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macilent [macilent 词源字典]: "(Of a person or animal) thin; lean", Late Middle English: from Latin macilentus, from macer 'thin'.[macilent etymology, macilent origin, 英语词源]
mambu: "= bamboo", Late 16th cent.; earliest use found in William Phillip (fl. 1596–1619), translator. From Portuguese †mambu, apparently from a Dravidian language; compare Kannada bambu, Tamil vampu, and Malayalam vampu.
maître d'armes: "A fencing instructor", Mid 19th cent.; earliest use found in Henry Angelo (1756–1835), fencing master and memoirist. From French maître d'armes from maître teacher + d' + armes arms, weapons. Middle French maistre is used in this specific sense from 1461, and maistre en fait d'armes from 1538.
mein Gott: "Frequently in representations of German speech: = my God", Late 18th century; earliest use found in John Wolcot (d. 1819), poet and satirist. From German mein Gott from mein + Gott.
MI6: "(In the UK) the governmental agency responsible for dealing with matters of internal security and counter-intelligence overseas. Formed in 1912, the agency was officially named the Secret Intelligence Service in 1964, but the name MI6 remains in popular use", From Military Intelligence section 5.
minikin: "Small; insignificant", Mid 16th century: from Dutch minneken, from minne 'love' + -ken -kin.
mant (1): "A fabric of a type originally made in Mantua; = Mantua. rare", Late 16th century.
mant (2): "A stammer, a stutter; a speech impediment", Early 19th century; earliest use found in John Thomson (1765–1846), physician and surgeon. From mant.
mant (3): "To stutter, to stammer; to have a speech impediment", Early 16th century. From Scottish Gaelic mannt lisp, stammer, cognate with Early Irish mant gum, Middle Welsh mant mouth, jaw, and probably more distantly cognate with classical Latin mentum chin.
melaena: "The production of dark sticky faeces containing partly digested blood, as a result of internal bleeding or the swallowing of blood", Early 19th century: modern Latin, from Greek melaina, feminine of melas 'black'.
moonflight: "A space flight to the moon", 1930s; earliest use found in Time.
multiped: "An animal with many feet (now chiefly historical and poetic )", Early 17th century; earliest use found in Philemon Holland (1552–1637), translator. From classical Latin multipeda (also multiped-, multipēs) a small creature with many feet or legs from multi- + pēs foot, after ancient Greek πολύπους polypus.