MACARANGA GUM
Mac`a*ran"ga gum`.
Defn: A gum of a crimson color, obtained from a tree (Macaranga
Indica) that grows in the East Indies. It is used in taking
impressions of coins, medallions, etc., and sometimes as a medicine.
Balfour (Cyc. of India).
MACARIZE
Mac"a*rize, v. t. [Gr. to bless.]
Defn: To congratulate. [Oxford Univ. Cant] Whately.
MACARONI Mac`a*ro"ni, n.; pl. Macaronis (#), or Macaronies. [Prov. It. macaroni, It. maccheroni, fr. Gr. happiness, later, a funeral feast, fr. blessed, happy. Prob. so called because eaten at such feasts in honor of the dead; cf. Gr. blessed, i. e., dead. Cf. Macaroon.]
1. Long slender tubes made of a paste chiefly of wheat flour, and used as an article of food; Italian or Genoese paste.
A paste similarly prepared is largely used as food in Persia, India, and China, but is not commonly made tubular like the Italian macaroni. Balfour (Cyc. of India).
2. A medley; something droll or extravagant.
3. A sort of droll or fool. [Obs.] Addison.
4. A finical person; a fop; — applied especially to English fops of about 1775. Goldsmith.