(p. 852) mācha fish. মাছ ধরা v. to catch fish, to fish. নদীর মাছ a river fish, a fresh-water fish. নোনা মাছ salted fish. নোনা জলের মাছ a salt-water fish. পুকুরের মাছ a fish reared in a pond. শুঁটকি মাছ dried fish. সমুদ্রের মাছ a marine fish. মাছের কাঁটা a fish-bone. মাছের ঘেরি fishery. মাছের চাষ pisciculture. মাছের ঝুড়ি a fish-creel. মাছের ডিম spawn (of fish). মাছের পুকুর a fish-pond, a fish-stew, a stew-pond, a piscina. মাছের বাজার a fish-market. মাছের ভেড়ি a fishy dam, a fishery. ̃ওয়ালা n. fishmonger; (loos.) a fisherman. fem. ̃ওয়ালি n. a fishwife, a fish-woman; (loos.) a fisherwoman. মাছধরা জাহাজ a trawler. মাছধরা জাল a fishing net. মাছধরা নৌকা a fishing boat; a trawler. ̃ভাজা n. fried fish, fishfry. 19)

(p. 852) māẏika magical; illusive; infatuating; enchanting. 148)

(p. 865) miṭa (book-keeping) balancing; paying off; act of making up, compounding; settlement or compromise. মিট করা v. to balance (an account); to pay off (a bill); to make up, to compound (a loss); to settle or compromise (a dispute). মিট হওয়া v. to be balanced or paid off or made up or compounded or settled or compromised. ̃মাট n. compromise; settlement. মিটমাট করা v. to compromise; to settle up (a difference, dispute etc.). মিটমাট হওয়া v. to be compromised or settled up. 6)

(p. 867) mihira the sun. 30)

(p. 839) mandra a grave sonorous voice, (cp.) barytone; a kind of tom-tom. a. grave and sonorous, barytone. ̃সপ্তক n. (mus.) the middle octave. 36)

(p. 831) manamarā down-hearted, morose, lowspirited, vapoury, (sl.) browned off; dejected, melancholy. 66)

(p. 885) mauja pleasant stupor caused by drugging. besottedness (আফিমের মৌজ); comfort, ease; pleasure, relish. মৌজ করা v. to drug oneself to enjoy a pleasant stupor; to sit or lie comfortably or at ease; to relax খাওয়ার পর মৌজ করা; to do something with relish (মৌজ করে খাওয়া). মৌজ করে বসা v. to sit easy or cosily or comfortably, (cp.) to be at home. 5)

(p. 831) madhyama middle; second in order of seniority or age (মধ্যমভ্রাতা = the second brother; মধ্যমপুত্র = the second son); (rare) intermediate, medial; middling, mediocre, moderate. n. the waist (সুমধ্যমা); (mus.) the major fourth of the C-scale. ̃পন্হা n. the middle course; (pol.) moderateness, moderatism. ̃পন্হী a. following the middle course; (pol.) moderate. ̃বয়স্ক a. middle-aged. fem. ̃বয়স্কা । মধ্যমা n. the middle finger; (geom.) a median. a. fem. second in order of seniority or age. মধ্যমাঙ্গুলি n. the middle finger. 49)

(p. 874) muphata & a. cost-free, gratuitous; without remuneration, gratis. মুফতে adv. cost-free; gratuitously; free of cost. 16)

(p. 879) mēchuni a fishwife; a fishwoman, a fisher-woman. 10)

(p. 847) mahiṣa the buffalo. ̃ধ্বজ, ̃বাহন n. appellations of Yama (যম), the god of death. ̃মর্দিনী n. fem. (myth.) Goddess Durga (দুর্গা) who slew the demon Mahisa (মহিষ); (fig.) a terrible female warrior, (cp.) an amazon; (facet.) a termagant. 31)

(p. 879) mēḍhra a ram; penis. ̃ত্বক n. prepuce, foreskin. 22)

(p. 876) mūlā2 the nineteenth of the twenty-seven stars of Hindu astronomy. 15)

(p. 847) mahāna of মহত্ । 25)

(p. 882) mōlākāta an interview, a meeting. মোলাকাত করা v. to meet, to pay one a visit. 36)