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n. [ CF. F. malléabilité. ] The quality or state of being malleable; -- opposed to friability and brittleness. Locke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ F. malléable, fr. LL. malleare to hammer. See Malleate. ] 1. Capable of being extended or shaped by beating with a hammer, or by the pressure of rollers; -- applied to metals. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Capable of being influenced to behave as desired; tractable; -- used mostly of children. [ PJC ]

Malleable iron, iron that is capable of extension or of being shaped under the hammer; decarbonized cast iron. See under Iron. --
Malleable iron castings, articles cast from pig iron and made malleable by heating then for several days in the presence of some substance, as hematite, which deprives the cast iron of some of its carbon. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. To make malleable. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Quality of being malleable. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Anat.) Pertaining to the malleus. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Malleated p. pr. & vb. n. Malleating ] [ L. malleatus hammered, fr. malleus a hammer. See Mall, v. t. ] To hammer; to beat into a plate or leaf. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ LL. malleatio: cf. OF. malléation. ] The act or process of beating into a plate, sheet, or leaf, as a metal; extension by beating. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Malicho. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Native name. ] 1. (Bot.) A dwarf Australian eucalypt with a number of thin stems springing from a thickened stock. The most common species are Eucalyptus dumosa and Eucalyptus Gracilis. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Scrub or thicket formed by the mallee. [ Australia ] [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

(Zool.) [ From native name. ] The leipoa, or Australian moundbird; it incubates eggs naturally in sandy mounds. See Leipoa.
Syn. -- mallee fowl, mallee-fowl, leipoa, lowan, Leipoa ocellata. [ 1913 Webster + WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.), Same as mallee bird (Leipoa ocellata). See also Leipoa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. (Zool.), The adult female of the mallee fowl (Leipoa ocellata). See Leipoa. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } n. (Zool.) See Mollemoke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. pl. (Far.) Same as Malanders. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Malleolus. ] (Anat.) Of or pertaining to the malleolus; in the region of the malleoli of the ankle joint. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Malleoli [ L., dim. of malleus hammer. ] 1. (Anat.) A projection at the distal end of each bone of the leg at the ankle joint. The malleolus of the tibia is the internal projection, that of the fibula the external. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. “ A layer, ” a shoot partly buried in the ground, and there cut halfway through. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. maillet, dim. of mail. See Mall a beetle. ] A small maul with a short handle, -- used esp. for driving a tool, as a chisel or the like; also, a light beetle with a long handle, -- used in playing croquet. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Mallei [ L., hammer. See Mall a beetle. ] 1. (Anat.) The outermost of the three small auditory bones, ossicles; the hammer. It is attached to the tympanic membrane by a long process, the handle or manubrium. See Illust. of Far. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) One of the hard lateral pieces of the mastax of Rotifera. See Mastax. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) A genus of bivalve shells; the hammer shell. [ 1913 Webster ]