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=mango=, _m._, mango-tree, or its fruit.
=manguito=, _m._, m.u.f.f.
=manija=, _f._, handle; ring or brace.
=manipulado, -a=, manipulated, handled.
=manipular=, to work, to handle.
=mano=, _f._, hand; =---- de=, coat _or_ coating of.
=manojo=, _m._, bundle; handful, bunch.
=manotear=, to gesticulate.
=manso, -a=, tame; gentle.
=manta=, _f._, blanket; cover.
=manto=, _m._, mantle, veil, cloak.
=manzano=, _m._, apple-tree.
=manoso, -a=, clever; possessed by a mania; obstinate; cunning.
=mapurito=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), skunk.
=maquina de escribir=, _f._, typewriter, writing machine.
=marana=, _f._, an impa.s.sable bramble patch.
=marco=, _m._, frame; doorcase, windowcase.
=marchante=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), customer, buyer.
=marchar=, to depart, to leave; to walk.
=marchitar=, to fade, to wither, to die.
=marchito, -a=, withered, faded, decayed.
=marea=, _f._, tide.
=maroma=, _f._, thick cord, rope, cable.
=marrullero, -a= (_Sp. A._), crooked, swindling; wheedler.
=marta=, _f._, marten.
=martin pescador=, _m._, kingfisher.
=mas=, more, most, plus; =no ---- que=, only; =a lo ----=, at most; =ni ---- ni menos=, exactly, neither more nor less; =a ---- tardar=, at latest; =a ---- y mayor=, greatly, highly, at best.
=masa=, _f._, dough; mortar; volume; (_Sp. A._) cake.
=mascabado, -a=, a raw, unrefined muscovado.
=mascara=, _f._, mask, disguise; masquerader.
=mascullar=, to mumble, to falter in speaking.
=mata=, _f._, small bush, dump of shrubs; underbrush.
=matadero=, _m._, slaughterhouse.
=matanza=, _f._, slaughtering.
=matarife=, _m._, slaughterman; butcher.
=mate=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), a beverage made with leaves from the =yerba mate= tree; the dried gourd in which the beverage is served. _See_ =bombilla=.
=materia=, _f._, matter, subject; =---- primera=, raw material.
=matero, -a=, a confirmed drinker of =mate=.
=matungo=, _m._, an old discarded horse.
=maturrango, -a=, a poor horseman.
=mayor=, _m._, elder, elderly; =---- de edad=, of age; =al por ----=, by wholesale.
=mayoral=, _m._, overseer; car conductor.
=mayorista=, _m._, wholesale dealer.
=mazacote=, _m._ (_Sp. A._), brown sugar.
=mazamorra=, _f._, porridge.
=mazorca=, _f._, ear of corn.
=mecanografo=, _m._, typist.
=mecedora=, _f._, rocking-chair; swinging.
=mecedura=, _f._, act of rocking.
=medida=, _f._, measure; =a ---- de= _or_ =que=, by degrees, in proportion to, at the same time as.