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Webster 1913 Edition


Malleate

Mal′le-ate

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

Webster 1828 Edition


Malleate

MAL'LEATE

,
Verb.
T.
To hammer; to draw into a plate or leaf by beating.

Definition 2024


malleate

malleate

See also: maleate

English

Adjective

malleate (comparative more malleate, superlative most malleate)

  1. (zoology) Possessing or resembling a malleus, or another structure shaped like a hammer.
    • 2009, James H. Thorp & Alan P. Covich (eds.), Ecology and Classification of North American Freshwater Invertebrates, 3rd ed., page 181
      Malleate trophi are present in such common rotifers as Brachionus, Keratella, and Lecane.
  2. (malacology, of a shell) Having a surface with shallow round indentations, resembling copper that has been hammered.
    • 1919, Henry Augustus Pilsbry, "A Review of the Land Mollusks of the Belgian Congo", Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History 40: 313
      The spire has stronger rib-striæ than C. bequaerti; last whorl finely and closely malleate, with several weak spiral threads.

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Verb

malleate (third-person singular simple present malleates, present participle malleating, simple past and past participle malleated)

  1. (rare) To beat into shape with a hammer.
    • 1878, James Milleson, The Embryonic System of Nature, page 12
      Man is a mechanic, and works beautiful forms out of natural organisms. He cuts, bores, malleates, melts, casts in matrices, and spins, various articles.

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Latin

Verb

malleāte

  1. second-person plural present active imperative of malleō