew}, the morning dew of the first day of May, to which
            magical properties were attributed.
  
      {May flower} (Bot.), a plant that flowers in May; also, its
            blossom. See {Mayflower}, in the vocabulary.
  
      {May fly} (Zo[94]l.), any species of {Ephemera}, and allied
            genera; -- so called because the mature flies of many
            species appear in May. See {Ephemeral fly}, under
            {Ephemeral}.
  
      {May game}, any May-day sport.
  
      {May lady}, the queen or lady of May, in old May games.
  
      {May lily} (Bot.), the lily of the valley ({Convallaria
            majalis}).
  
      {May pole}. See {Maypole} in the Vocabulary.
  
      {May queen}, a girl or young woman crowned queen in the
            sports of May Day.
  
      {May thorn}, the hawthorn.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Maypole \May"pole`\, n.
      A tall pole erected in an open place and wreathed with
      flowers, about which the rustic May-day sports were had.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mob \Mob\, n. [L. mobile vulgus, the movable common people. See
      {Mobile}, n.]
      1. The lower classes of a community; the populace, or the
            lowest part of it.
  
                     A cluster of mob were making themselves merry with
                     their betters.                                    --Addison.
  
      2. Hence: A throng; a rabble; esp., an unlawful or riotous
            assembly; a disorderly crowd.
  
                     The mob of gentlemen who wrote with ease. --Pope.
  
                     Had every Athenian citizen been a Socrates, every
                     Athenian assembly would still have been a mob.
                                                                              --Madison.
  
                     Confused by brainless mobs.               --Tennyson.
  
      {Mob law}, law administered by the mob; lynch law.
  
      {Swell mob}, well dressed thieves and swindlers, regarded
            collectively. [Slang] --Dickens.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mobile \Mo"bile\, a. [L. mobilis, for movibilis, fr. movere to
      move: cf. F. mobile. See {Move}.]
      1. Capable of being moved; not fixed in place or condition;
            movable. [bd]Fixed or else mobile.[b8] --Skelton.
  
      2. Characterized by an extreme degree of fluidity; moving or
            flowing with great freedom; as, benzine and mercury are
            mobile liquids; -- opposed to viscous, viscoidal, or oily.
  
      3. Easily moved in feeling, purpose, or direction; excitable;
            changeable; fickle. --Testament of Love.
  
                     The quick and mobile curiosity of her disposition.
                                                                              --Hawthorne.
  
      4. Changing in appearance and expression under the influence
            of the mind; as, mobile features.
  
      5. (Physiol.) Capable of being moved, aroused, or excited;
            capable of spontaneous movement.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Mobile \Mo"bile\, n. [L. mobile vulgus. See {Mobile}, a., and
      cf. 3d {Mob}.]
      The mob; the populace. [Obs.] [bd]The unthinking mobile.[b8]
      --South.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Moble \Mo"ble\, v. t. [From {Mob} to wrap up.]
      To wrap the head of in a hood. [Obs.] --Shak.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Moebles \Moe"bles\, n. pl. [OE., fr. OF. moeble, mueble,
      movable, from L. mobilis.]
      Movables; furniture; -- also used in the singular ({moeble}).
      [Obs.]

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Moplah \Mop"lah\, n. [Malayalam m[be]pplia.]
      One of a class of Mohammedans in Malabar.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muffle \Muf"fle\, v. i. [Cf. F. maffle, mumble, D. moffelen.]
      To speak indistinctly, or without clear articulation.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muffle \Muf"fle\, n. [F. moufle, prop., a mitten, from the
      resemblance in shape. See {Muffle}, v. t., {Muff}.]
      1. Anything with which another thing, as an oar or drum, is
            muffled; also, a boxing glove; a muff.
  
      2. (Metal.) An earthenware compartment or oven, often shaped
            like a half cylinder, used in furnaces to protect objects
            heated from the direct action of the fire, as in
            scorification of ores, cupellation of ore buttons, etc.
  
      3. (Ceramics) A small oven for baking and fixing the colors
            of painted or printed pottery, without exposing the
            pottery to the flames of the furnace or kiln.
  
      4. A pulley block containing several sheaves. --Knight.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muffle \Muf"fle\ (m[ucr]f"f'l), n.
      The bare end of the nose between the nostrils; -- used esp.
      of ruminants.

From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Muffle \Muf"fle\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Muffled}; p. pr. & vb. n.
      {Muffling}.] [Cf. F. moufle a mitten, LL. muffula, OD. moffel
      a muff. See {Muff}.]
      1. To wrap up in something that conceals or protects; to
            wrap, as the face and neck, in thick and disguising folds;
            hence, to conceal or cover the face of; to envelop; to
            inclose; -- often with up. --South.
  
                     The face lies muffled up within the garment.
                                                                              --Addison.
  
                     He muffled with a cloud his mournful eyes. --Dryden.
  
                     Muffled up in darkness and superstition.
                                                                              --Arbuthnot.
  
      2. To prevent seeing, or hearing, or speaking, by wraps bound
            about the head; to blindfold; to deafen.
  
      3. To wrap with something that dulls or deadens the sound of;
            as, to muffle the strings of a drum, or that part of an
            oar which rests in the rowlock.

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Mabel, MN (city, FIPS 38888)
      Location: 43.52031 N, 91.76829 W
      Population (1990): 745 (328 housing units)
      Area: 1.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 55954

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Maple, NC
      Zip code(s): 27956
   Maple, TX
      Zip code(s): 79344
   Maple, WI
      Zip code(s): 54854

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Maybell, CO
      Zip code(s): 81640

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Mayville, MI (village, FIPS 52540)
      Location: 43.33604 N, 83.35326 W
      Population (1990): 1010 (386 housing units)
      Area: 2.6 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 48744
   Mayville, ND (city, FIPS 51500)
      Location: 47.50009 N, 97.32825 W
      Population (1990): 2092 (866 housing units)
      Area: 4.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 58257
   Mayville, NY (village, FIPS 46239)
      Location: 42.25291 N, 79.50232 W
      Population (1990): 1636 (811 housing units)
      Area: 5.0 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 14757
   Mayville, WI (city, FIPS 50200)
      Location: 43.49822 N, 88.54622 W
      Population (1990): 4374 (1690 housing units)
      Area: 7.2 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 53050

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Mobile, AL (city, FIPS 50000)
      Location: 30.67745 N, 88.08896 W
      Population (1990): 196278 (82817 housing units)
      Area: 305.7 sq km (land), 100.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 36602, 36603, 36604, 36605, 36606, 36607, 36608, 36609, 36612, 36617, 36618, 36619, 36693, 36695
   Mobile, AZ
      Zip code(s): 85239

From U.S. Gazetteer (1990) [gazetteer]:
   Moville, IA (city, FIPS 54930)
      Location: 42.48959 N, 96.06682 W
      Population (1990): 1306 (569 housing units)
      Area: 2.1 sq km (land), 0.0 sq km (water)
      Zip code(s): 51039

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   Maple
  
      A {symbolic mathematics} package by B. Char, K. Geddes,
      G. Gonnet, M. Monagan and S. Watt of the {University of
      Waterloo}, Canada and {ETH} Zurich, Switzerland in 1980.
      Version: Maple V.
  
      E-mail: .   Mailing list:
      glabahn@daisy.waterloo.edu.
  
      (1994-10-21)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   MPL
  
      1. An early possible name for {PL/I}.
  
      [Sammet 1969, p.542].
  
      2. {MasPar} {data-parallel} version of {C}.   See also {ampl}.
  
      {Compiler version 3.1 (ftp://maspar.maspar.com/put/)}.
  
      3. Motorola Programming Language.   A low-level {PL/I}-like
      language, similar to {PL/M}, but for the {Motorola 6800}.
  
      4. MicroProgramming Language.   Simple language for
      microprogramming.   Statements on the same line represent
      {register} transfers caused by one microinstruction, and are
      executed in parallel.
  
      ["Structured Computer Organization", A.S. Tanenbaum, First
      Edition, P-H 1976. (Replaced in later editions by Mic-1)].
  
      (1995-03-07)
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   MPL II
  
      [Burroughs VMS MPL II Language Reference Manual].
  
  

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (15Feb98) [foldoc]:
   MPPL
  
      An early possible name for {PL/I}.
  
      [Sammet 1969, p. 542].
  
      (1995-03-07)
  
  
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